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Tom Jackson had an opinion as much as Rush did. The subject that they were talking about was totally arguable and within the realm of sports. The NFL has a policy in place that teams must interview black head coaching candidates first before hiring anybody. By extension they want to see black coaches and black QB's do well. It is in their best interest to do so. Remember the stink that Jesse Jackson raised when the Packers fired Ray Rhodes? Rev. Jackson wanted an investigation.

The media also is desirous that a black QB (and black coaches) do well. To say otherwise would be naive. We're not supposed to recognize the color of a person's skin and yet sportswriters and sportscasters do it ALL the time.
For instance, what if Rush hadn't made the comments that he did. Philly goes to the Super Bowl and wins. What does the media do and say? They'll make a BIG point that Donovan McNabb is the second black QB to win the Super Bowl. They'll make comparisons to Doug Williams and NO ONE ELSE accept the white QBs that went but didn't win it.

And what about Tony Dungy? If he had won the SB, the media would have been fawning all over him, not just because he won the SB and was a great coach, but because he's black.

From Tampa Bay Online http://sports.tbo.com/sports/MGAIYWZZLPD.html

"There could have been history Sunday. Just as in 1999, Dungy could have become the first black head coach to make the Super Bowl."

IMHO, the sports media has almost as many left wing "journalists" as the news media...

You must not watch ESPN's football pre-game show (or much football at all), if you think "politics" is discussed in such a forum. Now, ESPN does have shows like "Outside the Lines" and "The Sports Reporters," where they do throw "politics" into the mix, and the bias is uniformly liberal. I agree with you that sports reporters are as reliably liberal as any in the media.

HOWEVER, that doesn't change the fact that Rush's comments on the pre-game show were as appropriate as a fart in church. Moreover, the media's "black QB obsession" doesn't exist anymore. Culpepper, McNair, McNabb, Vick, Quincy Carter, Anthony Wright, Kordell Stewart, Byron Leftwich: all black QB's. It's not an issue anymore.

You can trot out as many convoluted arguments as you want and throw in everything but the kitchen sink and hope something sticks, but Rush was not only wrong in his assessment (IMO), but it was an improper forum to make that comment.