Posted on 07/26/2003 8:02:12 PM PDT by paul in cape
Duncan of Fairfax, Va., wants my thoughts on Rush Limbaugh being added to ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown. "Personally, I'm getting ready to break out the pitchfork and find me a couple of torches," he writes, "but I suppose I'll have to make do with just not watching the show." Careful about hints of terrorism, Dunc. Not only the FBI, but the Justice Department monitors columns such as these for any hints of terrorist threats. To say nothing of the Department of Agriculture and the Attorney General's Office, which is exactly what I'd like to say about them.
Not that I don't agree with everything you've said. I most certainly do.
It's funny, on Thursday afternoon I did an interview on ESPN Radio, only because I wanted to present my Limbaugh views right up front. So I ranted and raved for a while about how ABC set the idiot-tone with its Dennis Miller venture.
But Miller, while being a football ignoramus, at least wasn't mean, in direct contrast to this Limbaugh character, who's not only stupid and nasty, but stupid and nasty at the top of his voice.
The pity of it is that I used to enjoy watching Countdown, but of course I won't tune in anymore. And what do you think the radio guy said? Right on cue he came in with, "See that, we're all talking about him." To which I retorted that we talk about murderers, too, and thugs and all manner of aberrant behavior, which doesn't mean that we want to include it as expert commentary on the football scene. I hope to God this is the last reference to Limbaugh that I'll have to make.
(Excerpt) Read more at sportsillustrated.cnn.com ...
Or watch sports-reporters and it's like listening to a leftist english department, a low-tier dept., gab about deconstructionist theory. just look back at how ESPN kissed Martha Burke's ass, it was groveling at it's finest. And the WNBA...it's a failure, yet it's front page news.
Not long after the Giants won the Super Bowl in 1987, several Giants helped to make an anti-abortion film with the help of the American Life League. It featured Bavaro, Phil McConkey and a few others I've forgotten.
Sports Illustrated wrote a commentary critical of the effort and claiming athletes should not be out in public discussing religious and political issues, particularly a bunch of men commenting on a "woman's issue". It was obviously both liberally biased and hypocritical.
Seems Sports Illustrated was having a problem dealing with end zone prayers around the same time.
At least ESPN has ESPN Classic...I'l forgive them for hiring Hunter Thompson. And they do have the Sports Guy, and he's reliably hilarious.
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