Please answer this question: if Rush Limbaugh had used the phrase "feets don't fail me now," do you think he would have been taken to task by the PC liberal media?
Yes or no?
Yes or no?
On his own radio show: No, probably not--no more than anything else he says there. Rush is however certainly a "person of interest" to the Hypersensitivity Police so they can be depended on to grasp at any straw to make him out to look like a racist.
Look, Rush is a political commentator, not a sports commentator. That's what he is, and that's how he's perceived by pretty much everybody, regardless of whether or not his gig is on EIB or ESPN. Things that sports commentators say are judged by a somewhat different and more lax standard than what political commentators say. Anyone who is the least little bit surprised by that is gravely naive.
What I don't understand is why Newsbusters (and by extension we at FR) have joined the Hypersensitivity Police by taking offense at the a) the phrase in the first place; b) the phrase used in the context it was, AND c) somehow linking it to "What Would Rush Do."
Silly, all the way around.