He got re-elected because he is the political equivalent of Donovan McNabb.
Limbaugh’s sportscasting career came to a crashing halt when he pointed out the obvious....that the black guy was really stinkin’ it up out there, and the media was working triple-overtime to cover it up and give him a pass.
Dare to say otherwise and you become a RAAAAAAACIST. Hence polls showing most of the voters still blame Bush for the crappy economy. You can puke at the Super Bowl, forget what the overtime rules are, and take your career straight down the flusher. But you are NEVER EVER EVER at fault being the black guy.
It is just that simple.
Sports broadcasts are part of the media/pop culture attempt to dumb down society. I watched horse racing on NBC a few nights ago, the Breeders Cup. To put it in perspective, to serious players, the Breeders Cup is much larger than the Kentucky Derby. It is truly the World Series of the sport. NBC had a one-hour broadcast to focus on the primary event after the NBC Sport Network (formerly Versus) showed two days of races spanning many hours. During the few minutes NBC dedicated to this big race, what do we get? A ditzy broad who is an entertainment reporter and who said “I am picking Alpha because he looked at me earlier.” (Alpha finished in last place.) An unqualified dunce when there are so many people with credentials to give proper analysis?
Limbaugh was full of baloney on McNabb. At that point he wasn't Joe Montanna by any stretch but he was certainly not a scrub like Rush implied. I'd say at that time McNabb was at least in the top 10 QBs and probably top 5. Now if Rush had said "Michael Vick" instead I'd have been there with him.