[over3Owithabrain]

Nothing personal towards Rush, but I'm with the "he screwed up" crowd. There was NO reason to bring up the media issue and McNabb's color. It's a FOOTBALL show, he could have talked all day long about poor performance and left it at that. Rush miscalculated the response, he forgot he wasn't addressing his informed radio audience. He obviously pissed off some co-workers at ESPN. I really don't care to think about media bias when I'm watching sports - it's my one escape. Rush should have known better.

That said, he still has my full support for his groundbreaking radio show and I will forever be grateful for the trail he has blazed. He just screwed up and it cost him his hobby job.

[_Jim]

There was NO reason to bring up the media issue and McNabb's color.

PC

[longtermmemmory]

Dusty whathisname should not have said his comments about white baseball players. He is black and said a racist as**ho** thing about white people. He kept his job ONLY BECAUSE HE WAS BLACK.

This makes sense, to cut the losses.

Time to go after McNabb's endorsements. Which canned soup does he endorse? Rember FR freeped Lipton.

[Calpernia]

Why? Did McNabb not know he was black?

If Rush said McNabb was a good at sports because he was black...THAT would be racist.

To say the Media trumped McNabb up because he was black is not racist. Rush is frying the Media.

Because Rush said the word Black is the red herring here.

[Fishtalk]

There was NO reason to bring up the media issue and McNabb's color. It's a FOOTBALL show, he could have talked all day long about poor performance

I've been hearing about all of this brouhaha and have listened and read with interest. I even paid close attention to Rush today when he spent a bunch of time justifying his comment. I loathe when Rush talks about football, maybe because I'm a woman and don't especially follow football. I consider Rush a political show and I want to hear politics damn it.

Now I hear that the man is over there on the football show talking the politics I want to hear on his radio show and well....

Frankly I'm disappointed in Rush. First because really, if Rush wasn't Rush wouldn't that rather stereotypical, conservative comment about the football player overhyped by the media for his color, been totally inappropriate and shocking?

What I'm trying to say here is that a big problem I have with this comment is that isn't exactly true

Isn't the sports arena, in the end, one of the more accurate areas for judging talent and skill? It is entirely possible, given humans and their prejudices, that the liberal press does hype Joe Football player more than he might deserve for any number of reasons, including the old bugaboo of promoting the underdog black player. But really, Rush, when the cows come home, doesn't Joe Football player's playing really settle the score, so to speak?

A simple "this guy's not playing as good as he should be to deserve the media hype he gets" would really have sufficed. That bit about the liberal press and the player's color was totally inappropriate in that broadcast setting.

Besides, I think Rush treated the American public exactly as he accuses the libs of doing....ie to TELL us what we should think. Because by carrying the thought out as he did makes the average guy shrug because we KNOW, we really KNOW Rush, that if the guy keeps playing bad he'll be outta there. Maybe NY Times reporters can keep their jobs a bit longer when hyped and protected by the libs but the sports stadiums are tough courtrooms.

Since the comment seemed so wrong the comment then seems too specious, too cleverly inserted. It could indeed and rightfully so, be interpreted as being racist.

It was dumb and Rush isn't dumb. I wonder what was he thinking.

[Huck]

There was NO reason to bring up the media issue and McNabb's color. It's a FOOTBALL show,

Which raises the question of why they hired Rush Limbaugh at all. Clearly, hiring entertainers of any stripe to comment on football doesn't work. It should be left to sports broadcasters and analysts. Rush makes his living giving monologues that tweak liberal conventions. Of course he would do that on ESPN. It's what he does.