Right on! A white guy speculating about the racial reasons for a black player's treatment on a sports network smacks of a southern bigot, plain and simple. Southern bigots always look for the sinister racial undertone which "explains" everything. I personally don't want to hear about it. Talk about the sport not about race.
Rush was wrong and stupid. He handed all who hated him already, an issue to gore him with. Rush delivered his own head on the platter. DUH!!! How stupid can one get? Never thought he'd fall like this, but the tongue is so unruly and yes, impossible to tame.
Rush should have known better. The real shame is that we live in a world where he NEEDED to know better. That world used to be called America. If we screw up the very first amendment, how are we ever to get around to the other twenty-six?
As smart as Rush is, President Bush could teach him a lot about tact, and picking one's battles.
But it still doesn't make him a racist. Too bad so many are still so insecure that they 'hear' racism where it isn't. The best way to stop racism is to stop looking for it.
It's truly sad that so many people can make their living on being aggrieved. Jesse Jackson is their patron saint. And I'm not just talking about blacks, plenty of people of other races idolize Jesse, because they feel smug and superior hitching their wagon to his supposed underdog freedom-fighter aura.