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Rush Limbaugh Sacked

Even though I do not like Rush I do not begrudge him not making a comment.

Even if you are 100% innocent it is always a good idea to keep your mouth shut and I would not be a bit surprised if this was not exactly the advice given to him by his attorneys.
 
A little more from the "unbiased" press:

"Am I delighted to see Rush Limbaugh attacked, ridiculed and forced out of his ESPN gig? Absolutely. Justice is being served," said Dick Meyer, editorial director at CBSNews.com.
 
"A little more from the "unbiased" press:"

It's an opinion piece, do you think opinions should not be voiced in the media? Did you read the article? Well written and I agree with him.

Quotes from the article you won't see in NTW's posts:

"Limbaugh has a right to speak his piece"
"Do I think they were offensive? Mildly, not profoundly."
"Do I like it when the thought police, the language cops and the political correctness enforcers pounce on an utterance and declare it illegal? No, I hate it. "
 
Originally posted by DavidJames [/i

"Limbaugh has a right to speak his piece"
"Do I think they were offensive? Mildly, not profoundly."
"Do I like it when the thought police, the language cops and the political correctness enforcers pounce on an utterance and declare it illegal? No, I hate it. " [/B]
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cool thanks.

can you post the link to the story ?
 
Tricky said:

....to see him make a bone-headed statement like that on ESPN, damaging or destroying his long-desired path to credibility, ..........maybe he really is a wild-eyed right wing bigot.
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What do you think his core radio audience wants him to be? He just picked up another few hundred thousand radio listeners (from ESPN) who didn't even know he existed -- and agree fully with the racist spin of his comment.
 
I never really got the point of making Rush a sportscaster to begin with.

It would be like making Howard Dean the narrator of one of those early morning hunting or fishing programs.
 
hammegk said:

What do you think his core radio audience wants him to be? He just picked up another few hundred thousand radio listeners (from ESPN) who didn't even know he existed -- and agree fully with the racist spin of his comment.
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I have a hard time believing that he gave up a national TV audience in order to ingratiate himself with people who had never heard of his radio show but now might possibly tune in. If this were trigonometry, I'd call that arc-smart, the inverse function of intelligent.
 
Tricky said:

I have a hard time believing that he gave up a national TV audience in order to ingratiate himself with people who had never heard of his radio show but now might possibly tune in. If this were trigonometry, I'd call that arc-smart, the inverse function of intelligent.
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Where is the arc in arc smart? :wink8:
 
Back to football... I heard that McNabb's statistics were pretty mediocre. The Eagles' offense was never very impressive with him at the helm, and the defense carried the team. Statistically, McNabb was definitely in the second tier of quarterbacks in the league.
With this in mind, and seeing the NFL's admittedly affirmative-action stance in regard to coaching (at the very least), I think Rush has a case.
 
crackmonkey said:
Back to football... I heard that McNabb's statistics were pretty mediocre. The Eagles' offense was never very impressive with him at the helm, and the defense carried the team. Statistically, McNabb was definitely in the second tier of quarterbacks in the league.
With this in mind, and seeing the NFL's admittedly affirmative-action stance in regard to coaching (at the very least), I think Rush has a case.
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That might be so if it weren't for the reality that few, if any serious football fans put McNabb in the first tier anyway. I never heard him mentioned as one of the top quarterbacks in the league, or even one of the top black quaterbacks. This is all Limbaugh's fantasy, where blacks are given preferential treatment because of their race. McNabb is an okay quarterback on an occasionaly okay team. The only one who brought race into the picture was Rush, and he was deservedly quashed for it. His little strawman about how everybody rated McNabb highly is pitiful. I can name a dozen quarterbacks with more "buzz".
 
McNabb has been, statistically if nothing else, one of the top few quarterbacks in the NFL over the last 3 years or so.

McNabb's 3 year average: 14 starts, 2962 yards passing, 21 TD, 10 Int. 524 yards rushing, 5 TD. The NFL's fantasy football site says, "McNabb is arguably the best all-around quarterback in Fantasy Football."

To compare, Peyton Manning: 16 starts, 4248 yd pass, 29 TD, 19 Int. 140 yd rush, 2 td.

Favre: 16 starts, 3797 yd pass, 26 TD, 16 int. 79 yd rush, 0 TD.

Gannon: 16 starts, 3982 yd pass, 27 TD, 10 int. 304 yd rush, 3 TD.

What these other quarterbacks had that McNabb didn't is legitimate NFL quality starting players at the complimentary skill positions. He is not overrated.

The NFL's coaching policy is not "affirmative action" because they do not promote the hiring of lesser qualified coaches on account of race. They are simply trying to get qualified minority coaches into the pool of potential hires by exposing them to team executives. They are certainly doing nothing that might potentially cause a team to suffer in quality by hiring a less qualified candidate.

Besides, even if it were true that the coach interview policy was affirmative action, what does that have to do with the players? If the NFL is engaged in affirmative action at the quarterback position, where's the mechanism that causes teams to play less qualified players? Is it a secret conspiracy?

Besides, Rush was talking about the media. He seems to think that the Eagles play McNabb because the media wants to see him succeed. I guess they take their orders from the media.

And the media would hardly need McNabb to succeed to have a successful black quarterback. There are several excellent black quarterbacks in the league. Race is no longer a point of conversation when it comes to the position, as it was 15 or 20 years ago.

The entire thrust of Rush's comment is ridiculous. It only makes a sort of sense of you are ignorant of the facts, or if you share his view that blacks are not up to the challenge of playing quarterback in the NFL, and therefore any apparent success must be a creation of the liberal media.
 
[Absurd sarcasm]McNabb is definately overrated because he's black. Everyone knows the best quarterback playing right now is Steve McNair, but you never hear of him because he's whi..... wait a minute. [/Absurd Sarcasm]

Nevermind

McNabb plays for a good team in a major east-coast major market, and is a very successful quarterback.

Steve McNair is a slightly more successful quarterback with a team slightly more successful than McNabb's Eagles. But he plays in a small market.

Can you spot the difference that indicates why you hear more about one or the other?
 
Tricky said:

I have a hard time believing that he gave up a national TV audience in order to ingratiate himself with people who had never heard of his radio show but now might possibly tune in. If this were trigonometry, I'd call that arc-smart, the inverse function of intelligent.
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Could that be why he has a highly lucrative radio show & lives in a Palm Beach mansion? Do you?
 
hammegk said:


Could that be why he has a highly lucrative radio show & lives in a Palm Beach mansion? Do you?
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...and if that were enough for him, he would have not taken the ESPN job. It is no secret that Rush wanted to be the Monday Night Football color guy a few years ago when they gave the job to Dennis Miller instead. This was his chance for the breakthrough he obvioulsly wanted, and I doubt he intentionally sabotoged himself.
 
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