Rush Limbaugh Resigns From ESPN NFL Countdown Show for Insensitive and Inappropriate Comments
It was a ridiculous decision by the braintrust at ESPN to instill such a vitriolic, politically charged blowhard. What on earth were they thinking? Though, I lament that it's a sad sign of the times that the viewing audience increased - I hope the rise was more due to the trainwreck factor than the hordes of intolerant dittoheads flocking to their annointed shepherd.
On Sunday, Limbaugh put his foot in his mouth and has been defiant, using his daytime talk show to defend himself for this absurd, inexcusable comment:
"I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well,'' Limbaugh said.
There's a conspiracy in "the media" to have a black quarterback do well?
Donovan McNab, the target of Limbaugh's ill thought remarks, clearly summed up the incident - and really posed the question that should be brought to ESPN - why wasn't Limbaugh called out immediately by fellow hosts for this incredulous verbal guffaw?
What an illustration of how polarizing his presence is that everything that exudes from him is so politically charged, that ESPN would reign in the existing show hosts, allowing Limbaugh to extend his bully pulpit, purposefully unanswerable, onto mainstream television viewing audiences.
I wager that for weeks ahead, Rush will be assaulting political correctness and the SCLM for his demise from a second career in NFL broadcasting...
Comments
Everyone who talks makes verbal mistakes. Minor slips of the tongue, obvious errors of fact, "Freudian slips," off-color remarks out of place, jests taken the wrong way, and indeed the "politically-incorrect" mark happen in some degree and proportion to the amount one talks--and Rush talks a lot. Most are glossed over and forgotten. Some are covered with an immediate correction or apology. Sometimes an apology is demanded and a sensible person will almost invariably apologize immediately--reserving to another time any attempt to make the same point.
The vicious, vituperative, unforgiving attacks by the left in every press outlet at their disposal, however, is not a matter of courtesy, but of propoganda. It is an issue of fact, subject to rational discourse, that the NFL might be yielding to pressure from the media for affirmative action in filling quarterback positions. It would be an appropriate topic for discussion in a free discussion of sport--but the NFL/network sport shows are entirely devoted to promotion of the league--nothing truly controversial is ever to be mentioned. In the face of this incident being made a full-court press cause celebre by his enemies, the show's producers folded like a defensive line of dyspeptic kittens.
Rush should have known better than to lie with flea-bitten dogs.