--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It is good to see you back John. With all the bad > news for the GOP I was wondering when you would > weigh in. The thing about Rush is that he was hired > to be provocotive and he was. But based on his > history it cannot be argued that his anti-media > attack came out with regard to a black quaterback. > As you have documented, McNabb is very good and as > your ranking shows many black quaterbacks are in the > upper teir. Any fan with unbiased knowledge of the > game would have to acknowledge this so it seems that > there must be bias in Rush to come up with this > analysis. I have seen others suggest a double > standard because Howard Cossel did not get fired for > his "monkey" remark. But I think it is personnel > history rather than politics. Both men were egoists > with a desire to create controversy. The difference > is that Cossell was a legitimate champion of black > athletes while Rush (or at least a large part of his > audience) are, to be kind, not overly sympathetic to > the plight of blacks. So when Cossel says he did not > mean the statement as a racial slur he is believed > while when Rush says it is not a slur it is not > because it falls into his general pattern of > demogogery.
Given the opinion polls that came out this week, the GOP should have that sort of bad news every week :-) Cosell used the word "monkey" to refer to _white_ athletes on more than one occasion, so it does seem unfair to say that he was being racist to use it to describe black athletes, apart from everything else. As for "any fan with unbiased knowledge" - see Allen Barra's article on Slate. Barra is a professional sportswriter who writes, among other places, for _Salon_. Rush was wrong (see profootballprospectus.com for why) but his argument was not, on its face, entirely unreasonable. It certainly wasn't racist. Calling him a racist is nothing more than the usual tactic of arguing that anybody who disagrees with the PC line is a bigot. It happens to most conservatives in college, for goodness sake, so Rush should have been a little better prepared for it. Good to see you back, Bob. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
