Re: Allen Barra defends Limbaugh's football comments

[Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx>]

Michael,

   I thought the Allan Barra piece was pretty good, till I got to this
sentence near the end:

> Rush Limbaugh didn't say Donovan McNabb was a bad quarterback because
> he is black. He said that the media have overrated McNabb because he
> is black, and Limbaugh is right.

The media over-rate a lot of players because most sports writers are
just fans who grew up and got jobs writing sports.  The insights are not
much better than the guys I used to sit next to in bars.  The local
quarterback, Oakland's Rich Gannon, completely folds up in important
games -- yet he is only praised.  He's white.  Is he over-rated because
he's white?  Lots of players are.

Gene


Michael Pollak wrote:

> Actually it's kind of interesting:
>
> http://slate.msn.com/id/2089193/
>
> Barra is not a racist.  And he is not denying that Limbaugh is.  (On which
> point, see http://www.fair.org/articles/limbaugh-color.html)  He's just
> saying Limbaugh is quite right on the facts in this case. The only
> difference is that Barra thinks it's perfectly normal and a good thing
> that people are rooting for McNabb, and Limbaugh thinks it's a bad thing.
>
> Michael