Re: Allen Barra defends Limbaugh's football comments

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A good quarterback cannot operate alone.  Without a solid backup from the
rest of the offense, the quarterback will get hammered.

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 06:30:09PM -0400, Michael Pollak wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Eugene Coyle wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> You're exactly right Eugene, you put your finger on exactly where he went
> too far.  Part of why McNabb is overrated might be because he's black.
> But a lot of it, and maybe most of it, is surely simply because he was a
> superstar in college, he's paid a lot, the fans like him personally and
> his team wins.
>
> Barra should have said Limbaugh's argument was plausible rather than that
> it was right.
>
> Still with my optimist's hat on, I have to say: it cheers me up even more
> that Limbaugh's been piloried if what he says isn't outrageous.  I want
> conservatives to get really worked up over the unfairness of it.  Because
> then they'll just feel compelled to throw themselves on the electric fence
> again.
>
> Michael

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