Re: Allen Barra defends Limbaugh's football comments

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

This wanders far from the original focus of this thread, but is perhaps
distantly related. I listened on the radio to the Ali-Liston fight in
which Ali won the title. Afterwards the reporters were trying to
interview Ali, and this led to the greatest radio episode ever. Ali
refused to answer any questions until all the assembled reporters
chanted in unison: "You're the Greatest."

I never have liked sports reporters. Hearing them grovel to Ali was a
thing of beauty.

Carrol

Eugene Coyle wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> >
> >