And that's the saddest part of this whole thing... nobody called him on it.
Yes, it was stupid to say that "the media" wants a black QB to succeed for social reasons. What the hell does that mean anyway? (I see it now, sportswriters are huddled in their liberal think-tank rooms deciding which "black" QB they can promote in their articles each week) He made a real effort to inject his stupid, uninformed, unresearched opinion into the broadcast that included the suppossed targets of his criticism, and they sat there and took it. Absent minded, programmed fools. The fact is, Rush flies off the hook with his pre-programmed junk and the other hosts were reading up on the next points of "discussion". Anyone from production knows that you rehearse before going live. They would have gone over these points before it aired, so it allowed Rush to either ad-lib, in which case the other hosts weren't ready to come back with a pre-thought out response (as they're used to doing), or even worse, it was rehearsed, and the dummies let him get away with it.
And another thing... NFL Countdown and Primetime are shows that should be about football. Rush is a political commentator. ESPN was stupid to do this, and they should have known before this that it would be a failure. Ask ABC's MNF execs. They are owned by the same conglomerate.
