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Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Asshole - Fat People
Posted by Jeff (Wednesday October 01 2003 @ 11:24PM EDT)
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Add football to the list of things that Rush Limbaugh knows nothing about. Apart from making snide comments about ex-presidents on his daily talk radio program, Limbaugh has landed a gig with ESPN on Sunday mornings. It is one more place in which he can make a fool out of himself. In case you haven't heard, Limbaugh deemed Eagles quarterback Donnovan McNabb "not that good" last Sunday. This assessment was based on Limbaugh's personal prejudice. It certainly wasn't based on a statistical assessment of McNabb's performance.
McNabb has improved his quarterback rating in each of the past three years, from 77.8 in 2000 to 86.0 last year. His 2002 rating placed him sixth overall in the NFL, tied with Drew Bledsoe of the Buffalo Bills. (minimum ten starts) Despite a ranking that places him among the NFL's elite, McNabb is nothing more than the product of a liberal media that desperately wants a black quarterback to succeed, according to Limbaugh.
Quoth the disk jockey, "I don't think he's been that good from the get-go. I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They're interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well... McNabb got a lot of the credit for the performance of the team that he really didn't deserve."
He provided no evidence to demonstrate that the media was "very desirous that a black quarterback do well" but my sources tell me that the case was made from rock hard evidence pulled from his own ass. On his website, Limbaugh explains that "the sports media, being liberals, just like liberal media is elsewhere, they have a desire that black quarterbacks excel and do very well so that their claims that blacks are being denied opportunity can be validated."
To back his assertion, Limbaugh references his show in which he claims a liberal media prejudice which is based on an earlier Limbaughian claim of liberal media bias. And they told two friends, and they told two friends, and so on and so on and so on... What a dick!
But don't take the liberal media at their word on Donovan McNabb, listen to what his opponents have to say about him.
| 2002 Quarterback Ratings |
| Chad Pennington | 104.2 |
| Rich Gannon | 97.3 |
| Brad Johnson | 92.6 |
| Trent Green | 88.8 |
| Drew Bledsoe [tie] | 86.0 |
| Donovan McNabb[tie] | 86.0 |
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By Funkman (Thursday October 02 2003 @ 07:19AM EDT)
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He has decided to resign from ESPN and go back to his making millions bashing liberals on talk radio.
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By doctordoug (Thursday October 02 2003 @ 07:56AM EDT)
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Don't suspect he got that million dollar going away present though.
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By Mark (Thursday October 02 2003 @ 07:40AM EDT)
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Stern is going off about Rush - Mike Walker is saying Rush is being investigated for drugs?! I have not been able to get the whole story yet.
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By Mark (Thursday October 02 2003 @ 08:02AM EDT)
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From Fox News;
Not long after Limbaugh's resignation was announced, media reports surfaced saying he was under investigation in Florida for illegally buying and abusing prescription painkillers.
The New York Daily News (search), without identifying its source, reported in Thursday editions that Limbaugh was being investigated by the Palm Beach County state attoney's office. The newspaper said it had independently confirmed a story by the National Enquirer that was to be published Thursday.
The Enquirer had interviewed Wilma Cline, who said she became Limbaugh's drug connection after working as his maid, according to the Daily News.
A Miami lawyer for Cline, Ed Shohat, did not immediately return a phone message left at his office early Thursday. Limbaugh's lawyers, Jerry Fox and Dan Zachary, refused to comment to the Daily News.
Mike Edmondson, a spokesman for the Palm Beach County state attorney's office, told The Associated Press early Thursday that his office could neither confirm nor deny that an investigation was under way.
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By Joe (Thursday October 02 2003 @ 08:21AM EDT)
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so, are you saying the media and the NFL have NEVER fawned all over a black quarterback (or coach for that matter)... or, it's only wrong in the case of McNabb??
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By Jeff (Thursday October 02 2003 @ 08:54AM EDT)
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Your insinuation is ridiculous. The NFL, the media and the fans "fawn over" good quarterbacks on good teams. They bash bad quarterbacks on bad teams. Quarterbacks consistently recieve a disproportionate amount of accolades when their team is doing well and a disproportionate amount of grief when their team flounders. Yes, the media has "fawned over" McNabb. But they've fawned over Garcia, Warner, Pennington, Johnson, Gannon and Green as well.
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By Joe (Thursday October 02 2003 @ 09:53AM EDT)
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nice sidestep of the issue with the standard "your insinuation is ridiculous" - that's how my 16 year old dodges questions too... question - do you think a black quarterback ever received a disproportionate amount of attention just becasue he was black? (YES or NO) [simple answer - no lengthy, preachy, old-man speaches please]
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By Jeff (Thursday October 02 2003 @ 10:13AM EDT)
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Simple answer: YES, but not for reasons of skin color.
QUARTERBACKS recieve a disproportionate amount of accolades and grief. Since there are black quarterbacks, that means that black quarterbacks have recieved a disproportionate amount of accolades and grief. Christ, the media were still stroking Warner going into this season. Why? Because he's white?
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By Joe (Thursday October 02 2003 @ 11:12AM EDT)
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You’ll need to pardon my ignorance, because sports is not my thing (prefer to focus my interests on things I can do), but I thought Warner laid the golden media egg because he was a relatively old man who appeared to be resigned to a third string position, but then leapt into the limelight and lead a dark horse (sorry, is that a racist comment?) team to the Super Bowl…. People only wanted to see him succeed AFTER he took command of the field…. Either way, this is classic liberal intolerance – intolerance of any opinion that might “call a spade a spade” [quote from Fox News] I think I need to up my dose of Paxil, do you hear those helicopters??
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By Jeff (Thursday October 02 2003 @ 11:40AM EDT)
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McNabb was not accused of being black. He was accused of being overrated because he was black. According to Lardbaugh, the Iggles defense contributed to McNabb's 86.0 quarterback rating.
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By Joe (Thursday October 02 2003 @ 12:03PM EDT)
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i think the only folks Rush accused were the media and the NFL: accused of hyping McNabb because he was black - racial marketing. As to whether or not McNabb's success/lack-of-success is accredited to him or the defense, I will leave that to arm-chair quarterbacks, cause frankly it really doesn't matter to the big picture....
shouldn't you be working??
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By Jeff (Thursday October 02 2003 @ 08:47AM EDT)
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ESPN made a huge mistake here. Even if this season's improved ratings can be attributed to Lardbaugh, it was only a matter of time before he alienated the show's core fans, you know, people who actually care about football. Once removed from his disk jockey's booth, Lardbaugh's cozy contact with the dittoheads was severed. Suddenly a large portion of his audience consisted of viewers that had not been conditioned to accept his worldview.
Sports fans live in a world of statistics. Unlike dittoheads, they demand numbers to back up assertions. ESPN's knowledgable commentators consistently back their assertions with a string of boring stats. While this type of presentation limits ESPN's Sunday morning audience, it does satisfy its core viewers which guarantees the show's success long after mainstream fans grow weary of a second rate disk jockey from Missouri. So when Lardbaugh asserts that McNabb is overrated, dedicated sports fans are going to want to see numbers that support the claim. Dittoheads just take him at his word. Lardbaugh offered nothing of substance to back his assertion. ESPN shit-canned him.
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By Mark (Thursday October 02 2003 @ 08:53AM EDT)
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Ditto, Jeff.
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By doctordoug (Thursday October 02 2003 @ 08:58AM EDT)
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"until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes there will be....." all this BS
Emperor Haile Selassie quoted in song "War" by Bob Marley
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By Tom (Thursday October 02 2003 @ 09:12AM EDT)
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Or until we're all brown with epicanthic folds, then we'll find something else...
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By Mark (Thursday October 02 2003 @ 09:22AM EDT)
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I agree. There will always be something. When we eliminate human nature, we will eliminate all this BS.
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By Julie (Thursday October 02 2003 @ 11:21AM EDT)
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The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz offers the keys to eliminating "human nature" learned from the people around you since birth.
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By Mark (Thursday October 02 2003 @ 11:26AM EDT)
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We could eliminate crime and discrimination if everyone was courteous and nice. True but unrealistic.
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By Joe (Thursday October 02 2003 @ 11:32AM EDT)
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So do the Core Values of the US Air Force:
Integrity First
Service Before Self
Excellence In All You Do
coincidence??
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By Joe (Thursday October 02 2003 @ 11:35AM EDT)
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edit to above:
Three Core Values:
Integrity First
Service Before Self
Excellence In All You Do
don't know why they ran together....
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By Tom (Thursday October 02 2003 @ 12:50PM EDT)
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Here's my theory. Limbaugh had to know the drug stories were coming. He's in the "media" and I suspect would get word of reporters snoopin around, etc. This type of issue could really hurt him with his core audience. But he knows, and we know from the Annenberg discussion, that they are highly skeptical about the mainstream media, so he plays the best hand he's got. Create a self-inflicted wound that is centered around race. Race is really the only thing guaranteed to explode in the media like a grenade. So create a self-inflicted wound,and when the same "liberal" media he has castigated comes after him on the drugs, he's insulated himself to his core radio audience. He can point and say "look, the drug thing is being blown all out of proportion. They're just out to get me because I spoke the truth and they can't handle it." You get the whole paranoid picture.
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By Jeff (Thursday October 02 2003 @ 12:54PM EDT)
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Interesting. But I think you might give him too much credit.
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By Joe (Thursday October 02 2003 @ 01:16PM EDT)
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gotta agree with ya Jeff... even my tin-foil hat isn't on that tight...
Oxy is for losers... real men go straight for heroin...
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By Tom (Thursday October 02 2003 @ 12:56PM EDT)
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Perhaps, I often err in that way. But, unless his head was addled by the OxyContin (which is quite possible) the race thing just seems to blatant.
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By Tom (Friday October 03 2003 @ 10:04AM EDT)
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Any comments on this arguement advanced by Allen Barra over at Slate? Rush Limbaugh is Right
Without fully agreeing (since I didn't do the analysis) this is to me the proper approach:
- Ignore that Limbaugh said it
- Ignore the racial aspect
- Determine how McNabb rates relative to others
- Determine his media coverage relative to others
- If he is overcovered relative to performance, postulate why.
As has been pointed out, quarterbacks get all the attention not the defense and young quarterbacks perhaps get more for a while. But, I clearly remember (and I don't follow NFL football as much as some) the big story in the early 90s was the dearth of African-American quarterbacks so why is it suprising that they would get enhanced coverage, since I would guess that NFL Properties likes it that way.
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By Jeff (Friday October 03 2003 @ 11:39AM EDT)
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If Barra wanted to "prove" that Lardbaugh was correct, then he picked a
perfect quarterback comparison to illustrate his point. Over the last
two years, Johnson and McNabb have posted similar number with an edge
for Johnson, who, by the way, gets to throw to another Johnson not on
the Iggles roster. Despite his edge, Johnson supposedly recieves less
ink than McNabb thereby "demonstrating" that the liberal media
"overrated Donovan McNabb because he's black." Here's another
stat: Philadelphia
5th largest city, Tampa Bay 58th.
BTW: I'm sure Kordell Stewart was surprised to learn that black quarterbacks were overrated by the liberal media. The Chiago media is roasting him on a spit.
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By Nick (Friday March 18 2005 @ 05:43PM EST)
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I think McNabb is overated. I don't really know if the left-wing media is trying to make McNabb look good because he is black though, but on that note, the PTI guys made an exellent point that the media was trying to reel behind Bret Favre in hopes he would turn out good (i.e. Rush Limbaugh's point), and Rev. Al Sharpton's latest comment that the media treats him like he is a child when he is running for an office, but idilizes him when he makes his "blame-the-white-man-for-everything" rants. Just something to keep in mind.
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