{"id":21650,"date":"2003-10-01T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T07:15:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T07:15:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T07:15:38","slug":"only_nfl_liberal_sportswriters_can_mention_mcnabb_s_race5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2003\/10\/01\/only_nfl_liberal_sportswriters_can_mention_mcnabb_s_race5\/","title":{"rendered":"Only NFL, Liberal Sportswriters Can Mention McNabb\u2019s Race?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: You have got way too many things going here at one point, and you\u2019re not following the points you make. Answer my question. Of course I\u2019ve heard of Doug Williams and Dante Culpepper and all the other names you mentioned. What in the world does that have to do with this episode?<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: I\u2019ll tell you what it has to do with it. When you criticize Vinny Testaverde or Kurt Warner, do you mention they\u2019re white quarterbacks? No. But you make a comment about McNabb being overrated &#8211; which I happen to agree with, that\u2019s a valid point. But for you to say that the NFL has something invested in the liberal sports media, has something invested because he\u2019s black, I think it completely diminishes the accomplishments of all these other black quarterbacks. We have truly gotten to the point in the NFL where being black and being a quarterback and being accomplished have nothing to do with each other, but you brought it up as if you were Bill Clinton out on a stump bringing up race. I\u2019m telling you, Rush, I\u2019m a fan of yours, but I think you\u2019re absolutely all wet on this.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Okay, let\u2019s just take that. You think I\u2019m all wet on this. So what? I\u2019m all wet. In your mind, I\u2019m all wet. I\u2019m wrong. Whoopee-doo! You know, why not leave it at that? People who think I\u2019m wrong, think I\u2019m wrong. But it\u2019s gone way beyond that.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: No, I\u2019ll tell you why, you want to know why?<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: No, I know why, and we don\u2019t need to rehash that, but you bring up all these other names. I\u2019m not going to compound this, but when you say that I act as though I\u2019ve never heard of all these other (quarterbacks). You want me to tell you about an interview with Doug Williams following the Super Bowl performance, the great Super Bowl performance he had? Maybe it wasn\u2019t Doug Williams. It was, there was some great, great black &#8211; I think it was a Redskins athlete but I\u2019m not sure and the media interviewing him totally focused on his race and how well he had (played) and he just didn\u2019t understand it, didn\u2019t hear it, didn\u2019t want to focus on it. The media was astounded! I wish I could remember the specifics of this.<\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>It was either &#8211; it might have been Doug Williams after that great Super Bowl performance against the Denver Broncos out in San Diego, and the media was peppering him with questions: &#8220;What does this say that black quarterbacks?&#8221; &#8220;How long have you been a black quarterback?&#8221; was one of the questions in this interview. &#8220;How long have you been a black quarterback?&#8221; asked by the media, was one of these questions. Admittedly this is 1987, but the whole subject of the interview was: Doug Williams didn\u2019t want to hear about the blackness of his being a quarterback, and the media was dumbfounded! <\/line><BR\/>They couldn\u2019t believe it, because the whole point was to establish himself as that because there was a social barrier that everybody was trying to overcome, and defeat &#8211; and this is no different than that. Regardless, it isn\u2019t racist. It\u2019s hardly even worth the tempest that has been made of it. The only reason it is, is because this is one of the subjects, the areas, you just don\u2019t talk about. And it\u2019s one of way too many that you\u2019re just not supposed to talk about. They can talk about it. They can make all the references to the race of athletes and what it means to the community and what it means to the racial population, the black population of the country and how many kids look (up to them). They can do it all day long, but nobody else can. <\/line><BR\/>I mean, I\u2019m not the one that\u2019s even introduced race in this if you want to know the truth. You can go back. You can read Philadelphia sports media last year, the year before, and you can see that guys have been writing about the great things that Donovan McNabb\u2019s success means in a racial context. This is a very selective application of who can say what &#8211; and again, it\u2019s not even about McNabb. It\u2019s about the media. And, you know, it is simply that. It\u2019s almost a knee-jerk reaction because a certain protected topic that\u2019s not supposed to be broached has been, and so the programmed demanded response has kicked in, and it is absent any specificity. It is absent any direct reference to what I actually said. It focuses on who I supposedly am because of my political and ideological orientation, and then descends from there, pure and simple. It\u2019s not even specifically about the comments that I made. If it were, then the cacophony of sound here would be much more silent. This is Tracy in Ellicott City, Maryland. Welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you with us.<\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>CALLER: Thank you, Rush. It\u2019s a pleasure to speak with you.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Thank you.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: I am a die-hard Philly fan. Grew up in Delaware and have followed the Eagles, you know, all my life, and I cannot agree with you more. I started saying this two years ago. Obviously, I disagree with your caller that was just on. I mean, you\u2019re right. You\u2019re not making it an issue. The press is making it an issue, and I\u2019m just so glad that you had the guts to say it. I don\u2019t consider myself a racist, but, you know, we expected so much from this team, and he has not produced. And I\u2019m sure he\u2019s a great guy. It\u2019s nothing against him personally, but as a player&#8230;<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Wait a minute. But that\u2019s not exactly what I said. The team has produced. They\u2019ve gotten the championship game the last two years.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Yeah, but&#8230;<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Last season McNabb got a broken ankle against the Arizona Cardinals and Koy Detmer and AJ Feely filled in and they didn\u2019t miss a beat. They weren\u2019t able to get there in the championship game each of the last two years. Well, my point &#8211; and let\u2019s not forget this &#8211; my point Sunday on ESPN was that the defense of the Eagles I think deserves a lot of the credit for this team\u2019s success. It\u2019s a sports opinion! You know, for crying out loud, and I think it\u2019s an accurate one, but it\u2019s caused a hubbub here.<\/line><BR\/>And for those of you, by the way, who are saying, &#8220;Rush, what were you thinking?&#8221; I thought about this the night before. I weighed it, I balanced it, but you know what I decided? Look, they brought me in to be who I am. This is what I think. It\u2019s a sports issue. It\u2019s a sports opinion. This is not by any stretch of the imagination the end of the world. None of this stuff is. And, you know, to start balancing and weighing what I say versus the political correctness requirements that are out there, I don\u2019t do that here. You know, why should I do it anywhere else? 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