{"id":21773,"date":"2004-01-14T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T07:15:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T07:15:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T07:15:14","slug":"unfortunate_lessons_learned_at_espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/01\/14\/unfortunate_lessons_learned_at_espn\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfortunate Lessons Learned at ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: Tom in New York City. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/>TOM: Rush, just to further back you up on the McNabb thing. When you see game highlights of McNabb, he\u2019s running with the ball and embarrassing the defense. When you see game highlights of Brett Favre, Terry Bradshaw, YA Tittle they are throwing the ball because they\u2019re quarterbacks. I\u2019m backing you up 100% on the McNabb thing, he should be a halfback, maybe even a fullback, he\u2019s a big guy, he\u2019s not a quarterback, he doesn\u2019t run the team like a quarterback.<\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Well, that\u2019s what Steve Young\u2019s point was. Let\u2019s keep the points where they were, that was Steve Young\u2019s point early in the season, on September 28th. And don\u2019t forget, there were two championship game losses here that can be traced to the quarterback position of the Eagles. And so that\u2019s what shaped those comments on September 28th. I\u2019m not going to take back what I said. The Eagles made a great investment drafting McNabb, and he does bring a dimension to the game. He\u2019s a running quarterback. One of the problems I\u2019ve always had, he\u2019s a Randall Cunningham type, but he\u2019s doing it better. No NFL team has actually won the Super Bowl with a running quarterback- quarterback that\u2019s their leading rusher. It doesn\u2019t happen, this is not the college option game. It may change for the first time this year. But there\u2019s no questioning McNabb\u2019s talent. He\u2019s got raw talent. But there are other people on this team that are doing great contributory things that are being not so heralded as well because of this whole situation that happened with me and what you said, or the previous caller said about self-serving behavior on the part of the sports media in this case.<\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/> Again, this really was about the media &#8211; whole comment was about the sports media. It\u2019s always struck me, I mean this started, if you want to trace my original comments to this, go back to this whole Augusta National thing. I couldn\u2019t believe, here comes Martha Burk, who is Martha Burk? She\u2019s an absolute wacko and she comes and starts telling a private club what they must do, and the whole sports community joins with her, the whole sports reporting community, practically of all of them, join with her, as though Augusta is a bunch of antique, antiquated cavemen types and they\u2019ve got to be gotten rid of, and they\u2019re going to lose, Martha Burk is going to win. <\/line><BR\/>Well, Martha Burk is gone and Augusta National still exists as it is. It just struck me, these guys are as much the social engineers in the sporting community, sports reporting as the mainstream press is in the cultural and political arenas. And that\u2019s the whole sum total of the comment. Just an integrity of reporting issue. I was not focusing on criticism of McNabb. That\u2019s what the segment was. And I was trying to explain why everybody thought McNabb was regressing, when I didn\u2019t think he really had, I thought the reporting had elevated him beyond where he performed. Well, this year he\u2019s performed better season-long than he has up \u2019till now. He\u2019s gotten better. So, good for him! That\u2019s wonderful. Everybody\u2019s happy about it, including me.<\/line><BR\/>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n<paragraph\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Tom in New York City. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello. TOM: Rush, just to further back you up on the McNabb thing. When you see game highlights of McNabb, he\u2019s running with the ball and embarrassing the defense. 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