Where is the dialogue?
It's official: Rush Limbaugh is a quitter who cannot effectively stand up for his own boneheaded views. Under pressure from the "liberal" media, and no doubt ESPN, Rush resigned from his gig on Sunday NFL Countdown, after making comments that essentially stated that the same media had elevated the status of Philadelphia Eagles QB Donovan McNabb because he happens to be African-American.
Without an audience of yes-persons (yes, I use persons because that is the sort of politically correct terminology that would drive Rush and his "dittoheads" mad), Rush looks like a blustering fool. In other words he cannot hold his own in a debate unless he controls the available information. When factors that Rush chooses to ignore are thrown in (such as the many terrible African-American QBs that have been in the NFL, or that McNabb may actually be a good player), Rush, at least on Countdown, tends to lose.
The circumstances surrounding his resignation do tell us that the nation is not ready to have a serious discussion on the role of race, which means that there is still racism. Verbal Jazz maintains, and this will probably shock many left-leaning people, that contrary opinions need to be welcomed in order to move forward and erode racism in this country. In other words: we need mental lightweight conspiracy theorists like Rush Limbaugh to show us how far we still need to come and silencing those voices because their opinion is untenable is effectively controlling the debate and fueling the anger, the racism and, yes, the conspiracy theories.
On another note: kudos to Donovan McNabb for his absolute class in dealing with this situation.
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It's official: Rush Limbaugh is a quitter who cannot effectively stand up for his own boneheaded views. Under pressure from the "liberal" media, and no doubt ESPN, Rush resigned from his gig on Sunday NFL Countdown, after making comments that essentially stated that the same media had elevated the status of Philadelphia Eagles QB Donovan McNabb because he happens to be African-American.
Without an audience of yes-persons (yes, I use persons because that is the sort of politically correct terminology that would drive Rush and his "dittoheads" mad), Rush looks like a blustering fool. In other words he cannot hold his own in a debate unless he controls the available information. When factors that Rush chooses to ignore are thrown in (such as the many terrible African-American QBs that have been in the NFL, or that McNabb may actually be a good player), Rush, at least on Countdown, tends to lose.
The circumstances surrounding his resignation do tell us that the nation is not ready to have a serious discussion on the role of race, which means that there is still racism. Verbal Jazz maintains, and this will probably shock many left-leaning people, that contrary opinions need to be welcomed in order to move forward and erode racism in this country. In other words: we need mental lightweight conspiracy theorists like Rush Limbaugh to show us how far we still need to come and silencing those voices because their opinion is untenable is effectively controlling the debate and fueling the anger, the racism and, yes, the conspiracy theories.
On another note: kudos to Donovan McNabb for his absolute class in dealing with this situation.
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