In an WSJ Editorial this monring Rush Limbaugh goes into some serious detail [1] involving recent events surrounding efforts of a group of which he was a minority interest, to buy the St Louis Rams It’s a worthy read, and I encourage you all to read it al. But he makes a point I’d like to break out on, just a little:
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Rush Limbaugh
The NFL players union boss, DeMaurice Smith, jumped in. A Washington criminal defense lawyer, Democratic Party supporter and Barack Obama donor, he sent a much publicized email to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell saying that it was important for the league to reject discrimination and hatred.
When Mr. Goodell was asked about me, he suggested that my 2003 comment criticizing the media’s coverage of Donovan McNabb—in which I said the media was cheerleading Mr. McNabb because they wanted a successful black quarterback—fell short of the NFL’s “high standard.” High standard? Half a decade later, the media would behave the same way about the presidential candidacy of Mr. Obama.
And there it is. The situation is, my friends, that we have not reached a post-racial society, when pointing out that someone the likes of a McNabb is getting special treatment because of his race, is itself considered racism.
I suppose it would be simple to say that what we have reached, instead, is a place not of post racialism, but a place of racial retribution. And there’s truth in that. Certainly that’s what the race huxters like Jackson and Sharpton have always been pushing… this situation is no different. But look a bit more closely.
This is not about race. Never has been. If it was about race, why the objection to Justice Thomas? And, while I’m generally suspcious of anything Juan Williams has to say, I’m forced to ask…. what about this…
Note last para of Rush’s piece:
As I explained on my radio show, this spectacle is bigger than I am on several levels. There is a contempt in the news business, including the sportswriter community, for conservatives that reflects the blind hatred espoused by Messrs. Sharpton and Jackson. “Racism” is too often their sledgehammer. And it is being used to try to keep citizens who don’t share the left’s agenda from participating in the full array of opportunities this nation otherwise affords each of us. It was on display many years ago in an effort to smear Clarence Thomas with racist stereotypes and keep him off the Supreme Court. More recently, it was employed against patriotic citizens who attended town-hall meetings and tea-party protests.
Yes, it was. And there’s the key to understanding it… while they’re busy waving the ‘race’ banner, what it really is, is code for ‘not liberal’. If you doubt that deliniation, may I suggest you replay the video, and then do a little research on what happens to black conservatives like Hutcherson. Like Clarence Thomas.
Let’s put a sharper edge on this. Jaun Williams is a liberal. Died in the wool liberal. An Obama supporter, ostensibly though that’s now seems in some doubt after WIliams has has the chance to watch the guy in action. But look at that vid again. Look at what happens to him the second he steps outside the liberal, race huxter mantra. He starts getting racist comments tossed at HIM. So, you tell ME…How does anyone farther to the right fare with such people?
Well, now, you know the answer to that, don’t you?