A missed chance for Limbaugh

ON THE whole, I was glad to see Rush Limbaugh dropped from a group trying to buy the St. Louis Rams. The rest of the owners in the 32-team National Football League ultimately decided they would have been nuts to have a race-baiting investor in a business where two-thirds of the players are black and its televised broadcasts are among the top programs that both African-American and white viewers watch.
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It would have been tantalizing to see Limbaugh, who rarely displays a heart, let alone love toward the people he pillories, walk the sidelines during pregame warm-ups when the Rams play the Baltimore Ravens.

Imagine the conversation he would have with Ray Lewis, one of the league’s most devastating linebackers. The italicized words are Limbaugh’s actual statements of the past.

“Say Ray, how ya’ doin’? I’m Rush Limbaugh, in case you don’t know me. We’d love to trade for you. But first, take that bone out of your nose and call me back.’’
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Limbaugh would never have the courage to say his rotten things in person to behemoths who could splatter his vocal chords from end zone to end zone. NFL ownership might have been good for him. He might have shut up long enough for the caricatures in his mind to take human form, long enough for he himself to join the human race.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/10/17/a_missed_chance_for_limbaugh/

Any piece by Derrick Jackson makes good reading. :)

He tried 20 years ago, but got lambasted by a small woman in the audience... the look on his face was that of, "I think I soiled my undies."

Ever since, he hides in his studio or appears where the audience is screened and armed guards are nearby.

I would love to see him sing "Barack the Magic Negro" to a locker room full of African-American players, after telling them they lost because they still had a "bone in their nose." :D