surely you have something, anything to substantiate this? I'll wait.
Having already been barraged with thousands of negative e-mail messages on the
matter,5 ESPN had to do something. They had Countdown anchor Chris Berman,
whom the network described as a “self-described New England Democrat,” hold a
news conference. His main message was that he didn’t think “Rush was malicious in
intent or in tone.” “As cut and dry as it seems in print,” ESPN’s star announcer
explained, “I didn’t think so when it went by my ears.” Berman went on to say that
the network was sorry to have upset McNabb “in the middle of his travails” and reiterated
that he didn’t think Limbaugh’s comment “was meant the way it came out. I
don’t think that defines the way Rush feels about people.” Limbaugh himself had a
similar message on his nationally syndicated radio talk show on Wednesday. “My
comments this past Sunday were directed at the media and were not racially motivated.”
“This is such a mountain out of a mole hill,” he told his listeners. “There’s
no racism here. There’s no racist intent whatsoever.”
https://thesocietypages.org/files/2...-Whiteness-in-Contemporary-American-Sport.pdf
There quite a lot but, I'm sure you'll add the liberal slant.
