Limbaugh is off ESPN but his boss who defended him is still there

[Caution]

from
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=1627991

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ESPN executive vice president Mark Shapiro came to the conservative Limbaugh's defense.

"This is not a politically motivated comment. This is a sports and media argument," Shapiro was quoted as saying in a USA Today column published Wednesday. "Rush was arguing McNabb is essentially overrated and that his success is more in part to the team assembled around him.

"We brought Rush in for no-holds-barred opinion. Early on, he has delivered," Shapiro told USA Today.
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Now call me crazy but this is praise for the job Rush had done including his racially motivated comments.

I for one will be writing ESPN a nice little letter about this jerkoff as well.

[spooky3]

1. Exactly. The problem is bigger than Rush.

See how easily EVP ignores the fact that the REASON Rush alleged that McNabb was overrated was that he is black (the old anti-affirmative action slam), without any systematic evidence that he was overrated and that if he was, race was the reason why.

Had Rush simply argued that McNabb is overrated and given support based on the team performance as Shapiro wants us to believe, the story would be completely different.

This and the lack of apology from ESPN shows them to have slimy network leadership.

[Lori Price CLG]

2. Here is ESPN's phone #:

ESPN 1-860-766-2000. Ask for "Network Operations" (I think it is ext. 3019) and vent to them all day long. They have to log every phone call.
ESPN
One ESPN Plaza
Bristol, CT 06010

BTW, Shapiro was liberal (and brilliant) when I worked there... don't know *what* happened to him. ?

:)-Lori Price