Rush wasn't right on his football commentary

To the editor:

Over the years, you could find many things to say about Rush Limbaugh, but I never expected one day to add this one: Stupid. For him to claim some working knowledge of sports, and claim on the playing field the media is still trying to prop up black quarterbacks, is stupid.

The only color owners, who are the ones who really matter in this equation, care about is green. Are you winning? The same, to a different degree, applies to the media.

He compounded his folly in his "defense" by saying, in effect, "I must have said something on the mark, because look at the firestorm I created." That is not only logically indefensible, it is lazy.

If you applied that "logic," then the band teacher who played "Deutschland Uber Alles" while a member of the band ran across the field with a Nazi flag must have been right, because of the firestorm that created.

I cannot say I have ever followed Rush's points of view, but at least I used to be able to count on him somewhat consistently for a principled and logical argument for those views.

That has fallen by the wayside. Maybe someday he will return to his roots and make comments with a basis in fact.MICHAEL H. MAGUIRE

Cape Girardeau