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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (38256)	10/3/2003 4:29:34 AM
From: sandintoes	Respond to of 59480

With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff Thursday, Oct. 2, 2003 9:34 a.m. EDT Dan 'Buckwheats' Rather Bashes Rush Over Race Remark "CBS Evening News" anchorman Dan Rather wasted no time piling on Rush Limbaugh Wednesday night, openly speculating that the top talker might be racist for suggesting that the sports media practiced affirmative action when it came to covering black Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb. "Were or were not Rush Limbaugh's comments about an NFL player racist, a ratings grab, or both?" wondered Rather, according to quotes picked up by the Web site RatherBiased.com. Rather handed off the story to correspondent Byron Pitts, who proceeded to insinuate - erroneously - that Limbaugh had slammed McNabb as intellectually inferior. "The debate over black quarterbacks isn't new," Pitts told Rather. "For decades, from little league to college, black ballplayers were discouraged from playing the position. The thinking was they weren't smart enough to succeed." Of course, neither Pitts nor Rather had anything to say about Rather's own derogatory comment about blacks, uttered two years ago to nationally syndicated radio host Don Imus. "What happened was they [the CBS management] got the willies, they got the Buckwheats. Their knees wobbled and we gave it up," said Rather, explaining how his bosses finally forced him to cover the Gary Condit scandal. Though the civil rights community largely gave Rather a complete pass for his reference to the stereotyped black character in the "Little Rascals" comedies, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny was outraged. Peterson told Fox News Channel that Rather "should be dealt with the same as others who've made similar statements," noting that CBS Sports had fired Jimmy the Greek for making racially insensitive remarks. "We have a system in our country now where if a conservative, white, Republican male were to make a statement like that, then black Americans and liberals would burn down the cities," Peterson added. Not surprisingly, Mr. Rather declined to cover Rev. Peterson's comments in his next news broadcast.