Color commentary

Rush Limbaugh, on ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown, opined that reporters have gone easy on Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb because they are "very desirous that a black quarterback do well. There's interest in black quarterbacks and coaches doing well," adding that--despite three Pro Bowl appearances, McNabb is not "as good as everyone says he has been."

McNabb's response: "The people who were watching in the African-American homes, the kids, the parents.... When they hear something like that, what do they think?"

Read FAIR's June 2000 analysis on the inappropriateness of Limbaugh doing color commentary, then for ABC's "Monday Night Football"--a gig he ultimately didn't get.