First Amendment Wilbon? Bryant Gumbel Has Rights, Rush Limbaugh Does Not

NewsBusters ^ | August 26, 2006 | Tim Graham

[HarleyLady27]

I would take what Limbaugh says to the bank any day of the week; more than I can say for the gymbal bros......

[Rummyfan]

If it were not for this commentary, few would even know Bryant Gumbel was even still on TV.

LOL! How true! From TODAY to whatever the show was on CBS, to a once-monthly sports reporting show on HBO..... He should be moving to ESPN8 - The Ocho! - soon!

[Rummyfan]

He has been almost everything we praised Howard Cosell for being and then some, which is to say literate, tough, insightful, outspoken and critical. When he reports from anywhere, I'm listening.

Do Wilbon and Gumbel have somehting going 'on the down low'?

[Rummyfan]

If the NFL can afford to lose all of their white audience, more power to them. I'm guessing that isn't likely though.

Would think that's about seventy-percent of the audience....

[Pharmboy]

How come none of these idiots understand that only the gummint can censor?

[Thom Pain]

Wilbon suffers from delusions of adequacy.

[Osage Orange]

You say this as if anything Gumble or Wilbon says is revalent. No one person speaks for the black community... every indiviual is their own spokesperson.

They have a public audience, and therefore like it or not...they are relevant to thousands of people. To what degree is debatable.

[Trajan88]

Gumbel & Wilbon, if you don't like what the NFL's offering... how about starting your own league?

[BIGZ]

Sounds like a white women's problem to me.

Ever listen to these guys, and still say they are not racist?

[dangus]

Sorry, but this is an important distinction that will 9999 times out of 10,000 be turned on conservatives if we don't point it out:

Wilbon was expressing his choice for editorial discretion. He doesn't like what Limbaugh said; he does like what Gumbel said. Fine.

I think the issue that should always be made should be one of comparing preferences. When people find, for instance, that kiddy porn should be permitted, but religious expression should not be must be, we must point out the logical conclusion: that they find kiddie porn less problemmatic than religious expression. Don't make it an issue of rights or hypocrisy; make it an issue of preferences. The issue is not that the left is being inconsistent; it is that they are being consistent with an extremely disgusting world view.

[dangus]

>> Why are they so obsessed with Nixon? <<

With all the Bush hatred, it's kinda quaint.

[Michael.SF.]

No one person speaks for the black community

Try selling that to Jesse Jackson.

/sarcasm