Limbaugh's point was that McNabb got the right amount of praise when he did well but not enough scorn when he did not. In other words, favoritism from white, elite, sportswriters and outright devotion from scribes like Mike Wilbon, who unapologetically refers to McNabb as "my boy."
Columnist Steve Sailer:
I sometimes wonder what it must be like to be a blind football fan today and have to rely on sportswriters rather than your own eyes.
You'd probably assume, from scanning hundreds of impassioned columns over the years, that the only racial imbalance at any position in the history of the NFL has been at quarterback, where blacks had been grievously discriminated against until very recently.
You would almost certainly have never read that, at the second most glamorous position, tailback (the main ball carrier), none of the 64 starters and second-teamers was white at the start of the 2004 season.
Similarly, you'd never hear that not one of the 64 starting cornerbacks in the NFL is white.
Why do sportswriters almost never mention what everybody can see with their own eyes?
My theory: sportswriters suffer from an inferiority complex. They worry that hard news journalists snicker at them for spending their days hanging around locker rooms, trying to extract usable quotes from men with necks thicker than their heads.
Hence sportswriters tend to be the most fervent exponents of the Mainstream Media's liberal party line.
Back in the 1970s, the Washington Post's sportswriters drove out of town George Allen, the Hall of Fame coach of the Washington Commanders (and father of Senator George Allen Jr. (R-Va), the potential 2008 Presidential candidate), because Allen reminded them of Richard Nixon. Vanquishing him made the sportswriters feel like Woodward and Bernstein.
Today, sportswriters fear that the patterns of profound racial inequality so visible every weekend on televised sports offend the MSM’s reigning pieties.
They feel they have to be the purest of the pure in what they dare to acknowledge.