Blogger/pundit Roy Edroso’s Village Voice column this week discusses the outrage on the right that the NFL has decided not to let Rush Limbaugh become part owner of a team. My favorite quote about the NFL, from the Clark County Politics blog: “Watching it now is the same thing as watching a play put on by the Klan. It’s as distasteful and angering as watching an American Nazi party rally.”
Even if I considered this a monumental miscarriage of justice, that would be laughable. As documented by multiple sources, Limbaugh has a long history of making racist (or race-baiting) remarks, even though some of the ones quoted during the controversy were false (and that’s a bad thing–nobody should be hung based on something they never said). If the owners decide he’s too hot to handle in a game where so many black men play–well, whether or not that’s a good decision, it hardly compares to burning a cross on his lawn.

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