No doubt Rush likes to make money.
As for 90% of America tuning Rush out (Thurman#1), that is just preposterous. I rarely listen to Rush, I consider myself a conservative, but his ego bugs me. I spent a good deal of time in radio with an affiliate that carries the full 3 hours of Rush daily, and there are these things called ratings. Rush still pulls in a huge audience, or we just wouldn't be having this conversation.
As to the original question, I don't see why I would be opposed to his ownership of the franchise. He made a really stupid comment about McNabb, and should have kept it to himself. I get his point about the NFL. I remember when I was foolish enough to take ESPN the magazine, and they did a round table discussion with the best quarterbacks in the NFL. It included Elway, Young, Marino, and.............Kordell Stewart. Stewart didn't belong in that discussion, at the table or on the list. What was his purpose for being on it? I think Rush told us the reason. It was foolish to do so for two reasons. One, any white guy who says that is automatically a racist, and two, Donovan McNabb is a pretty good QB. Before we get our shorts all in a tangle over the "bloods/crips" one liner, how about considering the context it may have been in. Remember the throat cutting gesture a few years ago? Was that appropriate? If the statement was in the context of that type of behaviour, how far off would it have been?
I am not here to defend Rush, but I am frightended to be in a country where a guy who has the money can't buy a product because people don't like his political ideology. If you could stomach his show, you would know that the guy does know and enjoy football. That is why ESPN put him on in the first place.