ESPN: Fair and Balanced?

Apparently not...

So, you may or may not have heard about Dana Jacobson and her idiotic comments at a roast for ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike. You may or may not be aware, co-host Mike Golic played football at Notre Dame. And apparently during the roast,

Jacobson made an absolute fool of herself, swilling vodka from a Belvedere bottle, mumbling along and cursing like a sailor as Mike & Mike rested their heads in their hands in embarrassment."

Jacobson, a Bloomfield Hills native and Michigan grad, reportedly dropped F-bombs on roastee Mike Golic's alma mater, Notre Dame -- with football coach Charlie Weis in the crowd.

From what I heard on Ellis Cannon's Sports Line Pittsburgh, it was more along the lines of "F**k Notre Dame, F**k Touchdown Jesus, and F**k Jesus." Drunk or not, that's pretty bad.

She got a one week suspension from her show, "First Take" on ESPN which nobody watches anyway.

One can only imagine what would have happened if she had said "F**k Allah." But what if she had said "F**k Martin Luther King Jr.?"

Thinking about this, I have to wonder about Rush Limbaugh. Let's go back to 2003. You may recall another co-host at ESPN being fired, or "asked to resign" for these comments:

"I don't think he's been that good from the get-go. I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They're interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there's a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn't deserve. The defense carried this team."

So, a known conservative male, states something that has some actual merit to it and gets fired. A woman says "F**k Jesus" and gets a weeks vacation?

Now, if you know me or are the least bit familiar with my postions on things, you'll know I'm not a particularly religious person. I am in 100% in support of the concept of freedom. I will question what people say, but I will fight to the death to defend their right to say it.

That being said, I think it's clear I am far more interested in Justice than I am in Jesus. But, if the level of offensiveness is going to have anything to do with Justice in our society, we need to actually level the playing field and apply the concept of Justice to it. There is no way in hell, mentioning the fact that Donovan McNabb is black is in any way comparable to saying "F**k Jesus." Yet Rush was fired and Dana was suspended for a week.

I'm not Jesus, but that is not Justice...

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