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If you can read this, I'm back with my cheek turned

I'm baaaaaack -- again.
My absence from you the past few days was mostly a technical problem -- but also a bit of a "pissed off" problem.
I wrote this great blog last week, slamming Rush Limbaugh for even thinking the NFL would allow his fat ass to own a part of a team in its league.
I used as evidence a lot of his racist comments.
All of you whose brains haven't been washed by Fox News would have loved it.

But I couldn't get it printed on our Web site.
The guy in charge of stuff like that said it was a corporate problem.
I was assured that Fox had not bought the TRN. My liberal thoughts were not being censored.

Still, I got pissy.
How dare I write such great prose and nobody is able to read it.
I pouted for a couple of days and have now gotten over it.
So hopefully everything is fixed and you are reading this.

In fact, if I had it all to do over again, I would not have written my bash Rush blog.
"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" may be in the Bible, but too many people use it as an excuse to get even.
In my profession it is so easy to bash the basher.
Somebody writes or say something you don't agree with, you run to the computer and tell the world what an idiot he is for thinking differently from yours.
That's how Fox News stays in business.

But real journalists should have learned with experience that we shouldn't shoot the messenger just because we don't like the message.
So from now on, instead of "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," I will take the "turn the other cheek approach."
Even when the messenger's name is Rush and his message sucks.

Posted by Nick Gholson at 8:29 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)