Former Kansas City resident responds to Jason Whitlock on the media

Whitlock: "It’s our job to acquire information and pass it along to you. Based on what we’ve seen from the Bill Belichick era in New England and our first two months with Pioli, gathering pertinent and enlightening information about the Chiefs is going to be rather difficult.

• The Patriots, under Belichick and Pioli, reached the conclusion that too much media access

• disrupts locker-room chemistry and undermines the voice of the head coach.

In New England, Belichick has turned the Boston media

• into an easy-to-play foil for his players.

He’s brainwashed his players into believing the media are evil, incompetent and stirrers of chaos. Obviously, we are not perfect. A collection of human beings cannot be flawless. There are instances when individual moments of incompetence make the media appear wicked or solely interested in controversy.

But overall, we attempt to be a watchdog of those with power. When we fail to play that role, generally speaking, terrible things happen.

• The Iraq War is a worst-case scenario. We trusted our president implicitly,

• led the cheers when we declared war on Iraq and

• declined to demand answers to difficult questions.

Hundreds of billions of dollars later, and with our economy in collapse,

• we now blame poor, minority homeowners for the fall of our society.

I apologize. I digress.

Let me give you a worst-case scenario in the sports world.

If, in an attempt to duplicate New England’s three-Super Bowls dynasty,

• we neglect our journalistic, democracy-ensuring duty to challenge Pioli,

there’s a far better chance that he replicates Carl Peterson’s Kansas City era than Belichick’s New England one.

• Unchallenged leaders are dictators and quickly turn unethical."...

Rush Limbaugh is a former Kansas City resident and thinks highly of Whitlock. He responds, transcript from his radio program today posted on his website:

• "He's talking about football! Jason, you laid down, led the cheers (for Bush's invasion of Iraq).? Have you forgotten the Democrat Party's role in trying to secure the defeat of the US military in Iraq?

The media laid down for George W. Bush? Jason, the media is laying down and has checked its professionalism at the door with Barack Obama! The very demand, Jason, that you are making, that local media hold a football team general manager accountable, you don't even think to reference the national media holding a president accountable? There's no curiosity, there is blind acceptance of Barack Obama, Jason, right in front of your eyes. They're stenographers.

• From Jonathan Alter to Chris Matthews to whoever, they're taking dictation from the White House, Jason. They're taking dictation from Rahm Emanuel; they're taking dictation from James Carville; they're taking dictation from Robert Gibbs; they're taking dictation from Stan Greenberg; they're taking dictation from the president of the United States.

"Unchallenged leaders," he says, "are dictators, and quickly turn unethical." He's writing about football. He's writing about Scott Pioli because Scott Pioli comes from a dictatorial regime, the New England Patriots, and the dictator is mad Bill Belichick, and Jason's all worried that Pioli is in the mad dictator image of Belichick. "Unchallenged leaders are dictators and quickly turn unethical." He's talking about a football team.

• And you're upset that the general manager of a football team won't tell you what's going on with the draft? I can understand, Jason, you're writing about sports, but you brought the Iraq war into this.

The column amused me because king Obama, king Obama is in danger, or engaging in behavior that makes Scott Pioli and the dictatorial New England Patriots -- (laughing). ...

• Jason, you're better than this. To say that George W. Bush had a lap dog media?

I don't know how you would describe this media other than to say they are stenographers covering for Barack Obama. But here's the point, the bottom line of this. Now, I know Jason Whitlock is in sports, but do you get how angry he is? He's irritated that two of his brethren in sports talk radio said, "We don't need to question the Chiefs," ...

• He is exercised over a potential dictatorship football team, but a
• similar scenario playing out in his country escapes him. I'm just here to help, Jason, 'cause you know I love you. And, by the way, Jason supported me in the Monday Night Football gig. He really did. He thought it would help fat guys everywhere, and he's bigger than I am."

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