Imagine, for a moment, that a news program hired an annoying yappy dog to take part in the newscasts. (Given some of my experience, I imagine a Chihuahua, but feel free to imagine whatever you like.)
Now the dog is sort of cute sometimes, and mostly behaves for a while, but then one day, the dog, true to its nature, starts barking and yapping like mad, and no one can shut it up.
What is the real story here? That the dog yapped and barked and was generally an annoying pest? Or that someone thought that hiring the yappy little dog was a good idea in the first place?
So Rush Limbaugh said on ESPN that the Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb is overrated just because people wanted to see a black quarterback do well. Three days later, he resigned over the controversy.
But who thought that hiring him was a good plan??