Donovan McNabb is a whining wuss

So, Donovan McNabb goes on HBO Real Sports the other night, and talks about how he's held to a higher standard because he's black.   Here's part of the exchange:

McNabb: “I pass for 300 yards, our team wins by seven, ‘Oh, he could have made this throw here. We would have scored more points if we would have done this.’”

Brown: “But doesn’t every quarterback go through that?”

McNabb: “Not everybody.”

Brown: “You don’t think that Peyton Manning, Carson Palmer, the white quarterbacks, isn’t the press as tough on them in those situations as, as the average black quarterback?”

McNabb: “Let me start by saying, I love those guys. But they don’t get criticized as much as we do. They don’t.”

First of all - every quarterback faces criticism, win or lose.  Peyton Manning was, for a long time, "the guy who can't win the big one". 

All quarterbacks get criticized for their mistakes.  You could complete 19 of 20 passes with 4 touchdowns and one interception, and you'd get criticized for it.

Winning will quiet a lot of critics, and so yes, you don't hear as much about Peyton Manning, but people do still criticize him.

As for McNabb - this HBO interview was taped a few weeks ago, before the season started, before the Philadelphia Eagles were 0-2 and it became apparent that Donovan McNabb is not the same quarterback he used to be.  But in fact, McNabb is going down hill.  He was 5-5 in 10 starts last year.  He doesn't have the same speed and mobility he had, and his only really good year was 2004 when he threw 31 touchdowns - the only year in the last 5 years that he's even gotten more than 20.

I remember a few years ago, Rush Limbaugh said that the media was actually overly kind to Donovan McNabb - that he wasn't that good of a quarterback and yet he took very little criticism because the media was "desirous" to have a a good black quarterback.

Which is it?  Is the media harder on black quarterbacks, or more lenient?

I don't think it's either.  The media is hard on all quarterbacks, and it's harder still on quarterbacks that aren't winning.  Heck, the media is VERY hard on Rex Grossman (white), even though the Bears are a pretty good team.  How does that fit into this?

The media is hard on Rex Grossman because he sucks.  The Bears win in spite of Rex Grossman.

The media is hard on Donovan McNabb because he's not getting the job done.  And it's only gonna get worse if the Eagles keep losing.  And that won't have anything to do with the color of McNabb's skin.