More code words?

Remember all the trouble Rush Limbaugh got into recently with his remarks about bankers and Jews and Obama?

Maybe I’m being paranoid, but this profile of Chuck Greenberg, “who stands to become the Rangers’ new managing general partner and chief executive officer by opening day,” according to this piece in the Dallas Morning News, has some weasel words, too.

There are two generally accepted methods for training to run a major league sports franchise. You can be born into a fortune or you can amass one through shrewd business deals.

Point is: Untold wealth is essential.

Of course, I could stop there and get everyone in a snit: “Shrewd business deals?” I wonder what demographic they’re talking about there. “Untold wealth?” Hmmm. That would get people talking about Evan Grant, who wrote the piece.

But continuing, the reader would see tha, in fact, Greenberg  “brings neither the bloodlines nor the Gordon Gekko greed. His wealth is not in money but in practical experience. And in that regard, he may be well ahead of all those captains of industry when it comes to being prepared for the job at hand.”

So, Jews are good in business, huh?

And, since they’re so clannish, there’s also a “did you know” item that notes that Greenberg and Dallas Mavericks’ owner Mark Cuban attended the same synagogue in Pittsburgh as kids.

So Greenberg is not only Jewish, he’s a Yankee carpetbagger as well?

Here’s a Greenberg Q&A with ESPN’s Richard Durrett.

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