The anti-Rush revival revisited Updated
Scroll for updates…Rush dropped from Rams bid…
The apocalyptic hysteria over Rush Limbaugh’s interest in buying an NFL team is yet another stark reminder of the limits (and double standards) of left-wing tolerance.
Doug Powers lists the cretins the NFL welcomes into the fold. As for partisanship in sports, there’s Obama-philic Steelers owner Dan Rooney. And as Doug pointed out in last month, while the NFL PAC leans left, NFL owners, team officials, players and coaches overwhelmingly favor Republicans.
No matter. Rush-bashers are so desperate to keep him from pursuing his football team ownership dream that they have resorted to fabricating racist quotes.
Par for the course.
Back in February, I wrote a Sunday piece for the NYPost on the anti-Rush revival after President Obama attacked the conservative talk show giant by name. This passage holds true today, as it has for two decades:
I asked Limbaugh this week why his enemies on the Left repeatedly fall into the trap of distorting his words and overreaching in their anti-talk radio demagoguery. Why, after 20 years, don’t they learn?
“On the contrary,” he said, “I think they believe all of these campaigns to have been profoundly successful. Their objective is to use their brethren in the drive-by media to echo their charges against me for the purpose of ensuring that I do not become ‘mainstream’ in the popular and political cultures. They strive to have the general population, particularly those who do not listen to the radio, hate me (and by association, all of conservatism). This happens for one reason: I am effective and thus have to be marginalized as an extremist, fringe figure.”
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On a related note, Ken Shepherd at Newsbusters spotlights anti-religious bigotry against Florida Gators QB Tim Tebow.
What are they so afraid of?
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Update….
Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been dropped from a group seeking to buy the St. Louis Rams. Limbaugh was to be a limited partner in a bid led by St. Louis Blues chairman Dave Checketts, but Checketts said in a statement Wednesday that Limbaugh’s participation had complicated the effort. The group will move forward without him.
Rush Derangement Syndrome took over the NFL. It’s a damned shame that the selective guardians of football chose to side with race hustlers, quote fabricators, and political opportunists over their own self-interest. The game has no more passionate fan and supporter than Rush Limbaugh. But now the NFL thinks it can afford to apply ideological litmus tests for ownership. What’s next? Political litmus tests for fans, too?
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Thanksgiving Day “Rush Out” is on. Nobody watch-ratings go down player salaries go down, etc…And now that there is a political correctness element to sports, I expect Mark Cuban to sell the Mavericks.
Sickening, just sickening. Now I am down to NASCAR and golf. Has anyone out there got any cajones left?
It doesn’t matter who and what you are. It only matters that leftists get a free pass to define you. And they never let facts get in the way.
What a joke! I think I have gone to my last NFL football game. I’ll stick to college sports from now on.
I’m all for that. The cowgirls and the lions always play. I can do without the girls the lions are a snooze fest.
Any support or consideration I had for the nfl is now gone – especially for the Indianapolis colts after hearing what jim irsay said…
Not that I cared for football in the first place, mind you…
Pro football is 100% mercenary.
College football is not far behind.
Does authentic identity matter anymore?
I have never been a sports fan at all. I honestly cannot tell you who played in or won the last SuperBowl, World Series, or any other championship. As far as football goes, to me anyway, the day they start playing it in a uniform consisting of shorts, cleats, and brass knuckles they will be worth the money they are paid. But to each their own. But I am just stunned how quickly Rush folded on this, I just heard he is out of it now as far as being part of the group. I really thought he had a bigger pair than to be scared off by the left. What has gotten me about the whole thing is how over the past few days the ones calling him a racist based on supposed things he said have been unable to come up with any proof at all of any of them having actually been uttered by him. Hopefully he will still go ahead with plans to sue every single reporter, columnist, and talking head who used the phony quotes. Having more money than he knows what to do with he can at least make some of their lives a living hell for awhile.
And oh by the way, we are STILL WAITING for our glorious president to make up his little bitty mind about sending more troops to Afghanistan. Well, what is it buddy? While you party in the white house, our troops are dying because you refuse to make a decision.
Get off of your lazy presidential butt and make up your mind.
I think Rush just had a momentary lapse in judgement aka(brain fart) anyone wanting the Rams has to be nucking futs.
Why would anyone watch a game associated with Keith Olbermann?
I watch a game of Olberduffus bungie jumping if the cord was to long, with a very deep lake at the bottom of the trip.
That does it for me with the NFL. I was getting close to this decision recently, when I was watching a pregame program, and guess who was on the panel?
K Overbite! I about threw up in my mouth.
This was before all the Rush hoopla hit the news.
So …guess it’s back to “baseball, apple pie and Chevrolet”. OOPS Scratch off that Chevy part!
I just hope Rush will now stop talking about sports. Its the only time I change the channel from his show.
Absolutely outrageous. I never knew that, despite how tough the game is, the players were such total pu@@ies. They can crush each other for 3 hours straight every weekend, but can’t handle someone who thinks differently being their boss? Or is that just their union hacks?
I hope Rush takes the money he was using to buy the Rams and sues and destroys the careers and lives of all the smarmy, pathetic losers who knowingly have been lying for 3 days straight now. They made their bed, now they can lay in it. Disgraceful.
Maybe he can take out Hymietown Jackson and Tawana Sharpton while he’s at it.
Sounds good to me. I can’t stand that leftist puke.
I haven’t spent much time watching pro football, but I won’t be spending ANY time watching from this point on. Screw the NFL and all of their felon-committing and animal-abusing players. Poor little black football-playing “victims,” who make more money in a year than most people make in a lifetime. If the NFL doesn’t like conservatives, and panders to shakedown artists like Sharpton and Jackson, then they and their sponsors won’t be getting any of this conservative’s money.
I’m glad I dropped my Dolphins’ season tickets a couple of years ago, although I admit I wish I could’ve been there Monday night when they beat the Jets.
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HI AJMONTANA–I like your thoughts on paying to see Keith O. take a short jump into a lake with a too long bungee cord. However, I have a few suggested improvements.
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Fill up the lake with Piranha and hungry alligators or crocks first.
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Or–since the American West has severe water shortages–and because it would be a shame to pollute the clean lake with a big POS like Keith O:
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Replace the lake with a Grand Canyon size arroyo loaded with rattlesnakes, cactus, Spanish dagger plants, porcupines, skunks, scorpions,raccoons, badgers, and hungry cougars–the 4 legged kind.
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A more environmentally “friendly” Texas size plan–and it will really get interesting when the bouncing stops and the biting begins.
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John Bibb
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This is truly sinful. The NFL has been an overrated and way-too-expensive form of entertainment for decades…I prefer the minor league teams of whatever is available anyway, hockey especially. I don’t know anything about anti-trust laws, but it seems illegal to me that someone can be barred from taking part in a business transaction because of the opinions of others in a major franchise? Just how do these people wield this sort of power legally? It seems that the NFL is somehow much too able to control the private business transactions of the clubs involved. And this doesn’t even get into the political correctness crap apparently rampant within and without the NFL.
Another sad, pathetic day for America. To think of how many people have served and died for the principles of liberty in this country, only to have such human sewage completely pervert the meaning of what this country is all about. Rush is right, these ARE dark days for our country.
This is discrimination, pure and simple. Tese hypocrites have just denied a private citizen his right to make an income, based on something tht he did or did not say. This is a direct violation of his rights.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the Age of Obama. The age where if you do not believe what the Left believes, if you do not follow the same political philosophy and ideology, if you do not pay homage and worship at the foot of Obama, you can lose potential future income and possible current income.
While I rarely listen to Rush, since he is on during a time when I am not near a radio, I truly, sincerely hope he is able to sue the crap out of everyone involved for millions, making them realize there is a penalty for spreading lies and messing with a person’s rights and happiness.
This should scare the hell out of everyone. Seriously, this truly is nothing more than an attack on an outspoken Conservative.
The sport of professional football is poor entertainment in my opinion. The basis of its popularity is now due to the betting lines. The rules have become convoluted, and change practically every season. The star players are show-offs which, to me, debases the game and the idea of sportsmanship. As a young person I admired the likes of the NFL stars, but today I just get turned off. And the hype that goes with the Super Bowl is nauseating.
I am furious at the way Rush is treated by the NFL owners and the establishment press. Dozens of people have said about the press and Obama what Rush said about the press and Donovan McNab. The Global Left, which has infiltrated all of our institutions, is at work here. I have listened to Rush for 18 years. He is the most principled, decent, thoughtful, and witty figure in American public life. I am sick. I can do this much: boycott all NFL events. Everybody, treat the NFL like a radio-active pile of waste.
Congratulations to the left, and other media morons.
Now that Rush Limbaugh has been dropped from the consortium bidding on the Rams, you have given him actual damages to sue over.
Enjoy your time in court.
Rush backed out of this in order for us to keep our eye on the ball. He knows the lefties were making a distraction out of his NFL bid.
Strange beyond belief? I would like a list of what Conservatives are not to be allowed to purchase….. Well at least Al and Jessie made a few bucks on the deal and upped the old race hatred thingie insuring steady future income…what a way to make money fanning, the flames of hate. Remember after they finish with Rush, they will be coming for you and me.
and the curse of the Rams continues, anyone notice since the last very strange change in ownership the Rams haven’t been worth very much.
The NFL is nothing more than an extension of the entertainment industry and are no difference from any of the rest of that “Hollywood” trash.
Yep, Rush is a bigot alright. That’s why he hired James ” Bo Snerdley” Golden as call screener.
sarc. off
Libs are being led to the slaughter by Rush on this one.
Goodness gracious we don’t want this talk show host that makes jokes that are not politically correct contaminating the environment around Michael Vick, O.J. Simpson and other notable NFL
criminalsluminaries. As for me and my house …..We support Rush…..Go Rush!Now that the race-baiters-in-chief (Jackson/Sharpton) have opened up a can of worms, be watching for many players to come out against the hustlers. There are way too many conservatives in the NFL ranks for them to not keep their mouths shut. This could be fun to watch.
What is the average IQ of NFL players.I would venture to say not many can even think for themselves.
I think Rush has a VERY GOOD Lawsuit here. Everyone who Mis- Quoted him PURPOSELY, The NFL Owners.
He has just as much right to purchase a PRODUCT, as anyone else in this Country.
Here is a man who Loves the Game of Football, and given the chance COULD & WOULD return The St.Louis Rams to Glory.
Maybe they plan to sell the team to Al Gore? Seems he has been comming into alot of money lately.
I couldn’t agree more…I’d bet that Rush has been waiting many years for the opportunity that’s been handed to him by the uncontrolled lunatics and professional race hustlers.
I’m looking forward to video of Olberman, Sharpton, Jackson, Matthews and assorted other loons walking into the courthouse with cameras and microphones shoved into their face.
They have screwed with the wrong guy!
This is laughable. Rush is “too controversial” to buy a losing football team. But a bimbo that chants “My humps, my humps, my lovely lady lumps” is perfectly suitable…
What is happening to this country?
Rush could have turned this losing team around, I think. Who better to buy a team than the ultimate football fan?
Let THEM fail, I say.
Rush needs to start a Conservative newspaper! That would be quite a success, in sales and in advertising!
Then there’s Al Davis.
Or buy any one of many dozen rags that are circling the drain.
I haven’t had a chance to read the other comments yet, but I just want to say that Rush needs to buy a better team anyway. The Rams are losers (my apologies to the fans). He is a winner. He deserves a better team. Oh, and I am confused about the “standards” of the NFL. Are the players all paragons of virtue? Just look at some of the crap they get away with. Rush is the greatest voice for conservatism since Ronald Reagan and the liberals can’t stand it. They are like vampires when the sun comes out. Their lies will be found out and they will suffer for it. Sorry if this has been covered in previous posts. I will try to catch up!
Bizarre.
I have a comment that shows up only when I am logged in.
Has anyone seen any evidence of the things Rush was supposed to have said? Anything other than the McNab statement, which was 100% accurate? They need to come up with proof or they are screwed. Nobody messes with the Maharishi. By the way, I would take a bullet for Rush Limbaugh. I mean that.
I hope Rush takes em all to court and all of them to the cleaners. He can take the money and donate it to military Families or the like. That will send the Liberal Race baiters into a frenzy along with the Liberals in general.
Rush’s group did him a favor by denying his participation, publicly. Now Rush has money damages that can be calculated.
The humiliation has just started for the liars in the media. Did anyone else see sweet lil’ Anderson Cooper last night, backpeddaling furiously on the charges against Rush?
Too late, sweetheart.
Anderson Cooper:
Backpeddaling onto the Tower of Power –
His ilk stepped over the line one too many times and this is the time to stop this crap in its tracks.
Why doesn’t someone with some tech skills start an online petition that we can all sign telling the NFL that we will no longer be supporting them or buying any of their products?
Why don’t some of us with legal experence pass the hat for some money and start filing law suits against them? We could start by using all the environmental regs that are out there. Let’s not forget the owners themseleves. Let’s start filing lawsuites against them starting with anything that comes to mind. We don’t have to win just make their lives ungodly miserable for the forseeable future. We need to make sure they know why it is happening to, we need to do it publically. Let’s see how the left likes their own methods turned against them.
I am a little torn here about this “boycott” of the NFL. My Vikings are 5-0 right now and we have Brett Favre. Would you blame me if I don’t join in?
You can hire a proxy protester, try a Chiefs or Bucs fan, to boycott in your stead.
65% black in the NFL… NBA is 78%… the Congressional Black Caucus, etc.
Who do we really have to blame for all of this?
This is the sign of the times. Marginalize conservatives and threaten them with loss of privaleges and jobs if they don’t toe the PC line. Hmmm, seems I’ve seen this tactic used before.
As far as the NFL, I quit watching it years ago except for a game or 2 here and there (now I won’t even watch those). Got tired of the whiny, big mouth, prima donna millioinaires. There is no loyalty or decorum in the game these days. Unlike the day’s in the Staubach era. I’m a college fan anyway.
A protest offset!
Hah! Exactly!
Just for fun, check out my poll on Rush.
The word racist has all but lost its meaning.
Mr.’K’. sez, now Rush has been freed to buy the Royals!
‘K’ loathes Glass.
I’m sure that ACORN would help me out, cheap. They seem to be looking for work these days.
Where is the “apocalyptic hysteria” over this? Does anyone actually care? This is the first and only place I’ve heard of this.
As far as I can tell by reading this story “several players” and NFL Players Association head DeMaurice Smith complained. According to Rush in the same article, it’s “about the ongoing effort by the left in this country, wherever you find them, in the media, the Democrat Party, or wherever, to destroy conservatism, to prevent the mainstreaming of anyone who is prominent as a conservative.” Gee, I wonder why people find him so objectionable? Where on earth would people get the idea that Rush Limbaugh sometimes says obnoxious things?
Rush has built his entire career out of being provocative, and he has done very well for himself. When you are famous for saying things to deliberately shock and offend people, it should come as no surprise when it comes back to bite you. So some of the quotes were fabricated, some of them weren’t. Big deal. This isn’t about any one single quote, it’s about Rush being an extremely polarizing figure entirely by his own design. The NFL may be overrun by cretins (and wait, is that guy trying to draw an equivalence between Rush with Fergie? Fergie?? Nice try, but no dude, no. Not even close.), but Rush is a deliberately, overtly controversial cretin, and he doesn’t deserve your pity.
Right, because the NFL is completely void of polarizing figures.
Huggybear,
Glad to know you believe that people in American can be punished for what they DIDN’T SAY and DIDN’T DO.
Thanks for letting us know where you stand on key issues of liberty.
One can tolerate a polarizing figure when that figure brings something unique to the table i.e., talent.
Limbaugh’s contribution would have been what? Money? Anyone elses is worth as much without the headache.
Mark my words.
You guys demonize and/or ignore Rush at your own peril.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Yes, and Rush has earned his vast fortune, international recognition, and broadcasting awards all without “talent.”
Limbaugh is “polarizing” or “controversial” and UeberDork is “cutting edge” and “progressive.”
We get how this works…
I know I’m a day late here, but this is just one of many things where committed conservatives have no idea how they are so far outside what is accepted in mainstream America.
This sports columnist for the AJC says it all for me.
Highlight:
And what of the liberties of the people who decided they don’t want a controversial gasbag owning their team? No one is censoring Rush, no one is taking his freedom away, the people who decide who can and cannot own a specific football team have decided to exercise their liberties and are not allowing him to buy it.
Again…
Go to Snopes and read the fact-checked quotes. I had completely forgotten he was sh!tcanned by ESPN for saying something stupid a few years back. No doubt he will say something stupid again in the future, and by the look of things, the team doesn’t want that liablity on their shoulders when it happens. And guess what? It’s their right.
How’s Michael Vick been doing this year?
What other contribution would you expect from a buyer?
Some owners are polarizing. Some aren’t. The NFL certainly has both kinds. It’s interesting that Rush’s brand of polarization, where some accusations were proven false, crosses some undefined line.
So he’s political. So what? Why does that disqualify him as an owner? It doesn’t disqualify Dan Rooney (nor should it).
The NFL is setting an interesting standard here. We’ll see how evenly they adhere to it in the future.
Please define which “people” you are referencing.
This statement suggests that you do not fully understand the situation.
Who do you mean by “the team”? The players? The fans? The current owners?
What liability would “the team” have for anything Rush does that would be separate from them?
Goodell jumped the gun on this. You can revel in your schadenfreude all you wish, but this fiasco reeks of unprofessionalism.
However, there is one bizarre moment to come out of all this. One might even see it as a sign of the end of times: Keith Olbermann agreed with and sided with Rush on this. I’m still trying to wrap my head around that. Perhaps Keith is considering a future purchase of his own.
When lefties don’t know the facts they just make them up. It saves SO MUCH TIME and relieves them of the horrible burden of thinking rationally.
Thanks again HuggyBear and RSS. True to form to the end! One must appreciate your consistently asinine views.
Hey redstate, I get your point, but still you have to do better with the source/citations. You (or your linked author) should not just make claims like that without citing the medium, date, etc. For example, I don’t believe Rush himself actually sang “Barak the Magic Negro” on his show, but I did hear a recording like that played on his show. So your point is made, sort of.
An occasional listener, I’ve heard Rush sometimes toss not-too-funny zingers at minorities and women. That’s annoying, but does being an annoying blowhard make him unqualified to own part of an NFL team? Can you spell Al Davis?
Idiot. I am talking about his involvement in the NFL. You know why Vick is back? Because he was one of the best QBs when he got in trouble. Talent earns you eccentricity.
Limbaugh’s money, however, is exactly the same as anyone elses and its not like he was going to have any sort of active role in management.
None. And that is my point.
It shouldn’t. I have zero objection to his ownership, minority or otherwise. But to be fair, there is a difference between being “political” and being divisive, no? Plenty of people are political. None is as much of a firestorm as Rush. And lets not kid ourselves; that is exactly the image he wants and foments.
That you cannot see the multiple internal contradictions in your posts is what qualifies you for the title of “leftist idiot of the day!”
As our host would say, “Truly snortworthy!” But one expects as much from leftist, ambulance-chasing lawyers…
Please do us the favor of pointing them out.
Limbaugh certainly has talent as an on air figure. That is irrelevant to the skill set it takes to be a minority owner with no managerial power, which is simply that you have the money to invest.
So why wouldn’t the group hesitate to dump him? They can find some other millionaire with a boyhood fantasy of owning a spots team that doesn’t come with all the baggage. That person’s money is worth exactly the same as Limbaugh’s.
On the other hand, a player who is polarizing (like Chad Ochocinco) can get away with it because his talent is far greater than other potential replacements.
That this is difficult for you to grasp, WE82, is oddly shocking and entirely predictable at the same time. There. Now that is a real internal contradiction for you.
No, I prefer to laugh myself silly watching you say incredibly stupid and contradictory things.
Figure it out for yourself, if you can…
Translation: “I got nothing.”
It does not surprise me that you cannot recognize your own self-contradictory statements. Maybe someone else will be kind enough to point them out to you. In the meantime, I’ll be laughing at you and not with you as usual.
If leftists didn’t have double standards they would have no standards at all…
No doubt.
Oh, there is that rapier-like, Upstate New York wit again! Now I see how Elliot Spitzer got elected in the first place…
One L in “Eliot.” But no doubt you are right that the whopping 26,000 people from my county tilted the election in his favor.
Unterschätzen Sie nie die zerstörende Befugnis von 26,000 Idioten. — A. Einstein
Of course he could say it in Yiddish which is way kewl…
You know who else wrote in German?
HITLER!!!
Why are you like Hitler, WarEagle?
Chappy must be a charter member of the International Godwin’s Law Association…
Oi, vey! Such a putz he is!
And you to the Fraternal Order of the Painfully Oblivious to Irony.
As you overlook the painfully obvious irony in my reply…
Like I said earlier…
Ok jackass class is in session. Paul Shanklin does the song not RUSH! Good try IDIOT. Once again count on a LEFTY troll to not know this.
Also for your stupid Alpha Sierra Sierra a BLACK columnist from the LA times was the FIRST to call him that!
So now you are informed and schooled once again. It is nothing but poking fun at the KBPBHO and you once again fail even moderate comprehension.
Crawl back under your rock fool. This says it all if you care to get a D9 cat and pull you head out of where the sun doesn’t shine.
The NFL is now a disgrace. I rather watch college football and NASCAR than this crap. Thank goodness that Time Warner did not have NFL network cant wait for college basketball and NHL real action.
This from a black american conservative.
This type of smear campaign tactic continues to be repeatedly used by the Democrat / Left wing because these attacks CONSISTENTLY work.
And that’s it exactly. I get tired of hearing, “The American people are getting more and more irritated with tactics like this.” NO THEY’RE NOT! It’s WORKING and that’s why these guys use it. Say what you will about Glenn Beck, but he’s on the right track as far as turning the tables right back against them only using the TRUTH instead of made-up quotes.
I don’t know, the ones who decided they don’t want him buying the team? The ones victimizing poor, poor Rush? Who are they? I honestly don’t know.
The reason I don’t understand the specifics of the situation is because I don’t care enough to understand them. I have no idea what the owners of a football team even do, or why that would be something someone would want to do. I hate professional athletics for myriad reasons, not the least being the fact that wife-beating, drunk-driving, animal-abusing cretins are treated like saints and paid millions and lead lives of insane priveledge if they can throw an f’ing ball. I am all too familiar with the presence of polarizing figures in athletics, which is why I don’t pay attention to any of it.
What I do care about is that people are whining about Rush being some sort of poor, hapless victim when he is nothing of the sort. The man has done very well for himself doing what he does, and if that comes at the occasional “price” so be it. Nobody is threatening his life (at least in this particular instance) or causing him harm in any way, he is being denied the priveledge of purchasing a football team. Cry me a river.
Are there double-standards at play here? Perhaps. But they’re not mine, and they’re not the property of “the left.” They would belong to the people — whoever they are — who decided to deny Rush the priveledge of purchasing a football team. If these people turn around and sell the team to Keith Olbermann or Al Sharpton, you’ve got yourself a pretty strong case that those specific individuals are acting in bad faith. But the idea that this is part of an ongoing vast left-wing conspiracy to keep conservatives down is absolutely ludicrous.
Oh, yes! IT’S COMPLETELY INSANE AND CRAZY!
So the fact that the entire Same Stream media, not just one news station somewhere in obscurity, but the ENTIRE NATIONAL MEDIA propagates a KNOWN SERIES OF OUTRIGHT LIES about the man for days and not one investigation of the veracity, and a congress woman (Sheila Jackson) makes comments about the appropriateness of Rush not being a part of the purchase because of his supposed views, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are on TV talking about why Rush shouldn’t be a part of the NFL, and professors from black universities are consulted to pontificate on the rightness of denying Rush the “privilege”, but for you it’s “nothing to see here, folks. move along!” Not like Rush, who is routinely propped up by the Left as THE leader of conservatism is actually thought by them to be the face of the conservative movement or anything. Nooo, couldn’t possibly be that in trying to black him they are saying something to conservatives in general! Just some ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS AND ABSURD “right wingers” get all wee-weed up.
That mentality will be the same one that leads people to scratch their heads in ignorant bewilderment wondering “Well, shoot! How did things come to this pass?” when we finally have a “Kristallnacht” against conservatives in this country.
The frog in the pot is often boiled slowly and the first time someone sounds the alarm, he sure looks like an “alarmist” and “ridiculous”–until he’s right. It’s called being atop the slippery slope and seeing it for what it is.
And nobody is putting Rush forward as some kind of poor, abject sad, forlorn, “hapless” person. MM and others have plainly stated it looks like a case of blackballing someone for their ideology. Especially when you try to analyze the reason given by execs: Rush is “polarizing”. And as has been pointed out, “So KEITH OLBERMANN is not??” The stated reason doesn’t add up, so that leads people naturally to find the “real” reason.
When you then see the entire lock-step national media work in concert to push a phony story about Rush, I think it’s entirely appropriate to sense a larger “movement” afoot than just an isolated case of “coincidence.”
And for the record, I could care less about the NFL or any national sports. Don’t watch or patronize them in any way and never have.
Wow, was it really necessary to got here? Not being allowed to buy a football team = THE HOLOCAUST. Way to undermine whatever point people are trying to make about this ridiculous story.
I half-agree with you here — I don’t think it’s just a “coincidence,” but I am not willing to let Rush off the hook for any backlash he receives; he has rightfully earned it. I refuse to accept that this is all a fabrication that has nothing to do with anything he has ever said or done, or the inflammatory persona he has spent 20 years creating and profiting from, that it’s everyone else’s fault because they can’t handle the truth. Please.
I’m calling BS on this tired notion that some prominent figures on the right are being persecuted and victimized by some faceless, conspiring entity in a manner that is any different than they do to their own political opponents. Rush is a character assassin and race-baiter as much as the likes of Sharpton and Olbermann, some of you just condone it (or are completely oblivious to it) because he speaks to your political interests. Whether or not he is a racist is not a concern of mine – that’s not an accusation I toss around lightly — but I know for a fact he does occasionally make racially provocative comments, and it appears he benefits from the attention far more than he suffers …well, except for this one time.
And really, what does this have to do with Keith Olbermann? Does he own a sports team that I am unaware of? But since you brought it up, I would like to go on record right now as fully disavowing and disapproving of Keith Olbermann as a sexist, self-serving pseudo-progressive who sees nothing wrong with degrading women with violent, misogynistic commentary that I personally find both distasteful and disturbing. The “bag of meat” comment is vulgar and gross on so many levels I don’t even know where to begin, but I refuse to accept that as being a reflection on me simply because it came from Olbermann’s mouth. He does not and never has represented me or my beliefs, and I am ashamed to have someone like him claiming he does. If he tries to buy a football team I would be happy to see him shot down, although I doubt being a misogynist is a disqualifying trait in the NFL.
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