The anti-Rush revival revisited Updated
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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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If these people don’t watch out, Rush will have his attorneys have a chat with them. People should have learned by now, It is not nice to mess with Rush, he won’t stand for it.
The quote Rush said, “I’m effective and thus have to be marginalized as an extremist, fringe figure” is why those nuts are going after you also, Michelle. Keep up your great work, we love you!
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I don’t watch football. I prefer NASCAR (go Tony Stewart!).
But I hope Rush gets them, then wins 10 Superbowls back-to-back!
Do they have any other play in their playbook?!?! (pun intended)
They are afraid of the truth.
They can’t handle the truth.
They don’t want the truth spoken, so they do anything and everything they can to silence the voices of those who speak the truth.
I think that Rush, and the ownership group he is in, knew all along this would happen. I bet they are all off having a good laugh right now as their bid has received the most attention.
And, no, this is not over. I still have the group Rush is in as having a 50-50 chance. This is about money! The rest of the NFL owners are not going to turn their back on the highest bid for a team. The fear of lawsuits from the existing Rams ownership for their losses will override partisan political games.
Intolerant? The offer of salvation is to all people. How is that intolerant? I’d say it’s very inclusive.
I believe the problem is with the means to salvation. People like the author prefer to choose their own path.
He will make the Rams a winner, if given the chance. He’s a winner and he knows football. He buys the Rams and the phone call to Bill Cower will be made 10 seconds later.
Liberals don’t even like sports. They like art. But now that I’m thinking about it, they also like money, so I suppose that’s their interest in the outcome.
This is becoming hilarious. They are making fools of themselves.
to have ‘don’t let me down hymietown’ jackson call limbaugh a racist is laughable.
Not true at all. We love tennis and polo.
And sailing. Can’t forget about that.
lol chap.
When I first heared about Jackson and Sharpton trying to stop Rush from buying the Rams I figured it was that they knew if he succeeded that would be one less business they could shake down.
He’s only a minority member of a group of buyers. It’s unlikely he’d be making such decisions. Rush may as well forget about this dream. It’s one of the sacrifices he makes for being effective. There are enough Democrats, liberals, and cowards among the NFL ownership who will vote against his participation to block any chance of his participation in buying the Rams.
Wanna see a liberal’s head explode?
Ask one who do they hate more, Rush Limbaugh or Michael Vick!
(munching popcorn) More cheese Gromit!
You forgot croquet.
And here all the time I thought it was Crew and Lawn Bowling.
No. Croquette is for blue bloods. They are conservative.
Anybody that pisses off liberals is on my play list.
Not likely. Bluebloods are almost exclusively liberal and Democrat – as are Harvard, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, et al. See also: Kennedy, any.
It is just so funny when these clowns are soooo outclassed by Rush. He eats them for breakfast (a good purgative).
If it weren’t for the complicit media repeating the lies and omitting the “inconvenient” truth for the Dems, they would not stand a chance.
2010. Tick, tick, tick….
We used to like golf until Tiger Woods came along and all the unwashed rabble, with their Top-Flite golf balls and cargo shorts, decided they wanted to take it up too. So sad.
Topflite II’s, actually. But I never wore cargo shorts…
There are no real American blue bloods. You have to have peerage tracing back at least 15 generations.
Nope. Kennedy et al are simply “ultra elite.”
The nuts are so focused on destroying the opposition that they are failing to lead. Maybe they can’t lead and that’s why they have to be so focused on Rush, Hannity, Palin, etc. How foolish they all look.
What about dog shows? Is that a sport?
Can any of the idiots actually explain exactly HOW Rush buying an NFL team will be:
1. Bad for the NFL?
2. Bad for players of any color?
3. Bad for cheering Rams fans
4. Bad for owners of other NFL teams?
5. Bad for TV ratings?
No matter which of any of those they might attempt to answer we know that it will just be a bunch of bloviated babbling – but they won’t even try to answer them to begin with.
Let’s dig up Jimmy the Greek and see what he has to say:
So if Jimmy had been an owner we know that he would have obviously been in FAVOR of enslaving black players to play on his team – paying them those measly contracts worth 10′s of millions of dollars… that racist!
Are cat shows considered sports?
It’s so predictable that is bores me now.
Running around in a cow pasture trying to knock a hard-boiled egg into a gopher hole.
No thanks. I’d rather watch concrete cure.
Regarding Tim Tebow: I have never seen so much vile commentary about that fine young man as I did on the ESPN board the night he took that bad hit. I was truly shocked.
You’re making my point….
To bad he’s not buying the Seahawks, they need a “Rush”. and hopefully he will go into it with a partner named “Pass”.
The NFL’s Players Assoc. exec directory DeMaurice Smith started all this crap…why has no one pointed out that he is an Obama-bot and was on his transition team.
I’m not a Savage fan but I just can’t help but come to the same conclusion that liberalism really is a mental disorder.
I could respond with somethin to go along with this but I’d be banned forever…
This has nothing to do with buying the Rams. It has to do with the liberals hating Rush for who he is and for his power against them.
They are hypocrites. I’m enjoying Rush’s show today. He’s naming names.
I’m old enough to remember when Polo was a Republican sport. I grieve for this nation.
Truth, Justice, and the American Way!
Rush will nail them to the wall. Unfortunately, those who do not actually listen to Rush will continue to believe all of the garbage spewed by these idiots.
Chap — what about badminton? Does that work for you?
Way OT, but there’s still time to pre-order your Michelle Obama Action Figure before Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza/Festivus!
What I am about to say will probably offend all sports fans but I think it needs to be said.
The Rams are a dying team. They should be grateful that ANYBODY wants to invest their money into propping up this pathetic team. Now if only somebody could be found to rescue the bankrupt Chicago Cubs. Along with the Rams, the NFL is a dying league. Its players are overpaid, its tickets overly expensive, and its brand now only stands for a sport focused on big business, not athletic achievement or professionalism. The same goes for the NHL, the NBA, and the MLB.
I “used” to be a Yankees and Buffalo Bills fan. Until I realized how little these teams really care about their fans. They’d rather jack up ticket prices and make access exlusive then to actually put some effort into making a quality team that stands for something.
I also wish that the problem only lay with the teams. The professional sports teams wouldn’t have gotten so big if the fans hadn’t demanded it. Our country is tribally divided along sports affiliations, religion, ethnicity, and politics that people look for a way to avoid the issues and problems in their lives through sports.
As a former, overly enthusiastic Bills/Yankess fan, I think Americans put a lot of their heart and soul into sports for the wrong reasons. Some Americans go over the top to pressure their kids to be the BEST athletes so they can make the big bucks. Americans look up to athletes, just as they do celebrities, like they’re Gods instead of people who are good at catching a ball, doing a slam dunk, and running.
I think it’s time for all Americans to reassess their relationship and devotion to sports.
And don’t forget wind surfing.. (explaining where he probably was for all FOUR public hearings of the Senate Intel Committee in 1994 when they discussed ways to prevent another WTC attack.)
self-edit: exlusive should be exclusive. Ugghhh.
They are afraid of the truth, and in Tebow’s case: Christianity.
The double standard would be if Rush were a liberal or Tebow were a Muslim they would embrace their diversity.
Basically they are afraid of the majority of Americans who hold our faith deeply and will not submit.
At the timeout between 1st & 2nd quarters, conservative NFL fans at games should stand and turn their backs to the field. Send the comissioner a message.
Why? What else am I going to devote myself to on a Sunday?
I have never watched sports… I get bored watching other people live their lives. Last Sunday I took the family to the zoo. This Sunday we are going to a lake for a picnic and to feed the ducks, and I will not miss watching those NFL thugs live their lives one bit.
I sure hope Rush and his group get the team.
Have a hunch it will be good for the NFL all around.
FB fans, Rush fans, Rush haters and just the curious will tune in to watch El Rushbo up in the owner’s box. Sports media will have lots of fun and for Rush, vise versa…
Post game interviews! Great!
I figured this out a long time ago:
The best day of the year to go skiing?
Super Bowl Sunday.
I couldn’t agree more. Mark Bulger is a joke. So are the Rams.
you know William F. Buckley was really into sailing…
I guess intolerance is in the eye of the beholder.
Christian faith is really only intolerant of the me generation and the me first attitude that’s dominating this country’s consciousness.
Hey. Is there something wrong with sailing?
How big is your sloop, chap?
Obviously, an athiest who lives in an apartment or condo.
Just kidding Chap. As the leaves begin to fall all around me, I hate my yard.
Apparently, problems for Rush arise because the NFLPA, a UNION, is of course, leftist.
But also, because of the fact that a majority of players, over 2/3 according to that waste of skin Al Sharpton, are black. Well, gosh if that many blacks are in the NFL, but blacks only represent 12% of the population as a whole, then there is some serious inequality going on.
Why no calls for affirmative action in sports?
Bible study, but be sure to wear oven mitts so you don’t burn your money grubbing fingers.
Are you really asking for suggestions from a group who mostly claim to be Christian?
I’m a Southern Baptist, and I recomend you begin with the Book Of Matthew.
I’m orthodox Judeo-Christian and I suggest you start with
Jeremiah 10:1-16
I think Rush is partly mistaken about the hostility toward him. It’s not ONLY because he’s effective. There are a lot of people on the left whose attitude towards conservatives is pure bigotry. They truly believe conservatives are racists. They see the absence of evidence of Rush’s racism as being proof that he’s hiding it. The fact that the quotes are fake doesn’t phase them. Fake but accurate is a fine standard with them, when used against the right, anyway.
What on earth would the political landscape in this Country look like if the press were not water carrying little p**sys for the dem party? Dems lie; media parrots swear to it. And if the facts aren’t there, they make it up.
O’Reilly exposed a Detroit Free Press (an oxymoron these days) writer two nights ago on this exact point. When the fool regurgitated alleged racially tinged statements by Limbaugh, O’Reilly challenged him to prove they weren’t fabricated, as the FOX news staff could not confirm them. Of course, this miserable excuse for a journalist couldn’t do it.
I ask everybody, what is it going to take to stop the corruption of our mainstream media, the most serious threat to our democracy????? What is it going to take???
It’d send a bigger one if they all dropped trou.
No asterisks needed. I think you’re allowed to say “pansies” on this site.
*snort*
lol. Good one!!
So ESPN is saying Rush is out of the buyers group. Not sure if that is credible, but that is the likely outcome nonetheless.
Has anyone heard that this byers group also includes Soros? I heard that on the radio this AM. If that is true, I wonder how Roger Goddell would feel about an owner that is in favoro of legalization of drugs. Soros is a very divisive figure and should be treated just the same as Rush.
Heck, we can even fabricate bogus racist rantings and pin them on Soros. After all, he won’t be able to prove them untrue so the media will be ok with running the bogus quotes.
Tolerance, Lib-style: “You can’t spend your money the way you want, because I don’t like you over things you can’t prove you never said!” You betcha…
Well, if the Rams deal doesn’t work out for any reason, as a suffering Raiders fan I’d be all for Rush trying a hostile takeover of that franchise.
It’d sure beat the current “Al Davis Death Watch”(TM) as the team’s hope for the future.
Am I the only one who avoids the modern successor to ABC’s Monday Night Football (which is NOT ESPN’s Monday Night Football) but NBC’s Football Night in America aka Sunday Night Football because of the psychotic Keith Olbermann?
Oh, I don’t know… spending time with your family, going to church, instead of wasting a couple of hours on a sports team that neither cares about you or your devotion to them.
I respect your opinion not to follow sports, but I disagree with your assessment that all Americans should give it up.
For many, sports are a way of spending time with your family and friends. By and large, rooting for your favorite team is meant to be a group activity. Watching sports on your own, in my opinion, just isn’t the same.
Are their selfish characters in sports? Sure. Just as in so many other interests and hobbies, but fault the individuals, not the sport.
Regulus said: Tolerance, Lib-style: “You can’t spend your money the way you want, because I don’t like you over things you can’t prove you never said!”
And then there’s the corollary: “You must spend your money on stuff you don’t want (like health insurance when you’re young and healthy) because we tell you to!”
Self correction:
“Are
theirthere selfish…”Sheesh. Long day.
Thank you. But I went to church last weekend (Catholic wedding) so I figure I am good for the next decade or so.
Besides, I’d rather waste a couple hours reading and commenting on a political blog that neither cares about me or my devotion to it.
Sounds like someone’s fishing for a hug.
…or a tissue.
Well put.
Just as the socialists (and worse) in our country – not the country, not the Constitution – should be faulted.
Sometimes I feel like all I am to Michelle is an ad revenue click
Whoa. Inflation has hit us.
I’m thinking a bit of retribution towards the NFL is in order. And an immediate way to extract that is to examine the relationship between the tax write off for corporate entertainment that these teams profit handsomely off of and the new tax on our health care that is being pushed.
Am I the only one that is bent out of shape enough to want to upset that apple cart? Let’s face it, most of the people buying tickets in the cheap seats to the games don’t get to write off the purchase while the folks populating the luxury boxes (whose revenues don’t get shared) aren’t paying a dime for their seats.
I just saw a little story quoting an ESPN source saying that the majority in the group of bidders for the Rams is going to drop Limbaugh because they don’t want to hurt their chances. Should be interesting to see how Rush reacts to this if it is true.
Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul @ 4:37pm
I’m with you Ed. I figure with satellite, they know exactly what my reaction is when Olby’s mug comes on because the channel changes immediately.
From the Godfather III: “This is the price you pay for the life you’ve chosen.” Rush has by choice been a lightning rod for the hatred of the left. You can’t be surprised when there are repercussions.
http://www.nfl.com/contact-us
On October 14th, 2009 at 5:27 pm, chapoutier said:
I can’t speak for our busy hostess, but to the extent that the regular commentors make a blog, you’re more than just an ad click. (Hey, I’m an evil conservative, I’m supposed to be unfeeling, although reasonably truthful.)
Lets start a rumor: RUSH NO LONGER BIDDING ON RAMS…..
NOW HAS SIGHTS SET ON BIDDING ON “NBC”………..
Lets float that turd out and see who bites……….
Gosh, with all those trips to rehab who would have thought lefties had time for sports…
WABC just announced Rush isn’t going to get his team. The investors backed out on him. I wonder who they will blame if they can’t find a buyer and they have to disband the franchise?
Racial sensitivity issue is becoming a real issue. My daughter at Ohio State said she has to take a certain number of courses based on non-Western cultures. Why? So much for the concept of “electives”…….
I went to nfl.com and wrote an email to them:
I am very disappointed in Mr. Goodell and the players and people who have been smearing Rush LImbaugh by claiming he has said things he did not. The fact that you are repeating lies without having the maturity and business smarts to check them out for yourself is disturbing and causes one to question your job performance.
While you all continue to spread libel about Rush, you allow players with criminal records and histories of bad behavior that actually hurt others to continue in the NFL. You allow a celebrity to hold a share of a team who has bragged about her alcohol and drug abuse and who sings about being a skank.
When you, Mr. Goodell began as the NFL commissioner, you said you wanted to make the league and game family friendly. Well, by your actions, that simply isn’t true. It seems you are more interested in giving in to the pressure of political correctness whether rooted in truth or not. And, of course the almighty dollar that you can bring in by allowing criminals to stay.
They probably won’t care, but it made me feel better and at least I did something.
Rehab is for quitters.
I thought you were looking for hugs? You can get hugs at rehab.
Rush is dropped.
This is big.
Welcome to the world of politically correct country club.
The Rams totally suck anyway – and will continue to do so…
Now if Rush would buy the Redskins away from Snyder, we’d be on to something.
They’ll always gladly take the fans’ money, at least as long as it doesn’t give the fans any control over the product.
But Michael Vick can play ball
Truth. No other reason.
Rush should hold out for his Steelers. The rams would be like him kissing his siter anyway. Screw them.
m’kay … the solution to this is to do what I do every Sunday … watch no NFL. Not on any other day of the week either.
I’ve just watched my last NFL game. Seriously. College football is better anyway. Go VT!
I pray Rush takes everyone of these lying jackals to court. He would win because the truth always wins in the end.
Al Sharpton is a race hustling pig.
Why not? …And when they do it will kill pro-sports.