I figured it out. Rush Limbaugh is not a racist — he's a pressist. That's what they, the "Drive-by Media" really hate. He's effective. The worst thing they actually have on him is the Donovan McNabb thing, which was not about any person's race — it was about the media reaction to race. Lies, distortions and wikipedia research are par for the course. Really — wikipedia as a source? Wow.

@ Nomad, U hit the nail on the head!! Great response. And if my college professors will not accept wikipidia as a source for a 250 word essay worth 25 point, perhaps JOURNALISTS should find a better source as well!!

I guess that the NFL is just one more club that conservatives are not welcome at. Well, if I am not welcome at the club, I won't spend any time watching, promoting, talking about or purchasing from your club sponsors (sorry Budweiser, but some of my home town breweries are going to get my business). I stopped going to movies years ago, I don't even miss them, not going to NFL events will become a thing of the past as well.

You conservatives just don't get it, the american verison of marxism/communism/socialism/fascism is just different, we will do it better and not make all those silly mistakes like those other guys. We are smarter, we have web sites ya know! Lenin did not know how to tweet, mao wasn't able to 'friend' people like we can on facebook. Our system will be so much better because in america we look out for each other and as long as you are not one of the sick greedy and selfish business owners we will look out for you. Those business owners just have too much money and too much power, like they can fire you just because you decide you don't feel like working today. Thats all different now cause we are gonna take it from those rich fat bas^&$#s adn give it to the people. You are all racist!!!! Hey mom, can I have twenty bucks to go to the mall?

Limbaugh has over 90% name recognition and an approval rating in the low 30s. He's unpopular, not a victim.

It's his job to say very controversial things. About once a year he does something outrageous that gets his name all over the news (like mocking the symptoms of Parkinson's disease by flailing his arms around like a rag doll and laughing about it) and revels in the three-ring circus that inevitably follows. This is why he'll never be mainstream.

So go ahead and light a candle for poor El Rushbo. Boycott the league and watch the Home Shopping Network instead. Duct tape your mouth shut and hold silent vigils outside your local football stadium every Sunday morning.

I'll be inside watching the game.

Rush has a bigger listener audience than every liberal talking head combined. He may present in an audacious manner but his sarcasm is as sharp as liberal mind are dull. He says things like that just to get the liberal echo chambers resonating and as far as his approval rating, you are way off, unless of course you are polling your friends.

"That is against the Constitution, and everything the Constitution stands for."

Wrong.

Rush has no constitutional right to be a minority owner in the St. Louis Rams. Capitalism has spoken. Deal with it.

1. If anyone wants to do something about this, concentrate on each of the people who spread the bogus quotes and try to discredit them to their audience; point out to their audience how they lied. Certainly, that won't affect many of their hardcore followers, but most people will lose some respect for them even if they don't like Rush. One way to do that is by writing individual blog posts that focus on each person who lied; another is to leave comments on their online blog posts and the like reminding everyone of how they lied. If enough people did that, it would have an impact on the careers of the liars and send a message to others who might lie.

2. The group that Rush should go after is one he hasn't AFAIK mentioned: the publisher of the book that contained the quotes. I contacted that publisher way back in June, meaning that in June at the latest they should have known that the quotes were at least questionable. That would seem to increase their legal liability, and they also probably don't have the legal resources that CNN and other MSM sources could muster:

http://24ahead.com/wikiquotes-bogus-circular-smea...

Rush exercised his right to pursue happiness. And he failed.

It's not his "right" to succeed. We do not guarantee success in America, only the chance to succeed. He tried and failed. Tough luck. His rights were not infringed upon.

I'm amazed at the woe and doom reaction from dittoheads who are up in arms at one man's inability to acquire a status symbol minority ownership in a sports franchise.

What's wrong is that the GOP is that the useless upper echelon including Gingrich are fear based and will pick a RINO gaming the party brand name rather than take a risk on a candidate aligned with conservatie principles. If they don't get over this in the new world order of conservatives they are dead in the water.

We can't afford to lose this party and waste years and election losses regrouping so I suggest we all get involved on the local level with the GOP.

Ok, StoryKeeper gets a gold star for sarcasm.

The NFL is full of thugs and felons…..personally, i dont understand why Rush would want to own part of a team either. Certainly not a group that are role models for kids.

I saw the segment the other day where Roger Godell said something about Rush owning a team would “tarnish the NFL’s reputation” EXCUSE ME??!! What reputation, Mr Godell? Ohhhh, you mean the one that says “commit a crime, and get your job playing football back” ? WHO IN THE HELL ARE YOU TO CRITISIZE ANYONE? In case you didnt know it, Mr. Godell, your “league” is full of people who are FAR from being decent, honest people!

Rush did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG, and yet your entire league is full of f**k ups!!

I imagine the courts will have the opportunity to say whether his rights were infringed or not.

Excellent comment. This is really their attitude, that's the sad thing, that it's never before been tried by the annointed THEM, the special THEM. Government comes from the barrel of a gun, even in the best circumstances. When it is the most exploitative and terrible of governments (far left) the bullets fly sooner and more often. It's been that way, so far, WITHOUT EXCEPTION. Oh, yeah, but wait. It hasn't been tried by THEM.

Hasuz christo on a popsicle stick. This country has fallen further into the spider's web of Fascism that I'd ever dreamed possible. We've been ignoring the "death by a thousand cuts" thats been inflicted on us by the Left for decades.

I'm encouraged to see the sleeping giant starting to awaken. Let's all try to keep him from yawning, rolling over and going back to sleep. How 'bought them "can you hear me now" rallys today? Anybody seen any footage on that?

If liberals, particularly black liberals, really want to confront Rush, or demand explanation of any alleged comments or views on topics they care about – why don't they invite him to speak at public schools and colleges? They can invite the maniac president of Iran, but not a conservative radio commentator? If I ran a journalism school – I'd want Rush to tell all my students how to be as successful as he is. But, that's not how Liberals play.
Spineless, hate-filled, liars. Go Rush!

Me thinks they be Divinely Ordained in "The Church of What's Happen' Now…………."

Australian football is awesome. On my first day in Melbourne I went to a championship game there. Not stop action.

These quotes were originally spread without citation. Probably because the reporters didn't get them from the book. They got them from Wikiquotes.

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I do not automatically brand you a liberal because of your stance on Rush. I do not know where you get your numbers, nor do i know if they are correct. I would tend to agree the 90% name recognition might be correct, but would dispute the 30% approval rating. It would be hard to be such a monstrous success at 30%, and he is a huge success. Personally Rush, Hannity, Coulter and a few other need to tone it down. But look beyond it: they are selling PRODUCT, and in the sales business, there is no such thing as bad press. Press is neither good, nor bad; as long as it is FREE. They ALL understand showmanship, as they are ALL Showmen (and women).

I will disagree with you in this respect; when they have minority owned interests such as Fergie, J-Lo, Serna Williams and other, who can freely use the dreaded word "niggas", then they have set the standard. To shun or blackball a controversial figure such as Rush, they just violated their own "feeble standards" and have just made themselves "Professional Hypocrites". It is a fitting epitaph.

If you all want to do something very useful, throw this back at the left as an example of the utter depravity they represent:

http://www.zombietime.com/hall_of_shame/

Rush Limbaugh should make this site go "viral" on his program.

Zombastic Pizza, thanks. It’s been a long time since the 1960’s; I’d heard stories that LSD trippers had “bad trip flashbacks,” always wondered if that was true. Must be. What a fine bunch of thoroughbreds on exhibit!

While Rush's treatment by the NFL was not unexpected, Mr. Flynn, I take exception with the definition of "football" you have provided.
For a game that puts the American game and the Euro round ball thingy that people try to pass as "football", I give you…..

<a href="http://www.afl.com.au” target=”_blank”>http://www.afl.com.au

80 minutes of running, hitting and ball handling that put all the others to shame. No pads, no helmets, just pure bad-assery.

I don't think football is collectivist, I think it's a perfect model of the big US corporation: run by one screaming egomaniac at the top, a few prima donna stars giving orders and a lot of people whose job it is to just smash into each other, going nowhere and stopping the other guy from getting anywhere too…

…and chickens out at the first whiff of anything new or different.

short, sweet and right on.

And just to make it fun, Reverend Al Sharpton has decided to double-down on stupid.

That's right folks. He's going to SUE Rush over HIS ARTICLE IN THE WSJ!

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/10/17/s...

A const. amendment to vote with our money in free markets?????? What the hell is that supposed to mean. And how can you say one economy is more efficient than another? An economic system is either productive for the poeple, or the state. Efficiency has nothing to do with it. Nothing of what you just said relates to the topic at hand. Blowhards make me laugh…….LOLOL

As a Packer fan I have to wonder out loud what Mr. Lombardi would think. Towards the end of his life, Vince was growing resentful of these kinds of people who have now infested our body politic and media like cockroaches. He was disgusted with racism and to see this, knowing what what we know about the facts me thinks Rush perhaps would have had an ally in the old man who wore the fedora, who could be seen glaring at his players on the sidelines at Lambeau Field all those years ago. They have taken something that was pure and beautiful, think Starr's Ice Bowl plunge or YA Tuttle covered in Mud kneeling there, exhausted…and they have turned it into this pile of garbage that is rotting from the inside out. I will never watch another pro-football game again.

Excellent point. You're right, collectivist isn't quite right. I was thinking of all the revenue sharing between teams, rather than any specific team. Hey, it is both corportist AND collectivist…a twofer!

You're a liberal statist because you ACT like a liberal statist…all up about pocket constitutions, candlelight vigils and duct tape…

Time for the anti-trust busting for the NFL!!

Let's send the "I luv mi gubmint" after you, see how happy you would be…

His approval rating is in the low 30s? According to who? I think his program's ratings show otherwise as does his paycheck.

In a socialist economic system there is no economic calculation. The govt. decides what will be brought to market, making a profit dosent matter ,all they understand is taxes raise revenue then they decide what to do with it. In a capitalistic economic system there is economic calculation. Consumers freely choose what to buy in free markets. The most efficient company that provides products or services to consumers makes profit. The reason the Russian economy finally imploded was because they used a socialist economic system. I visited these socialist countries and their people were for the most part impovershed, their standard of living was very low becasue the govt. controlled the economy, In my opinion the worst part was that because of the inefficiencies food and medicines were scarce.

…maybe it is "racist" to even have a black perspective.

I love the NFL: You must feel important now. Go paint yourself up and root for your team then. You aren't relevant to intelligent conversation about the 1st Amendment and the vast wrongness of the political spectrum pushing someone's life, liberties and pursuit of happiness out of the window because of his politics.

Unbelieveable. I love football, but its people such as yourself, armchair jockeys, that have infiltrated this country and could care less what freedoms you lose as long as they don't take your particular 'binky'. You understand nothing.

Al Sharpton states that he will sue Rush. Give us a break! With Al's background and slanders and race baiting libel will be very hard for him to prove.

http://www.winning-newsmedia.com/libel.htm

His rights were violated. He signed a confidentiality agreement about the group as did the other members. someone Broke That Trust. that is illegal and it needs to be investigated. Whomever was responsible owes big time for that but I don't know your code well enough to say it is a criminal or civil offense.

Here is Al Sharpton fuming over Rush Limbaugh calling him out on his poisonous career of racial demagoguery:
“He doesn’t have the right to lie and accuse people of crimes,” Sharpton said.
Yes, Al Sharpton, perpetrator of the Tawana Brawley racial hoax crime, is braying about false criminal allegations. The charlatan knows no shame.
Sharpton says he’s going to sue Rush Limbaugh unless he gets an apology.
He’s not going to get an apology.
And he’s not going to sue.
Sharpton has long enjoyed the silence of his coddling enablers about his race-hustling ways.
He loves soaking up the spotlight as a legitimate public policy player out on the trail with Newt Gingrich and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, yukking it up on cable TV, and hanging with politicians in both parties:

The last thing Clown Sharpton wants is a thorough and blistering examination of his vile shakedowns, bigoted incitements, and police-bashing antics in a court of law– and the court of public opinion.
But let’s talk about Al Sharpton’s racial demagoguery, shall we?
1987: Sharpton spreads the incendiary Tawana Brawley hoax, insisting heatedly that a 15-year-old black girl was abducted, raped, and smeared with feces by a group of white men. He singles out Steve Pagones, a young prosecutor. Pagones is wholly innocent — the crime never occurred — but Sharpton taunts him: “If we’re lying, sue us, so we can . . . prove you did it.” Pagones does sue, and eventually wins a $345,000 verdict for defamation. To this day, Sharpton refuses to recant his unspeakable slander or to apologize for his role in the odious affair.
1991: A Hasidic Jewish driver in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights section accidentally kills Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child, and antisemitic riots erupt. Sharpton races to pour gasoline on the fire. At Gavin’s funeral he rails against the “diamond merchants” — code for Jews — with “the blood of innocent babies” on their hands. He mobilizes hundreds of demonstrators to march through the Jewish neighborhood, chanting, “No justice, no peace.” A rabbinical student, Yankel Rosenbaum, is surrounded by a mob shouting “Kill the Jews!” and stabbed to death.
1995: When the United House of Prayer, a large black landlord in Harlem, raises the rent on Freddy’s Fashion Mart, Freddy’s white Jewish owner is forced to raise the rent on his subtenant, a black-owned music store. A landlord-tenant dispute ensues; Sharpton uses it to incite racial hatred. “We will not stand by,” he warns malignantly, “and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business.” Sharpton’s National Action Network sets up picket lines; customers going into Freddy’s are spat on and cursed as “traitors” and “Uncle Toms.” Some protesters shout, “Burn down the Jew store!” and simulate striking a match. “We’re going to see that this cracker suffers,” says Sharpton’s colleague Morris Powell. On Dec. 8, one of the protesters bursts into Freddy’s, shoots four employees point-blank, then sets the store on fire. Seven employees die in the inferno.
If Sharpton were a white skinhead, he would be a political leper, spurned everywhere but the fringe. But far from being spurned, he is shown much deference. Democrats embrace him. Politicians court him. And journalists report on his comings and goings while politely sidestepping his career as a hatemongering racial hustler.
Jeff Jacoby wrote that in 2003. After the Washington Post wrote another in an endless series of gushing profiles whitewashing Al Sharpton’s lies and crimes, I wrote:
He derives his role in large part because of the MSM’s continued need for minority charlatans to provide demagogic soundbites and deliver good ratings for the cable clown shows…Some readers wonder why I continue to write about the Sharpton-MSM lovefest. Why? Because the enablers deserve to be held responsible and shamed publicly until they stop.
Those enablers run fabricated quotes about Rush while whitewashing Sharpton’s sordid history and propping him up. Now, watch them help Sharpton spin once more.

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