**Breaking**: ESPN Reports Limbaugh To Be Dropped From Group Bidding to Buy St. Louis Rams
by PubliusFrom ESPN.com:
Rush Limbaugh is expected to be dropped from a group bidding to buy the St. Louis Rams, according to three NFL sources.
Dave Checketts, chairman of the NHL’s St. Louis Blues and the point man in the Limbaugh group attempting to buy the Rams, realizes he must remove the controversial conservative radio host from his potential role as a minority member in the group in order to get approval from other NFL owners, the sources said.
Three-quarters of the league’s 32 owners would have to approve any sale to Limbaugh and his group. Earlier this week, Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay predicted that Limbaugh’s potential bid would be met by significant opposition. Several players have also voiced their displeasure with Limbaugh’s potential ownership position, and NFL Players Association head DeMaurice Smith, who is black, urged players to speak out against Limbaugh’s bid.
Ultimately, the sources said, Checketts must reconfigure his group and find another investor to make his bid more viable.
Exactly when Limbaugh will be dropped is uncertain, though some familiar with the situation said it could be within the next week. It is unclear if the two sides even have spoken.
A Limbaugh spokesman told ESPN that Limbaugh would have no comment on Wedneday (sic). Earlier, on his syndicated radio show, Limbaugh was defiant, holding on to hope that he still could be part of the ownership group that buys the Rams.
“I’m not even thinking of exiting,” Limbaugh said on his program, according to a transcript provided to ESPN. “I’m not even thinking of caving. I am not a caver. None of us are. We have been betrayed by too many who have caved. Pioneers take the arrows. We are pioneers. It’s a sad thing but our country over 200 years old now needs pioneers all over again, but we do.”
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Dave Checkett's just through himself and others under the bus.
Just make him a silent partner for the group.
Let the lawsuit begin.
Oh, hell, Rush…
Its time for you to get everyone involved, pardner. Don't bother with the "quiet discussions" anymore. Buy yourself a great legal dream team and take everyone apart who slandered you…for everything they have…
Let Obama take care of them…its what they want, anyway…bring their dream alive…
Nice work by Rush… finally drawing the real American racists (i.e.- blacks) out in the light of day! I wonder when whites will decide they are done with this crap. Screw you guys and your alzheimer precursor profession! Bunch of felons anyway…
Time for these punk journalists to substantiate the crap that comes out of their mouth. Rush's rights have been violated here and the damage is obvious.
We have to listen to the B.S, that comes out of th emouth of NFL players, and they can't work with Rush Limbaugh?
Too bad. Rush could have brought credibility to the game. Now it's going to be worse than ever.
So the leftist's standard tactic, the "racist stink bomb", has worked again. Just toss one at anyone, doesn't matter if it's true or not. The stink of racism will drive away the spineless big corporations. And why? Because they are only beholden to the almighty dollar, and any hint of controversy, and the attendant lawsuits that might follow, threatens their bottom line. Pathetic. Only when somebody stands up to the Justice Brothers, and says "Enough!" will this end.
Rush should sue. Enough is enough with this crap.
So, if Rush should win his Liable suit against the media for using false racial quotes, would he not be able to then, claim the lose of his attempted bid to purchase the Rams in a monetary damage award?
So, if Rush should win his Liable suit against the media for using false racial quotes, would he not be able to then claim the lose of his attempted bid to purchase the Rams in a monetary damage award?
Also. I wonder if the NFL realizes how much NFL football Rush talked about on his show and perhaps they will now lose all of that free advertising, along with his fans?
Time to boycott the NFL. It has become a carnival sideshow with dog killers, rapists, thugs, etc. They are overpaid one trick pony’s. The NFL has morphed into a low class consortium equivilent in statue to the WWF and WWE. It is just a carnival.
If you support them you are in agreement with their lack of standards. You decide.
For me, I stopped watching the NFL a long time ago and I don’t buy Nike gear anymore either. Where I see blatant arrogance, I stop sending my money.
20 million listeners are going to be really, really upset…Hope the NFL is hit hard by their own racism. But, I wouldn't want Rush to be sullied by this group, either. How many have been to prison? How many parties have prostitutes been provided for the players? They are no.example.for.our.youth. Not by a long shot.
The NFL is banned in this household how.
I have a feeling that Rush will look back on this some day as being a lucky break.
The owners said they can't have the NFL look bad or get a bad reputation…. wow.. really???
Google "nfl players with criminal records" – 90,000+ links… read a few …..
Rev Al and Jessie are good though…. They know when and who to attack…. Still waiting on the bus attack in St. Louis …. maybe they got confused and were there for that… Oh no .. the kid was white…..
Personally, I think football is a joke. If our schools put emphasis on math, science, history, languages, and actualy taught anything, instead of phys-ed, we might not have sunk so far on the world stage.
Rush should tell them to stick their football, and their team right up their ass. OJ Simpson is the poster boy for football; after his career was over, he reverted to his true calling: being a thug. If those players weren't receiving multimillion dollar contracts what would they be doing? Certainly they would not be walmart greeters, as that would entail their having a job.
I am sure they would revert back to their true calling: standing on the corners selling drugs, hijacking cars, and pimping white whores.
We stopped watching NFL a long time ago too. It is FIXED and it is time someone PROVED IT! It is no better than pro-wrestling!
And I thought the NFL was the GOOD sports organization…unlike the MLB and their steriods (which is the primary reason why i stopped watching baseball…doped up players are not allowed in my house)
I have lost respect for you, NFL. Apparently, you never checked the facts and you dont believe in freedom of speech. Because if you had, you would know that Rush didnt do anything wrong!
But then again, i wouldnt expect anything less from an organization that praises the likes of Ray Lewis, a MURDERER and Micheal Vick, an ANIMAL ABUSER.
Screw you NFL!
Way to let the communist in the media and race baiters win. The NFL can %^&# it's self!
I'm done with the NFL. I'd rather watch reruns of USC games anyway. At least the players in college aren't overpaid primadonnas.
Why is nobody screaming about this topic:
Don Imus makes a tounge in cheek comment in what apparently was a senile, senior moment and said "nappy headed ho's" and the ensuing brouhaha cost hime his job and his career. CBS bowed to the pressure of Crazy Al Sharpton and the Right Reverend Jesseeee Jacksonnn and fired his old ass.
Fast forward two years: Chris Matthews, an employee of NBC and MSNBC calls for the murder of Rush Limbaugh, and nobody says a ####### word?
Where is the outrage?
Where is the parity?
Where is the Justice?
Racism? You bet. It exposes the Liberal Fascist Militant Left to be the Shakedown Artists they truly are.
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I agree rush needs to take every one of these pieces of crap to court and hold them to account. They know what they are saying is lies. Don't make them pay for anything but the cost of filing the case – just demand that they publicly apologize for their lies, and that you Rush have the right to edit the words they speak when they apologize. Have them come on your show, and have them appear on CNN or place an ad in the paper to apologize. Don't let this opportunity pass… they've been crowing since they got you fired from ESPN, now is the time to make them pay.
I really hope Rush sues for two reasons, one he's clearly suffered finantially damaged if they drop him and two, the liberals will immediately set out to pass tort reform legislation. Go Rush!
I really hope Rush sues for two reasons, one he's clearly suffered finantial damaged if they drop him and two, the liberals will immediately set out to pass tort reform legislation. Go Rush!
I really hope Rush sues for two reasons, one he's clearly suffered financial damaged if they drop him and two, the liberals will immediately set out to pass tort reform legislation. Go Rush!
Don't forget the Poster Boy and former Heisman Trophy winner. The illustrious OJ Simpson Ginzu Knife salesman
If vick had not been caught he wouldn't be so contrite and sorry. He'd be running his dog ring, still. Why is it most black players never put hand over heart when the National Anthem is played? Because most of them hate whites and hate America.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO PROOF that Rush said any of the things people are saying he said.
And I also know that people take a lot of things out of context……ironically, what the left says about people who critisize Obama. The left sure is a funny lot. They can do it, but no one else can
Ashen that is using the same kind of thinking that the left uses. You grouped all people who are black into one thought pattern. While you may be correct about Vick, there is no proof. While there are black people who are racist there are many who are not.
But dont forget all those who are not bad. The best way to protest would be to protest players as individuals.Through letters and signs calls to teams etc..
You want to know why Rush won't be an owner ? because he has the same attitude as the poster above who wrote:
"If those players weren't receiving multimillion dollar contracts what would they be doing? Certainly they would not be walmart greeters, as that would entail their having a job.
I am sure they would revert back to their true calling: standing on the corners selling drugs, hijacking cars, and pimping white whores."
On second thought, I guess they are basically saying that we are all racist cause we listen to rush and they certainly are not worried about offending us.
The escalation in the establishment left's attacks on Rush are stunning. More disturbing will be the complete lack of outrage displayed by just about anyone who's not a conservative or libertarian… "Who cares if he's been smeared, slandered and otherwise attacked in dishonest and criminal ways? He's the enemy! Destroy him! He has no rights!" We have to express our outrage!
How about a round of national tea parties with the dedicated purpose of expressing support for Rush, Beck, FOX Drudge, Breitbart and others who are "the people's" real media in 2009? This cannot stand! Not unanswered, at least. I do agree that Rush should legally entangle them as best he can. He's wealthy enough to cause a great many problems for just about anyone…
He is using the same kind if thinking that Limbaugh and many of his listeners use, which is exactly why he is offensive.
NFL get a bad reputation??? Gimme a break. Michael Vick??? The NFL just threw themselves under the bus!
and don't forget dog executions.
and don't forget dog executioners.
Hello zipperhead,
I see you are zeroed in on the race issue again tonight, eh? When someone calls a spade a spade, it drives you to the brink of the abyss. With any luck, you'll slip……………
Hey Rick "DUI / Hit and Run" Snachez form CNN …. It's funny how you repeat quotes and have no audio to back them up and you even admit that on air…
Go have a drink and shut up …. I've emailed CNN to remind him of who they have on thier staff…
""Jeffrey Smuzinick, who was left paralyzed after being struck by the car of Channel 7 anchor
Rick Sanchez, died Monday in a Pennsylvania nursing home. He was 36. Smuzinick was injured
Dec. 10, 1990, after he ran out into traffic following a Dolphins football game. He was struck by
A 1991 Volvo driven by Sanchez."
What a loser ….
Is that correct what you just posted?
With the money that Rush is going to win from the defamation suits, he can buy the whole darn NFL.
Little known fact – Lincoln wanted all the negros sent back to Africa after the civil war. Far-seeing man!
I'm sure glad there's college football. So long NFL.
i was told long ago that the reason pro athletes are paid so much is because they have a limited time to earn money from their chosen trade. essentially they need to get their money and be gone. that is white and black players alike, btw. my question on that is, doesn't everyone have a limited time to earn their money? i could have an anyurism tomorrow and my income would be gone. but i digress.
The nfl is NOT a black only franchise!!!! walmart greeters and pimps aren't either.
These fascists need to hold a mirror to their own before they start to sling their comments.
Rush made no racial statements like the above poster. To paint him with thesame brush is narrow minded.
But, thank God that you have the freedom to say what you feel, as do I and the rest of the people reading this.
It is pretty amusing to read racist comments like yours on a site which is arguing that Rush is not racist. You really help make my argument for me. I truly hope your voice is represented loud and clear in the conservative movement.
Another Rush Limbaugh fan speaks up.
This is coming from the people who considered Michael Vick OK to let back in the league.
Does this amount to manipulation of the market?
How is this not persecution?
It’s amusing to me that the left takes comments that conservatives say to be racist…..to the left, every damn thing is racist.
Say for example you’re at a store and you’re trying to find a check out lane, and you happen to be white. There are two lanes left that are the least occupied; one is manned by a white person and one is manned by a black person. If you take the lane manned by the white person, BOY BY GOLLY, YOU MUST BE A RACIST! Even though the lane that the black person was staffing had one more person in it than the white person’s lane and you just wanted to get out a little bit faster.
Left wing people are pathetic.
I have heard that Palmtree has sex with his mother, or was it his daughter? or was it his dog? I can make things up too, just like Palmtree does about Rush.
Zippy, there is no argument.
On the original thread, I answered your every question. So you go slink away for a day with your tail between your legs and come back 24 hours later, refreshed, ready to joust again. I will not do battle with an unarmed man.
I did see your snide comment on another thread about Joe Wilson, the Confederate Flag and the Presidency. Might I suggest a theme song for your fantasy? How about "Dixie"? It is a tad snappier than "Who let the Dogs Out".
Take your race baiting, and shove it up your ass. This is not about race. You all wore that card out. It is about you Liberal Fascist Militants dictating the language, and quite frankly, you silly bastards will not take away my First Ammendment rights, especially as long as I have my Second Ammendment Rights.
The real racists are emerging. If the NFL is going to start being the arbiter of what is correct political speech, I will no longer watch it. When will they excluded the criminal element. If a successful man cannot own a piece of a club because of his political speech, then why can a convicted felon and animal abuser of the highest magnitude be welcomed into the league?
Exactly! The hypocrisy is so over the top, it's beyond insane!
Why can't people see this for what it is?
Yep, and this is the reason WHY Rush should sue. Take it into the courtroom, and let's get it all out on the table for the whole country to see!
Yep, and this is the reason WHY Rush should sue. Take it into the courtroom, and let's get it all out on the table for the whole country to see! And make sure that it's televised! If I were Rush, that's what I would tell them. Turn it back around on them.
The NFL has as much right to refuse Rush as I have to put a "Whites Only" sign on the front of my business.
Zippy, why send them there? Do you know there is a movement afoot for a big plantation right here?
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.a...
To advance the "struggle for the liberation of the New Afrikan Nation — By Any Means Necessary," MXGM's Free the Land campaign seeks to form an "independent Black Nation on land in north amerikkka." This proposed entity would be situated in the region that "is primarily known as South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, as well as other areas of what is now called the Black-Belt South, where Afrikan people are in the majority or have a historical/economical/socio-cultural relationship to [sic]." The New Afrikan Nation would have a communist economy where "the major means of production and trade" were placed "in the trust of the state." In addition, MXGM demands "reparations, or repayment for four hundred years of slavery, colonialism and oppression of our people in the United States of America."
I am sure you wont read the link, but it is from Louis Farrakhan and tha Nation of Islam.
I enjoy all three.
I'm sorry to just learn Rush has been dropped from the group. I guess if you are a rapper spouting foul language that's okay, but a conservative can't state an opinion. The things they've attributed to Rush are lies. I am sick of main stream media lying for the liberal left!
Hate crimes don't apply when the victim is white.
Mom, I've read you material here and I know you like History. Don't you find it ironic, that the mass black migration from the rural plantations in the south, took them to the urban plantations of the north. They settled into the factories of Detroit, the city slums of Chicago, and the largest ghetto of them all, Washington, DC. Ah yes, Our Nations Capital! The new plantations of the New Millenium. Pushing paper in Washington, DC has supplanted picking cotton in Mobile, Alabama.
You are correct. I do not stereotype entire races, based on an individual. Having said that, the preponderance of players, that I have witnessed in the past twenty-five years, have no redeeming qualities.
Finally!
Someone got my point.
Because I am conservative, because I listen to, and watch things that the Liberal Fascist Militant Left take issue with, I am immediately branded a racist, a homophobe; I am branded as insensitive and intolerant. I only have one comment: bullshit!
Actually, I'd rather go hunting with Dick Cheney, than go driving with Ted Kennedy while Michael Vick watched my dog.
As my Grandfather taught me about Sports World..”Son, if you’re not in the game, playing it and making money, why bother watching it? Take care of your career choice(s) 1st.” Hey, that advise worked out, I learned Cooperation in my career field instead of the competitive, dog-eat-dog sports mentality! Know what I mean? Stand Up, Sit Down, Fight, Fight, and Fight!
The hypocrisy among the left wingers is unbelieveable.
They want to exclude Rush because of a comment they said he made, but never did. (innocent until proven guilty, do you know what that means, left wingers?…huh?)
AND YET, when someone is being DONE WRONG, they say DONT DISCRIMINATE.
If you’re going to judge Rush over something that he hasnt been proven guilty of, then i think you need to keep your collective mouths shut when it comes to issues of ALLEGED racism or discrimination.
Boycott the NFL. Now.
And the freaking (and freaky) fascists score one more point. No worries, we'll win in the fourth quarter,
Rush does need to sue for defamation of character.
It used to be, before professional sports became the Colisieum for the masses, our priorities were different.
The "Three R's" used to stand for Readin', 'Riting and "Rithmetic.
Now the Three R's stand for "Rappin', Revolution and Radicalism……..
What did Sherly Jackson Lee say about making a law that you can't have certain bad people as owners in sports leauges? What about the bad people you have as players in the NFL. Including murderers, dog fighters, rapists, drug users, roid users and other criminals. I guess those guys are okay, but Rush Limbaugh, NO FREAKING WAY!!!!
I would send the first lawsuit to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, then the next to MSNBC. SUE THEM ALL!
It's too bad.
He's even shaped like a football.
Most of my life I was never that thrilled about sports, but Rush's enthusiam during his radio program over the years has been really infectious and has really turned me on to watching football….as well as baseball and basketball.
I am quite disgusted by this politicization of the game of football and the NFL.
What say you…..Limbaugh fans……why don't we pool our money together with whatever resources Rush wants to put up…..and start a new football league of our own?
All our games can be played on FOX…..which has the lion's share of viewers anyway!
Is this the same league that let Michael Vick back in?
I stopped watching the bling infested disper babies years ago when it became obvious winning didnt matter as much as the bling. Honestly, would you give a sh_t if at the end of the game you still made your 35k an hr?
Money trumps all.
Diaper…sorry
These clowns are going to rue the day they screwed with Limbaugh!
Dixie is just what I was thinking, and it's actually your fantasy, as I used your words.
It was once theorized that a race war was coming.
Well, it may be coming sooner rather than later. Especially if these left wing nit wits dont stop shouting “RACIST” all the time.
Basically, if you dont agree with giving minorities everything they want on a silver platter without them having EARNED IT, then you must be racist. Even though this country provides equal opportunity for ALL and how you choose to use that is up to you.
There is absolutely nothing stopping minorities from being sucessful….they are the masters of their own domain. But the way i see it….they are the ones bringing their own selves down.
Hey Brietbart did you know you were starting a white supremacy site? Well, congratulations.
If all earthly power were given me," said Lincoln in a speech delivered in Peoria, Illinois, on October 16, 1854, "I should not know what to do, as to the existing institution [of slavery]. My first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia, to their own native land
I hope you're wrong, I hope it's more like people will drown out the cry of "racism" over every little slight and ignore the true racists, Jackson and Sharpton.
call me a dreamer.
Excellent philosophy! Your Grandfather was a wise man.
What I want to know is, what happens when their reparations run out???? Ha!
And if truth be told, the blacks should be paying us reparations for supporting them for these hundreds of years! I can play that game too!
Yes, I expect. I personally am loaded to the teeth and my ex and my son have taught me well.
Wow , fake my screen name and talk about sex with my mother. I must really bother you guys.
At least I am polite to you, for a bunch of civilized christians you sure are rude and nasty.
Discrimination at it's finest folks.
White Supremacy?
Black Supremacy?
http://mxgm.org/site/index.php?option=com_content...
Why have these people scrubbed EVERYTHING from their site? Too inflamatpry?
Thank you Palmtree…for proving just how INTOLERANT the left really is!
Everyone disgrees with you, and yet, you keep slamming all of us. So if we dont agree with you exactly, you think we are all racist and narrow minded…blah blah blah.
You sir, are the poster child for the left in this country. You’re a great representative! Congrats! Its obvious you dont believe in free speech, because if you did you would let us discuss, NOT CALL US NAMES, and be on your merry way!
Yes, this is correct. I heard this earlier on RL's radio show. I guess Sanchez has secrets in his closet!!
David,
Don't be too harsh on the lad. He appears angry, and conflicted. He is obviously a leftist, discriminatory racist. He comes here to our "hood" from probably the Huff n Puff or the dailykook or moveoff.org and starts calling names and insulting everyone, and everything. Not a very peaceful type person, eh?
In retrospect, I suggest we all unanimously nominate Palmtree to receive a Noble Piece Prize. He has done nothing to promote peace, harmony or community relations. Consequently, there is no one more deserving.
Google it !!!! Rick repeats the lies (audio tonight on Mark Levin) and then says we don't have proof but he has said other things ….
WTF ??? I think I am starting one that says Rick Sanchez told a freind of mine if he knew any young boys… I have no proof but who cares !!!!
I
all ya need …
http://marklevinshow.com/Article.asp?id=1546397&a...
the problem is the blacks have sold a bill of sale that is worthless… The democratic party keeps them in chains and they don't get it… Jessie jackson nor Rev Al would not make a dime if you would stand on your own two feet and stop letting the Democratic party tell you "you've been wronged"
Hows 40 yrs voting democrat party got ya ???
palmtree – Go freaking hug a tree will ya !!
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