NFL = No Football for Limbaugh
It is going to be awesome listening to Rush and company launch the inevitable attack on the NFL:
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.
Should be great fun learning how the sport that dominates the country is un-American.
Dreggas
Hank Williams Jr. will not be pleased…
gnomedad
Racist!
Captain Haddock
Day what you want about Limbaugh – he is not stupid. He is not going to start a fight with the NFL. He will simply claim that the NFL caved under the pressure of Liberal Interest Groups.
General Winfield Stuck
I’ve kinda been following this winger swarm that currently is targeting the traitorous Charles Johnson of LGF. They’re going for the Dan Rather Pixie Death Dust, apparently out of numerous confirmed Limbaugh racial slurs there might be one that Johnson mentioned that doesn’t have a valid birth certificate. Thereby absolving Limbaugh from being a racist with a clean bill of health to buy an NFL team. No kerning this time, but lots of spittle. Fleckled of course.
Memories of the Cole treatment. eh?
JGabriel
Captain Haddock:
True.
But how well will that fly? It’s not as if “liberal” is the first thing that comes to mind when people think of football players.
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New Yorker
If I had any money (maybe I’ll get a job some day), I’d go out and buy a Mathias Kiwanuka jersey right now. I mean, he is a key defensive lineman for my favorite team, but he was also outspoken against the Limbaugh bid and I love him for it.
calipygian
NFL IS kinda un-American – salary caps, revenue distribution, there is even a collectively owned team. Its a little slice of Scandanavia in America.
If Limbaugh were a REAL capitalist, he would have bought a European Football team. They don’t fuck around over there.
tomboy
speaking of heads exploding,
I was really hoping someone would go to the big teabagger march on washington with a sign that said “SEC and Big 12 Football are SOCIALISM”.
de stijl
Dissing the NFL will increase Rush’s audience how, exactly?
Sports hating vegans will suddenly become Rush ditto-heads?
My magic 8 Ball sez: My sources say no
beltane
Laugh, libtards, laugh. Rush Limbaugh is a persecuted patriot. The NFL has shown its true colors as a gay jihadist communist organization that is an enemy of freedom and our lord and savior Jesus Christ.
JGabriel
General Winfield Stuck:
John Cole, didn’t you go through that at one point? What’s your take on it, if you have one? The situation might be different enough that you think they’re not analogous, although they do look somewhat similar at first glance.
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Molly
Don’t know about the rest of you, but between the sanctions being leveled against Orly Taitz, the thread here on rock salt and Olympia Snowe, “What Up?,” and now Limbaugh being shut out of the NFL owner’s club, I’m having a GREAT week.
Oh, what shall tomorrow bring?
GregB
Limbaugh is the victim of a reverse Hutu.
First they came for the hate-radio jocks.
I wonder what his spawn, The Silver Gopher will say? I can’t recall Hitler doing anything against the NFL.
-G
JGabriel
beltane:
Damn, that’s an almost perfect imitation of Koz.
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geg6
It’s all a conspiracy of those Obamabots, the Rooneys.
And can I just say how much I love the butthurt Rush must have gotten when Dan Rooney started campaigning for Obama and then was named ambassador? He has been a Steelers fan forever.
beltane
@Molly: We need a good sex scandal to round out the week, preferably one involving Glenn Beck and Michele Bachmann.
dr. bloor
@Captain Haddock:
Day what you want about Limbaugh – he is not stupid. He is not going to start a fight with the NFL. He will simply claim that the NFL caved under the pressure of Liberal Interest Groups.
NFL owners are the whitest, most conservative, brand-conscious herd of human beings on the planet. No one but the dittoheads will believe any of the shit he spews about his free speech rights being violated or guys like Jerry Jones succumbing to a bunch of DFHs.
mistersnrub
Dominican boys better look out! Rush is gonna need to do a whole lot of ramming to blow off steam for not getting the Rams!
calipygian
Maybe Limbaugh and a couple of other rich, White supremicists can band together and form their own football league.
They could resurrect the WFL name.
JGabriel
Molly:
Don’t forget the cow! Mooo…
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Steve
Here is a link where you can listen to Limbaugh try to explain his way out of one of those racist quotes (“The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.”). Seriously, how could the NFL possibly let a guy who makes comments like that become a part-owner of a team? Total no-brainer decision.
calipygian
Fixt.
General Winfield Stuck
@beltane:
Hopefully with many layers of birth control.
JGabriel
beltane:
I just got the mind-picture. You bastard!
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Zifnab
@dr. bloor:
So we should be expecting another million man march by the end of the week, right?
Zifnab
I heard this rumor…
GregB
Calipygian,
I propose a new franchise.
The Georgia Crackers.
-G
calipygian
@GregB: The Knoxville Knight Riders
calipygian
@Zifnab:
I heard that one. I also heard that he is concealing the shame of losing his virginity to his own mother in an outhouse when he was 15.
Mark S.
Can’t a white guy ever catch a break?
The Tuscaloosa Teabaggers. I’ll design their helmets for free.
Banotmo
“The sport that dominates the country…?” I thought the epic struggle between the forces of good and evil dominates the country.
JGabriel
Mark S.:
With a Hairy Teabag logo? Ewww.
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Joel
@beltane: Win.
calipygian
Get it right, man!
ajr22
Watching espn call Rush a racist repeatedly for the past few days has been glorious. Just shows how his comments are viewed by everyone outside the wingnut universe. The guy just said in Obama’s America white kids get beat up by black kids on the bus while black kids cheer. I would love to see him try to explain that comment to Ray Lewis as he tried to sign him as a free agent, ha.
Dr. Squid
All a publicity stunt so Limbaa can outmartyr Glenn Beck, who’s just been getting too much attention from Limbaa’s taste. Limbaa was never going to get into the NFL and he knew it.
Although it will be fun watching all those ceremonial “owners” of the Miami Dolphins laugh at him.
General Winfield Stuck
Well, I guess now the wingnuts will be boycotting NFL football in protest. I think that only leaves Wayne Newton concerts, and maybe your odd Dennis Miller standup for entertainment.
Zifnab
@calipygian:
That might explain the predilection for the rape and murder of minors. Many youth sex offenders have a history of being abused themselves.
I’ll have to pass this along. :-p
Xecky Gilchrist
Hell, I think El Rushbo and his listeners will throw some kind of Freudian fit over his being described as a “minority member”.
J in WA
ZOMG this is the best comment thread EVAR.
Mark S.
@General Winfield Stuck:
Well, I’ve been told many times that Rush is an entertainer.
The Grand Panjandrum
I guess the Crips and the Bloods just aren’t that into Rush.
0whole1
I’m thinking he’ll call them “gay,” because that’s how the GOP do.
Cain
@General Winfield Stuck:
Cole treatment? Fuck.. I remember some of those fucks coming over here and this blog turned into a meat grinder every one of those bastards showed up. We had Cole’s back and had fun at the same time. It was the most fun I’ve had ever. It was awesome.
cain
John Cole
@General Winfield Stuck: Who in their right mind would go to a Dennis Miller stand-up?
The Grand Panjandrum
@John Cole: I’m old enough to remember when Dennis Miller was moderately amusing.
Zifnab
@John Cole: Dennis Miller for one. That dude loves to hear himself talk.
calipygian
Man, Im over-using this fixt shtick today.
freelancer
@J in WA:
Were you busy yesterday or something?
Bordo
How lovely that for once in his life, Rush Limbaugh will suffer the consequences of his racist rants. All his millions, but he can’t buy into something he really, really wants.
Sweet!
General Winfield Stuck
: @John Cole:
Exactly
The Grand Panjandrum
@calipygian: But when you have a shapely buttocks a lot is overlooked.
Cain
@calipygian:
Fixt.
Naw, Glenn would just say he mistook the bible quote about lying down with lambs or something like that. He didn't realize he wasn't supposed to fondle and fuck.
cain
schrodinger's cat
@John Cole:
Who is Dennis Miller?
calipygian
@Cain:
Did you forget a comma or an “and” between “Bachmann” and “an”?
Either way it wouldn’t shock me.
jl
I would prefer no scandals involving Beck and goats, or crazy Congresswomen, or even with fictional people from internet gag sites.
But I will be interested in the conspiracy theory that Beck spins out of this blantant discriminination against drug-addled fat white reactionary radio jocks who used their short sportscasting careers to spout bizarre and ignorantly bigoted comments about some kind of football game that apparently exists in some alternate reality.
And I do not care if he did go to a fat farm, I seen a recent picture, and Rush is still fat. (Tunch The Cat is now merely Rubenesque, and far brighter than Rush, so this does not imply any equivalence)
But Beck’s theories are the kind of thing that I depend on Balloon-Juice reading so I can just skim the good parts. So, unless B-J blogs it out, I’ll never hear of it.
Sidslang
I should have known Dave Checketts was behind this! I’m sure plenty of sports owners are conservatives (they ARE billionaires, after all), but he’s particularly open about it.
During the ‘08 election, he had Palin come to St. Louis to drop a puck at a Blues game (called it a “tribute to hockey moms” or some other obfuscating shite). Of course, since it was Palin, something terrible had to happen: the Blues’ then-starting goalie, Manny Legace, tripped on the red carpet they rolled out for Bible Spice and got hurt. He was out for weeks!
I’ll bet Rush blames Donovan McNabb. Or Hillary. Or both.
calipygian
Any way that conspiracy theory is spun, the answer is to buy gold.
Cain
@calipygian:
I block quoted badly. It should have had the del ftag around bachmann. A three way with a goat and michelle would not surprise me. Likely though the goat would do all the ramming.
cain
Pangloss
Damn. I was hoping to see the empty stands and mocking laughter that an all-White NFL team in 2010 would bring. Oh, and the giant revenue hit….
The Grand Panjandrum
@beltane:
Bachmann has missed over 100 votes this year. hhhhmmmm … and Glenn Beck hasn’t denied having an affair with her … When will they deny this report?
Calouste
@The Grand Panjandrum:
I think they are more into Ice-T.
calipygian
@The Grand Panjandrum: Come to think of it, where was Bachmann back in 1990 when Beck was allegedly raping, killing, and raping again that girl?
I think we need a notarized, day by day account of her activities.
de stijl
He’ll go for “Feminazi.”
Why fuck with the classics?
trollhattan
My guess is there was considerable NFL concern about what Rush thinks “Minority Owner” really means.
JGabriel
Xecky Gilchrist:
Are you kidding? Rush will wear it as a badge and bitch that he still can’t get a break from the liberal nazis even thought he’s a minority!
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Stooleo
Ha! so the NFL owners don’t want Rush to be a part of their club. So, does Rush now know what it feels like to be a successful black man and not be allowed to join the all white country club?
eemom
in other good news, the rethugs’ very own circular firing squad now has its crosshairs on Lindsey Graham:
http://www.salon.com/tech/htww.....index.html
de stijl
We need a good sex scandal to round out the week, preferably one involving Glenn Beck and Michele Bachmann an underage male goat.
It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
rdale
Dave Checketts also owns the Real Salt Lake soccer team in the MLS. He browbeat the locals into coughing up $125 million for a soccer stadium. The Salt Lake Couny mayor, who is—gasp!—a Democrat, tried to kill the idea, thereby causing a lot of reich-winger heads to explode. Checketts went over his head to the rethugs in the legislature, and got his public funding. It’s still a big point of controversy here, because soccer is enjoyed by brown people!
jl
“No Football Limbaugh’ is good moniker. Maybe too long to be viable. But maybe it will make the lexicon someday.
But, during his abortive stint as a football sportscaster, in retrospect, he should have been dubbed Know No Football Limbaugh.
Zach
As much as the NFL deserves to be able to shit all over Rush as much as they want, finding out about this 3/4 rule is really annoying. That’s monopolistic behavior and it’s obnoxious that professional sports leagues are routinely exempt from criticism for anticompetitive practices.
trollhattan
Methinks you need to switch Bachmann for Taitz, who seems much more his…uh…type. Tammy Faye for the new millennium. The goat stays.
calipygian
“No Football for Limbaugh” sounds a lot like “No Soup for You”.
NAZI
11
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Midnight Marauder
@John Cole:
Fun Fact of the Day: Dennis Miller is considered so terrible, horribly unfunny, and just generally off-putting that The Daily Show refuses to book him as a guest any time in the near future ever. And that was back in 2007, but I doubt it has changed much since then.
Although, a helluva lot of people on staff do a phenomenal Dennis Miller impression. I mean, spot-the-fuck-on.
Winston Smith
Best Freeper comment (so far):
“The NFL can have KNOWN antisemites like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. The NFL cannot have ANOTHER PENNY of my tax money.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/fo.....ge=102#102
Can anyone figure out a way in which either of those sentences relates to reality?
Svensker
I am just enjoying the HELL out of this.
Ann B. Nonymous
ahem.
General Winfield Stuck
@de stijl:
I probably shouldn’t admit this, but back when Rush first started out in the late eighties, I used to listen to him a fair amount. Since I was non political at the time I ignored that part, so I listened for his commentary on the Womens Lib Movement that was still in high gear.
Though I certainly wasn’t against most of what women wanted, I tuned in out of confusion of what women wanted, at least in my own life. It felt like the women in my life were forming opinions out of what they expected, from the latest issue of Cosmopolitan or Ms. Magazine that changed constantly, making for many excedrin headaches. And I’m certain I wasn’t alone.
Luckily, with the 90’s most of that settled down and decisions were made on what was expected and needed in the war of the sexes, and I stopped listening to the asshat. I’m embarrassed about it now, and likely will be more so for writing this.
de stijl
Rush to ex delicto.
calipygian
I myself am pretty pissed about how all these billionaires demand taxpayer funded stadiums so they wont move their crappy pieces of civic pride out of a financially strapped city that has done everything to support them, through thick and thin.
Imagine the Yankees in Northern Jersey? Steinbrenner was gonna do it.
Midnight Marauder
@Zach:
I agree with you in part (the NFL is especially lame when it comes to making Sunday Ticket available to non-DirecTV fans), but really, what is so annoying about having 3/4 of the owners approve the sale of a team? Do you really think that anyone can just put together a group a buy a multi-million dollar franchise because they want to? And that rule is pretty much the norm for all the major professional sports leagues. I’m not sure why you’re so annoyed by that.
Pasquinade
@Stooleo
Joseph Kennedy quit the Everglades when his son became president. Socialite C.Z. Guest was suspended after she brought Estee Lauder, who was Jewish, there in 1972. Florida’s New Times reports that Kleenex heir James Kimberly took Sammy Davis Jr. to the club once and they were escorted out. A source said Limbaugh had no trouble when he brought Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas there for lunch.
http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesi.....cTbYUdJqRJ
de stijl
Sharpton owns the Brooklyn Brawleys apparently.
Maybe the Jackson Heights?
Seriously, I do not get what this dude is after.
BloodRush
I think this just plays into the whole “Im a conservative and I’m a victim” shtick, the “liberal world is out to get me”. No personal responsibility, you’re a bigot / racist, and you should stick to your radio show.
Winston Smith
@calipygian
OK, the tax part makes sense. What about the first part? Any guesses?
(BTW, nice butt)
de stijl
A source said Limbaugh had no trouble when he brought Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas there for lunch.
He’s one of the good ones.
trollhattan
In doubtlessly related Rush news, his granny done dun him wrong, foodwise:
http://www.rumproast.com/index.....he_horror/
Cheryl from Maryland
What is the age of consent for a goat?
Zach
@Midnight Marauder:
Yes, basically. And salary caps should be removed along with revenue sharing and rules that prevent players from contract discussions with other teams, give teams the ability to hold onto players as long as they want, etc. I realize this is basically everything the players’ unions ask for and they’re right. Teams also shouldn’t be able to get out of contracts by cutting players. Franchise tags are silly, too.
If there were competing professional football leagues, the players would be much, much better off, getting more than their current 65% or so of revenue (less than that in actual salary; that includes benefits).
cokane
I’m all for him buying the Rams. The man seems drawn towards absolute failure like a moth to a candle.
handy
This.
de stijl
What is the age of consent for a goat?
Sixteen (or yearling in goat years).
Zach
@de stijl: Presumably he’s saying the NFL sided with Jackson/Sharpton (who likely beefed about the McNabb thing; I don’t remember) over Rush, not that the NFL has a rainbow coalition revenue stream or something. It’s nice to know I can be as racist as I want and as long as I get someone who said hymietown to criticize me I’m off the hook.
Jay B.
Actually, while I’m sure NFL ownership is billionaire-style conservative, there have been notable liberals over the years. Joe Robbie, who owned the Dolphins was a huge lib and DNC shaker, as was former Skins’ owner Edward Bennett Williams and the Rooney family came out big for Obama—Bob Kraft gave a ton of money to Democrats, but supported McCain last year.
There’s some mildly interesting information here on who the NFL gives money to, but the most ironic part of that is this:
The St. Louis Rams were the NFL’s biggest donor to Democrats, contributing $230,050, 98 percent of the team’s total..
And this is an interesting rundown too.
de stijl
Won’t you take me to … Hymietown!
General Winfield Stuck
@de stijl:
Same for Sheeps, plus you get a small cheese dowry, or a pair of cotton underwear.
Brachiator
@Captain Haddock:
Outraged sports talk radio hosts and a good portion of their callers are blaming hypocritical black sports criminals for keeping poor Rush from being able to live the American dream.
A lot of hard core sports fans would love to win the lottery and buy a team. That’s all that matters. And to see Rush prevented from acting out their fantasy, well, it’s un American. And if football will welcome back a dog killing felon like Michael Vick, how dare they keep a truth teller like Rush from the owner’s table?
In other words, Rush is getting sports fans to do the work for him. He only needs to sit back and chortle, “See? The average American knows that I’m being railroaded by the NFL.”
Svensker
@Winston Smith:
The Dittoheads are having an absolute freakout because Sharpton and Jackson wrote to the NFL saying that El Rushbo was a racist and the NFL should turn him down. This, of course, PROVES that Rush is NOT a racist.
Such satisfaction I get.
Midnight Marauder
@Zach:
Well, considering that the NFL will have a salary-cap free season next year (or 2011, I believe), you’re going to see at least part of your wishes in action. Again, I agree with a lot your saying, particuarly the way teams get out of contracts by cutting players. And honestly, if you put together a group that has enough money (and the right people), then you could probably make a competitive bid for a team. You would just have to get the approval of the owners. That seems about right to me.
Either way, I think we can agree that the looming labor battle between the players union and the owners is going to be very interesting. The last thing the NFL can afford is a MLB ‘94-style lockout.
de stijl
Talk about it. Talk about it. Talk about it.
Talk about it.
Sanka
This is disgusting.
The media and MEMBERS OF CONGRESS have singled out an individual citizen, smearing his name, all but prevented him to pursue a private business transaction, because of some phantom claims of racism.
The comment that Limbaugh made which caused him to resign from MNF in 2003, was a personal observation—-and a correct one. The NFL is a business and is about one thing—-profits. Appealing to the African-American consumer is extremely important, and THAT is what Limbaugh was getting at—-Limbaugh knows it and the NFL knows it. Too act like this was something way out of left field is hypocritical. The NFL made Michael Vick a premier player before he even accomplished anything. They see Vick as the modern day equivalent of a vaudville act on the chitlin circuit. His trial and conviction made that all blow up in their faces. And they had no problem accepting the scum Vick back into their tent of tolerance…
What’s even more hypocritical is that NFL players are condemning Limbaugh. The list of NFL “honorable” mentions include:
– Michael Vick: felony dogfighting charges
– Leonard Little: vehicular manslaughter/DUI
– Michael Irvin: felony drug possession
– Ray Lewis: obstruction of justice in a murder
– Plaxico Burress: felony weapon possession (in jail but not yet banned for life from the NFL)
– Pacman Jones: technically a felon since he pled guilty to obstruction of an officer case in GA
That you act like the NFL is some bastion of virtue is not only insane, its stupidity.
Nobody has proven that Limbaugh’s alleged “racist quotes” are actually his—-they haven’t been substantiated, and they never will. This is nothing but pure rabid partisanship and left-wing demagoguery. It’s a disgrace.
General Winfield Stuck
@Sanka:
Your tears from turn about justice taste good/wingnut
Svensker
@Sanka:
Yup, the NFL is ruled by Teh Left! George Soros writes the checks! Yippee!
Your tears are sweeter than honey.
Jay B.
The media and MEMBERS OF CONGRESS have singled out an individual citizen, smearing his name, all but prevented him to pursue a private business transaction, because of some phantom claims of racism.
Your tears taste like candy.
Also, ixnay on the elony-fay udray ossessionpay. Because, well, Rush’s is guilty too.
Jay B.
@Svensker:
JINX!
Svensker
@General Winfield Stuck:
Hey, General, wanna hook up?
Svensker
@Jay B.:
Oooh, a 3-fer!
Midnight Marauder
That was pretty good, Sanka. I mean, standard wingnut trope, but good for what it was. Sure, it’s conveient that only black NFL players have ever apparently committed a crime in your world, or are just the only terrible people in the NFL. I mean, it’s not like no one ever talks about Brett Favre’s alcoholism or addiction to pain killers whenever they slurp him up as the greatest player in the history of Anything and Everything Everywhere.
Nah, I’m just kidding. That was a very weak troll. Not even entertaining enough to even fully engage with it.
calipygian
Which is why when Limbaugh tells a player to take the bone out of his nose so his helmet will fit better, we’ll know that the comment doesn’t come from a position of racism, just a love of profit.
General Winfield Stuck
@Svensker:
Looks like we’re all on different frequencies together. Cool!
Steve
Sure, but nothing prevents there from being competing professional football leagues (other than the massive barriers to entry, of course).
The 3/4 rule is not about starting a new league, but about controlling the sale of franchises within the league. And the legal question, which is an interesting one, is this: does one NFL franchise really compete against another one? Obviously they compete on the field, but the Giants and the Dolphins don’t really compete for fans. They don’t really compete for revenues.
The legal position of the NFL is that for antitrust purposes, they’re not a bunch of competing franchises, they’re one big entity. It’s not a frivolous position. If you’re the CEO of McDonald’s, you’re going to make sure that your franchises aren’t going to step on each other’s toes competitively, you’re going to have all kinds of rules regarding where restaurants can open, what they have to do, where they can move. If you think of the NFL as one big entity, it’s the exact same principle. They get to restrict the actions of individual franchises for the competitive good of the overall operation.
Odd that Limbaugh is going on the air to explain his way out of comments he never made, isn’t it?
Jay B.
@Midnight Marauder:
Also. OxyContin. And blue pills. And the poor Dominican boy they are still trying to dig out of Rush’s lower intestine.
calipygian
You mean the way Congress singled out Michael Schiavo to nullify his rights as a husband?
Blackacre
These wingnuts sure love to go to the well of Jackson/Sharpton, don’t they? Those two aren’t as big of a deal as the wingnuts make them out to be. Jackson/Shapton can’t fabricate years of Rush’s racist rantings.
de stijl
Salty ham tears.
Reason readers (or ex Reason readers like me) will get this re Santorum defeat and the crying Santorum daughter – note, not the stillborn one.
AhabTRuler
Something, something Mark Chmura, and who was the Bronco…was it Romanowski?
Peter J
@de stijl:
I’m pretty sure that’s an NBA team. ;)
calipygian
@Sanka: Boo hoo, Sanka, I’m with ya!
Those Neegra hatin’ uber-rich white guys can’t catch a break in Massa Obama’s ‘Murka. Right on, right on! (Terrorist fist bump, yall!)
HRA
@Sanka:
MNF fired him. ESPN did the same.
Considering the NFL teams are made up of a good amount of Black players, coaching staffs, etc. why would anyone with RL’s record of vitriol against Blacks assume he would be welcomed to the fraternity unless his narcissim is peak high. IMO it also proves he is not too wise as well. Then, of course, he probably needed this takedown to get the publicity away from Beck. You betcha!
General Winfield Stuck
@Blackacre:
Wingnuts/They go Nuthin’
Sanka
If you have the proof, instead of baseless and blind hatred for the man, I’d love to see it. If not, you’re just another left-wing marionette
calipygian
@Blackacre: Rush Limbaugh has turned the names Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson into semi-respectable synonyms for the N-Word for racist, old white guys who listen to too much Hutu Power radio.
General Winfield Stuck
@Sanka:
My guess is, that as we speak legions of newsies are putting together a fine list of Limbaugh’s oldy goldies of hate. It will likely be written in simple worded crayon so you morans can understand it. accompanied by Rush’s own little studio cam al la Nixon tapes but with pictures.
Peter J
Limbaugh would have been an owner. He wouldn’t have joined them. Maybe someone should have pointed out to him that he wouldn’t actually own the players and the coaching staff. Not even the black ones.
Then this whole mess would have ended before it had even started.
de stijl
...guys who listen to too much Hutu Power radio…
Where else is Raid gonna advertise?
calipygian
@General Winfield Stuck: You are assuming that Limbaugh defenders can read.
Better to translate it into simple, one and two syllable words and get it on a recording of some sort. Given Limbaugh’s demographic, reel to reel tape seems appropriate.
General Winfield Stuck
@calipygian:
They’ll prolly claim it’s Soro’s doctored moving pictures.
Svensker
@Sanka:
I don’t hate him, just find him repulsive. When I was still a Republican and reading Nat’l Review and all, I heard about this great new right wing radio guy, so I listened. Rush was doing his “feminazi” thing and I thought, “this guy is not nearly as smart as he thinks he is, and not at all funny or interesting.” Then the drug stuff (big hypocrite!) and the McNabb thing (which I heard live) and the Michael J. Foxx thing and the sex trip to the Dominican Republic—the guy is a slimy turd, plain and simple. It is absolutely sweet to see a bit of comeuppance for all the nasty shit he’s been slinging for years. Words have consequences, and Rush is eatin’ on ‘em right now.
de stijl
Sanka a long time ago said:
The comment that Limbaugh made which caused him to resign from MNF in 2003, was a personal observation—-and a correct one.
Yes, it was a personal observation, but one that he happened to make on a television program that was paying him to talk entertainingly about football to a general audience.
I’m pretty sure there was a contract involved that covered what was, and what wasn’t, acceptable behavior by said contractee.
Why do you hate legally enforceable contracts, Sanka?
calipygian
@General Winfield Stuck: Well, I guess Sanka wouldn’t be surprised to learn that I get a $2,000 check for every comment I leave at BJ that accuses Rush Limbaugh of banging underage child prostitutes three at a time during his jaunts to the child prostitution capital of the Western Hemisphere, the Dominican Republic.
Why do you think he has to smuggle Vitamin V in packs of 50 there?
Before Limbaugh buys an NFL team, he’d really have to come clear about those allegations that I have seen on the Internet.
Now excuse me, I have a Soros check to cash.
de stijl
Now excuse me, I have a Soros check to cash.
Can you hook a brother up?
calipygian
He didn’t resign – they shitcanned his fat, Oxy-popping ass for being a racist dickhead.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Sanka:
Fixed.
calipygian
And seriously – Rush Limbaugh judging the Miss America pageant is going to be like that scene with Jabba the Hut and Carrie Fisher in that metal bra on the royal hover barge in that crappy Ewok movie.
That is all.
Zach
@Steve:
You can say that about every monopoly in history that doesn’t rely on complete ownership of natural resources. The NFL is the epitome of horizontal integration and abuses its monopoly to deliver inferior services to its customers and compensate its employees less than they would receive in an open market.
Oh, and if McDonalds were the only fast food restaurant in America, was the product of a merger of two smaller chains, and leveraged its position to pay lower rents and only sell food to Comcast customers that’d be a bit of an issue, too.
Midnight Marauder
@calipygian:
Moreover, he never worked for MNF. That was before ESPN even had the rights to MNF, and it was still on ABC, pre-Disney, I believe. ESPN had SNF back in those days.
Ash Can
@Sanka: I like you! You’re funny!
BDeevDad
I’d like one reporter to actually follow up with Rush if he now feels it’s wrong that Augusta has no female members cause basically he’s complaining that the NFL owners will not let him in their club. Hypocrisy is usually lost on Rush et al anyways.
HRA
@Sanka:
The proof is out there on video [i.e. a compilation of his remarks put together by a movie or TV producer] talked about this evening on the MSNBC Ed show. It will be RL saying what you are obviously not believing he said on tape.
FYI I am not a person who hates anyone. I am of the same mind as Svensker. I find him repulsive. For the short time I was a Republican, I did listen to him for about 10 minutes at the max. He even repulsed me then.
@Peter J:
“Limbaugh would have been an owner. He wouldn’t have joined them. Maybe someone should have pointed out to him that he wouldn’t actually own the players and the coaching staff. Not even the black ones.
Then this whole mess would have ended before it had even started.”
That really surprises me. You think the owners stay away from the players and coaching staff? The ones I know are very involved with the players and staff. They sign their paychecks, too.
The “mess” began and ended with RL.
mcd410x
The thing that gets lost so much in political talk about sports is just how soshulist it is. Revenue sharing, salary caps, luxury taxes—but, yes, I’m sure Rush was going to try to change this soshulist utopia from the inside.
Bubblegum Tate
There’s nothing “way out of left field” about Rush Limbaugh saying something stupid, wrong, and racist.
Bubblegum Tate
Oh, and Rush is already getting his “I’m the biggest victim EVAH!” whine on:
I love the way he chucked Palin’s name in there the way Palin would chuck in an “also.”
calipygian
Yeah, those poor pioneers all oppressed by the savage red man and shit.
Zach
@Sanka:
This is just wrong. In just his second year in the league, Vick made the Pro Bowl because he had an amazing season. He had a very low interception percentage and had the most QB rushing yards ever in a single game (and later got the record for most in a season). He was a premier player because he was playing like one (ditto for McNabb). He was also a number one draft pick at the quarterback position which guarantees the spotlight will be on you if you start games.
M. Bouffant
It’s not just the NFL! All of professional & college sports is racist.
AGAINST WHITE PEOPLE!
kay
@Bubblegum Tate:
It doesn’t really work though, does it? Because it’s not political.
Limbaugh’s just too negative to be associated with a major US brand.
They don’t like “negative” around the brand. They want broad, positive appeal.
It’s bidness. He shouldn’t take it personal.
Wile E. Quixote
@Sanka
Yeah, it really says something about Rush Limbaugh that the NFL is willing to tolerate a dog-killing psycho like Michael Vick and any number of drunks, rapists, felons and idiots (Plaxico Burress as an example of a felon and an idiot) but despite that they’re not willing to let Limbaugh become a minority owner of a team, it says that the NFL, for all its faults, and despite your stupid claim no one here claimed that the NFL was a bastion of virtue, has some standards, low standards, but standards nonetheless, and Limbaugh can’t meet them.
Sanka huh, one more reason why I stay the fuck away from decaf, it just makes you stupid.
Wile E. Quixote
@calipygian
I’m waiting for a city to call the NFL’s bluff and condemn a team when they threaten to leave. The NFL ownership can bloviate all they like about how it requires 3/4s of the ownership to approve a sale and that won’t mean jack shit because eminent domain trumps all of that.
J in WA
@Bubblegum Tate:
I have to admit to being a little awestruck at RL’s response. I mean, he could’ve just briefly pouted and moved on, thereby killing all our fun, but instead he managed to alternately embrace and abhor Jews, Democrats, the Duke lacrosse team, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the MSM and something called the “State-Controlled Media,” Ignorance, Deceit, Lies, Rugged Individualism, “cavers,” and Sarah Palin spinning on a 72-rpm turntable like that turkey one year on Letterman.
Okay, I made the last one up. But still. You have to be impressed by a guy who starts out talking how it’s not about him, and then proceeds to indulge in seven more paragraphs trotting out the proof that he’s a martyr. It just goes to 12 levels of awesome!
Mike in NC
Sanka’s an excellent name to go by if you’re a teabagger.
Mike in NC
Per Andy Borowitz, Limbaugh wanted to rename the team the “Minnesota Vicodins”.
Bubblegum Tate
@kay:
No, it doesn’t work at all. But it’s not supposed to—at least not to normal people it isn’t. It’s just supposed to get the Wingnut Wurlitzer playing a sad tune because wingers absolutely fucking love being a victim.
Jay B.
I’m glad Rush has decided to reach out and correct that wrongly held perception by calling for segregated buses.
And: why the quotes around “racist quotes”? If they aren’t his—because the transcripts, the firing and controversy was totally made up—then there’s nothing to “quote”.
Then again, Rush couldn’t find his “ass” with three Dominican boy toys armed with radar.
Jorge
Interestingly enough, I think that Rush’ stance on organized labor is a much bigger problem. From refs to players, the NFL is a union shop. Rush is not just anti-union, he consistently equates them with communism and totaliatarianism.
Can you imagine what Rush’s shows would be like the first time their was a labor conflict in the NFL? The head of the player’s union has a reponsibility to knee-cap Rush as an owner with all his might.
And let’s be honest, Rush pushed this little stunt in the middle of a ratings month in radio. Either way this controversy is going to end up boosting his book as the dittohead nation and curious sports fans tune in to hear Rush’s take on this situation.
Jay B.
And:
Rush, Dec. 8, 2004
Bubblegum Tate
Glenn Beck’s been stealing El Rushbo’s thunder, and Rush knows he can’t out-crazy Beck, so he’s going with the “I’m a sad widdle victim—pity me!” angle.
calipygian
Better.
asiangrrlMN
Man, this thread is on fire. The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire!
Are you ready for some football? No, not you, Rush. You can sit your ass back down on the bench. Nobody wants you on his team!
Jay B.
Maybe, but they have—by far—the worst player union in pro sports. No guaranteed contracts, shitty bennies for retired players, a lower slice of the pie than baseball or basketball and a strict (for the moment) salary cap. Gene Washington was a travesty.
Baseball, on the other hand, has probably the most powerful union in America. It’s night and day.
Jay C
This is great news for Rush Limbaugh. Seriously, it’s great news: whether or not he gets approved as a part-owner of an NFL team, or gets deep-sixed, he can still milk it for the publicity it can generate. It’s a win-win: just the suggestion that he might become a (part-)team-owner gets his name and disgusting fat face all over the news for a couple of weeks with no downside. In the unlikely event he gets in: win. If not: well,he got a lot of well-compensated airtime to vent his whiny victimization bullshit – with his producers no doubt shoveling a succession of dittoheads on the air to commiserate with him – more win.
Normally, one would think that this would be a major embarrassment for a public figure like El Rushbo – but creatures like him lost that particular trait a long time ago.
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
Fix’t.
If you are going to dream, dream big.
El Crushbo had to know that he wouldn’t be accepted as an NFL owner and this is just a move on his part to stir up more racial discord and hatred. He knew damn well that after all of the racist shit he has spewed over the years that even the thought of him being an NFL team owner would anger the players.
IMO this is deliberate shit-stirring on his part and it fits in with all of the ‘blacks attacking whites’ racist shit he wraps himself in. His shittoheads will lap this crap up like champagne and that is all he cares for.
All that matters to that repulsive monster is his ego and feeding it. I don’t think he even expected to win approval but rather this was exactly the desired outcome. It costs him nothing and stirs up the media, pundits, liberals, NFL players, and his jockstrap supporters.
This was a win-win for him (in his view).
HRA
@Bubblegum Tate:
Yep, that was my original thought to enter here about Beck stealing his thunder.
@Jay B.:
That is so totally disgusting. I only heard bits of it earlier.
This, to me, is proof positive RL had to either not have lived in a integrated neighborhood or he was the schoolyard bully. For the love of his ego and for the love of money, he lowers himself beyond belief.
Elie
JayC and Doug L
Agree completely, but its a dying strategy similar to that used by the Nazis in retreat —burn everything, destroy everything while your “Leader” bails in the bunker…whats left?
You can only double down for so long…
Events and reality are running these dogs to ground. Not to say that the poison isnt potent and running in concentration in various sectors, just that the plays are being run down and his/their Queen is in great jeapardy … or worse.
Svensker
@DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal):
Really? Ya think? I disagree. I think he and his buds are in such a bubble that they have no idea that “real Americans” (which doesn’t include any of us, nor Al Sharpton, nor Bart Scott, nor Matthias Kiwanuka, sp?) dislike him. And since he thinks of the players as just “the help”, it wouldn’t occur to him that a) they’d care; or b) anyone would listen if they did care. He was picturing himself in that box with the cigar and the other rich owners, watching his “boys” play and bring him glory and money. I think he had his heart, shriveled and black as it is, set on it.
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
@Svensker:
I am sure that he would have been more than happy to end up a team owner but I still think he knew (with his past) that he stood an ice cubes chance in hell of winning. He knows that the anger he has generated among black players was going to come back and bite him hard.
Playing people for suckers is all a game to him, he doesn’t care about anyone but himself.
Svensker
@DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal):
Again, I disagree. Don’t think he understands at all that he has generated any anger, and if he had, it is all unfair, and the fault of dirty leftist thugs like Sharpton.
joe from Lowell
The wingnuts aren’t going to attack the NFL. I’ll tell you exactly what Rush is going to say.
Black people, through the liberal-fascist power of ACORN and the Community Reinvestment Act, brought the NFL to its knees.
Folks, if they can do this to the NFL, they’ll be after you next.
ricky
Rush needs to field his own expansion team. You pick the place. In honor of Texas radio evangelist turned Governor
and Senator Pappy O’Daniel, I suggest they be called:
Rush Limbaugh’s WHITE CRUST DOUGHBOYS.
ricky
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They’d sell more tickets if they dropped him from the Goodyear Blimp instead.
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
@ricky:
“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!”
Ecks
Woot, big 12
/pleasantly mindless boosterism.
Nobody except the dittoheads ever does. Except national reporters. :(
Glad to see the epidemic of speculation here. Our little B-J… so [dabs eyes] responsible.
Oh, don’t be silly. There’s nothing wrong with hiring blacks. Just so long as they know their place.
Sing it, and Balsilie will have your back on that, geez.
J in WA
@The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Oh, most excellent WKRP reference and subtle tie-in to Rush. You might just be my new hero!
Anne Laurie
@trollhattan:
You, sir, just won today’s internetz.
@trollhattan:Lime jello, Miracle Whip & black olives isn’t the dessert course, silly—it’s the salad course! Haven’t you ever attended a Midwestern potluck?
aimai
Wow! Am I glad I read all the way to the end of the thread. Or I would have missed this from trollhatten, picked up by Anne Laurie.
Yes. For the Win. Now and Forever.
aimai
chrome agnomen
you know who else didn’t own part of an NFL team?
Hitler.
Tom
This is a good reality check for Limbaugh and his followers, who spend their lives living in their own perpetual circle jerk.
Reality: Limbaugh is an asshole. He’s an idiot. Beyond his supporters and the media who treat him as a “serious person,” no one likes him. Live your life spewing rancor and hatred, and this is the reaction you’re going to get when you venture out into the real world.
Cassidy
@Sanka: Sweet Jeebus, do your own Google you lazy git!
Not to mention a 1st round Draft Pick QB who didn’t suck. That’s an oddity in and of itself.
Vegematic
Now be fair. Think it through. When you’ve got a business that turns hundreds of guys into vegetables, stuffing their skulls full of spongy tau-plaques with continual subclinical concussions, who better to run it than Rush?