Limbaugh Dropped From Rams Bid

[Life_Long_Dem!]

Rush Limbaugh won't be buying a piece of the St. Louis Rams after all.

With criticism mounting, Dave Checketts, the sports businessman leading a group vying for the National Football League franchise, dumped the controversial conservative talk show host just days after Mr. Limbaugh disclosed his intent to buy a minority interest in the team.

"Rush was to be a limited partner--as such, he would have had no say in the direction of the club or in any decisions regarding personnel or operations," Mr. Checketts, owner of the NHL's St. Louis Blues, said in a statement released Wednesday. "This was a role he enthusiastically embraced. However, it has become clear that his involvement in our group has become a complication and a distraction to our intentions; endangering our bid to keep the team in St. Louis. As such, we have decided to move forward without him and hope it will eventually lead us to a successful conclusion."

A representative for Mr. Limbaugh did not return messages seeking comment. He has said that he would take an active role in managing the team. In recent days Mr. Limbaugh stated his on his radio show and in television interviews that he would not drop out of the bidding for the team, which is expected to sell for about $750 million, according to people familiar with the matter.

On his radio show Wednesday, Mr. Limbaugh said the controversy surrounding his participation in the bid "is not about the NFL, it's not about the St. Louis Rams, it's not about me. This is about the ongoing effort by the left in this country, wherever you find them, in the media, the Democrat Party, or wherever, to destroy conservatism, to prevent the mainstreaming of anyone who is prominent as a conservative."

But Mr. Limbaugh's outspoken nature and comments, clearly rankled members of the NFL community. Several players said they would not play for him. Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay stated in interviews at the NFL owners meetings this week in Boston that he doubted Mr. Limbaugh would win approval from the required three-quarters of the league's owners.

A spokesman for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell declined comment. On Tuesday, Mr. Goodell criticized comments Mr. Limbaugh made on ESPN in 2003, when he claimed the media favored Philadelphia quarterback Donovan McNabb because it wants a black quarterback to succeed.

"I think divisive comments are not what the NFL is all about," Mr. Goodell said. "I would not want to see those kind of comments from people who are in a responsible position within the NFL."

Mr. Checketts said he chose Mr. Limbaugh because he was a native of Missouri and his group his committed to keeping the Rams in St. Louis even though provisions in the team's lease allow it to move from its home in the Edward Jones Dome in five years.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703790404574473810039848146.html

[mtz]

Pretty cool, you can electrocute dogs and so what...back in the NFL.

Be misquoted by stupid blogs = ban for life.

This is the America I'm proud of, and you obviously are too!

[MarkMiller]

Pretty cool, you can electrocute dogs and so what...back in the NFL.

Be misquoted by stupid blogs = ban for life.

This is the America I'm proud of, and you obviously are too!
If it makes you feel better, deflecting the subject to a single misquote when the decision was based on things he had really said, knock yourself out. No really hit yourself over the head.....please.:p

[John Galt]

I believe there's a thread running...


This isn't about being penalized for breaking the law. This is about the players in an entertainment venue, refusing to play if a bigot is going to profit from their hard work.

If David Duke bought a broadway theatre, I'll bet that the union/players would refuse to perform there.

Just because we allow hatespeech as an inalienable right, it doesn't mean that everyone has to accept said speech.


It's the free market, dummy. Isn't that Rush's mantra?

[MintJulep]

Pretty cool, you can electrocute dogs and so what...back in the NFL.

Be misquoted by stupid blogs = ban for life.

This is the America I'm proud of, and you obviously are too!Nailed it.

[John Galt]

Pretty cool, you can electrocute dogs and so what...back in the NFL.

Be misquoted by stupid blogs = ban for life.

This is the America I'm proud of, and you obviously are too!
In case you don't have access to t.v....


Vick's disgusting behavior has cost him dearly. Aside from OJ, a scant few who were once heroes, have fallen so low.

Vick's actions have cost him tens of millions of dollars. He was hit for nearly 1 million dollars, for the care and upkeep of a large number of his dogs that were rescued.

That's gotta sting...your dogs used to live in a cage, and now they are getting fat on a couch, while you live in a cage...

Ya see....he paid dearly, and now he's getting a chance to make it right. I never wanted to see him jailed.

I would've preferred if he was made to do public service spots to teach his fans about the ills of dogfighting.


He's doing it now, so I'm actually rooting for him to turn things around.



Now, if Vick wanted to buy the rights (for profit) to some sort of dog show, I think that would be a better analogy. I'm quite sure it would never be allowed.

[CosmicRocker]

Poor poor Rush.
He's a victim I tell ya ! :lmao2:

[doctordog]

Pretty cool, you can electrocute dogs and so what...back in the NFL.

Be misquoted by stupid blogs = ban for life.

This is the America I'm proud of, and you obviously are too!

These same people elected a President that attended a church for 20 years spewing hatred for white people.

[Life_Long_Dem!]

These same people elected a President that attended a church for 20 years spewing hatred for white people.
yawn!zzzzzzzzzzzzzz still on that are we...old news NO ONE CARES ABOUT ANYMORE! nothing to see so please move on.

[GetAClue]

yawn!zzzzzzzzzzzzzz still on that are we...old news NO ONE CARES ABOUT ANYMORE! nothing to see so please move on.
Just because you don't care, doesn't mean that there is not a very large segment of the population that does. It is the typical double standard being applied by the left. Charlie Rangle is about as corrupt as they come, yet the left wants to focus their attention to a couple of quotes that Rush DID NOT MAKE, and attack him.

Pot meet kettle.

[Independent Harry]

I love how Rush said it was an effort by liberals to keep the conservative down...lol...that's classic.

And for all you other idiots, this is your free market capitilism at work. These people don't like his stances so they are refusing to do business with him. this isn't government, this isn't political. It's the very thing you advocate for, don't like it when it works against your messiah huh...

[Life_Long_Dem!]

Just because you don't care, doesn't mean that there is not a very large segment of the population that does. It is the typical double standard being applied by the left. Charlie Rangle is about as corrupt as they come, yet the left wants to focus their attention to a couple of quotes that Rush DID NOT MAKE, and attack him.

Pot meet kettle.
ok then so where is the proof he didnt say the nfl at times looks like the bloods vs. the crips without the weapons? one of the qoutes in question and the WELL documented one which is the reason he left espn about mcnabb, if he didnt say that one then why quit espn...even HE ADMITTED TO SAYING THAT ONE...how about the one on slavery or any of the other ones...are they just made up in the imagination of the american public?? DO TELL! PLEASE!

[GetAClue]

I love how Rush said it was an effort by liberals to keep the conservative down...lol...that's classic.

And for all you other idiots, this is your free market capitilism at work. These people don't like his stances so they are refusing to do business with him. this isn't government, this isn't political. It's the very thing you advocate for, don't like it when it works against your messiah huh...
The problem is not the workings of capitalism. The problem is the unsubstantiated accuastions against an individual published by so-called news organizations being allowed to influence legal financial transactions. Where is the government in this? Sitting quietly by grinning that one of their staunces critics is being slandered. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.

[doctordog]

Just because you don't care, doesn't mean that there is not a very large segment of the population that does. It is the typical double standard being applied by the left. Charlie Rangle is about as corrupt as they come, yet the left wants to focus their attention to a couple of quotes that Rush DID NOT MAKE, and attack him.

Pot meet kettle.

That is what happens when uneducated unmotivated people get into the election process. We have raised a generation of uninspired people seeking entitlement without any effort put forth to earn it like the rest of us. It is sickening how much influence these sheep have obtained in so little time.

[Life_Long_Dem!]

The problem is not the workings of capitalism. The problem is the unsubstantiated accuastions against an individual published by so-called news organizations being allowed to influence legal financial transactions. Where is the government in this? Sitting quietly by grinning that one of their staunces critics is being slandered. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.
being SLANDERED!!??? HAHAHAHA:lmao2: :lmao2: :lmao2: his past qoutes that are well documented are coming back to bite him in the ass and all of a sudden it never happen...its just a figment of peoples imagination!or is it that he was "misqouted " on EVERYTHING he has ever said? which is it:)

[GetAClue]

ok then so where is the proof he didnt say the nfl at times looks like the bloods vs. the crips without the weapons? one of the qoutes in question and the WELL documented one which is the reason he left espn about mcnabb, if he didnt say that one then why quit espn...even HE ADMITTED TO SAYING THAT ONE...how about the one on slavery or any of the other ones...are they just made up in the imagination of the american public?? DO TELL! PLEASE!
I’m, not sure if you are aware of it or not, but it is not up to the accused to prove their innocence. In this country, the burden of proof rests with the accuser. If he said such a thing, it will exist in a transcript somewhere or in a saved audio/video file. The fact that NO ONE can produce such evidence leads reasonable people (present company excluded) to conclude that it was never said by him.

Now if you have proof that he said that an advantage to slavery was that the streets were safer after dark, feel free to post such proof and I will gladly apologize. Until then, as I saw posted earlier, DO TELL! PLEASE![/QUOTE]

[GetAClue]

That is what happens when uneducated unmotivated people get into the election process. We have raised a generation of uninspired people seeking entitlement without any effort put forth to earn it like the rest of us. It is sickening how much influence these sheep have obtained in so little time.
That is part of the plan of the liberal agenda and funded by the likes of George Soros. Create a class of usefull idiots that are dependent upon the government, thus depleating the resources of the producers of the country until they have no place left to turn outside of the government. As we see from some of the posters on this board, we have no shortage of "usefull idiots".

[doctordog]

I’m, not sure if you are aware of it or not, but it is not up to the accused to prove their innocence. In this country, the burden of proof rests with the accuser. If he said such a thing, it will exist in a transcript somewhere or in a saved audio/video file. The fact that NO ONE can produce such evidence leads reasonable people (present company excluded) to conclude that it was never said by him.

Now if you have proof that he said that an advantage to slavery was that the streets were safer after dark, feel free to post such proof and I will gladly apologize. Until then, as I saw posted earlier, DO TELL! PLEASE![/QUOTE]

He stands to make more off the lawsuits then the rams would have ever made. If I was on a jury, he would get every penny asked for.

[Life_Long_Dem!]

I’m, not sure if you are aware of it or not, but it is not up to the accused to prove their innocence. In this country, the burden of proof rests with the accuser. If he said such a thing, it will exist in a transcript somewhere or in a saved audio/video file. The fact that NO ONE can produce such evidence leads reasonable people (present company excluded) to conclude that it was never said by him.

Now if you have proof that he said that an advantage to slavery was that the streets were safer after dark, feel free to post such proof and I will gladly apologize. Until then, as I saw posted earlier, DO TELL! PLEASE![/QUOTE]
google it and you will come up with plenty and i sooo love how you joined the world of minty's mintality of it doesnt exist unless there is audio or video of it!thats hilarious...you go live in your fantasy world while we live in reality...rush is a self centered rascist piece of crap and he knows it...he knows what he has said in the past... and it IS out there as proof o plenty.

let me ask you this..if it was a liberal talk show host being in question for things he said about a conservative would you be so strong in pushing "proof" and claiming innocence until proven guilty or would you be ready to burn him alive?

[GetAClue]

being SLANDERED!!??? HAHAHAHA:lmao2: :lmao2: :lmao2: his past qoutes that are well documented are coming back to bite him in the ass and all of a sudden it never happen...its just a figment of peoples imagination!or is it that he was "misqouted " on EVERYTHING he has ever said? which is it:)

I will give you that he made comments about Donovan McNabb a few years back. However, once again the PC crowd attributed what he said to racism instead of what he meant. I heard the quote. I also remember at the time that there had been great concern over the years in the NFL that there had been a lack of very successful black quarterbacks. Rush may have been wrong in his analysis, but to attribute this to racism is a bit of a reach (unless you just don't like the guy and are looking for ANYTHING that could possibly show him in a bad light).

And I will say that there are those on the right that have a history of taking things said out of context to show a person in a bad light. Sean Hannity comes to mind. He does this a lot. I have watched his show on occasion (most of the time just because he may have a guest that I want to see), and he is notorious for doing this. I may agree with him on the principle of things, but to slander a person or sling mud over a statement taken out of context is just wrong.

[GetAClue]

google it and you will come up with plenty and i sooo love how you joined the world of minty's mintality of it doesnt exist unless there is audio or video of it!thats hilarious...you go live in your fantasy world while we live in reality...rush is a self centered rascist piece of crap and he knows it...he knows what he has said in the past... and it IS out there as proof o plenty.

let me ask you this..if it was a liberal talk show host being in question for things he said about a conservative would you be so strong in pushing "proof" and claiming innocence until proven guilty or would you be ready to burn him alive?

I’ll tell you what, you google it and then get back to me with what you find. That is the problem at this point, someone found some quotes attributed to Rush that were NOT backed by fact. They were made up quotes that someone is using to frame him in a bad light.

If you are intellectually honest with yourself, read the following diary entry from Mike DeVine on RedState. It is a good read and gives a side of Rush that most don’t know. If you don’t want to read it, that is up to you. However, that would simply prove my point about you. You have no interest in the truth, you are just looking for mud to sling.

How Limbaugh’s embodiment of MLK’s dream changed my life
Rush dares to judge all by the content of their character and that threatens the race industry

Raised by parents that were instrumental in integrating the races in my South Carolina hometown in the 60s and 70s, I was receptive in my youth to the Democratic Party’s rhetoric of racial inclusion. I practiced affirmative action in my law firm in the 80s and became a party official; but almost from the beginning of my political activism there was some unease with my liberal associations.

Fellow democrats giggled about an empire Reagan correctly denounced as evil; ignored the success of tax cuts; and hired mostly white paralegals. As a very young county party chairman I was appalled at hostility to people of faith by my party elders, as well as the unfair demonization of Republicans as racist and uncaring for the poor.

I admit at this time that I suffered from extreme, classic Democratic Party class envy and that later on, my reluctance to change parties while still in my hometown was due partly to this and cowardice, but I couldn’t deny that among the legal community and members of my church, it was invariably mostly the Republicans that actually hired blacks.

Then I heard the Wonder of Rush, and Mike Gallagher on 950 WORD-AM. I had already been softened up by the hypocrisy of fellow democrats, but it was a joyous revelation to hear conservative republicans denounce outright racists live on Talk Radio, as Gallagher did almost on a daily basis.

Rush didn’t seem to get many calls from racists, and so didn’t have such opportunities, and most of my democrat friends denounced Rush as a bigot. At this time in the early 90s, I disagreed with Rush on most issues, but simply could not turn the radio away from his show for more than 15 seconds after a fit of anger.

There was something about Rush’s attitude that fascinated me, and it took two incidents that occurred within a single week to open my eyes to a truth that would change my life.

I was a prolific criminal defense trial lawyer and so had a lot of contact with police officers. One day, while at the City Police Department, I made an offhand comment to a black female sergeant that assumed she was a Democrat. I was an official with the county party at the time. The Sergeant rebuked me with a kind of righteous indignation that had never been directed at me by anyone I didn’t call Daddy.

Later that week, I attended an event promoting the Rush Limbaugh Show, with Mike Gallagher hosting a special appearance by Bo Snerdly, Rush Limbaugh’s longtime business partner, silent sidekick on the air, and call screener.

The moment I saw Snerdly, I understood what it was about Rush that so appealed to me. I was already kind of alone among my democrat friends in defending Rush against charges of racism, and wondered why he didn’t defend himself more, and then I saw Snerdly and immediately understood this man called Rush, because I saw something in him that saw in my father and, dare I say, in me.

I never had known that Snerdly was black. Rush never mentioned that fact despite all the libel and slander against him and despite the fact that he regularly spoke back and forth with Snerdly (not heard) about such charges on the air.

Rush was secure in the truth, and looking back on the EIB experience, I realized that what so appealed to me about Rush was that he treated all people the same, no matter the race. Race was irrelevant.

Rush was the embodiment of the character content, color-blind dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. that became my dream in my youth.

So it is with great sadness that I see a man whose complete absence of racism made me receptive to his conservative message, is now vilified by the ignorant and the vile, as the antithesis.

It is with great sadness that I see otherwise brilliant journalists like Jason Whitlock rely upon unreliable sources for despicable false quotes rather than fact-check, or, pray tell, actually call Rush before going to press.

But I also know that it is not the recently released false quotes that are at the heart of the faux uproar attending a possible purchase of the St. Louis Rams. The fake quotes were first posted on line in 2005. Rush has been vilified since 1988 for accurate quotes, either taken out of context, or completely misunderstood. But the main reason for the uproar is that liberals see conservatism itself as racist or, rather, a threat to their own racism cloaked as compassion.

So, it is with even more sadness that I see ignorance and/or political correctness enforced like Stalinism (without the mass murder) among some NFL owners. One nugget from the Colt’s Irsay is a smoking gun to break through the ignorance, and that is his suggestion that Tony Dungy be asked his opinion of Rush.

Dungy appeared twice on Rush’s show last year!

I am thrilled that Rush is fighting back this time, and am already happy that ESPN’s Michael Wilbon has retracted his objections and Colin Cowherd has defended Rush, as have others.

I am saddened that so many are still so fearful of the PC police that they refuse to acknowledge the obvious meaning of the English language when evaluating Rush’s ESPN description of journalist apologists for McNabb; and that the Today Show left his explanations of the Magic Negro parody and the drive-by ignorance of the school children singing the praises of Barack Hussein Obama, umm, umm, umm.

President Obama’s surrender in the Gates-Harvard affair had given me hope that more white Americans were throwing off the false white guilt post-Obama Inauguration, and joining Rush in the post-racial world he has lived in for most if not all of his life.

I just thank God that heard the voice that embodied MLK’s dream and joined that world with Rush and Martin.

God bless you brother Rush. My prayers are always with you.
http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/10/14/how-limbaughs-embodiment-of-mlks-dream-changed-my-life/

[Life_Long_Dem!]

I’ll tell you what, you google it and then get back to me with what you find. That is the problem at this point, someone found some quotes attributed to Rush that were NOT backed by fact. They were made up quotes that someone is using to frame him in a bad light.

If you are intellectually honest with yourself, read the following diary entry from Mike DeVine on RedState. It is a good read and gives a side of Rush that most don’t know. If you don’t want to read it, that is up to you. However, that would simply prove my point about you. You have no interest in the truth, you are just looking for mud to sling.


http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/10/14/how-limbaughs-embodiment-of-mlks-dream-changed-my-life/
side note to you mister I need to get a clue...arent you the one that said I claimed to be a moderate dem? WRONG!I do not think I have EVER claimed to be a moderate dem...I have stated multiple times that I lean far left and almost socialist on most ALL my views, HELL my sig on this forum should be proof alone as it is on here...came from my facebook page and is on other pages as well.
You get where I am going to school wrong...qouting me as going to BGSU when I never said that and you claim falsely that I say I am a moderate dem...what else you gonna get wrong? I THINK YOU NAME REALLY SHOULD BE NEEDS TO GET A CLUE!:lmao2:

[GetAClue]

side note to you mister I need to get a clue...arent you the one that said I claimed to be a moderate dem? WRONG!I do not think I have EVER claimed to be a moderate dem...I have stated multiple times that I lean far left and almost socialist on most ALL my views, HELL my sig on this forum should be proof alone as it is on here...came from my facebook page and is on other pages as well.
You get where I am going to school wrong...qouting me as going to BGSU when I never said that and you claim falsely that I say I am a moderate dem...what else you gonna get wrong? I THINK YOU NAME REALLY SHOULD BE NEEDS TO GET A CLUE!:lmao2:
So I didn't remember which school you go to? BFD. And you are a hard left liberal. So what? (I should have known that though based on the stupidity of your arguments). How about discussing the topic of my post? Care to actually do that instead of worrying about which school you went too? I'm sure UT is not very proud of the fact you attended school there either. :lmao2:

[Moby]

Pretty cool, you can electrocute dogs and so what...back in the NFL.

Be misquoted by stupid blogs = ban for life.

This is the America I'm proud of, and you obviously are too!
Do you really think that it was boiled down to a single comment?

What if it was Keith Olbermann? Would he be getting the same defense from the right?

[mtz]

Do you really think that it was boiled down to a single comment?

What if it was Keith Olbermann? Would he be getting the same defense from the right?

Snopes it, dude...

take your top 10 internet 'Rushisms', and at least 8 of them are totally ficticious. Only two of them have any merit whatsoever, and even our own President has a far worse 'vocal' track record on racial issues...

and Olbemann would probably have lip blisters on his ass by now!

[MarkMiller]

Nailed it.
Please Minty, you cannot possibly believe.....NO ONE can possibly believe Rush Limbaugh was cut out of a private financial deal because of a single quote. With all the crap he has said you are being a litle disinginuise by stating this. Just a little.....but I still luv ya....because it keeps the debate going and I think there is something here. Something that people should be looking at....but are not.

[MarkMiller]

Snopes it, dude...

take your top 10 internet 'Rushisms', and at least 8 of them are totally ficticious. Only two of them have any merit whatsoever, and even our own President has a far worse 'vocal' track record on racial issues...

and Olbemann would probably have lip blisters on his ass by now!
I can't believe I am doing this but.....Olberman defended Rush, so fuck off, get sick and die quickly.

[MarkMiller]

Snopes it, dude...

take your top 10 internet 'Rushisms', and at least 8 of them are totally ficticious. Only two of them have any merit whatsoever, and even our own President has a far worse 'vocal' track record on racial issues...

and Olbemann would probably have lip blisters on his ass by now!
Snopes? Ehwwwwwww! An intellectual! Did you want to bash wikidedia as well? Rush did.....and was flat out wrong.

You know what. I'm in the mood to look at the top ten Rushisms. Let's post them here since you are suggesting it and dissect thee......shall we.

[MarkMiller]

Ok so here is the article from Newsone that is the top ten list;

It has come to my attention that some people are questioning the legitimacy of these quotes, so I have decided to source them. Every quote was found in a book or reputable website.


Here’s Our Top 10 Racist Rush Limbaugh Quotes

1. I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.

Source

Okay Rush, slavery was not a good thing for the millions of African Americans who were enslaved, raped and beaten. The streets weren’t at all safe for African Americans. Slavery not a bad thing? Someone should put Rush on a plantation for him to see how great it is. Keep on fear and race mongering Rush, you might get to Goebbels status.

2. You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed.

Source

Martin Luther King is a national hero, not a black hero. Everybody in the United States celebrates his birthday, children are taught to look up to him as a hero in school. He’s earned the respect and admiration of the world and you believe the man who killed him was a hero? This is beyond racist. This is evil, mean spirited, subhuman. Praising the assassin of one of our great American heroes is beyond the scope of regular racism.

3. Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?

Source

No, but I’ve noticed that all racist bigots think like Rush Limbaugh. Comparing a respected black politician and minister to common criminals is Jim Crow racism. Maybe all black people look alike to him, but I’ve never seen a picture of a wanted criminal that looks like Jesse Jackson. A serial killer that looks like Rush Limbaugh on the other hand.

John Wayne Gacy





4. Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on them. You stand behind Nelson Mandela — who was bankrolled by communists for a time, had the support of certain communist leaders. You go to Ethiopia. You do the same thing.

Source

The communist connection is an old way of dealing with black leaders. They used it on Martin Luther King, they’re using it on Barack Obama and Limbaugh used it on Nelson Mandela. By siding with the racist apartheid regime over a world-wide symbol of peace and freedom, Limbaugh has shown he’s a global racist.

5. Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.

Source

Limbaugh is once again fear mongering and race baiting by associating professional black athletes with criminals and gangmembers. He continues the fear mongering association of good, decent, hard working African Americans as criminals.

6. The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.

Source

Now Limbaugh is saying that an organization with a storied tradition of representing the positive black people for change in their communities are criminals and rioters. An organization that has been represented by intelligent professional African Americans, that has played a part in the Civil Rights movement and continues to be an intelligent, concerned voice for the African American community is degraded to common criminals. There you go Rush. Keep racism alive!!!!

7. They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?

Source

Decent human beings care Rush. Someone out of that 12% is the President of the United States. Not caring about black people? Even George Bush wouldn’t admit to that.

8. Take that bone out of your nose and call me back(to an African American female caller).

Source

Okay Rush that’s classy. The old African bone in the nose stereotype. Wasn’t funny when the racist white school kids called the black kids that and it’s definitely not funny when a grown man with audience of millions of easily influenced dittoheads says it either.

9. I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They’re interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there’s a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn’t deserve.

Source

I wasn’t super offended by this, the whole black quarterback/coach thing has been going on for years in sports, but the quote was so offensive that Retired General Wesley Clarke said:

There can be no excuse for such statements. Mr. Limbaugh has the right to say whatever he wants, but ABC and ESPN have no obligation to sponsor such hateful and ignorant speech. Mr. Limbaugh should be fired immediately.

When a respected, retired general condemns the statement of a sportscaster, you know he’s gone too far.

10. Limbaugh attacks on Obama. Limbaugh has called Obama a ‘halfrican American’ has said that Obama was not black but Arab because Kenya is an Arab region, even though Arabs are less than one percent of Kenya. Since mainstream America has become more accepting of African-Americans, Limbaugh has decided to play against its new racial fears, Arabs and Muslims. Despite the fact Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law school, Limbaugh has called him an ‘affirmative action candidate.’ Limbaugh even has repeatedly played a song on his radio show ‘Barack the Magic Negro’ using an antiquated Jim Crow era term for black a man who many Americans are supporting for president. Way to go Rush.

So Rush Limbaugh has managed to make racist attacks on four of the most admired and respected people of African descent in the past one hundred years, in Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Colin Powell and Barack Obama. He has called for the assassin of Martin Luther King to be given a medal, and said slavery was a good thing. He has claimed that Joe the Plumber, who isn’t even a plumber is more important in this election than Colin Powell, a decorated military veteran who has served honorably in three administrations. How can the Republican party stand by this man and let their candidates appear on his show? Rush Limbaugh’s comments are so racist, they’re funny, in a Borat, Archie Bunker kind of way. What is not funny is the millions of dittoheads who listen to him, who take in and re-spout all the racist rhetoric that he spits. Limbaugh’s statements are echoed in the racist, angry Palin/McCain supporters who shout ‘kill him,’ ‘terrorist,’ ‘communist,’ ‘traitor,’ ’socialist’ and ‘off with his head.’

[mtz]

Snopes? Ehwwwwwww! An intellectual! Did you want to bash wikidedia as well? Rush did.....and was flat out wrong.

You know what. I'm in the mood to look at the top ten Rushisms. Let's post them here since you are suggesting it and dissect thee......shall we.

Personally, I think Rush is an arrogant egomaniacal assbag...

That said,

Go ahead, document them. I'm waiting for the sound bites, video clips, etc.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/limbaugh.asp

Here is your challenge...show me video/audio proof of the internet charges/

Here's your chance to be a hero!!!

Please, go electrocute dogs or something. At least that's NFL acceptable!

[MarkMiller]

Personally, I think Rush is an arrogant egomaniacal assbag...

That said,

Go ahead, document them. I'm waiting for the sound bites, video clips, etc.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/limbaugh.asp

Here is your challenge...show me video/audio proof of the internet charges/

Here's your chance to be a hero!!!

Please, go electrocute dogs or something. At least that's NFL acceptable!
Oh no you don't. You said nearly all these quotes are wrong. Read the fucking thread you idiot. I have already established as others have that Rush probably didn't make the slavery quote. Don't drag in some sorry ass fucking troll run propaganda site like Snopes and think that settles everything.

Here are the quotes....now disprove them using Snopes.

[mtz]

Oh no you don't. You said nearly all these quotes are wrong. Read the fucking thread you idiot. I have already established as others have that Rush probably didn't make the slavery quote. Don't drag in some sorry ass fucking troll run propaganda site like Snopes and think that settles everything.

Here are the quotes....now disprove them using Snopes.

Pelosi would be proud of you. I have no idea what your issue is, and don't care. Deflection and misdirection are obviously your true talents. You claimed that admitted assbag Rush...whatever,

You provided ZERO documentation...

So, like I said, go electrocute dogs or something.

[MarkMiller]

Pelosi would be proud of you. I have no idea what your issue is, and don't care. Deflection and misdirection are obviously your true talents. You claimed that admitted assbag Rush...whatever,

You provided ZERO documentation...

So, like I said, go electrocute dogs or something.
I provided the list you spoke of oh master of the misdirection! I have been speaking about misdirection since this thread started. Now you want to accuse me of it? Buahahahahahaha! Of course you don't know what my issue is....honesty is too difficult a concept to you. Must be time to prey.....on someone. That's your cue!

[MarkMiller]

Come on candy ass, put up or shut the fuck up. Maybe God will help you out. He's on your side and nobody else's, right?

Defend your post with real research and not the crap like is on that stupid Newsone article.

Don't come here with weak and obviously short sighted discussion talking points you can't live up to!

Just do the work and shut me up!

Here....I'll help you out. I'm going to bed and will leave you alone while you disprove each quote using Snopes!

[MarkMiller]

I'm going to bed because "Fred Mertz" doesn't have a chance with that bullshit response. Google it as he asked....you'll see what "Snopes" the fucking authority in truth says here and how they "Disprove" or don't ....actually disprove anything! Buahahahahahaha! SNOPES for god's sake! Oh the humanity!:lmao2: :lmao2: :lmao2:

[mtz]

I'm going to bed because "Fred Mertz" doesn't have a chance with that bullshit response. Google it as he asked....you'll see what "Snopes" the fucking authority in truth says here and how they "Disprove" or don't ....actually disprove anything! Buahahahahahaha! SNOPES for god's sake! Oh the humanity!:lmao2: :lmao2: :lmao2:

I defer...

You have now proven without any doubt whatsoever...

that you are nuts.

I still refuse to defend Rush, but I refuse to condemn him without documentation either, which curiously hasn't shown up.

[Moby]

Snopes it, dude...

take your top 10 internet 'Rushisms', and at least 8 of them are totally ficticious. Only two of them have any merit whatsoever, and even our own President has a far worse 'vocal' track record on racial issues...

and Olbemann would probably have lip blisters on his ass by now!
Snope what?

I've listened to the man. He pushes to separate the nation through fear and hate. I'm not interested in urban legends so what do the top 10 Rushisms have to do with anything?

Why do you think this boils down to just a few quotes? It's a much bigger issue.

[SortofLiberal]

I believe there's a thread running...


This isn't about being penalized for breaking the law. This is about the players in an entertainment venue, refusing to play if a bigot is going to profit from their hard work.

If David Duke bought a broadway theatre, I'll bet that the union/players would refuse to perform there.

Just because we allow hatespeech as an inalienable right, it doesn't mean that everyone has to accept said speech.


It's the free market, dummy. Isn't that Rush's mantra?


John Gault

Well said. Funny, if it had been a liberal that wanted to have it both ways. . . disparaging those that worked in an industry and then wanting to profit from OWNING them, you can be sure those on the right would be screaming to the rafters.

I think the lady interviewed on CNN or MSNBC had it right. She said just the thought of OWNING these players made Limbaugh salivate.

Then there was the issue of how do you tell players that they will be held accountable for drug use when the man that "owns" them was not held accountable for HIS illegal drug use.

Limbaugh thinking he had the RIGHT to be involved in any kind of professional sports is absurd on its face. The man does not have the character that should be a prerequesite for having any contact with anyone in the sports industry other than a back room bookie.

Just because there are some in this country stupid enough to find his mindless banter interesting does not mean that the money he makes off his lies should afford him access to anything he wants in this country.

[Independent Harry]

The problem is not the workings of capitalism. The problem is the unsubstantiated accuastions against an individual published by so-called news organizations being allowed to influence legal financial transactions. Where is the government in this? Sitting quietly by grinning that one of their staunces critics is being slandered. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.

What is being said that isn't true about him? He's a racist, and a well documented one at that. he's a former drug addict and he hosts an ultra right talk show that blames liberals for all the ills of the world. So please point out the slanderous things that are not true that are being said.

[Life_Long_Dem!]

Despite Limbaugh’s belief that — as he whined to NBC’s Gangel — “There’s a cliché about conservatives: racist, sexist, bigot, homophobic. Now, you announce you’re a conservative, you’re automatically all those things to the critics,” it’s clear that you can still be a conservative — and even an NFL owner — without being labeled “racist, sexist, bigot, homophobic.” It’s simple, really; just don’t act like one. And as Zirin also pointed out, “This has nothing to do with Limbaugh’s conservative politics. Most NFL owners are to the right of Dick Cheney. Over twenty years, officials on twenty-three of the thirty-two NFL clubs have donated more money to Republicans than Democrats.”
It was never about right and left — and maybe was about right and wrong. Congratulations are due to the Commissioner Roger Goodell and the NFL for doing the right thing — even if it may have been for the wrong reasons. The only remaining mystery is what David Checketts — the former Madison Square Garden executive who is leading the group hoping to purchase the Rams — was smoking when he asked Limbaugh to join him in the first place.
http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2009/10/15/nfl-to-rush-you%E2%80%99re-a-dead-man-talking/
Its not about anyones politics and NEVER was...it is about how you portray yourself and the things you say.

[John Galt]

Despite Limbaugh’s belief that — as he whined to NBC’s Gangel — “There’s a cliché about conservatives: racist, sexist, bigot, homophobic. Now, you announce you’re a conservative, you’re automatically all those things to the critics,” it’s clear that you can still be a conservative — and even an NFL owner — without being labeled “racist, sexist, bigot, homophobic.” It’s simple, really; just don’t act like one. And as Zirin also pointed out, “This has nothing to do with Limbaugh’s conservative politics. Most NFL owners are to the right of Dick Cheney. Over twenty years, officials on twenty-three of the thirty-two NFL clubs have donated more money to Republicans than Democrats.”
It was never about right and left — and maybe was about right and wrong. Congratulations are due to the Commissioner Roger Goodell and the NFL for doing the right thing — even if it may have been for the wrong reasons. The only remaining mystery is what David Checketts — the former Madison Square Garden executive who is leading the group hoping to purchase the Rams — was smoking when he asked Limbaugh to join him in the first place.
http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2009/10/15/nfl-to-rush-you%E2%80%99re-a-dead-man-talking/
Its not about anyones politics and NEVER was...it is about how you portray yourself and the things you say.
I think he was just part of the same investment group as Limpy.

Conservatives all bleed green...I'm sure they loved having his money, regardless of his racial/ethnic bias.

[doctordog]

I think he was just part of the same investment group as Limpy.

Conservatives all bleed green...I'm sure they loved having his money, regardless of his racial/ethnic bias.

As the players would have. Principles are not part of professional sports, if they were many players would be out of a job like, Vick, Donte Stallworth, Tuck, pacman, Owens, Moss, Lewis, etc.

All of the steroid users in Baseball, and we haven't even started on the NBA. If liberals were concerned about principles they would start with the employees in every sport.

[MarkMiller]

I defer...

You have now proven without any doubt whatsoever...

that you are nuts.

I still refuse to defend Rush, but I refuse to condemn him without documentation either, which curiously hasn't shown up.
I was in a playful mood. LOL! But you said snopes it and I got to tell you snopes did the exact same thing as Newsone. Claim they sourced it and then really they didn't. Snopes only shows "Mixed" for true or false and bases everything on Limbaugh's own denial. That is not a source. Read the Newsone article. She claims to have sourced everything but there are no sources.

There is enough documented remarks by Rush Limbaugh because he records his shows and has been very vocal. Enough controversy surrounds the man and has since the day he started speaking over the airways in Sacramento back in the 80s. Please....he is the reason they had to install the security glass entrance at KFBK. He resigned from ESPN over racial comments.

Forget these quotes from the book and blog except for whether Limbaugh intends to sue.

I have seen some blame pointed at Wikiquotes who some believe is where the "False" quote began in 2005 before the book was published, but the claim is that an unknown isp added it. The ISP is still recorded in the history of the article but I don't think an Open source medium can be blamed unless Limbaugh can prove he asked to have it removed and it wasn't.

[MarkMiller]

OK...here is an Internet update to what is being said about the Slavery quote.

This site gives the information about the earliest posting I can find so far, which is from Wikiquotes from July 20 of 2005;
http://proteinwisdom.com/pub/?p=2963
They report (and I have confirmed from th history) that an anonymouse IP user, 69.64.213.146 is responsible for placing the Slavery quote there, however it was removed within a few weeks.

Here is the tracking info on the IP

OrgName: RCN NEW YORK COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
OrgID: RNYC
Address: 55 Broad Street
Address: 22nd Floor
City: New York
StateProv: NY
PostalCode: 10004
Country: US

Also the author of the book that used the quote is a Huffington post contributer and a disclaimer apeared on the now edited article from 2006;

Jack Huberman
Posted: July 10, 2006 01:24 PM

Rush Limbaugh is STILL Screwing Up America


Editor's Note: An earlier version of this post contained quotes attributed to Rush Limbaugh, which Limbaugh has since denied making. As is our policy when a fact in a blog post is called into question, we gave its author 24 hours to substantiate the quote. Since he has not been able to do so, the quotes have been deleted from the post.


This is the third Huffpost excerpt from my new book, 101 People Who Are REALLY Screwing America (and Bernard Goldberg is Only #73), a corrective to Goldberg's 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken is #37). Because it's of course liberals who control America and therefore are responsible for almost all of its ills, Goldberg's book included, by my count, 81 liberals, 7 minor conservatives, and 12 others. Not one member of the Bush administration. Nor one Republican member of Congress, or lobbyist, or money-man. No one responsible for the Iraq disaster; the pre-9/11 "intelligence" failures; illegal spying on Americans; sanctioning secret detention and torture; trying to subvert the Constitution by giving the president unlimited, quasi-dictatorial powers; gutting our environmental laws; rewarding polluters, strip-miners, and other land-rapers; suppressing scientific information about global warming, AIDs prevention, and consumer safety; or working to replace science education with Christian-fundamentalist claptrap. (I've got all these covered.) No--just real evildoers like Phil Donahue, Tim Robbins, Barbra Streisand, Harry Belafonte, and Jimmy Carter.
I know you've all been thinking about and praying for Rush Limbaugh a lot lately. What troubles me is the likelihood that many of you hate him despite rarely, if ever, listening to him because you just can't bear to. I quite understand. I come not to change your mind, but to confirm it.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jack-huberman/rush-limbaugh-is-still-sc_b_24724.html