More from Jim Geraghty:
Baltimore Football Fans May Quibble About His Idea of ‘Sensitivity’:
Jim Irsay, the son of the man who moved the Colts out of Baltimore in the middle of the night, tells reporters he thinks Rush Limbaugh is too “insensitive” to be an NFL owner.Because that’s what professional football, with its convicted dogfighters, wife beaters, vehicular-homicide perpetrators, steroid and drug abuse, bone-crunching hits, serious risk of injury, and nearly-naked cheerleaders is all about: sensitivity.
I hope Rush sues your collective asses off. And that the NFL has to GIVE him a team as part of the settlement. My choice? the Iggles.
F U NFL! You have lost a fan. Will.Not.Watch.Or. Purchase. Your. Crappy. Product. FU!
Limbaugh had to know he’d provoke a reaction. So why’d he do it? I await further developments.
And I hope that baseball never adopts the thuggishness that permeates the NBA and NFL.
I wonder which of the “journalists” who linked Rush to those bogus quotes will be the first to apologize.
My guess, not Michael “Giant Race-Baiting Douche-Bag” Wilbon. I can’t even watch PTI anymore and it used to be one of my favorite shows.
we stopped watching years ago, mostly because the inarticulate commentators would just spew the most incredibly obvious stuff, and make it sound so profound, and that includes John F’ing Madden. Also the commercials were coming fast and furious and games stretched to almost 4 hours. In addition, the play calling became bland, the action itself bland and the teams bland because they all began subscribing to SportThug, similar to what happened in basketball.
I’m really not surprised that billionaire owners are sucking up to the Dems and Obama…where else can they get the money for new stadiums but from taxpayers? And I’m not entirely surprised that they would look at someone like Rush, someone who believes in excellence, and not want him anywhere near the game.
Again…another reason why I remain a pessimist.
Rush has been removed as an investor…ok Stephanie, you wanna run that optimism thing by me again?
Kevin I really could care less about you or your opinions. Like I said FU NFL. Happy Kevin you font of happyness and joy.
Oh by the way Kevin, a link to a story would be nice since your the kind of guy who rolls in good news.
I really want Rush to take ownership mainly because I’d like to see if Keith Olbermann’s head explodes if the Rams draw a Monday night game after Rush takes ownership
wow…such stupid nastiness. Stephanie, I do think happy thoughts, I love this country and have lived in this country a long time. My mother’s family has been here since the early 1600s. We’ve been yeoman farmers for centuries. My father’s family came over from Ireland and were immediately swept up into the Civil War, having fled one of their own. I have raised a family here and worry about my own children’s future as I see my fellow citizens starting to vote to take from those who do, to give to those who don’t. Decades ago, I got out of the service and went to college and sat in a philosophy class, political philosophy to be exact, and the discussion group was about Marx, you know the dude you wanted me to read about, and I sat there and listened to the young assholes talk about from each according to ability to each according to need and I finally said to them, my experience is that talented people work for themselves and not necessarily for the common good, but in the end their work does indeed work for the common good. They all looked at me as if I were a monster from another planet (the exact vibe I’m getting from you simply because I profess a certain amount of pessimism) and I told them…well…how would you go about building a dynamo, pull out the Encyclopedia Brittanica?
I also wake every day and look at the structure of the society around me and just marvel at the beauty of it, at how fragile it really is, and how so few people understand how fragile it is (as in how many of you fucking people would know how to repair, let alone design a dynamo).
oh, and by the way…the report was at Big Hollywood.
Rush is threatening to sue. After that virago made the comment of him wanting to give James Earl Ray a medal, I don’t blame him.
Kevin…post 4….gonna take ownership of that or do you expect the woman to just roll over for you? I won’t do that.
Rush should sue. What happened to him was slander. He’d win it to. I am never watching another game again. In fact if anyone can find the phone number of the commissioners office or the email I’d love to tell Goodell that he lost a lifelong Packer fan. They call out Joe McArthy for telling the truth and yet they lie and slander Rush Limbaugh. Thats what McArheyism was all about only its only the left that does it.
Stephanie, gotta say on the last point I agree…I find the NFL position repellent…but then I don’t watch them already because it’s been thug football for a while. The hope might have been that Rush would introduce some civility…good lord what a misguided idea that was!
by the way, I don’t expect anyone to roll over…um…ok…there’s a certain imagery here….nevermind.
Perhaps I’ve missed something in all this Rush/Rams ruckus that’s taken place over the last few days; but, does the “N” in “NFL” still stand for “National”, or, does it now mean something else? Just curious; sometimes, my mind goes a-wandering, if you knowhutImean.
from NRO
Rush & the Civic Duty to Marginalize Conservatives [Andy McCarthy]
My friend Diana West has a terrific column on the lesson of the NFL’s hypocrisy and shabby treatment of Rush. She starts by pointing that bastion of the league’s upright, inclusive image — Keith Olbermann:
This job [i.e., Olbermann's NBC Sunday Night Football gig], now into its third season, makes Olbermann not a team owner, of course, but certainly a public face of the NFL. And a public face of the NFL with many filthy things coming out of it. These include, just sampling from recent days, his pronouncement that Limbaugh claiming his own success paved the way for Glenn Beck is “is like congratulating yourself for spreading syphilis.” We could slap a headline on that — “NFL talker compares star radio and TV conservatives with venereal disease” — except that trash talk against conservatives doesn’t generate mainstream outrage.
Take Olbermann’s noxious attack this week on Michelle Malkin for what he characterized as her “total mindless, morally bankrupt, knee-jerk, fascistic hatred without which Michelle Malkin would just be a big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it.”
Get that? Olbermann calls an accomplished and best-selling conservative author, commentator, blogger, wife and mother (who also happens to be beautiful) a “big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick,” but such dehumanizing venom doesn’t count as controversial, or even lightly strain his NBC-NFL connection. Why, at this rate, he could end up on a box of Wheaties. His comments certainly don’t rate as “divisive” or “inappropriate” – two of the coded charges leveled at Rush Limbaugh’s “public remarks” by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay that got Limbaugh’s blackball rolling in the first place.
It was all over so fast. Barely a day passed between the news that Limbaugh was bidding with Dave Checketts for the St Louis Rams and the news that Checketts was dropping Limbaugh as a partner.
But what a day. It goes down in the annals as the day the demonization of conservatism achieved not consensus, but normalcy, and the day the marginalization of conservatives became not a public sport but a civic duty.