Rush Limbaugh thrown out of the game
Rush Limbaugh won't get a chance to buy the Rams. Image from Picasa.
About a week ago, Rush Limbaugh and St. Louis Blues hockey team owner Dave Checketts announced they were part of a group who would submit a bid to buy the St. Louis Rams. They didn’t say who else was in the group, only that they had an agreement with Goldman Sachs. I don’t know whether they were seeking hard money loans from Goldman Sachs or just more investors.
However, now Checketts, the man who first joined Limbaugh in publicly announcing their intention to buy the team, has announced Limbaugh has been kicked out of the group. Despite the short time period that elapsed between these two announcements, it’s no surprise.
All opposed, raise your voices
The NFL Players Association publicly announced that they were opposed to Limbaugh buying the team. Prominent public figures including the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton urged the NFL not to accept a bid from Rush Limbaugh. The NFL commissioner said he probably wouldn’t.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee said in a House floor speech that the NFL should “show some integrity” by not allowing him to own a team. A host of other NFL team owners said they wouldn’t vote to accept his bid. An online petition, housed at rushisracist.com, circulated asking people sign it if they didn’t want Rush Limbaugh involved in the NFL.
Business is business
Clearly, Checketts and the other anonymous partners in the group seeking to buy the Rams are serious about doing business, because after all the controversy, they did the most logical thing. Clearly they just wanted to make a business deal, not get swept up in the polical firestorm that follows Rush Limbaugh everywhere he goes.
Most people who opposed selling to Limbaugh said it was because they believe he is racist. They cited quotes he’d said on his own show about the merits of slavery and Obama reminding him of a monkey. Rush Limbaugh’s relationship with the NFL first went sour when he left a job as a commentator on ESPN after he said Donovan McNabb was only hailed as a good quarterback because he is black, and outrage ensued.
On his show today, Rush Limbaugh said “This is about the ongoing effort by the left in this country, wherever you find them, in the media, the Democratic party, or wherever, to destroy conservatism.”
Wow – Rush Limbaugh really is that dense. What a narcissistic pig. He really thinks it’s because of his rather unlettered version of conservativism (closer to fascism and South Africa’s version of democracy from a few decades ago, but that’s beside the point) is unpopular, not because he acts absolutely unconscionably for a living – wow. He really DOESN’T get the memo.
The point the NFL was trying to make was that their owners, teams, and players are supposed to be role models to the general public, even if they don’t do the greatest job at it at times. If it were just his unpopularity, then Al Davis would have been gone long ago.
It seems to me that all the negative vibes this blowhard (Rush Hudson Limbaugh A.KA. Jeff Christie) has been spewing over these many years has come back to blow back on his face (A classic “Blow Back”). He always tries to give off the airs that he can have anything he wants but as we all witness those with more money and more influence tossed him aside like sack of potatoes and the ultimate insult was that it was done in public (money don’t buy you everything butterball).
Now of course he blames everyone else (Michael J. Fox, Perez Hilton, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Sonia Sotomayor, Hillary Clinton, Olympia Snowe, ESPN, NFL, the media, basically people of color, the handicapped, women and gays) when of course all you have to do is listen to his show and plainly hear his daily prejudices filled sermons. So NFL, I salute you decision, job well done. And to the whaling cry baby perched on his self made pedestal, quit your whining it was your own fault. Don’t we all feel better?
The NFL decides who becomes an owner not the other way around.
All this blowhard (Rush Hudson Limbaugh A.KA. Jeff Christie) has to offer is his money and his opinions, which in my opinion are on the fringes of racism (one mans opinion). There are many more groups biding for the Rams, not just his group. Lets face it there are more men with money that will gladly fill the slot and the Rams will win or lose depending on how well the team works together and not on whether or not Rush is an owner.
As for Vick, well he is a player (he has talent not like you, Rush or I, unless you are a NFL player?) and he served his time and the NFL decided we live in the land of second chances, so why not (I personally don’t like it but, oh well). Life has never been fair (NEWS FLASH!)
Now as to the “Free Speech” argument, I guess many of you like myself heard Rush on Thursday “Almost in tears”, priceless. But the last two days he now is in his normal ranting and will continue until someone surpasses him, “Free Speech” continues, so quit your whining.