Posted on 10/14/2009 5:53:11 PM PDT by Biggirl
The "race card" game is still alive and active, with the recent treatment of Rush has proven.
It really is outrageous. Right from the first charge we posted Monday. The formula is familiar … spread lies … here … and here … and my favorite, here. Then put pressure on the NFL management to act, responsibly, or face the same fate ….. raaaaaaaacist. The end result … Rush is being forced out.
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.
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Maybe a few season ticket holders should boycott the games until they get a more representative fabric of America playing the games. This whole race matter is rediculous and is driving many of us crazy since it’s largely driven by the left.
Goodell is a wimp and ESPN is a bunch of over-paid jock-sniffers. Rush is a patriot and a genius, and infinitely more important than either ESPN or the NFL.
Yep, Rush needs to haul these folks rear ends into court. Every single ONE of them!!
That is it. No more crap football by steroid freaks way over paid . I’m out.
This racist stuff from the left was despicable.
That didn’t take long. All it took was Jesse and Al to get it shut down-or,should I say,shook down....
college ball is way better anyways
Assuming this is true, maybe he ought to just put his own group together and go bid against this bunch of spineless wussies.
I expect to see Rush’s lawyers at it tomorrow. Big time.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2009/10/14/bozell-cnn-msnbc-i-hope-you-have-good-lawyers
Bozell to CNN, MSNBC: I Hope You Have Good Lawyers
“CNN and MSNBC were given ample opportunity to come clean, but both are continuing to masquerade malicious lies [against Rush Limbaugh] as credible,” Media Research Center President and NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell said in a statement today.
Yesterday, Bozell promised to report back publicly with how CNN and MSNBC responded to his challenge to put up – or shut up – proof that Rush Limbaugh actually stated the racist quote that both cable networks attributed to him as fact, or to immediately retract and apologize for their participation in spreading an outlandish lie.
Talk show giant Limbaugh denied having ever stated, “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.” Further, it has been established that this was a fabrication pushed through the Internet, intentionally designed to destroy Mr. Limbaugh’s reputation at a time he is attempting to purchase a professional football team.
In addition to this public call to action, Mr. Bozell overnighted letters to CNN President Jonathan Klein and MSNBC President Phil Griffin to ensure both took the matter seriously. Both CNN and MSNBC failed to respond appropriately.
Roger Goodell has no courage. no guts. no spine.
Yep, you got it, I am DONE WITH THE NFL! College football, here I come! Go UConn!!!!
It is especially despicable when a.) they know it's not true or b.) they don't want to know that it's not true and, therefore, make no effort to check out its veracity.
This particular event is one of the best demonstrations yet of the absolute and total corruption of the media by liberalism.
I would. Especially sanchez
Go Ohio State !
I had to look at your name closely.
first, I read it as “bi girl”
then I noticed the extra g. LOL
shows where my mind has been. haha. jk
Oh I don’t think there’s any doubt he’s going after these pigs.....and there’s no doubt he’ll win....I’m watching Hannity and he’s got this asshole from ESPN on who keeps trying to say he’s not racist but Rush is....what a jerk!
And he’s married to Jane Skinner - Fox needs to remove her!
I just turned them off. Only mindless idolaters watch now.
This is a shame. Al Sharpen is a racist, but I guess only blacks can be racists and get away with it.
This is both a political war and a culture war, with Obama in the center.
The NFL Owners are an exclusive club. They get to vote on who can own a team. It won't matter what Rush does, if the owners vote no, it's no.
Not saying it's right, it's just the way it is.
Counter Insurgency.....
The NFL is Racist....we need more Chinese running backs and Mexican receivers.
What can a Black fullback do that a Sumo Wrestler can’t do ? Have you seen what a Sumo wrestler in a 4 pt stance can do ? Wow ! Oh.....Sumo’s are Japanese ? Nevermind.
And those Mexicans running across the Border, dodging border police, zig zagging around Cactus, submarining across the Rio Grande, bringing in Drugs to ...Oops, nevermind.
We need a more diverse NFL, maybe some more Somoans or Eskimos, throw in some more white guys, and limit the Black players to 20 % of the Team.
We need exact representation of the population norms.
Gee, are you sure those Sumo guys are not Chinese ? They all look the same, ya know ?
college ball is way better anyways
Yeah, the NFL instituted "Cap and Trade" back in '94 as a way to make the market for players "more fair".
I'm surpised that Rush would want to have anything to do with it.
Then, even if you get past all that - you have to get to damages, which, will probably be negative if this works the way it usually does, as Rush turn the entire controversy in his favor.
Al Sharpton’s organization is being investigated by a Brooklyn grand jury. And I wonder if the dumbass ever paid the defamation judgment the Dutchess County District Attorney got against him. I seriously doubt it.
I have enjoyed watching both the Pats and the Giants for a number of years, since I live in CT,but this race card/Rush nonsense has turned me off to the NFL. Yet no problems with a member of the Black Eye Peas buying a percentage of the Miami Dolphins. What a bunch of hypocrits BIGTIME.
Go UConn!
I been done with the NFL money grubbers. College is a better game.
Now that is, If iwas Rush, and Im not. I would drop support and monies to the NFL, AFL, AND OTHER professional football
franchises. period. Not watch another game, and go after these Sharpton and Jackson nitwits with lawsuits. I quit years ago supporting pro football because of the immorality, unprofessionalism, and the lack of integrity it displays in the minds of our young kids today.
You do not try to derail someone’s career with viscous attacks like what Rush was subjected to. So best wishes to Rush for standing up to these clowns and to those who have slandered him, better have some good lawyers.
You said it! Another pro sports group dropped!
Well, when you note that not one NFL or NBA player can even write their own name, much less speak correct english, you begin to realize that these morons are grossly over-paid for their ability. They are societal misfits with criminal records - Gee,... Ray Lewis comes to mind- and are an embarrassment.
And his wife is the least hot reporterette on FNC.
I think also at one time, there was a national gossip newspaper, National Enquirer that got sued by a number of famous people for printing false stuff about them and they WON.
It was pretty much my point that in order to sue for libel or slander - he has a very difficult standard to meet because he is a public figure. If he had been an anonymous investor and the same torrent of false information had been unloaded on him, he would have a relatively easy time. But in US law - as decided by the SCOTUS in 1963 (the Sullivan case)- being a “public figure” makes all the difference in the world.
See post number 35.
There could be more “Right Wing” owners in the NFL than we know. I don’t know what is going on behind the scenes but it’s possible that this isn’t over yet.
Black conservatives need to feign outrage at the “MSM” for not reporting these things at the time they were said..accuse them of covering up for Rush. This would put the MSM in a bind to either look incompetent, racist, unprofessional or like they just repeated the quotes out of pure hatred.
Ordinarily, you’d be correct, however, there are a couple of differences in this case. First there is no attribution for the quotes. The slander occurred when they echoed the comments of others without doing due diligence to make sure the information is correct. Second, they were put on notice by Rush that these comments were false and that Wiki still notes these as “under dispute” they cannot use that as a cover once they have been put on notice. In the case of the National Enquirer, this is exactly what happened. I see the biggest exposure to Sharpton and Jackson. They could be in for some real problems. In any event, SUE THE B@$TARDS!!!
I’d have to go back an look at those cases, IIIRC they were based on invasion of privacy or false light, not libel. What’s interesting is that different countries have very different standards, and, for instance you see a lot of libel actions brought in the UK, because the standard there is much easier for plaintiff’s to meet. Liberace actually sued a British publication for insinuating that he was gay. I think he was awarded ~$600K in damages. What the defendants did once he subsequently died of AIDS, I don’t know.
I agree, I hope Rush sues and wins!
CNN has damaged Rush Limbaugh’s chances of purchasing part ownership of a business by falsely reporting on air (to dozens of viewers)that Rush said things that he didn’t. Rush deserves an apology and money damages.
This is what we call “libel” and “slander”. Rush should sue.
Yeah - but let’s face it - what is due diligence for an ESPN on the air “reader”? A. Nothing. The standard is non-existent. They can blame it on the teleprompter.
Most of what I heard was an echo chamber effect where they were reporting what Sharpton had said (which was clearly false), or were making a reference to the general level of controversy without asserting a specific quote.
I agree that once they were on notice, specific notice, and they continue to assert this kind of falsehood, that reckless indifference is essentially malice.
At the same time - think the the aftermath of Tawana Breawly. I think the DA up there, who got a judgment, has yet to see anything out of Sharpton of Maddox.
Mark Levin reported on his radio show that G.Soros is also a minority owner in the Checkett group to purch. the rams..
and from the left....crickets..on a guy part of a group to dismantle the USA
The left still has their panties in a wad over communist writers who were blacklisted in 1940's and 50's Hollywood. One would think that an honorable leftist would remember this and speak out against the blacklisting of conservatives in free market commerce.
Oops, I forgot. There are no honorable leftists.
The NFL has n’t been worth a darn since the days of Bert Bell and Pete Rossele. Miss Bednarik ,Gison Summeral,Lynn Swann ,Gino Marchetti,Greir and all the real greats.
Being the businessmen that they are, will they choose to deal with all that and allow Rush in, just to make a political statement, or will they walk away?
The NFL has n’t been worth a darn since the days of Bert Bell and Pete Rossele. Miss Bednarik ,Gison Summeral,Lynn Swann ,Gino Marchetti,Greir and all the real greats.
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