Phone #: 212-450-2000
Posted on 10/14/2009 8:29:09 PM PDT by STARWISE
Amid scrutiny from numerous decision makers in the NFL community, Dave Checketts released a statement on Wednesday announcing Rush Limbaugh has been dropped from the group seeking to purchase the St. Louis Rams.
When it was revealed Limbaugh was part of the group to buy the Rams last week, several people, including NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, stated their ambivalence with the conservative radio personality having stock in the league.
Checketts, also the owner of the St. Louis Blues, has decided to move forward on the bid without Limbaugh in the mix, according to the St. Louis Post- Dispatch, seemingly as a result of the controversy.
"Rush was to be a limited partner - as such, he would have had no say in the direction of the club or in any decision regarding personnel or operations. This was a role he enthusiastically embraced," Checketts said in the statement obtained by the paper.
"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.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Phone #: 212-450-2000
NOTHING in ths Statement about his consulting with Rush without going public, the usual “we have agreed that for the benefit of the group and the team, blah blah blah.”
As noted earlier, his show ends at 3p EDT, and the announcements started coming out at 4p. Double wuss.
I am seriesly ticked off.
Can’t Rush sue for slander? Could have made a lot of $ with his share of the team. Bankrupt Al and Jessee.
Sissified white guys running the NFL, the players hate and take whitey cash, and vote Dem to steal whitey earnings.
And most white guys in America don't care.
By the way, how do any of the gods of Political Correctness know what kind of eeeeeevil raaaaaaaaacist thoughts the current owners harbor in their hearts?
Or what kind of eeeeeevil raaaaaacist thoughts their opponents harbor in their hearts? Hmmmmmmm?
What do you all know? What do you really know?
Who knows ... we’ll probably be reading
about the new Race Czar next.
This group makes me more nauseous and
furious every .. single .. damn .. day.
I heard Michael Medved say today that one of the other partners is George Soros. WTF?
I hate, hate, hate racism, and clearly, it’s almost entirely owned by the Left.
Oh, shoot. Don’t give The One any ideas. The Race Czar will be appointed next.
Sounds like the author needs to look up the meaning of the word "ambivalence" before he uses it again.
If they want to blow a really good thing; they just did.
RUSH has suffered a massive loss of millions as a direct result of their lies and slander. RUSH: SUE EVERY ONE OF THEM BACK TO THE STONE AGE and I/WE mean EVERY ONE!
RUSH, do not play “Mr. Niceguy”, and let this go unanswered... they are out to DESTROY YOU AND EVERYTHING YOU BELIEVE AND STAND FOR and they will continue to do so unless and until you teach them all a VERY COSTLY LESSON for their lying and slander.
It was copyrighted by the Democrat Party 160 years ago when they became the party of Slavery, and they have demonstrated even in my lifetime that they can switch on a dime deal that race card equally well from either end of the deck.
They are also very adept at dealing the class and sex cards as well, and from either side of the deck.
Give the Democrat credit. They are really good at the divide and conquer propaganda and as long as they have power and access to the public treasury, they don't really give a damn what their propaganda does to the fabric of the nation.
Fire Jane Skinner.
The NFL is a racist enterprise...
If I were Rush, I would get some other guys together and make a competing bid. He may not get the Rams but he can certainly cost these buttholes some money.
I don’t think he’ll go after the NFL or any of the slanderers. He’s doing fine just the way he is. He’s an entertainer who likes money, and he’s making plenty.
| NEW YORK KNICKS | 3/29/94 | $1,000 | Romney, Mitt (R) | |
| CHECKETTS, DAVID NEW CANAAN,CT 06840 |
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN | 6/14/99 | $1,000 | Giuliani, Rudolph W (R) |
| CHECKETTS, DAVID NEW CANAAN,CT 06840 |
SPORTS CAPITAL PARTNERS/CHAIRMAN | 11/3/06 | $1,000 | Lieberman, Joe (I) |
| CHECKETTS, DAVID NEW CANAAN,CT 06840 |
SCP WORLDWIDE/CHAIRMAN | 4/8/08 | $1,000 | Leavitt, David O (R) |
| CHECKETTS, DAVID MR NEW CANAAN,CT 06840 |
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN | 5/18/99 | $1,000 | Bradley, Bill (D) |
| Checketts, David W New Canaan,CT 06840 |
5/29/08 | $20,400 | Republican National Cmte (R) | |
| CHECKETTS, DAVID W NEW CANAAN,CT 06840 |
MADISON SQUARE GARDE | 10/26/00 | $20,000 | DNC/Non-Federal Unincorporated Assn Acct (D) |
| CHECKETTS, DAVID W NEW CANAAN,CT 06840 |
SPC LLC | 12/1/03 | $2,000 | Reid, Harry (D) |
| CHECKETTS, DAVID W NEW CANAAN,CT 06840 |
SPC LLC | 12/1/03 | $2,000 | Reid, Harry (D) |
| CHECKETTS, DAVID W NEW CANAAN,CT 06840 |
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN | 1/31/01 | $1,000 | Schumer, Charles E (D) |
| CHECKETTS, DAVID W NEW CANAAN,CT 06840 |
NEW YORK KNICKS | 12/28/93 | $1,000 | Peterson, Grethe B (D) |
| CHECKETTS, DAVID W NEW CANAAN,CT 06840 |
SELF EMPLOYED/ENTREPRENEUR | 3/3/08 | $500 | Chaffetz, Jason (R) |
| CHECKETTS, DAVID W NEW CANAAN,CT 06840 |
3/6/94 | $-400 | Peterson, Grethe B (D) | |
| CHECKETTS, DAVID W MR NEW YORK,NY 10022 |
SPORTS CAPITAL PARTNERS/CHAIRMAN | 10/31/08 | $28,500 | National Republican Senatorial Cmte (R) |
| CHECKETTS, DAVID W MR NEW CANAAN,CT 06840 |
SPORTS CAPITAL PARTNERS/CHAIRMAN | 10/31/07 | $4,600 | Giuliani, Rudolph W (R) |
| CHECKETTS, DAVID W MR NEW CANAAN,CT 06840 |
INFORMATION REQUESTED PER BEST EFFO | 5/31/08 | $2,300 | McCain, John (R) |
| CHECKETTS, DAVID W MR NEW CANAAN,CT 06840 |
INFORMATION REQUESTED PER BEST EFFO | 5/31/08 | $2,300 | McCain, John (R) |
| CHECKETTS, DAVID W MR NEW CANAAN,CT 06840 |
SPORTS CAPITAL PARTNERS/CHAIRMAN | 10/31/07 | $-2,300 | Giuliani, Rudolph W (R) |
It doesn’t work that way. He can’t just make a competing bid. The sale has to be approved by the NFL board of governors.
PAGING MICHAEL VICK!
PAGING MICHAEL VICK!
PAGING MICHAEL VICK!
PLEASE CALL NFL HEADQUARTERS ...
Nam Vet
There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
Booker T. Washington
Would you please stop spamming all the Rush thread with this stupid crap!
This (below) is spam??? Your comments are paste & puffery.
Vick plays NFL Sundays but Rush is persona non grata. Why should I not make this point on relevant threads??
Do you seriously suggest that it is clogging up threads??
Waa. Waa. Waa.
PLEASE CALL NFL HEADQUARTERS ...
Yep .. I’ve read up on him ... he’s quite
the slick operator. Kinda reminded me of
the John Edwards type . Mormon, supposedly
squeeky clean, then does ‘off image’ and he
fires one of his best friends and employees
over dessert at dinner without a thought
or apology.
Check him out.
Have you ever seen anything lie this before? A full scale assault on one individual for the sole purpose of taking him out of a business enterprise based purely on lies about racial statements he never uttered?
It seems to me that Obama has all but erupted racial warfare in our country and personally, I think that might be intentional.
You have posted that stupid paging Michael Vick crap on every Rush/NFL thread. Yes, it is spam. By a frickin clue, joke boy.
It is NOT about the money, it IS about protecting his good name and being slandered as a RACIST and losing his livelihood as a direct result of lies and slander.
He had better go after EVERY ONE of these libelous liars, EVEN IN THE NFL. He must hit and hurt them in the only place they care about... their wallets and pocketbooks. Every one of them will be groveling because they have stepped in the poo BIG TIME. RUSH can not be like President George Bush and sit idly by while his critics walked all over him and labeled him with things that were not true. RUSH has been libeled, slandered and lied about all over the national air waves with the result being that he has been removed from the consortium that is in the process of buying the Rams and he can not afford to let this go unanswered because his reputation and good name have been sullied and he has lost tens, maybe even HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of dollars in potential earnings as a direct result of their lies and slander. He has been labeled a RACIST, he can not let that stand.
Heck, I bet RUSH has a bevy of uber lawyers who have lined up to take on the case for a reduced rate or for free because he is so beloved and this crime is so egregious.
“Public figures” have a very difficult time successfully suing for slander.
http://www.expertlaw.com/library/personal_injury/defamation.html#3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_figure
It can be done successfully but is very hard. Also it is important to realize that law is political. Rush would have a hard time getting a fair hearing in the federal court system, IMO.
He does have the resources to grind down defndants with attorneys fees, etc., and frankly I hope he does so.
& FURTHERMORE ...
When has it ever been ‘spammery’ to post similar singular replies to serial threads that are to do with the same or similar themes??
Even is so, what is the great burden to you - the fragile reader of such ‘burdensome’ epistles?
I’ve researched CHECKETTS. After graduation, he went to work for Bain and Co., the company co-founded by Mitt Romney. Cozy, huh?
You really need to get a clue. Seriously. The mods call out spammers all the time, fool.
All the things they claim he "said" are pure BS. He's on the air 15 hours per week, and if he said the things they claimed he said, they'd have it on tape. But they don't, because he didn't say it. He's got them there.
But most of the publik will believe he "said" it, because they don't pay attention, and they were "told" he said it.
That's the way it is. Most will believe what they're told to believe.
Boycott.
Watch NFL revenues take a hit similar to the Dixie Chicks.
Leave the stadiums solely to the population segments that have made Detroit, Chicago, LA and New Orleans what they are.
Or cave in and buy politically correct crap.
It won’t be the first time bread, circuses and self indulgent mobs destroyed a mighty power.
Ohh ... your Lordship.
I am, indeed, so unaware of the FR ethos these past 12 years.
I beg your forgiveness for wishing to posit on serial threads (that may be read by quite different surfers) comments that make the same or similar posts.
That is all quite different from spam.
Even so, why would these singular posts on diverse threads - even if spam (which they are not) - so annoy you?
Pray tell, what are your so delicate sensitivities? What, in secular terms, are your actual complaints?
Michale Vick is a torturer of animals welcome in the NFL, but Rush the commentator is not. This you abide??
Please explain such a cunnundrum as this.
OH, I think he will and really SHOULD sue.
What’s your reputation worth? How do you get it back? Unless you have been personally slandered for the only purpose of destroying your reputation, you cannot imagine what it is like.
Countless people went on tv, were interviewed for the papers, etc., accusing him of something he did NOT say.
It’s not about money any more. He doesn’t need it. But he absolutely should relieve each and every one of them of theirs.
Yes he can, with the best lawyers, and he had better! Don’t let me down Rush, sue the hell out of them.
The more places I find Romney scat the more I loathe the empty suit.
He will be the GOP nominee in 2012 unless the party apparatchiki are sent to Siberia.
This could be his best fight yet, making the media do the perp walk or is it perv walk? Something like that.
No. He said he had to draw a line in the sand. He is going to screw them. And hopefully that will help the rest of us who are called terrorists and racists for being conservative.
You are so right.
Yeah, but he’s a public figure, so that slander thing gets into a grey area. Imagine if he got sued every time he did a well-deserved slam on a Nancy Pelosi or a Hairy Reed or a Barack Hussein. He’d be out of business soon. And maybe it will come to that.
Well I’ll be waiting to see that happen. Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t mind seeing it. But...I won’t be holding my breath.
You are thankfully so wrong. This is easily proven slander, and the damages are his inability to buy some thing he wanted.
Saw a couple of lawyers on BOR tonight, they both said he had a case. So did BOR. He said Rush should sue and give the money to a charity.
Pure slander, repeated. Rush said the other day they were working behind the scenes, and I can’t wait for the big time lawyers to come out with their big guns. Enough of this crap! They are labeling all conservatives, even we the peons as terrorists and racists, and Rush can help stop it
That is why he has to sue and will. For ME! Damn it I am sick and tired of the left weenies sticking it to conservatives just because they are.
He's a good business man, and he knows how to weigh whether or not it's worth that kind of fight.
And I'll bet he's got his contingency plan in order. If he has to he will be on his private jet out of here to a neutral country. Before they arrest him. Rush gots the bucks.
Nice...i’ll be calling him!
WOW!
Bingo you are right on!
I truly hope I am wrong. Rush clearly has a good case, but having a case and winning a case are very different things in my experience. But if you heard two lawyers on TV say it would be a cinch then surely it must be so.
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