Posted on 10/18/2009 8:01:21 AM PDT by tobyhill
Before I get to the chilling implications for free conservative speech underscored by the vicious campaign to blackball Rush Limbaugh as a potential owner of an NFL team, I want to provide a little context about the pre-existing NFL comfort zone of expression.
I will start with two words: Keith Olbermann. In addition to his nightly gig on MSNBC -- a numbing blend of Leftist politics and something approaching Tourette's Syndrome -- Keith Olbermann is a co-host of NBC's "Football Night in America," the pre-game show that leads into "Sunday Night Football." Naturally, that would be Sunday night NFL football.
This job makes Olbermann a public face of the NFL. And a public face of the NFL with many filthy things coming out of it. These include his recent 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 to venereal disease" -- only 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.
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Hard for me to boycott the NFL since I already couldn’t care less about it. Actually I do care about the NFL. I care because of their perennial conniving to steal money from me via my “representatives” to build them ever more expensive and palatial stadiums that I can’t afford to enter.
Keith Olbermann. In addition to his nightly gig on MSNBC — a numbing blend of Leftist politics and something approaching Tourette’s Syndrome .
Correct !!!!!!!
Totally agree. I’m done with the NFL! I will not even watch news reports. As far as I’m concerned, pro football is zip zero nada.
NFL???? What does that stand for?
Zero??? Why does that sound so familiar?
People in the Grand Rapids, MI area, if you do not want to watch the Lions vs. Green Bay, are invited to come to the Forest Hills Adult Community Band Concert at 2:30pm at Forest Hills Eastern HS.
The NFL is dead to me. I have priciples and will stick by them. Circuit City pissed me off 20 years ago and I haven’t been back since. Havn’t been in a k-mart either in 15 years.
It is sad to see a great thing like the NFL, a castle of Macho men,bow to lefty wimps. They ban Rush, but let convicted felons play on thier teams. And they dont even see the double standard before them.
My beloved Steelers took to their knees before Obama. The Art Rooney thanked Obama before he thanked his own players when they won the Super Bowl.
The left is like cancer. Once the infect a thing, they kill it.
I emailed NBC about this...have you?
We need to deluge the NFL with emails. Let’s boycott it until they apologize on the air to Rush, and fire Keith Olbermann.
That’s what it will take for me to watch it again. Considering that more men than women watch the NFL, and that men support the Republican party and are more conservative than women, we can make a big dent into the NFL’s profits until they see the light. I hate to do this as I love to watch NFL games, but what will it take for us to start reversing the way we are heading as a country?
“Totally agree. I’m done with the NFL!”
I’m sorry to say, but I feel that way pretty much about all ‘professional’ sports, with the possible exception of baseball (which still has plenty of problems). Instead of professional sports helping to transform unfortunate youth from tough backgrounds into productive ‘stand up’ members of society, the opposite appears to be occurring, with the stature of professional sports diminished.
I left the NFL when the real Browns left Cleveland.....
.....Professional sports has become nothing but a racket for wealthy people to bilk the public for expensive stadiums.
I don't have anything against being wealthy, but I do have a problem with building luxury stadiums that never pay for themselves with my hard earned money.
Millions of American men have become passive sheep through their obsession with professional sports. There is nothing manly or masculine about sitting on your ass watching other men play games. It is the opposite of masculine. Get off your butts and do your duty by your family, yourself, your country.
American men will spend more time watching, analyzing, arguing sports than they do about what’s happening with their country and their families future. Professional sports has become nothing but a soap opera for men. A grand circus to keep us distracted from real life.
What happpened this past week should be a wake up call. The NFL is a part of the rotten establishment. Those who speak the truth are not welcome.
The over-paid, over-indulged semi-literates that comprise the majority of the NFL will get neither my money nor my interest. College football all the way!
I’d rather watch Top Chef re-runs. In my humble opinion, both HS and collage football are much more entertaining.
A nationwide boycott of the NFL may have more hope of succeeding if it is concentrated on the NBC Sunday night game of the week. Many people will be happy to tune out the likes of Keith Olbermann with the knowledge they are doing damage to NBC and in turn will cause turmoil in the NFL offices.
Being from Michigan a boycott of the Detroit Lions is almost unrecognizable.
The whole “professional sports” thing is a huge distraction reminiscent of the mobs rampaging through the streets of Rome demanding more “bread and circuses” — while the barbarians stormed the gates.
Ask the folks who attend these things which is their favorite team and stats on their favorite players and they’ll do 15 minutes. Ask them who their congressional representative is and MOST of them will return a blank stare. Ask them to name 6 of the men who signed the Declaration and they begin to drool.
We have brought about our destruction the old fashioned way: We’ve EARNED it!
I’ve decided to go to a gun show instead of watching football.
I wish they wouldn’t conflate the 1st Amendment with all free speech issues.
The government did not curtail Limbaugh’s free speech (as far as we know) so it is not a 1st Amendment issue.
Free speech counters free speech.
Boycotting is the purest form of free speech.
Hello, my name is pack29172 and I am a Green Bay Packer fanatic...
I am now a recovering fanatic and will be for the rest of my life. After 38 years of solid addiction to all things NFL, I know it will not be easy, but I also know it is really for the best. Not one peek will I ever take at any NFL game again. Not one more dime will be spent with anything NFL on it. At least my golf game is going to pick up. There really is a kind a freedom I feel when I say it...Goodbye NFL, but it really does hurt.
No, we don't need to revise history, that is what the left does, we just need to TEACH it better.
Well said. I agree 100%.
I don’t watch pro football. And never will. I wish all the conservative fans would boycott the games and the games on t.v.
I wonder what would be said if Rush bought a NASCAR race car.
Amen. What you said.
Who was the coach who said it stands for “not for long”. He coached the Oilers, always dressed in black, drove a black Corvette and always left tickets at “will call” for Elvis.
Well said. While the Marxist worked day and night over the last 40 years to destroy this country America went to football games(and I know everybody didn’t, but you know what I’m sayin’).
Jerry Glanville
Good article, but I would have added that players, too, are some of the “faces” of the NFL—and there we see gangsters, wife-beaters, wife-killers, rapists, and dog abusers, among other criminal activities. In some ways, Rush was really too good for this “club.”
3 1/2 hours too watch 12 to 15 minutes of action.. the clock is running, they walk to the line of scrimmage.. the clock is running... they finally snap the ball... the clock is running.. the play is over in 3-4 seconds... some guy does a dance... the clock is still running... they walk back to the huddle.. the clock is still running.. they walk back to the line of scrimmage.. they snap the ball.. throw it .. if it's caught in the end zone... the clock will actually stop but some guy will dance again... they line up for about a second of action the kick the ball through the uprights for an automatic outcome.. they break for 5 minutes of commercials... they kick the ball off ... they might take a knee ... go to commercial again... then the running clock.. the dances.. the huddles... the same thing all over again. - Bob Eimiller
God Bless you pack29172! Better to go without evil than to feel it’s temptation and succumb to it.
precisely the reason I stopped watching Professional Sports a long time ago. I refuse to watch a bunch of overpaid, glorified ,Gang Banger type Thugs. not to mention probably the most racist bunch of losers I have ever seen. Still curious as to why the EEOC hasn’t initiated criminal proceedings against most major pro sports teams, they are obviously RACIST when you look at the percentages of whites to non-whites. in the end it will be the NFL and their sponsors, as well as the State controlled media outlets that carry their tripe, that will lose.
Diana West has analyzed the problem correctly. This isn't just about the NFL. I've been watching this trend for years and under Obama’s emerging totalitarian rule it's reached critical mass.
There is a clearly orchestrated government/media campaign to stifle conservative speech. The latest evidence is right here on FR today. Axelrod claims Fox News “isn’t really news,” and the noxious “journalist” Jacob Weisner claims in Newseek that “Fox News isn’t just bad. It’s Un-American.” This was preceded by the demonization of the Tea Party movement and similar long-term strategies to delegitimize public conservative thought.
Budding dictatorships can’t stand a lot of honest scrutiny. People like Limbaugh and Beck are real burs under the Progressive saddle. Since American voters were gulled into turning over all the controls and powers of government to these Brownshirts and bullies, this is just the public relations/propaganda campaign to convince the public that the content of the airwaves needs to be controlled, meaning free conservative speech will be repressed.
Call me nuts but I’m convinced the timing of the economic crash just before the elections was no accident. And I’m convinced that this bunch of thugs will use any and all means at their disposal to not only silence opposing speech but to do their best to make sure that all future elections are somehow rigged in their favor.
He would be WELCOMED.. and I think we all know why.
Meh...probably not a wife beater or anyone that tortures dogs in the entire band.
Both = moral decay and decline
I love FR. I was about to post those exact same words in some form or another. Thanks for doing it for me! I can even be lazy in my protests! LOL!
I don’t mind football but I certainly don’t plan my life around it. I can’t afford to go to a game even if someone gives me free tickets. The cost of parking would kill me! I sure hate it when I have to pay even more taxes for the stadiums. And I’m in KC Chiefs territory. Why on earth would anyone want to put more money on them?
Yes, but I think the plot runs much deeper than that. Try the name Soros for starters.
‘Jerry Glanville’
One of my favorites! I remember him doing color commentary for a season, after his coaching stint was over. He didn’t seem to sugar coat anything and he didn’t seem to be on the next season either.
Sung to the tune of “Short People”
Rush Limbaugh got no reason
Rush Limbaugh got no reason
Rush Limbaugh got no reason
To live—
He thinks all kinds of thoughts
That should be illegal to think.
He’s got conservative viewpoints,
And his skin’s colored pink
We’re polite and refined here in the NFL
For him to be included
Would put us through hell.
Well, we don’t want no Rush Limbaugh
Don’t want no Rush Limbaugh
Don’t want no Rush Limbaugh
‘round here
You can have booze, guns, or drugs,
Or get with a prostitute
A bitch you can beat,
A dog you can electrocute.
You can shoot, stab or maim,
And still be a star,
You can punch out a cripple
Or run’em over in your car
But we—
Don’t want no Rush Limbaugh
Don’t want no Rush Limbaugh
Don’t want no Rush Limbaugh
‘round here
You don’t criticize a black man
‘cause that’s straight up racist-
You cracker-ass white boys
Need to re-learn your places.
You must treat us with kid gloves
But we can spit in your faces.
And we—
Don’t want no Rush Limbaugh
Don’t want no Rush Limbaugh
Don’t want no Rush Limbaugh
‘round here
McCarthyism’s evil-that’s what people say.
Never heard of “irony”
Must ‘ve skipped school that day.
Yo-we do as we please-
Y’all just shut up and pay.
And we damn sure—
Don’t want no Rush Limbaugh
Don’t want no Rush Limbaugh
Don’t want no Rush Limbaugh
‘round here
No more NFL for this household.
“Today is a great day to remind the NFL how they make their money, by taking it away.”
Well said.
Rush is watching this weekend. Hard to boycott under those circumstances.
So far, i’m just boycotting the Cults and the Rahms. We’ll see who else wants to join them. Go Oilers!
If Limbaugh is watching any NFL games, then he is a fool. This is, however, more than about Limbaugh. If he be the victim of a leftist, racist smear campaign, then anyone can since most do not have the money or the public forum to fight back effectively.
I did note an irony that in today’s Sunday paper, the cover boy of Parade magazine is none other than Roger Goodell, who is praised for his “tough” stand on several NFL bad-boys all of whom, I predict, will be back in the league within a couple of years (Vick, of course, is already back.) The NFL, to be consistent, should have banned Vick for life. I’m not against second chances mind you; Vick could get a job digging ditches and, in the process, finding out about what real work is like. That would be a real “teachable moment” as some leftist phony asshole recently stated about another leftist-created issue.
Rush said on Friday that he would continue to be a fan of pro football, although he also seemed gratified that some people were considering a boycott. He can’t have it both ways. If he is angry enough about it to boycott the league, then I would think about it. As it is, I don’t watch Sunday Night Football when Olbermann is on, and I am thinking about not watching SNF at all. That is about Olbermann, not Rush.
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