Posted on 10/17/2009 3:00:02 AM PDT by lt.america
David Checketts, an investor and owner of sports teams, approached me in late May about investing in the St. Louis Rams football franchise. As a football fan, I was intrigued. I invited him to my home where we discussed it further. Even after informing him that some people might try to make an issue of my participation, Mr. Checketts said he didn't much care. I accepted his offer.
It didn't take long before my name was selectively leaked to the media as part of the Checketts investment group. Shortly thereafter, the media elicited comments from the likes of Al Sharpton. In 1998 Mr. Sharpton was found guilty of defamation and ordered to pay $65,000 for falsely accusing a New York prosecutor of rape in the 1987 Tawana Brawley case. He also played a leading role in the 1991 Crown Heights riot (he called neighborhood Jews "diamond merchants") and 1995 Freddie's Fashion Mart riot.
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I’m wondering if this whole NFL deal was a trap set for Rush by Obama from the very beginning with the express purpose of his destruction as a leading Patriot via a bogus charge of racism?
IF they did, it doesn’t seem to be going over as expected.
I agree. I don’t see how this is working out so well for the left. For one thing, how often does Rush write columns in the WSJ? Maybe often, I don’t know. I don’t follow the WSJ, just what gets posted here in FR. But I’m just wondering out loud: is this controversy taking Rush’s exposure to the general population to a whole new level?
If the left thought they could destroy Rush’s fan base they are dumber than a box of rocks...
He has been busy in the news of late. I think it's part of his plan, as a whole, to bring ‘conservatism’ to the mainstream.
Part of the plan to win in 2010, and 2012.
Yes, because Rush has skillfully counter ambushed his neo-fascist race baiters. The lesson to be learned from this sorry affair is if you are charged with being a “Racist” throw the lie right back with vigor and attack THEIR CHARACTER.
The best defense is a good OFFENSE. And as is well known, most Leftards are little more than criminals and easy to swept back into the sewers they live.
My Bipartisan Stimulus
Let's cut taxes, as I want, and spend more, as Obama would like.
The old saying, “Strike not at the king except to kill” is operative here. At the end of the day the Leftards are going to be very sorry they attacked Rush, because clearly they have failed to remove him from his position, and this failure leaves them wide open for a counter attack, which has already been launched with skill and vigor by the king of the airwaves.
Joe McCarthy warned of communism infiltrating into America. We are now on the brink of Communism, and the tactics that get them in power are now evident all over the place.
Joe was right... we are surrounded by communists. Sadly they are now the ones in power.
They will only learn if it hurts, and really hurts them financially. Everything else won't bother those souless cretins.
The NFL players union should also be included in that scorched earth payback, and by extention, the NFL corporation as well.
Break those bastards on the wheel of the leftist created sueage system.
Unlike the clowns on Fox News, Rush doesn’t refer to Sharpton as “Reverend”; I’m not a big Rush fan, but I love that! Fox pretends Al is a worhty person, for obvious reasons: Al exists because the media created him, and the media exists because Al entertains for cheap. Hell, it’s better than getting a 9-5 job (for both parties involved).
It may have been a deliberate set-up, but if anything, it is making me more and more angry at the power of the federal govt that is now in control of communists.
these tactics are waking up more people who just want to be left alone to live their life. I hope more and more people turn into Rush and listen for themselves instead of having known liars tell them what he says.
It may have been a deliberate set-up, but if anything, it is making me more and more angry at the power of the federal govt that is now in control BY communists.
Now there is no excuse for not going hard after any of Barry’s Czars for anything the may have said in the last 30 years. If they complain simply say, “This is how the left treated Rush, so it must be the proper way to operate.”
“It may have been a deliberate set-up, but if anything, it is making me more and more angry at the power of the federal govt that is now in control BY communists.”
There is a direct line from this Rams purchase to the White House.
The head of the NFL Players’ Association is an attorney for a White House appointee - I forget which one.
Posted yesterday at lewrockwell.com:
October 15, 2009
Why the Left Had to Lynch Limbaugh
Posted by Thomas DiLorenzo on October 15, 2009 07:56 PM
Rush Limbaugh is famous for being extraordinarily generous towards the people who work for/with him, especially his longtime producer, Bo Snerdley, a black guy. While in South Florida recently, I picked up the Palm Beach Post and read a story about Limbaugh, who lives in Palm Beach, where he stopped in a not-very-expensive restaurant, spent under $100 on a meal for two, and left a $1000 tip.
The moral conscience of the Democratic Party, Al Sharpton, knows that Limbaugh would combine his legendary generosity with his love of football to rapidly become enormously popular among NFL players, some 70 percent of whom are black. That would go a long way toward puncturing the leftist superstition that all non-leftists are racists, sexists, homophobes, opponents of bestiality, etc., etc. Thats why the racist and anti-Semite Sharpton, and his like-minded sidekick Jesse Jackson, had to libel Limbaugh.
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