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The Race Card, Football and Me
Wall Street Journal ^ | 17 Oct 2009 | Rush Limbaugh

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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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: checketts; nfl; racecard; rams; rush
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Conservatives only concern themselves with facts; liberals can do and say whatever necessary to justify their ends.
1 posted on 10/17/2009 3:00:02 AM PDT by lt.america
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To: lt.america

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?


2 posted on 10/17/2009 3:15:21 AM PDT by Ronbo1948
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To: Ronbo1948

IF they did, it doesn’t seem to be going over as expected.


3 posted on 10/17/2009 3:19:20 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Grimmy

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?


4 posted on 10/17/2009 3:27:57 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: lt.america

If the left thought they could destroy Rush’s fan base they are dumber than a box of rocks...


5 posted on 10/17/2009 3:30:30 AM PDT by just me (Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. (John Adams)
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To: samtheman
‘taking Rush’s exposure to the general population to a whole new level?’

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.

6 posted on 10/17/2009 3:39:34 AM PDT by BGHater ("real price of every thing ... is the toil and trouble of acquiring it")
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To: Grimmy

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.


7 posted on 10/17/2009 3:41:32 AM PDT by Ronbo1948
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To: samtheman
Rush wrote a WSJ column back in late January about his stimulus plan:
My Bipartisan Stimulus
Let's cut taxes, as I want, and spend more, as Obama would like.

8 posted on 10/17/2009 3:47:12 AM PDT by Dahoser (The missus and I joined the NRA. Who says Obama can't inspire conservatives?)
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To: BGHater

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.


9 posted on 10/17/2009 3:47:57 AM PDT by Ronbo1948
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To: Ronbo1948
It's amazing to me that the libs, who always recoil in horror about McCarthy's tactics in rooting out communism, use the same methods in rooting out people like Rush.

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.

10 posted on 10/17/2009 3:54:13 AM PDT by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier)
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To: lt.america; Rush Limbaugh
Rush (the real one!), pleaase, PLEASE, PLEASE SUE THEM DOWN TO THE LAST PENNY!!!!! Do it for us. We have all been slandered and libeled and we really want you to make them pay. Through the nose and into bankruptcy.

They will only learn if it hurts, and really hurts them financially. Everything else won't bother those souless cretins.

11 posted on 10/17/2009 3:55:40 AM PDT by Jemian
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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.


12 posted on 10/17/2009 4:03:41 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: lt.america

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).


13 posted on 10/17/2009 4:04:29 AM PDT by Carlos Martillo II (Guernica was a work of art...and I don't mean the painting.)
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To: Ronbo1948

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.


14 posted on 10/17/2009 4:18:37 AM PDT by KEmom (Please send viable Conservative candidates to Massachusetts!!)
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To: KEmom

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.


15 posted on 10/17/2009 4:19:57 AM PDT by KEmom (Please send viable Conservative candidates to Massachusetts!!)
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To: lt.america
Rush Limbaugh: Bo Snerdley talks to the Hood
16 posted on 10/17/2009 4:30:10 AM PDT by navysealdad (http://drdavehouseoffun.com/)
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To: lt.america

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.”


17 posted on 10/17/2009 4:36:25 AM PDT by Mark was here (The earth is bipolar. ---- "OBAMA: THE GREAT MISTAKE OF 2008")
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To: KEmom

“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.


18 posted on 10/17/2009 4:38:52 AM PDT by RoadTest ( But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do)
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To: lt.america

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. That’s why the racist and anti-Semite Sharpton, and his like-minded sidekick Jesse Jackson, had to libel Limbaugh.


19 posted on 10/17/2009 4:41:35 AM PDT by Daisyjane69 (Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
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To: Northern Yankee
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.


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20 posted on 10/17/2009 4:58:50 AM PDT by mkjessup (0bama?!?!? ********* YOU LIE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ************)
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