Posted on 10/17/2009 10:18:50 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Bottom line is that we are witnessing McCarthyism in reverse.
Limbaugh has shown remarkable restraint.
Commies Raus.
See you, guys. It used to be fun but now it isn't.
Ditto
He is not cheap.
geraldo is something I just never watch, but what you say doesn’t surprise me.
Football is six minutes worth of action spread out over four hours. Yawn.
“It’ll be intersting to see the Neilsen ratings for this weekend’s NFL games. I hope no self-respecting conservative turns on any games.”
I would imagine that their will be almost no effect.
Aside from Rush getting screwed by the NFL, a sad thing about all of this is that there are a lot of people who don’t even know there is a ruckus about anything relating to Rush Limbaugh and the NFL. A huge portion of them could care less.
Rush was not aware that Soros was part of the group:
And my mistake at that point was not asking him, "All right, do you really mean it, and who did you speak to?" He gave me a couple of names that are pretty high up and led me to believe that it was all handled and that he was fully prepared for what was going to happen. When the whole thing started to unravel last week, whenever this thing leaked -- and, by the way, I learned yesterday that George Soros might be in this group. Reuters had a story that George Soros is one of Dave Checketts's partners. I did not know that. I wasn't told that. Mr. Checketts is not the primary partner here. The NFL has a rule that the primary owner has to have 30% equity in the team, and our group lost our 30% equity guy, and we had to scramble and find a new one, and I was told who it was, but now I'm wondering if it was Soros and I wasn't told. Soros and Checketts did, I have learned, partner together previously to try to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers. Mr. Soros, of course, is well known politically for his left-wing slants, his politics fit in perfectly, apparently, with what the National Football League is becoming. But I wonder if they know that he is also involved in the movement to legalize marijuana and how that will play as the owners decide whether or not he's fit. This is all speculative because I don't know that he's in the group. Reuters reported it yesterday.
I was all excited to root for that nice Catholic(?) boy Matt Ryan, and the newly-professionalized Atlanta Falcons (I'd given them up since the time they had MC Hammer dicking around on the sidelines, and reiterated my distaste for them when everyone was praising Mike Vick/Ron Mexico as a fine citizen and role model).
With this, and teh "Futbol Americano" crap, way to go NFL!!!!
Rush is smart not to pick up a rumor disseminated by Reuters and treat it like it is a fact. That is what all of his detractors did.
To this day...
Exactly. After the strike, I will admit I watched the Braves win it in '95, and I watched them throw it away to the Yankees in '96.
But after the '98 "Chicks Dig the Long Ball" Juiced Ball, Steroid-Fest, Pay the Pitchers to Groove a Couple Freak show, I haven't watched a MLB game since. Haven't cared either.
For such a manly game like football, how did so many pantywaisted, weak wristed blowhards become their spokesmen?
My defection from the NFL was long time coming. After trashing Rush, I wonder what took me so long to say, “Adios NFL”.
Why do you if others do?
Wise, pro-American people will avoid their programming, and do something more constructive with their time.
“Voting” with your proverbial pocket book works for me.
“I agree. After the first baseball strike, I didn’t call for a boycott. I just stopped watching. I stopped going. I stopped taking it seriously.
To this day...”
Same here... most of the characters in the sports world from players to owners, to commentators just turn me off - soooo, I turn them off. The Bret Favre childish melodrama was the last straw, and this episode with Rush was the nail in the coffin.
I don't really listen to Rush (his positions are ok, it's just his ego that's a little out of whack to me) but I agree in principle with those who are willing to support him and call out the NFL on this bit of garbage that they've pulled (fabricating quotes out of thin air really sealed that deal).
However, I think there needs to be healthy dose of realism here. Rather than 20 percent I think you need to be thinking in the low single digits. To be frank, any small, measurable impact would be a success, but I just don't see it happening. You won't see Rush go out on a limb on this because he knows the craziest thing he could do is to appear to be taking on the NFL. It's hugely successful, hugely popular, and hugely profitable (even with the "downsizing" of staff this year). BUt even moreso, most football fans I know do NOT want to mix their politics with their weekend pigskin love affair. Some things just don't fit together. Diehard Rush fans excluded.jmho
I agree. I don't think anyone has verified Soros is part of the group. Until then it's just speculation.
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