How Rush Limbaugh gave America its Sundays back

American Thinker ^ | 10-18-09 | Neil Braithwaite

[Myrddin]

I enjoy listening to Rush. I have avoided watching football games since 1981. I'm simply not interested. Bouncing Rush from the sales group is likely a beneficial situation for Rush. Why tie up your money in an investment what you will have little influence on the management and marginal ability to divest yourself of the liability?

[TigersEye]

Reuters is certainly in a long list of “news” outlets that can’t be trusted at all.

[AmericanArchConservative]

I’ll still watch my Cowboys (screw the ‘Skins, braithwaite!) and be happy to do so - especially since I have not heard any of them mouth off thus far...In fact it was former Cowboy “Hutch” Hutcherson (now pastor of Antioch church in Seattle) who called Rush’s show, livid about the over-the-top statements of some of the half-wit players and sportswriters - but far moreso over the “justice brothers” or as he himself called Sharpton and Jackson (on air) “Poverty pimps”

Kudos for being outspoken, Hutch!

Go ‘Boys

(yeah, I know it’s a “bye” weekend for them)

A.A.C.

[Mamzelle]

Go to hell

NFL

[nathanbedford]

It was Walter O'Malley who gave me my summers back. So I guess that makes me older than you are. That was my epiphany, the disillusionment which occurred when O'Malley took the Brooklyn Dodgers 3000 miles away. It was a liberating experience, it permitted me to view baseball as a beautiful sport but to root for a major-league baseball team was to play the sucker.

A painful but invaluable insight for a young teenager and not a bad state of mind either for an investor in the stock market to cultivate.

The NFL is a business, a very big business, but it verges on the immoral when it co-opts American youth and invests them in what is essentially a gigantic lie: that the NFL is for sportsmen who operate with a sportsmanlike ethos, it is not, is a calculated public relations contrivance that at root is false and hypocritical.

Thank you Walter O'Malley and thank you Rush Limbaugh.

[ChiMark]

This is a huge issue which has enormous implications for the destruction of civility, common sense and justice.freedoms.

The NFL and sports writers have an understanding that
the thuggish behavior of these athletes fall under the radar of publicity. Rush was wrongly accused but honesty no longer prevails. Just to be accused by the left merits punishment.

[ChiMark]

Jim Irsay is the useless son which inherited the team from daddy. I can’t verify this but I heard he is not with out
vice.

[Yaelle]

I love college football.

[Right Wing Assault]

I used to be a huge pro sports fan, but the criminals and sociopaths involved turned me off long ago. I haven’t intentionally listened to or watched a pro sporting event in 10 years.

[BobL]

Blacks may be 70% of the players, but it’s whites that pay 95% of the salaries (with most of them being conservative)...and the players (and other owners) are about to find that out.

[rambo316]

I stopped watching for the last couple of years and this year I’ve totally stopped. I got sick and tired of the fawning over all the black players and all their life stories and how hard they had it growing up in a bad hood or how one of their parents died, drama, drama, drama.....

Got tired of it all an I will tell you all it is wonderful spending it with my wife and no Sunday addiction of NFL all day.

[Dusty Road]

Somebody say Bob Lily?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp-SJ_W0L28

[Glenn]

I’l show all of you! I’ll hurt me!

Not really.

I’ll be watching the Steelers this afternoon, as usual. I’m not going to let the lefties take away one more joy in my life.

[liberateUS]

"I love college football."

Since conservatives will be boycotting the NFL, and liberals control most academic institutions, just wondering what "conservative" college teams they will be rooting for?

[Isabel C.]

A lot of pointless chest thumping and ego boosting

Actually, that's what many NFL players do after they score a touchdown or make a good play.

[EBH]

Just to be accused by the left merits punishment.

These are very true words and ones that should be carefully considered. The left has been able to interfere with a business transaction in which it held no stake or concern. Rush, by his own admission, is not intending to pursue recourse. The reality though is he was denied ownership due to lies, libel and slander.

Somewhere rolling around in my head is the phrase, "due process." The left dolled out a vicious punishment without due process. They made accusations with no supporting evidence. They interfered with a man's pursuit of happiness. They infringed on another person's Rights.

Why the left can call anyone they want racist or charge them with racism in the court of public opinion, even though no discrimination is evident. This is the manipulative nature of the word Racist. It can be thrown at anyone without evidence of real discrimination. There are laws against real discrimination.

A person or business being labeled Racist loses their Right to 'due process' under the law for discriminatory behavior. While Rush has chosen to let this matter pass, we must recognize the dangerous precedent being set by Rush's decision.

Accusations of Racism need to be answered by the accusing party with evidence of discrimination. Those charges cannot be resolved over a beer at the White House or redactions and apologies. The only way that can happen is if those accused pursue their Right to real 'due process' and stop the left from using the court of public opinion.

[qwertypie]

NFL football is the sports version of rap. It glorifies sleazebags. And a good portion of its fandom are psychos.

[Hot Tabasco]

It won’t be hard not to watch the Lions.

We could become soccer fans..........What? How many times did you get drunk on beer before you finally came to like it?

[Old_Grouch]

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.

I have read a couple comments that maybe Rush was set up, and Checketts was used, and the leak was planned, to bring out this torrent of negative publicity. Funny thing is, if that's the case, it may have backfired, because Obama supporters are already anti-Rush and those who listen to Rush know it's all BS, so I can't see a setup like this turning anyone new against Rush.

I have read that Rush is supposed to judge the Miss America Contest, I don't know if that is true, but if so, I can't understand why he would get involved in that, and there is potential for a repeat scenario with that. Maybe Rush would accept knowing that he would get drummed out, and hoping that would open more eyes.

[Big Giant Head]

I’m not sure it would have been a liability. Had Rush become part owner of the Rams, I would have been purchasing Rams merchandise, as would many others. I cannot have political stickers on my “official” work vehicle, but I can certainly support a football team. Clandestine political.

The Rams organization would have gotten a bump of cash from all this.

One of by buddies at work, big sports nut, had NO IDEA how convoluted this whole story is. He got all his news on ESPN. I had to enlighten him.