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Rev. Al Sharpton: Rush Limbaugh's Comments On Steinbrenner Were "Repugnant"
NY Daily News ^
| 7/13/10
| Celeste Katz
Posted on 07/13/2010 8:01:40 PM PDT by pissant
The Rev. Al Sharpton did not particularly care for the (your adjective here) comments about late Yankees owner George Steinbrenner by Rush Limbaugh, which I blogged here earlier in the day:
"The statements made by Rush Limbaugh about George Steinbrenner were repugnant and offensive whether they were intended to be facetious or tongue and cheek. The fact that he could make these comments less than 24-hours after Mr. Steinbrenner's death makes it even more offensive. For the last 20-years I have known George Steinbrenner and we have quarrelled over diversity and community programs but I always found him fair, direct, and genuinely prone to do what he felt was right. He generated a lot of money for a lot of players as well as for baseball as a whole and should not be disparaged in any matter. In later years, in a twist of irony, his granddaughter and my daughter became close, which only brought me closer to knowing him and we developed a mutual respect. Mr. Limbaugh and his broadcasters owe his family an apology that the first day of their mourning to have to be subjected to this type of rhetoric. To think that just a year ago Mr. Limbaugh sought to be an owner of an NFL team and has now said this about a legendary baseball team owner. This says more about Mr. Limbaugh than it does Mr. Steinbrenner."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2010/07/rev-al-sharpton-limbaugh-comme.html#ixzz0tcbiR7qz
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: alsharpton; elrushbo; racepimp
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ROFLMAO. Give 'em hell Rush
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posted on
07/13/2010 8:01:46 PM PDT
by
pissant
To: pissant
Go Rush. The truth hurts.
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posted on
07/13/2010 8:02:46 PM PDT
by
unkus
To: pissant
Al can’t write so who did it for him.
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posted on
07/13/2010 8:05:26 PM PDT
by
edcoil
(OK, so what's the speed of dark?)
To: pissant
Bwa-ha-ha! Rush predicted that his comments would get the lefties panties in a wad!
Way to go Rev Al - you bit!!!!
(P.S. Tawana Brawley says hi Al!
To: pissant
goes to show you just how much the left HAS NO SENSE OF HUMOR and continually misunderstands Rush’s sarcasm. The bottom line is that Al Sharpton is classic racist fool.
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posted on
07/13/2010 8:06:00 PM PDT
by
MAD-AS-HELL
(Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
To: pissant
Not even worth a comment, only a laugh.
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posted on
07/13/2010 8:06:41 PM PDT
by
NurdlyPeon
(Sarah Palin: America's last, best hope for survival.)
To: pissant
What exactly did Limbaugh say?
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posted on
07/13/2010 8:06:46 PM PDT
by
Scutter
To: pissant
RUSH: George Steinbrenner. Now, this is an example, my friends, of the kind of news that I'm going to impart here that will just infuriate liberals, it will ruin their day. George Steinbrenner, that cracker was a great capitalist, and he made many African-Americans who worked for him millionaires, as a lot of capitalists do. But he also, as a good capitalist, knew when to die. There is no death tax. George Steinbrenner's family this year will not have to cough up 55% of what they inherit and perhaps lose the New York Yankees. How sad it is we've come to this point in America? How much you want to bet, the liberals try to get around this, pass a special law or something to get the Yankee tax money.Gee Al, looks like you walked right into it. Gosh you're stupid.
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posted on
07/13/2010 8:07:44 PM PDT
by
Northern Yankee
(Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
To: MAD-AS-HELL
What did Rush say? Missed it?
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posted on
07/13/2010 8:07:45 PM PDT
by
GoCards
("We eat therefore we hunt...")
To: pissant
That’s just Rush. I thought there was going to be something wrong with what he said.
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posted on
07/13/2010 8:07:50 PM PDT
by
Stentor
To: pissant
To: unkus
My Dad wrote a book about Steinbrenner (Steinbrenner’s Yankees..an inside account) and it was none too flattering. Steinbrenner sued him. When it went to court I bought my Father a T-shirt that said, “My lawyer can beat up your lawyer..” which was as serious as this lawsuit, which was dismissed. But Steinbrenner performed some shenanigans so the book was hard to find. A big pain in the ass.
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posted on
07/13/2010 8:08:12 PM PDT
by
Hildy
To: pissant
Suck it up, Sharpton. I listened and he said NOTHING bad about the guy.
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posted on
07/13/2010 8:08:29 PM PDT
by
gidget7
("When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." Thomas Jefferson)
To: Dinah Lord
(P.S. Tawana Brawley says hi Al!You mean she wrote Hi! on her body with excrement?
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posted on
07/13/2010 8:09:51 PM PDT
by
Stentor
To: Hammerhead
RUSH: This is a story from Business Insider: "If you're massively wealthy, then 2010 is not a bad year to pass away. That's because Congress allowed the inheritance tax to lapse for one year. Not that the Steinbrenner family is seeing any 'upside' in the passing of the legendary Yankees owner. But the lack of the tax, which could go as high as 55%, could make the passing of the Yankees franchise that much easier." In fact, it will be totally easy. You remember the family of Joe Robbie, who owned the Miami Dolphins? When he passed away they had to sell the team to pay the estate taxes. It had not been the wisest estate planning going on there. But Steinbrenner knew when to die. No estate tax -- (interruption) what are you laughing at, Brian? You know damn well this kind of thing is going to irritate the left like nothing else will, especially since I point it out.
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posted on
07/13/2010 8:11:10 PM PDT
by
Northern Yankee
(Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
To: GoCards
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posted on
07/13/2010 8:11:26 PM PDT
by
MAD-AS-HELL
(Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
To: pissant
No one but a racist would care what Al Charlatan has to say so BFD.
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posted on
07/13/2010 8:11:43 PM PDT
by
South40
("Islam has a long tradition of tolerance." ~Hussein Obama, June 4, 2009, Cairo, Egypt)
To: pissant
Al Sharpton = Donkey $hit
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posted on
07/13/2010 8:13:48 PM PDT
by
23 Everest
(Zero, Glittering Jewel of Colossal Ignorance.)
To: pissant
Shows Sharpton can’t take a joke...no sense of humor, no sense of the obvious! Rush as usual was right.
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posted on
07/13/2010 8:17:02 PM PDT
by
Lucky2
(The most unqualified and ill-prepared person in the room is the POTUS, Barak Hussain Obama...)
To: Northern Yankee
Just like JJ, Sharpton wants some attention too...
That damn 0 is hogging it all... Good thing 0 ain’t a Conservative...just sayin...
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posted on
07/13/2010 8:17:22 PM PDT
by
waterhill
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