Posted on 09/09/2014 11:44:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: Then of course there is the Ray Rice situation with the NFL and the announcement by Harvey Levin, who is the new Walter Cronkite in this country. You know who Harvey Levin is, Mr. Snerdley? He's the founder and the CEO of TMZ. He's the new Walter Cronkite. Trust me. He has replaced Jon Stewart as the official supplier of news with credibility for the low-information crowd.
They released the video of Ray Rice decking his fiancee in that elevator, and last night Harvey Levin said we're gonna post tomorrow morning, meaning today, evidence that we believe shows the NFL knew of this video inside the elevator and tried to cover it up. They knew of it. They had seen it and so forth.
The sports media are swarming on Roger Goodell. Some of them have even stated up front that Goodell needs to resign in disgrace over the way this whole thing has been handled. Jonathan Capehart in the Washington Post today said the only thing that can save the National Football League is Condoleezza Rice being named commissioner. The only thing that can save the NFL.
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The Drive-By Media. Oh, yeah. I'm gonna double back to the Ray Rice stuff 'cause we have a whole audio sound bite roster full of stuff. I mean, you wouldn't believe it. They're really dumping on Goodell. He's gotta go, they're saying. ESPN has some people saying he's gotta go, 'cause everybody thinks the NFL knew.
Here's the thing about it, one thing before we get to this other stuff. It's fascinating to me in a way. Everybody knew what Ray Rice did in that elevator. But without seeing it, it didn't have hardly any impact. A two-game suspension, well, all right, but it should have been more. Everybody knew what went on. He hit his wife. He beat his wife. Everybody knew. She's unconscious and he's dragging her around.
But nobody actually saw the punch being thrown. When they saw that, it totally changed everything, 100%, totally. It's a demonstration of the of the power of pictures. And can I share with you another observation very quick? 'Cause this does have a political connection. Do you remember? We even talked about it here on the EIB Network.
Remember how the Baltimore fans, the Ravens fans cheered Ray Rice and showed up in his jersey and women fans in pink jerseys with Ray Rice's number at their training camp, summer training camped when he showed up? There was overwhelming ovations and cheers. Why? 'Cause he was on their team. Their team. You overlook whatever. It's their team. Okay, how about Bill Clinton? Juanita Broaddrick?
There's no tape of it. All there is is a story and her busted lip. We have all the other Clinton transgressions, but none of them mattered a whit because Clinton was the leader of their team, the Democrats -- and the media, as well. So people will support reprobates and derelicts and thugs if those people help their team win, be it in sports or politics. But when the picture, the video finally came out..
By the way, the AP found even more video of inside the elevator, and they've shown it to law enforcement. Well, no. Law enforcement is showing it to AP and it's leading to more conjecture about what did the NFL know, what did they not know, and did they try to cover up what they knew, and how in the world did they expect nobody would ever see it if they knew it existed?
There's all kinds of big problems here for a host of people not named Ray Rice.
The long knives are out for a lot of people on this.
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This is just one more reason he needs to go.
The guy has millions, he will survive. While we are jumping the shark with employers passing judgment on outside of work actions (without criminal proceedings) that do not affect your daily performance, I have no sympathy for Rice.
I don’t think he deserves any sympathy
In a sane world, Goodell would be gone for allowing a vile sodomite (Michael Sam) into the NFL. Sam’s abominable sin is every bit as bad as Ray Rice’s.
America has become a dumbed-down society. In their quest for ratings, the news media are pandering to the lowest common denominator and dragging everybody down with them. TMZ is a prime example.
Goodell should have been fired before this incident. He treated the Rice’s as atypical of ghetto blacks,where violence is a daily part of life!
These braindead burblers are not about reporting anything. They are big mouths with big egos in print and on the screen splashing their flatulent opinions on everything.
Like Bob Dylan said, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" and you don't need a sports media jerk to know what happened in a game.
When I was a supervisor in the military, I had a female employee show up after New Year’s Day and she had two black eyes. I talked to her and finally got her to have her ex charged with abuse. It was a biracial marriage and they had been having problems with visitation of the daughter.
GOOD. They SHOULD go after this douchebag. It was Goodell who threatened to yank the Super Bowl from Phoenix if Jan Brewer signed the religious freedom bill to defend AZ businesses from litigious homos. It was Goodell again doing GLAAD’s bidding by brow-beating NFL teams to add Michael Sam to their practice squad. Now he is caught handing a 2 game suspension to Ray Rice for his wife KO. Good riddance, Goodell, you leftist creep!
Goodell needs to fry, when it comes out that he KNEW about this tape, yet doled out the "severe" 2-day suspension for Rice.
I hope he gets canned, but good.
I also hope he's named personally when Rice sues the NFL.
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