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Rush Limbaugh Dropped From Bid to Buy Rams
Rush Limbaugh has been dropped from a group bidding to buy the St. Louis Rams after several black NFL players and the league's commissioner objected to past comments by the talk show host that they found offensive, Reuters reported Thursday.
"It has become clear that his involvement in our group has become a complication and a distraction to our intentions," said SPC Worldwide Chairman Dave Checketts, who is leading the bid. "We have decided to move forward without him and hope it will eventually lead us to a successful conclusion."
Several black players said they would never play for a team that was even partially owned by Limbaugh, citing comments that could be interpreted as racially incendiary. Limbaugh once said the media wanted Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb to succeed because he is black. Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay said he would not vote to approve Limbaugh as an owner because of his "inappropriate" comments.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told the NFL's Fall League Meeting: "I think divisive comments are not what the NFL is all about. I would not want to see those kind of comments from people who are in a responsible position within the NFL."
Limbaugh originally came on board when Checketts, who also owns the NHL's St. Louis Blues, opened the bid to other Missourians who wanted to keep the Rams in St. Louis. Limbaugh would have had a limited partnership role with little day-to-day influence on the team's management.
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"It has become clear that his involvement in our group has become a complication and a distraction to our intentions," said SPC Worldwide Chairman Dave Checketts, who is leading the bid. "We have decided to move forward without him and hope it will eventually lead us to a successful conclusion."
Several black players said they would never play for a team that was even partially owned by Limbaugh, citing comments that could be interpreted as racially incendiary. Limbaugh once said the media wanted Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb to succeed because he is black. Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay said he would not vote to approve Limbaugh as an owner because of his "inappropriate" comments.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told the NFL's Fall League Meeting: "I think divisive comments are not what the NFL is all about. I would not want to see those kind of comments from people who are in a responsible position within the NFL."
Limbaugh originally came on board when Checketts, who also owns the NHL's St. Louis Blues, opened the bid to other Missourians who wanted to keep the Rams in St. Louis. Limbaugh would have had a limited partnership role with little day-to-day influence on the team's management.
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Amy
11:18AM Oct 15th 2009
That one statement is the only one and it was not based on racism. All the other statements that are being tagged to Rush have not been made. No one can find them. Sad day when people believe things without checking them out.
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Rheinhart Moxon
3:57PM Oct 15th 2009
This piece includes links - go look at them.
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The NFL is an organization made up of a lot of people who make a great deal of money -- I would guess that on average, management and ownership probably skews Republican. But it's also an organization made up of a lot of black people -- and while the right was focused on debunking racist things Limbaugh didn't say, they pretty much ignored Limbaugh's record of racist commentary, which includes not only a habit of comparing black athletes to gang members but a general hostility toward black people. Limbaugh only recently suggested that having a black president encouraged black children to beat up white children -- he's also compared President Obama's agenda to "slavery reparations," used epithets to reference his biracial background, and compared Democrats responding to the concerns of black voters to rape. In the fevered swamps of National Review, where they're still defending William F. Buckley's support of segregation, this kind of behavior is described as Martin Luther King like.
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=10&year=2009&base_name=confusion_in_dittoland_as_limb#117012
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The NFL is an organization made up of a lot of people who make a great deal of money -- I would guess that on average, management and ownership probably skews Republican. But it's also an organization made up of a lot of black people -- and while the right was focused on debunking racist things Limbaugh didn't say, they pretty much ignored Limbaugh's record of racist commentary, which includes not only a habit of comparing black athletes to gang members but a general hostility toward black people. Limbaugh only recently suggested that having a black president encouraged black children to beat up white children -- he's also compared President Obama's agenda to "slavery reparations," used epithets to reference his biracial background, and compared Democrats responding to the concerns of black voters to rape. In the fevered swamps of National Review, where they're still defending William F. Buckley's support of segregation, this kind of behavior is described as Martin Luther King like.
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=10&year=2009&base_name=confusion_in_dittoland_as_limb#117012
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(-1) k1mjs
11:29AM Oct 16th 2009
Limbaugh made his bed and now he upset that he needs to sleep in it. Limbaugh is an entertainer and should be seen as such. The problem is that his entertainment is the most vicious, hateful, venemous, racist, divisive entertainment possible. While Limbaugh is about as bottom of the barrel as you can get, he does have a right to say just about anything he wants. What I find frightening is that anyone in their right mind would listen to his show. I guess as long as there are people who attend bloody, ugly bit-bull dog fights, there will be people who listen to Limbaugh's distorted dribble.
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(-2) gnmk09
3:35PM Oct 17th 2009
Paul Pelosi, husband of Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif), is now the owner of a professional football team. The famously publicity-shy spouse of the current Speaker of the House bought the California Redwoods, a San Francisco-based franchise in the upstart United Football League. Pelosi has admitted that he's not a big professional sports fan -- he prefers recreational sports befitting of a successful businessman and political spouse: golf, cycling, and tennis. Pelosi says he paid $12 million dollars for the team because he deemed it a bankable investment. As he told the Washington Post:
"This is a business, I look at it as a business. I'm in this because I think it is a very solid financial investment that is going to be very successful...I never wanted to own a sports team. It's that old saying: Never say never."
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/17/paul-pelosi-buys-a-footba_n_324656.html
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(2) sandsnnydz
7:22AM Oct 18th 2009
NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith served as counsel to Barack Obamas Attorney General Eric Holder in the Clinton administration (Holder's former firm, Covington & Burling), and was a member of Barack Obama’s transition team.
What we have here is White House who uses every thug they can dig up out of Chicago backwoods and uses the race card to fulfill their goals of the
LYNCHING OF RUSH LIMBAUGH
and ANYONE who doesn't show public worship of the golden idol
Warren Ballentine is the new face of racism straight up racism!! Ballentine wants all black people to agree with him 100% or he uses racial slurs against them such was the case against his latest attack this time on Juan Williams on the Bill O'Reilly Show where's the outrage?
Where's ESPN on this news story? Why are they not discussing George Soros and HIS bid? What are they afraid of?
Will anyone who speaks out be pressured to quit by the new thug lawyers in the NFL like DeMaurice Smith who uses his position as payback to the White House dogs?
The NFL is now in the game of BLATANT RACIST POLITICS???
Every American citizen should be very afraid of what is taking place in this country and use your votes and voices to make a CHANGE in 2010 and 2012!!!
YES WE CAN AND YES WE WILL!! 1190 days!!!
What we have here is White House who uses every thug they can dig up out of Chicago backwoods and uses the race card to fulfill their goals of the
LYNCHING OF RUSH LIMBAUGH
and ANYONE who doesn't show public worship of the golden idol
Warren Ballentine is the new face of racism straight up racism!! Ballentine wants all black people to agree with him 100% or he uses racial slurs against them such was the case against his latest attack this time on Juan Williams on the Bill O'Reilly Show where's the outrage?
Where's ESPN on this news story? Why are they not discussing George Soros and HIS bid? What are they afraid of?
Will anyone who speaks out be pressured to quit by the new thug lawyers in the NFL like DeMaurice Smith who uses his position as payback to the White House dogs?
The NFL is now in the game of BLATANT RACIST POLITICS???
Every American citizen should be very afraid of what is taking place in this country and use your votes and voices to make a CHANGE in 2010 and 2012!!!
YES WE CAN AND YES WE WILL!! 1190 days!!!
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(0) aplusimaging
11:21AM Oct 15th 2009
what comes around goes around!! (dancing the rush oxycontin dance) yeaaaahhh
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(-2) ipt39
11:39AM Oct 15th 2009
Now, let's get this fool off the radio! Amy, you might want to CHECK OUT his comments THEY ARE RACIST! Not only was that comment racist, it was factually untrue. It is the problem with Rush. He wrote a check with his big mouth his ass couldn't cash! I was sitting in front of the TV when he made that comment on ESPN and almost fell over. I was elated when he resigned (got fired). I am only sorry it took ESPN 2 days. The problem is he didn't stop with that comment. He trashes everyone who doesn't think like him and that is outrageous.
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(1) Chip Crawford
12:04PM Oct 15th 2009
Rush, Rush, Rush....mmmmmm, mmmm, mmmmmmm.
This absolutely made my day!!!!
This absolutely made my day!!!!
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(2) amity222
3:45PM Oct 15th 2009
and a tingle down your leg?
hmmmmm........whatever makes you tingle
hmmmmm........whatever makes you tingle
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(4) msdsr6
12:04PM Oct 15th 2009
LIMBAUGH IS NOTHING LESS THAN A TOTAL DISGRACE TO OUR GREAT COUNTRY!!! WOULD LOVE TO SEE HIM OFF OF THE RADIO AS WELL----CANNOT TOLERATE THE FAT BA-----!!!!
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(0) badlands41
12:38PM Oct 15th 2009
Al Sharpton led the protest against Rush owning an NFL team. The Fair Housing Act of 1968 has just been trampled by those very persons it was drafted to protect and serve. Unbelievable stupidity, obviously not limited only to the NFL players. . . . .
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(-2) Zoe
12:59PM Oct 15th 2009
He has a new gig (that he is supremely qualified for) judging the Miss America pageant. That is all he is good for
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(-5) john perry
1:25PM Oct 15th 2009
If al and jesse were White they would be in jail.
Jesse is the top Slave Master or top n####r.
Jesse is charged by the democrat party to keep the blacks down on the plantation.
Jesse is also the master of disappearing cash. Clinton stopped an Attorney General investigation of the missing money. Millions upon millions of federal tax dollars are missing from his Rainbow/Push organization.
Jackson is the only minister I know of that has had a child out of wedlock and still has the audacity to show his face in public.
Al sharpton is nothing but a poverty pimp who would be in jail for filing false police reports that started a riot.
Why do I bring these two up? These are two lowest life forms on our planet.
It puts on display the partisanship, morals, honesty and intellectual capacity of their supporters.
For the NFL and others to give any credence to the statements of these to very WEALTHY liars, poverty pimps, race baiters is ludicrous and absolutely shameful.
Jesse is the top Slave Master or top n####r.
Jesse is charged by the democrat party to keep the blacks down on the plantation.
Jesse is also the master of disappearing cash. Clinton stopped an Attorney General investigation of the missing money. Millions upon millions of federal tax dollars are missing from his Rainbow/Push organization.
Jackson is the only minister I know of that has had a child out of wedlock and still has the audacity to show his face in public.
Al sharpton is nothing but a poverty pimp who would be in jail for filing false police reports that started a riot.
Why do I bring these two up? These are two lowest life forms on our planet.
It puts on display the partisanship, morals, honesty and intellectual capacity of their supporters.
For the NFL and others to give any credence to the statements of these to very WEALTHY liars, poverty pimps, race baiters is ludicrous and absolutely shameful.
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(4) Alex Lekas
1:39PM Oct 15th 2009
always predictable to hear from the lefties and their mantra of repeating something long enough in hopes that opinion/conjecture/rumor will become fact. The FACT is, no one can pull a single racist comment to hold up as an example. Instead, they rely on a prescription drug issue while dismissing The One's cocaine habit. Difference please?
The most ironic comment in all this - well, aside from Sharpton being given credibility by a wussified guilty liberal media that ignores a race baiter when it sees one - is Jim Irsay talking about anyone. This guy, and his dad, snuck their team out of Baltimore in the middle of the night for a better deal in Indianapolis. That this guy wants to judge anyone's fitness for ownership is laughable.
I'm not a Rams' fan and, as such, don't care who owns them but how sad that some folks here have little more to do than gloat over someone else's loss. I guess Rush will have to settle for counting his millions instead.
The most ironic comment in all this - well, aside from Sharpton being given credibility by a wussified guilty liberal media that ignores a race baiter when it sees one - is Jim Irsay talking about anyone. This guy, and his dad, snuck their team out of Baltimore in the middle of the night for a better deal in Indianapolis. That this guy wants to judge anyone's fitness for ownership is laughable.
I'm not a Rams' fan and, as such, don't care who owns them but how sad that some folks here have little more to do than gloat over someone else's loss. I guess Rush will have to settle for counting his millions instead.
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(6) moderate
4:37PM Oct 15th 2009
You are such a hypocrite. You celebrated when the USA Preident Obama) lost the Olympic bid along with the fat puke you consider your leader and god. Get over yourself you 2 time loser.
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(0) Alex Lekas
4:48PM Oct 15th 2009
does it come naturally, mod, or do you practice at being dishonest? I did not celebrate the Olympic decision, nor did I shed any tears over this. Try pulling your head out of The One's a$$ for a moment or two, and actually READING folks' posts before launching.
AGAIN, in typical lib fashion, you ignore the substance of the comment - that not a single critic can actually point to a bona fide racist remark that was made - and go the personal route. It is a tedious game you 12-year olds play. So you're on the side of Sharpton, of the Tawana hoax, and of Jackson, who brought us hymietown. You side with genuine race-baiters but accuse others of doing so. Looks like hypocrite fits you rather well.
AGAIN, in typical lib fashion, you ignore the substance of the comment - that not a single critic can actually point to a bona fide racist remark that was made - and go the personal route. It is a tedious game you 12-year olds play. So you're on the side of Sharpton, of the Tawana hoax, and of Jackson, who brought us hymietown. You side with genuine race-baiters but accuse others of doing so. Looks like hypocrite fits you rather well.
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(0) ucefcu1
1:58PM Oct 15th 2009
I heard Al Sharpton, the good reverend, call David Dinkins, when he was Mayor of NYC the "N" word at least seven times in a speech against his policies. Anyone who listens to the NYC Metropolitan area newscasts know how two faced and self promoting Sharpton can be. Most rational people find him to be a non productive fool.
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(3) teddyb
2:15PM Oct 15th 2009
So can we now say that because of suspected influence from Washington on this decision, that its' official, and that now the democrats are aspiring to
run everything, including sports franchises? It would seem that shutting out Rush is another "democrat" victory, and that it would be fitting for them to
celebrate. But among others, particularly those who fear for our country and democracy, it is much cause for concern.
If any of Rush's close associates read this here's an idea: Put together your own team and go on to turn this into a personal victory, regardless.
There are a lot of us who would celebrate such a bid, and many who would be
very celebratory to see you wrest the victory and championships from
your opponents.
run everything, including sports franchises? It would seem that shutting out Rush is another "democrat" victory, and that it would be fitting for them to
celebrate. But among others, particularly those who fear for our country and democracy, it is much cause for concern.
If any of Rush's close associates read this here's an idea: Put together your own team and go on to turn this into a personal victory, regardless.
There are a lot of us who would celebrate such a bid, and many who would be
very celebratory to see you wrest the victory and championships from
your opponents.
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(1) anthony kight
2:14PM Oct 15th 2009
Typical of tokyo rush to blame Obama for the bed he made and now has to lie in.......its obama's fault the NFL and the group thats wants to buy the Rams see's this guy for what he really is ....everyone else's fault but his how he is percieved in this world. Poor Rush !!!! he is so mistreated and misunderstood. Ya made your bed fool now man up and lie in it instead of whinning like the little bitch you are !!!!
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(0) themalebod
2:16PM Oct 15th 2009
I have mixed feelings. Limbaugh is a slimeball, but for the NFL players to fight Limbaugh when they so openly welcome Michael Vick back into their ranks is ridiculous. It just shows that professional sports have completely lost sight of sportsmanship and integrity.
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