Well...

Boo hoo hoo.

The enemy of this great nation, the enemy of you and me, Rush's enemy... those on the left, inside and outside of this nation abhor success... and when faced with it will destroy it... by any and all means possible. Tonight the left proved that they will stop at nothing to end our dreams. Our dreams of success and happiness devastate their need to dominate and control you and me...

Anyone who would actually believe this is clinically insane.

screamin' demon pretty much says it all: the idea that the NFL and the players' union are hotbeds of liberalism and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the rest of us on the left: it is nuts.

It would take several Red Staters, by weight alone, to make one Rush Limbaugh.

Limbaugh is accustomed to making public remarks like these are facing no consequences.

This allergy to accountability is also why he won't run for political office.

Poor baby, crying in his $400,000,000 contract. The daddy party has become the fit-throwing, crybaby party.

Many of us know how Rush feels when his dream is thwarted by liberals. America could be so much more if we didn't have to be dragged down by them. It hurts.

What a bunch of drama-queen crybabies.

Like Pigboy himself is so fond of saying, 'Words have consequences.'

And as I'm fond of saying - 'Words, meet ass.'

Please, fans of Rush, keep alienating the centerist republicans. Every time you do, and angel get it's wings. And baby Jesus smiles.

"'RUSH IS US. AND WE ARE HIM"

Rush is the walrus. Koo-koo ka-choo.

Why do I suspect this was kind of a planned stunt and this is exactly the result he wanted?

If only all Republicans would wear t-shirts prociaiming that "We are all Rush Limbaugh."

So the right has to carefully ignore how Rush's exclusion actually worked in terms of the organizations and people involved. Do they have previously-voiced issues with these real-world mechanisms? --Which concern the bottom line, of course. But Rush fans cannot concede that his involvement might be detrimental to the sport or its earnings. Or, their notion of the free market is so childish that is misses the many instances in which stakeholders protect their interests by, yes, figuring out how to stop the wrong people from buying stuff... It's another story that's difficult to discuss because it's so damn stupid.

The victim card is now the norm for the ultra sensitive wingnuts. Just another card to add to their deck. When they reach 52, they'll finally be playing with a full deck.

The racist stuff is high profile, but you have to wonder if the drug stuff would have disqualified anyone. Hard to come down on your players for drugs, which the NFL does, but allow drug users to become owners.

I have to say, I do love how a bunch of guys who make, at best, $50,000 a year are absolutely convinced that they're exactly like a guy who makes $500 million so that any action that hurts him will automatically hurt them.

I assume they also think they're in the top 1% of earners in the US, so they actually think that a capital gains tax cut would benefit them more than it would benefit, say, investment bankers and hedge fund managers.

This isn't discrimination against Republicans; it's an athletic league that doesn't want bad PR to threaten their profits, and the Rams to be made up of nothing but white players.

Fizzixed.

I refuse to believe that Red State post is serious. It has to be a parody troll seeing how many idiots would agree with such a clinically stupid post.

Otherwise, there are a disturbing number of people who "think" (term used loosely) that we all have a Constitutional right to pay millions for a football team -- and a really bad one at that-- and believe being denied entry by private people into a private organization is the exact same as the systematic murder of more than 6,000,000 people.

I'll bet that Glenn Beck runs with this.

It's so simple -- rearrange the letters in IRSAY and it spells AYIRS, so clearly, Jim Irsay's comments were ghost-written by Bill Ayers.

Quod erat dumbass.

I guess Rush lives in such a bubble that he can't conceive that there are people who really and truly don't find him entertaining and loathe his transparent racism.

I hardly ever get a whole game in, but I love these pre-game shows -- favorite quip from last weekend was the player (Shannon something) who said that a team was so bad it was going to lose the bye week. To think that Rush would bring his own toxic baggage in whatever way and start seeing everything in black and white -- the owners probably had to think 20 seconds before they realized that there is NO CHANCE they are going to risk the goose that lays their golden egg.

I thought that the Right was all for letting rich folks push other people around for their own benefit. Just because it was Rush who was pushed around shouldn't give them any excuse to whine. What's more important, RedState, having principles or compromising them the first second one of your vaunted principles comes back to bite you?

Seems like Rush is simply a victim of the free market. As he and those like him are fond of reminding us - with very few exceptions, people are free to choose with whom they want to associate and with whom they want to do business. The NFL has decided that Rush would be a liability to their business, and he has been shown the door. Hey, nobody is guaranteed a job. Thank goodness there's an ample social safety net so he doesn't lose everything! Perhaps Mr. Limbaugh should stop whining, buff up his resume, sharpen his interpersonal and communication skills, and do some networking so opportunity will not continue to pass him by.

the NFL doesnt want anything to do with racism????

Then why the HELL do they allow, support and defend an NFL property called the "REDSKINS"???

I don't care one bit for Limbaugh, but the hypocrisy of the NFL and liberal/democrat bloggers alike is sickening, if they strike down the racist REDSKINS in the same breath.

The whole conservative movement orbits around victimization and revenge.

Victimization is THE central them of the broad conservative backlash. It is through victimization that working class people come to identify with the uber rich. Working white people, small business men and the suburban middle class believe taxes go to the lazy (mostly black and brown) underclass. It is the liberals that do this to them and liberals also undermine the wholesome uprightness of their threatened communities. It is always 1965.

It is through this story the rich have sold anti-government laissez-faire to the masses. The end result is a long erosion of middle class income and security and, as the middle class sinks, the lower class sinks deeper. The decay of the economic fortunes of the middle class, communities and values is not blamed on laissez-faire (it has been made into a sacred religion of national identity that by definition cannot be wrong) but on liberals.

The dark side to all this, as if their is a bright side, is that when modern nations suffer economic stress internal groups get blamed and, if there is no relief, they face physical brutality. The right-wing view in Germany after WWI was that the German people were the victims of the Western powers and of the Jews. Murdering them was an act of self preservation.

Not to go all Swan and spam the thread, but one other thought:

Weren't these the same people who claimed that the left wants to let everyone do whatever the hell they want, with no rules or bounds, while the right was the party of rules and responsibility?

Yet now they're saying that the left is an all-controlling force that wants to tell everyone how to live?

Can't these stupid gits make up their effing minds (if they even possess them; which, at this point, is up for debate)?

I can understand Rush's frustration. In post-slavery America, owning a football team is the closest you can come to owning black men. I'm sure it sucks to have such a long-time dream crushed.

We're the victim here! We are! It's us! Can't you lieberals see that?

Plus, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it the owners' group that decided to drop Rush? Granted, under some pressure from the NFL, but he wasn't explicitly forbidden from being an owner, was he? In essence, a few NFL players staged a Bill O'Reilly-esque "pre-emptive boycott" of Rush, and the owners group decided to drop him. It seems VERY free market-y to me!

The staff a Red State org was just spotted running full steam to the local 7/11 for an emergency supply of DEPENDS

The NFL, apparently, has slightly higher standards.

Let us pause, my friends, to contemplate the depths of Limbaugh's depravity that statement reveals.

Rush has been getting away with his nonsense for years. It's amazing that only now there's a consequence for his nuttiness. LOVE this blog, but can we lose the "indeed" at the beginning of sentences?

I feel like I'm listening to an ascot wearing-throat clearing, tweedy, self-important professor. "Indeed, I do say, that Mr. Limbaugh..."

I'm glad the NFL rejected Limbaugh. Couldn't have happened to a, uh, nicer guy. And as one friend said, the NFL already has enough wackos in positions of power.

Now I wish people would stop using "drug-addled" as a pejorative to describe Limbaugh. Isn't the fact he's a racist insult enough? Why do people judge him for being a drug addict? Yes, he hid it. Yes, he committed crimes to feed his addiction. But since when is it OK to ridicule someone for such an affliction?

Great news! Way overdue for a punch in his gut. Now, if it can only continue. Maybe those high-end lingerie outlets would stop sending panties to Glen Beck...

I don't care one bit for Limbaugh, but the hypocrisy of the NFL and liberal/democrat [sic] bloggers alike is sickening, if they strike down the racist REDSKINS in the same breath.

Whoa, wait -- I thought your folks on the right hated political correctness?

Now you're not only all for it, but it's all the fault of liberals that such offensive names haven't been changed?

MAKE UP YOUR FUCKING MINDS ALL READY!!

Sweet dear Jesus on a big wheel -- it's hard to keep up with why you hate us so much. Just pick something and stick with it. Sheesh ...

Fuck Rush...well maybe not, bad visual.

One more vote for the FREE MARKET! Rush made a bid and was rejected. I think what hurts is that some of his players could make as much or more than he makes currently.

"But since when is it OK to ridicule someone for such an affliction?"

In Rush's case, he made vicious and hypocritical statements about drug use and its legal consequences. If not for that, I'd agree with you.

Also note: the trend toward viewing addiction as treatable illness (albeit with an ethical component) is liberal. Period. On this point, we've been struggling for decades against the likes of Rush. Now he wants to benefit from liberal ideas about drug addicts. Not that he wants others to be treated humanely. Just him.

The NFL, apparently, has slightly higher standards. This isn't discrimination against Republicans; it's an athletic league that doesn't want anything to do with a drug-addled racist clown

Spare me. It's a business decision based on the fact that the NFL needs more than 13 million (or whatever the real number is) dittoheads watching games every Sunday to keep its profits where they are. Even a dim bulb like Roger Goodell could see that Rush would alienate MANY more fans than he would draw to the sport.

As others have mentioned, poor Rush's dreams were dashed by the reality of the "free" market.

Poor little Rush and the "right" - can't take even a tiny little taste of being "Dixie Chicked". At least he's got his 5 million dollar contract to fall back on instead of having to basically start over. Even in tiny doses, Karma happening is incredibly satisfying :)!

My parents were small town businessmen, and it was a requirement of doing business that they kept their politics close to their vest. They wanted customers to judge them on their price and service, not their political beliefs. Shock jocks like Rush want it both ways, to make millions acting like a racist clown, but to participate in business ventures where the customer is asked to just ignore all that.

The best part of all this is that Rush did it to himself.

He started off his show today by saying that Dave Checketts, the guy heading up the effort to buy the Rams, specifically told him that Checketts had been assured by NFL higher-ups that no one would object to Rush being an owner.

I'm absolutely sure that Checketts said that, but when he did so I'm equally sure he thought he was going to sneak Rush's involvement past everybody or at least keep it quiet until it was too late for anyone to do anything about it. I'm also positive that Checketts never expected that Rush would go out and make himself the public face of their bid for the Rams, MONTHS before any possible sale could take place.

If Rush had just kept his fat mouth shut, none of this might have happened.

Mike

...there are plenty of GOP owners in professional football...

In fact, anecdotal evidence indicates that many of those players protesting against Rush are probably Republicans.

In John Feinstein's book about the 2004 Baltimore Ravens, "Next Man Up", he mentioned that only two players claimed to be Democrats and that only one of them, Bart Scott, planned to vote for Kerry.

WE ARE ALL THE WALRUS. GOO GOO G'JOOB.

Exactly, MBunge! It is Rush's nature to open his ...mouth. If you know the fable of the frog/turtle and the scorpion, you get it. If I were a NFL player, having Checketts as my owner would also give me pause, since he chose Rush as a potential investor. But, players being what they are(from my perspective), they would not act on their concern. If the checks clear, they are OK with it...with a few exceptions. See Dave Zirin for more in depth analysis of this story. www.edgeofsports.com

If Rush had just kept his fat mouth shut...

Posted by: MBunge on October 15, 2009 at 2:23 PM | PERMALINK

Yeah, but that's like saying "well, if the sun hadn't come up this morning..."

I wonder what the Tillman family thinks about this nonsense?

Since when are billionaire owners and NFL bigwigs "liberals"? Billionaire owners decided that the terminally offensive, drug-addled, racist, bloviator would be bad for business. They wouldn't embrace Rush anymore than they'd agree to carry around a lump of radioactivity in their pockets.

Rush the NFL owner would probably be able to refrain from overtly racist remarks, but there is no way he can retain his audience without race-baiting on a regular basis. It is a core feature of his program and his popularity with conservatives. The NFL won't take that chance.

BTW, I'm a Charger fan and I can assert that the NFL ownership club is still conservative-friendly. Just google Alex Spanos.

ich bin ein limblahger! [or something]..maybe rush wants that jelly donut.....

Half elf: I see your point about Limbaugh, i.e. his hypocrisy about drugs, drug addiction, etc.

Still, it feels like his drug addiction is being used as a slur, even if it is only being used to highlight his total hypocrisy on the subject.

Many of us know how Rush feels when his dream is thwarted by liberals. America could be so much more if we didn't have to be dragged down by them. It hurts.

Al, has the Democratic party paid you to pretend to be a Republican and act wierd? They sure are getting their money's worth.

Let's take up a collection and buy Limbaugh a polo team.

"We are all Rush Limbaugh."

I like that. That pretty much sums up this "Yahoo! I'm Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs" crowd.

mark: "Let's take up a collection and buy Limbaugh a polo team."

Polo, no. But how about roller derby?

I think there are black people that skate. No black polo players...not sure about the horses.

Is there anything to the rumor that the NFL is going to emboss Limbaugh's likeness on the pigskins to help set new kicking distance records?

Tonight, Rush is us. And we are him.

So the RedStaters are copping to being a buncha racists? At least they're honest. Disgusting, but honest, finally.

Awwwww... poor Rushie. It really is a shame. We all have dreams. His dream is to own several black men. If this was the America he dreamed of it would be as simple as going down to the auction, bidding, and taking them away in shackles. Such a shame he has to reap what he has sown with his hateful bigotry. It must break his tiny stone heart.

Our dreams of success and happiness devastate their need to dominate and control you and me... and well everything and everyone.

So Rovian, accusing 'the left' of what Republicans and Republican supporters were trying to do for the past 8 years, if not longer. Quite clinical, really.

I'm still suprised Limbaugh wanted to be an owner in the socialist NFL.

"Revenue sharing???? Salary caps??? What is this, communist Russia????"

I have to say, I do love how a bunch of guys who make, at best, $50,000 a year are absolutely convinced that they're exactly like a guy who makes $500 million so that any action that hurts him will automatically hurt them.
I assume they also think they're in the top 1% of earners in the US, so they actually think that a capital gains tax cut would benefit them more than it would benefit, say, investment bankers and hedge fund managers.

My diagnosis: Stockholm Syndrome.

"...Rush is us . And we are him."? Well, in that case, I am the Walrus.

Well, if the IOC's decision in favor of Rio was a "humiliation" for Barack Obama, then what can this be but an absolute disgrace and total personal rejection for Rush? Live by Schadenfreude, die by Schadenfreude.

[...] Tonight... We Are All Rush Limbaugh."

Lots of bul(l)rushes, but no Moses...

All Your Rush's Are Belong To Us

And so the legend grows.

Ladies and gentlemen, I thought this was a free country, and I thought that freedom of speech was guaranteed by our founding fathers. To think that a few snide remarks on my part over the years would get me BANNED from football is outrageeeus, I never meant any malice when I uttered my now VERY famous off-color remarks about Donovan on ESPN. I actually have several nig-- ur I mean black friends. Come to think on it I can count some Spics and nips as my buddies. Ooops, no offense ladies and gentlemen.

NFL

No Fools League

So Steve, what exactly did Rush say that you consider racist? Let's get specific and see if you are brave enough to publish words he has actually said.

Join the ranks of putting your blog on the line and see if the 400 Mil man will send the lawyers.

Join the ranks of putting your blog on the line and see if the 400 Mil man will send the lawyers.

I doubt it.

If he were going to file a lawsuit against anybody, his lawyers would have told him to STFU about the whole thing.

He went public with a statement yesterday.

I keep hearing how he's going to sue CNN and MSNBC, but I don't care how much money Limbaugh has - he's not going to go up against GE and Time-Warner.

He's already decided the poutrage this will generate is of more value to him than trying to get a judgment against two of the largest corporations in the country.

He'll end up dropping hints of a lawsuit for a week or so, then nothing will happen. His listeners will forget about it pretty quickly, small-brained creatures that they are.

All this crying and whining about poor, poor Rush not being able to "live the dream" is So Much Fun!!

It must be awfully boring to be the Voice of the Right and hear your name chanted at the CPAC dinner, to be able to bully anyone you want, any time you want, on nationwide radio.

If THAT'S not his dream, I'd be happy to take over his show.

Crybaby.

It seems to me that all the negative vibes this blowhard (Rush Hudson Limbaugh A.KA. Jeff Christie) has been spewing over these many years has come back to blow back on his face (A classic “Blow Back”). He always tries to give off the airs that he can have anything he wants but as we all witness those with more money and influence tossed him aside like sack of potatoes and the ultimate insult was that it was done in public (money don’t buy you everything butterball).

Now of course he blames everyone else (Michael J. Fox, Perez Hilton, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Sonia Sotomayor, Hillary Clinton, Olympia Snowe, ESPN, NFL, the media, basically people of color, women and gays) when of course all you have to do is listen to his show and plainly hear his daily prejudices filled sermons. So NFL, I salute you decision, job well done. And to the whaling cry baby perched on his self made pedestal, quit your whining it was your own fault. Don’t we all feel better?

So Steve, what exactly did Rush say that you consider racist? Let's get specific and see if you are brave enough to publish words he has actually said.

For the record, Steve has been doing so for some time. The full record is in the archives. Rush's repeated record of racism is hardly a new phenomenon, "Teehee" -- nor is it a laughing matter.

Jackass.

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