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Something to piss Al Sharpton off? Seriously? I am not a fan of Rush but couldn’t you have picked ANYONE else but a self-loving self-grandizing opportunist hack like Al Sharpton to try to make your point?

Or do you not see that they are almost exactly the same person, save the difference in melonin?

Switch the names in the article around and it would still work!

That makes my point quite well, even if it confuses you. The example works for me perfectly because I try to take my shots at both Liberals and Conservatives. Check the handle.

Chances are if you do something to piss of Rush you’ve offended conservatives. If you do something to piss off Sharpton you’ve offended Liberals.

Liberals see Sharpton as about as legitimate as conservatives see Rush.

I said that Sharpton wasn’t right in what he did and that’s enough for me.

Sorry, you don’t move me.

Sharpton is not some sort of leader for liberal interests just because he has the same nemesis as liberals in Rush. His battle is strictly racial interests.

Let Rush buy his team. I would bet certain high profile athletes will refuse to play there and a semi-segregated fan base will develop. Should be interesting.

it’s a moot point because the owners would have to approve it, and if the players union is already protesting, the owners won’t risk the sort of problem that could explode over this.

Fred,

I think I would have to work pretty damn hard to come up with an issue that I could actually care even less about than this one.

Limbaugh loves/seeks controversy, and Sharpton has never met a camera, or microphone he didn’t like.
This planet has never seen a bigger pair of gaseous windbags in it’s entire history.

And don’t get me started on the NFL players and owners.

The games for me have become merely a pleasant inducement to a Sunday afternoon nap.

Let the games begin.

Rocky

You caught me Rocky. I’ve been kinda slummin’ it the last two articles, with Palin and Rush.

I guess the right column here is just so boring these days, I can’t help poking a stick in their cages now and then.

Schwamp

“I would bet certain high profile athletes will refuse to play there and a semi-segregated fan base will develop. Should be interesting.”

Should be interesting? yeah, let’s devolve back in time forty years. It’ll be interesting.

Schwamp,

The athletes will go where the money is regardless who owns the team, and BTW, if the team wins, the fans will be dumb enough to accept it.

Fred,

Rush did an interview with NBC recently during which he said that the MSM doesn’t understand when he is kidding.
Frankly, as a semi-regular listener, I can’t tell when he is kidding either.

Rocky

Rush Limbaugh is increasingly resembling Sen. Joe McCarthy, with the ability to rationalize any and everything in his support and in condemnation of all critics. As long as he keeps to his role as rotund entertainer for those subscribing to such entertainment, however, he does not pose near the threat to America or citizens at large as Sen. Joe McCarthy did. Or, McCarthy’s sidekick, Tricky Dick Nixon, whose campaign in 1946 used anonymous phone callers to call registered Democrats and ask, “Did you know that Jerry Voorhis [Nixon’s opponent] is a Communist?” Leaving Nixon free to deny his campaign ever called Voorhis a Communist, but simply asked voters if they knew she was one, or not. Nixon learned well from Joe McCarthy on the HCUA.

Rocky,

It’s true. I’ve listened too and on some level he must be playing to those that actually feel this way. He’s walking the same line that Coulter walks and it’s covered in cash.

Ratings go down so Annie claims Jews need to become Christian to be perfected and then her ratings go back up.

This happens to be a case of Rush’s ratings being so high that he’s got too much cash burning a hole in his pocket. He’s gotta pick up a football team or something else pricey.

David

You’re right, but the scary part is how modern day versions of McCarthy see his legacy. Anne Coulter’s defense of McCarthy as misunderstood and an American savior says it all. The book in which she claimed this sold quite well too.

Bereta9

There’s a lot to argue that the James Earl Ray one is BS and Rush is denying several other quotes. He said what he said about McNabb and the “safer after dark” during slavery quote is solid, but he was joking, right? I thought it worth pointing out that you should go to that link again and scroll down to the video of Rush, after the top ten.

You can claim anybody wrote or said those quotes, but watch Rush himself, in action.

Defending “Barack the Magic Negro”.

Lastly, I myself have listened to the man and can attest to the thin line he walks in order to maintain his mass of listeners.

Here is a better list of quotes than the ones in the above link.

“Look, let me put it to you this way: The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.”

“I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: Slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back. I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.”

“The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.”

“Take that bone out of your nose and call me back!”
Oh, and these.

“We need segregated buses. … This is Obama’s America.”

“President Obama is black. And I think he’s got a chip on his shoulder.”

“Democrats are interested in Darfur to secure black “voting bloc.”

“Minorities never do anything for which they have to apologize.”

“Obama’s nomination for president “goes back to the fact that nobody had the guts to stand up and say no to a black guy.”

“Obama is a “halfrican-American.”

Who cares if Rush buys a team or not. He aint any worse than any of the other idiot owners. Jerry Jones comes to mind.
I’ll bet if the likes of Al Sharpton or Jessie Jackson wanted to buy a team no one would take notice. But sense it’s some one the left don’t like it becomes a nationl emergency.

Scwamp
I’ll bet that none of the ‘high profile athletes’ could care less who owns the team they’re on as long as their overly inflated pay checks keep coming.

To be fair, many people would notice if sharpton or Jackson bought a team. The right wing media would try to make a big deal out of it, calling it an example of media favoritism.

I wouldn’t call it a national emergency, I would just say that Rush’s sensationalist comments are making it difficult for him to carry out a simple business transaction. I’m sure his ratings went even higher after these attacks on him, though.

I think guys like Jerry Jones made Rush think this was a good investment for a guy like him.

I really wonder if your assumptions about the “high profile” players are correct. Most of them being non-white.

Fred
Sense 99% of the NFL players, White or Black, are in it for the money I would say my assumption is right. If the over inflated checks quit coming they quit playing. Thing is most of them aint worth a 1/4 of what they get paid.
Emmet Smith, Jerry Rice, Roger Stalbach, and Mean Joe are about the only ones that even came close to being worth their checks.
Sad thing is it’s that way in all professional sports. The players are only in it for the over inflated pay checks. That’s why I prefer peewee, middle school, high school, and college football.

Ron, Al Sharpton got involved because the black players were announcing that they will not play for the St. Louis team if Rush becomes a owner.

Many of the owners are just as right wing as Rush but they aren’t on the airways constantly making racial slurrs.

The over inflated checks are crazy, yet professional athletes don’t get stoned by mobs when they travel. They get asked for autographs.

All those kids you watch play school ball would love getting a big fat check, that’s why they’d do it if they got into pro sports. Few play for love of the game these days. The idea of a mansion appeals to today’s youth though.

The wrecked body you’re left with after playing in the NFL for ten plus years is nothing to ignore either.

Yeah, A whole heap of kids would like those big checks. But very few are ever going to even get a college to look at them. And even fewer are going to make to the NFL.
My oldest 3 grandsons is are on school teams. they’re playing becuse they like the game. The oldest is a pretty decent safety. The middle one is is a wide reciver, and a very damn good one too. The youngest is a running back and aint to shaby. But neither one of them think they’ll play in the NFL.
A whole heap of other kids are playing too. And some are very good players. And most know they’ll never get to the NFL. But that doesn’t stop them from playing. Reckon maybe they’re playing because they love the game?

I said “All those kids you watch play school ball would love getting a big fat check, that’s why they’d do it if they got into pro sports.”

I was referring to when you said “Sense [you meant ‘since’] 99% of the NFL players, White or Black, are in it for the money I would say my assumption is right.”

You can’t have it both ways grandpa. I said that those who got into pro sports did it for the money and you already agreed with that statement. I then explained that of those “kids” getting into pro sports, many don’t play for love of the game and would find a mansion appealing.

All of that agrees with stuff you already said, right? When did your grandchildren get into this?

You can claim some kind of high ground by loving nonprofessional sports, but the NFL still gets that 99% of its greedy gold chain wearing players from all those school teams you love to watch. Whatever high ground you’re standing on has nothing to do with my point anyway.

Rush got shut down because his sensationalist behavior has caused trouble. Just calling a spade a spade.

Fred,

Sensationalism isn’t what got Rush in trouble, it was his bigotry. Hell, the NFL loves sensationalism.

OK Fred, maybe I misunderstood ya. I know that there aint many if any NFL players that didn’t play in high school. And some even younger.
All three of my grandson started playing in the peewee leagues at 8 years old. You want to talk about youngins that know no fear. Try watching a peewee game. They can also come up with some very interesting, and funny, plays that aint in any of the books.
I personally don’t care if they let Rush buy a team or not. And I’ll bet there are bigots that own NFL teams. They just aint as opened as Rush. That is if he is as bigoted as y’all say.

gergle
So if Jeremiah Wright wanted to buy an NFL team his bigorty would get him in trouble too then?
I somehow doubt it.
The difference is Rush is a right wing bigot and we can’t have that. But Wright is a left wing bigot so that’s alright.
And that’s about all this ruckus about Rush wanting to buy a team amounts to.

It’a all moot now anyhow, Rush is out of the running, thanks to protests of his bigotry by the players who “wouldn’t care who owned the team”.

Ron,

Dream on. I doubt Wright has the cash to invest. Marge Schott got in trouble, too. The NFL loves media splash, they just don’t want any negative splash to get them or their cash cow wet.

Hell, Rush couldn’t even keep another sports show job. He is totally dependent on his bigoted “controversy”. If it isn’t Blacks, it’s Liberals, or the French, women, or whatever he hates at the moment. Michael Savage and idiot whining child Glenn Beck are cheap imitations. The sooner Americans get some balls and brains and start ignoring these clowns the better. Conservatives included.

Would anyone care to site sources, other than NBC, CNBC,or CNN, and or give dates as to when Rush made these bigoted remarks?

Rush has admitted that he said the NFL is like the Bloods and Crips without weapons. No citing necessary since Rush admitted this one.

I think the only argument left is whether his words offending people really matter or not. It’s not a question of whether he offends people on a daily basis or not. It’s his bread & butter, whether it’s about, like gergle said, Blacks, liberals, French or women, etc. He’s in the business of shock radio and that effect his image in other endeavors.

You think people cheer when Howard Stern walks into a five star restaurant. They think he’s a pig, just like they think Rush is a pig. I think it’s just part of the job description.

I’m sure Glenn Beck’s children think he’s a great daddy because he provides so much for them, but millions of people hate the man’s guts in order for him to provide for his family.

Michael Moore is in the same boat now that we mention it.

Ron maybe this will help.

http://newsone.com/obama/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes/

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/limbaugh.asp