Limbaugh: It’s Obama’s Fault I Can’t Own A Football Team
According to Rush Limbaugh, he wasn’t dropped as a member of a group attempting to buy the NFL’s St. Louis Rams because he’s a lightning rod for criticism and the NFL wants to appeal to as many people, right and left, as possible. No, it’s a direct result of Obama being President.
Conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh lashed out at NFL union leader DeMaurice Smith, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and the media a day after being dropped from a group trying to buy the St. Louis Rams.
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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and Colts owner Jim Irsay each expressed misgivings this week at a league-wide meeting about Limbaugh’s involvement, with Goodell saying Limbaugh had made “polarizing” comments and Irsay vowing to vote against him. On Wednesday, [group leader] Checketts said Limbaugh had been dropped from the bid.
During a 15-minute counterattack at the start of his show, Limbaugh said he believes he’s been made an example by a players’ union seeking leverage in talks over a new collective bargaining agreement. What happened to him was an illustration of “Obama’s America on full display,” the commentator said.
First of all, how is this a counterattack, and not just a reaction? “Counterattack” makes it seem as if he was attacked by the NFL.
Anyway, Limbaugh seems to have forgotten when he was an on-air commentator for ESPN and suggested that the media was saying that Donovan McNabb was a good quarterback only because he was black:
Limbaugh’s history hurt his participation in the bid. In 2003, he was forced to resign from ESPN’s Sunday night football broadcast after saying of the Eagles’ Donovan McNabb: “I think what we’ve had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well.”
(Of course Limbaugh hasn’t forgotten. I don’t think he believes 80% of what he says, but he knows what to say to fatten his wallet, and that’s his true master calling.)
To continue with the reverse chronology of this post, I’m reminded of when his job on ESPN was announced, and when asked how much he knew about football, Limbaugh said, “Football’s a lot like life…and I know a lot about life.” To which my buddy KEN responded, “No, football is a lot like what you think life is like.” Which I think sums up the war-as-sports jingoism of Republicans just about perfectly.
Tags: football, NFL, politics, Rush Limbaugh, St. Louis
October 20th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
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 more 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, the handicapped, 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. You are reaping what he has sowed, KARMA, “Palin and simple” like his followers. Don’t we all feel better?
http://www.chasingevil.org/2009/10/rush-limbaugh-in-his-own-words.html