There’s no double standard. Ted Turner’s not a raving bigot. Neither is Kevin Costner. The analogies are not valid. Those guys also aren’t on the radio every day disparaging and villifying 2/3 of the American people.
And Republicans do NOT watch CBS news. NOBODY watches CBS news. CBS news is not even liberal (the “liberal media” is a right wing phantasm), but conservatives don’t watch anything but Fox News anyway.
…and you accuse people of not being nuanced.
ALL conservatives ONLY watch Fox News? All of them? All the time?
Seems simple enough to me.
Yes Rush has every right to bid on owning a piece of a sports team just like anyone else.
No, he does not have a “right” to own a sports team. As noted above if you owned a business you are under no compulsion to sell to someone you do not like. If there is a Board of Directors who has the say they can likewise say no for almost any reason they like.
Should the NFL prevent the sale? Well, I am betting to them it is a simple business calculation. There are lots of pricks in the NFL so what is one more? However, Rush is high profile and out there daily. He’s a lightning rod. Does the NFL ownership want that extra attention drawn their way? What if he drops another racist bomb on-air and the players get all up in arms (as an example)?
If they think Rush is more a liability than asset then it makes simple business sense to tell him to piss off. If not then he is in. I seriously doubt liberal/conservative politics enters in to it.
And neither is Rush.
Those who write such nonsense, as you have, obviously have never actually tuned into the program. If you say something enough times, people begin to believe it, no matter if it’s factual at all. This is exactly what has happened to Rush. Whether you agree with his politics or not, he is certainly not a bigot, anymore than Pelosi is a Socialist.
Citation that Rush has/is “villifying 2/3 of the American people”, please?
I’m conservative. I don’t watch Fox News. So am I a walking contradiction, in your mind, then? In fact I don’t watch hardly any TV at all, aside from weekend football games.
Next!
Turner is an interesting comparison. Rich guys buy ballclubs because the rich guys have big egos and want publicity. Turner was no exception. Back when he first bought the Braves he even appointed himself manager, until the league stepped in and forbid him from doing that. At no time did he use the ballclub to promote his liberalism though. Further, once he got that all out of his system, he hired professionals and sat down, shut up, and got the heck out of their way. The only way most people remembered that he owned the Braves was when he and his then wife Jane Fonda were seen in their box seats during the playoffs and World Series.
Limbaugh probably isn’t past the look at me stage, IMHO. He’d like to be an owner so he can have a bigger stage. He already demonstrated on ESPN that his brand of conservatism and world-view would be incorporated into his football view. If I was an NFL owner and there were other viable buyers for the Rams, I’d tell Limbaugh thanks but no thanks, you’re more trouble to us then you’re worth to us.
Yes, Rush is a raving bigot with a long history of “I’m not touching you” race baiting bullshit.
I say he villifies 2/3 of the American people because that’s the perecentage of Americans who aren’t right wing conservatives, and he thinks anyone who isn’t a right wing conservative is his mortal enemy. The guy makes his living by demonizing minorities, GLBT people and “liberals” as a monolithic entity (when he isn’t bullying his housekeeper to go score dope for him). He’s burned his own bridges. If nobody wants to be in business with him, that’s his own fault.
At least part of the issue is that those things are fait accompli. There’s a difference between “liberal actor who has made movies for years makes another movie” and “conservative radio host who has never been associated with football suddenly buys football team”. Also, no one is saying “well, all liberals would certainly immediately boycott all Rams games”. In fact, that’s certainly not true. The question is whether there would be enough boycotting, and (probably more significant) enough discussion of and hub bub about boycotting which distracted from the football playing; to make the whole thing a negative from the NFL’s point of view.
Finally, Rush Limbaugh has a combination of prominence and being-disliked-by-his-opponents that is totally unlike any of the above people. There’s really no left wing equivalent, but the closest is probably Michael Moore. And if he tried to buy an NFL team, I’m sure the NFL would (justifiabley) have reservations about it.
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Well, let’s see:
He has the single most listened to radio show in the United States. His audience is 98% Caucasian. That does not make him a bigot by itself but it does make one wonder and want to look closer at how such a massively popular show could be so massively lopsided in its demographics.
So, what does he say on his show? Here are some quotes:
I think someone hit on a viable point here. Rush has a platform almost EVERYDAY, and the NFL prefers their owners to be fairly invisible (even though the Jerry Jones and the Dan Snyder’s tend not to be). There is a very high possibility that Rush wilol say something generally controversial, or may say something specific to the NFL. I could see how just on the grounds that it isn’t so much what Limbaugh says, but his platform that could lead to continual trouble.
I think the James Earl Ray quote is spurious. He at least denies it.
But there’s also “halfrican-American,”
“Barack the Magic Negro,”
“In Obama’s America, white kids are beaten on the bus while black kids yell, ‘right on.’”
Really, there’s a laundry list of trolling, “who me,” provocative, race baiting digs that always stop just short of explicit racism. He’s obsessed with race. It’s a common theme in his drug addled, daily rants.
Yeah, think of Marge Schott x100 with her own daily radio show.
I can see why the NFL would be leery of getting him on board.
It’s not Limbaugh’s politics. It is his high profile, lightning rod status that worries them. As noted earlier if there were an equivalent on the left I think they’d be similarly reluctant.
only possible way I could see this working is if Limbaugh agreed to give up his radio show while an owner. That way at least the NFL wouldn’t have to worry about the latest controversial idiotic statement made by talk show host and NFL owner Rush Limbaugh.
I don’t think would Limbaugh would give up his show though, and even so, the damage might have already been done to the point where the NFL is not interested.
The NFL Commissioner, Roger Goodell, has already said that Limbaugh will not be welcome in the league.
I myself am thrilled that Rush wants to be a part of a socialistic endeavor. With revenue sharing of television receipts, visiting teams getting part of gate receipts, the draft limiting players, salary caps, and having taxes raised to support NFL stadiums rather than the owners paying, the NFL is a perfect spot for a socialist wannabe like Rush.
Are you saying there should be some quota enforced in talk radio audiences? What percentage of talk radio listeners are white? What percentage of blacks are conservative? Maybe you should ask these questions instead of suggesting that Limbaugh is racist or that 20 million listeners are racist for listening to his race-baiting.
Did you even bother to fact-check any of these? Here…I’ll help you with your homework
Also, here’s the transcript of the Bloods and Crips comment
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/estack_12_13_06/the_classless_nfl_culture_.guest.html
The crips and bloods was totally racist, and Rush is a racist, and plenty of his fans are racist.
Like I said before. He plays an “I’m not touching you” game. It’s completely deliberate, barely coded and unmistakable.
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According to ESPN, Rush is out.
I stipulated that this stat, in and of itself, does not indicate that Limbaugh is a bigot. That said I bet when you see smoke you go check to see if there is a fire. There may not be but the smoke makes it worth a closer look.
According to this 10% of African-Americans count themselves as Republicans. 22% non-white people do. So, a lot more than 2% which includes all others except Caucasian.
James Earl Ray one may be bogus. The rest? At best Snopes has it as undetermined. Others are factual. So most of them stand. Thanks for the help.
That 2% is the number that visit the website. Hmmm. Well 91% of those who visit air america’s website are Caucasian. I smell smoke!
http://www.quantcast.com/airamerica.com
96% of those who visit The Nation are Caucasian…more smoke!
http://www.quantcast.com/thenation.com
What percentage of non-whites are liberal? I smell racism.
Undetermined as in there are no audio clips. There are websites that employ a dozen stenographers to copy every word the right wing talkers say. I guarantee you that these clips would have surfaced if they were real.
