ST. LOUIS - Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been dropped from a group seeking to buy the St. Louis Rams.
Limbaugh was to be a limited partner in a bid led by St. Louis Blues chairman Dave Checketts, but Checketts said in a statement Wednesday that Limbaugh's participation had complicated the effort. The group will move forward without him.
Checketts said he will have no further comment on the bid process. Limbaugh did not immediately respond to an e-mail sent late Wednesday seeking comment on Checketts' decision.
Limbaugh said on his radio show earlier Wednesday that he had been inundated with e-mails from listeners who supported him in the bid.
"This is not about the NFL, it's not about the St. Louis Rams, it's not about me," Limbaugh said. "This is about the ongoing effort by the left in this country, wherever you find them, in the media, the Democrat Party, or wherever, to destroy conservatism, to prevent the mainstreaming of anyone who is prominent as a conservative.
"Therefore, this is about the future of the United States of America and what kind of country we're going to have."
Limbaugh's bid ran into opposition from within the image-conscious NFL on Tuesday when Colts owner Jim Irsay said he would vote against the radio personality. Commissioner Roger Goodell said the commentator's "divisive" comments would not be tolerated from any NFL insider.
The league tries to avoid getting snared in controversial issues outside sports, which has caused Limbaugh trouble in the past. In 2003, he was forced to resign from ESPN's Sunday night football broadcast after saying of Philadelphia's 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."
The Rams had no comment, reissuing a statement from Oct. 5 in which owner Chip Rosenbloom said a review of the team's ownership was under way and the club will make an announcement when it's over.
Checketts, the chairman of SCP Worldwide, announced that Limbaugh had been dumped toward the end of a news release.
"It has become clear that his involvement in our group has become a complication and a distraction to our intentions; endangering our bid to keep the team in St. Louis," Checketts said. "As such, we have decided to move forward without him and hope it will eventually lead us to a successful conclusion."
The move was hailed by the Rev. Al Sharpton, one of the most vocal critics of Limbaugh's bid.
"It is a moral victory for all Americans — especially the players that have been unfairly castigated by Rush Limbaugh," Sharpton said in a statement. "This decision will also uphold the unifying standards of major sports."
Sharpton added in a telephone interview that major sports leagues shouldn't welcome owners who are "divisive and incendiary."
Every major pro sports franchise has dealings with its community, he said. "It's unfair for taxpayers to be underwriting people who denigrate them," he said.
Checketts said Limbaugh would have not had any say in the direction of the franchise "or in any decisions regarding personnel or operations."
Before getting dropped, Limbaugh said he had no intention of backing out.
"I'm not even thinking of caving," he said. "I am not a caver. Pioneers take the arrows. We are pioneers. It's a sad thing that our country, over 200 years old now, needs pioneers all over again, but we do."
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/33318154/ns/us_news/
Olias was right!
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Quote from: Locutus on October 14, 2009, 09:18:58 PM
"This is not about the NFL, it's not about the St. Louis Rams, it's not about me," Limbaugh said.
Oh, no, Rush it is all about you and that is exactly why you got dropped, because to you it was never about the NFL or about the Rams.
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I find it a little ironic that Irsay was casting stones though. He had the very same addiction challenge that "Limp jaw" did! :biggrin: The difference is that he came out with it, did his rehab, and has pretty much STFU until this point.
Addiction wasn't the issue with Limbaugh; hypocrisy was.
Quote from: Exterminator on October 15, 2009, 08:15:01 AM
Addiction wasn't the issue with Limbaugh; hypocrisy was.
Didn't he claim addiction and go into rehab? Likely a cover though. . .
Quote from: Palehorse on October 15, 2009, 08:15:58 AM
Didn't he claim addiction and go into rehab? Likely a cover though. . .
Yes but the hypocrisy is the result of his having said prior to that that anyone caught using drugs illegally should be sent to prison...anyone except for him apparently.
I guess NFL is now an acronym for No Fuckin' Limbaugh.
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Quote from: Locutus on October 15, 2009, 09:30:52 AM
I guess NFL is now an acronym for No Fuckin' Limbaugh.
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Quote from: Exterminator on October 15, 2009, 08:19:37 AM
Yes but the hypocrisy is the result of his having said prior to that that anyone caught using drugs illegally should be sent to prison...anyone except for him apparently.
Indeed. I recall that. . . :biggrin:
Quote from: Locutus on October 15, 2009, 09:30:52 AM
I guess NFL is now an acronym for No Fuckin' Limbaugh.
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Quote from: Exterminator on October 15, 2009, 08:19:37 AM
Yes but the hypocrisy is the result of his having said prior to that that anyone caught using drugs illegally should be sent to prison...anyone except for him apparently.
Or a Kennedy
Quote from: me on October 15, 2009, 01:07:05 PM
Or a Kennedy
When did a Kennedy ever say that "anyone caught using drugs illegally should be sent to prison?"
Quote from: Olias on October 15, 2009, 01:57:25 PM
When did a Kennedy ever say that "anyone caught using drugs illegally should be sent to prison?"
Never; she's just too dumb to know the meaning of hypocrisy.
Associated Press
ST. LOUIS -- Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh is blaming others for being dropped from the group trying to buy the St. Louis Rams.
On his syndicated show Thursday, Limbaugh said he was approached by St. Louis Blues chairman Dave Checketts earlier this year about participating in a Rams bid.
He also said Checketts assured him his involvement as a minority investor had been vetted by the National Football League.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Colts owner Jim Irsay both expressed misgivings this week about Limbaugh's involvement. Late Wednesday, Checketts said Limbaugh had been dropped from the bid.
Limbaugh says he believes he has been made an example by a players' union seeking leverage in talks over a new collective bargaining agreement. And he says he believes what happened to him was an illustration of "Obama's America on full display."
On Wednesday, Limbaugh told NFL Network: "I love the NFL. I admire the men who play in the league. I will always have the NFL and its players on a pedestal."
Everyone's fault but his own. :biggrin:
Obama's America? LMFAO! He needs to go back to rehab!
Quote from: Exterminator on October 15, 2009, 02:18:44 PM
Obama's America? LMFAO! He needs to go back to rehab!
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Bingo!
And ya'll are to dumb to realize that this is being done as a deterrent to distract from real problems that need handled. This is all bull shit of the first order.
What the heck did Obama have to do with the NFL in the first place that would cause Limbaugh to say that?
Sounds like Limbaugh is the one who's distracting the issue.
Or is there some larger conspiracy at work here. Maybe the NFL is in cahoots with some terrorist group to distract us from the real problem of securing our nation from attack.
Quote from: me on October 15, 2009, 02:28:46 PM
And ya'll are to dumb to realize that this is being done as a deterrent to distract from real problems that need handled. This is all bull shit of the first order.
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You're going to have to help me out here because that makes absolutely NO sense. :no:
Quote from: Locutus on October 15, 2009, 03:09:15 PM
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You're going to have to help me out here because that makes absolutely NO sense. :no:
That make two of us dummies.
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He's making the news more than the important issues are and it ain't all that ya know. I mean Kennedy was a Senator and he killed someone driving while drunk....Now that's an issue. Why is this Limbaugh thing even news? Why is there a problem with him being part owner of a team...I mean really get serious.
Quote from: me on October 15, 2009, 03:26:48 PM
He's making the news more than the important issues are and it ain't all that ya know. I mean Kennedy was a Senator and he killed someone driving while drunk....Now that's an issue. Why is this Limbaugh thing even news? Why is there a problem with him being part owner of a team...I mean really get serious.
Whoa! I didn't realize how wrong I was the other day when I credited you with some intelligence!
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Quote from: Olias on October 15, 2009, 03:46:51 PM
Whoa! I didn't realize how wrong I was the other day when I credited you with some intelligence!
:wacko: :wacko: :wacko:
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I think she's on the sauce today.
Rush Limbaugh
January 19, 2007
"The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it."
"there is a cultural problem in the NFL that has resulted in a total lack of class on the part of professional players"
I keep telling ole' Henry Hawk that Rush is a racist. :wink:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100013647/the-rush-limbaugh-media-lynch-mob/
:) :) :)
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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100013647/the-rush-limbaugh-media-lynch-mob/
:) :) :)
What the f^ck does a blogger for a stinking Brit rag know about Football?
I quoted what Rush Limpdick said. Exact words. 'Nuff said.
Yup! And it was pretty widespread what he said about Donovan McNab as well. Rush is a racist. :yes:
Here is the enitre story of how Rush led up to those statements...and I agree with him on it.
To set the table for people who do not know, after the Chargers and Patriots game, the Chargers sitting around moping, all depressed, because they had the game won, it was just all kinds of stupid mistakes, and let me tell you what happened. Some of the Patriots went to midfield where the Chargers logo is and started doing an imitation of a victory dance done by Chargers player Shawne Merriman after he sacks a quarterback. Now, here are the Chargers who have lost a game they should have won, who lost a game precisely because of the same kind of behavior they're ripping the Patriots for, and LaDainian Tomlinson says that was classless, (paraphrasing) "We went in there, we beat them twice on their field and we didn't disrespect them. This obviously comes from the head coach," meaning Belichick. LaDainian Tomlinson was accusing Belichick of ordering his players and creating a culture that would make it okay for players to go on the field and taunt and so forth and so on.
Now, LaDainian Tomlinson to me is the classiest player in the National Football League. He doesn't do a dance, he doesn't spike the ball when he scores. He and Marvin Harrison are the two most classy individuals playing in the National Football League today, in skill positions. They just hand the ball back to the referee. They act like they've been there and done that, like scoring a touchdown is no big deal, they don't taunt, they don't act like they've been dissed or any of this. Let me tell you, the Chargers would not have lost that game were it not for a bunch of -- I gotta be very careful here. It's not just irresponsible, but there is a cultural problem in the NFL that has resulted in a total lack of class on the part of professional players.
There was a play where Brady was third and long, he was sacked, fumbled the ball, the Patriots recovered it, it will be fourth and long, forcing an interesting decision late in the game by the Patriots. After the play is over, a Chargers player gets in the face of a Patriots player, head butts him and starts jawing. This is the reason these guys are getting shot in bars, folks, late at night. Fifteen-yard penalty, automatic first down. So for the Chargers to complain about the lack of class by the Patriots, I found laughable. I think something ought to be done about it, because I love the game of football, and I don't like the kind of culture that's taking over, that "you can't diss me, you can't disrespect me." After every sack, players are acting like they've won the Super Bowl, and they're prancing around with these idiotic dances. The latest thing is to act like they're making a jump shot in basketball. It's all done to taunt; it's all done to taunt the other team's fans.
I don't want boring football. I don't want the no-fun league, but you can certainly have great football games without a lack of class. I don't know how it's been allowed to happen this way. I guess the coaches don't feel confident to continue -- this was very rare for the Patriots to act the way they did, and who knows what led to it. I don't think of Belichick as that kind of coach, but Tomlinson's words reverberated around the league. A lot of people said, "I'm glad he said something, because Belichick is getting away here with an image that he doesn't deserve." I've played golf with Belichick; he's a mild-mannered, soft-spoken man. I even saw him at a cocktail party here in Palm Beach before dinner one night. That whole organization to me exudes class, as does Tom Brady, and you don't see them doing this kind of stuff.
One of the reasons the Pittsburgh Steelers had trouble this year was a total lack of discipline, in addition to all their turnovers, total lack of discipline, 15-yard penalties, unnecessary roughness, taunting after plays are over, after successful defensive stands, they blow it. There's something culturally wrong here that is leading to all this. It's gotta be dealt with at the top, because it simply is classless. I can I understand LaDainian Tomlinson being upset because he doesn't do this stuff. But in the current NFL climate the best way for the Chargers to prevent that from happening is win the game and keep this insidious, ridiculous, boorish, classless behavior to a minimum so that you don't lose it on account of that. It's just disappointing, and it's a mystery to me why it's being allowed to continue. Well, actually, I understand partially why it continues, and that's because of ESPN.
ESPN lives off this. ESPN created Terrell Owens. Terrell Owens is who he is, but if Terrell Owens weren't constantly on television with his antics after touchdowns -- I remember, I called this. You remember the Monday night game on ABC and Seattle when after scoring a touchdown, T.O. playing for the Fort'iners, pulls a Sharpie out of his sock, autographs the ball and gives it to somebody. I said, "Folks, this is going to lead to nothing but trouble." Everybody said, "Come on, Rush, lighten up, that was funny." It was classless. Go back and look at the greats who played this game. They would not do anything of the sort, maybe hand the ball off, but not pull a Sharpie out. Everybody started to talk about how much fun that was, ooh, how cool, how creative. Then we get Joe Horn of the United States Saints after he scored a touchdown pulling a cell phone out of his socks and faked making a phone call. Well, guess what shows up on ESPN? So these guys get validated, everybody wants to stand out, they want to get endorsement deals and so forth. So television, making stars out of people who engage in classless behavior helps lead to it and contribute to it. No question in my mind about it. I'll bet the guy that called from El Paso did not expect this as an answer.
Look it, 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.
What he said about McNabb had some truth to it.........it was NOT a racist comment.....he just told his opinion of it.
you guys are making me laugh my ass off today.....it is like Christmas came early for you.... ;D
Quote from: Henry Hawk on October 15, 2009, 05:06:31 PM
.....it is like Christmas came early for you.... ;D
I also heard he is gay! :biggrin:
I rest my case. The whole thing is stupid bull shit and I'm just tired of anyone who isn't in the "inner circle" and who isn't being a sheeple getting trashed. Anymore all you have to do is say the word black and you're called a racist if you happen to be in the wrong political party or disagree with any of the current policies no matter what party you're in. Keeps your small minds off of the larger picture for a few days though don't it? :wink:
Hum, how interesting......George Soros is part of the group that's trying to purchase the team.
Jeezus 'effin Christ! Do you sheeple believe
everything you hear and take it as the truth?? Since you believe these people never lie, you completely discount the possibility that this might have just been yet
another lie told by those paid so much money to tell them? This country is in bad shape when the sheeple believe everything they hear on the radio.
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"The league has 78 percent African-American players," Lebowitz said. "Do you bring in someone who has made racist statements to own a team that's largely made up of players the owner has made slurring statements about?"
With Limbaugh out, the Checketts group is sifting through new investors. A person familiar with the process said global financier and philanthropist George Soros is not under consideration to be a part of the Checketts group. Former Rams running back Marshall Faulk could be part of it, a source said.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4562338
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I think I need to change my signature line to say:
America ...being dumbed down moron at a time....
The whole thing is still a crock any way you shake it and I don't even like Limbaugh.
Quote from: me on October 15, 2009, 02:28:46 PM
And ya'll are to dumb to realize that this is being done as a deterrent to distract from real problems that need handled. This is all bull shit of the first order.
WTF? I thought I was joking about the whole senility thing; now I'm not so sure.
Quote from: me on October 15, 2009, 08:29:51 PM
Keeps your small minds off of the larger picture for a few days though don't it? :wink:
LMFAO! Look at the big brain on 'me'. :rolleyes:
MSNBC Admits: 'Unable to Verify' False Limbaugh Quote; No Retraction or Apology
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By Kyle Drennen (Bio | Archive)
October 16, 2009 - 16:27 ET
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During the 3:00PM ET hour of live coverage on MSNBC Friday, co-host David Shuster admitted that racially charged quotes he and other hosts attributed to Rush Limbaugh had not been verified: "MSNBC attributed that quote to a football player who was opposed to Limbaugh's NFL bid. However, we have been unable to verify that quote independently. So, just to clarify." Shuster did not formally retract the quote or apologize.
On Monday, Shuster revealed the supposed source of the false quote: "Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Farrior says Limbaugh should be denied the privilege of owning an NFL franchise for comments like 'slavery had its merits.'" Speaking with columnist Stephen A. Smith later that afternoon, Shuster's co-host Tamron Hall wondered: "Should a person who says there are merits with slavery be able to have this privilege of owning a team?"
As result of the ensuing controversy raised by the false quotes reported by MSNBC, CNN, and other media outlets, Limbaugh was removed from an investment group that was considering purchasing the St. Louis Rams football team. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/10/16/msnbc-admits-unable-verify-false-limbaugh-quote-no-retraction-or-apolo
CNN's Sanchez Apologizes for Running Fake Limbaugh Quote
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October 16, 2009 - 10:13 ET
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Yesterday CNN's Rick Sanchez was set to go on air and issue an apology for running an unverified quote attributed to Rush Limbaugh. Breaking news of the now-infamous "balloon boy" intervened, and Sanchez was unable to deliver his apology.
It came to the attention of the NewsBusters staff that Sanchez plans on issuing a correction today on-air, reading the following statement:
Earlier this week we provided quotes attributed to Limbaugh to illustrate why some people and players felt that Rush Limbaugh was too divisive to be an NFL owner. One of these quotes, which was in a column in the St. Louis Post Dispatch and in a book largely about conservatives, was refuted by Limbaugh. We have been unable to independently confirm that quote. We should not have reported it and for that I apologize. I feel it is important to hold folks accountable when they make mistakes, and that should include myself and my team.
[Update, 10:55 am Eastern: Sanchez also put an apology of sorts on his Twitter account (per National Review Online)
i've know rush. in person,i like him. his rhetoric,however is inexcusably divisive. he's right tho. we didn't confirm quote. our bad.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2009/10/16/cnns-sanchez-apologizes-running-fake-limbaugh-quote
This is the TYPICAL liberal MEDIA.......they need to be called out MORE often. :rant: :yes: