Go Home Rush Limbaugh

[lizbud]

Good news for the NFL. (and they could use it)


http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...x.html?cnn=yes

[Lady's Human]

Great. Bar someone from being a team owner because of what they've SAID?

It's a red letter day for free speech.

Most of what Sharpton and Jackson were accusing Limbaugh of saying was falsely attributed to him, and the one comment he made that keeps getting dragged up (his comment about McNabb) took three days before anyone said anything about it. Three days after the fact, it was whipped into a frenzy. When he actually made the comment, his two coworkers said nothing about it, and continued their conversation as if nothing untoward had been said.

The NFL is a private group, and as such can set their rules for ownership as they see fit, but what would happen if they barred Cynthia McKinney from ownership or her past statements? There would be a firestorm almost instantly.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Has anyone else ever been refused in buying a NFL team?

Convicted drug abuser?

And is this REALLY free speech having a red letter day. He spoke. No one stop him. He has not been arrested.

If someone comes in to the boss' office and says "boss - you are a $@%#%$%." And the boss fires him as a result, would that be a red letter day for free speech?

Of course not. You can say what you want. Call the boss anything you want. But don't whine then about "free speech" because you don't like the reaction you get!

Same thing. He said what he wanted to say. Now go be a big boy (pun intended) and accept the outcome!

(and all the free publicity!!)

[Lady's Human]

Take one league, complete with convicted felons, both players and coaches.

Now take Mr. Goodell's statement about not wanting to bring controversy to the league.....




You don't want controversy? Then get Ray Lewis (oops, Ray wasn't convicted, one of his posse took the fall for him), Michael Vick, and the other 30 some odd active players who are convicted felons off the damned field, boot the convicted felons from the Hall of Fame in Canton, then I'll believe you.

[blue]

I think LH covered it nicely.

However in a private transfer the seller can object to one of the buyers and not sell.

Double standards are afoot!

[Edwina's Secretary]

Take one league, complete with convicted felons, both players and coaches.

Now take Mr. Goodell's statement about not wanting to bring controversy to the league.....




You don't want controversy? Then get Ray Lewis (oops, Ray wasn't convicted, one of his posse took the fall for him), Michael Vick, and the other 30 some odd active players who are convicted felons off the damned field, boot the convicted felons from the Hall of Fame in Canton, then I'll believe you.

I could not care less about controversy. Or football. Don't even know or want to know who these guys are. I have enough trouble keeping the illegal drug user radio heads straight from the sexual harasser radio heads.

I am interested in the Red Letter Day for free speech you spoke of.

Druggie Limbaugh likes it when people admire him for his "freedom of speech" but cries when people don't like him for his "freedom of speech."

What a baby.

Freedom of speech does not mean people have to like you, does it? So some people don't like him because of what he says. That doesn't strike me as an abridgement of his free speech rights.

[Lady's Human]

I have no idea whether Rush Limbaugh has said anything one way or the other about the ownership group cutting him.

The whole reason Mr. Goodell gave for not wanting Mr. Limbaugh as an owner was the controversy he would bring to the league.

That statement is absolutely priceless coming from someone who has allowed convicted felons on the field.


I find it particularly amusing that Al Sharpton (Tawana Brawley, anyone?), who has made just as many controversial statements as Rush Limbaugh, is opposed to Limbaugh as an NFL owner because of the statements he has made....which, when they were made, caused nary a ripple, and only became an issue days later. Despite the spin in the media, it wasn't a racist statement.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Still not answering the question!

Why was this a Red Letter Day for Free Speech?

Does Al Sharpton own a team?

[Lady's Human]

Al doesn't own a team, he doesn't have the money for it.

He, however, lead the charge against Limbaugh buying the team.

The free speech comment is a throw away, really, just a figure of speech tossed in.

[lizbud]

Ole Rush is just a big crybaby. Seems he already has history with
Pro sports.


Quote:
Limbaugh's history hurt his participation in the bid. In 2003, he was forced to resign from ESPN's "Sunday NFL Countdown" 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."

According to transcripts posted on his Web site, in 2007 Limbaugh said: "The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it."


http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4562338

[Lady's Human]

The comments about McNabb were why the NFL was in such a huff about him possibly buying part of a team.......but no one said a damned thing about the comments for 3-4 days.

Tom Jackson and Michael Irvin were on set with Limbaugh at the time, and neither one of them skipped a beat, they kept on discussing what they were talking about.

Given Mr. Irvin's mouth, if there was a real problem with what was said, I believe he would have said something. He's not exactly known for reserving comments on statements.

[Grace]

Was there this much fuss when Bud Selig, et al, wouldn't hear of allowing Mark Cuban to buy the Chicago Cubs? For much the same reason - too much controversy

Perhaps they should have let him - he had the $$$ - and now the Cubs are filing for bankruptcy.

[RICHARD]

Perhaps they should have let him - he had the $$$ - and now the Cubs are filing for bankruptcy.

The bankruptcy is just a way to get a sale done quickly.

Please,
What's to keep him from still investing after the sale?

Tom Jackson is a more 'PC' announcer/broadcaster......so, the fact that Irvin was in the room when this all went down shows that it's a non-story and fake interest by everyone against RL.

I do not listen to Limbaugh and really don't care what he does.

I worked a few years for an *%#(*^$ that didn't like me, but I had no problem with taking the money they paid me.

What they said didn't matter to me, as long as the check cleared.

[Lady's Human]

LMAO!!!!!!!

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee used her speech on the house floor this morning to ask the NFL owners set standards for team ownership.........

Redlining, anyone?

[RICHARD]

LMAO!!!!!!!

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee used her speech on the house floor this morning to ask the NFL owners set standards for team ownership.........

Redlining, anyone?

And nothing said about kids playing baseball with boards on kid's heads in Chicago?

You should be ashamed that you were watching her talk!