Go Home Rush Limbaugh

[Lady's Human]

What's sad about Rep. Lee's speech is that the first part of it was actually a decent explanation of her view of the stimulus package. She impressed me with the first 2 minutes, actually. It was a very concise, well formed commentary on her view of the governments role in bringing the country out of the recession. (I disagree with it, but it was a good explanation of her position)


It went south rapidly from there.

The first 2 minutes will be lost, and the rest of it will just add fuel to the fire.

[Puckstop31]

What I get from this thread.

1.) I like using my new MacBook. The keyboard rocks.

2.) Its interesting how, to some people, that a person who atones for their sins and cures themselves of their addictions... Can never really be redeemed. Is there no hope for mankind?

3.) I continue to laugh at the disdain certain people have for other people who they know nothing about, other than what is said about them in the press. Lemmings perhaps?

4.) Rush got what he earned. He executes his free speech. The NFL owners exercised theirs. But...

5.) The whole premise of the NFL owners/players arguement is based on a outright lie. There is ZERO proof of the quotes used were ever said by Limbaugh. Since when did a citizen have to prove he did NOT say something, rather than the press needing to prove something was said?

I know... Facts.... Proof.... Matters not anymore. Style matters. Substance comes second. Liz proved it by just now noticing what Rush said 6 years ago. She showed how people like her work.

Call me on it. Please?

[Edwina's Secretary]

people like her

A phrase as narrow-minded, bigoted, condescending, and uneducated as...

"Not me...I have friends who are.....people like her!

[RICHARD]

Four yards and you get a strikeout?

[Edwina's Secretary]

Four yards and you get a strikeout?

You want to translate that RICHARD? Into English for people like me?

[RICHARD]

Does a sticky wicket count for three points?

[Grace]

Does a sticky wicket count for three points?

Is that a personal question

[Lady's Human]

Get it right, Richard.

TEN yards and you get a strikeout, 4 balls is a touchdown, and a sticky wicket is only worth 2 points.



(People like you, Sara, will just never get it......there's no 'splainin the technimacalities of sports to you wimmin-folk)

[blue]

[RICHARD]

Is that a personal question

oh,

I don't know anymore.

I am just thankful that I have half a brain to think at the moment.

I am absolutely gob smacked that people can be so brilliantly comatose and incapable of any rationality.

I am seriously gob smacked. Speechless.

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LH,
So Zamboni isn't an Italian Ice ?

[Puckstop31]

A phrase as narrow-minded, bigoted, condescending, and uneducated as...

"Not me...I have friends who are.....people like her!

As usual... Nothing to say about content, only "style". And as usual, you cherry pick a phrase and take it out of context.

Name calling ES? Thats all you got? I expected more from you than that.


ETA: Upon further reflection, you have one thing right about me, in a way. I am a bigot. I am bigoted against ignorant people who make statements without knowing the facts OR being willing to discuss the merits of something. The OP states that Rush not being part of a NFL ownership group is good for the NFL. Why? Of course the OP cannot and will not answer that, because she does not know why, just that a person she does not like "failed".

But I am the one who is all the names you called me?

[kokopup]

gob smacked

Richard, I didn't know you were a Brit.

[RICHARD]

Richard, I didn't know you were a Brit.

I'm not. I should have been born one tho.

I love the understated flow of their country.

I was watching Top Gear and they commented on "Gentleman's Special Interest Clubs". Strip Club to you and me, here in the states!

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If the footballers, god bless their little hearts, are so upset about working for RL, why don't they revolt and not work for the "white man' and walk away from the whole league?

I am sorry, but some of these idiots have no problems working SHOULDER TO SHOULDER with thugs, abusers, killers and ????????

Why? THEY DON'T SIGN THE PAY CHECKS!!

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We won't work for Rush, But we will let 'the cause' be hacked and made a joke by letting My pal Al Sharptongue and Jesse Jerkson speak for us?

Pshaw!

[lizbud]

Why The NFL Said No
Dave Zirin
Sports Writer for The Nation

Over the last eight years, even though it often made me break out into hives, I've listened to a lot of Rush Limbaugh. I've heard him express the full gamut of his emotional range: from hateful to very hateful. But over all this time, I've never known him to be pathetic until yesterday.

As the media has now endlessly dissected, Rush was thwarted this week in his efforts to buy the National Football League's St. Louis Rams. His ownership group, led by St. Louis Blues boss Dave Checketts, dumped Rush without ceremony or pity. Checketts issued a statement saying, "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. As such, we have decided to move forward without him and hope it will eventually lead us to a successful conclusion."

His comments came the day after Rush insisted on his show that they would fight this to the bitter end. But Checketts, like most owners a long time donor to right wing causes, had no desire to link arms with Limbaugh for a public crusade.

You might think Rush would have gone on the air to slam Checketts's absence of a spine. You might think he would have called out the hypocrisy of NFL owners who give prodigiously to right wing candidates and causes, but insist on doing it in the shadows. You might think he would rail against those who see their conservative support as something sordid and best done behind closed doors. You might think Rush would howl at the moon at those who think that being an open, unreconstructed right winger, actually hurts the almighty bottom line.

You might think he would say that the right wing has failed a major test by refusing to back him. Or maybe you might think he would take a different tack and accept personal responsibility for why a group of billionaires wouldn't want his presence affecting their bottom line.

But no. Rush instead had this to say about why his defeat occurred:

This is about the future of the United States of America and what kind of country we're going to have.....This is the latest assault on people who believe in rugged individualism and liberty and freedom who threaten the whole notion of state control tyranny and central authority which is typified by the Obama administration and the Democrat Party.

It boggles the mind. For someone who claims a belief in rugged individualism and rails against "victim politics" while he preaches personal responsibility, it was almost jarring to hear Rush whine about "tyranny" on the left when it was his compadres on the right who just said no.

It was even worse to hear MSNBC's Pat Buchanan defend Rush, comparing this episode to the McCarthyite witch-hunts of the 1950s, saying "this is blacklisting," which "liberals used to condemn." To compare a crew of billionaires throwing Rush under to bus to McCarthy's persecutions, is about as offensive as Glenn Beck's efforts earlier this week to compare Fox News to the Jews in the Holocaust. Yes, it hasn't been a banner week for conservative metaphor.

Let's be absolutely clear: there is nothing in the First Amendment that covers the right to own an NFL team. Owners have the right to protect their brand and Rush needs to deal with the fact that in 21st century America, he is a liability and not an asset.

As for the position "liberals" should take in such a manner, it seems more than obvious about what side we should be on. I would rather stand with the growing handful of players who were going public with the sentiment that they would never play for someone so noxious. Remember, NFL players have next-to no control over what team they play for. They don't have guaranteed contracts. A recent study showed that many suffer dementia or Alzheimer's when they hit their mid 40s. According to their collective bargaining agreement, they only have the right to view their own medical records twice a year. It's a situation that former player LaVarr Arrington called "slavery" on his radio show on Thursday. Any time they make an effort to exercise any kind of control over their professional lives, we should support that. They didn't want to play for someone who said that they "looked like the bloods and the crips without the weapons." Good for them.

As for Rush, maybe he just went about this all wrong. After all, this is a man who once said,
"Holocaust? Ninety million Indians, only 4 million left? They all have casinos...what's to complain about?"

Maybe he should have tried to just buy the Redskins instead.

[Edwina's Secretary]

My favorite Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot story?

He said this...

"Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. ... And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up," Limbaugh said on his short-lived television show on Oct. 5, 1995.

And when he got caught...was he "sent up?" Of course not! The rules are not for him.

What a cry baby. Just once he needs to "man up" and take some responsibility.

He says things that offend some people - that is his right. But then don't be a whiner about the reactions of those he offends.

Personal responsibility - a great concept - for the other guy! That's the Limbaugh way!

I also don't understand how someone with what is probably a good junior college level understanding of US history would not recognize "people like ___". Comes from the same school as "separate but equal."