Rush Limbaugh Thrown For A Loss

Gee……. he’s not as popular as he thought! Would this be Rush’s “failure”??

Rush is a great American, he loves the game, our country and people of all races. Listen to his show for about a week and find out who he is, not what the media says he is. I have been a football fan for years, he would be a great owner!

I think he needs to buy a dogfighting team. Vick could coach. Charlie Rangel could be the business manager.

Fat junkies have as much right to buy a sports team as anyone else.
While I’m no Limbaugh fan, I find it rich that the many sleazy current NFL owners (such as the coward Irsay) are taking the moral high ground when they don’t have a leg to stand on. Limbaugh is no worse than them.

Isn’t Vick playing again?
So, he couldn’t be the coach.
Maybe they could get Barney Frank as the coach, or Reid, or Pelosi, or Bill Clinton. They’ll be looking for jobs when it’s all said and done.
That Snowe lady could be the coach.
She might be looking for a job soon I hear.

David B – good idea, the Eagles could be the Fighting Puppies

But the union stands up for all thefelons who want to play in the league–protecting their individual ‘rights’. I support unions, but the players uion of the NFL stinks!

RE: wis134
Funny how you think statements by the likes of Sharpton are inappropriate but you still endorse lounge acts such as Rush. Wrong is wrong…it doesn’t matter what color you are.

I’m glad that some sane democrat thinks that wrong is wrong and that Al Sharpton is in that group along with Rush.

If Limbaugh owned the Rams,they would move ahead of the Dallas Cowboys as my number one team to hate.

It is too bad that this has to be made a racial issue. It is an economic issue. If and when the owners vote, their main concern will be: Will it make money for them.
I agree with Gus above. Rush Limbaugh is probably not seriously wanting to be an owner. He is simply stoking his base. He readily admits to doing that. He is an entertainer….and a very successful one.

we the people: If insulting Obama get you off, then continue on with ur stupid insults. 54% of the voting public voted for him. He is the POTUS. You can like it or you can lump it but it is not going to change. So continue to cry yourself to sleep at night but it is what it is…

How about focusing on something seriously?
The CEO’s of some banks are about to get l40 Billion dollars in bonus money.
They should be paying their debt (bail-out loans), but instead they get richer by the minute.
Anybody care to comment on this?
Or would you rather focus on Rush some more? Nobody is going to sell him a team, so settle down. Rush already knew that; he’s just stirring the pot again and you are falling for it – again.
Focus on things that matter:
Campaign Contribution Reform;
Banking and Auto Industries repaying their debts;
Health Care Reform (one that we can all afford)

rush limberger is a moron but if he wants to buy a nfl team, so be it. Who really cares? just don’t support his team if you are opposed. the nfl is such a sham anyway

Hey, if Rush got the team they could re-name them the Oxy-Morons! Appropriate I’d say.

It was Jim Irsay’s father that moved the Colts from Baltimore, not him. More attention to the facts.

Interesting…so to the NFL…someone who expresses their own opinion is bad…people who serve time in prison are good and can still play.

Some of the comments make some of you sound just like your so-called buddy…forget RUSH and the ship he came in on.

I don’t like Rush and I don’t like Sharpton. A racist is a racist…I don’t care what color or party they are.

Mr. Limbaugh has some serious repenting to do. To be so widely disliked cannot really work in his favor. Time to make friends, share toys and be nice to others.

Rush has made many, many, many people upset by his bigot remarks. Your right he does have every right to buy a into a team. I doubt many would refuse to play just because of him. The all-mighty dollar will make them play in STL.

Neither Rush Limbaugh nor Al Sharpton are worth the time to spit on either one. They’re both incurable whiners and propagandists. When Americans become more interested in the facts about issues, then we’ll become an educated citizenry as we’re supposed to be.

rush is a slob and you know it jill

Well,he’s the most un-American public figure I know & certainly not good for an NFL team owner ! After saying he’d rather side with Al-Qaeda than the President of the United States (!), I think he’s treasonous scum !

ESPN, “We want Limbaugh to fail.”

wis134 seems to have a case of selective memory. It’s the one thing that is truly bipartisan in American politics.
Jesse Jackson’s biggest racial controversy involved using the term “Hymietown” to describe New York during a Presidential primary. That one comment flushed away any chances he might have had at gaining the nomination. And it’s followed him to this day. No one with a memory longer than the tip end of…well, you know…would even bother to claim that Jackson hasn’t paid a price for his racially charged statements.
Al Sharpton’s long since marginalized himself by leeching on to every conceivable race-based controversy in NYC and beyond for the past twenty years or more. He is no longer taken seriously outside of his home base, and is nowhere near what you could call a “power broker”, either in the Democratic Party, or in American politics. Sharpton is now irrelevant to the national debate – perhaps the worst penalty for controversial statements and positions. (For conservative examples of this phenomenon, see: Bachmann, Michele L.; Palin, Sarah H.; Santorum, Richard L.)
Rush Limbaugh should not be an NFL owner. This ain’t the NHL, folks. The league is in excellent financial health, and revenues go up every year. The last thing it needs is for Limbaugh to go on his radio show, blathering about how Steven Jackson looks like a drugged-out Rastafarian and how he should cut his hair “to be more respectable…like Kyle Boller!”
NOTE FOR THE LEARNING-IMPAIRED: No one is suggesting that Limbaugh be dropped from the Checketts bid. What the NFLPA and other people are doing is trying to pressure the owners into rendering a Limbaugh-backed bid DOA. That is those parties’ right – every bit as much as it is Limbaugh’s right to bid on the team.
Even if you agree with Limbaugh’s views (which is difficult if you have more than two synapses functioning simultaneously…but I digress), it’s a business blunder of billion-dollar proportions to let someone as radioactive as Limbaugh into the owners’ fraternity. Imagine Marge Schott with her own megaphone and ambition, and blend in a 24-hour news cycle that is constantly starved for anything quotable. The resulting sulfurous smell is what Rush Limbaugh, NFL owner, would bring to his team and the league.
The Rams suck badly enough on their own. They certainly don’t need Limbaugh’s assistance in that regard.

I personally think the man(is he a man?)is an ASS. He spews his garbage from his pulpit daily. How does he get his head through the door? I choose not to listen to him. He does however have the right to become a part owner of a team. This is the way it is in the USA!!

Rush, Besides not succeeding in the purchasing of the team, that lazy ass never served in the military or did anything that he wasn’t paid for first.

Rush limbaugh’s owning an NFL football team would be like bin Laden buying the Statue of Liberty. Question: Does he not have enough to gripe about without his bigoted focus on the Rams? Every loss would be blamed on the Black players as he has criticized them numerous time on the air and in print. He represents what is wrong in America.

In response: Posted by: newz4i | Oct 14, 2009 7:22:37 PM
“apothegm1 the definition of slander is to say things detrimental about someone that you know to be untrue. In light of that you may want to rethink your suggestion that Rush sue everybody! The pompous windbag who seems to be your hero would end up broke! Probably trigger a relapse.”
Well, Tom, the key words being ‘detrimental’ and ‘untrue’ in defining slander, truth is a funny thing, having little to do with popularity or anything else for that matter. So your ‘hero’ comment is lacking in substance. In this case, the accused has publicly denied the accusation and charged accusers to either put up their evidence, or provide public retraction…which seems generous given that the smears have been many and very public with no facts being presented or verified. Now, to me, it makes no difference whether the object of the smear is Limbaugh or Obama, there must be some standard of accountability where those making false statements must be forced to make a serious effort to repair the damage done…attempt to make the injured whole. That is a principle of law. Unfortunately, in the case of public slander, the victim can never be made whole. Once uttered, the lie/s can never be erased from memory and thus the stigma remains forever. If you are of a permissive mind that allows such treatment of those with whom you disagree, then, my friend, you have missed the whole point of Americanism where the ideal of mutual respect for the rights and personhood of all is seasoned with the salt of disagreeing agreeably. To lie about another in such a way as to bring harm upon their person or their reputation comes from the same place as murder.

I hope that Rush takes this controversy to the next level and sues the Bast*ards. He owes the American Public a complete airing of the real reasons behind this outcry – and racism is not it.
Listening to Rush is an every now and then thing for me but I like him out there – I like him speaking his mind and giving his opinions. I have never heard him say anything racist and, based on the reports from people that actually research this stuff no one else has either.
So let’s ramp it up and make this public – I want these talking heads to be taken to task and prove that Rush has said racists comments. I want to see them – I want CNN and MSNBC to pony up and make their case. This Congresswoman Jackson – same thing – get your facts and let’s go write them on the board for all to see and decide.
Sharpton, Jesse Jackson need to be brought to task as well.
Rush is a smart guy and will do what is best for him – I hope it is to make this a public debate that we can all see. I am sick and tired of the left doing this kind of thing and not being called to task to make their case. It is all emotive nonsense because they disagree with Rush and this is their way of punishing him.
Our liberties are on trial here and I hope that Rush pursues this. Rush has been chastised here because of speech and this is exactly what our forefathers guaranteed to protect.
Regardless – I am done with the NFL.

I think Robert Byrd was
a member of the KKK and now is held in
high esteem in our government.
Posted by: wis134. *********************
That’s because Byrd knew how to to keep his
personal life as a low profile. Linbaugh on the other
hand just has constipation of the brain and diarrhea of the mouth

Hypocrisy, thy name is Legalette.
You, sadly, are attempting to defend Limbaugh while simultaneously castigating Sharpton and Jackson. The simple truth is that all three are publicity-seeking gasbags. They just play to different audiences.
Having said that…Jackson and Sharpton have been involved in racial issues in the United States for over 30 years apiece. Jesse Jackson was considered one of the most influential people in the country in the early 1980s – way before Limbaugh was even beginning to form the pimple on the arse of humanity that he’s become. Sharpton’s done a lot of good in NYC to go along with his blather, too. An example: he’s helped focus attention on police profiling and other hazardous practices (Google “Amadou Diallo” and “Sean Bell” for some interesting learning material).
You might not like what Jackson and Sharpton have to say, and that is certainly your right. But to say that they have NO substance behind their views – when there is a raft of easily accessible public information on two careers’ worth of contributions to the public debate – is to demonstrate a dangerous myopia that is, unfortunately, all too common among dittoheads.
You claim, “I would never associate with any racist.” Unfortunately, as Joe Wilson might say, “You lie!” If Limbaugh is not an overt racist, he is certainly every bit the race-baiter. That, in many ways, is even worse, for a race-baiter doesn’t actually believe the drivel, but only stirs the pot on those issues for personal gain (usually pecuniary in nature).
The man is radioactive for a reason. It’s why he wound up on talk radio – he couldn’t hold a mainstream gig to save his life. He has no filter, which means he can’t help but offend people. (To be fair, most modern-day Neanderthals suffer from the same malady.) Every penny of his income is from right-wingers. He has no mainstream appeal, which is precisely why the NFL wants nothing to do with him. It’s also why Republican leadership keeps him at arm’s length. He plays to the “28-percenter” crowd. And that he does very, very well.
Unfortunately, what he does very, very well will keep him from being part of a league where two-thirds of the players are of an ethnic origin that he makes a living disparaging. Commissioner Goodell and owners like Jim Irsay (who, to correct the original story, did NOT move the Colts from Baltimore to Indianapolis – that was his father, Bob) should be commended for taking the sensible business stand and the virtuous moral stand against letting in a plague like Limbaugh.

money talks all those players saying they wouldnt play theres someone behind them that would and a city that would appreciate revenue