The State Organs of the Lunatic-Left continued to push outright lies about Rush Limbaugh until NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell caved to the pressure, stating:
"We're all held to a high standard here and divisive comments are not what the NFL's all about."
As in hint, hint, Limbaugh is not welcome.
Hey, the NFL can do whatever it wants, and Rush Limbaugh will be just fine. The problem here is, this isn't just about Rush Limbaugh, it's about the "coalitions of power" out to stop all of us! Here's why ...
First of all, if Goodell was actually concerned about "divisive comments," then both Jennifer Lopez and Fergie wouldn't be minority owners (which is what Limbaugh would have been) of the Miami Dolphins. For example, here's a sampling of one of J-Lo's songs:
“And the game done chose me to bring pain to niggas and pussy holes, they one in the same.” - I’m Real, co-written by Jennifer Lopez, minority owner of the Miami Dolphins.
And let's not forget too, cheater Bill Belichick is still coaching the New England Patriots. We could play this game all day long ...
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) Gives a Speech
On his radio show, Limbaugh said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) was "spreading lies" when she delivered a speech on the House floor on Tuesday.
Jackson Lee said Limbaugh is "divisive" and should not be allowed to impugn the integrity of the NFL. She also highlighted Limbaugh's controversial comments about Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb in 2003.
He added, "She can say what she wants. These are the people who have power over us ... I don't have any power over Sheila Jackson Lee and I don't seek any power over Sheila Jackson Lee. She, on the other hand, is the opposite. She wants power over not just me, but of as many people she can get."
The Missouri native said Democrats are going after him: "The United States government has people who are now totally comfortable in targeting an individual," he said, citing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and now Jackson Lee.
Nothing else going on ... might as well spend time on the House floor making up lies about Rush Limbaugh.
So why is this "issue" so important to the Left? Here's Thomas DiLorenzo's take:
Rush Limbaugh is famous for being extraordinarily generous towards the people who work for/with him, especially his longtime producer, “Bo Snerdley,” a black guy ... The moral conscience of the Democratic Party, Al Sharpton, knows that Limbaugh would combine his legendary generosity with his love of football to rapidly become enormously popular among NFL players, some 70 percent of whom are black. That would go a long way toward puncturing the leftist superstition that all non-leftists are racists, sexists, homophobes, opponents of bestiality, etc., etc. That’s why the racist and anti-Semite Sharpton, and his like-minded sidekick Jesse Jackson, had to libel Limbaugh.
If you can’t spare the time, watch the last three minutes of the second clip for his big finish about Saul Alinsky’s America and then two minutes of the first clip starting at around 2:45 for the bombshell about his very strange bedfellow in the bid. Rush says he knew nothing about it until yesterday and even now seems unsure that Soros is definitely involved.
Limbaugh’s group is led by former Madison Square Garden President and current St. Louis Blues and Real Salt Lake majority owner Dave Checketts, who brings a wealth of sports industry contacts, know-how and credibility. Checketts also brings big-time backers like George Soros, who financed the duo’s failed attempt to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2003.
Checketts’s ownership of hockey’s Blues is backed by, among others, TowerBrook Capital Partners, which was formerly known as Soros Private Equity Partners before it was spun off from Soros Asset Management Group in 2005.
Much depends on what “brings” means. Is Bloomberg merely saying that Soros has partnered with Checketts before and therefore might be involved this time or are they saying he is involved and they know it for a fact? Hard to tell.
The unions?
The NFL punts to left-wing political intimidation.
We suspect Mr. Limbaugh during his broadcast yesterday put his finger exactly on what is going on here. He said that NFL Players Association head DeMaurice Smith was using Mr. Limbaugh's controversial status as leverage against the league owners in the union's difficult negotiations over a collective-bargaining agreement.
Mr. Smith was wrong, though, to send an email to the league's players earlier in the week, urging them to speak out on the Limbaugh bid, arguing that football "rejects discrimination and hatred."
After this ... NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. Mr. Goodell implied in a statement that Mr. Limbaugh's off-the-cuff comment in 2003 about quarterback Donovan McNabb (that the media wanted a black quarterback to do well) violated the league's "high standard."
What happened here, and is happening elsewhere in American life, is that Mr. Limbaugh's outspoken political conservatism is being deemed sufficient reason to ostracize him from polite society. By contrast, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, who fires off his own brand of high-velocity, left-wing political commentary but lacks Mr. Limbaugh's sense of humor, appears weekly as co-host of NBC's "Football Night in America." We haven't heard anyone on the right say Mr. Olbermann's nightly ad-hominem rants should disqualify him from hanging around the NFL.
Whatever the source of this progressive political intimidation attack, Lew Rockwell sums it all up best this way:
Any laughable comments can be made up and believed, in the land of Sharpton. As to Limbaugh’s actual remarks, no need to try to refute them. The “Eek, a mouse” strategy used by propagandists will suffice. Isn’t it long past time that we junked the DOJ-MSM moral code, which is a pack of lies anyway, and ended the reign of Jesse Jacksonism? Indeed, I wonder whether that may be starting to happen. Maybe the people have had enough PC nonsense stuffed down their throats by the smug power elite, and will start to reject the purveyors of real hate. This is just another reason to cheer the impending demise of newspapers and paper magazines.
