No cookie for Rush

[reefraff]

Originally Posted by zman1
http:///forum/post/3158017
A prerequisite to own a NFL team? We should shut the whole system down then. Do away with the NFL.....
Free speech is dead

I didn't know he was banned from radio and TV. I wish you would have told me that earlier

Free speech isn't dead. But if you dare to do anything un PC you will get skewered for it. CNN fact checked a SNL skit that was mildly negative on Obama. But they turn around and attribute a bunch of quotes to Limbaugh that he never made without checking into those

You also don't get interviews with administration officials if you dare question the Obama agenda. I just hope people are paying attention to what is going on.
I don't blame the NFL for not wanting to bring Limbaugh in to the fold but the double standard is just ridiculous.

 

[deejeff442]

maybe if rush would just shut up and kill a few dogs he would be ok to buy a team.this should have been left up to the owners of the nfl teams to decide not 3 people.rodger goodel seems to forgive criminals no problem.
as for black qb's i thought warren moon was a great qb and a class act for the sport.

 

[stdreb27]

Originally Posted by TheClemsonKid
http:///forum/post/3156103
Because professional sports are one of the few professions where the best person pretty much always gets the job...
Then why do I have to listen to people moan and groan about the amount of black quarterbacks there are in the league?

 

[stdreb27]

Originally Posted by TheClemsonKid
http:///forum/post/3156023
"Transcripts posted on the radio host's Web site also say that on a January 2007 show, Limbaugh commented: "The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it."
I'm not seeing any racism there, unless YOU are equating gangs with race.
And everytime he's ever said that, he was complaining about the uniforms...

 

[oscardeuce]

Originally Posted by zman1
http:///forum/post/3158017
A prerequisite to own a NFL team? We should shut the whole system down then. Do away with the NFL.....
Free speech is dead%% I didn't know he was banned from radio and TV. I wish you would have told me that earlier

I don't think you get my point, it's the double standard. Rush is conservative and gets thrown under the bus.
Roman Polanski,a liberal director drugs and s#xually assaults a 13 year old All of liberal Hollywood come out in support of him. He's found guilty and skips the country avoiding his punishment. When he's caught, all the hearts start to bleed......
I don't get it. Rush's views are not illegal, Polanski's ACTIONS are.
If you have the $$$$$$ why not be able to buy a team?

 

[zman1]

Originally Posted by oscardeuce
http:///forum/post/3159061
... I don't get it...
Perhaps you never will.... RP and RL - Both are despised by many.
P.S. 138 is hardly considered "ALL ...", unless Hollywood is a lot smaller than I thought.

 

[zman1]

Originally Posted by reefraff
http:///forum/post/3158064
I don't blame the NFL for not wanting to bring Limbaugh in to the fold but the double standard is just ridiculous.
Sorry to tell you, more than just right wing republicans- Watch, buy, participate, and support the NFL…. That’s not a double standard, that’s business…

 

[jackri]

Just imagine if Rush was a black liberal trying to buy a hockey team and getting rejected. Business decision as well? Probably but that's not how it would get reported.

 

[zman1]

Originally Posted by jackri
http:///forum/post/3159193
Just imagine if Rush was a black liberal trying to buy a hockey team and getting rejected. Business decision as well? Probably but that's not how it would get reported.
Imagine if it were Rev Wright....Hmmm
We can do hypothetical comparisons all day. Perhaps if Rush was any number of other Wealthy Americans it wouldn’t be a problem. However, it is Rush and as he says, he will make no apologies for what he does and what he does is for the money. Rush is no Patriot, his allegiance is to the temple of Himself and God of the Almighty Dollar. Rush caters to some and blasts the rest. The NFL makes its Almighty Dollar from the sweat-of-brow of all….

 

[reefraff]

Originally Posted by zman1
http:///forum/post/3159156
Sorry to tell you, more than just right wing republicans- Watch, buy, participate, and support the NFL…. That’s not a double standard, that’s business…
So are "right wing republicans" the only people with enough class to have been offended by Vicks actions? Nice try but that dog wont hunt. Al Sharpton and Jackazz Jesse have also done things that should keep them from being considered acceptable to any organization with any sort of values but there they are front and center.

 

[reefraff]

Originally Posted by zman1
http:///forum/post/3159238
Imagine if it were Rev Wright....Hmmm
We can do hypothetical comparisons all day. Perhaps if Rush was any number of other Wealthy Americans it wouldn’t be a problem. However, it is Rush and as he says, he will make no apologies for what he does and what he does is for the money. Rush is no Patriot, his allegiance is to the temple of Himself and God of the Almighty Dollar. Rush caters to some and blasts the rest. The NFL makes its Almighty Dollar from the sweat-of-brow of all….
I dropped Sunday Ticket, not particularly because of Rush but it made me glad to have dropped it. Like I said, if the owners had decided it wasn't a good idea I wouldn't think a thing about it because I think they would be right but when he gets dragged through the mud by people no better than he is, that is a different story.

 

[zman1]

Originally Posted by reefraff
http:///forum/post/3159257
So are "right wing republicans" the only people with enough class to have been offended by Vicks actions? Nice try but that dog wont hunt. Al Sharpton and Jackazz Jesse have also done things that should keep them from being considered acceptable to any organization with any sort of values but there they are front and center.
What are you trying to say here - what connections are you trying to desperately grasp for? Is one of them trying to buy a team? Unfortunalety, Vick is back - I guess Vick must have only offended fewer people than Rush does - DAILY for the last 25 years...

 

[mantisman51]

zman, I agree with you that Rush represents the worst of big business greed. That he justifies the theft of hundreds of billions of $ as "free enterprise" is just one of many examples. I do, however, have a serious problem with him being excluded from ownership in an NFL franchise. I have given you the example of Robert "If it's a pervert cause I support it" Kraft, yet not one right wing, Christian group has suggested he be stripped of his ownership. Rush has even said he is good friends with the perv. So, is it ok to disenfranchise anyone on the right? Since he is so controversial should he be stripped of his radio show? Should he be taxed at a higher rate? How far do we want to go and how much should we take?

 

[zman1]

Originally Posted by mantisman51
http:///forum/post/3159277
Since he is so controversial should he be stripped of his radio show?
That's his business - I don't have to listen to it. The NFL can't afford any type of boycott or bad publicity from a NEW wantabe co-owner that is despised by perhaps half of its customers.
That's like hiring a new CEO that half the shareholders are being slammed and disrespected by that person - not a wise business choice....

 

[reefraff]

Originally Posted by zman1
http:///forum/post/3159272
What are you trying to say here - what connections are you trying to desperately grasp for? Is one of them trying to buy a team? Unfortunalety, Vick is back - I guess Vick must have only offended fewer people than Rush does - DAILY for the last 25 years...
If you don't see the double standard you are so blinded by your hate for Rush/Conservatives you'll never get it.

 

[zman1]

Originally Posted by reefraff
http:///forum/post/3159301
If you don't see the double standard you are so blinded by your hate for Rush/Conservatives you'll never get it.
No, I will never get your connections on this -- Rush makes millions off of one group and Al and Jesse off other groups.
The NFL makes billions from folks in all groups - Perhaps you will never make that connection. There lies the problem....

 

[reefraff]

Originally Posted by zman1
http:///forum/post/3159316
No, I will never get your connections on this -- Rush makes millions off of one group and Al and Jesse off other groups.
The NFL makes billions from folks in all groups - Perhaps you will never make that connection. There lies the problem....

Let me break out the crayons and draw you a picture. It's OK for Vick to be a high profile player, you have other high profile players with criminal convictions allowed to play yet Rush isn't allowed to have a minor stake in a team. I am not so worried about the NFL not wanting him involved. It's the outside groups with all their outrage when they are being led by people who have done far worse than Limbaugh ever has.
Like I said if you can't see that.....

 

[stdreb27]

lol, did anyone see the links to stories rush has posted of antics that other minority owners have done? Funny stuff.
But I do think I've heard the most ridiculous argument ever, equating Rush to Al. Congrads on topping rylan's higher capital gains taxes will encourage investments...

 

[rslinger]

Ok got to jump in. it is not a double standard. just think of it this way. how would it good for the NFL to have people not coming to a teams games because of the co-owner of the team. players in a free trade game that refuse to play for one of there teams, and players from opposing teams refusing to play a game because of the thing rush has said. yeah i am not a rush fan but that has nothing to do. he has said the things he has said and yeah there are just the talk of his greed. Probably doesn't even belive in his own words, but it is to late.

 

[reefraff]

Originally Posted by Rslinger
http:///forum/post/3159673
Ok got to jump in. it is not a double standard. just think of it this way. how would it good for the NFL to have people not coming to a teams games because of the co-owner of the team. players in a free trade game that refuse to play for one of there teams, and players from opposing teams refusing to play a game because of the thing rush has said. yeah i am not a rush fan but that has nothing to do. he has said the things he has said and yeah there are just the talk of his greed. Probably doesn't even belive in his own words, but it is to late.
And all those are valid concerns. Had it been the NFL owners expressing those concerns in that way there wouldn't be an issue, at least not for me.