The group seeking to buy the Rams has dropped Rush Limbaugh, who says he's a victim of "the left.. out to destroy conservatism." Do you agree?

There's a double standard. The mentally ill Keith Olberman announces for the NFL.

Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far. Marge Schott

And Marge was allowed to own a team.

This was played out in the media, not by the NFL or owners. Players were "told" to speak out against Limbaugh. What part of that is fair? Limbaugh is an entertainer and he does just that on his show. Do I listen to R. Limbaugh, no, I do not care for his type of show. His being an owner should have taken place in a board room, votes by owners and all handled by the NFL, not the media, players or unions. Yes, Rush Limbaugh was a victim. And that is how the left plays the game. If they don't like you they run a smear campaign, lie if necessary, throw stuff out there and hope it sticks. Did anyone ever source the the statements by Limbaugh, to show he did say them?

Sports are government sponsored games to give us the excuse to loaf, eat and grow obsese. Healthcare will be government controlled life and death for those who fail to conform to health care officials norms. The government is winning when games replace forced conformity since the keep us from seeing what is behind the curtain.

I believe both choices are somewhat true. Sure, what he said in the broadcast booth hurt him but even if he hadn't said anything controversial the likes of the (Revs.??) Sharpton and Jackson would have objected. All this decision has done is to further empower certain groups or individuals and will only increase their interference in sports as well as any subject that makes headlines.

Sorry did not proof read last line should read, ...replace important issues keeping us from seeing what is behind the curtain.

It's not just Rush--any one who disagrees with liberal ideology is now labeled as "Racist."

In the end, it was his good buddy Dave Checketts who threw Rush under the bus. With friends like that....

Bob Johnson is a politically active flaming liberal and he is allowed to own a professional sports team. The double standard is alive and well.

Didn't we do this yesterday? Not only the Rush thing, but the Al Gardner on his populist high horse preaching class envy and bashing the financial industry while ignoring the fact that it was government interference in the markets that got us here thing.

Most of this has been tied to the supposed comments Rush made about Donovan McNabb. His comments were not about McNabb, but the media's perception and promotion of him, but the media spun it to make it appear as an attack of McNabb. So, the media strikes again!

The NFL has many Racist playing on the field and in the broadcast booth , unlike the good honest man like Rush. What about the NBA "Nets" co-owner Jay-Z (Shawn Carter). Oh yes, I forgot only a white man can be a racist in the America of today. Rush speaks the truth which the Racist can not here or understand. Lies come easier than the Truth for the true Racist.

Another entry into another business by the socialist government in an effort to control everything--and, of course, supported by the media!

Rush is the Top Banana in the fastest growing media outlet, "Talk Radio". He stands for a traditional Constitution with the rights of the individual as its highest priority.

No wonder he has been, is now, and will by villified by people who contribute nada and nothing to the well-being of the greatest social experience in the history of the world.

The words in the song, "Battle Hymn of the Republic", sums it up to a "T". America be wary of what you wish for. It is not Rush Limbaugh who will be the loser. As one famous contemporary author has said, "I fear America is losing its soul and that will be a sad day for all of us".

Rush lives to be the "victim". Now he has something else to rant about on air everyday. Why does anyone even listen to him? I am all for free speech but the right wing media, including WBT, is out of control. Can you imagine an NFL team with him in charge? He is so pompous that he probably thinks he could own the team, coach and be a punt returner!

This is what happens when you take a stand on your principals.
Eventually your opponents find a chance to strike back and with the threat of the media on side with Jackson and Sharpton, the team owners woosed out.

Rush would not have been comfortable amongst the squeemish owner's group anyway. I guess, these days, football really is just a facade for a money machine.

Rush would have been great for the NFL. With a loyal listener base in the millions he could have easily added millions of dollars to the NFL Owners and Players bottom line.

As it is, this will alienate some of his base and cause a drop in the net income of the NFL.

It is sad that the dichotomy of the NFL is so full of over paid prima donnas including felons, racist, drug addicts, good people and bad. Yet they have no room for a conservative.

Rush would have been a boon to the NFL - just goes to show - in this country you can be any kind of despicable cad - tax dodge, liar, womanizer etc. if you are a liberal you get a pass - if you are a conservative you'd better be squeaky clean - and then some.

Rush is as much a victim as we all are victims. Life is not fair. Get over it and stop crying.

There is no bigger supporter of the NFL than Rush. And the fact he's close friends with many black players. I hope he sues the NFL for discrimination and/or defamation of character tied to ecomments made by the commissioner and the false statements made by and carried on the other state run media TV channels.

Rush was a victim of the continual liberal slander about principled conservatives that they are somehow "racist" when all of the ones I know of are post racial and ignore race. I attend a conservative church, fully integrated congregation, and everyone is a member of the only race acknowledged by God, the human race. Having listened to Rush for years and his guest host Walter Williams and frequent guest Thomas Sowell, I know Rush judges people on character and competence only. This is the NFL's loss, as Rush would demand excellence from the Rams organization.

I believe Rush IS a victim, but he had to know this was coming. From the CBS icons of Edwards, Cronkite, Rather, ABC icons Huntley & Brinkley, Jennings, NBC's Brokaw, the list of left leaning elitists' go on and on. Limbaugh was the first to have a national audience hear the other side of big issues. You don't "rain on the liberal elites parade" and not pay. As has been brought up by others, there are pleanty of pro team owners who have made equally questionable statements that were never seriously threatened.

Rush is a victim of his own racism. What goes around, comes around.

The NFL has egg on its face. This is discrimination in your face. I am not a sport fan of any kind, not baseball, football or basket ball. I think they are all overpaid for what they do. Think the white house pay czar will look in the money these people are over Paid??

I used to be a hard core football fan Loved watching it talking it and I proudly displayed Smokin Joe when ever I could. Then came free agents (hard to watch someone you bad mouthed last year but now he's on your team) now Vick is in and Rush is out? I'm done, the NFL can pack sand. I'll watch college ball.

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Limbaugh's inflated ego has swollen his eyes shut and short-circuited what’s left of his brain. He claims "It's a sad thing that our country, over 200 years old now, needs pioneers all over again". He fancies himself a pioneer, yet he also claims that he is being shut out of the mainstream. He is speaking in riddles. A mainstreaming pioneer? A pioneer who buys a football team? Schizophrenic.

While the Limbaugh busies himself pretending that he is not humiliated by this very public rejection, l shall use this opportunity to take personal delight in what I hope is the first of many more such episodes to come. A slice of humble pie should go very nicely with the feasts of rage, hatred and divisiveness that he has gorges himself on.

Our own, Jerry Richardson, owns Denny's. He signed a deal with NAACP to stop discrimination, which was considered transparent at the time. Yet, he got a franchise in the NFL. So why was Rush Limbaugh vilified by the media and players. It seems the further they want from racism, the more they bring it up. It'll never go away because certain people will lose their way of earning an income on the back of racism. And that means we are all victims of that group, not just Rush Limbaugh.
And I agree with Rick on class envy.

Rush loosing weight, going on the Leno show, Faux/GOP interview, Today interview and yet Rush is denying he said this:

Limbaugh said: “I think the guy’s wrong. I think not only it was racism, it was justifiable racism. I mean, that’s the lesson we’re being taught here today. Kid shouldn’t have been on the bus anyway. We need segregated buses — it was invading space and stuff. This is Obama’s America.”

Now were suppose to feel sad because big googoo-gaga Rush got REJECTED (thumb in his mouth) and now he wants to blame this on African-American's for being black.

I guess the free market has made its decision. It has nothing to do with being conservative. Most NFL owners fit the true definition of a conservative. They banned Michael Vick.
Rush may be more welcome in the NA$CAR garage. Now that WOULD be fun!

My understanding is that the owners made it clear they did not want Rush. Then the group Rush was with tossed him overboard when they saw their deal going down the drain. This is the market at its purest. The price was too high, so Rush had to go. That is capitalism the way it is supposed to work.

The NFL tolerates Lenoard Little, St. Louis Rams, DUI & Manslaughter. The NFL tolerates Michael Vick, Atlanta Falcons, Dog Fighting but the NFL can't tolerate a radio host. I think college football has gained many more fans this week and the NFL has lost a few.

Maybe he should stay closer to his base and form a bowling league. He could even design promotional products like Limbaugh's Pork Cracklins and DittoHead Bowling Balls, which are hollow in the center and automatically swerve to the right.

Hey Foxbat73, last time I checked Vick was on a team getting a nice paycheck. He was not banned from anything, he went to JAIL.

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Couldn't happen to a nicer guy!

Commissioner Goodell had no intention of allowing someone like Limbaugh into the NFL family at a time that the league and players are preparing to sit down and hash out a new collective bargaining agreement. The last thing they want is to do is introduce more controversy to an already tense situation.

This was the wrong time for Rush though it would have been fun to watch had he been successful. Can you imagine the liberal media reacting to this had the deal completed?

Interesting to see that no one has mentioned that the NFL owners and players tolerate murderers, thieves, rapists, dog abusers, gamblers and who knows what else, but can somehow find the "outrage" to vilify Rush Limbaugh over fabricated and out-of-context quotes. No one has mentioned that one of Rush's accusers on CNN was himself guilty of a DUI hit and run, that left the victim paralyzed, yet used his celebrity influence to evade serious charges (following the shining example of Ted Kennedy's killing of an innocent girl). Rush's "crime" is that he is conservative, poking holes in liberal ideas and generally not kowtowing to the whims of the media. Instead, he is a spokesman for traditional American values, supports the Constitution, and opposes the converion of our great country to socialism/marxism/statism. We are seeing everyday how the media, nor the Obama Administration, cannot deal with criticism, nor even with challenges to their ideas. There is no debate on the merit of issues any more, there is simple-minded name calling and race baiting, and all this has worsened since the ascendency of Obama and his minions.

@Ivegonepostal: Keith has been in sports for many, many years. He was co-host of ESPN's Sportcenter before there was even MSNBC. BTW... you don't hear him getting into much political rhetoric on Sunday Night Football.

As far as Rush is concerned, political ideologies don't matter much when money is involved. I can bet you that most owners in the NFL are conservatives so that doesn't factor into the equation. The concern lies with his statements regarding racial overtones and some form of affirmative action in regards to NFL personnel. The point is that Rush is bad for business, plain and simple. It has absolutely nothing to deal with conservatives or liberals. It's about money.

Dear Sambone,

Enough. You've made your stand. Shut up.

Just like so many, usually liberals but not always, you can't look at the issue and the principles involved. Instead you are gleeful because a man you disagree with has suffered an injustice. Yet if this same injustice were perpetuated against someone you support you would not be able to contain your outrage. People like you are the downfall of America.

Many NFL Players beat their wives, use/sell drugs, drive drunk, kill animals, commit assault, and countless other issues...and Team owners that employ and protect them get in a twist that Rush Limbaugh could become an owner? They are in a twist because they do not agree with his opinions. His comments around Donovan McNabb were not about Donovan at all, but about the media. JayZ is minority owner in the NBA or NFL...I am not sure...but that's OK. Bob Johnson...a very active liberal is the majority owner of an NBA team...and that's ok. Why is it an outspoken Conservative is the only team owner folks have an issue with? Is he a victim...yeah. When you're the only one being treated in a negative way and you broke no laws...you're a victim. It's shameful that in a country that is supposed to have Freedom Of Speech as a right to everyone, that because he's a conservative, a person is victimized for being outspoken. You hypocrites here, and in the NFL like the Colt's owner, would never say a thing about Jesse Jackson buying into an NFL team. How many times...like when Michael Jordan's father was murdered...has Jesse Jackson called an event racially motivated without having any facts at all? You that are against Rush buying an NFL team make me sick. You are worthless and weak.

the drugster lives by his mouth and koolaid listners and he goes down by his whinning mouth. what a loser. as he says it when something happens to the dems they blame someone else. he just needs a good glass of his own koolaid. what a cry baby.

"You're all worthless and weak! Now drop and give me twenty!"

Doug Neidermeyer - Animal House 1978

Sambone saids - "What a winner he was!" LOL

@HamBone & Jason
- Amen. Well said.

@sambone
- Enjoy your schadenfreude while it lasts....because it won't. The left is going to lose BIG when we vote in 2010. Say bu-bye to the 60 seat majority. Your little liberal love-fest comes to an end in 2012, and we can start fixing the crap that got shoved down our throats.

Kudos to the following commentators: KB, Joey, Old Man, Tom, Ed, HC, Kevin, Beth, Cm, Concerned, Hambone, and Jason.

If what I read on today's forum is any indication of what is awaiting America in November of 2010, Sambone, Kathy and their ilk will quickly fade away to the dust bowl of history, metaphorically speaking.

I cannot believe the comments on here, but I should not be suprised that his loyal sycophants aka ditto heads would feel that he is getting treated wrongfully. The guys motto is he is always right, so if that is the case why is everyone almost to a person inside the NFL organization not happy with him, fan or not. Rush is getting exactly what he deserves, he is like that Drunk Guy at the party that crosses the line and wonders why no one wants to invite him anywhere anymore.

Liberal?"
What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label "Liberal?" If by "Liberal" they mean, as they want people to believe, someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the taxpayer's dollar, then the record of this party and its members demonstrate that we are not that kind of "Liberal." But if by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."-
John F Kennedy

BTW, I am a "Moderate" Republican not a "Liberal". I'm just sick that Rush, Glenn, etc. have hijacked the GOP. I'm really thinking about switching to Independent. God help the US if the "Wingnuts" take over the government. Look what they did under Bush. BTW, did WMD ever turn up? Mission Accomplished?

I'm done with this subject. Move over to 1690 where the political minority go!

Wus Limbaugh is such a wacist!!! He hates all people that are not white and he thinks that white people aw supweme. Kathy, IMD, and pratt, please grow up!! Black racists shuch as jackson and sharpton don't offend me. In fact, white people are the hardest people to offend. You people have no credibilty-you just sit around waiting for your welfare check. And as a hobby you write down everything that people say that sounds pre-ju-dice toward people other than white people and you call it racism.

A good way to desribe you people is PARASITIC-fellow REAL Americans please back me up.

With ya Will. Hambone especially in his liberal but I'm not rant above, shows exactly why they exist. Welfare and social give aways is their cure for everthing. These people think they are owed because they exist. Hard work? Forget it, too hard. Entrepenuerism? I don't need to. I will be provided for. Protect me from me in spite of me. That s why Obama is a puppet for someone elses agenda. The background people with the agenda have nothing to lose. The puppet will take the fall. As I have said before, anyone ever read or watch the movie "The Manchurian Candidate"?

Rush was done in by own own ilk. Money talks, and Rush walks.

Jim, it was your buddy McCain who spent time in a Vietnam prison camp, and you think President Obama was turned?

Will, I am a real American, but, sorry bud, I can't back you on this one.

Will, Rush does not only hates all people who are not white. He also hates Hispanics, Europeans, anti-fascists, as well as women of all races.

Rightandproud, now you understand what hope is all about. Let it serve you well for next few years. I lived off hope for eight years under Bush's reign of terror.

IMD, REAL Americans stand up for the constitution, REAL Americans stand up for gun rights, REAL Americans finish wars, REAL Americans are against the utopian craving society. I guess TECHNICALLY, you are an american, but your actions do not show it.

L.M.Dem and your proof would be? have sat down and had a in depth conversion with Rush, I listen every chance I get I I've not heard one racist word spoke. Now he does beat up on the lefties that have crawled out for under the rocks this last November. BTW the Terror is now our money our kids money is being spent buying things the government was never intended to be involved with. and now they're are about t tell us who gets health care and who does not (but everyone will PAY)

You see, IMD, DO YOU SEE WHAT YOUR LEADER is doing to the coundtry that we REAL Americans love AS IT IS??

Czars are being appointed for everything else. Car czar, Pay czar, banking czar, doctor czar, hospital czar, school czar, free the criminal czar---so
why not just appoint an "ownership" czar. Barney Frank could be it and decide who is to own a car, house, dog, cat, have children, food and see a football game or own a part of a football team.
These czars could replace senators and congressmen and we would not have to worry about elections. Just allow the President to appoint the person he wants to make the decision. A czar or dictator might soon replace the presidency and we would vote there either.

Will, I love my country. I even loved it when it was being destroyed by Bush. America is stronger than any one president. There will be years when you are happy, and there will be years when I will be happy. There may even be years where we both are happy or unhappy with the direction of the country. Over the long run, I am fully confident that America will continue to move forward and improve. I am fully aware of what President Obama is doing, and I am happy - mostly. He has to move fast and take advantage of his mandate before it slips away. A year form now, we will have an election, and it's likely he will not have the majorities he has now. That's why I fully support him when he uses every opportunity to push through as much legislation as possible. It's rare to have an opportunity like he has, and it won't last. Eventually, your types will get back into power, and you will have a chance to promote your agenda. It's just the way it works. It's the way our founders meant for it to work, and the Constitution supports it.

Michael D., it is not possible to point out to folks like you what others may consider racist. I know when I am offended by things Rush says, and that's all that matters. We are not talking about some legal definition here. It's a matter of opinion. I know racism when I see it. You clearly make the same claim.

Pete I heard you comment on the air and I have to say I disagree. Money's color is Green. Substitute the names Martin Luther King, Oprah Winfree, Ellen Degeneress or even Al Gore now if they were treated this way what is it called. DISCRIMINATION! If they did not want someone to buy the team they should NOT have put it up for sale. PERIOD.

Praymun, Rush's own buddy kicked him off the team. Nobody else. It was a cold business decision. He just was not willing to take the heat.