I think this is a good example to show that Rush and his ilk-their influence is not what it is thought to be. I've thought for a long time that the media in this country trades on a false economy-they like to make people think that certain issues are what holds everyone's interest. Incorrect. Media stories created by media, for media, and consumed by each other, not the general public. Even back in in Ohio (still here visiting-can't wait to return to SF next week), you'd be hard pressed to find anyone (who wasn't marginalized in some fashion) who was a Rush follower. Indeed, if this hippo were so all-mighty powerful, then why was he denied what he wanted?

Rush appeals to and is followed by people who look and think like him. BLOBS.

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He is prominent as a racist, bile-spewing, woman-hating, violence-loving right-wing radical who is throwing all his considerable influence towards a fight to destroy the President of the United States of America, and anyone else he doesn't like (which is anyone who doesn't listen to his radio show and drool slavishly over his 'intellect').

Rush was not kicked to the curb of this deal because he was conservative. There are plenty of prominent conservatives who could, and probably do, own major sports teams. But the fact is that Limbaugh makes his living by attacking people on a sometimes deeply personal level. He makes his living by being offensive. That's the very definition of 'shock jock.' Now he whines about not being allowed to buy an NFL team of his very own? Cry me a fucking river, Rush. Why don't you go drown yourself in oxycontin and viagra-assisted sex tourism.

He had a couple of the FOX legal bitches on and they were saying Rush should fire lawsuits in every direction--So much for tort reform.

Let me see if I have this right: The same people who cheered when Chicago lost its Olympic bid are now claiming it's a dark day for American democracy because 'the drugster' got dumped from a potential NFL-ownership group? In the immortal words of Michael Palin: "SAY. NO. MORE."

Some of the controversial quotes that have been floating around again since he became a propsective NFL part-owner----Hell the guy was high on narcotics and running his mouth non-stop with the goal of being controversial and bringing attention to himself.......He has no idea what he did or didn't say.

But if Rush had succeeded, then the NFL could have had its very own Marge Schott!

What the right does best is playing the victim. They argue that they should be free in this country to be as mean spirited and bigoted as they want to be and the rest of us should just sit back and take it. It's really the behavior of a classic bully. They walk around with bluster until somebody calls them on it and then they go running to the recess monitor.

Do I laugh at his followers or pity them?

There are a few absolutes in life, especially in my life. But if Rush had owned the St. Louis Rams I was done with pro football. Seriously. I have watched every Eagles game, pretty much, for 20 years. I missed a huge family event the year Rodney Pete slaughtered the Lions right near Christmas, I broke up with a girl because she wanted me to pick her up from the airport the year the Eagles went to the Superbowl. I love football. But I wouldn't have watched. Not one more game, not until Rush was gone. I have relatives who played high DI football and who played in the Pros. I even have an uncle with a superbowl ring. I have Eagles crazy relatives, and I have friends with Eagles tats and who bleed green. I am telling you like I told the league when I wrote them. I would never have watched again.

The Players in the league aren't employees they are partners. That is why 60 percent of gross revenue goes to the players. Because they share in the success of the league, because they make that success.

Rush Limbaugh is a racist. I try not to use terms like that. I try not to pretend to see into the heart of someone. Normally I say that his speech is racialized. But Rush Limbaugh is a racist. He doesn't get to own a team in the NFL, he doesn't get to be the owner of the rights of black players. He doesn't get to share in the mainstream meritocracy that exists in American Sport. Sport earned the right to keep the racists out when Jackie Robinson changed the world. When integrating baseball changed the circumstances for every black person in the nation. Rush doesn't get to piss all over that because he's rich. And if he did get to, he wouldn't be pissing on me.

Racism isn't cool and it sure as heck isn't mainstream. It is a fringe and those that live their lives that way should be shunned. Maybe the NFL didn't run him off, maybe they just let it be known, because no one messes with the bottom line in the NFL, that any bid with Limbaugh in it, with a public racist in it, would be dumped. Like I said, the NFL is a meritocracy. The other rich white guys found Limbaugh wanting. Some things in life are just beautiful.

J

You can take the Marge out of Norwood, but you can't take the Norwood out of Marge. LOL.

Just remembered, that was Eric Idle, not Michael Palin.

Hey, I'm amazed that Rush et al who are proud conservatives (translated as apologists for Big Business in general) would be upset. If Rush was successful the value of the NFL brand might be threatened so of course the Free Market dictated to the NFL owners the need to refuse his entry to the market. Well, nice to see the free market actually be pro-consumer for a change....

Evidently, his fans absentmindedly forgot one of Rush's greatest sayings:

"Words mean things. They have consequence."