Posted on 10/15/2009 5:00:50 PM PDT by raptor22
Media Bias: Not long after pro football welcomed a convicted felon back on the playing field, Rush Limbaugh is dropped for his opinions from a group seeking to buy an NFL franchise. Won't someone throw a flag?
When even Keith Olbermann says back off, you know the politically correct critics of the conservative icon and megaradio talk host's proposed part ownership of the St. Louis Rams are guilty of piling on.
The prospect of the leading conservative voice in America participating in the purchase of a football team sent the liberal elites into cardiac arrest and into a frenzied campaign once known as the politics of personal destruction.
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
Very well, NFL. Your wish is granted, as far as this Conservative is concerned.
I wish conservatives would ban together just once and make a difference as we should be able too. We can turn off NFL and the advertisers and make a difference.
MSN’s article about this never once mentioned that the statements attributed to Rush were fabrications, only that he claims they are. They also didn’t mention the dubious sorce. No bias there.....
“Perhaps someone should be fired.” Fired my sit down part. Every one of those bottom feeders (cleaned up to meet FR standards)should be sued for every dime they have ever made and will make for the rest of their lives.
We've got to starve this socialist monster. The dollar is our strongest weapon.
Boycott anything having to do with the NFL, including their advertisers.
I am RUNS WITH RUSH. A proud member of the tribe. God love ya, Rush. God love ya!
I’m done with the NFL.
Rather than boycott, I think Rush should do the exact opposite.
Given all the NFL games that are not sold out leading to local “Black-outs”, Rush should make a call out to his listeners/supporters to sell out those games. This would show how much support Rush has, and what an opportunity the NFL has missed.
" These fabricated quotes designed to slime a prominent conservative pundit deserve condemnation at least as fierce as those directed at the McNabb comments. Perhaps these guys should do less "fact checking" on "Saturday Night Live" skits and more on what they call news. Perhaps somebody should even be fired."
The good side of that is it would show how much power Rush has. The bad part, though, is it would be putting more cash in the pocket of the NFL which they absolutely don’t deserve.
I would like to see Rush personalize and isolate a target on the left, then take it down hard. If Beck did it, Rush can...but a much bigger target. That would be sweet.
And ESPN too. I'm done with them.
You should have been done with ESPN ever since the Stuart Scott era begun.
I think you're correct, but that's going to take a whole lot of doing.
Yep.
Late to the game, but better late than never.
I'm with you. F the NFL. I called
1-212-450-2000
and let them know I will no longer watch the games, buy tickets or support the sponsors. And then I cancelled my DIRECTV NFL package. Screw 'em.
I wouldn't get that close to that bunch of bottom feeders. ( ^: }
So I guess that the NFL does not need or want conservative fans cheering, supporting, and paying for stadium seats to watch their favorite NFL Teams and the same with their televised advertisers?
NFL = New Football Liberal League
Limbaugh’s critics lied, and the NFL took their side. If they don’t want conservatives, then I guess they don’t want conservative dollars, either.
Break your NFL addiction. You’ll probably feel better.
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Yep. And I got off the porch a long time ago.
Not according to Michael Wilbon, Washington Post Sports Columnist.
"Limbaugh's Message Made Him Rich -- And Cost Him"
...I don't listen to his show because his comments about people of color anger and offend me, and I'm not easily offended. I'm not going to try and give specific examples of things he has said over the years; I screwed up already doing that, repeating a quote attributed to Limbaugh (about slavery) that he has told me he simply did not say and does not reflect his feelings. I take him at his word.But Limbaugh has long history of the same insults and race baiting, to the point of declaring he hoped the president of the United States, a black man, fails. I never understood why someone with Limbaugh's gift for communication was so nasty and, in my opinion, gave cover to bigots everywhere under the guise of conservatism. Clearly I'm not alone.
Wilbon apparently believes that if Rush weren't such a racist, he would want Obama to succeed brilliantly -- at transforming the United States into a socialist quagmire. What other reason besides racism could there be to oppose socialism?
I especially liked the "I'm not going to try and give specific examples of things he has said over the years," which translates to "I'm not going to provide any evidence supporting my slander, because there is none."
How should one respond to this level of malignant idiocy?
Why do the libs get everything?
Did you know that in Nazi Germany you couldn’t get promoted unless you were a member of the Nazi party? It’s starting to look that way in the US....
Back when I actually watched PTI, it was fun to try to figure out who had the lower IQ, Wilbon or Kornheiser.
My fellow Patriots and YHOS, I have to tell you that this whole NFL is a bunch of crap. I made a vow last year to turn the TV off and not watch another professional football game again. It is such a wonderful feeling to not waste days watching the trash NFL offers. It is great to be able to work on the weekends or spend the time with my wife. Sports, when you actually think of it, is so minute and to give it up is wonderful.
I'm in, er, out of the NFL, too. This decision is made a lot easier considering how bad the Panthers are this year!
Rush was SET UP by SOROS and I’ll BET that the author of the FAKE RACIST QUOTES, Huberman (or Olberman) is backed by Soros!!!
Let’s see.....Olberman says “back off Rush”???? Hmmmmmmm....most likely Olberman is NECK DEEP in this.
More likely, Olberman knows he'll be collateral damage.
OK......I’ll take collateral damage! He should NOT be on that Football Show.....period.
Don’t kid yourself; the NFL would see those suddenly sold out games as an ENDORSEMENT of their blackballing Rush, and the presstitutes would shout it from the rooftops!
The IP address of the wiki entry of the false quote is of a law firm that works with Soros.
I KNEW Soros was behind he SET UP to RUIN Rush.
Sure is!
MV comes in, crowd cheers. MV comes in again, crowd does not cheer but announcer announces that crowd cheers. MV represents $ to Nike. Nike has paid off the whole lot.
I thought Nike dropped Vick like a hot potato. But, maybe not. I never paid very close attention,
NEW YORK — Michael Vick is back with Nike two years after the company severed ties over the quarterback’s involvement in a dogfighting ring.
“Mike has a long-standing, great relationship with Nike, and he looks forward to continuing that relationship,” his agent, Joel Segal, said Wednesday.
Segal would not reveal terms of the agreement. Nike, however, denied it had signed Vick to a sponsorship contract in a statement released to CNBC.
“Nike does not have a contractual relationship with Michael Vick,” Nike spokesman Kejuan Wilkins said in the statement to CNBC. “We have agreed to supply product to Michael Vick as we do a number of athletes who are not under contract with Nike.”
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