Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 10/17/2009 2:17:37 PM PDT by tobyhill
In the wake of the news that radio host Rush Limbaugh was hoping to buy a chunk of the St. Louis Rams, Bryan Burwell of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote a column containing the now-infamous quote, supposedly from Limbaugh, regarding the notion that slavery "had its merits."
We first became aware of the quote not from perusing the copy of the Post-Dispatch that arrives in our mailbox every morning in West Virginia, but because Limbaugh mentioned the issue during the Monday broadcast of his radio show. (Indeed, if Limbaugh had never talked about the quotes on his radio show, we and likely many others would have never even known about the issue.)
When posting on the matter on Monday, we made it clear that Limbaugh contends he never said the words. (The next day, he supplied a more forceful denial; the practical effect was that even more people became aware of the allegedly false quotes.)
But now the toothpaste is being squeezed back into the tube by the Post-Dispatch. In an Editor's Note published today, the newspaper says that the quote in question "cannot be verified, and its use did not meet the Post-Dispatch's standards for sourcing."
The Post-Dispatch also points out that the source of the quote was Jack Huberman's 2006 book, 101 People Who Are Really Screwing America. "The book provided no details about the origin of the quote," the Editor's Note explains. "When contacted by the Post-Dispatch, Huberman said that he had a source for the quote but declined to reveal it on advice of counsel. The book's publisher, Nation Books, did not return calls to the Post-Dispatch."
(Huberman's response suggests pretty strongly to us that he never actually heard Limbaugh say the words on the air, or in any other setting.)
(Excerpt) Read more at profootballtalk.nbcsports.com ...
Mike Florio denies being a pedophile, but it is our duty to report there are unsourced internet rumors that....
Exactly. I know Mike Florio is denying being a pedophile, and we can’t verify his denial, but ...
I am so damned sick of these people!
“Don’t boycott the NFL... that’s just stupid.”
No, it’s a logical answer to Roger Goodell’s ill-considered comments.
Once the NFL wisely fires Roger, I’ll watch them again.
No retraction.
No apology.
Rush should sue for Libel and slander until he owns all of the MSM. Who needs a stinking sports team.
“I would encourage everyone to boycott the NFL”
Being in St. Louis, I won’t miss the NFL very much at all.
Journalism has codes of ethics and all that good stuff - but if you actually want to predict journalism's behavior you should assume that they are all just window dressing and that journalism is a monopoly unified by the AP which operates strictly in its own self interest.Journalism's "objectivity" is a parody of the real thing.
And yet they ran it without that verification, only looking into it after they defamed a man. Imagine how they'd do the same for Ma or Pa Front Porch? And further, taking the source from a 1 sided "book" of obvious political bias also get past an Editor?
Of course the paper could have sourced this BS before they printed it. They think they have won, tell a lie, get Rush bounced and then retract, trying to avert a lawsuit. Well, I hope Rush's lawyers, who are working on the evidence right now, go ahead and sue the crap out of all these people.
I really had to laugh at that. They are so pathetic.
Right. One thing for sure , Rick Sanchez from CNN hit the fake story hard. We know for sure he was DUI when he hit that pedestrian ( who died soon after ) ans fled the scene. Thats right , hit and run,,,,
I’m with ya!
I also let the N.F.L know it.
The entire world of lefties really believes that Rush spews racism the entire 3 hours of his show, 5 days a week.
Since they can’t prove it, they use every means available to convince people that he does. And it works.
If they retain ownership of this newspaper, they have won.
If they retain ownership of this newspaper, they have won.
Imagine that you own a piece of the Main Stream Media... it is like a gun. You can shoot someone with it, apologize, you get to keep your gun and you can shoot them again and again.
Rush should sue them all into total bankruptcy.
This is war.
Really? They won’t let Rush in, but ‘stars’ who sing of dicks, ho’s, a fluckin are o.k. like Jlo did years ago.
Or Fergie so drunk on stage she pee’s her self.
A dog fighting torturer is o.k.
but Rush is ‘ controversial’?
I didn’t hear the N.F.L. defend him....
and he beats his wife too. ;-)
Mrs. Submareener and I don’t get much sports Cable, but we did get the “sports” tier on Cox because it had Fox Business Network in it. I thought that because FBN was in the HD tier, it would stay if I got rid of “Sports” but, alas, the FBNHD went as well. So we had to get it back. At least my protest was recorded. Maybe if enough folks who get the real NFL packages cancel, they will get the message.
The REAL reason Daddy Irsay snuck out of Baltimore in the middle of the night has never been published....
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