I Really Should Have A Better Title Than "Rush To Judgment"
So Rush Limbaugh is looking into buying the St. Louis Rams. You'd think people would figure if he wants to take them off someone's hands, let him. But there's some major league opposition.
Al Sharpton for one, who criticizes Limbaugh for making "divisive" statements......I'm biting my tongue right now.
Worse, you got Colts owner Jim Irsay (who listens to hearsay?): "I, myself, couldn't even consider voting for him. When there are comments that have been made that are inappropriate, incendiary and insensitive ... our words do damage, and it's something that we don't need."
Worst of all, there's NFL Commissioner Roger Goodel. His argument: "I've said many times before we're all held to a high standard here, and I think divisive comments are not what the NFL is all about."
1) I guess it's no shock that blacklisting is alive and well. I'm just a bit surprised they're so open about it.
2) I wasn't aware that owners--or anyone associated with the NFL--were held to a high standard in anything except playing football.
3) I suppose the NFL, being privately owned, can discriminate against people on the basis of their politics. But so can the fans, and I wonder if this intolerance won't hurt them.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:01 AM
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Some additional observations
1. Rush hurt football in his short lived ESPN stint a few years back but trying to induce his cultural shtick ("the media always supports black QBs" about Donovan McNabb) to a place where people go to away from that stuff. He's bad for football. To the extent football can get political, it has to do so on broad consensual items (support the troops, aint great to have black presidents as well as players etc...)
2. Al Sharpton would be similarly denied ownership- loud mouth but blip on the landscape, Mark Cuban has been deemed too controversial, its hardly surprising that an incendiary talk show host that offends at least half the country (potentially a higher % of players).
3. Football is a business and these guys won't do something that hurts it. HArdly a conspiracy. Rush will cry foul (which is good for his business- see his Today show interview= wedge issues are his bread and butter) and life will go on
No one is really a fan of Rush especially in one of the most integrated American pastimes.
We're not getting a lot of love for Rush here. So dogfighting is okay while being a conservative isn't.
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