Rush Limbaugh rejected by NFL; he and Bill O'Reilly don't get it

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Rush Limbaugh was dropped from the potential St. Louis Rams NFL ownership group put together by St. Louis Blues owner Dave Cheketts today. As I explained here, Rush being an NFL owner would be "modern slavery":



But it's clear Rush doesn't get how his brand and the NFL's brand don't mix, and Fox News' Bill O'Reilly comes along to paint Rush as the poor victim:

"This (the criticism of Rush for his racially divisive statements) is 1984-type stuff, ladies and gentlemen. Thought police posture.."

And Rush? Limbaugh offered the biggest bunch of hooey I've ever heard from him:

..But I do love you all and I thank you all so much for your support. I want to say that many people have e-mailed me, and they're right about this, that this is not about me. Not just about me, this is not about the NFL, it's not about the St. Louis Rams, it's not about me. This is about the ongoing effort by the left in this country, wherever you find them, in the media, the Democrat Party, or wherever, to destroy conservatism, to prevent the mainstreaming of anyone who is prominent as a conservative.

Rush Limbaugh, now I'm talking to you! If you're smart, you'll listen.

Rush, let me tell ya, it's not for me an objective of "destroying conservatism" at all. I know a lot of conservatives who don't agree with your tactics and words. Moreover, to me you're not a true, intellectual conservative in the fashion of an Irving Kristol or William F. Buckley. You're what I call a "Couch Potato Conservative" who just makes statements to upset people who don't agree with your point of view or who don't look like you and disagree with your view.

You've done well at exciting and energizing your so-called base, but you didn't stop about the limits to your growth. The late economist John Kenneth Galbraith developed a theory you should pay attention to because it applies to you. It's called the "Theory of Countervailing Power."

The idea, first advanced in his famous book "American Capitalism" is simply that groups and unions would rise to counter the political power of business. Galbraith's take - who's a liberal economist by the way - is right on here and applies to you. In this case, you are the business and African Americans, who you've attacked, are represented by the unions and community groups (like the NAACP).

They rose up and attacked your bid for partial ownership of an NFL team, and they succeeded. They were successful, first, because you attacked them and, second, because the way you have conducted yourself is at odds with the NFL brand.

That's something you and Bill O'Reilly just don't understand. The NFL brand represents all of America, not a part of it. Rush, you and Bill O'Reilly have used rhetoric that speaks to part of our country, not the whole.

Rush, I got a press release from Media Matters about your many statements. You've got to see it, if you've not already. On second thought maybe you don't want to. Rush, you've hurt a lot of people, ok.

This is what I was sent by Media Matters, Rush, what their press release reads as "at least 28 examples of Limbaugh making racially charged remarks, including:"

· "We are being told that we have to hope [Obama] succeeds, that we have to bend over, grab the ankles ... because his father was black."

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200901220002

· "I do believe" Obama is an "angry black guy."

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907270023

· "[I]n Obama's America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering."

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200909150017

· "Obama's entire economic program is reparations."

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907220040

· Obama is "more African in his roots than he is American" and is "behaving like an African colonial despot."

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200906260019

· Obama is "Halfrican-American."

http://mediamatters.org/research/200701240010

· "Obama has disowned his white half ... he's decided he's got to go all in on the black side."

http://mediamatters.org/research/200803210012

· Sotomayor "a reverse racist" appointed by Obama, "the greatest living example of a reverse racist."

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200905260035

· Obama "wants us to have the same health care and plan that he had in Kenya" and "wants to be the black FDR."

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200908240028

· Latching onto LA Times op-ed, Limbaugh sings "Barack, The Magic Negro."

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200703200012

· "God does not have a birth certificate. Neither does Obama"; Obama "has yet to prove he's a citizen."

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200906100019

· Limbaugh on Gates controversy: "Here you have a black president trying to destroy a white policeman."

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907240015

· Limbaugh suggests Obama would not have acted on Somali pirates if he'd known they were "actually young, black Muslim teenagers."

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200904140029

· Limbaugh suggests Democrats, media believe "you can't criticize the little black man-child."

http://mediamatters.org/research/200808200009

* "The government's been taking care of [young blacks] their whole lives."

http://mediamatters.org/research/200808200009

· "The days of [minorities] not having any power are over, and they are angry."

http://mediamatters.org/research/200808200009

* "[M]inorities never do anything for which they have to apologize."

http://mediamatters.org/research/200808200009


· Limbaugh: "The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well."

http://mediamatters.org/research/200808200009

· Limbaugh says "NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips."

http://mediamatters.org/research/200808200009

* Limbaugh declares basketball "the favorite sport of gangs."

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200910070023

* Limbaugh invented "racial component" to Hackett's decision to withdraw from Ohio primary race.

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200602160001

* Limbaugh on Survivor series: "African-American tribe" worst swimmers, Hispanics "will do things other people won't do."

http://mediamatters.org/research/200609300001

* Limbaugh suggested Colin Powell only supported Obama because of race.

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200905180025

* Limbaugh: Gates is an "angry racist."

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907270021

* Limbaugh called illegal immigrants an "invasive species."

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907270021

* Limbaugh repeatedly calls Native Americans "Injuns."

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200508180006

* Limbaugh says Democrats' interest in Darfur is securing black "voting bloc.”

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200708230008

* Limbaugh says that if "feminazis" had remembered to oppose "affirmative action for black guys ... they wouldn't face the situation they face today."

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200805210009

Rush both you and Bill O'Reilly don't get that these comments, taken as a collective, show a pattern of dislike and boarderline hatred for people of color. You've made a $400 million killing from this practice, but where you went wrong is in assuming it would get you in the NFL's club of owners.

The NFL has no interest in wrecking its brand with your approach; Dallas Maverick's owner Mark Cuban's right on here.

Think about it, Rush.

Let's say you were part of the St. Louis group and you made some inflammatory statement. You'd give NFL public relations a total nightmare of a job trying to explain away what you said, not to mention the staff of the Rams.

I can't believe you'd be so selfish as to put your narrow interests ahead of so many innocent people. But you tried to, and now, thank God, it's over.

I hope you've learned a lesson.