Rush Limbaugh used the opening 15 minutes of his radio show Thursday to explain his involvement and removal from a group planning to buy the Rams.
His conclusion was that his removal from the group with Dave Checketts as its front man showed “Obama’s America on full display.”
Limbaugh said Checketts opened discussions about Limbaugh’s inclusion in the group in late May or early June.
“I said, ‘Are you aware of the firestorm?’ ” Limbaugh said. “(Checketts) said, ‘I wouldn’t have approached you if I hadn’t taken care of that, if I hadn’t cleared your involvement with people at the highest level of the National Football League.’”
Limbaugh said he heard from Checketts on Tuesday that he would have to be removed. Limbaugh suggested that National Football League Players Association leader DeMaurice Smith was behind the removal and was using Limbaugh “as leverage in the upcoming negotiations with the league for a new collective bargaining agreement. Mr. Smith has let it be known that he’ll bring the White House into this.
“So Obama’s America could include the National Football League.”
Limbaugh emphasized that he didn’t bow out gracefully.
“If you want me out, you fire me,” he said he told Checketts.
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The Associated Press also reported that Limbaugh said his sacking was an example of the political clout wielded by the Obama administration.
“What is happening to the National Football League, what is about to happen to it, has already happened to Wall Street, has already happened to the automobile business,” Limbaugh said.
Limbaugh said he was victimized in the media by “misreporting, lying, repeating the lies while also saying ‘Limbaugh denies,’ repeating the made-up quotes, the blind hatred.
“Believe me, the hatred that exists in this is found in the sportswriter community, it’s found in the news business, it’s found in the race hustler business.”
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He got turned down because of the president? Obama’s America? What an asshole. Guess his BS bigotry had nothing to do with it. So tired of him taking up space on the sports page. Take a pill,dry yours eyes and move on. There’s no crying in football. Oh that’s baseball. Ok commence crying.
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typical Rush Limbaugh..always EVERYBODY’S fault but his own..the evil left wing media that has helped make him a million or possibly billionare is the culprit not some of the stupid things he’s said in the past and continues to say. All conservatives are NOT bigots but Rush is not helping the image of those who are. The new Three Stooges of Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck seem to have thrived in what Rush calls “Obama’s America”
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Bigoted hateful liar uses his radio platform, as he has for years, to rail against those who call him a bigoted hateful liar, calling them hateful liars. This has nothing to do with Obama. Limbaugh made his fortune by espousing hatred, especially hatred of blacks. That the potential Rams buyers and the NFL would tell him they don’t want his money is simply justice.
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Should all other owners be looked at too, to see how they made their money and if they have their issues of being PC? Where does this end?
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I cant believe how many people actually care about who the owner for the Rams could be. The only thing that we should care about is St. Louis keeping a team. Limbaugh, love him or hate him, has the money and motive to keep the team in St. Louis. Hope everyone who is hating on Limbaugh remembers this if the Rams are back in LA in a couple of years.
That would cost jobs to the community, something that Limbaugh was trying to save. This would be both white and black workers. Just think how ironic it would be if Burrwel has no team to cover.
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I could care less about Rush Limbaugh. I’m not a fan of his, haven’t heard more than a few words of his radio show and only have read about him in cases such as this. But I do have to wonder how words can be reason to keep someone out of the NFL when real honest to goodness criminal action doesn’t. I suppose this proves false the old idiom about “words will never Harm me,” because evidently they sometimes do. It’s a fact that there have been more than 300 arrests of NFL players over the past several years. Many of those arrests were of people who committed multiple offenses, most of that DWI (32 percent). More than 20 percent of the arrests involved fighting and disorderly conduct. Another 17 percent were domestic violence incidents and 13 percent concerned drugs. Eight percent of them were fun charges. Plaxico Burress is presently in prison after a shooting. Who wants to bet me that he’ll be welcomed back into the NFL with open arms, just as Michael Vick was and as Chris Henry was and ad infinitum. But they’re OK to represent the NFL and Rush Limbaugh is not. I guess I probably wouldn’t either.
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Rush must be back on the oxycontin….
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I am sick of people throwing around the racist word with anyone who disagrees with this administration.
Everyone is citing examples of Rush saying things about the Crips and Bloods this of course is thrown way of context. The only inflamatory thing Rush is on record of saying is the deal with D. McNabb.
Now on the other hand we have race baiters like Jackson and Sharpton who can say whatever they wish and get a free pass and people look to them as experts.
Why has Jackson never been called to the carpet for calling NYC hymie town or his stealing funds from the Rainbow Coaltion to fund his love child.
Sharpton does anyone recall the Twyana Brawly incident, or how about these two race baiters already condemming the Duke lacross players.
I hope the Rams leave and then see all you little babies ready to spread taxpayer money around in hopes of keeping them here.
Typical left wing Michael Moore sixth grade mentality
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If Rush Limbaugh had become part owner of the Rams I would have destroyed every hat, shirt, token, anything I own that had the St. Louis Rams on it. There are certainly owners of teams I support who have different political views than I. Limbaugh is a person with a complete lack of respect for most men or women. He is a hatemonger, divider and arrogant loudmouthed bigot. If Checketts originally thought he was a great addition to his ownership team it doesn’t say much for him either.
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Spoonball you are what is wrong with America. Fortunately, your kind is soon to be extinct from the American landscape. You live in a world of racial sterotypes and it shapes every thought that goes through your tiny brain. You hate political correctness because you want to be able to use racial epithets and disparage minorities whenever you want to with impunity.
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peppynicky—Political correctness is what’s wrong with America. Good lord…could you maybe drive through some of the gang infested parts of the ghetto so maybe something would happen to wake up your bleeding heart liberal twisted mind…actually now that I think of it, maybe we should transport tons of ammo into the ghetto and then force the libs to live there for a month until hopefully everyone would end up cleaning up this sick way of liberal living…it makes me want to vomit.
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The Good of the County 1, Rush and is moronic army 0. Thanks for playing.
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Steve Johnson, nobody really cares about the support of someone that is obviously completely uninformed. When will people like you realize that Rush’s behavior is why he is not getting a team. But I get it, blaming others is what he is all about. Got it.
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Seriously, when are people going to see this for what it is? This has ZERO to do with anyone on the staff of the PD or even in the STL. This is all because the commissioner and the other owners did not want the NFL involved with someone that has attacked their league in the past. PERIOD. Once Checketts got wind that there was no way that the group would advance when Rush was involved, he dropped him. The money will not be hard to make up. Checketts took a gamble on Rush’s big name, and the gamble backfired because Rush’s big name is a bad one.
This is not about Obama or America. Rush is trying to blame others for his past behavior. Grow up Rush. Your money couldn’t buy your way into the league because you are the symbol for all the bad things about this country. Take your medicine, and be a man about it for once.
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Dave Checketts is a gutless weasel, I encourage all to boycott the St. Louis Blues and I’ll do the same of the Real Salt Lake soccer team in Utah.
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Me thinks the Post-Despair’s sports section really started going down the toilet about the time it added ACORN-brain Burwell to its shameless staff. Did race hustlers Jesse Jerkson and Al “Not So” Sharpton come into town to demand his hiring rather than letting Tom Wheatley do a more competent job? If having some liberal lunatic spouting stench was the objective, the P-D could have just summoned Kevin Whoreagain over from editorials.
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Tawana Brawley
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The Post-Despair should issue a genuine apology for the bogus quote Burwell brandished about to construct his race-baiting case. His follow-up column revealed that he’s a flim flam “man” no different than shakedown artists Jesse Jerkson and Al “Not So” Sharpton. What a colossal collection of contemptible clowns!
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Rush is correct about what happened. The issue is that the entire story was premature. There was no formal bid, the lambs aren’t formally for sale, the Rosenblooms didn’t accept an offer, the NFL was never presented with an offer to approve or disapprove, the NFL never got the chance to vet the potential new owners. This was all about the media putting it’s stamp on the process.
Here comes race baiters Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to the rescue. Haimetown Himself Rev. Jackson……..
Please, the NFL held to a higher standard….right, 60+ players a year get arrested for everything from murder to drug trafficking. (check the stats yourself)
Rush (I don’t like or listen to his show) should have been afforded the right to go thru the process. Then if the NFL owners decided to deny the bid, that’s cool. It isn’t the job of the media to do what they did. Blacklisting someone has been done by both the right and left in America and it’s just stone cold wrong.
Look at the careers of Michael Richards and Mel Gibson……..the media is just disgusting.
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Drugbaugh doesn’t know himself what he’s said in the past.
He was too wasted on O.
Or Viagra.
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The NFL has now set a precident… no outspoken political figures as owners…and owners can’t be outspoken about politics. This is a slippery slop for the NFL. Freedom of speech lost a little freedom today, that’s sad.
For all of you speaking out about “divisive” politics… Isn’t that what politics is supposed to be about??? Differening opinions???
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“Drugbaugh” OMG hopw clever! NOT
Like players in the NFL and the drunken owners are any better than Limbaugh.
All your sports Gods are drug addicted, women beating, animal abusers, for the most part, but hey, judge Limbaugh for something he ADMITTED to and got help for. At least he isn’t running around mowing down people on roads and getting a free pass and playing football like nothing ever happened.
You people are so bloody clever!
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Drugbaugh is a baby
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I can’t help but laugh at all the lefty posts that don’t like Rush because he is a “hatemonger”, then proceed to hurl vile, hateful insults in Rush’s direction.
Fighting hate with hate. Good Strategy. Doesn’t make you look disengenuous at all.
Hello pot. Meet Kettle.
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Some of y’all kill me with these “Obama made em do it” conspiracy theories. As if all of a sudden Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson started making waves the moment Obama got into office. As if as soon as Obama put his hand up and was sworn in that all of a sudden people started coming out of the woodworks screaming “Thank God Obama is in office, now we can hold people down and cry racism.” Rush Limbaugh, Al Sharpton, O’Reilly, Jesse, and the like have been here for years and will be here for years to come. Don’t matter who the president is. Geez.
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WOW, calling Limbaugh a sociopath????? Do you have any idea of what that word even means? You may want to direct that name at Vick or Carruth or the many other NFL players that have committed actual CRIMES.
People on this thread have really shown their lack of education and most definitely their own intolerance, which they spout off about so freely!
No wonder this country is in the condition it is in, because people, for the most part are IGNORANT and have not one clear idea of what they are even talking about.
How many on here even know what Limbaugh has ACTUALLY said? You take some quotes, out of context, or quotes, TOTALLY fabricated and take them as gospel. Really smart and educated. way to go about things.
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The Real
Problem…………..
Lumpies insistence that the team wear white, pointed helmets
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I can’t stand Rush Limbaugh. I doubt he has uttered five sentences in his entire life that I agree with.
Even so, I don’t understand why he should be disqualified from being an NFL owner. It’s hard to reconcile the freedom of speech principles that Americans hold so dearly with this blackballing.
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Everything is racist in the new age of Obama! I don’t like to get political but this is getting ridiculous!
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Wow! What a surprise. Blaming the president for him being denied partial ownership. Guess his BS bigotry had nothing to do w/it. Anything for ratings I guess. Go pop a pill and get over it. Like he really cares in the first place. Ramfan since 70 ramfan for life regardless where they play at.
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I think Rush Limbaugh is an idiot; however, I find it troubling that a person can’t have a minority interest in a NFL team because some people disagree with his political views. I am not a fan of Rev. Al Sharpton, but if he had the money, I wouldn’t deny him the right to buy a team.
Where does it end? Should Rush be banned from NFL games?
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The world according to Rush is a very twisted place, indeed. Nice to see he won’t own up to the issue that he is a polarizing figure and just bad for (the NFL’s) business. Bernie’s column today was spot on.
Rush was right in that he was concerned at the outset that his involvement would cause a firestorm. One has to wonder if DC did his due diligence here. You would think a savvy professional sports team owner would have have seen this coming. I wonder if DC will comment on this at some point and either verify Rush’s take or if he will take this in a slightly different direction.
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The guy made his own bed now its time for him to lie in it
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Obama – you are getting all the credit for this and all I can say is – THANK YOU for getting that sociopath out of the program.
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Rush and I are victims, victims I tell you! Rush, it had nothing to do with your disagreeable attitude, bone-headed antics and hate-filled statements. Obama’s America is an evil plot to destroy men of talent, integrity, and virtue such as you and me. BTW, know where I can score some O?
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OK, you guys are right, Rush isn’t racist.
He just has “Racist Tendencies”.
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He opens his mouth and makes it so very clear why he was shunned by the NFL. I do not believe him, not for one second, when he says Checketts told him he had “cleared your involvement with people at the highest level of the National Football League.”
Hey Rush, stick to what you know, which is sitting in front of a microphone with an Oxy buzz, spewing hate about a country that allows you to be a multi-millionaire, even though you have no distinguishable talent.
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“What Rush is talking about is the new thuggery that exists on the left with a president willing to abuse the office to shake down the country in any way necessary to achieve their objectives. To some, this is a delicious power they have craved for many years. To most, it is a pathetic debauchery of our government that manifests itself throughout the congressional leadership. It’s all about redistributing everything…wealth, power, privilege and morals. When the unions use bully tactics to achieve their means with the unlawful might of government behind them, we have truly lost our nation.”
Great screed, but wrong. This has nothing to do with any imaginary “leftist shakedown” that you conservatives are fond of pretending is happening. I’m not sure how you could be more wrong; you’re just trying to cram some political garbage in here.
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Rush Limbaugh provided no value to the other owners in the NFL. This was a business decision. It doesn’t matter what was said or not said. It doesn’t matter if you agree with his views or not. I’m sure there are owners who agree with him. It’s part of the reason why the Rooney Rule exists.
The Dolphins are bringing in all these celebrities to be minority owners because they believe they provide value to the team and the league.
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What Rush is talking about is the new thuggery that exists on the left with a president willing to abuse the office to shake down the country in any way necessary to achieve their objectives. To some, this is a delicious power they have craved for many years. To most, it is a pathetic debauchery of our government that manifests itself throughout the congressional leadership. It’s all about redistributing everything…wealth, power, privilege and morals. When the unions use bully tactics to achieve their means with the unlawful might of government behind them, we have truly lost our nation.
Again, Limbaugh is bombastic, but he IS NOT a racist. If you think he’s too controversial to be a silent, small partner in a football team, what else should he be banned from? I’m sure the obamamites have a plan for more.
My relatives did not die fighting for our freedom, so we could be reduced to a third world dictatorship like Cuba. WAKE UP AMERICA!!! I cannot believe this is happening! Why don’t people defend the destruction of freedom? Has our society become such narcissists, such a collection of pigs, that you only care about getting your slop…no matter how you get it? Talk to anyone who grew up in a socialist or communist country, then escaped to the US. They will tell you this is EXACTLY how it all started there. Losing freedoms, letting a president and congress run roughshod over our constitutional principals while spending our children’s future like drunken sailors?? WAKE UP PEOPLE!!
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Go away Rush! You are a draft-dogding, pill-popping, call-screening, thrice divorced closeted homosexual hypocrite who would be despised by a large portion of this team’s fan base.
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Kudos to Limbaugh and others for the publicity this generated. Outside of that we\’ve only managed to inject idiotic rhetoric into the entertainment business. Thank you to political opportunists on both sides for making this Rams season even more dismal and difficult to enjoy.
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Always blaming others.
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Here’s what bugs me – I keep hearing this “Vick is allowed to play in the NFL”, “Donte Stallworth will be welcomed back in the NFL”…I even read someone say that Rae Carruth was a representative of the NFL. REALLY?!? Pretty sure he won’t be back any time soon. C’mon people. But I digress. The reason this irks me is that you seem to be displacing your anger. Nobody in the NFL was REQUIRED to put Vick on their team. Nobody in the NFL is REQUIRED to take Donte Stallworth. They are ALLOWED to – just as Rush was ALLOWED to be a part of the Checketts team. Nobody forbade Checketts from adding Rush. But just like each team in the NFL has the option of passing on Vick, Stallworth, Little, Lawrence Phillips, Maurice Clarrett, Plaxico Burress, and any other problem child….the NFL owners have the option of passing on a team including Rush Limbaugh. And they did. So stop blaming Obama, Burwell, Pinocchio, the Tooth Fairy, and Santa Claus please and understand that everyone who had a choice in this matter MADE their choice, and the conclusion of those choices is that Rush ain’t gonna be a part of the team bidding for the Rams.
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There you go, that’s what you do with an employee, team member or partner that doesn’t know how to act, just give em the boot, I guess money can’t by you love (or friends) after all…
It’s so funny to read people fantasizing about the money Rush has, and what he should do with his money and what he’s going to do with it………WAKE UP PEOPLE, its not YOUR money!!!….and why is that everyone is acting like Rush is the only person on earth with money that wants to buy the Rams and keep them in St. Louis?
I know why, it’s because some people don’t just don’t want an owner that will keep the team in St. Louis, they actually want an owner who’s racist AND will keep the team in St. Louis, so they can have someone they can look up to and that actually supports their racist views….
I’m a season ticket holder and all this is starting to make me question who I’m REALLY sitting next to at the games…
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“This, of course, is no real loss for Rush; it is, however, a loss for the country when a potential owner is drummed and smeared out of the game due to political correctness.”
Agreed. If you can’t call someone a “halfrican-American” on public airwaves these days, when can you???
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