I was going to let it go, but I couldn’t pass on Rush’s noble romanesque pose on the rock with a tsunami coming ashore in the background captioned, "An outpouring of support, love and resolve to fight. After the storm, waves recede and the rock remains" [I wonder who he/they are resolving to fight with]. He also claims that the NFL and NFL watchers are Liberals. I didn’t know that – that people who watch professional football are Liberals. ‘Cause I know a lot of Liberals, but I don’t know anyone who watches the NFL [Maybe the Liberal NFL watchers live somewhere else – blue states?]. But after this, I think I might start watching them some myself. They seem like some reasonably principled guys.
Here’s Rush’s point of view:
And the real reason, the real reason — and there are many, many reasons that are valid, but the real reason — that pressure was brought upon me by Sharpton and Jackson and DeMaurice Smith and the commissioner is that the Players Association is using my involvement in the Rams and this whole episode as a bit of leverage in their negotiations, the upcoming negotiations with the league and with the owners on a new collective bargaining agreement. That is what’s really going on, and the Players Association… I don’t know how many players know this, but Mr. Smith has let it be known that if he has to he’ll bring the White House into this. He’ll bring the Congressional Black Caucus into this.
So Obama’s America is quite possibly going to include the National Football League, and pressure from Obama, the Congressional Black Caucus and other places might be brought to bear on the owners. I can’t imagine that that’s anything they want. You know, as all businesses are, they’re regulated to a certain extent by the federal government but this would be a huge expansion of that. And that threat is being bandied about. And I don’t expect anyone to admit it. The owners are not going to admit that. They don’t want to. I’m sure that the reaction to this today will be, "Ah, Limbaugh doesn’t know what he’s talking about." It will be another one of these things, but that is one of the things that I do know is going on behind the scenes.
Who knew?…
Later: The Internet is abuzz with what Rush Limbaugh didn’t say – something about missing James Earl Ray. Well, I’m glad to learn he didn’t say it. I presume the hubub is a way of diverting our attention from the fact that the NFL Players and Officials are sufficiently put off by all the things Limbaugh did say to not want the likes of him involved in their league. I expect he’ll victim around until somebody apologizes and he feels exonerated. So I’ll get the ball rolling:
Mr. Limbaugh, I’m sorry someone misquoted you about missing James Earl Ray. They were silly to make up things when there’s so much nasty material available in what you have said. As for your daily attacks on and slurs about black Americans, including our President, that kind of thing doesn’t do much for your image. But, to be honest, except among the subset of like-minded equally hateful people, your image never has been much to write home about anyway. Maybe you could answer this child’s question and try to turn things around for yourself…
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