About us Login Get email updates
County Fair
Print

Editor-in-chief of Breitbart's BigGovernment.com says Limbaugh was "mau-mau[ed]"

October 19, 2009 10:55 am ET by Media Matters staff

From a post by BigGovernment.com editor-in-chief Mike Flynn titled, "The Mau-Mauing of Rush":

Rush took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to address the mau-mauing that scuttled his NFL dreams. Personally, I'm a little mystified why Rush would want to own part of a football team. Oversized, preening and pampered athletes set in strictly defined roles and running elaborately orchestrated "plays" designed by a full bureaucracy of coaches seems, frankly, I dunno...unAmerican. Quite unlike the other football, where there are no plays, few coaches and wide latitude for individual initiative and improvisation. (How did we get stuck with the collectivist top-down heavy sport?) But, to each his own.

Of course the NFL is a private institution which can invite -- or deny -- whomever they'd like to join their owners' club. But the manner in which Rush was sidelined is, at best, distasteful and definitely more than a little troubling.

Tags: Andrew Breitbart, BigGovernment.com, Mike Flynn

Support Our Work


Expand All Expand 1st Level Collapse All Add Comment
    • Author by Max Credits (October 19, 2009 10:59 am ET)
      3  
      "Racists for Rush"
      Report Abuse
    • Author by manndan (October 19, 2009 11:18 am ET)
      1 1
      Is Flynn saying that he prefers soccer to American football? Soccer is a sport played by little kids in America until they develop the coordination to play real games like football and baseball. Soccer is also a game for those effete Euro countries. Methinks that Flynn's American credentials are suspect.
      Report Abuse
      • Author by shaggles (October 19, 2009 11:27 am ET)
        1  
        They certainly would be considered so if he wasn't on the right.
        Report Abuse
      • Author by bilbo_dies (October 19, 2009 12:28 pm ET)
        2  
        You wouldn't think that this guy would like a EUROPEAN sport over a sport that was grown in the U.S.A. now would you!

        Also, he is wrong about there not being designed plays in soccer (football). The difference being that soccer continues play until a goal is made or a penalty is called.

        Oversized, preening and pampered athletes
        We can only hope that this guy repeats this statement around some NFL players. We could have another John Stossel moment. If you remember, where he questioned a professional wrestler about the fact that wrestling was all fake and he was shown just how fake it was. ;-)
        Report Abuse
    • Author by professor frink (October 19, 2009 11:23 am ET)
      2  
      But the manner in which Rush was sidelined is, at best, distasteful and definitely more than a little troubling.

      Seriously? My god, you'd think Commissioner Roger Goodell, NFL owners, and Dave Checketts et al. took Limbaugh out to a back alley and shot him. I fail to see how Checketts and the NFL telling Limbaugh "No" is in any way distasteful or troubling. Just because someone wants a professional sports team doesn't mean they'll get a professional sports team.

      Words and actions have real consequences. Limbaugh made his bed; now he has to lie in it.
      Report Abuse
      • Author by bilbo_dies (October 19, 2009 12:32 pm ET)
        2  
        Well, I think he has a point, it just isn't the point he thought he had.

        The NFL is a monopoly, that is run by a group of very conservative rich white guys (well, mostly). There have been other attempts to "buy in" to a NFL team that have been turned down by the NFL.

        Just because you have the money, doesn't mean they will let you in their club.
        Report Abuse
    • Author by shaggles (October 19, 2009 11:26 am ET)
      2  
      What? How is it 'troubling?' And I'm trying to imagine what would happen if someone on the left said that soccer was superior to, and more American than, American football.
      Report Abuse
    • Author by borealis (October 19, 2009 12:38 pm ET)
      2  
      I think my fellow commenters have missed the point. This isn't about any kind of football. The "mau-mau" reference is to remind us that Obama is Kenyan and dangerous because he will kill the rich whites who believe in their God-given entitlement to everything. Look at the history of the mau-mau uprising against colonial rule.
      Report Abuse
      • Author by SMTDL (October 19, 2009 1:01 pm ET)
        2  
        Yes and he is also referring to the influence of the players(majority Black)..easy to see why Rush was rejected, with friends like this racist!..
        To just make it up that some action by the White House occurred is just to appease Rush.How stupid!!!What an ego to think he is that important!!!Rush is never at fault!Why can't he see that his big fat mouth got him this time!!
        Report Abuse
      • Author by Cannonball (October 19, 2009 1:09 pm ET)
        1  
        I agree, but what a stretch to smear the left. Also, if he thinks NFL players are pampered, he should attend a try out or practice. Yes, they make hundreds of thousands and some make millions, but I thought the GOP supported free market economics. Their pampering is on their own time, on the field, they get hurt, often and sometimes badly.

        As for "the other football", try running constantly on a field larger than a foorball field controlling a ball without using your hands. And don't think those people don't get hurt, either. It's more than a sport for kids until they get into Football. How many of you still play football? I'm 49 and still play competitive soccer. Yes, here in the U.S., it's big and growing indoor and out.

        Most the sports you couch potatoes denigrtate are the ones people can play well into retirement, tennis, soccer, softball, cycling, volleyball, golf, swimming, racketball, etc. And many demand more stamina than basketball, football or baseball.

        BTW, aren't most college football players overweight in the 40's. Most college runners, cyclists, swimmers, etc. aren't... Just saying...
        Report Abuse
      • Author by aBeck in 10-O-C (October 19, 2009 4:16 pm ET)
           
        You are right...this isn't about football. Perhaps it is instructive to note the contemporary usage of the term as shown in Wikipedia.

        "Following various reactions to the rebellion in Kenya, the verb "to mau mau" came to mean "to menace through intimidating tactics; to intimidate, harass; to terrorize,", in a political and/or racial context. The most famous usage is literary and titular- Tom Wolfe's essay Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, a 1970 essay by Tom Wolfe in which the titular metaphor "Mau-Mauing" compares the impression of aggressive race-based tactics used in the Mau-Mau Rebellion with the less violent but equally instructive collision of the seminal black-radical activist struggles of late-1960s New York City with politically naive white-liberal donors."

        The use of the term in the BigGovernment article is nonetheless being employed as a race-baiting tactic.
        Report Abuse
    • Author by John Paradox (October 19, 2009 12:42 pm ET)
         
      (How did we get stuck with the collectivist top-down heavy sport?)

      Same way we got the collectivist top-down heavy 'grassroots organizations'?

      Just saying.....
      Report Abuse
      • Author by jimellismusic1657 (October 19, 2009 12:53 pm ET)
           
        Sometimes people with various talents can come together in a complex organization to do something really good. Like movies or a country. These people are no more individualistic than anyone else; it would be impossible to even hear their voice without the cooperation of a few million other people. They confuse personal responsibility with rugged individualism and that's bs. Also they cannot keep themselves from revealing their unexamined (? I hope) racism.
        Nothin' but luv
        jim
        Report Abuse
    • Author by wookie (October 19, 2009 1:52 pm ET)
         
      >>Oversized, preening and pampered athletes set in strictly defined roles and running elaborately orchestrated "plays" designed by a full bureaucracy of coaches seems, frankly, I dunno...unAmerican.>>

      Actually, it sounds a lot like big business.

      >>(How did we get stuck with the collectivist top-down heavy sport?)>>

      Of course these collectivists make millions of dollars a year. Or get cut.
      Report Abuse

my.MediaMatters.org

Login  Sign Up

About the Blog

Feed Icon
  • County Fair is a media blog featuring links to progressive media criticism from around the Web as well as original commentary, breaking news and rapid response updates to major media events from Media Matters senior fellows and other staff.