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Matthews: Whether or not Limbuagh allowed to buy Rams, "he wins either way; he gets to be a victim"

October 12, 2009 5:59 pm ET

From the October 12 edition of MSNBC's Hardball:

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Limbaugh in 2007: "NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons"

From the January 19, 2007, edition (subscription required) of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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    • Author by Übermensch (October 12, 2009 6:07 pm ET)
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      You stay classy Rush
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    • Author by jjamele2880 (October 12, 2009 6:15 pm ET)
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      The caller clearly has no idea what the word "coincidentally" means. "I only disagree with you 1.5% of the time coincidentally enough"- um, what?

      Limbaugh was unable to land a gig on Monday Night Football. Now he's going to be unable to land his own football team. Sorry, Rush- your money can't buy you everything.
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    • Author by smarshall1432997 (October 12, 2009 6:23 pm ET)
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      Rush's #1 clean-up statement: This was all for entertainment, LOL.

      And, Rush's #2 clean-up statement: Don't hate the player, hate the game, LOL.

      Both clean-up statements worked so well with the fifty million or so Republicans, so why "NOT" work for the rest of the two-hundred and fifty million Americans who are Democrats and Independents? LOL.
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (October 12, 2009 6:58 pm ET)
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      What...? Limbaugh does not win. There is no moral victory for Limbaugh for having his bid denied. It means Limbaugh doesn't get the team and doesn't have an even more visible platform. Who cares if his nut case, racist followers think he's a victim?

      And, BTW, Limbaugh will not get this franchise. NFL owners may be right wing Limbaugh fans but they're not going to chance diminishing the value of the NFL.
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      • Author by jjamele2880 (October 12, 2009 7:05 pm ET)
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        My guess is that most of the NFL owners are every bit as right-wing as Limbaugh is and agree with 99 percent of everything he says. They STILL won't allow him to own his own team, because they know he's too stupid to shut his trap and keep himself- and the League, once he becomes an owner- out of trouble.
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      • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (October 12, 2009 8:19 pm ET)
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        Irony, I don't think the "win" for Boss Hogg has anything to do with his listeners. I took Matthews statement to mean it's a win in Rush's mind. The guy's career is built on portraying himself as a victim, of Liberals, the media, taxes, political correctness, websites that bust him, etc.
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    • Author by manofmystique (October 12, 2009 7:20 pm ET)
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      American is morally bankrupted due largely to people like Rush Limbaugh.
      Vying for Grand Wizard of the White Nights of the KKK is one thing, Bidding for a National Professional Football Team is another.
      Hate, evil and divisiveness,(the worse Ameican has to offer)and the people who practice these transgressions are rewarded in this society, instead of scorn and rediculed.
      Sure Rush is allowed to bid and owned a Football team, but if there is a such thing as standards, professionalism and responsibility, Rush, who said he wants the President to fail, would not even be a consideration.
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    • Author by manofmystique (October 12, 2009 7:22 pm ET)
         
      American is morally bankrupted due largely to people like Rush Limbaugh.
      Vying for Grand Wizard of the White Nights of the KKK is one thing, Bidding for a National Professional Football Team is another.
      Hate, evil and divisiveness,(the worse Ameican has to offer)and the people who practice these transgressions are rewarded in this society, instead of scorn and rediculed.
      Sure Rush is allowed to bid and own a Football team, but if there is a such thing as standards, professionalism and responsibility, Rush, who said he wants the President to fail, would not even be a consideration.
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    • Author by Evel (October 14, 2009 1:05 pm ET)
         
      It's pretty obvious that he's saying a lot of the NFL players act like thugs but Tomlinson does not. How is that "racist"?
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    • Author by ibo765 (October 14, 2009 2:46 pm ET)
         

      I have been following this for the last three days. Here are my comments:

      1. I have watched so called “journalists” make undocumented accusations of racial statements that supposedly Limbaugh made. Limbaugh made a statement on his show yesterday that if any more undocumented accusations of racism are made by any major media outlet, they will be receiving a letter from his lawyers for retractions. I believe that if you call yourself a “journalist” and make an accusation against anyone, you should be able to show the “source” like in this article. If not, that is called “slander”.

      2. How many Black owners of the NFL are there now?

      3. When I look at the NFL now, I don’t racial equality. I see black men being handled by huge bureaucracy that is predominately white. It resembles the ancient Roman arena where you have bred fighters to fight in the arena.

      Here are some books to checkout on the subject of breeding and conditioning of black athletes in the sports industry:

      http://www.amazon.com/Souled-Blacks-Winning-Losing-Sports/dp/0736067507/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255534181&sr=1-1

      http://www.amazon.com/Darwins-Athletes-Damaged-America-Preserved/dp/0395822920/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255534181&sr=1-12

      http://www.amazon.com/Black-White-Race-Sports-America/dp/0814780377/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255534181&sr=1-11

      http://www.amazon.com/Forty-Million-Dollar-Slaves-Redemption/dp/0307353141/ref=pd_sim_b_4 - I personally listened to this author a few years ago. His audio interview is still available at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5548552

      If you are a sports journalist, athlete and you do this work day in and day out for years and ignore the what the “system” is and has been doing to the black community for years, then I agree with you that I find it cowardly and hypocritical to point a finger at a “questionable” racist person. That is the highest form of changing the issue.

      I think Rush Limbaugh’s critics need to deal with the “real” situation with black community and the sports establishment.
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