Fact is, the only people whose opinions count are the owners, and the owners are not about to alienate a work force that is 1) about 70% African American and 2) even more brutally meritocratic than their own. And they sure as hell aren’t going to do anything to alienate a significant portion of the customer base of the most successful sports operation in the world. Nah. Gah. Happen.

You know, I don’t mind so much that Rush is a racist jackass. I mind that he won’t OWN WHAT HE SAYS instead of whining to the world that HE is the real victim in all of this.

““Therefore, this is about the future of the United States of America and what kind of country we’re going to have.”

…”Whether it will be a country where a private corporate entity has the right to sell or not sell to whomever it freely chooses, or whether I can use my political and financial muscle to get whatever I want as if I were royalty! I ask you… wait, let me pop some more barbituates…”

Who amoungst you is one of the pajama clad basement dwelling gay rights extremists?

Next, advocates of the Public Plan will be burned as witches, as the threadbare coalition falls apart.

Next, they come for you. You have dispensed with truth,
screamed lies as a mob, and demonstrated your character, for all to see.

It will not be necessary for the opposition to do anything but stand by and watch, as the beast you have created ultimately feeds on you.

Beautifully said. There are many faults which can be attributed to the bilious Mr. Limberger. When Jerry Garcia died, he referred to him as “just another dead junkie.” Uh huh. But after Rush was busted for shopping for oxycodone in late night parking lots, he refused to discuss it. The man has no scruples and no integrity. And the big media which keep him on the air are equally culpable.

Besides, nobody is keeping this lout from spending his hate-mongering moolla on “the sport he loves.” Hell, he can bet all he wants, in Las Vegas. I’d like nothing better than for him to spend the rest of his life in casinos, snorting his feeble brains out with oxycodone and gambling his wealth away. He could end up as “poor white trash” instead of as “spoiled, egocentric, rich white trash.”

“… I believe the comment’s from 2007, and I believe the comments were made to a phone call, I had a phone call — I think — I’d have to check the transcript of that date, which I’ve not done, but my memory is, it was a playoff game in San Diego between the Chargers and the Patriots… some Chargers DB had gotten in the face of some Patriots player, was doing a “you can’t diss me” act and so forth, and it lost the game for the Chargers. And I praised the official for throwing the flag. See, I love the game. I love the National Football League.”

[Notice that Rush claims people are retreating from the quoted remarks…he suggests “somethings in the works” but never says “I’m gonna sue their A**”. Then he takes his BEST contextualized quote, says he “recalls” when it happened but that he hasn’t even reviewed the transcript. So if he hasn’t actually examined THIS…and is working off memory…how is it that he can categorically deny he made the other statements? Has he checked all the much older transcripts?

Then he claims that his attacking the teams, and the need for discipline, means he “loves the game”? It sounds more like he is complaining about the game AS IT EXISTS…but has some fantasy world about what it should be. He loves the fantasy…hates the reality. And the cause of the decline becomes racialized…”Crips and Bloods”

….”And they cannot allow the tendency, the integrity of the game to be blown up by whatever ‘cultural trends’ are going on. So the Bloods and Crips comment I THINK I SAID “sometimes” the game looks like Bloods and Crips without the weapons.”

He actually said “all too often” – watch this amount fade into smaller and smaller increments.

Limbaugh doesn’t care jack about the NFL whom he has said “… all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons”. That’s love? That’s not a statement about an occasional criminal or loser doing stuff off the field…he’s talking about the TEAMS…”all too often”. By the way he claims to have reviewed this tape and said…it was in the context of me “loving the game”…yet he hasn’t reviewed the “other tapes that for the other comments yet”. IOW it sounds like they do exist…he just needs to place them into a context. He isn’t denying that they DO exist.