I understand he really wanted an NFL team, but I can’t imagine that spending a couple weeks trashing the NFL brand is really working in his favor.
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aimai
Even a flaming Nazi gasbag may have trouble filling all that hot air time.
I think this may be another of those “jumping the shark” moments when Rush’s tendency to limit himself to a small circle of supporters has convinced him that he has more of a case, and more social support, than he really does. And he also can’t help himself. I think he’s truly shocked and enraged that other republican white males have denied him a chance at the biggest boy toy of all. For the sake of his fans, and because it was done so publicly and so sharply, he has to spend a lot of time talking about it and explaining it away. But basically Rush got kicked in the face by the other white boys in the elite owners club and he has to trash both the prize (the NFL) and the other owners (by calling them nothing but stooges of the left) to make himself feel better. Expect a ton more on air crying.
aimai
Roger Moore
He’s obviously given up on getting his team, and decided that the next best thing is to spoil it for whoever does manage to buy it. It’s an obnoxious, childish approach to life, but nobody should have expected anything better from Rush.
Hunter Gathers
If Rush wants to be a part of pro sports, maybe he should ask for his old job with the KC Royals back. The current strategery seems to not be working.
Leelee for Obama
It’s Rush. He will behave like this and bite the few hands that might have fed him until his morale improves. Even the NFL owners and Big Wigs knew that RL would quickly poison the geese that lay all those lovely golden eggs. They are as likely to defend his racist BS as they are likely give sky box tickets to Al Sharpton. These are businessmen, they are only and ever concerned with their bottom line. Rush was threatening that, and he will bemoan his fate until the next flavor of the week comes along. I’m betting on the Health Care Bill as it becomes more and more obvious that the Insurers are gonna get hosed-I hope.
jon
Maybe Rush will start calling the NFL an elitist organization that uses socialist tax schemes to enrich the elitist owner groups at the expense and to the detriment of the peons who pay taxes in their municipalities. Maybe Rush will start to claim the NFL’s socialist and monopolistic way of conducting its business is harmful as an economic model and not a productive use of tax dollars.
Nope, he still thinks his fat self is going to get another piece of this particular pie. He’ll shut up about it if he has to actually attack the NFL, but he’ll keep talking about political correctness, his eternal victimhood under the Obamafascist rule, and other, less-tangibly-connected-to-big-business topics he’s used to. It’ll probably take another five hundred references to Jesse Jackson before he starts attacking the actual NFL.
Which won’t stop his followers from saying stupid things, but him? He’s too interested in sitting at the rich kids’ table to be that stupid.
calipygian
He’s a fat, drug-addicted, Dominican boy prostitute fucking attention whore.
No more, no less.
And the more pathetic, vile and repulsive he gets, the bigger in stature he gets at the National Review, particularly in K-Lo’s eyes, for whom Rush looms as the Daddy who she really wants to lose her virginity to.
Omnes Omnibus
The man parlayed being an obnoxious asshole into a multimillion dollar gig. He is now surprised that people whose business depends on appealing to everyone (NFL owners) do not want to be associated with him? WATB. The NFL was simply protecting its brand equity like good business people.
calipygian
Somehow I think Rush is actually disappointed that he wont have free access to a locker room and shower full of strong, muscular black men.
beltane
Most of his fan base probably loves football more than they love Rush. He seems to be losing his edge lately, anyway. Instead of getting angry, he should try sobbing and whimpering like Glenn Beck.
Omnes Omnibus
@beltane: Didn’t someone (at RedState, maybe?) propose that Limbaugh fans take up CFL fandom? Or am I hallucinating?
Chad N Freude
The WSJ Limbloviation contains this WTF juxtaposition.
Can someone explain how “I screwed up” is refusing to take responsibility?
beltane
@Omnes Omnibus: I think you’re right. Good luck with that. Maybe they’ll all become fans of European football or even cricket. That would be awesome.
Violet
I bet Rush wouldn’t even vote for Bitsy. Don’t be like Rush. Vote for Little Bitsy! She’s doing really well this week and this is the last day. Vote!
pragmatic idealist
Paul Pelosi bought a football team in the new UFL league for twelve million. It must be some kind of communist football. Rush should start his own teabagger football league. The winner in each league could play in the Armageddon Bowl.
kay
Did he claim discrimination based on conservatism when he “resigned” from sports commentary for negative race-based statements?
Or are we just pretending that didn’t happen?
I can see why he would pretend it didn’t happen. Because it blows a big gaping hole in his current argument, but I would think someone would mention it.
Omnes Omnibus
@Chad N Freude: No grovelling involved? Limbaugh is accustomed to Senators and Representatives prostrating themselves and begging forgiveness for the slightest offense to His Immenseness. A simple acknowledgement of an error ain’t gonna cut it.
Brick Oven Bill
Modern Liberalism, as embodied by the racist NFL, has overplayed its hand with Rush Limbaugh. Note that the sports media ignored the āboosā when the token Mexican referee announced the first foul in the Miami game in Spanish. This is because the people recognize that this was racist lipstick on a pig as, if the NFL was not racist, it would have 70% white referees, 14% Mexican referees, 13% black referees, and the other 3% of referees would be Asians and Native Americans. There would also be 2% referees that follow the Jewish Belief System, of whatever race.
Instead, with the exception of the Miami token referee, most all of the new NFL referees are black! As are most defensive players with the occasional exception of the Safety.
People are getting tired of the racist crap lipstick on a pig. Boo.
Benen complains that Rush ācompared the Obama agenda with slavery reparationsā. But Rushās assertion is true if you gather the numbers and use Arithmetic and Logic.
Omnes Omnibus
Could someone direct me to the pie filter? BoB has lost me.
Englischlehrer on vacation
i have been a rams fan since about 1982. i am from orange county and even after they moved out in the middle of the night to st louis in the mid 90s, i stuck by them and it was worth it with the 99 superbowl and holt and bruce for the first couple of years of the 2000s.
i was getting ready to have to say that i would start paying attention to the chargers more, learning who their players were, which is kind of like the rams to me now anyway. bruce is gone, and if limbaugh were to have moved in, i dont know …
does this make me as bad as limbaugh for hoping him to fail?
Chad N Freude
@calipygian: @calipygian: Not to sound critical, but isn’t there enough factual stuff about the Limbloviator’s jerkismo to bitch about? I don’t think “and Rush fucks puppies, and K-Lo masturbates to the sound of his voice” adds much to the discourse. IMHO. Also.
kay
@Chad N Freude:
He brought his political ideology into his sports work. That’s what happened.
He wanted to promote his views on the liberal media and affirmative action, so he used a football player as a (stupid) example. That doesn’t belong there.
That went so well he’s doing it again.
All he’s doing is making the NFL’s case. They suspected he couldn’t and wouldn’t approach this as a purely business alliance, but instead might promote his ideology, and meld his solo enterprise (hate radio) with their brand as he has done in the past, and they were right.
I think they made the right call :)
pragmatic idealist
BOB, you’re so right. If the NFL wasn’t racist then they wouldn’t give preferential treatment to blacks; they’d let the naturally genetically superior whites play all the positions, not just safety and quarterback.
donovong
@calipygian:
WORD.
Lupin
McCarthy went after the Army.
It’s called hubris. Whom the Gods would destroy etc.
Chad N Freude
@Brick Oven Bill:
Phraseology just dripping with condensation.
Leelee for Obama
@calipygian: I’m gonna need some brain bleach here, my friend! EWWWWWWWWWWWW!
pragmatic idealist
Damn, BOB has me so worked up with the brilliance of his arguments that I can’t stop writing. Fans boo a referee’s call??? That’s never happened before so it must be real Americans calling out the NFL on racism. And why can’t we get quota systems for hiring like BOB and Rush want? It’s the damn racist liberals that are stopping affirmative action for whites.
calipygian
@Chad N Freude: Rush brought loads of someone elses Viagra to the Child Prostitution Capital of the Western Hemisphere and got busted coming back into the country with the unused portion.
Until he comes out and specifically denies it, I will continue to speculate that he brought all that Viagra down there with the specific intent to engage in illegal conduct with children.
To not speculate, would be in Peggy Noonan’s words, be irresponsible.
And have you read what K-Lo writes about Rush? How does she reconcile what Rush says with what she professes to believe about her Catholic faith and remain sane?
Only one conclusion I can reach about that. To not speculate about it would be irresponsible.
Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle
@calipygian:
Ewwww!! But then they deserve each other.
Chad N Freude
@kay: I understand this. I was trying to call attention to the verbal reverse inversion hail Mary logic, which seems to be OK to the WSJ editors.
Notorious P.A.T.
Who can’t hold a marriage together (three times divorced).
Svensker
@Notorious P.A.T.:
In fairness, it could have been Dominican girl prostitutes.
Notorious P.A.T.
You’re right! If A+B=C, that means reparations!
Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle
Brick Oven Bill:
I know it’s bad of me to start arguing with a troll, but could you tell me how the NFL is racist? Even Irsay(a big Republican donor .. including to Bush/Darth Cheney) said he wouldn’t vote for Limpballs as part of the Rams ownership group.
calipygian
@Svensker:
Yeah, fuck fair.
kay
@Chad N Freude:
I think the WSJ has to bow to Limbaugh. His argument sucks, IMO, just on a free market basis.
I love how conservatives insist everything is affirmative action. Even if a black person is promoted in something like football, which would seem to be merit-based, they are the beneficiaries of secret affirmative action.
They can’t win. It’s either secret or overt affirmative action. Pick one.
Chad N Freude
@kay: I reread your post, and I would amend it slightly:
” … meld his solo enterprise (hate radio) with their brand and risk a drop in profits.
I don’t know how much principled high-mindedness entered into their decision. I suspect it wasn’t 100%.
Chad N Freude
@calipygian: Well, I have to acknowledge that the Noonan Principle applies. I yield.
pragmatic idealist
P.A.T., I’m glad there’s someone else in this socialist cesspool intelligent enough to understand BOB. BOB wasn’t talking about arithmetic; he wrote “Arithmetic”. That’s the same Arithmetic that Rove used to show that (caring for children) = pedophilia. Rove also innovated “the Math” which proves that Obama is an illegitimate usurper and the enemy of all real Americans.
calipygian
@Chad N Freude: The thing that kills me about the admiration for Rush at the National Review is that you know that if this were 1932, Rush would be railing against “Papists”.
Chad N Freude
@kay: The WSJ doesn’t really have to bow to anybody. The editorial board loves to give a platform to anyone to the right of Genghis Khan. They hold social and political views that would make a Neanderthal blush. They are a more than willing tool of the spewers of wrongheadedness and hatred of all that’s liberal or progressive, and they maintain this disgusting symbiotic relationship with Palin, Limbaugh, and any other public figure who fits their sociopolitical model.
Dr. Loveless
@Omnes Omnibus:
Go to the Balloon Juice Lexicon and look up “pie.” That’s where I found it.
Chad N Freude
Limbaugh refers to his imaginary “Excellence In Broadcasting” network. I have listened to fragments of his programs off and on for many years (always being careful not to reach the level of fatal toxicity), and I have yet to hear any Excellence in his Broadcasting. Or Competence. Or Sense.
Chad N Freude
Not having anything constructive to do at the moment, I looked at Rush’s private e-mail page, and for some reason I find this amusing:
Communication by lottery.
kay
@Chad N Freude:
I agree completely. I think that’s okay, actually, in entertainment.
I think they’re supposed to put fans in the seats and give them a good day, and everyone makes a lot of money doing it. I don’t think they have to be anymore high minded than that.
I watch pieces of sports broadcasts randomly, essentially, because so many people love sports that I inevitably watch various games, or contests, or whatever.
I was watching the last big tennis match and the winner wanted to say something in Spanish. It’s like a big, blinking light went off in the sports commenter head that “potentially politically controversial! bad for the brand! “. The guy was terrified.
They don’t want to mix sports and politics, because it’s toxic. I understand that.
The Grand Panjandrum
From what I understand Dave Checketts doesn’t want do business with any man who has larger breasts than Dolly Parton.
Brachiator
@beltane:
Bingo. In listening to sports talk radio, many hosts and quite a few of the screened callers really wanted to let Rush be allowed to buy a team, mainly because it tied in with their own personal fantasies of wanting to be a team owner if they had his money.
But while these fans strongly support Limbaugh’s “right” to be able to buy stuff with his money, no one is going to stop watching the NFL, or trash their favorite teams just because Rush is having a hissy fit.
And no true sports fan can long abide a whiny ass titty baby.
Chad N Freude
@The Grand Panjandrum: Dolly Parton is so 20th Century. Dude, you need to get up to date.
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
Fix’t.
I think the observation above is spot on: Rush doesn’t have his own locker room full of dark sweaty guys undressing for a shower to dream about fondling.
I think I just heard Rush weeping.
Chad N Freude
@Brachiator:
Yes, but that doesn’t mean the Limbaugh Loyalists aren’t trying.
calipygian
@Chad N Freude:
Uh, wow.
Gulp.
I may have to reconsider my partiality to Christina Hendricks.
calipygian
As usual, TBOGG makes a good point. Rush blames Sharpton, Jackson, Wilbon but oddly leaves out one of the more important voices in the debate, who said:
Irsay evicerated the shit out of Rush, but Rush didn’t have the balls to confront him about it in his WSJ op-ed because Irsay is a rich old white guy with actual power.
Brachiator
@calipygian:
Great point. Rush pushes, and his most devoted followers buy into, the Big Lie that powerful and angry black liberals have intimidated white owners into preventing Limbaugh from becoming an NFL team owner.
They can’t handle the truth.
A Mom Anon
Who would have thought being an overbearing,racist,jerkoff,asshole woman hater would somehow make a person unpopular? Hm,whaddaya know.
This will eat him alive,tee to the hee,hee,hee.
Brachiator
@Chad N Freude:
Yeah, Limbaugh loyalists may be half-trying to fight the evil NFL, but the Voice article goes on to note how ridiculous this is.
And even the guy who supposedly cancelled his DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket package will soon be jonesing for some football and will pay extra to have everything re-established.
Hob
Maybe Limbaugh is nobly sacrificing some of his ratings in order to give the wingnut cause something more important: a perfect shibboleth, so they can tell once and for all – without any of those stupid gray areas that might otherwise let a liberal tendency sneak through – who is a true believer.
That is: if you’re willing to agree with Rush that the NFL sucks because it’s so liberal, you are a true believer.
Mikey N
Rush is experiencing nothing more unique than sour grapes. He wanted an NFL franchise really badly, he was rejected because of his own faults, and he now insists the NFL isn’t so great (in fact, liberal).
Dude’s still in junior high.
calipygian
If Fox REALLY wants to make a stand in support of Rush, perhaps Fox should quit broadcasting the NFC games on Sunday.
Put a plaquerd up instead of the Redskins game saying that they aren’t presenting this game because Rush can’t own the Rams.
I’d LOVE to see that.
Shell
Wow, wouldn’t I love to read a tell-all memoir by one of these gals. Maybe all three could collaborate. I bet some kind of non-disclosure clause was part of their divorce settlement.
HRA
@calipygian:
That would be a win!
The NFL team owners definitely contacted each other about Rush. They are a close knit fraternity. They are motivated by the money they rake in during the season. RL would have been a definite loss to them.
On the other hand, no one expected anything less from RL than airing his usual hell and damnation rhetoric. Nor does one not expect the wailing from his defenders. I choose to ignore them.
Getting the menu ready for half time. Go Bills. :( Go Steelers. :)
tc125231
@calipygian:
Hey, what’s with this penchant for understatement?
tc125231
I know….it’s just mysterious.
Brachiator
@calipygian:
Oooh. That’s good.
raptusregaliter
Here’s what I like most about this story: El Blowhard has to live with the knowledge that his beloved NFL will embrace an admitted and convicted dog “fighter” (i.e. torturer/killer), but not him. And this dog killer is a black man!
I can’t monitor the drug addict’s radio show because I value my blood pressure, so does anyone know if he’s “gone there”? Must be quite a dilemma for him, having such a big fat ripe target but being unable to effectively exploit it without simultaneously validating his opponents’ criticisms.
File this in the lexicon under “The Rush Conundrum.”
Carwin
Limbaugh has every right to say whatever he wants, he has every right to buy whatever he wants. BUT, other people have the right to their own opinions of Rush Limbaugh. Freedom is a two way street, just because Limbaugh wants something doesn’t mean that he has a right to complete silence from those that disagree with him. Free speech is a vexing idea for conservatives; they believe that one should have an absolute right to say whatever they want about the left, but the if the left responds in kind, well that’s just a conspiracy to stamp out conservatives from the public sphere! If Limbaugh wants to own a NFL franchise, then so be it, but realize that there might be other people in the universe who have just as much right to contest that decision.
Chad N Freude
if he can find someone to sell it to him.
This is not strictly true. Think Oxycontin.
Bruuuuce
Mikey N @57: Junior high? My kids acted like that when they were four. They got over it (mostly) by the time they were six. (They do OTHER selfish and childish things, but understand that sour grapes gets them nada, zilch, zero, and bupkes.)
Michael D.
Rush Limbaugh did NOT want to own an NFL team. NOT. Rush Limbaugh wanted MATERIAL for his show. He KNEW there would be a shitstorm from “the blacks” and “the libruls” and that this would be terrific fodder for his audience. He. Loves. This. And he got exactly what he wanted.