Checketts drops Limbaugh

Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was dropped from a group bidding to buy the St. Louis Rams.

ESPN’s Adam Schefter first reported the story on Wednesday.

Limbaugh was to be a limited partner in a group headed by St. Louis Blues chairman Dave Checketts. Checketts said in a statement Wednesday that Limbaugh’s participation had become a complication in the group’s efforts and the bid will move forward without him.

Checketts told the Associated Press he will have no further comment on the bid process.

Three-quarters of the league’s 32 owners would have had to approve any sale to Limbaugh and his group. Earlier this week, Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay predicted that Limbaugh’s potential bid would be met by significant opposition. Several players have also voiced their displeasure with Limbaugh’s potential ownership position, and NFL Players Association head DeMaurice Smith, who is black, urged players to speak out against Limbaugh’s bid.

A Limbaugh spokesman told ESPN that Limbaugh would have no comment on Wednesday. Earlier, on his syndicated radio show, Limbaugh was defiant, holding on to hope that he still could be part of the ownership group that buys the Rams.

“This is not about the NFL, it’s not about the St. Louis Rams, it’s not about me,” Limbaugh said. “This is about the ongoing effort by the left in this country, wherever you find them, in the media, the Democrat Party, or wherever, to destroy conservatism, to prevent the mainstreaming of anyone who is prominent as a conservative.

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

Uh-huh … and you know what kind of country that is, Rush? A country in which YOU CAN’T OWN AN NFL TEAM! See how that works? HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Here’s what me Lucky Checketts had to say:

“Rush was to be a limited partner–as such, he would have had no say in the direction of the club or in any decisions regarding personnel or operations,” Mr. Checketts, owner of the NHL’s St. Louis Blues, said in a statement released Wednesday. “This was a role he enthusiastically embraced. However, it has become clear that his involvement in our group has become a complication and a distraction to our intentions; endangering our bid to keep the team in St. Louis. As such, we have decided to move forward without him and hope it will eventually lead us to a successful conclusion.”

Yes, yes, all that, and he really really wouldn’t have implemented his masterful strategy for an all-white team, we get it … and a good time was had by all … of course, one wonders why Limbaugh — who supposedly prides himself on being an iconoclast, wanted to be “mainstreamed” in the first place. I mean … isn’t it enough that he’s becoming a Miss America judge? What next, old boy? “Dancing With the Stars???” Oh that’s right … ABC probably won’t touch you with a ten foot poll either. A felonious ex-Congressman, yes, but you? Fat chance, my dear.

Enjoy scenes of wingers crying in their Pabst Blue Ribbon and whigeing about how Rush was taken down by the man, here, here, here and here (although in that last entry, somebody ought to tell that Wizbanger that her principal villain George Soros is a part of the Checketts group, and thus would have been Rush’s partner in the bid … oops!) Meanwhile, since when does the right oppose a private organization’s right to decide who can join and who can’t? I wasn’t aware there was a “special right” to purchase an ownership stake in a football team … and if Limbaugh does file a defamation suit, as others have pointed out online, he will have to be deposed, and then not just the disputed comments, but all of his commentary that could be deemed racist, including the stuff he admits to, like “take the bone out of your nose and call me back…” comes in. As one HotAir commenter brilliantly puts it:

You people have made rush a multi-millionaire by listening to his daily ridicule. His daily ridicule included many racist comments. Those comments have made him a lot of money.

Rush has so much money he can bathe in it everyday and then throw it out with the trash. Now he has to stand by his comments. He should play a endless loop of “Magic Negro” tomorrow. After all that is how he makes money. He convinces the racial majority they are superior to minorities by using ridicule. It has worked well for him.

Amen. And if you really want to roll on the floor laughing, check out this post, in which a RedStater morphs Rush into Martin Luther King. Sseriously… I gotta stop. My stomach hurts from laughing.

Oh, and in other news: Fergie’s got herself a team…!

9 Responses to “Rush’s NFL dream denied … The Ego has Landed!”

1. Brenda Kay on October 15th, 2009 5:13 am

   Poor Rush…

   Maybe a trip to some Central American country where he can fiddle with some under age boy will take his mind off the pain of not realizing his NFL dreams.

   May this be the beginning of the eagerly awaited downfall of this gasbagging, racist, hate filled excuse for a person.

2. Cam on October 15th, 2009 8:21 am

   Thanks for that comment, Kathy. Nothing like calling someone hate-filled while passing along pedophilia fantasies.

   Incidentally, the “brilliant” commenter from Hot Air apparently doesn’t know what satire is (Magic Negro song). Or more likely just doesn’t care.

   Oh well. All in a day’s work of demonizing.

3. Cam on October 15th, 2009 8:23 am

   “Kathy”, “Brenda”, “Mary”, whatever.

4. IToldYouSO on October 15th, 2009 9:12 am

   Rush, hurry up and go deaf and lose your voice while you are at it and consume mass quantities of drugs. What a blessing that would be.

5. James Paris on October 15th, 2009 10:46 pm

   This article makes the point why it was 100% right for the NFL to ban Rush.

   http://www.jameslparis.com/2009/10/why-the-nfl-was-100-right-in-banning-rush-limbaugh.html

6. Brenda Kay on October 15th, 2009 10:51 pm

   Excuse me Cam (notice how I was able to get your name right in the first go), but I’m not passing along any fantasies.

   I’m merely repeating one of the dark whispers and rumors that have followed Rush for years now.

   You see, it’s very similar to the things that Rush does on his radio show. Spew out half truths or outright lies dressed up as fact, and the brainless ditto heads who worship and follow him eat up those lies and half truths as if they were fact.

   If Rush doesn’t have to prove any of the crap he gasbags on about every day, why should I have to provide any proof that the man is a rumored kiddie fiddler?

7. Steven Roddy on October 15th, 2009 11:47 pm

   I think that this move will help bring publicity to the Miss America organization. This one move is a great marketing tool.

8. Rush proves he’s alright … by being a complete ass : The Reid Report on January 4th, 2010 11:44 pm

   [...] Of course if anything like that were to happen — if whichever “dandy” insurance company is carrying The Limbaugh Policy were to drop him like he’s hot, now that he’s gone all hysterical because his chest felt tighter than his Speedos (ugh — nasty, awful mental picture … must purge IMMEDIATELY…!!!…) or if some private hospital decided that it would rather not treat him, what do you think El Rushbo would say about it on the radio? You think he might bitch and moan about the unfairness of it all, the way he did when a private organization, the NFL, made the business decision that he, Rush Limbaugh, had no “God-given right” to own part of a football franchise? [...]

9. Irony alert: Limbaugh says Obama dividing us into racial ‘tribes’ : The Reid Report on July 23rd, 2010 5:04 pm

   [...] You think he’s still just mad because the NFL wanted nothing to do with him owning a football team? [...]

Leave a Reply