By Hate radio show host Rush Limbaugh’s bid to purchase a minority stake in the St. Louis Rams failed yesterday, after players, a team owner, the head of the players union, and the commissioner publicly expressed concern about his joining the league based on racist comments he had made in the past. Today, Limbaugh addressed the controversy on his show, saying it was all a ploy by Democrats to villainize him and calling the NFL “outpost of racism and liberalism”:
LIMBAUGH: They [Democrats] have to have a villain to advance everything, because they cannot sell their ideas. They had to demonize me with false, fake, made up quotes. To protect their precious little — National Football League as an outpost of racism and liberalism, which is what it is.
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But as Media Matters points out, NFL teams, owners, players and personnel gave overwhelmingly to GOP since 1989. Limbaugh fans are rallying behind him, with some proposing a boycott of the NFL. A RedState blogger strongly supported the hate radio host in a post titled “Tonight… We Are All Rush Limbaugh.”
M.C.L. Comment:I can see it right now a group of old, white, fat and racist standing outside Ford Field with their equally as dumb wives or girlfriends holding up poorly spelled signs defending Rush right to say racist things about NFL players. For Rush and that tool bag over at RedState to complained about freedom of speech is another textbook example of right wing hypocrisy.
During the great right wing exploitation of 9.11 Rush and his clones made it their mission to silence President George W. Bush critics from the Dixie Chicks to Danny Glover these people had their careers threaten or they lost their jobs and you remember what was the right response when people mention the first amendment regarding Bush's critics "well comments have consequences" So Rush since you pander to racist therefore you shouldn't be shock when you can't be a owner in a league where 75% of its players are black.
