As apologizing for a wrong against a conservative is out of the question
Lib Writers Pile On Limbaugh
Let me see if I got this right: the media regurgitates a quote that they didn’t bother to verify because they wanted it to be true. Once it was discovered that they were looking rather unprofessional, they belatedly decided to do research and regurgitated old quotes out of context in an effort salvage a minimum of external credibility. As apologizing for a wrong against a conservative is out of the question, it’s time to let a little of that liberal superiority ooze out.
In the wake of the news that radio host Rush Limbaugh was hoping to buy a chunk of the St. Louis Rams, Bryan Burwell of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote a column containing the now-infamous quote, supposedly from Limbaugh, regarding the notion that slavery “had its merits.”
We first became aware of the quote not from perusing the copy of the Post-Dispatch that arrives in our mailbox every morning in West Virginia, but because Limbaugh mentioned the issue during the Monday broadcast of his radio show. (Indeed, if Limbaugh had never talked about the quotes on his radio show, we and likely many others would have never even known about the issue.)
—Mike Florio, NBC Sports
Of course, it was all Rush’s fault.
Professional gasbag Rush Limbaugh has predictably blamed the left, the media and the Rev. Al Sharpton (another professional gasbag, by the way), among others, for his being dropped from the ownership group that is attempting to purchase the St. Louis Rams. Huffing and puffing with self-importance, the Ruler of the Radio Right sees dire menace in his situation, which in his words “is about the future of the United States of America and what kind of country we’re going to have.”—Jack McCallum, Sports Illustrated
Obviously, I’m not up on SI columnists. Rush Limbaugh may be a “professional gasbag” but at least I’ve heard of him.
Poor Rush Limbaugh. His dream of one day owning and trading Negro men has been shattered by the liberal media, which keeps making up lies about him. Lies, I tell you! The wingnutosphere insists: Rush has never, ever made a racist comment! Ever!
Except for this one. And this one. And this one. And this one. And this one. And this one. And this one. And this one. And this one. And this one. And this one. And this one. And this one, and this one, and this one, and this one, and this one and this one, and this one, and this one and this one.—Matt Osborne, Huffington Post
Hmmm. Talk about credible sourcing… all from one source.
Isn’t that what got the libs in trouble here in the first place.
You know, it’s probably best for Limbaugh because he would have been a minority owner. And once he became a minority, he would have to become a liberal and then he would have hated himself.—Jay Leno, October 15 monologue
Okay, Hollywood needed to get a dig or two in so they could feel relevant.
Rush Limbaugh finally met something more conservative than himself: the NFL.
That, more than any other reason, is why Limbaugh was kicked to the curb as a potential owner of the St. Louis Rams.
Oh, he may claim it’s a left wing conspiracy (doesn’t he always?), but the club he was trying to enter could teach the Republican Party a thing or two about conservative. Remember, this is a league that fines players for having their jerseys untucked.—Mitch Alborn, Detroit Free Press
True, but the NFL’s never held a player responsible for a quote he never made.
You think Checketts considered at all how Limbaugh’s well-earned reputation for divisiveness and veiled racial bigotry might go over in a league whose share of black players is 65 percent? I wonder if ol’ Dave was listening when Limbaugh said the NFL “too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips.”
Also I wonder how many fans would be proud to have their beloved franchise owned by a man who, on the radio, sang a parody called Barack the Magic Negro to his audience of diversity-fearing lemmings.—Greg Cote, Miami Herald
Yes, that last line was also meant for us.
The upside is with all the downsizing of newspapers going on, this guy may be one of the first to go.
Limbaugh, recently described by the White House as “the voice and intellectual force” of the Republican Party, is licking his wounds after being dropped from a consortium of businessmen vying to buy the St Louis Rams American football club.
His attempt to invest in the club, which is being sold for $750m, was blocked yesterday when a selection of sports administrators, players, union officials, civil rights leaders, and rival team-owners voiced concerns over his divisive, and some say racist, track record.—Guy Adams, UK Independent
You kinda get the drift. One constant was the very few mentions of what really derailed the deal: a fabricated quote attributed to Limbaugh that the media is hoping we’ll all forget about.
While the media seldom gives their own ##### ups the same blanket coverage they give others, but that doesn’t mean we’ll forget. We have their slanders in print and on video and you never know when they’ll be brought back.
It’s not like the chances of this media ##### up again are zero…
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