Louisville Courier Journal Editorial: DITTOEHEAD Football. I Say: Rush Limpbaugh Can Keep His "BLOOD MONEY".
Dittohead football
The union that represents National Football League players doesn't want radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh to become an owner of the St. Louis Rams franchise. Neither should anyone else — fans and non-fans alike.
As DeMaurice Smith, executive director of the players' group, said in ane-mail to the union's executive committee, “Sport in America is at its best when it unifies, gives all of us reason to cheer, and when it transcends. Our sport does exactly that when it overcomes division and rejects discrimination and hatred.”
That is not a description of the spirit to which Mr. Limbaugh appeals.
In an earlier flirtation with professional football, he was forced to resign from an ESPN program in 2003 for suggesting that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, who is black, received credit he didn't deserve for his team's success from media with a “social concern” that “a black quarterback do(es) well.” Of course, whenever he is accused of racism, Mr. Limbaugh denies racist intent — saying that his real target is Democrats, liberals, space aliens or, as in the McNabb case, the media.
Other recent examples of Mr. Limbaugh's non-racist intent include his hope that President Obama fails, his decision to play the song “Barack the Magic Negro” on his radio show, his assertion that African Americans are trained from a young age to hate America and his interpretation that slavery wasn't such a bad thing because it built the South. Even standing alone, his declaration that pro football resembles a fight between the Crips and the Bloods without weapons should unnerve the NFL, in which about 65 percent of the players are black.
Moreover, there is the little matter that Mr. Limbaugh is a prescription-pain-killer addict who has avoided criminal conviction only though legal dancing and check-writing. All professional sports, of course, have good reason to be wary about drugs.
Free speech entitles Mr. Limbaugh to speak his mind, and that's as it should be. But words have consequences, and one consequence of Mr. Limbaugh's bluster should be that the NFL's owners find a more suitable buyer in St. Louis.
Editor's comment: Rush Limpbaugh's money is akin to BLOOD MONEY. Saint Louis Ram's fans are CORRECT in rejecting it!
The union that represents National Football League players doesn't want radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh to become an owner of the St. Louis Rams franchise. Neither should anyone else — fans and non-fans alike.
As DeMaurice Smith, executive director of the players' group, said in ane-mail to the union's executive committee, “Sport in America is at its best when it unifies, gives all of us reason to cheer, and when it transcends. Our sport does exactly that when it overcomes division and rejects discrimination and hatred.”
That is not a description of the spirit to which Mr. Limbaugh appeals.
In an earlier flirtation with professional football, he was forced to resign from an ESPN program in 2003 for suggesting that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, who is black, received credit he didn't deserve for his team's success from media with a “social concern” that “a black quarterback do(es) well.” Of course, whenever he is accused of racism, Mr. Limbaugh denies racist intent — saying that his real target is Democrats, liberals, space aliens or, as in the McNabb case, the media.
Other recent examples of Mr. Limbaugh's non-racist intent include his hope that President Obama fails, his decision to play the song “Barack the Magic Negro” on his radio show, his assertion that African Americans are trained from a young age to hate America and his interpretation that slavery wasn't such a bad thing because it built the South. Even standing alone, his declaration that pro football resembles a fight between the Crips and the Bloods without weapons should unnerve the NFL, in which about 65 percent of the players are black.
Moreover, there is the little matter that Mr. Limbaugh is a prescription-pain-killer addict who has avoided criminal conviction only though legal dancing and check-writing. All professional sports, of course, have good reason to be wary about drugs.
Free speech entitles Mr. Limbaugh to speak his mind, and that's as it should be. But words have consequences, and one consequence of Mr. Limbaugh's bluster should be that the NFL's owners find a more suitable buyer in St. Louis.
Editor's comment: Rush Limpbaugh's money is akin to BLOOD MONEY. Saint Louis Ram's fans are CORRECT in rejecting it!
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