Rush Limbaugh gets lynched

The news came over this morning that Rush Limbaugh had been summarily removed from the investment group he was part of that was attempting to bid for the St. Louis Rams NFL franchise.

As I mentioned earlier, his participation in the group trying to buy the Rams attracted the attention of professional race pimps like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, who mounted an orchestrated campaign to get the NFL to reject any bid Limbaugh was a part of because of 'racially tinged' and 'divisive' statements.

All of the ones they cited, such as Limbaugh stating that slavery had its positive side and that Martin Luther King's assassin should get the Congressional Medal of Honor were simply bogus, but were repeated ad nauseum by dinosaur media outlets like CNN, even after the alternative media totally debunked them.

Watch below as Bill O'Reilly takes apart sports columnist Drew Sharp from the Detroit Free Press as Sharp repeats some of these Urban Legends as Gospel:



Basically, what we had here was an electronic lynching. And I'm rather surprised that Nobel Prize honoree President Obama, who's concern over racial matters extends even to a simple disorderly conduct bust in a college town didn't see fit to weigh in here.

One person who did was Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee ( D- Looonytoons) who took time to lambaste Limbaugh and his attempt to be an NFL owner on the floor of the House at taxpayer expense.

At any rate, Limbaugh was named 'too controversial' by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, and the other members of the bidding group led by Dave Checketts that Rush Limbaugh was a junior member of simply kicked him out.

I found it interesting to get an actual look at the NFL's standards on whom may be involved with them.

Aside from convicted felon and dog torturer Michael Vick, there have been 470 arrests of NFL players and counting since 2000, on charges ranging from DUI, narcotics offenses and reckless driving to assault, robbery and rape. Most of them are still with the NFL in one capacity or another.

As an aside, Vick had his agent make inquiries to the Canadian Football League at the time of his arrest about playing there if and when. They told him to get bent.

Obviously the NFL has the Canadians beat when it comes to appreciation of certain qualities.

And 'divisive comments'? The last time I checked NBC still had Mess NBC's resident spittle soaked wack job Keith Olbermann doing NFL commentary.

Now, Rush Limbaugh will do just fine. The American people have a basic sense of fairness, and every time the Left demonizes him, his audience and his influence simply grows because people tune in out of curiosity to see what all the fuss is about, get hooked and end up becoming fans.

I can testify to that out of personal experience, because that's how yours truly started listening to him.

But there's a bigger issue here, and this is more important than it seems.

What we have here is someone being prohibited from lawful private commerce based on his perceived political views.

This is a mainstreaming of something that has been going on behind the scenes in certain industries for years, as anyone who works in the entertainment business, many universities or certain news outlets will tell you.

It's not too far a step from that to stopping people from buying property in certain areas, opening businesses or being hired for certain jobs because of their race or ethnicity. Or their perceived political views.

For those of you who agree that this is important there's a Punt the NFL Facebook Group formed with the idea of boycotting the NFL and letting them know that you find this unacceptable.

The principle involved is an important one.

If the NFL and its sponsors choose to make certain choices, well and good. But choices also have consequences.