LIARS: Fringe Media’s Phony Limbaugh Quotes Killed NFL Bid… Heads Should Roll, But They Won’t Because Lying & Race-Baiting Are OK if You’re a Liberal (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on October 17, 2009
H/t to Breitbart.tv for the video below. Also, read Rush Reveals Story Behind NFL Bid Debacle. What the left-wing media has done to Rush Limbaugh, to so many conservatives, is appalling.
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Doctor Zero, Hot Air Green Room, The Blatant Beast:
The media’s credibility has continued to bleed steadily away. It would be a mistake to believe them powerless, or on the verge of re-discovering the honor of honest, unbiased journalism…
The media effort to secure the re-election of the Nobel Prize-winning First Black President will be ferocious. The MSM’s control over the popular culture is still formidable – just look at what happened to Rush Limbaugh this week, as media outlets ran with ridiculous fake quotes posted by a few leftist bloggers, and hammered the man’s reputation hard enough to eliminate his position in the group seeking to buy the St. Louis Rams. Rush has a vast audience, and simple common sense would tell anyone who isn’t part of that audience that he could never have gotten away with making the statements attributed to him. The actual rape hoax perpetrated by a vile creature like Al Sharpton is held against him far less than non-existent “racist” comments were held against Limbaugh.
Still, the media will pay a price for the “successful” campaign against Limbaugh. It will never take the form of huge masses of people swearing off the New York Times and CNN all at once. It happens a little bit at a time.
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From Diana West, The Death of the Grown-Up: Blackballing Conservatism:
…I will start with two words: Keith Olbermann. In addition to his nightly gig on MSNBC — a numbing blend of Leftist politics and something approaching Tourette’s syndrome — Olbermann is a co-host of NBC’s “Football Night in America,” the pre-game show that leads into “Sunday Night Football.” Naturally, that would be Sunday night NFL football.
This job, now into its third season, makes Olbermann not a team owner, of course, but certainly a public face of the NFL. And a public face of the NFL with many filthy things coming out of it. These include, just sampling from recent days, his pronouncement that Limbaugh claiming his own success paved the way for Glenn Beck is “is like congratulating yourself for spreading syphilis.” We could slap a headline on that — “NFL talker compares star radio and TV conservatives with venereal disease” — except that trash talk against conservatives doesn’t generate mainstream outrage.
Take Olbermann’s noxious attack this week on Michelle Malkin for what he characterized as her “total mindless, morally bankrupt, knee-jerk, fascistic hatred without which Michelle Malkin would just be a big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it.”
Get that? Olbermann calls an accomplished and best-selling conservative author, commentator, blogger, wife and mother (who also happens to be beautiful) a “big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick,” but such dehumanizing venom doesn’t count as controversial, or even lightly strain his NBC-NFL connection. Why, at this rate, he could end up on a box of Wheaties. His comments certainly don’t rate as “divisive” or “inappropriate” – two of the coded charges leveled at Rush Limbaugh’s “public remarks” by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay that got Limbaugh’s blackball rolling in the first place.
It was all over so fast. Barely a day passed between the news that Limbaugh was bidding with Dave Checketts for the St Louis Rams and the news that Checketts was dropping Limbaugh as a partner.
…But what happened to Rush Limbaugh – call it “Rush-baiting” — reveals that what conservative blogger Lawrence Auster calls the “dictatorship enforced by the charge of racism” has absolutely no boundaries.
Limbaugh’s critics were so desperate to make a racism charge stick, to tag Limbaugh as untouchably “controversial,” that they resorted to demonstrable lies — statements Limbaugh never made — and purposely indemonstrable innuendo. Not that this mattered. As in all dictatorships, the charge itself suffices. It didn’t even matter that the dictatorship’s emissaries, the eternal charlatans Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, who actively lobbied the NFL to oppose Limbaugh, are themselves serially discredited race hustlers. Again, the charge is all it takes to demonize and ostracize the opposition. And Rush Limbaugh — as the leading voice against the radicalism of the Obama administration, one of the most forceful opponents of the totalitarian social engineering we know as “affirmative action,” as one of the great communicators of basic conservative principles — definitely counts as the opposition.
But with the successful transformation of Limbaugh the potential team owner into Limbaugh the expendable “distraction,” his brand of opposition — a plain-speaking adherence to a conservatism best described as Reaganesque — has been judged unfit, unworthy even, for the sports-loving mainstream and sentenced to the margins. And that is what is most disturbing about this story. Conservatism in our time has been publicly defined as extremism. Which means, for conservatives, it’s time for some intensive historical revisionism of our own.
Additional reading:
Rush Limbaugh, Wall Street Journal: The Race Card, Football and Me
Michelle Malkin: Yes, let’s talk about Al Sharpton’s racial demagoguery, shall we? and The anti-Rush revival revisited
The Powers That Be: Rush Has No Place in the NFL, But Look Who Does and Rush Limbaugh to Buy the NFL’s Most Liberal Team?
Michael Franzese, Big Government: Rush or Reverend Al?… Will the Real Racist Please Stand Up?
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Hannity Show: Racial Buffoonery, Rush Limbaugh, & NFL Politics (video)
Patterico’s Pontifications: Rush Limbaugh Out in Bid to Buy Rams
Lloyd Marcus, American Thinker: If Rush Limbaugh is a Racist, Are His 20 Million Listeners Also?
Sister Toldjah: The latest on the Rush/NFL drama – and what it means for conservatism
Nice Deb: MSNBC Offers “Clarification” On Rush quote-No Apology and No, Rush Limbaugh Isn’t A Racist
The Black Sphere Blog: Limbaugh Said to Want Slaves
The Hill: Limbaugh fires back at ‘fool’ Jackson Lee for NFL floor speech
Hot Air: HuffPo, Rick Sanchez retract phony Limbaugh quotes and Alert the Media: CHQR on Limbaugh, the NFL, and smear tactics
Victoria Jackson, Big Hollywood: If I Were A Guest on the New Joy Behar Show
Right Sided American Kafir: Sharpton to NFL: Block Limbaugh
NewsBusters: Matthews: ‘Someone’s Going To Jam a CO2 Pellet Into Rush’s Head’ and NBC’s Gangel Tries to Broker Beer Summit for Rush and Obama
Gateway Pundit: MSNBC and CNN Slander Rush Limbaugh With Bogus Slavery Quote — Rush Answers (Video) and Figures… Race-Baiter Al Sharpton Wants Rush Banned By NFL and Rush Limbaugh Blasts “Hustlers” Al and Jesse On Their Legacy of Lies (Video) and MORE HATE, MORE SMEARS– Huffington Post “Klans” Rush Limbaugh and Smear Merchants, Communists & Liars Winning… NFL Will Likely Oppose Limbaugh’s Bid and Local Radio Hosts Confronted On Set By Blogger After Smearing Rush (Video)
Kurt Schlichter, Big Government: Rushing To Trouble
Black & Right: Quotes Of The Day
Conservative American: NFL Hypocrites: Love Vick, Hate Limbaugh!
Stage Right, Big Hollywood: NFL Owners Who Use the N-Word and Wet Their Pants On Stage
Pundit & Pundette: Punishing Rush Limbaugh
John Ziegler, Big Hollywood: Limbaugh Needs to Keep Fighting
Wall Street Journal: Leveling Limbaugh
Hot Air Green Room: So, You Think You’re a ‘Victim,’ Huh?
Gateway Pundit: HUNDREDS Protest Media Bias at Channel 5 KSDK in St. Louis and Source of Limbaugh Smears is Far Left Firm
GayPatriot: A quote “too good to check,” or, the prejudices of left-wing pundits and Making up Facts so they Can Make Their Case Because They Really Do Want to Believe Rush Limbaugh is a Racist
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: Checketts to drop Limbaugh on purchase of St. Louis RAMS
Infidels Paradise: Black NFL Players Won’t Play For A Rush Limbaugh Rams Team Because He’s White
HotAirPundit: Klan Uniforms? HuffingtonPost Cartoon Smears Rush Limbaugh As a NFL Owner
Leigh Scott, Big Hollywood: Debating Leftists is Like Debating Charles Manson
Flames of Freedom: The Trouble with Liberals Is…
Diary of a Mad Conservative: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Matthews muses on killing Rush Limbaugh
RushPalin2012.org: Limbaugh to buy NFL’s St. Louis Rams?
JayemArticle: Radio Host Rush Limbaugh Makes Bid For NFL’s St. Louis Rams
The Snooper Report: Rush Limbaugh Driving the Berzerkelys Berzerk
Dakota Politics, Say Anything: Al Sharpton Wants The NFL To Discriminate Against Rush Limbaugh’s Political Beliefs
Can’t Stop The Bleeding: Rattled By The Rush: Limbaugh Desirous Of NFL Franchise
Sports Business Digest: New Owner of the Rams…Rush Limbaugh?
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