David Checketts, an investor and owner of sports teams, approached me in late May about investing in the St. Louis Rams football franchise. As a football fan, I was intrigued. I invited him to my home where we discussed it further. Even after informing him that some people might try to make an issue of my participation, Mr. Checketts said he didn’t much care. I accepted his offer.
It didn’t take long before my name was selectively leaked to the media as part of the Checketts investment group. Shortly thereafter, the media elicited comments from the likes of Al Sharpton. In 1998 Mr. Sharpton was found guilty of defamation and ordered to pay $65,000 for falsely accusing a New York prosecutor of rape in the 1987 Tawana Brawley case. He also played a leading role in the 1991 Crown Heights riot (he called neighborhood Jews “diamond merchants”) and 1995 Freddie’s Fashion Mart riot.
via Rush Limbaugh: The Race Card, Football and Me – WSJ.com.
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Look if you have issues with him having partial ownership of an NFL team that is fine. But be honest do not as many have done and make things up. Yes his comment on McNabb was bunk and yes he can be a little abrasive on his talk show. The bottom line is people made things up and now Mr. Limbaugh has had an opportunity taken away. In my opinion he has handled this libel and the lies with honor. I do hope he pursues this legally and I do hope he gets justice against those who have libeled him.
Next like Mr. Limbaugh I abhor the way so many are using the “race card” to harm others and stifle the opinions of others. Both Rev Sharpton and Rev Jackson have said hateful racist things in the past and in my eyes have very little if any room to talk.
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Hey, Rob. I agree with you this was a travesty. Goodell was worried about Rush’s impact on their image but not Fergie’s. Goes to show what image they’re cultivating. I joined the NFL blog on the topic of Limbaugh’s being dropped from the investor group and I can tell there were a lot of absolutely singed comments in there. NFL isn’t eschewing politics, they’re adopting a liberal stance. My prediction is it will be very bad for the NFL…but, they earned any trouble they reap.
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It seems to me that all the negative vibes this blowhard (Rush Hudson Limbaugh A.KA. Jeff Christie) has been spewing over these many years has come back to blow back on his face (A classic “Blow Back”). He always tries to give off the airs that he can have anything he wants but as we all witness those with more money and more influence tossed him aside like sack of potatoes and the ultimate insult was that it was done in public (money don’t buy you everything butterball).
Now of course he blames everyone else (Michael J. Fox, Perez Hilton, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Sonia Sotomayor, Hillary Clinton, Olympia Snowe, ESPN, NFL, the media, basically people of color, the handicapped, women and gays) when of course all you have to do is listen to his show and plainly hear his daily prejudices filled sermons. So NFL, I salute you decision, job well done. And to the whaling cry baby perched on his self made pedestal, quit your whining it was your own fault. Don’t we all feel better?
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For so many years he has spent his time on the radio mis-labeling others. Finally he had his judgment day.
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In other words Montana it is OK to lie and slander for Liberals if it against an Evil Conservative. I have still not heard Limbaugh utter a single comment that some say he said. Not the NAACP remark, nor the James Earl Ray remark and where in fact is the slavery remark? No proof than it means those who claim this are dishonest. Yes Rush is a bit controversial but so are many more allowed to own sports teams. Double standards are B/S and it seems Liberals are experts at it.
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