Well, we come to the requiem for the Limbaugh sliming controversy.
Limbaugh’s lawyers are looking into defamation suits against both those who made up the phony quotes (like Jack Huberman, pictured above, author of titles like “Bushit”...that’s all you really have to know) AND those in the media (like CNN and NBC who knowingly used those fake quotes.
But as bad as the fake quotes are, the misuse of some of the actual quotes is egregious, as well.
For instance, the now infamous “bloods and crips” quote came into the popular lexicon via Keith Olbermann-crony and son of Sidney, Max Blumenthal, when in criticizing a CPAC conference, said;
"This is ironic considering the crude racism of CPAC’s keynote speaker, Rush Limbaugh, who once claimed ‘the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and Crips.’ (Max Blumenthal)
In Blumenthal’s version, it looks like Rush Limbaugh was complaining, in effect, that there are too many African-Americans in the NFL.
But of course that’s not what Limbaugh was complaining about. He was complaining about “sack dances” and showboating by NFL players who are acting like they’re throwing gang signs on the field. What he actually wrote in, context was;
“There is a cultural problem in the NFL that has resulted in a total lack of class on the part of professional players. I love the game of football, but after every sack players are acting like they’ve won the Super Bowl; they’re prancing around with these idiotic dances.”
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“Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.”
This can be easily sourced on NFL.fanhouse.com, [Limbaugh: Classless Players Look Like Bloods and Crips, January 20, 2007, by Michael David Smith], but Blumenthal never even bothered to read that, (and they say “the blogosphere doesn’t vet their facts very well). Mr Blumenthal instead said he’d linked it from Gane-McCalla's post, and he didn’t even quote THAT accurately - he left out the word "the" in the " the Bloods and the Crips." (Mr. Blumenthal must be a cut-and-paste novice).
Again, in the context of excessive and boorish “sack and end-zone celebrations” the “Bloods and Crips” reference is legitimate, even if slightly “insensitive.”
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Personally, I agree with Tony Dungy who said, “You know, I guess it bothered a lot of people, it really didn't bother me. I think anybody should have the right to pursue whatever they want, they should go through the process just like anyone else and there would be 28 owners that would vote and I think the process should be able to go forth. I don't like it when people say "because of this he shouldn't be allowed to do that." We don't have any minority ownership in the NFL right now, and I think, you know, that just strikes me as the same thing, because of the way this guy looks, because of the way he sounds, because of his political bent, that he shouldn't be allowed to own a team, I think that's something that the 28 owners should decide and not the general public.” (Tony Dungy)Limbaugh’s lawyers are looking into defamation suits against both those who made up the phony quotes (like Jack Huberman, pictured above, author of titles like “Bushit”...that’s all you really have to know) AND those in the media (like CNN and NBC who knowingly used those fake quotes.
But as bad as the fake quotes are, the misuse of some of the actual quotes is egregious, as well.
For instance, the now infamous “bloods and crips” quote came into the popular lexicon via Keith Olbermann-crony and son of Sidney, Max Blumenthal, when in criticizing a CPAC conference, said;
"This is ironic considering the crude racism of CPAC’s keynote speaker, Rush Limbaugh, who once claimed ‘the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and Crips.’ (Max Blumenthal)
In Blumenthal’s version, it looks like Rush Limbaugh was complaining, in effect, that there are too many African-Americans in the NFL.
But of course that’s not what Limbaugh was complaining about. He was complaining about “sack dances” and showboating by NFL players who are acting like they’re throwing gang signs on the field. What he actually wrote in, context was;
“There is a cultural problem in the NFL that has resulted in a total lack of class on the part of professional players. I love the game of football, but after every sack players are acting like they’ve won the Super Bowl; they’re prancing around with these idiotic dances.”
And
“Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.”
This can be easily sourced on NFL.fanhouse.com, [Limbaugh: Classless Players Look Like Bloods and Crips, January 20, 2007, by Michael David Smith], but Blumenthal never even bothered to read that, (and they say “the blogosphere doesn’t vet their facts very well). Mr Blumenthal instead said he’d linked it from Gane-McCalla's post, and he didn’t even quote THAT accurately - he left out the word "the" in the " the Bloods and the Crips." (Mr. Blumenthal must be a cut-and-paste novice).
Again, in the context of excessive and boorish “sack and end-zone celebrations” the “Bloods and Crips” reference is legitimate, even if slightly “insensitive.”
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Limbaugh is a Conservative. He's never been a violence-inciting demagogue nor a racial bigot....a racial bigot wouldn't have Professor Walter E Williams fill in on his radio show.
Limbaugh is a Conservative. He's never been a violence-inciting demagogue nor a racial bigot....a racial bigot wouldn't have Professor Walter E Williams fill in on his radio show.
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The ENTIRE issue really has nothing to do with Limbaugh's alleged "insensitivity." After all, if that were grounds from barring him from an investment (NFL team ownership), then the same would be a legitimate reason to deny another investor, perhaps the first black ownership consortium by digging up a few insensitive quotes from one of their pasts.
The ENTIRE issue really has nothing to do with Limbaugh's alleged "insensitivity." After all, if that were grounds from barring him from an investment (NFL team ownership), then the same would be a legitimate reason to deny another investor, perhaps the first black ownership consortium by digging up a few insensitive quotes from one of their pasts.
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That's how that thing works...a precedent has been set..
For better, or worse, sports franchise ownership is like a Co-op Board and for those unfamiliar with that very New York means of apartment investing, the buyer buys "shares in a building," NOT a particular apartment (as a condo owner does) and the Co-Op board, representing the other owners can deny a prospective tenant's purchase for ANY or even NO reason at all...sports team owners can do the same. So, it IS conceivable that those so inclined to block a prospective minority's application for ownership/investment COULD use this same ploy - "Mr. Y said THIS just twenty-five years ago.".
This entire controversy is over a number of FAKE quotes....they aren't "claimed to be faked," there has NEVER been a source (air-date or tape) that sources the "Slavery wasn't all bad..." and the "James Earl Ray" quotes that the soon-to-be-sued Jack Huberman made up for his Goldberg rip-off book.
