Act Like You’ve Been There Before, Kid
Calling for a boycott of the NFL because it won’t let Rush Limbaugh own a sliver of a team is no more pathetic than anything else conservatives do these days. But I always feel ashamed for the bloggers that append a sycophantic update to a post when they get linked by a popular blogger. It’s like an overly showy end-zone celebration by an unheralded receiver. Dude. Have a little dignity.
Comment by Mike Kozlowski —
October 15, 2009 @ 9:54 pm
That dude does have a point, though. I mean, there obviously are some real racial issues in the NFL, and I think it’s pretty clear that getting Rush Limbaugh involved is the way to… okay, wait, maybe he didn’t have a point.
Comment by joe from Lowell —
October 15, 2009 @ 10:09 pm
I’m sure Roger Goodell is slapping himself V-8 style on the forehead as we speak, saying “D’oh! The fans!”
“Noodleman! Get in here! Weren’t you supposed to remind me about the fans?!?”
Because there’s no way that he thought about what the fans would think about giving Rush the stiff arm, thought about what the fans would think about selling Rush the Rams, and realized this was the easiest decision in the history of sport.
Comment by mds —
October 16, 2009 @ 9:57 am
I can’t wait until all these wingnut warriors suit up to take the field, since players are irrelevant in this formulation, too. Then again, it would have probably allowed more qualified white football players to have a shot, if all those Negro criminals were no longer queueing up to take advantage of the NFL’s affirmative action policies.
On the other hand, this does raise troubling First Amendment issues. If you’re a moron.
Comment by dhex —
October 16, 2009 @ 10:05 am
it’s more of that valorization of the victim schtick, which is the most popular song at the school dance of our culture for whatever sick and sorry reasons.
you’d think they’d crucified the guy.
Comment by IOZ —
October 16, 2009 @ 10:27 am
What the fuck does any of this have to do with Troy Polamalu?
Comment by Seward —
October 16, 2009 @ 10:28 am
Happily I only follow college football, so I really still have no idea what the heck this latest round in political theater is about.
There was this thing on Hit n’ Run yesterday, which just reinforces what I concluded a long time ago, cable news just blows.
Comment by All Your Summer Songs —
October 16, 2009 @ 10:35 am
The NFL chose not to allow an ownership group featuring Limbaugh to pursue the Rams not for reasons of race discrimination but rather for not wanting to advantage the Rams’s training staff. With his various clinicians on-call, Limbaugh would have had the narcotics room for St. Louis stocked triple or quadruple as much as any other team.
Comment by justinslot —
October 16, 2009 @ 2:04 pm
Getting excited about an Instapundit link is soooo 2002.
Comment by joe from Lowell —
October 16, 2009 @ 3:44 pm
Since the sources of two of the dozens of racist quotes attributed to Rush Limbaugh is shaky, he’s just a poor put-upon victim.
Yeah, Bart, but what about all the times I didn’t come to school in women’s clothes? Why don’t you ever talk about that?
Comment by Seward —
October 16, 2009 @ 4:20 pm
joe from Lowell,
If that is how you want to read my comment that is ok I guess. It isn’t how I wrote it though.
Let me be very clear though, Rush Limbaugh is not a poor, put upon victim. I’m no defender of Rush and if you think I am whenever I have never been well so be it I guess.
I stand by my original statement though; cable news sucks (or blows). I think it is really weird that one can conclude (yet again) that reportage out of these outfits blows yet that is somehow a defense of Rush Limbaugh.
Comment by Seward —
October 16, 2009 @ 4:28 pm
joe from Lowell,
Since the sources of two of the dozens of racist quotes attributed to Rush Limbaugh is shaky…
Oh, and I don’t know anything about the dozens of racist quotes attributed to the guy. I don’t follow Rush Limbaugh. I don’t listen to his show. I find the guy to be an ass and an intellectual dullard and I’ve never seen what attracts people to his show.
The fact that there may be the other quotes – I don’t know if that is the case or not – doesn’t mean that the reporting didn’t suck. It sucked. It simply reinforced an opinion I’ve had about cable news since some time in the early 1990s; that cable news sucks. You know what that also means? That means that Fox News sucks. Think on that a while.
Comment by joe from Lowell —
October 16, 2009 @ 7:26 pm
Seward,
Actually, I was responding to dhex’s comment at #4. The victimology in this case is taking the form of howling about the sourcing of two of the Limbaugh quotes.
Have you ever watched an episode of the Rachel Maddow Show? One of the areas in which she stands out among cable nooz hosts is her willingness to issue corrections when she makes a factual error.
You really don’t need to be this defensive. I haven’t accused you of anything. Why are you talking about Fox News?
Comment by Anon —
October 16, 2009 @ 7:56 pm
Oddly enough, I agree with this protest of the NFL. Just for a different reason.
Comment by joe from Lowell —
October 16, 2009 @ 8:35 pm
Seward,
I can see where the confusion can come from, though. You made a point which involved the disputed quotes, then I made a point which involved the disputed quotes, so you concluded I was responding to you.
I think it might be useful to keep in mind that I was a regular at Hit & Run for seven and a half years. I’ve debated with hundreds of libertarians. I’ve watched debates between libertarians and Republicans hundreds of times. Hell, I could give you ten pages on the Great Cosmotarian Debates of 2008.
If there are two ways to read something I write, and one of them requires you to assume that I don’t know the difference between libertarians and Republicans, and the other doesn’t, it’s probably safe to go with B.
Comment by Seward —
October 16, 2009 @ 8:39 pm
joe from Lowell,
Ahh, well, I was mistaken. I thought you were referring to my post because I referenced – obliquely – the two aforementioned comments.
As for Rachel Maddow, no I haven’t watched an “episode” of her show nor do I plan to. If I want a liberal perspective all I need to do is check out the website of The Center for American Progress, etc.
Oh, and when the heck did that word (”episode”) creep into descriptions of news shows exactly?
Comment by Gary Farber —
October 20, 2009 @ 8:48 pm
Is it sycophantic to just post a thanks without a “wow”?
I need to know.