Hatemongers Control the NFL

The lib media, the Obama mouthpieces, are doing a victory dance because the spineless, selfish David Checketts dropped Rush Limbaugh from his group seeking to buy the St. Louis Rams.

It's nauseating.

What happened -- a successful smear campaign, the dissemination of lies, character assassination, the symbolic trouncing of conservatives -- is nothing to celebrate, unless you're a Rahm Emanuel type.

From the New York Times:

One day after Commissioner Roger Goodell said that Rush Limbaugh’s bid to buy the St. Louis Rams would receive little support from N.F.L. ownership, Limbaugh was dropped from the group of investors hoping to buy the team.

“Rush was to be a limited partner — as such, he would have had no say in the direction of the club or in any decisions regarding personnel or operations,” Dave Checketts, the former Madison Square Garden executive who is leading the group that included Limbaugh. “This was a role he enthusiastically embraced. However, it has become clear that his involvement in our group has become a complication and a distraction to our intentions; endangering our bid to keep the team in St. Louis. As such, we have decided to move forward without him and hope it will eventually lead us to a successful conclusion.”

Checketts is a widely respected sports executive and the owner of the St. Louis Blues. He was interviewed as a candidate for the N.F.L. commissioner’s job before it went to Goodell, who was the heavy favorite, in 2006. But several N.F.L. owners, who ended three days of meetings in Boston on Wednesday, quietly wondered why a savvy businessman like Checketts would hitch his hopes for the Rams to Limbaugh, a conservative radio talk-show host, and fail to anticipate the negative reaction.

Oh, how lame!

According to the NYT, Checketts is widely respected. OK, I get it. He's a good guy.

What puzzles the NYT is why Checketts the Good would use such poor judgment in inviting Limbaugh to join his group.

Give me a break!

Checketts didn't anticipate the negative reaction because he underestimated the viciousness of the race baiters and hatemongers on the Left.

It's disgusting that Checketts didn't have the decency to object to the "high-tech lynching" of Limbaugh.

What a guy! What character!

Checketts comes off looking as bad as Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Chris Matthews, and the other Leftist thugs.

In his statement, Checketts said that Limbaugh’s involvement made sense because he was born 100 miles south of St. Louis, is an avid N.F.L. fan, and had an interest in keeping the Rams in St. Louis rather than allowing them to move to another market, which another ownership group may do. Checketts’s group surely needed Limbaugh’s deep pockets, too. But once word leaked last week that Limbaugh was involved, several retired and current players said they objected to Limbaugh’s involvement and said players would not join the Rams as free agents if Limbaugh prevailed. Then the union executive director, DeMaurice Smith, expressed his personal concern about Limbaugh and encouraged players to speak up.

The players’ opposition to Limbaugh is rooted largely in his public comments about race. The most famous of those came when he spoke about Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb in 2003, while Limbaugh worked for ESPN.

After Goodell’s comments and those of Jim Irsay, the Colts’ owner, who said he could not support a bid that involved Limbaugh, Limbaugh’s exit from the bid seemed all but inevitable, although on his radio show on Wednesday — hours before Checketts made his statement — Limbaugh vowed not to drop out.

Goodell is such a hypocrite.

This whole thing drips with hypocrisy. People have flipped out and are caught up in a sleazy, feigned hysteria. It's unreal.

Being labeled a racist, like Limbaugh, is the 21st century equivalent of being labeled a witch at the end of the 17th century.

We're living in freaking Salem 1692!

The fact is the NFL is crawling with real thugs and lawbreakers and unsavory characters throughout its ranks, from players to owners.

Why single out Limbaugh for scrutiny? Why not put every player and coach and owner on trial?

Limbaugh was part of a GROUP bidding to buy the Rams. Had Checketts not wimped out and had his group been successful in acquiring the team, Limbaugh would not have had a high profile position in the NFL. The outrage at the possibility of him being a minority owner was ridiculous.

Why is it that the hateful, divisive, controversial, polarizing Keith Olbermann is permitted to be a face of the NFL as an analyst?

Why is thug Olbermann allowed to poison Sunday Night Football?

Simple. He's a lib.

That's not fair. It's shameful that there's a political litmus test in the NFL.

If Limbaugh doesn't meet the high standards of the NFL than Olbermann certainly doesn't. Shall we list the players who have issues?

This drama hasn't just been about Limbaugh and the NFL. It's been about conservatives being beaten into submission by the ruthless, rabid Left.

That accounts for all the excessive celebration at Checketts' abandonment of Limbaugh.

It's bad enough dealing with Favre's BS and the Vikings. Now, I have to come to terms with the reality that the Leftist hate squads control the league.

It's so disheartening that these hatemongers won.

Are you ready for some football?

Actually, no.