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Look, I don't know what Rush Limbaugh actually thinks. I know what he's said, and a lot of it's vile racist, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic deliberately inflammatory crap. It's the deliberately inflammatory portion of it all that leaves me with a tiny doubt. Maybe Rush Limbaugh is not racist, misogynist, homophobic and transphobic, but he certainly gets paid enough for appearing to be so. Loudly and crassly appearing to be so.
I don't think the NFL's refusal to allow Limbaugh to own an NFL franchise is unfair or improper. The NFL is a private organization. They can allow in or keep out whomever they please. If they don't want a drug-addicted, four times divorced, deliberately inflammatory shock jock who attempted to fly to the Dominican Republic with four other men and somebody else's prescription for Viagra into their little club, that's up to them.
It's in the best interests of the NFL to avoid politics as much as possible. You can't sell Super Bowl ad slots for almost $10,000 a second if NFL viewership is restricted to wingnuts, the only people who don't think there is good evidence that Limbaugh is racist. So it's understandable that the NFL really doesn't want to deal with the controversy of Limbaugh co-owning an NFL franchise.
Unless you are a wingnut, in which case you use the worst possible metaphor for the situation to drum up sympathy for poor Rush.
Rush's dismissal is a victory for political correctness, despicable reporting and high tech lynching. No need to fact check racist accusations against Rush, although a few researchers have pursued and failed to find the alleged racist statements. When it comes to Conservatives, the Left hangs them simply because they are Conservative.. . .The Left killed Rush's dream of owning an NFL team. A liberal media lynch mob dragged Rush's dream out into the public square and hung it by the neck until it was dead while the likes of Sharpton and Jackson laughed and cheered celebrating their victory.
A "high tech lynching"? "dragged out into the public square and hung by the neck"? for anyone not familiar with the term "lynching":
The lynching era encompasses roughly the five decades between the end of Reconstruction and the beginning of the Great Depression. During these years we may estimate that there were 2,018 separate incidents of lynching in which at least 2,462 African-American men, women and children met their deaths in the grasp of southern mobs, comprised mostly of whites. Although lynchings and mob killings occurred before 1880, notably during early Reconstruction when blacks were enfranchised, radical racism and mob violence peaked during the 1890s in a surge of terrorism that did not dissipate until well into the twentieth century"
This is what a lynching looked like:
Yeah, Rush Limbaugh being denied entree into the world of NFL franchise ownership is exactly like the picture above. Just like that. You fucking racist fuck.
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Finally, on-topic: I certainly don’t wish to sound like I’m defending someone like Limbaugh, but the term “lynching” is very often used not in its literal sense, but just to signify whatever sort of public persecution, violent/deadly or not.
But, I do agree that A) that metaphor was ridiculous, and B) Limbaugh is a racist pig, amongst other things.
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ReplyDeleteThe writer of that article, Lloyd Marcus, is black. I'm guessing he wouldn't agree that in using that metaphor he was being racist against himself.
ReplyDeleteA black man using the term lynching to defend a rich white racist's desire to own a football team has issues. major issues.
ReplyDeleteI will say this, just as there are women who are antifeminists, who work with all their energy to remove the rights woman have obtained (to vote, to control their bodies, etc.) at the behest of and to the benefit of a patriarchical group/society (think Ladies Against Feminism, etc.), so too are there minorities who will work with all their energy to uphold a society/group that oppresses the very minority group they belong to.
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There are people like that, but Marcus doesn't appear to be one of them. He obviously doesn't agree that Limbaugh is a racist, and he was using the term lynching to refer to the fake quote smear effort. Even if it's a bad use of a metaphor, that doesn't make him some sort of self-hating black person.
ReplyDeleteIf I were running the NFL, I certainly wouldn't want a highly political, controversial individual, who constantly says outrageous stuff as an owner either. But making up quotes about people to smear them as a racist, as was done to Limbaugh, is in my opinion far worse than some black guy making an inappropriate reference to lynching.
Plus it was stupid. There isn't any need to make up quotes about Limbaugh. He's actually said plenty of questionable & highly controversial things (and that's being generous).
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 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).
ReplyDeleteNow 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, 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?
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 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).
ReplyDeleteNow 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, 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?