From Rush Limbaugh:
I have been denied my American Dream, not because of the money I've made, or the work ethic I've possessed, but because of who I am.
I ask you to imagine, just for a moment, an America where you are not allowed to buy a house in certain neighborhood, or refused service in a restaurant, or forced to stand instead of enjoying the seat you paid for on some sort of public transportation vehicle, be it train or trolley or other. You are not refused these things because you cannot pay for them, or you have not worked for your right to them, but because of prejudice.
I am a victim of prejudice, I am that man forced to stand on that imaginary public transportation vehicle, except my public transportation vehicle, is actually an NFL Football team that I was going to purchase with my buckets and buckets of blood money.
I have suffered the subtle discrimination of people's expectations of me. People say I cannot be trusted to own a football team responsibly because of my background and history. That's sort of like saying one of the premier quarterback's in the NFL is over-rated solely based on the color of his skin. It's simply about preconceived ideas and prejudice. It's despicable and un-American and I won't stand for it.
While it is obvious who is at the root of this institutionalized discrimination (the Liberals), my heart has been broken by the betrayal of my own people, the NFL Owners, and the conservative investment group that jettisoned me at the first sign of trouble.
For some time now it has been obvious that there has been a rift between the Rush Limbaugh's of the world and the David Frum's of this world. The House Conservatives like Frum hate the field conservatives like me because, frankly, we are “too real” for them.
However even in spite of lingering mistrust and petty jealousies, for not a single one of them to come to my defense is unconscionable. Has Jerry Jones forgotten where his roots are? Marge Schott is rolling in her cryogenic containment unit.
Until we end this conservative on conservative violence, until we stop trying to soft shoe our way into Mr. Clooney's heart, until we stand up to liberal oppression in all its forms, until we say, “enough is enough let Rush Limbaugh buy a football team”. Until that day we can never truly rise up as a people.
But I have a dream.
I have a dream that one day wealthy conservative NFL owners will not judge a man by the quality of his character and public image but by the size of his purse.
I have a dream that one day the children of the David Frums and Christopher Hitchenseses and moderate fiscal conservatives of this world, as represented by the NFL owners, will join hands with the children of the Glenn Becks and Michael Savages and the devoutly conservative fringe - and that those hand holding children will then surround the David Frum's, Christopher Hitchens, David Brooks, William Crystals, and NFL owners.
Yes brothers and sisters - the children will surround them and form an inescapable ring of angry ultra-conservative youth from which no moderate, base denying, pseudo-conservative can escape, no matter how wealthy he may be, and then those children will go all SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER on all their traitorous asses.
SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER is a Tennessee Williams play where a group of kids eat a guy (I think it turns out to be a gay thing but it's been a while since I read it). It's a literary reference that reflects the gravitas of this moment for me. I can reference Tennessee Williams if I so choose, I'm Rush Limbaugh and I can do whatever I want - except apparently buy a terrible terrible football team.
I may not get there with you, to see that vicious ultra-conservative-child-cannibal day of reckoning (because of my problems with drugs and Ding Dongs), but I can promise to spend the money to have my brain frozen like Marge Schott so that I will be able to appreciate its awesome brutality some day in the distant future after many of you who are too poor to freeze your favorite body part are long since dead.
My point is we will all get a chance to appreciate it in the future - just at different moments in the future.
And when this happens my thawed future brain will buy the St. Louis Rams. When we cannibalize the non-believers, when my brain and your decendants' bodies have purified every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of Rush's children will be able to join hands and sing the words I tell them to sing:
The Rams at last! The Rams at last! Thank God Almighty Rush Limbaugh's unfrozen brain has bought the Rams at last!


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Seriously, the major problem with Rushbo being an owner was the football players themselves. How many black players would gladly sign up or keep working for the Rams with Massa Rush in charge?
How would the football players union respond? These are important logistical questions that would get real pretty damn quick if you know who owned the Rams.
My Sunday's are sacred for one thing - football. I avoid his rantings at all costs, I'm glad they took a stand with him.
Seriously. This was good.
B: The racial quotes attributed to him by some in the media are lies. Period.
"B: The racial quotes attributed to him by some in the media are lies. Period."
You should have watched MSNBC yesterday. They played Rush denying he had ever said those racist quotes......then played Rush saying those racist quotes.
Pretty embarassing for Rush, if he ever cared much about getting busted lying his fat ass off. But since his base never tunes into any program that might challenge their ignorance, he's safe. Profits go up. The rest of us already loathe the asshole and don't trust anything he says, so watching him get busted is mere amusement.
When I think of the billions and trillions American taxpayers have spent on spying, the CIA, the military-corporate complex with its multi-million dollar computer systems and multi-million dollar gadgets, stealth bombers, drones, weapons, helicopters, and other toys for overgrown boys still playing cops and robbers, and what could have been done with that money to spread peace, education, understanding, etc.....well, this is why western civilization has failed, particularly hypocritical American society. It's all falling apart, folks. the good news is that we get to start over and build something so much better!!
Aren't you just a sweetheart!
Soap Box Amy: When I think of the billions and trillions American taxpayers have spent on spying, the CIA, the military-corporate complex with its multi-million dollar computer systems and multi-million dollar gadgets, stealth bombers, drones, weapons, helicopters, and other toys for overgrown boys still playing cops and robbers, and what could have been done with that money to spread peace, education, understanding, etc.
Did you ever stop to think how many of those dollars helped you to have the life you have now. Did you ever wonder how many of those dollars were spent so that some bug-shit dictator wasn't able to take over this country because we were bigger and badder? And you can't make peace with people who hate you and want you dead.
One question, Amy, did you ever give George Bush kudos for all the money spent on the people with Aids?
You are not only an idiot, but an ungrateful one at that.
"You should have watched MSNBC yesterday. They played Rush denying he had ever said those racist quotes......then played Rush saying those racist quotes"
Scott you are a true dunce. Here are the facts LINK
Take you made up quotes and shove 'em.
So basically, you are retard. You lied and I busted your ass. Your weak-ass retort to my factual comment is sh-t! When will you libtards realize that this whole internet web thing can and will be used to put your lies to shame. What a dumb-ss!
Let me correct my two mistakes from those two comments:
Comment number 1: you your
Comment number 2: retard retarded
Any Questions?
Jack Huberman is the source for the two quotes attributed to Rush:
1: "You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed."
2: "Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark."
Those quotes are bogus, fake, lies. Don't believe me. How about the Huffington Post? Huffpo attached this note to his 2006 post:
"Editor's Note: An earlier version of this post contained quotes attributed to Rush Limbaugh, which Limbaugh has since denied making. As is our policy when a fact in a blog post is called into question, we gave its author 24 hours to substantiate the quote. Since he has not been able to do so, the quotes have been deleted from the post."
HELLO!
Are you listening?
RUSH NEVER SAID THAT CRAP!!!
Now STFU
Sincerely Poorsinner.
Since Obama has been elected the race pimps are saying such things as "if you disagree with Obama you are a racist".
It is becoming disgusting. The poor left has always used the race card because they cannot intelligently discuss issues.
As for the quotes you seem so concerned with, as I said this is satire and nothing more, sorry if you were confused, there are no actual quotes here I made all of it up.
Your confusion may lie in the fact that my piece does allude to Limbaugh's 2004 race-baiting comments about Donovan McNabb, an incident which as a nondenominational Eagles fan has forever shaped my opinion of Mr. Limbaugh.
Let's be clear about one thing whether we are Red Staters or Blue Staters, liberals or conservatives, Democrats or Republicans, we can all come together and agree that Donovan McNabb is a fucking awesome quarterback.
Let me just repeat that: Donovan McNabb is a fucking awesome quarterback.
Perhaps Rush you could "buy" a team at a public school in the South Bronx or Harlem or 8-mile or South Central. There's no profit in it, except doing good in the world, and opportunity for working class kids, and inverting your terrible reputation. And the light in those kid's eyes.
@old new lefty: Chomsky? money?! He gives it all to European neo-nazis. But it's a funny idea. Cheerleaders in black turtlenecks smoking gauloises; "2, 4, 6, 8, who denies all the new evidence disputing an inviolable, distinctive separation of oral and written language as brain functions and memes?"
@soap box: Rush enjoys a perfervid audience of young stock brokers, bankers, and in-house accountants.
@poorsinner: lies? sir, use the google!
You misunderstand OS. Sure there are doctrinaire Left and Right folks here. But most of us read carefully and widely. You don't have to change the subject to OUR bad guys (see: logical fallacies) to make a point, because we KNOW there are moral failures and dopes and creeps on the Left, too. Explore OS a bit more.
Make your case well, though. A lot of us here? we're not into that Fox thing, of sniping, lobbing, hating. Sure, this is a satirical piece. Point taken that THIS piece paints with broad brush.
But if you want to get somewhere on OS you'll have to set aside the polarizing, and make a case carefully. The good news, you will be heard, politely. Disputed, perhaps, by some. But we must all recover deliberative democracy, Right and Left, and OS is a place to work on it.
Stop saying words, you embarrass yourself.
The sooner we stop volunteering to be parodies of Right and Left, the better.
Soap Box Amy-- "blank stare at you"
holmescc-- raciest? Twice? And Libunist? Please see:
'Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments'
by Justin Kruger and David Dunning
Department of Psychology
Cornell University
http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/unskilled.html
poorsinner-- indeed you are, and more.
Greg Correll-- I'm slightly admiring the cut of your gib! But how would you feel with Pinker as GM?
Daniel E. Walsh-- Well argued. I too am older, whiter, and sometimes sweatier, but in addition have straight legs and rarely smell. But I was never able to listen to Rush for more than a few minutes even in the early days-- just a few seconds and I'm lunging for the dial now. Nevertheless I respect your reasoned and rational views. But in the heart of red-state Rushia where I live, his race-baiting doesn't come across as humorous shtick-- any more than anything else he says does. It's taken as gospel, and repeated around the coffee pot at the local Co-op (no, not the urban, organically grown, local food one), where anyone who dissents is suspected of being a Satan-worshipping Commie.
Besides, you don't have to wear a pointy-hood, burn crosses, shave your head, or have swastika tattoos to be a racist-- see "banal white nationalism" as described in this excellent essay:
http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/breaking.htm (by Edward Sebesta http://newtknight.blogspot.com/ )
Hateful, vile words have consequences. Who knew?