What a load of crap. Rush would be a minority owner of a nowhere team. This is descrimination at it's very worst- pure & simple. It's a liberal's world right now and libs are a deeply hateful group- as they have again proven here.
How exactly is that his stance? Rush isn't being discrimanted against. He has the right, as well as the opportunity to ATTEMPT to own an NFL franchise. It goes to a vote of NFL owners. Would it be discriminating if they voted against him owning not because o fhis divisiveness or whatever, but because he came out and said he wanted to move the team? Or are you still stuck on the certainty that all of the NFL owners don't want him because he is a conservative?
When do companies get sued for discrimination regarding who they take on as a business partner? Rush wasn't applying for a job here. barfo
Sharpton, Jackson... I can make you a 100% guarantee that if he were a liberal shock jock, these people would embrace him with open arms. But if he's conservative, he clearly must be disqualified. It's an open and shut case. And you know it, but your left leaning ways forbid you to admit it or be honest about it. That's what I hate about people stuck on the left & right- their political leanings refuse to allow them to be fair to anyone not of the same ilk. They lack the intellectual intelligence to do so.
You are just yanking my chain here, aren't you. You don't actually believe that Sharpton and Jackson control the NFL.... right? barfo
What bearing do Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have? They oppose it because they are left leaning idiots, basically the opposite spectrum of Rush. They aren't the NFL. They aren't stopping Checketts from keeping Rush on as a partner. So two idiots oppose another idiot, and that's discrimination? If taking a political stance like that is discrimination, then Rush has been discriminating against people for a very long time. So have they, and Ann Coulter, and Al Franken and the rest of them. But none of them have a bearing on the issue. They can oppose his inclusion, the same way PETA can oppose Vick being reinstated. They weren't discriminating against him, the same way teams that didn't sign Vick weren't liable for discrimination lawsuits.
No, and you know I wasn't saying that. The point was, is, and always will be crystal clear. When controversial conservatives who are in the spotlight want to do something like this, there are always deeply hateful (hateful from the heart) libs who feel it their calling to shoot them down. Rush's politics have nothing to do with being a small stake owner of an NFL team. You know it, I know it, Sharpton knows it... everyone knows it. But those dishonest of chatacter due to politics just don't have the morality or guts to call something fair when it is. Watching people hate for the sole reason for being hateful is really not pretty. It's easily the #1 problem in the country. Blantant bigotry. And then, to make matters worse, people are left to defend their hatred. I don't know which is worse.
Right, but again, what differenec does it make if Al Sharpton criticizes him? how is that hurting his bid to be an owner? Do you think Al Sharpton is successful in everything he does? What exactly is your point there? Where are the deeply hateful libs IN THE NFL that are keeping him out? That are discriminating against him? Where?
RR7, various people led the charge against him for the sole reason he's a mainstream media farrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr right conservative. That's it. It's been well documented and I haven't the time to google it as I'm trying to post while I'm working (hey, the boss ain't here so I have some extra posting time). I'm waiting for someone to defend hate for the sake of hate. That's the issue. People can dance around it all they want, but that's still the issue. It's all about hate and gloating about it. Not for me.
Yes, various people led the charge against him. Because they, like him, mak their living off of being divisive. They don't vote on who runs a team. You seem to think that Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and anyone else in the media who came out against him had a vote in it. As far as I saw, one owner who actually had a vote came out and said he would vote against it. And he's donate dmore money to republicans than he has to democrats, for all that matters. Nobody is defnding hate for the sake of hate. That isn't the issue. The issue is one NFL owner came out and said he would vote against it. It is likely others would have as well, because of the sometimes inflammatory comments that Rush Limbaugh makes, that could easily be construed as negative by some portions of the population. because of this divisiveness, they could fear losing money through sponsorship deals or other money streams. It did not come to a vote, however, as Checketts realized he might not get enough votes, so he got rid of Limbaugh off of his ownership group. There was no discrimination. There was no hate by anyone that actually matters. Nobody is glaoting about hate. You seem to be complwetely missing the point on this, and insist on believeing Jackson and Sharpton seemingly run the NFL, or have a say in how its owners vote.
judging from your other paranoid delusional posts in this thread believe me I'm not surprised you disagree with me. The liberal boogieman is out to get you BP... be afraid, very afraid ooooooooooOOOOOOoooo STOMP
project much? Thats not even close to what Goodell or posters have stated. You're going to be waiting a long time... STOMP
STOMP, I'm a moderate. I vote fopr dems, republicans and independents (no libertarians yet). So you can cut the sanctimonious bs routine as you have the wrong person. What I am for is fairness to all. Being a moderate allows me the freedom to be intellectually honest and without hate. Something the far left & right cannot be by their very pursuasion. Ya know, for all the libs here who want to spin their hate, just mail it in.
I'm 42 and have voted in every election I could... I've voted for a Dem exactly one time more then I have the Pubs. Pot meet kettle, and lol at you calling anyone sanctimonious. Your hypocrisy runs deep. you're the new Maytag man waiting on a dilution. Good luck with that STOMP
I don't think "hate" really plays into this at all. Limbaugh is an asshole. A Grade-A, extremely highly publicized asshole. Nobody really disputes this. He himself would admit that he's incredibly obnoxious to a lot of people. It's not discrimination or hate that kept him from this position. If Kanye West wanted to own a team, he'd almost certainly get shot down too. Self-publicizing asshole egomaniacs aren't always bad for business. In this particular case, though, they are.
I've got no problem with that. Any business should be free to hire or fire anybody based on the person's level of being an asshole.
accepted... your gesture is appreciated. btw, usually I've voted for a 3rd party candidate for president (from Nader to Perot... twice) as I don't think our overall system represents me well at all. Politically I'm against the lobbyist system we have and would like to get the money rooted out... their dollars run both parties making the policies down to inserting the pork. I've registered both as a Republican and a Democrat in the past when I've wanted to vote in primaries, but am currently not affiliated with either. I find those who always vote down the party line to be STOMP
