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Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 1:27:03 PM
As it began to look as though his past, um, let’s say “racial indelicacies” would cost Rush Limbaugh a shot at partial ownership of the NFL’s St. Louis Rams, the right-wing radio hustler offered this interpretation:
“This is about the ongoing effort by the left in this country, wherever you find them, in the media, the Democrat Party or wherever, to destroy conservatism, to prevent the mainstreaming of anyone who is prominent as a conservative. Therefore, this is about the future of the United States of America and what kind of country we are going to have.”
(The above is part of a column written by Tom Teepen. More of the column is below.)
Limbaugh was done in by Limbaugh. And it wasn’t his conservatism that tipped him up.
“The NFL,” Limbaugh has said, “too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips ... ”
For my sins — which considering the punishment must be great and grave — I often listen to Limbaugh when I’m out and about in my car. This self-flagellation goes back more than a decade, and if I have ever heard him speak of any African-American figure with other than contempt and dismissal, and usually with a fillip of mockery, I can’t remember when.
The First Amendment’s right to free speech and press works well thanks in good part to the fact that while it protects writers and publishers, speakers and broadcasters from government interference, it doesn’t exempt them from the social consequences of their utterances.
(I want to know is Mr. Teepen also going to write a column against Jesse Jackson, and others who are part of the radical left. Far as what Rush said about players in the NFL looking like the Bloods and the Crips look sadly at how many NFL players have gotten in trouble. Rush was punished for his political views. So next time Fox news hires somebody they should not hire those on the left and they have the right not to. If that happens look out for people like Mr. Teepen to have a cow. Read more of the above column
Rush Limbaugh was really done in by his own words.)