Posted by
Crescen7(Regis Matejcik) on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:56:09 AM
In the past several days; numerous print and broadcast media outlets, race hustlers Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, an NFL commissioner, a handful of NFL players, a U.S Congressional Representative, and one NFL owner; embarked on a willful campaign of slander and libel in an effort to defame the character of Rush Limbaugh by attributing to him racist quotations that he never made. This attack was successful in creating enough negative publicity to force a group of investors to remove Mr. Limbaugh from their group that was attempting to purchase the St. Louis Rams.
While those attacking Limbaugh had no official capacity to prohibit Mr. Limbaugh from participating in the bid to purchase the NFL franchise, the well known axiom, "Capital is a coward," comes into play. That is, it is well known that capital investment will almost always avoid controversy and negative publicity if possible. The perpetrators of the anti Limbaugh campaign were well aware that if they could create enough "smoke" about Limbaugh; his presence in the investment group could not be tolerated - without regard to the non-existence of any "fire."
To those who will contend that Limbaugh may not have made the specific statements attributed to him by the aforementioned character assassins, but has a long history of making racist statements -
you are wrong. Mr. Limbaugh has zero history of making racist comments, and this writer defies anyone contending such to cite a specific example.
Rush Limbaugh has additionally been described as "racially insensitive." This is true - and it is a good thing.
Being "racially insensitive" is antithetical to being "racist." Rush, and most conservatives, are exactly that - "racially insensitive." We are insensitive to race precisely because we don't believe it's relevant to anything of importance. We don't believe that minorities are inferior, we don't discriminate against them, and we don't believe they need to handled with kid gloves. Yes, making a parody song "Barack the Magic Negr0" (not a misprint - this racist controlled blog site prohibits writing the actual word) was "racially insensitive" - not racist. It was a lampoon of the LA Times, and an article by an author that obviously believed blacks to be fundamentally different to whites, which is blatant racism. So, yes, Rush was insensitive to race, while making fun of racists - guilty as charged.
Yet, the damage to Rush's opportunity to own a minority interest in an NFL team has been done. In doing so, the NFL has established a new policy of "anti-divisiveness." In statements made by former Commissioner Roger Goodell, current co-commissioners Sharpton and Jackson, Colts owner Jim Irsay, and Chairmen of the new "House Committee on NFL Ownership" Sheila Jackson Lee - The NFL must prohibit those who have a history of making divisive statements from involvement in the league.
In keeping with this new policy of "anti divisiveness" it is obvious that MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann must be removed from his panel position on NBC's "Football Night in America". Having made such statements as:
Describing Michelle Malkin as a
"mashed-up bag of meat with
lipstick on it."
In referring to either a sitting U.S. President or the U.S. Military,
"Mr. Bush, at long last, has it not
dawned on you that the America you have now created, includes cold-blooded killers who will kill people to achieve their
political objectives?”
Described American citizens gathering to protest excesses of the current administration as
"just looking for a reason to yell at
the black president,"
While we firmly support Mr. Olbermanns right to make such statements, no
matter how ignorant and uninformed his opinions might be, they are clearly "divisive" and blatantly violate the new NFL policy of "anti-divisiveness." In support of this new policy, we are urging all NFL fans to contact the major sponsors of "Football Night in America" and urge them to withdraw their sponsorship of this program until such time that Mr. Olbermann is removed. In further support we urge all people who support this policy of "non divisiveness" in the NFL to refrain from making purchases from these sponsors or any others who might choose to sponsor this telecast while it features the highly divisive Mr. Olbermann.
We encourage all to contact the major sponsors to advise them of this action. We believe actual hard copy mail to be the most effective, but email, fax, or phone are better than nothing. In order to facilitate this action, we are posting the contact information of the major sponsors of "Football Night in America" and the names of the all the minor sponsors. Additionally the title link on each sponsor name links to a sample letter to the company, all are welcome to copy the sample letter, edit it as desired, and send it to the named sponsor.
It seems that the $2.20 in postage is money well spent to let these companies know, that we will all be voting with our wallets.
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Dan Hesse
Chief Executive Officer
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