NFL moves to block Rush Limbaugh

[unrepentant]

Apparently Rush thinks he's been "victimized by the media".

Too funny.



http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d8136deaf&...

[OnTheOverrun]

unrepentant said:

Apparently Rush thinks he's been "victimized by the media".

Too funny.



http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d8136deaf&...

It's a shame your hatred of this man stops you appreciating the wider picture of people being denied business opportunities because of their politics.

[Disco_Dale]

Jimbeaux said:

unrepentant said:

The other people involved in the bid have seen sense and dumped the nut job.


http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d8136a530&...

I actually don't listen to his show

Didn't see anyone suggesting you did.
Me thinks he doth protest too much...

[unrepentant]

OnTheOverrun said:

unrepentant said:

Apparently Rush thinks he's been "victimized by the media".

Too funny.



http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d8136deaf&...

It's a shame your hatred of this man stops you appreciating the wider picture of people being denied business opportunities because of their politics.

There is no wider picture. The people that own the business that he wasnted to buy part of a franchise in decided they didn't want him to. That's their business, not his. Nobody is denying him the opportunity of setting up his own business to compete with the NFL.

I guess you would be quite happy for Nick Griffin to buy your local football club? Or Robert Mugabe maybe?

[collateral]

Is Rush still shoving oxy in one side of his mouth while trash talking the evils of drugs from the other?

Good lookin' for mentioning Kraft

Edited by collateral on Friday 16th October 00:48

[unrepentant]

collateral said:

Good lookin' for mentioning Kraft

Pats till I die.

Have been since 1984 and the Steve Grogan team with Swindon born kicker John Smith.

[collateral]

unrepentant said:

collateral said:

Good lookin' for mentioning Kraft

Pats till I die.

Have been since 1984 and the Steve Grogan team with Swindon born kicker John Smith.

There it is! Used to live in MA so it's only proper

[Jimbeaux]

OnTheOverrun said:

unrepentant said:

Apparently Rush thinks he's been "victimized by the media".

Too funny.



http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d8136deaf&...

It's a shame your hatred of this man stops you appreciating the wider picture of people being denied business opportunities because of their politics.

Again, agreed. I can't stomach George Soros' politics, but I will defend his right to Capitalism to the finish.

Edited by Jimbeaux on Friday 16th October 01:21

[Jimbeaux]

Disco_Dale said:

Jimbeaux said:

unrepentant said:

The other people involved in the bid have seen sense and dumped the nut job.


http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d8136a530&...

I actually don't listen to his show

Didn't see anyone suggesting you did.
Me thinks he doth protest too much...

I am referring to another individual on this thread from a previous encounter. Me thinks you doth have a long nose. Anything else you don't know, feel free to ask.

Edited by Jimbeaux on Friday 16th October 01:19

[unrepentant]

Jimbeaux said:

OnTheOverrun said:

unrepentant said:

Apparently Rush thinks he's been "victimized by the media".

Too funny.



http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d8136deaf&...

It's a shame your hatred of this man stops you appreciating the wider picture of people being denied business opportunities because of their politics.

Again, agreed. I can't stomach George Soros' politics, but I will defend his right to Capitalism to the finish.

That's simplistic. We're all capitalists but you have to draw the line somewhere. You'd be happy to see Osama Bin Laden own a US armaments company?

Or perhaps more pertinently, lets say you own Subway. You're happy to allow someone with a track record of speaking out against food hygeine to buy one of your franchises?

Edited by unrepentant on Friday 16th October 01:34

[Jimbeaux]

unrepentant said:

Jimbeaux said:

OnTheOverrun said:

unrepentant said:

Apparently Rush thinks he's been "victimized by the media".

Too funny.



http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d8136deaf&...

It's a shame your hatred of this man stops you appreciating the wider picture of people being denied business opportunities because of their politics.

Again, agreed. I can't stomach George Soros' politics, but I will defend his right to Capitalism to the finish.

That's simplistic. We're all capitalists but you have to draw the line somewhere. You'd be happy to see Osama Bin Laden own a US armaments company?

Or perhaps more pertinently, lets say you own Subway. You're happy to allow someone with a track record of speaking out against food hygeine to buy one of your franchises?

Edited by unrepentant on Friday 16th October 01:34

Bin Laden owning an arms company or an anti-hygeine monger owning a restaurant could actually hurt/kill someone. A fellow with different political views than yours owning a sports team is the same how??

[unrepentant]

Jimbeaux said:

unrepentant said:

Jimbeaux said:

OnTheOverrun said:

unrepentant said:

Apparently Rush thinks he's been "victimized by the media".

Too funny.



http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d8136deaf&...

It's a shame your hatred of this man stops you appreciating the wider picture of people being denied business opportunities because of their politics.

Again, agreed. I can't stomach George Soros' politics, but I will defend his right to Capitalism to the finish.

That's simplistic. We're all capitalists but you have to draw the line somewhere. You'd be happy to see Osama Bin Laden own a US armaments company?

Or perhaps more pertinently, lets say you own Subway. You're happy to allow someone with a track record of speaking out against food hygeine to buy one of your franchises?

Bin Laden owning an arms company or an anti-hygeine monger owning a restaurant could actually hurt/kill someone. A fellow with different political views than yours owning a sports team is the same how??

You were defending the rights of anyone to indulge in "capitalism to the finish".

The NFL are protecting their brand, as Subway would be in the unlikely scenario I outlined above. That's their right, it's their brand and if they don't want a nut job like Limbaugh who has made inflamatory and divisive comments about their business associated with it that's their decision.

[collateral]

unrepentant said:

collateral said:

unrepentant said:

collateral said:

Good lookin' for mentioning Kraft

Pats till I die.

Have been since 1984 and the Steve Grogan team with Swindon born kicker John Smith.

There it is! Used to live in MA so it's only proper

Unfortunately the soon to be MrsU is a rabid Colts fan and they all have an unhealthy dislike of our guys. We had a party in Indy for the Colts / Pats game last year and I was alone amongst about 40 Hoosiers in cheering for the chosen ones. I did win considerable quantities of alcohol in 2007 from a friend who owns a downtown Indy restaurant when I bet him on week 7 that we would go 16-0 though.

I was in Boston for that final regular season game. Epic.

Much of the recent Pats Colts beef is down to the media worship of their considerably less successful QB, although I shouldn't run my mouth about that after what happened last Sunday...I never liked the Colts because they pretty much depended entirely on the passing game, but now that's looking like all we have too...Dillon was never properly replaced

I didn't like the move at the time, but letting Seymour go is looking like a worse mistake with every passing week imo.

Then again, it's still early doors - look who nearly won the last 'Bowl

[unrepentant]

collateral said:

Much of the recent Pats Colts beef is down to the media worship of their considerably less successful QB, although I shouldn't run my mouth about that after what happened last Sunday...I never liked the Colts because they pretty much depended entirely on the passing game, but now that's looking like all we have too...Dillon was never properly replaced

I didn't like the move at the time, but letting Seymour go is looking like a worse mistake with every passing week imo.

Then again, it's still early doors - look who nearly won the last 'Bowl

I couldn't understand the Seymour trade as it came after Vrabel, Bruschi and Harrison had all gone and we were looking thin, a siuation exacerpated when Mayo went down. The fact that Seau has been re signed tells that story.......

[ErnestM]

unrepentant,

C'mon mate, you can't actually be drawing a morale equivelancy between one of the most heinous, sociapathic people on the planet who is responsible for, literally thousands of people dying and an overweight opinionated talk show host, that for political reasons you don't LIKE?

I hope the hell Jeremy Clarkson doesn't want to buy into a business any time soon. From what I hear, plenty don't like his political attitudes. Personally - I think he's right on target most of the time - even with some of his criticisms of the States

ErnestM

[unrepentant]

ErnestM said:

unrepentant,

C'mon mate, you can't actually be drawing a morale equivelancy between one of the most heinous, sociapathic people on the planet who is responsible for, literally thousands of people dying and an overweight opinionated talk show host, that for political reasons you don't LIKE?

I hope the hell Jeremy Clarkson doesn't want to buy into a business any time soon. From what I hear, plenty don't like his political attitudes. Personally - I think he's right on target most of the time - even with some of his criticisms of the States

ErnestM

I was responding to the ascertation that anyone should be allowed to do anything commercially, whatever their public views and utterances.

Jezza is hugely popular here and even has two columns in the Sunday Times. The only people who don't like him are the tree huggers and the Brownites. However, were he to try and buy into a safety camera partnership (were such things to become commercial) or apply for the post of CEO of BRAKE I am sure that there would be considerable opposition from within. And that is precisely what has happened here. Limbaughs outpourings make him unnaceptable to the people that own the NFL and they have rejected him. As is their absolute right.

[ErnestM]

unrepentant said:

ErnestM said:

unrepentant,

C'mon mate, you can't actually be drawing a morale equivelancy between one of the most heinous, sociapathic people on the planet who is responsible for, literally thousands of people dying and an overweight opinionated talk show host, that for political reasons you don't LIKE?

I hope the hell Jeremy Clarkson doesn't want to buy into a business any time soon. From what I hear, plenty don't like his political attitudes. Personally - I think he's right on target most of the time - even with some of his criticisms of the States

ErnestM

I was responding to the ascertation that anyone should be allowed to do anything commercially, whatever their public views and utterances.

Jezza is hugely popular here and even has two columns in the Sunday Times. The only people who don't like him are the tree huggers and the Brownites. However, were he to try and buy into a safety camera partnership (were such things to become commercial) or apply for the post of CEO of BRAKE I am sure that there would be considerable opposition from within. And that is precisely what has happened here. Limbaughs outpourings make him unnaceptable to the people that own the NFL and they have rejected him. As is their absolute right.

Personally, I just think it is because the NFL has hit it's negative publicity limit and can't handle any more

ErnestM

[collateral]

wrt the Vick thing, I never really like it when the league decides to punish players for crimes. Guy's done his time in actual-real-jail, why should he be further punished?

[Papoo]

With regard to the Michael Vick thing; rightly or wrongly, expectations of players are different to the expectations of the franchise owners. Frankly, Vick's crime, dispicable though it was, just joins the droves of other players with criminal records as long as pylons.

Oddly, nobody cares that huge amounts of NFL players are or were gun-toting thugs from the hood. They make Premiership players look like librarians. I guess it's "nu-money" taken to an even greater extreme...

Ps, I think the NFL have every right to tell Limbaugh to bugger off. It's a franchise. If I ever franchise a business, I will also be very selective of who I choose to run my franchises. That isn't anti-capitalist.

[collateral]