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Rush Limbaugh Not Allowed To Buy That Football Team

The greatest news for America last week was that unstable, obese radio junkie Rush Limbaugh had snuck his way into a group of investors fixing to purchase St. Louis’ NFL team, the Rams. What a straightforward way to piss off an entire major city! Upon hearing the news, black players in the league were like, “Ah, well, we look forward to never playing for that team or even visiting that city again in our lives.” The problem there is that black players tend to be the ones who are good at football. And so Rush’s investor “friends,” backed by a nervous NFL leadership, have dropped him from the bid. He is not expected to say gracious things about the NFL on his radio show, after this. [ESPN/AP]


7:03 PM on Wed October 14 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. Gopherit says at 7:06 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Hahaha! Sucks to be you, you bloated sack of child rape.

  2. hobospacejunkie says at 7:08 pm, October 14th, 2009

    I saw a photo of him on TV a couple nights ago from back when he first said racist things about Donovan McNabb, and he was fat then. But compared to today he was positively svelte. Anyway, I thought Rush fancied himself as richer than god? Someone richer than god doesn’t need help from no piddling investors. I don’t think he’s really getting paid $400 million a year or whatever. Or he’s eating the money they’re giving him. Which is entirely possible.

  3. Snarkalicious says at 7:11 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Whats the over/under on the word ‘uppity’ making its way into his tirade after this?

  4. Suds McKenzie says at 7:12 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Maybe he can just buy some black racehorses instead.

  5. Tommmcatt says at 7:12 pm, October 14th, 2009

    He is not invited to any dinner parties or Gay Pride Events at my house, either. Take THAT, Mr Limbaugh!

  6. davesnothere says at 7:12 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Wait, I didn’t think it was permitted to distance oneself from jabba the nut.

  7. Crank Tango says at 7:13 pm, October 14th, 2009

    hobospacejunkie: i thought he was actually thin these days and we were just posting fat pics to be assholes and cuz, well he fucking deserves it anyway?

  8. DangerousLiberal says at 7:14 pm, October 14th, 2009

    ‘Tis a great pity. Was looking forward to a bloated, opiate addled version of Mark Cuban in the NFL.

  9. ManchuCandidate says at 7:15 pm, October 14th, 2009

    “Screw you guys I’ll make my own whites only football league with Dominican hookers and OxyContin! Forget the football and the hoookers. I just want the OxyContin.”

  10. PoignancySelz says at 7:15 pm, October 14th, 2009

    He whines, he cries…..
    Awwww he missed, hahahaha

    Wasn’t it just last week he was jubilant, self righteous, gloating about Hopey missing the Olympics. hahahaha

    It proves one aspect of these tards, they can give it out, but they can’t take it

  11. Smoke Filled Roommate says at 7:17 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Yay, great news for the would-be St. Louis Caucasians! Haha, Arizona has Warner now, bitch!

    Suds McKenzie: You mean stable to table?

  12. Suds McKenzie says at 7:19 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Smoke Filled Roommate: Hoof to Mouth.

  13. Gopherit says at 7:19 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Suds McKenzie: yeah, Lippinzaners. They’re born black and turn white.

  14. AbstinenceOnly Ed says at 7:19 pm, October 14th, 2009

    If only this crushed him like a little oxy tablet and god took him as a butt bump and got mad hemorrhoids.

  15. SmutBoffin says at 7:23 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Jeebus, are there any teams for any sport that he could buy without causing an institutional uproar? Any franchise with minorities (or teh womyns) would vomit him back up like cheap tequila. Even if he were to buy a minor league hockey team all the Canadians on the squad would say something like “I won’t play for this hoser!”

    Maybe he could sponsor a kickball team or “World’s Strongest Man” contestant or something.

  16. Dean Booth says at 7:23 pm, October 14th, 2009
  17. rocktonsammy says at 7:23 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Shoot, all Rush has left now is his millions of ditto heads that would kill for him, and most likely will, his huge pile of money, his oxy-cotin and his 12 year old male buttsecks slaves.

    The NHL is looking for owners, just a few coloreds in that league!!!

  18. 1.What goes around comes around.
    2.Actions have consequences.
    3.hahahahahahahahahahahaahaha

  19. Aquannissiwamissoo says at 7:25 pm, October 14th, 2009

    It must suck to be a big fat ugly racist and be called on it.

  20. Smoke Filled Roommate says at 7:27 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Suds McKenzie: cloven hoof to mouth. Also head in ass to mouth.

  21. stolichnayaaa says at 7:28 pm, October 14th, 2009

    It is a hell of a thing to be so completely fucking insufferable the you are unable to BE AN NFL OWNER.

  22. Naked Bunny with a Whip says at 7:31 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Yeah yeah, Rush Limbaugh blah blah blah…is that cute li’l mouse available?

  23. Smoke Filled Roommate says at 7:32 pm, October 14th, 2009

    I can imagine the meeting: “Rush, you actually have to like the Niggers. They are great athletes. They will make you money.”

  24. Downtheroadapiece says at 7:32 pm, October 14th, 2009

    stolichnayaaa: Georgia Frontiere is pointing and laughing from her spot in hell.

  25. Country Club Jihadi says at 7:32 pm, October 14th, 2009

    The St. Louis Hams just would not have had the same ring to it, anyway.

  26. AbstinenceOnly Ed says at 7:39 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Meanwhile, Kim Jong Il continues to strangle the life of the hapless Jokeland Raiders.

  27. zhubajie says at 7:42 pm, October 14th, 2009

    I was kinda hoping he’d disrespect the wrong player, get a lesson in the advantages of courtesey!

  28. Texan Bulldoggette says at 7:44 pm, October 14th, 2009

    stolichnayaaa: No shit…this makes Jerry Jones & Dan Snyder look like positively decent, upstanding guys.

  29. ifthethunderdontgetya" says at 7:44 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Downtheroadapiece: Exactly.
    ~

  30. leaveskoalrebelalone says at 7:46 pm, October 14th, 2009

    to rush it was always the ‘nigger football league’ nigger nigger nigger as lenny bruce would say!

  31. GreatOldOnesParty says at 7:47 pm, October 14th, 2009
  32. jodyleek says at 7:48 pm, October 14th, 2009

    PoignancySelz: Karma’s a bitch. And, in this case, hilarious.

  33. chascates says at 7:51 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Now he can complain that it’s the ‘Negro Football League’ that is racist. And anti-free enterprise. This fat bag of slime has got to have a heart attack sooner or later. When he was treated to lunch by Bush in the White House he had fries with ranch dressing!

  34. badmuthagoose says at 7:58 pm, October 14th, 2009

    That’s what you get

    when you’re a disgusting old shit.

    That’s what you get

    when you’re a hateful stinky git.

    Hey, that should be a preschool rhyme.

  35. Smoke Filled Roommate says at 7:58 pm, October 14th, 2009

    chascates: Somehow one of these days, a bottle of Hidden Valley is going to make its way to the Confederate Flag..

  36. stolichnayaaa says at 8:02 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Hey, I can ask here, right? What’s the deal with that wire behind his ear? He was wearing it in that crappy interview that was all over the telemavision this weekend. Is it just a monitor? Is he listening to Glenn Beck on that thing?

  37. biscuitry says at 8:02 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Maybe he’d have better luck with the XFL.

  38. SayItWithWookies says at 8:10 pm, October 14th, 2009

    stolichnayaaa: He’s got cochlear implants. Because of his tiny cochlea.

  39. Bearbloke says at 8:11 pm, October 14th, 2009

    davesnothere: Only if you’re a ReThuglican camp-follower; people with money who can look at themselves with self-respect don’t need to pay attention to Lush Rimjob or his buttboy Sham Insanity

  40. Downtheroadapiece says at 8:12 pm, October 14th, 2009

    stolichnayaaa: He’s deef!
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Deafness

    And the dumb part is self evident of course.

  41. ifthethunderdontgetya" says at 8:17 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Bearbloke: Beck (Glenn) is his new buttboy.

    Sean is growing desperate.
    ~

  42. Bearbloke says at 8:17 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Dean Booth: Here’s a better pic, that really captures Rush’s good side

    http://comicbooth.com/special/gop.htm?http://www.dagimp.org/owned/wtf_asshole.jpg.jpg

  43. comicbookguy says at 8:17 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Rush can just go and form his own league, the “Magic Negro League” which caters to conservatives smart enough to know that there’s absolutely nothing racist about saying that. Rush doesn’t care if the President is black. Only that he’s uppity.

    Though weren’t you all looking forward to how Rush was going to color-coordinate his starting lineup? Quarterbacks are white, linebackers are black, and there’s a nice steady gradient in between.

  44. CaliforniaMike says at 8:21 pm, October 14th, 2009

    The real reason he was dropped from the group was that he was insisting on moving the team and changing its name. The Santo Domingo Pedobears just didn’t sound right.

  45. FreshCliches says at 8:23 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Looks like the only thing Rush will now use the Invisible Hand of the marketplace for is a reach-around.

  46. grevillea says at 8:23 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Bearbloke: You bastard! My eyes!

  47. hacker200499 says at 8:24 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Wow now blacks decide who can buy teams in then nfl,sounds racist to me,if whites said then same about lets just say snoopdog they would be screamin bloody murder and race

  48. President Beeblebrox says at 8:25 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Dean Booth: Bearbloke: Good one. How about this? It fits perfectly but is VERY VERY VERY NSFW.

    http://tinyurl.com/GOPtubgirl

  49. zhubajie says at 8:26 pm, October 14th, 2009

    SmutBoffin: Possibly he might be OK for pro-wrestling. His team would be all heels, of course.

  50. stolichnayaaa says at 8:26 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Downtheroadapiece: ah- don’t make me even think about feeling sorry for him. That sounds crazy and also, awesome. Go medicine.

    “In 2005, Limbaugh was forced to undergo “tuning” due to an “eye twitch”, an apparent side-effect of cochlear implants.”

    Is he a replicant?

  51. InKnockYouUs says at 8:27 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Earth to Rush Limbaugh: People with the darkers skinz have some self-esteem nowadays. They don’t take too kindly to being owned by fat stupid white rich pieces of trash.

  52. cheeto_jeebus says at 8:28 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Bearbloke: not funny. not witty. Fully deserving of a fuck you.

  53. stolichnayaaa says at 8:31 pm, October 14th, 2009

    hacker200499: Clever! I hadn’t anticipated the reversal. I confess you’ve caught me speechless, which, let me assure you, is not a condition that suffer from so often that I lie awake dreading it. One second, let me compose myself.

    ::fans self with handkerchief::

    Really. Just- I am impressed.

    ::straightens waistcoat::

    Now then.

    “woa but you think thats something then you just wait when blacks are whiter than they are they will be new whites like the color lets just say j-lo then whites will holler just as bad and politics”

  54. Bearbloke says at 8:33 pm, October 14th, 2009

    President Beeblebrox: You’re on Rush’s Christmas-card list? He’s sending them out rather early, no?

  55. grevillea says at 8:33 pm, October 14th, 2009

    hacker200499: Indeed. Now off to bed, you little rascal, and don’t forget your ‘overnight’ pants.

  56. Bearbloke says at 8:35 pm, October 14th, 2009

    cheeto_jeebus: No please, fuck yourself first!

  57. President Beeblebrox says at 8:38 pm, October 14th, 2009

    hacker200499: Oh boy, here we go. “X happened to a {white,conservative} and it was OK, but if X happened to a {Nigra,liberal} everyone would cry Racism!”

    http://comicbooth.com/special/gop.htm?http://fairimmigration.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/0050_ku_klux_klan_03.jpg

  58. Bearbloke says at 8:39 pm, October 14th, 2009

    stolichnayaaa: No, he’s David Duke inside a particularly ugly cybernetic fat-suit…

  59. Let Me Wet My Beak says at 8:44 pm, October 14th, 2009

    He was only in it so he could order up an Rx from the team doctor.

  60. AddHomonym says at 8:45 pm, October 14th, 2009

    hacker200499: Please phone Rush and lay out this line of argument. He may run with it and you could get a gift certificate or something.

  61. El Pinche says at 8:48 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Bearbloke: jesus fekking crist, talk about a busted o-ring.

  62. hacker200499: Yes, yes, sweetheart. The systematic oppression of the white man by evil negroes is a horrible thing. But don’t worry, one day our people shall overcome. One day we too shall ride at the front of the bus. One day white men will own most of the major corporations in this country. I am so hopeful about the future that I will even go so far as to say that one day a white man might even become President of these United States.

  63. Suds McKenzie says at 8:54 pm, October 14th, 2009

    I sure hope this off-field distraction doesn’t effect the Rams performance on the field.

  64. SomeNYGuy says at 8:55 pm, October 14th, 2009

    President Beeblebrox: Wait a minute — that just spells out GAAAP.

  65. privatejoker says at 8:55 pm, October 14th, 2009

    maybe nascar would let him sponsor a car.

  66. Hopey dont play that game says at 8:58 pm, October 14th, 2009

    hacker200499: Yes, it is a shame when people don’t want to work for someone they find objectionable. That is downright un-Merkin’.

  67. El Pinche says at 9:01 pm, October 14th, 2009

    hacker200499: get used to it. we’re coming for yer white wimmins too.
    wu tang. WUUU TANG!!

  68. Johnny Zhivago says at 9:08 pm, October 14th, 2009

    He could always go for one of those Arena League franchises if they come out of bankruptcy, like The Kankakee Klansmen or The Mobile Homes

  69. Pubes are my anti-merkin.

  70. rocktonsammy says at 9:19 pm, October 14th, 2009

    gUESS Rush didn’t want to be a minority owner.

  71. RoscoePColtraine says at 9:21 pm, October 14th, 2009

    hacker200499: There is a lesson here. When you’ve got talent, you get to decide who you’ll work for. THAT’S AMERICAN. Suck it, also.

  72. Studebaker Hoch says at 9:22 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Damn , I was kinda looking forward to seeing Rush get beaten to death with one of his own arms after telling some 400 pound lineman to ,”Take the Bone out of your nose”.

  73. Somebody needs to wake up Jim. We need a “@McCainBlogette posts her cleavage on Twitter and has a breakdown” live blog STAT!

  74. Jumping Jim says at 9:42 pm, October 14th, 2009

    davesnothere: Or his brother Pizza the Hut

  75. hockeymom says at 9:49 pm, October 14th, 2009

    To be fair, he really only wanted to own 3/5ths of them.

  76. mookworthjwilson says at 9:55 pm, October 14th, 2009

    hacker200499: Yes…you are right…because Jim Irsay is a known negra

  77. Reefpilot says at 9:56 pm, October 14th, 2009

    I don’t know if you heathens care but Jesus Christ and I both approve of this development.

  78. Texan Bulldoggette says at 10:00 pm, October 14th, 2009

    hacker200499: Yeah, because there are so many black NFL owners who … wait a minute, I think fellow whitey is keeping the Rush man down. I’m sure he’s curled up in bed, with a bag of Cheetos writing “Dear Diary, everyone is SO mean to me! All I want is to be loved … and to own a few dozen blacks. What is so wrong with that?”

  79. glamourdammerung says at 10:05 pm, October 14th, 2009

    hacker200499: Concern troll is concerned.

  80. mookworthjwilson says at 10:15 pm, October 14th, 2009
  81. I was actually listening to this Fat Fuck’s show on the EIB (Enormously Inebriated Bastard) radio network today and he was trying as hard as he could to weasel his way out of this predicament. He even went so far as to admit (for the first time in his fucked life) that he may have chosen the wrong words in calling the NFL the Bloods and the Crips because that made his comments seem racial. Because the last thing this Denture sporting Hillbilly Heroin munching to the point of deafness, fuckbag would want to do is seem racial. Right on, right on, right on!!

  82. PoignancySelz says at 10:22 pm, October 14th, 2009

    President Beeblebrox: I’ll bet that guy needs the Public Option.

  83. hacker200499: You said what, exactly in what language? Does anyone here speak Hillbilly?

    SayItWithWookies: Ha, you should be a doctor.

  84. Nothing some synthetic herion can’t fix! Start poppin’, fat boy!

  85. Limbaugh is a pompus ass and an only slightly veiled racist. He is perfectly suited to be the public face of the GOP.

  86. DutchButch says at 10:31 pm, October 14th, 2009

    don’t say obese anymore - I think he had a stomach reduction - gastric bypass???
    I guess even he got disgusted by the very sight of him…..

  87. DemmeFatale says at 10:45 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Wonketteers: Please share your secrets for sussing the trolls. I’m easily confused!

  88. Johnny Zhivago says at 10:53 pm, October 14th, 2009

    DutchButch: I think it was a brain bypass.

  89. Oldskool says at 10:57 pm, October 14th, 2009

    I hope he got another knot on his bumpy head after slamming into another dose of reality.

  90. Cocktoastin says at 11:31 pm, October 14th, 2009

    I believe that the Skoal Bandits just might have an opening for Rush to fill, if the money is right

  91. El Pinche says at 11:33 pm, October 14th, 2009

    Oldskool: Nah, instead he took another dose of Oxycontin and a trip to the Dominican Republic for little boy penis. These are the things conservative bachelors do on sad cloudy days.

  92. hobospacejunkie: “Someone richer than god doesn’t need help from no piddling investors. ”

    On the contrary, the richer you are, the more you play with others’ money.

  93. Dilaceratus says at 12:16 am, October 15th, 2009

    When the rest of the Civilized World (i.e. the urbane and sophisticated NFL) rightly doesn’t even want this charming turd balloon’s money, who, you might ask, is actively seeking this racist misogynist’s company? Oh, I remember– the Miss America Organization, which has asked Lumbaugh to be a judge.

    (I am envisioning several horrific scenarios of how this collision of two self-loathing parodies will play out, but the central component to all if them seems to be a Tex Avery-style giant sweating pork chop.)

  94. colbycakes says at 12:20 am, October 15th, 2009

    hacker200499: What blacks decided what now? A couple said they wouldn’t play for STL, but none of ‘em said he can’t own a team. The decision was all made by white folks- Goodell and Irsey applied pressure, Rush and his partners folded like a slutty card table.

    So don’t worry, binky. Whitey still in charge!

  95. LowerdPeninsula says at 12:22 am, October 15th, 2009

    rocktonsammy: “Shoot, all Rush has left now is his millions of ditto heads that would kill for him, and most likely will, his huge pile of money, his oxy-cotin and his 12 year old male buttsecks slaves.”

    Bingo. I was thinking exactly the same thing.

    So, Rush, how does it feel now that the shoe’s on the other foot, now that you can’t be as nasty and hateful as you want to be without consequence? Karma just bent you over, and went to town on that ass, huh? Boo-fuckin-hoo for the worldest largest man-child, right? In your dreams, you serially bloated semi-pro babbler.

  96. Darkness says at 12:24 am, October 15th, 2009

    Dang! I was hoping for entertainment from this. Plus another team to root against. Rats.

  97. Mike Steele says at 12:25 am, October 15th, 2009

    Can’t wait to hear his show tomorrow.

  98. Darkness says at 12:27 am, October 15th, 2009

    Country Club Jihadi: And their mascot would be what . . . a state trooper?

  99. Random fact about Keram2: big rams fan, even in these recent dark years. But, I totally would’ve rooted for the ‘niners if this shit went through.

  100. chascates says at 12:46 am, October 15th, 2009

    But tonight we am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together. Rush has become the metaphor for all people, living or dead and those they may live in the future.

  101. hobospacejunkie says at 1:02 am, October 15th, 2009

    stolichnayaaa: then whites will holler just as bad and politics

    No words…should have sent poets

  102. This is false, a lie, a fabrication from the mainstream media.

    I don’t remember reading this on Drudge with a headline of “The ego has landed.”

  103. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 3:08 am, October 15th, 2009

    The great thing about this is that it really has to hurt Rush. This would have been his ultimate achievement. This would have been the cherry on top of everything he had worked for. He has spent most of his life sucking up to NFL owners, acting as their private jester in the owners boxes and giving them good Cuban cigars, just to have them step away when he got a chance because his shit did stink. Everything now will just seem hollow.

    And just think how racist you have to really be to be asked not to be a member of that group.

    Still, it is nice to see all the Republicans trying to argue that you can say any bat-shit crazy thing you want and there should be no consequences. I’m sure the Dixie Chicks and Bill Mahre remember getting the same defense from Bill O’ and Hannity when they said things that were not even racist.

    stolichnayaaa: Downtheroadapiece: Texan Bulldoggette: Just how annoying do you have to be to get a whole bunch of cigar chomping Republicans who you have been sucking up to for years to ask you to step away because you are a liability. It is not like NFL owners are known for being well spoken, open-armed, humanitarians.

    SayItWithWookies: stolichnayaaa: Actually, it is because damage to the nerves in the ear are a common side effect of abuse.

  104. gurukalehuru says at 4:27 am, October 15th, 2009

    hacker200499: I would love to see Snoop Dog own an NFL team. The Seattle Stoners? The Pittsburgh Potheads? The Dallas Dealers?

  105. Rush is so totally going to need to fire some interns tomorrow, “There will be blood!”

  106. LowerdPeninsula says at 7:14 am, October 15th, 2009

    Lionel Hutz Esq.: “And just think how racist you have to really be to be asked not to be a member of that group.”

    You know, this is what really struck me about all of this. Pro sports team and franchise owners, on average, have to be one of the most eccentric, gauche, and blatantly outwardly groups we have in our society. For that fucking freakshow of a community to be the one to turn you down says something very bad about you. It’s not as if he was turned down by some liberal organization for a prize or something; it’s not like he was turned down by the Nobel committee. No; he was turned down by folks that would be carnies, cons, or other assorted dolts and villains in another life.

  107. From the ESPN/AP story: >>NFL Players Association head DeMaurice Smith, who is black, urged players to speak out against Limbaugh’s bid.<<

    Oh that explains it, see, Smith is black. The story forgot to mention Irsay’s race. Or Limbaugh’s.

  108. Tundra Grifter says at 9:30 am, October 15th, 2009

    Fat, drugged and stupid is no way to go through life, Son.

  109. Uncle Bubba says at 9:51 am, October 15th, 2009

    No Fucking Limbaugh, that’s it, when you see the logo NFL, it’slike GIMME AN N…GIMME AN F…GIMME AN L….WHAT DAT SPELL…nothing, but it means NO FUCKING LIMBAUGH… I’d love to see George W. in his cheer leader outfit leading that.

  110. jodyleek says at 11:13 am, October 15th, 2009

    hacker200499: Needs more caps lock. Also too.

  111. teebob2000 says at 11:54 am, October 15th, 2009

    hacker200499: typeitfastenoughdickweed?

  112. teebob2000 says at 11:56 am, October 15th, 2009

    hockeymom: HA!!! Today’s winner.

  113. thefrontpage says at 12:17 pm, October 15th, 2009

    But Limbaugh has purchased the majority stake in a string of nude roller derby teams throughout the South! And he’s bought several of the National Lingerie Football League teams. And he’s bought some shares in Hustler magazine.

  114. lisamendez.com says at 12:53 pm, October 15th, 2009

    No one likes LIMBAUGH.. he’s a lame…

  115. iolanthe says at 2:16 pm, October 15th, 2009

    Goodness! That blingee’d pic really emphasizes Rush’s resemblance to Queen Victoria at about the same age.

    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/05/29/article-0-016C16CD00000578-882_233×337.jpg

    But she had much finer eyes, *and* a more delicate overall build.

  116. iolanthe says at 2:42 pm, October 15th, 2009

    Lionel Hutz Esq.:

    Yes, I recall that, according to the Right Wing, all the squelching of the Dixie Chicks and of Bill Maher was just “the free market deciding”.

    I remember hearing that “Clear Channel *gets* to decide what their stations play, and who goes on tour”, and “Bill Maher’s network has the *freedom* to fire him!”

    Back when Republicans were boycotting stuff they didn’t like, the boycott was one of Freedom’s Great Sacraments, not some attack on free speech.

    Why is it all different now?

    Oh. Yeah. Because it’s not so much that the Republicans have a double standard; it’s that they have no standards at all. They subscribe to only one “principle”: “When *WE* do it, whatever the fuck it is, no matter how reprehensible, it’s OK! When our political opponents do something similar, even if far less egregious, then they are Enemies of Freedom, Enemies of Truth, nay, *ENEMIES OF HUMANITY*!!!”

    Very simple. But I’m surprised so many people still seem to think there’s some principle involved other than “We can do what we want, but our enemies can’t. And if anyone tries to stop us, or even apply our own “standards” to ourselves, we’ll bitch and whine and lie and dissemble and contort the truth like Soap Opera villainesses!”

    It takes a very very bad memory, almost complete obliviousness, coupled with a near-total lack of character, to be a Republican Party supporter in this day and age.

  117. chascates: So … The walrus was Rush? I can sort of believe that; at least I can picture him in a LOLcat poster saying “Where’s mah bukkit?”

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