• February 12, 2012

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]

{ 117 comments }

Gopherit October 14, 2009 at 7:06 pm

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

hobospacejunkie October 14, 2009 at 7:08 pm

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.

Snarkalicious October 14, 2009 at 7:11 pm

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

Suds McKenzie October 14, 2009 at 7:12 pm

Maybe he can just buy some black racehorses instead.

Tommmcatt October 14, 2009 at 7:12 pm

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

davesnothere October 14, 2009 at 7:12 pm

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

Crank Tango October 14, 2009 at 7:13 pm

[re=435205]hobospacejunkie[/re]: 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?

DangerousLiberal October 14, 2009 at 7:14 pm

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

ManchuCandidate October 14, 2009 at 7:15 pm

“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.”

PoignancySelz October 14, 2009 at 7:15 pm

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

Smoke Filled Roommate October 14, 2009 at 7:17 pm

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

[re=435211]Suds McKenzie[/re]: You mean stable to table?

Suds McKenzie October 14, 2009 at 7:19 pm

[re=435219]Smoke Filled Roommate[/re]: Hoof to Mouth.

Gopherit October 14, 2009 at 7:19 pm

[re=435211]Suds McKenzie[/re]: yeah, Lippinzaners. They’re born black and turn white.

AbstinenceOnly Ed October 14, 2009 at 7:19 pm

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

SmutBoffin October 14, 2009 at 7:23 pm

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.

Dean Booth October 14, 2009 at 7:23 pm
rocktonsammy October 14, 2009 at 7:23 pm

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!!!

Mustang October 14, 2009 at 7:24 pm

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

Aquannissiwamissoo October 14, 2009 at 7:25 pm

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

Smoke Filled Roommate October 14, 2009 at 7:27 pm

[re=435221]Suds McKenzie[/re]: cloven hoof to mouth. Also head in ass to mouth.

stolichnayaaa October 14, 2009 at 7:28 pm

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

Naked Bunny with a Whip October 14, 2009 at 7:31 pm

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

Smoke Filled Roommate October 14, 2009 at 7:32 pm

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

Downtheroadapiece October 14, 2009 at 7:32 pm

[re=435236]stolichnayaaa[/re]: Georgia Frontiere is pointing and laughing from her spot in hell.

Country Club Jihadi October 14, 2009 at 7:32 pm

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

AbstinenceOnly Ed October 14, 2009 at 7:39 pm

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

zhubajie October 14, 2009 at 7:42 pm

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

Texan Bulldoggette October 14, 2009 at 7:44 pm

[re=435236]stolichnayaaa[/re]: No shit…this makes Jerry Jones & Dan Snyder look like positively decent, upstanding guys.

ifthethunderdontgetya" October 14, 2009 at 7:44 pm

[re=435241]Downtheroadapiece[/re]: Exactly.
~

leaveskoalrebelalone October 14, 2009 at 7:46 pm

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

GreatOldOnesParty October 14, 2009 at 7:47 pm
jodyleek October 14, 2009 at 7:48 pm

[re=435218]PoignancySelz[/re]: Karma’s a bitch. And, in this case, hilarious.

chascates October 14, 2009 at 7:51 pm

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!

badmuthagoose October 14, 2009 at 7:58 pm

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.

Smoke Filled Roommate October 14, 2009 at 7:58 pm

[re=435258]chascates[/re]: Somehow one of these days, a bottle of Hidden Valley is going to make its way to the Confederate Flag..

stolichnayaaa October 14, 2009 at 8:02 pm

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?

biscuitry October 14, 2009 at 8:02 pm

Maybe he’d have better luck with the XFL.

SayItWithWookies October 14, 2009 at 8:10 pm

[re=435263]stolichnayaaa[/re]: He’s got cochlear implants. Because of his tiny cochlea.

Bearbloke October 14, 2009 at 8:11 pm

[re=435213]davesnothere[/re]: 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

Downtheroadapiece October 14, 2009 at 8:12 pm

[re=435263]stolichnayaaa[/re]: He’s deef!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Deafness

And the dumb part is self evident of course.

ifthethunderdontgetya" October 14, 2009 at 8:17 pm

[re=435267]Bearbloke[/re]: Beck (Glenn) is his new buttboy.

Sean is growing desperate.
~

Bearbloke October 14, 2009 at 8:17 pm

[re=435227]Dean Booth[/re]: 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

comicbookguy October 14, 2009 at 8:17 pm

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.

CaliforniaMike October 14, 2009 at 8:21 pm

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.

FreshCliches October 14, 2009 at 8:23 pm

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

grevillea October 14, 2009 at 8:23 pm

[re=435272]Bearbloke[/re]: You bastard! My eyes!

hacker200499 October 14, 2009 at 8:24 pm

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

President Beeblebrox October 14, 2009 at 8:25 pm

[re=435227]Dean Booth[/re]: [re=435272]Bearbloke[/re]: Good one. How about this? It fits perfectly but is VERY VERY VERY NSFW.

http://tinyurl.com/GOPtubgirl

zhubajie October 14, 2009 at 8:26 pm

[re=435226]SmutBoffin[/re]: Possibly he might be OK for pro-wrestling. His team would be all heels, of course.

stolichnayaaa October 14, 2009 at 8:26 pm

[re=435268]Downtheroadapiece[/re]: 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?

InKnockYouUs October 14, 2009 at 8:27 pm

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.

cheeto_jeebus October 14, 2009 at 8:28 pm

[re=435272]Bearbloke[/re]: not funny. not witty. Fully deserving of a fuck you.

stolichnayaaa October 14, 2009 at 8:31 pm

[re=435279]hacker200499[/re]: 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”

Bearbloke October 14, 2009 at 8:33 pm

[re=435280]President Beeblebrox[/re]: You’re on Rush’s Christmas-card list? He’s sending them out rather early, no?

grevillea October 14, 2009 at 8:33 pm

[re=435279]hacker200499[/re]: Indeed. Now off to bed, you little rascal, and don’t forget your ‘overnight’ pants.

Bearbloke October 14, 2009 at 8:35 pm

[re=435284]cheeto_jeebus[/re]: No please, fuck yourself first!

President Beeblebrox October 14, 2009 at 8:38 pm

[re=435279]hacker200499[/re]: 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

Bearbloke October 14, 2009 at 8:39 pm

[re=435282]stolichnayaaa[/re]: No, he’s David Duke inside a particularly ugly cybernetic fat-suit…

Let Me Wet My Beak October 14, 2009 at 8:44 pm

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

AddHomonym October 14, 2009 at 8:45 pm

[re=435279]hacker200499[/re]: Please phone Rush and lay out this line of argument. He may run with it and you could get a gift certificate or something.

El Pinche October 14, 2009 at 8:48 pm

[re=435272]Bearbloke[/re]: jesus fekking crist, talk about a busted o-ring.

Cicada October 14, 2009 at 8:52 pm

[re=435279]hacker200499[/re]: 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.

Suds McKenzie October 14, 2009 at 8:54 pm

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

SomeNYGuy October 14, 2009 at 8:55 pm

[re=435295]President Beeblebrox[/re]: Wait a minute — that just spells out GAAAP.

privatejoker October 14, 2009 at 8:55 pm

maybe nascar would let him sponsor a car.

Hopey dont play that game October 14, 2009 at 8:58 pm

[re=435279]hacker200499[/re]: Yes, it is a shame when people don’t want to work for someone they find objectionable. That is downright un-Merkin’.

El Pinche October 14, 2009 at 9:01 pm

[re=435279]hacker200499[/re]: get used to it. we’re coming for yer white wimmins too.
wu tang. WUUU TANG!!

Johnny Zhivago October 14, 2009 at 9:08 pm

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

bago October 14, 2009 at 9:13 pm

Pubes are my anti-merkin.

rocktonsammy October 14, 2009 at 9:19 pm

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

RoscoePColtraine October 14, 2009 at 9:21 pm

[re=435279]hacker200499[/re]: 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.

Studebaker Hoch October 14, 2009 at 9:22 pm

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”.

VB October 14, 2009 at 9:32 pm

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

Jumping Jim October 14, 2009 at 9:42 pm

[re=435213]davesnothere[/re]: Or his brother Pizza the Hut

hockeymom October 14, 2009 at 9:49 pm

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

mookworthjwilson October 14, 2009 at 9:55 pm

[re=435279]hacker200499[/re]: Yes…you are right…because Jim Irsay is a known negra

Reefpilot October 14, 2009 at 9:56 pm

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

Texan Bulldoggette October 14, 2009 at 10:00 pm

[re=435279]hacker200499[/re]: 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?”

glamourdammerung October 14, 2009 at 10:05 pm

[re=435279]hacker200499[/re]: Concern troll is concerned.

mookworthjwilson October 14, 2009 at 10:15 pm

[re=435279]hacker200499[/re]: well at least you’ll always have home in the GOP http://comicbooth.com/special/gop.htm?http://www.geocities.com/commonsense666atlast/klansman1.jpg

iburl October 14, 2009 at 10:15 pm

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!!

PoignancySelz October 14, 2009 at 10:22 pm

[re=435295]President Beeblebrox[/re]: I’ll bet that guy needs the Public Option.

sezme October 14, 2009 at 10:22 pm

[re=435279]hacker200499[/re]: You said what, exactly in what language? Does anyone here speak Hillbilly?

[re=435266]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Ha, you should be a doctor.

stew October 14, 2009 at 10:30 pm

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

Terry October 14, 2009 at 10:31 pm

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

DutchButch October 14, 2009 at 10:31 pm

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…..

DemmeFatale October 14, 2009 at 10:45 pm

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

Johnny Zhivago October 14, 2009 at 10:53 pm

[re=435355]DutchButch[/re]: I think it was a brain bypass.

Oldskool October 14, 2009 at 10:57 pm

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

Cocktoastin October 14, 2009 at 11:31 pm

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

El Pinche October 14, 2009 at 11:33 pm

[re=435366]Oldskool[/re]: 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.

Maus October 15, 2009 at 12:12 am

[re=435205]hobospacejunkie[/re]: “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.

Dilaceratus October 15, 2009 at 12:16 am

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.)

colbycakes October 15, 2009 at 12:20 am

[re=435279]hacker200499[/re]: 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!

LowerdPeninsula October 15, 2009 at 12:22 am

[re=435228]rocktonsammy[/re]: “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.

Darkness October 15, 2009 at 12:24 am

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

Mike Steele October 15, 2009 at 12:25 am

Can’t wait to hear his show tomorrow.

Darkness October 15, 2009 at 12:27 am

[re=435243]Country Club Jihadi[/re]: And their mascot would be what . . . a state trooper?

Keram2 October 15, 2009 at 12:39 am

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.

chascates October 15, 2009 at 12:46 am

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.

hobospacejunkie October 15, 2009 at 1:02 am

[re=435287]stolichnayaaa[/re]: then whites will holler just as bad and politics

No words…should have sent poets

weave October 15, 2009 at 2:14 am

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.”

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

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.

[re=435236]stolichnayaaa[/re]: [re=435241]Downtheroadapiece[/re]: [re=435251]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: 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.

[re=435266]SayItWithWookies[/re]: [re=435282]stolichnayaaa[/re]: Actually, it is because damage to the nerves in the ear are a common side effect of abuse.

gurukalehuru October 15, 2009 at 4:27 am

[re=435279]hacker200499[/re]: I would love to see Snoop Dog own an NFL team. The Seattle Stoners? The Pittsburgh Potheads? The Dallas Dealers?

Athar October 15, 2009 at 6:40 am

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

LowerdPeninsula October 15, 2009 at 7:14 am

[re=435466]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: “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.

Looy October 15, 2009 at 8:51 am

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.

Tundra Grifter October 15, 2009 at 9:30 am

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

Uncle Bubba October 15, 2009 at 9:51 am

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.

jodyleek October 15, 2009 at 11:13 am

[re=435279]hacker200499[/re]: Needs more caps lock. Also too.

teebob2000 October 15, 2009 at 11:54 am

[re=435279]hacker200499[/re]: typeitfastenoughdickweed?

teebob2000 October 15, 2009 at 11:56 am

[re=435332]hockeymom[/re]: HA!!! Today’s winner.

thefrontpage October 15, 2009 at 12:17 pm

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.

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

No one likes LIMBAUGH.. he’s a lame…

iolanthe October 15, 2009 at 2:16 pm

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_233x337.jpg

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

iolanthe October 15, 2009 at 2:42 pm

[re=435466]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]:

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.

sezme October 15, 2009 at 3:16 pm

[re=435413]chascates[/re]: 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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