For those of you who have not been following this story, Rush Limbaugh was part of a group of investors making a bid to buy he St. Louis Rams. The group was led by David Checketts who owns the St. Louis Blues hockey team. Is appears that as of yesterday, Limbaugh was dropped from the ownership bid.
This came on the heels of significant opposition from a wide array of athletes, businessmen and commissioners, mostly based on his controversial statements about Donovan McNabb during his brief stint as a football commentator. Most of is was the same jackassery that we have come to expect from NFL players, lots of whining about how they would not play at St. Louis and would not play for the Rams. Ignoring the fact that playing in the Edward Jones Dome is an easy win and that very few players would want to play for the Rams regardless, I see no reason for them to get themselves all wadded up over something that Limbaugh said 6 years ago.
This bid also led to the usual amount of media hysteria. Particularly entertaining is Pulitzer Prize winning hack Karen Hunter who decided that the reason the Limbaugh wanted this was because he had visions of being the "plantation owner".
How this woman is qualified to comment on this topic I do not know (check out her...ahem... body of work), but apparently it was not her research skills which got her the Pulitzer because she uses a completely sourceless and apparently fabricated quote of Limbaugh lamenting that James Earl Ray was so vilified.
I am no Limbaugh fan, I despise him personally and don't like his show. However, there is no reason in my mind to think that this is some crazy racist fantasy of his to make a bunch of millionaire black men dance for his amusement. He is from Missouri, he got his start in St. Louis. He has a dream like man men do, he wants to buy his hometown team. The fact that he has been elbowed out is sad and embarrassing for the NFL.
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