“Agree with his opinions or not, Rush Limbaugh is singularly responsible for a generation of talk-format opinion and national debate. No has done more for the cause of public discourse and involvement than Rush has done. The thuggery responsible for scaring those considering the purchase of the St. Louis Rams and Rush’s participation in same have further paved the way for the downward spiral of America.

Their capitulation and transpicuous display of cowardice based on greed has strengthened and encouraged those who would ransack the rights of an individual to buy, own and make gain. The Checketts group’s act of cowardice will further be used in the current administration’s attempt to silence the voice they fear most. Congratulation, guys – you’ve contributed to the very campaign you privately decry.

Lest I omit the involvement of Jackson and Sharpton in the attacks against Rush – maybe they can put together a group of interested buyers. After all, they have just the kind of sordid backgrounds Roger Goodell and the league obviously find appealing – it’s white conservatism they cannot abide.”

-Mychal Massie

“Ignorance is bliss, so the saying goes, and right about now there are a lot of blissfully ignorant folks prattling about, thumping their chests – characteristic of their simian ancestry save for the scratching of their underarms. I’m talking about those who are taking credit for undermining Rush Limbaugh’s enjoining a group interested in purchasing the St. Louis Rams football team.

To hear them tell it, Rush is the devil right out of hell for daring to speak his opinion (in a free society), and often for stating the obvious. Those involved would be laughable in their complaint if they weren’t unambiguously ignorant and totally given over to a set of double standards.

Would Rush be worse for the game than Ricky Williams or Lawrence Phillips? One is a self-described “poster child for marijuana,” the other a thug who serially beat women. Would Rush be worse for the game than the dozens and dozens of players and coaches who have been arrested (many repeatedly) for drugs, steroids, assault, murder, drunk driving and firearms offenses?

Mercury Morris has no room to cast stones at Rush from his glass house, or does he forget his career included a 20-year prison sentence on cocaine charges – his subsequent new trial and plea-bargain arrangement that netted him three years notwithstanding?

Rush may have spent a brief chapter of his life addicted to prescription painkillers, but I have never heard of anyone saying Rush’s entire staff and conglomerate were doing drugs. Yet, not so very long ago, I spent time in an AFC East team locker room where 40 out of 45 players were doing drugs by their own admission.”

-Mychal Massie

A gentleman would have answered Checketts when told he was being dropped from the owners consortium that he was sorry to hear that, and could he possibly be reconsidered in light of what he has to offer the team (cash), or maybe join in as a silent partner. A gentleman would not have been bull-headed enough to insist on being fired.

But Rush has to make this all about Rush. Bad publicity is good publicity.

What a turn of events for Mr. Limbaugh as a mascot for the rich, he just is not really one of them. Mr. Limbaugh did the filthy work for the rich he bombarded the air waves convincing the less educate to follow him and just be grateful they have jobs and the rich should get every break allotted and given special treatment. Mr. Limbaugh sold his soul for success, sold out his country, and his uneducated listeners only to be shown that capitalism is a fraud the basic principle of capitalism buying and selling Mr. Limbaugh was denied. The owner of the San Diego NFL team gave Mr. Limbaugh an award as a up right descent man but Mr. Limbaugh still can not join that elite circle of NFL owners. You see Mr. Limbaugh you are just a useful idiot with a lot of money nothing more because if you were what you think you are you be allowed to buy an NFL team. LOL, LOL,LOL