Chris, talk about taking heat – how about Rush Limbaugh and his attempt to be a NFL Owner/Investor.

John Hinderaker over at Powerline has a powerful sum up of the FLAP, including a CNN graphic which is a blatant lie.

It’s official: Rush Limbaugh has withdrawn as a minority participant in a group that is trying to buy the St. Louis Rams. This follows opposition to Rush’s participation from Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and, shamefully, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. Such opposition, in turn, was fueled by false claims that Limbaugh has made various racist statements in the past.

The most ridiculous of the statements falsely attributed to Rush was this one:

Slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.

Anyone who has ever listened to Limbaugh would immediately recognize this as a hoax; in fact, it was made up out of whole cloth by a little-known left-wing blogger. But it was reported as fact by news outlets that didn’t bother to verify their facts. CNN was especially blameworthy in this regard; it vouched for the blogger-fabrication:

Here is the graphic:

Suddenly, Flap has LESS desire to watch the “politically correct” NFL and especially NBC’s Sunday night football with LEFTY Keith Olbermann as a commentator. This demonization and outright slander/libel of Rush Limbaugh is the last straw.

College football is political enough.

So long NFL.

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