The NFL Might Be in Big Trouble Over Limbaugh

Well ole well look at this.

Is this connected to this disturbing news


HMM: Limbaugh Targeted By Obama Official: “The plot thickens on the media’s character-lynching of Rush Limbaugh. Of the four stories run on ESPN.com about Limbaugh’s bid for the Rams (October 6, October 12, October 15, and another October 15) none of them mention that NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith served as counsel to Attorney General Eric Holder and was a member of Barack Obama’s transition team.

The October 12 article references Smith’s anti-Limbaugh email meant to garner opposition against the radio host’s bid. The report refers to Smith only as the executive director of the NFLPA. Despite the fact that Smith’s opposition was based on Limbaugh’s political commentary, the report failed to mention that Smith’s political connections (including those to whom he donated thousands of dollars) have a vested interest in Limbaugh’s discrediting.”

UPDATE: Reader C.J. Burch writes:
BTW this is a big, big deal, and something Nixon ( or maybe Gene Talmadge or George Wallace in his heyday.) would have done. The difference is the press wouldn’t have played along then. Not because it was wrong. The press could care less about that ( Go look up Walter Duranty), but because Nixon wasn’t a Democrat. It’s all about power with the press…their power. You get in between them and it, heaven help you.
Ouch.
Posted at 9:11 am by Glenn Reynolds

Also see Leveling Limbaugh The NFL punts to left-wing political intimidation in the WSJ.

Make no mistake Rush does not have a "Right" to own a NFL football team. But the shocking entry of the comments of the NFL commish himself and it now appears some high stakes people in the Player's Unions is quickly taking this to another level. Perhaps a legal one. I suspect some NFL people are spending a good bit of today Lawyering up.

On a broader front I don't think some folks quite realize how frightening this is too conservatives

From the Corner
Rush [Michael Ledeen]
Good editorial on Rush. I would make a couple of additional points. First, this is further evidence that the Left has long since abandoned any pretense at serious debate. That, as Rush has often said, is because they lose most serious debates, and therefore they resort to "the politics of personal destruction." Destroy the messenger, and the message dies with him.
If we had serious libel laws, these attacks would be more difficult. It should be possible for a person to defend himself in court by proving that public attacks against him are false and damaging. As things stand, he has to show that his libeler deliberately and knowingly spread false and damaging stories.
Second, the attack on Rush is an attack on everyone, on all of us. Because it shows that the moment any of us becomes a forceful and credible voice for anything "they" don't like, they will hunt us down. And yes, "they" come in different political colors, but at the moment "they" are massed on the left.
It's a hell of an important fight.
10/16 11:56 AMShare

Indeed and I am noticing some conservative voices that are not in particular RUSH fans are concerned too