Like him or not, what the media did to Rush Limbaugh should scare us all. So, Limbaugh is “too divisive” to participate in an ownership group but Keith Olbermann can provide NFL game commentary? What kind of bizzaro world are we living in?
Limbaugh responds to his critics in the WSJ. Read the whole thing, but here’s the kicker:
As I explained on my radio show, this spectacle is bigger than I am on several levels. There is a contempt in the news business, including the sportswriter community, for conservatives that reflects the blind hatred espoused by Messrs. Sharpton and Jackson. “Racism” is too often their sledgehammer. And it is being used to try to keep citizens who don’t share the left’s agenda from participating in the full array of opportunities this nation otherwise affords each of us. It was on display many years ago in an effort to smear Clarence Thomas with racist stereotypes and keep him off the Supreme Court. More recently, it was employed against patriotic citizens who attended town-hall meetings and tea-party protests.
These intimidation tactics are working and spreading, and they are a cancer on our society.
Shame on Michael Wilbon, Rick Sanchez and CNN (I know MSNBC is beyond shame so why bother?). And shame on all of us who don’t speak out against modern day lynchings like this.
UPDATE: To be fair, Olbermann spoke out against the lynching of Limbaugh:
“There’re now gonna be character tests for sports owners?” Olbermann said. “There’ll only be three of them left. Unless they beat the Vikings Sunday as of next Thursday it will have been a full year since the Rams won a game. My God, if Limbaugh wants to buy them far be it for me to tell him he’s flushing his money down a rat hole.”
