DISGRACEFUL - AT 8:25 A.M. ET:  This is another kind of democracy - democracy by intimidation.  From The New York Times:

One day after Commissioner Roger Goodell said that Rush Limbaugh’s bid to buy the St. Louis Rams would receive little support from N.F.L. ownership, Limbaugh was dropped from the group of investors hoping to buy the team.

“Rush was to be a limited partner — as such, he would have had no say in the direction of the club or in any decisions regarding personnel or operations,” Dave Checketts, the former Madison Square Garden executive who is leading the group that included Limbaugh. “This was a role he enthusiastically embraced. However, it has become clear that his involvement in our group has become a complication and a distraction to our intentions; endangering our bid to keep the team in St. Louis. As such, we have decided to move forward without him and hope it will eventually lead us to a successful conclusion.”

COMMENT:  I wrote about this at the Angel's Corner last night.  The disgrace here is that Limbaugh was dropped based on trumped-up charges of racism - charges founded partly on statements he hotly denies making, and that no one can find.

You can like Rush, or not like him, but this is modern-day McCarthyism.  If Rush were pro-Communist or pro-Nazi, I could understand the objection to him.  But he's a conservative, with no serious evidence that he's a racist.  This smear will be with him for the rest of his life, unless he fights back to clear his name.  I hope he does.

October 15, 2009