I have seen some speculation that Rush Limbaugh could sue for libel and defamation but that’s really not Rush’s style.  Sure he could and he would have an uphill battle but it could be done.  There are however a couple of other options that would be more interesting…

Rush could get angry and put together his own investment group to counter Mr. Checketts bid.  Rush has the contacts with enough people who would be able to put together a bid for any NFL team out of petty cash.  He could put together a bid to blow any other completely out of the water and then really force the hand of the NFL.  Would the NFL really turn down a high bid for a team because it included someone who the NFL deems politically incorrect?  Rush could be the majority owner and outright run the team and be the face of the St. Louis Rams.  Yes Jerry Jones’ ego would have to take a back seat but that’s probably a good thing.

The NFL has long overlooked and forgiven law breakers, animal abusers, wife beaters, drug problems, etc.  The NFL doesn’t have a problem with that but they won’t allow a minority owner who makes his living in a completely legal way, who dares to speak the truth about the racism that exists in sports media.

Rush could also take the high road and use this experience to drive him to push even harder on the 2010 elections to remove some of the mindless idiots from Congress that are part of the problem, and the 2012 elections to remove Obama from office.

The fact remains that Rush is still the most powerful man in media and can affect elections, maybe it would have been better for Obama if Rush was busy as an NFL owner and less focused on defeating Obama and his mind numb robots running congress…

After 233 years haven’t we as a society reached a point where can end discrimination?  Why must people be segregated based on race, religion, social status, or politics?  The new head of the NFL Players Association seeks to bar a private citizen from investing his money in an NFL team for what reason?  Simply because this citizen dared to exercise his first amendment right of free speech and pointed out the hypocrisy of the sports media in America and their hype of a quarterback in Philadelphia simply because of his race.

So Rush Limbaugh was asked to participate in a perspective ownership group looking to buy the St. Louis Rams.  He’s a private citizen; he has made his money legally.  Rush has no ties to gambling or other entities that are barred by the NFL unlike other owners whose family businesses include gambling.  St. Louis gets a part owner with ties to the area, someone that has done more for the sport than most of the people in it.  That’s not enough apparently, today to be an owner you have to be liberal.  You have to promote the socialist policies of a President and a Congress that seeks the destruction of everything the country was founded upon.

Rush had made a comment on ESPN back in 2003 referencing the quarterback in Philadelphia that the medias interest in this quarterback was because they wanted to see a black quarterback succeed.  The statement wasn’t racist, in fact it Rush was pointing out the racism by the sports media.  They are overtly racist, were then, are now.  That hasn’t changed.  In the years since we were treated to glowing stories about Tony Dungy being the first black coach to win Super Bowl.  We weren’t treated to the stories of how wonderful a coach Tony Dungy was and the masterful a job he did at not only building the Tampa Bay Buccaneers organization that went on to win a Super Bowl the year after he was shown the door, but the job he did in rebuilding the Indianapolis Colts into a Super Bowl Championship team a couple of years later.  The focus was only about his race and not his skill and that is a shame.

Who did Tony Dungy owe his success to, his own hard work, his players, his staff, the ownership group that supported him, the fans.  Not just those who happen to be black.

Rush has been successful in an entirely different field.  Does he owe his success only to himself, only to the white members of his hard working staff, only to his white listeners?  No Rush owes his success to his hard work, his hard working staff of all races and genders, and his listeners, millions of listeners who are White, Black, Latino, Asian, etc.

I have heard Tony Dungy speak about success, and race is never part of that but the media doesn’t hear that they only look at his race.  I have heard Rush Limbaugh speak about success, race isn’t part of that either and again the media doesn’t hear.  The media has been in the business of speaking so long that they have grown tone deaf to what the people actually think and believe.

Much like our government.

The time has come to get rid of the imbedded reporters traveling around Iraq and Afghanistan.  As we’ve seen this week the media can’t take care of themselves and we have thousands of troops that protect people that 95% of the time don’t report the truth on the ground anyway.

Our brave men and woman are over there in harms way are fighting to protect our freedoms.  They shouldn’t have the added burden of protecting a reporter who chances are takes freedom for granted anyway.  The media needs to get out of the way stop getting in the way and stop putting the troops lives at risk.  Never again should a member of our armed forces die or be injured protecting a member of the media in a war zone.

Let the troops fight!  Bring the media home!!!!!!!