Conservative Socialists

I admit.  I have been perversely fascinated with the whole right-wingnut freak out over Boss Limpdick not getting what he wanted.

There have been threats.

'You'll get yours, intolerant liberal darky lovers!'

There has been the lamest use of Captain Oxycontin as victim I think I've read.  Not to mention the most offensively racist defense of institutional racism one could  ever encounter.

'If Rush is an asshole, it's the Negroes fault.'

There have been the weak attempts to blame "liberals" for what happened.

'You think you're tolerant?  That means letting us walk on you, ya know ...'

There have been hard attempts at the same.

'Liberals suck because they don't like RUSH!!!  I'll sue!'  (Thank you, Sally Brown.)

There are the attempts to prove that Rush isn't really offensive because people attack him unfairly.

'You lying liberals!  How dare you take offense at the man who has nothing but disdain for you!'

There's also been the most maniacally and humorously insane appeal to conservative victimhood ever put to words.

"We are all Rush Now".

From beginning to end, all of this is bullshit.  It ignores the facts at hand.  Jay has a good post about this up at LITW and he ignores it too.  The NFL, the NFL Player's Association, the NFL players,  the NFL owners, the liberals and the media had absolutely nothing to do with Rush getting booted from his bid to buy the Rams.  Nothing.  Notta.  ZIP SQUAT.  Let's be clear as all hell about the reality.  Limpdick got dumped by the consortium which was seeking to buy the Rams.  No one else.  It was a business decision, pure and simple.  They want to make money on the purchase of their commodity and were informed in no uncertain terms that Limbaugh would be a drag on that profit.  Football people,  for whatever reason, just don't seem to like that asshole.  He's incendiary.  He's offensive.  He's combative.  Those things, in the minds of the people dumping him, have little to do with 'liberals', and everything to do with sales and profit.

Limbaugh is touting, on his website, a quote from Tony Dungy:

DUNGY: You know, I guess it bothered a lot of people, it really didn't bother me. I think anybody should have the right to pursue whatever they want, they should go through the process just like anyone else and there would be 28 owners that would vote and I think the process should be able to go forth. I don't like it when people say "because of this he shouldn't be allowed to do that." We don't have any minority ownership in the NFL right now, and I think, you know, that just strikes me as the same thing, because of the way this guy looks, because of the way he sounds, because of his political bent, that he shouldn't be allowed to own a team, I think that's something that the 28 owners should decide and not the general public.

Limbaugh thinks that this supports him, but then he's an idiot.  Dungy points out clearly that race plays a part in the NFL process.  He also misses the truth spectacularly.  The owners never got a chance to vote because Limbaugh got dumped by his potential partners.  The general public didn't decide this, save that we are a consumer society and the consumers said, no.  'We will not buy your brand of crap if it involves this jackass'.  One of the more conservative owners of the NFL, Isley of the Colts, already said that that would be the reaction.

But the wingnuts still don't get their own hypocrisy.  When the Dixie Chicks had the temerity to say something bad about the Preznit, consumer reaction was swift and severe, fueled as it was by corporate interest in profit.  Controversy makes money, apparently, and loses it for some.  But many of these same wingnuts are now going absolutely ballistic that Rush wasn't 'given' his due.  Free market, Mofos.  His 'partners' were convinced he wouldn't make them money and so they dumped him.  But, to the modern right in Obama's America, he should be given the opportunity to have what he wants, with no regard for market viability or the rules set by the market itself.  Rush's 'partners' should be required to support his bid, regardless of their own interest.  Socialism, wouldn't you say?  Of course it is.  And they support it with not an ounce of recognition for the irony in their caterwauling.  

Rush doesn't deserve jack-shit.  Rush can buy what he's allowed to buy.  The market he sought to purchase into didn't want him, and so he wasn't allowed to buy it.  This isn't a crime against humanity or America.  It is the system working exactly as it should.

Comments

[Mihalis]

Truly spectacular. As I said on another site, I'm glad he failed. It's so sweet.