'We didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.'
Recently, on life in 'Obama's America':
'The white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, "Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on.'
And finally, in a league made up of predominately African-American athletes, how can you have an owner who says, '[Black people] are 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?'"
Despite Limbaugh's belief that -- as he whined to NBC's Gangel -- "There's a cliché about conservatives: racist, sexist, bigot, homophobic. Now, you announce you're a conservative, you're automatically all those things to the critics," it's clear that you can still be a conservative -- and even an NFL owner -- without being labeled "racist, sexist, bigot, homophobic." It's simple, really; just don't act like one. And as Zirin also pointed out, "This has nothing to do with Limbaugh's conservative politics. Most NFL owners are to the right of Dick Cheney. Over twenty years, officials on twenty-three of the thirty-two NFL clubs have donated more money to Republicans than Democrats."
It was never about right and left-- and maybe was about right and wrong. Congratulations are due to the Commissioner Roger Goodell and the NFL for doing the right thing -- even if it may have been for the wrong reasons. The only remaining mystery is what David Checketts -- the former Madison Square Garden executive who is leading the group hoping to purchase the Rams -- was smoking when he asked Limbaugh to join him in the first place.
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