[Vision2020] NYTimes: Limbaugh Dropped From Bid to Buy Rams

[Wayne Price]

Joe,

"f you could tell me one IDEA that Limbaugh was punished for  
expressing, you might have a point. But I don't see it. "




How about the idea of the drugs he was addicted to?

28 April, 2006:
The Palm Beach Sheriff's office announced today that Rush  
Limbaughturned himself in on an arrest warrant for prescription fraud  
charges connected to the doctor-shopping charges. He was there for an  
hour and posted a $3,000.00 bond.



Wayne






On Oct 15, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Donovan Arnold wrote:

> I don't know, Joe.
>
> I was kind of looking forward to a NFL Republican Football Team.
> It would be entertaining to watch how a bunch of wealthy fat balding  
> aging conservatives would fair against other NFL teams. Karl Rove  
> and Dick Cheney against Brett Farve and Adrian Peterson? What a  
> match-up! Definitely worth the cost of the NFL Sunday Night Ticket.
>
> Bonus Question: Would a Rush Limbaugh Football team have Elephants,  
> or Chicken Hawks as a Mascot?
>
> Donovan Arnold
>
> --- On Thu, 10/15/09, Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] NYTimes: Limbaugh Dropped From Bid to Buy  
> Rams
> To: "Art Deco" <deco at moscow.com>
> Cc: "Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Date: Thursday, October 15, 2009, 6:12 PM
>
> These are very good points but I think it is important to realize  
> that initial criticisms came from players, many of whom were  
> personally offended by previous, public comments made by Rush about  
> the league ("Crips vs. Bloods") and players in particular (Donovan  
> McNab).
>
> Free speech protects the content of your remarks, as long as it  
> isn't slander or libel. It does not protect style. It protects the  
> expression of ideas, not the way in which you express them. Someone  
> who deliberately insults people for political gain is not being  
> treated unfairly if it turns out that some of the very people he  
> insults want nothing to do with him.
>
> If you could tell me one IDEA that Limbaugh was punished for  
> expressing, you might have a point. But I don't see it.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Oct 15, 2009, at 8:21 AM, "Art Deco" <deco at moscow.com> wrote:
>
>> While I don't believe hardly anything that Limbaugh says, and  
>> certainly don't agree with his values, I am afraid that this  
>> development represents a true loss of and a threat to freedom of  
>> speech/expression.
>>
>> The way to fight crackpots is to try to show where they are in  
>> error, and to boycott their services and products, not, in effect,  
>> to ban them from offering ideas, services, and/or products.
>>
>> The NFL, NBA, NHL NCAA, etc are full of examples where freedom of  
>> expression is suppressed or penalized -- celebration penalties,  
>> disallowal of public comment by players, coaches, of putrid  
>> officiating, for example.  I think these are really chickenshit  
>> rules, and that they certain represent a trend of denying those  
>> affected by acts from commenting upon them.  Very unhealthy in the  
>> long run.
>>
>> The loss of freedom of expression that is very maddening and  
>> counterproductive is the sealing of court cases, especially cases  
>> where one of the parties is a public entity -- all criminal and all  
>> civil cases where a public entity is a party.  As a taxpayer, I  
>> want to know what goes on in the court and how a particular  
>> settlement/outcome is going to affect me and society as a whole,  
>> and how much a particular settlement is going to cost.  If you  
>> haven't observed courts much, you'd be surprised at the amount of  
>> perjury that occurs, even by law enforcement officers, the laxity  
>> and ineptitude of some prosecutors, the laziness and lack of  
>> conscientiousness of some judges, and the outrageousness of some  
>> plea bargains in criminal cases and settlements in civil cases.
>>
>>
>> W.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Joe Campbell
>> To: vision2020
>> Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 7:03 AM
>> Subject: [Vision2020] NYTimes: Limbaugh Dropped From Bid to Buy Rams
>>
>> From The New York Times:
>>
>> Limbaugh Dropped From Bid to Buy Rams
>>
>> In the face of fierce opposition, Dave Checketts said his group would
>> move on without the conservative radio talk-show host..
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/sports/football/15limbaugh.html
>>
>> Get The New York Times on your iPhone for free by visiting http://itunes.com/apps/nytimes
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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