The left doesn't like Rush Limbaugh. Most of the media doesn't like Rush Limbaugh. The current administration doesn't like Rush Limbaugh (or any media which questions them), sportswriters don't like Rush Limbaugh.
What does this mean?
It means that ever since he took a minority partnership in a group hoping to buy the Rams, he's been subject to all kinds of over the top rhetoric and, downright lies, made up stuff that the national journalists took as truth and repeated. Lies put up on Wikipedia by some anonymous "cobra".
Chris Matthews on MSNBC's Morning Meeting said,
You guys see Live and Let Die, the great Bond film with
Yaphet Kotto as the bad guy, Mr. Big? In the end they jam a big CO2
pellet in his face and he blew up. I have to tell you, Rush Limbaugh
is looking more and more like Mr. Big, and at some point somebody’s
going to jam a CO2 pellet into his head and he’s going to explode like
a giant blimp. That day may come. Not yet. But we’ll be there to
watch. I think he’s Mr. Big, I think Yaphet Kotto. Are you watching,
Rush?
So Chris dreams of Rush being killed?
Some football players say they won't play for any team that Rush has part ownership in? But it's ok for rapper Jay-Z to be part owner in the New Jersey Nets? It's ok for left hate spewing Keith Olbermann to be a part of NBC's Sunday Night Football panel? Olbermann is the front runner for top prize in hate speech.
Tim Blair: "Bizarrely, nobody running these career-killing “quotes” seems to question why they weren’t of previous interest."
Why have these media types, including sports media types embraced these lies with such vigor? Maybe because they want to believe them. And that is not journalism. It's embracing your own set of prejudices and political leanings and reporting it as truth.
I despise Keith Olbermann. But he has a forum from which to spew. It's called free speech. Don't like Rush? He has the right of free speech too. The only thing, if you're going to attribute something to someone, you better be darn sure it's correct.
Funny how no one in the journalism world can come up with video, audio or transcripts of these things supposedly said by Limbaugh. But Chris Matthews, you're caught in one of the more despicable things said on recent news programs.