Employees have every right and ability to discuss concerns about employers. It's then up to the others in the organization to decide whether to do anything about it. I thought you didn't listen to Rush? They have no formal say - as the NFLPA said - but they absolutely have informal say in the ownership situation. Unhappy employees = bad business. As you can see, they effectively got rid of Rush Limbaugh. And the employees have every right to express their concerns. It's almost as though you have no idea how a business works.
Yes, and that's all that we know he did. You claimed it's only a start - where is your information from? "As far as you know" is irrelevant. The NFLPA knows a lot more than you about where the players stand. No, Rush Limbaugh's ignorant and divisive comments are depriving him of an opportunity. He has no entitlement to getting into that business. He pissed off enough people that he got ditched. Sucks for him, but it's his own fault. The owners want the players to be happy. Any business wants happy employees. If a change at the top is going to create unhappy employees, any well-run business is going to want to know that and will take that into account when making their decisions. That's exactly what happened here.
If Rush was allowed to be a part owner in the Rams, or any other team, for that matter, wouldn't that team automatically be at a disadvantage because any opposing team would know that an overwhelming amount of the plays in the playbook would be to the far right?
Rush Limbaugh responds. http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/10219568/Limbaugh-lashes-out-after-Rams-bid-debacle ST. LOUIS (AP) - Conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh lashed out at NFL union leader DeMaurice Smith, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and the media a day after being dropped from a group trying to buy the St. Louis Rams. On his syndicated show Thursday, Limbaugh said he was approached by St. Louis Blues chairman Dave Checketts earlier this year about participating in a Rams bid. Checketts assured him his involvement as a minority investor had been vetted by the NFL, he said. "I said to him at this meeting, 'Are you aware of the firestorm?' He said 'We wouldn't have approached you if we hadn't taken care of that,"' said Limbaugh, a conservative favorite who is reviled by many liberals. Limbaugh added that Checketts had told him his involvement had been cleared at the "highest levels of the NFL." NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and Colts owner Jim Irsay each expressed misgivings this week at a league-wide meeting about Limbaugh's involvement, with Goodell saying Limbaugh had made "polarizing" comments and Irsay vowing to vote against him. On Wednesday, Checketts said Limbaugh had been dropped from the bid. During a 15-minute counterattack at the start of his show, Limbaugh said he believes he's been made an example by a players' union seeking leverage in talks over a new collective bargaining agreement. What happened to him was an illustration of "Obama's America on full display," the commentator said. Limbaugh's history hurt his participation in the bid. In 2003, he was forced to resign from ESPN's Sunday night football broadcast after saying of the Eagles' Donovan McNabb: "I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well." According to transcripts posted on his Web site, in 2007 Limbaugh said: "The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it." Limbaugh blamed Smith, executive director of the NFLPA and an "Obama-ite," along with Sharpton and Jackson, whom he referred to as "race hustlers," for Checketts' decision to drop him. He said his sacking was an example of the political clout wielded by President Barack Obama's administration. "What is happening to the National Football League, what is about to happen to it, has already happened to Wall Street, has already happened to the automobile business," Limbaugh said. Limbaugh said he was victimized in the media by "misreporting, lying, repeating the lies while also saying 'Limbaugh denies,' repeating the made-up quotes, the blind hatred." "Believe me, the hatred that exists in this is found in the sports writer community, it's found in the news business, it's found in the race hustler business," Limbaugh said. Limbaugh said Checketts telephoned on Tuesday, asking him to withdraw from the group. Limbaugh responded that he wouldn't withdraw and that Checketts would have to "go public and fire me," and thought the news would be made public Thursday morning. Smith, the NFLPA head, last week voiced his objections to Limbaugh's bid with Goodell, and urged players to speak out. Sharpton and Jackson also attacked Limbaugh's involvement, asserting that Limbaugh's track record on race should exclude him. Limbaugh said the real reason he's out is the NFLPA's attempt to influence negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement. "It's designed to intimidate the owners, frighten the owners, and say 'We're running this league now, gang, not you,"' Limbaugh said. Limbaugh said he's "lost nothing" over the episode and vowed to continue being the "biggest non-paid promoter of the sport." The Checketts group is among a reported half-dozen bidders for the Rams, and would keep the team in St. Louis. The children of the late Georgia Frontiere, who inherited the team upon her death in January 2008, announced in June that they had hired the investment firm Goldman Sachs to review assets of the estate, including the football team.
Those other sectors have already allied themselves against fat white men who are actually, in their own minds, very brilliant and right all the time. Nevermind that the sectors he mentioned are actually chock full of that phenotype. The numbers are decreasing by about 0.02% per year!
He doesn't know either so he figures if he is vague enough and keeps throwing the President's name out there that it will appeal to the racism in his listeners and get them more angry at whatever it is they are angry about.
limbaugh is learning a basic lesson that i guess he still doesnt understand - if you are a running a business and you are overtly political you will alienate a significant portion of your clientbase. his job is to be political and make controversial and divisive statements - the nfl frowns on that stuff and as a private business they have every right to not want that around. austinites will recall the guy who owned the jewelry store here in austin who filed a complaint with the fcc against letterman during the palin exchange. guess what? because he interjected himself in a political debate he lost clients. he probably cost himself hundreds of thousands of dollars. i use my car for work and i didnt put any political stickers (or any stickers, for that matter) on my car. i dont need clients making any judgments against me based on whom i do or dont support. it can only be bad for business. and im not going to say limbaugh is racist, but he clearly has a history or making racist or borderline racist comments - he definitely race baits and pushes the line - it is undeniable. two most recent examples that i havent already seen brought up are the "black kids beat up white kids on a school bush - this is obamas america" tirade he had - i personally heard him in a 'ebonics' accent going 'yeah git him yo' on his show when talking about it. and him going on about how colin powells support of obama was based solely on race. the assertion being that the only reason black people would vote for obama is b/c he is black - if that isnt racist, is at at least demeaning?
OH....he understands HIS business very well. He now gets to rant on his most effective topics: unions, players controlling the league; the pc world; race; sharpton and jackson; and obama because there's always a link to obama. And he's the victim in all this. It's almost too easy. All he wanted to do was buy a football team. And the powers-that-be wouldn't let him -- because he 'tells it like it is' -- OH THE INJUSTICE!!! That's got to be good for months worth of shows. Highly watched and anticipated shows. Expect the 'outraged' reactions (complete with Rush youtubes (and not the ones with Geddy Lee)) to be posted here and elsewhere. I'll bet he has no regrets about his NFL bid.
his followers....and adversaries. Makes for better play. They'll be talking about him at huffington this week.
So, in effect, a manager got removed. Let me know when the employees get around to effecting a change in ownership. Did they take their case to the press, too? BTW, Rush was not in "their" workplace. He was not even employed and those players didn't work with him and so had no complaint. They had a prediction about things.
Correct. A prediction of things with a ton of evidence to support their prediction. Would you like to work in Communist Soviet Union back during the 50's? You haven't done it yet, you just have a prediction what it would have been like? Or maybe in an Indonesian sweat shop? You don't know that it would be bad. You only have a prediction.
actually, that happened. our ceo was removed last year and part of that was due to employee concerns about where the company was headed. you keep forgetting there were owners against the bid as well. why do you do that other than it hurts your already weak argument. if we had access to the press and the press cared what we had to say, we'd be dumb not to. i don't blame people for speaking up when they have the resources to do so. once again, you shed light on your line of thinking that is better suited for the 1800s. simple quesiton that i'll doubt you'll answer without blaming everyone else for rush's mistakes...do you not think limbaugh has any personal responsibility for the words that come out of his mouth?
