Steve King To NFL Commissioner: Apologize To Rush Limbaugh!

Washington Independent :

Here's an interesting confrontation at a hearing on the Hill today between Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. King said he'd "scoured" Limbaugh's infamous comment that the media was giving Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb too much credit because he was black and found no racism in it whatsoever -- Limbaugh, said King, was calling out the media for reverse racism. Goodell and King went back and forth a bit, but King refused to budge on his position that Limbaugh was being smeared as a racist even though he's colorblind about race...

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[diidii73]

apologize for what, go .f. yourself

[nomobull]

and thus displaying his own racism.

[JohnBryansFontaine]

Absolutely

[BigPictureReg]

Didn't you know, Congressman?

Rush doesn't like apologies.

[Ex-Football Fan]

This was good political theater. Sadly, Goodell didn't call King out for his support of a patently racist statement (though it is difficult to duel at a hearing with a servile "Dittohead" who happens to be a Member of Congress). But it is worth mentioning that this hearing was about NFL players who suffer from concussions and their debilitating effects. Many of them are homeless after their NFL careers. If they were linemen, their average age of death is in their early fifties--that's for ALL ex-NFL linemen! Moreover, for some reason, only one ex-player whose career ended due to concussion was on a panel of some eighteen witnesses--a man with a contract to broadcast NFL events (though, it must be said, he testified admirably). But more representative ex-players who suffer from the effects of concussions were invisible at this hearing, though extensive recent articles have examined their fate--typically disabled, uninsurable and unemployable--and the hearing ignored the Kafkaesque claim procedures erected by the NFL and, to date, the NFLPA, which either deny valid claims outright or delay them until dementia or death take the meddlesome applicants from the field uncompensated. This is private health care "on steroids"--a high definition illustration of the need for reform and the abuses of a system dominated by powerful employers seeking to minimize benefit costs, not workers and families in need of medical help. There was a REAL story, here, as well as this sideshow. Look into it!

[shthar]

Now apologise to john madden for the immaculate reception

[tpo216]

Lets not go there big boys,the NFL, that is private Business and to interject government into the the discussion does more harm to the republican mantra of not the desire to regulate the free market...it was a wise move in this ever changing world, so with the truth being easy to find these days...it bodes badly for those who think that a jack off congressman from po-dunk can dictate what private business can do with ownership, this aint baseball with those exemptions from anti-trust laws or medical insurence...brother please...keep government outta my business...and the NFL...

[KurierRadek]

tpo216: You miss the focus of the conversation entirely and by the tone of your rhetoric calling Rep. King a "jerk off congressman from po-dunk" trying to divert your argument of private business and govt. regulation....this was NOT what the discourse was about yesterday. I watched it live...Goodell was caught off guard and never addressed the question directly..he didn't even do a good dance around it. Fact is...his decision and the decisions of the NFL to cowar to those who oppose Rush is clearly evident.

If you want to discuss govt. takeover of the private sector...all you have to do to is follow the current administrations attempts to consolidate control over the lives of all Americans.

[russrpm]

The only cowering being done is by Republican congressmen, scared to offend their very own Messiah, Limbaugh. Having found their natural position, kneeling and keening for forgiveness for any imagined slight to Limbaugh's dominance, they naturally assume that the rest of the country should follow suit. Luckily, not everyone worships at that alter.