
Radio talk-show icon Rush Limbaugh was angered earlier this week. He felt that there were words attributed to him that he had never said. He said claims of controversial remarks about slavery were unfounded, and he felt he was unfairly dropped from a bid to buy the St. Louis Rams.
Limbaugh took to his radio show to defend himself, but he didn't stop there. On Saturday, an op-ed piece written by Limbaugh appeared in the Wall Street Journal. But in that article, Rev. Al Sharpton believes Limbaugh crossed the line.
In the op-ed, Limbaugh attacks Sharpton, who was critical of Limbaugh's involvement in the Rams bid.
In 1998 Mr. Sharpton was found guilty of defamation and ordered to pay $65,000 for falsely accusing a New York prosecutor of rape in the 1987 Tawana Brawley case. He also played a leading role in the 1991 Crown Heights riot (he called neighborhood Jews "diamond merchants") and 1995 Freddie's Fashion Mart riot.Sharpton quickly responded, making it clear he did not appreciate Limbaugh's words.
"I am definitely going to prove he makes reckless, unaccountable statements," Sharpton said. "Which is why he was forced out of buying an NFL team in the first place."If Sharpton sues Limbaugh, it will be interesting to see if it gets very far. Both men have plenty of money and access to top lawyers, and it doesn't make much sense for this to drag out into a long legal battle.
Limbaugh has gained a lot of publicity over his failed attempt to help buy the Rams, and there's no question he will -- at some point -- address Sharpton's comments on his radio show.





















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10-18-2009 @ 12:25PM
fredcpa1962 said...
oh pretty please AL do do do sue!! yes yes yes. let's have that little thing called discovery!! loko AL you and i both know you are full of crap, so spew your pantywaste coward threats soewhere else. where someone who is stupid enough to believe them is, ya know? YOU will have your chance of course in court DEFEMNDNG yourself from the libel. so take heart. rest easy, and sleep tight you sad little coward. we all know the content of your character now AL, and soon we'll know a lot more. just wait. a little longer. tick tock. tick tock. hear that whoosghing sound? that was your "career" as a race hussler.....tee hee hee....tick tock....tick tock....
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10-18-2009 @ 12:34PM
Big Stan said...
Ok so this Moron Sharpton can dish it out but cant take the heat. Sharpton is a joke and evryone thinks becausehes loud and obnoxious that hes a good guy. When will the Obama van wagon get a flat? I admire Rush and evrything he stands for . We need more leaders like him. By the way this has nothing to do about race since in a conservative African American.
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10-18-2009 @ 4:54PM
clair said...
Amen to that...Al Sharpton is a bigget...and needs to find another word in his vocabulary other than the word "CLEARLY'
10-18-2009 @ 9:15PM
n2b4u said...
You call Rush Limbaugh a leader? You've got to be kidding.
10-20-2009 @ 2:41AM
mpp4400 said...
rush blow lied about rev al plus he is saying rev al commited a crime which is a lye
10-18-2009 @ 12:36PM
dmack said...
I dont really like either guy here, but I cant stand that joke of a Rev. And he picked the wrong guy to try and bully here. Rush will crush this bum, and put every single bad thing the guy has ever done out in the public eye for all to see. Maybe the Rev should stick with backing up bums like Micheal Vick while everyone sits back and chuckles at what a waste of space this bum is.
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10-18-2009 @ 12:38PM
markushka1 said...
Al Sharpton is pathologically incapable of telling the truth, egotisically unable to keep keep his nose out of others business, and a fraud of the highest order.
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10-18-2009 @ 1:43PM
damien said...
Ya you do that Al..you sue em good..
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10-18-2009 @ 2:03PM
jwemrw said...
Drug addict Hush Limbaugh with the 0.00 GPA from SE Missouri State is a real piece of work. The perfect spokesman for every right-wing, red-neck,
rabid-radical, republiCON in the land. He has the intelligence of oxycodone and the morality of a sewer rat.
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10-18-2009 @ 2:37PM
mauryeel said...
The NFL's reaction to Limbough reeks of hypocisy since they allow Oberman to be on Sunday broadcasts without a thought to all the folks, the same who watch the NFL, he's insulted and revolted with his antics on MSNBC. The NFL has been mugged by the thugs.
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10-18-2009 @ 3:12PM
CoolRep said...
First of all it's a slap in the face to all reverends to call this idot a reverend!!
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10-18-2009 @ 4:27PM
brownpride57 said...
all of the so called intellectuals deserve each other,cause you are right when you say that all of them are full of crap,it used to be that the poor and down trowden were at the focal point of the civil rights movement,now its lost on the perversion of money and have put their own greedy interests for their own betterment,i hope they both rot in hell
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10-18-2009 @ 4:27PM
John Marshall said...
The writer mentions that both gentlemen have plenty of money. I know where Rush gets his; not sure about the Reverend.
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10-18-2009 @ 8:47PM
bajasmoke said...
al's an ambulance chaser like his brother jesse.
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10-18-2009 @ 10:24PM
mt61851 said...
Sharpton is the biggest Racist of all. He and Jesse Jackson instigated the Duke La Crosse case making it a racist issue. Can anyone say he is a trouble maker and can only make money by sueing people or raising money for their false defenses. When are these kind of people going to be held accountable? We keep letting these Racists get away with defaming people with innocent intentions, when their intentions are evil.
Sue the Hell out of Sharpton and Jackson for falsely accusing those young men at Duke. If you want to sue anyone, those two men committed a crime. Just Like Charlie Rengel who should be in jail for tax evation. But they use the color of their skin as a racist issue to get what they want and get away with everything. They are the Racists.
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10-18-2009 @ 10:37PM
mt61851 said...
Rush admits he had drug problem. And when is Sharpton going to admit to his addiction/s, you can bet he has some. So Rev. Al, did you remember in the Bible how it is said, "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone"?If you were a man of the cloth or a real Reverend, you would stop throwing stones and clean your own house or mouth in this case.
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10-19-2009 @ 11:59AM
DontBluesMe said...
The Sports world has been infected by the same PC political BS that has divided the Country on many social issues. It all comes down to politics. Only liberal blacks are acceptable. Only liberal women are acceptable. Only liberal guilt ridden whites are acceptable. This isn't about football or even hardball. It's about 'Dirt Ball.'
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10-19-2009 @ 1:34PM
Joe said...
picture this...two turds chasing each other around a flushed toilet bowl,and you wait for them both to disappear,
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10-19-2009 @ 4:55PM
uub140 said...
Rush is a fine American voice for the future - completely free of racial bias. Sharpton, like President Obama - and his wife, in particular - does grave disservice to our people.
As a people, we have much to be ashamed of - the disproportionate number of Black men in prison, the debasement of our women, the Yo-mother-f**ker language employed by our youth and now the burden of Mrs. Obama as First Lady. From her stereo-typical planting of a "truck" garden at the White House to her ape-like mimicking of white hair style and fashion, she is a mixed message of what it means to be Black in America today.
It is no wonder that all too many of our people - if not most of us - feel inherently inferior to white people.
If we cannot clean up our cultural icons in crime-rejectin versus injection, "ho" bashing rap music, role model ministers, and even first ladies, we cannot advance nor expect truly deserved equality with our white fellow citizens.
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10-20-2009 @ 2:51AM
mpp4400 said...
the wall street that gave el rush blow his writing is in the same bed with fixnews that how rush blow got to write the piece so we all know what fixnews is all about same as wsj about telling lyes
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