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Commissioner Roger Goodell says that Rush Limbaugh shouldn’t be allowed to own an NFL team because “divisive comments aren’t what the NFL is all about.”

I guess that means you can actually electrocute dogs as long as you don’t say anything controversial when you do it.

Here’s what the Examiner.com reported about Goodell’s pal Michael Vick:

According to the federal indictment, when dogs at Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels lost a fight, or failed to perform well in ‘test matches,’ they were routinely killed by methods including electrocution, hanging, drowning, and in at least one case by “slamming” the dog’s body onto the concrete floor. In one session in April 2007, at least eight dogs were killed through these methods.

Vick took part in these executions along with his partners Purnell Peace, and Quanis Phillips. The indictment detailed a March 2003 incident, in which a female pit bull who had just lost a match was killed. Vick and Peace decided to kill her by “wetting the dog down with water and electrocuting her.”

Despite these ghastly facts, the NFL has decided to welcome back Michael Vick.

And listen to the tough, no-nonsense Commish’s justification for not banning Vick:

I do recognize that some will never forgive him for what he did. I hope that the public will have a chance to understand his position as I have.

But don’t you dare say a black quarterback is overrated.

What bullshit!

It appears that the no-nonsense, tough-guy Goodell has been frightened into opposing Rush Limbaugh’s ownership of an NFL franchise by those old race-baiting pros Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson.

Yet the extreme irony of race-hustlers like Sharpton and Jackson leading the anti-Limbaugh crusade is obviously lost on Goodell.

Al “I-Never-Met-a Race-Controversy-I-Didn’t-Start” Sharpton once falsely accused a white policeman of raping a black girl. Divisive? Ya think?

And Jessie “Give-my-Son-a-Beer-Distributorship-or-I’ll-Call-You-a-Racist” Jackson once infamously said that Jews were from “Hymietown.” I guess Goodell “understands” Jackson’s position on Jews, huh?

And what about all of those highly divisive characters that are welcomed by Goodell and the NFL?

First, let’s hear from sportswriter Ed Berliner:

The NFL, citing the concept that everyone deserves a second chance, has allowed a convicted animal killer and felon to resume his career. They have in the past allowed a player who killed a woman while driving drunk to continue playing. There are numerous instances of deadbeat athlete fathers neglecting to care for children born in and out of wedlock. Assaults on girlfriends and wives are too numerous to count. Collective heads are often in the sand when it comes to players carrying illegal firearms, though the Plaxico Burress case was too high profile for them to let slide.  

[B]y what conceivable standard is Keith Olbermann not a divisive figure? It would be impossible to be more intensely partisan or to be more vicious toward those with whom he disagrees. How can that not be considered divisive, by the NFL’s standards?

 

The only answer is that “divisive” is a criticism that applies only to conservatives. It is not possible for a liberal to be “divisive,” however crazed he or she may be. This is true even though the whole point of a political system is to decide issues about which people disagree. If people don’t disagree, it isn’t a political issue. So to argue for any political point of view is necessarily divisive. But divisiveness is a one-way street. When liberals express liberal views, that’s just being a patriotic American. When conservatives express conservative views, it’s “divisive.”

 

That is, sadly, how much of our country’s establishment thinks.

Roger Goodell and the NFL he represents are cowards and hypocrites.

Go Dolphins!

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