Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh lashed out at a number of the mainstream media Tuesday, calling them "professional scum" and "the sewer" for using made-up quotes from Wikipedia or other unnamed sources.
Limbaugh has been in the national news over the past few days due an offer he's involved with to purchase the St. Louis Rams NFL team.
Liberal black leaders Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have called for the NFL to nix any deal with Limbaugh.
Limbaugh acccused a number of reporters for using an alleged quote attributed to him that called for a posthumous Medal of Honor for James Earl Ray, the man who assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Another alleged quote said that slavery kept the streets safe after dark. www.wnd.com/index.php
Newsbusters revealed the quote's Web source appears to be from Wikipedia. The quote has been removed and replaced several times since 2005. The blogger first mentioned the alleged quote on Sept. 9, 2005, and cited the Wikipedia entry as his source.
Limbaugh called that "outrageous slander" and challenged the media outlets to either produce the source of the alleged quotes and explain where they got them, or produce a retraction and apology.
"And these are the people that tell us that they are the professionals, that they're the ones we should trust to weed out what's garbage and what's not garbage in the sewer they say that is the Internet? They are the sewer," he said. "They are the sewer, and they are in the midst of it. They are waste, and they are promulgating waste all over the place.
"They ought to be ashamed of themselves, to call themselves professionals," he said. "They're nothing but hacks. ... These people are scum. They are literally professional scum, and they're responsible in many ways for the deteriorating standards and quality of journalism."
Among the reporters identified by Limbaugh are: Rick Sanchez of CNN, David Shuster of MSNBC, Tamron Hall of MSNBC, Drew Sharp of the Detroit Free Press, Bryan Burwell of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dave Zirin of The Nation, sports writer Jason Whitlock and political commentator James Carville.
NFL players association chief DeMaurice Smith, Sharpton, some players and sportswriters are protesting the possible acquisition and citing the alleged quotes as reason for their objections.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the league doesn't want owners making racially charged statements, according to the New York Daily News.
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Live by the sword, die by the sword Rush!! The scum you peddled everyday has returned. Have your chickens come home to roost?? I think so...........
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