The National Football League has a large millionaire population which predictably contributes overwhelmingly to Republicans over Democrats. Yet this week we learned from rightbloggers that the NFL is in fact a wing of the liberal conspiracy.Early this month Rush Limbaugh and Dave Checketts collaborated on a bid to buy the St. Louis Rams NFL franchise. But after some people in the League -- including Commissioner Roger Goodell and NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith --
In this week's chapter of Exploring the Right Wing Blogosphere, the Village Voice's Roy Edroso surveyed conservative thinking on the NFL's shunning of team-hungry Rush Limbaugh. Plog reader Realist weighed in this way, starting with a quote (in italics) from Edroso's entry:Doug Powers was incensed that the NFL had approved Black Eyed
Peas singer Fergie for NFL ownership, as she had sung sexually explicit
lyrics.Unlike right-wing hero Ted Nugent, performer of "Wang Dang Sweet
Poontang" along w