SURPRISE, SURPRISE. NFL UNION HEAD DEMAURICE SMITH IS A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT

According to OpenSecrets.org, DeMaurice Smith contributed $2,300 to Barack Obama on Election Day, November 4, 2008. Why would someone give money to a candidate on election day? Isn't it a little late to campaign at that point? Curious, indeed.

Contributor	Occupation	Date	Amount	Recipient
SMITH, DEMAURICE SILVER SPRING,MD 20906	PATTON BOGGS/ATTORNEY	11/4/08	$2,300	Obama, Barack (D)

In response to the infamous race hustlers, Jesse "Hymietown" Jackson and Al "Tawana Brawley" Sharpton, an amazing article in Politics Daily today entitled, "Rush Limbaugh, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and the Rams: Should the NFL be Renamed the 'National Liberal League'?", which, among other things, exposes the motive, bias, racism (my words, not the article's), and intolerance of NFL Players Union executive DeMaurice Smith. The article sheds light on Smith's strong ties to the Democrat Party, Attorney General Eric Holder, and President Barack Obama. Below is an excerpt:

The campaign against Limbaugh was launched by an Obama supporter named DeMaurice Smith, who also happens to be the newly installed executive director of the NFL players union.

Smith, who has no background in football, emerged earlier this year as a compromise candidate – and a surprise choice – to replace the legendary Gene Upshaw in the job. Smith, who ran track at Cedarville University, a small Christian college in Ohio, became a federal prosecutor after law school, rising through the ranks to assume several leadership positions in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C., and becoming well-connected in the process. Smith worked closely with current U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, served on the board of a charitable foundation with prominent ex-Washington Redskins stars Charles Mann and Art Monk, and joined the politically powerful and predominately Democratic law firm Patton Boggs. In 2008, Smith made political contributions to Barack Obama.

Nothing is wrong with any of this, but it puts DeMaurice Smith's very public crusade against Rush Limbaugh's ownership bid in a somewhat different light. And it raises new kinds of issues for athletes. Should they refuse to play for an owner whose political views are not in sync with their own? On what issues? Abortion? Global warming? (And will their agents dare tell the players that, before the next collective bargaining agreement is signed between the NFL players and the owners, Obama and the Democratic Congress is likely to raise their taxes?)

This compliments an article two days ago at BigGovernment.com, which focused on Smith's hypocrisy:

Smith took no poll of the NFL players to find out their opinion on the subject, and he has no business deciding to whom anyone can sell a company they own. It’s not as though Limbaugh would quit his top-rated radio show to run the day-to-day operations of the Rams. Limbaugh is one of a group of people possibly interesting in forming a company to purchase the team, it’s not just Rush alone.

All Smith has accomplished with his email was to publicly attack a potential owner in a hypocritical, unprofessional way at a time when the NFL owners and NFLPA need to work together to extend their collective bargaining agreement before it expires and the possibility of a strike or lockout looms closer to reality.

In a world where millionaire murderers and felons make more in a week than the average American earns in a year, attacking the most popular man in a very popular medium may not have been the best way to achieve that goal. Smith should focus on cleaning his own house, a house rife with problems, instead of worrying about someone players will only see on Sundays from the owners box.

It would seem that Smith would have more important things upon which to focus, considering the recent study that showed a significantly higher risk of dementia in NFL players than the general population. But politics is politics, and that seemingly takes priority over everything else in the world of the Left.

In the meantime, Rush Limbaugh is not backing down (see video below). He continues to affirm that the racially insensitive quotes attributed to him are completely fabricated. Nevertheless, the mainstream media continues to report them as truth even though there has been no documentation provided, recorded or written, that ties Limbaugh to the quotes. In response, Rush has threatened legal action against the mainstream media's smear campaign.

Yesterday, Media Research Center's founder and president, Brent Bozell, demanded that the media either put up or shut up:

CNN and MSNBC must immediately and publicly source when Limbaugh uttered this phrase. He has unequivocally denied it. Now it is up to the same news media that reported it as fact to prove that it was, indeed, stated.

The MRC has overnighted letters to senior executives at both cable networks demanding that they take this sourcing seriously and report back to the public. We await their word.

Either Rush Limbaugh is lying or these networks – willfully or not – are participants in the worst form of character assassination imaginable. They can prove their innocence by documenting this accusation. If they can’t, then they are 100% guilty of character assassination.

See the video below of Rush Limbaugh threatening legal action against the media's smear campaign: