Personal Fouls

(By John R. Guardiano, The American Spectator) - The Left has opened up a new front in its ongoing efforts to censor conservative voices and to ban conservative political thought from polite society. Their latest target: Rush Limbaugh, who is now being viciously smeared as a black-hating racist.

Of course, the Left has viciously smeared Rush and other conservatives for some time now. That's their modus operandi; it's how they operate. But their use of the racist smear has gained new currency of late because Rush and Dave Checketts, managing partner of the St. Louis Blues, are now bidding to buy the National Football League's St. Louis Rams.

This has caused racial hucksters Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to formally lobby against Rush's bid to buy the Rams. Sharpton, in fact, sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in which he urges the league to reject Limbaugh's ownership bid because, he wrote, Rush is "divisive and anti-NFL."