Posted on 08/05/2014 11:40:43 AM PDT by servo1969
RUSH: Look, I want to make this point again because I really think I'm onto something here. I think it is a profundity. Young people, low-information people, are the ones who claim to hate politics. They don't like it. They don't like the arguing, right? The 25-year-old girls, they don't like loud voices. It all makes 'em nervous. They don't like it. "Can't we just all get along? Why do we have to argue about everything?" They hate politics. They do not understand how everything they are exposed to is political.
They don't like politics, and so therefore the only people to them who are political are Republicans. The Republicans are the ones who are political. Obama is not political. You see, global warming isn't political, that's science. It's the Republicans that are making it political. The Democrats are just trying to save the planet, the polar bears and all that. They do not see that the people moving all of these destructive issues, forcing them on our culture are political. They only see the opposition to it as political, and they hate politics, they say.
This is why I sit here constantly and fret over the fact that we need to get more people to be able to see the politics in everything. Because this is it, in a nutshell. These low-information people, all these people on social media, they claim they hate politics, they tune off it, the bickering, the arguing, don't like it, have no idea how everything they're consuming is presented to them for the purposes of advancing a political agenda. To them, politics is what happens in Washington. And Obama, he's not political. He's trying to save poor people. He's trying to help poor people around the world. He's trying to stop the global warming.
Football is political now. That's one of the reasons why I'm not so hip to it anymore. Football is political. From pink October to the Redskins name change. There are now demands, because this Ray Rice business, there are sportswriters demanding that there be a new collective bargaining agreement done with domestic abuse as an officially sanctioned penalty that the NFL has a policy to deal with, because Goodell wasn't tough enough on Ray Rice.
Now, the low-information, they don't see that as political. They see that as, "Well, spousal abuse, who's in favor of that? Nobody." And anybody who opposes this is the political people. It's gonna be a major task. It has been. But I just want to give an example. Here's Peter King, Sports Illustrated. He was on the radio yesterday afternoon in New York talking about how pained he was to walk through a Washington Redskins licensed merchandise store at their summer training camp.
KING: When I went to their training camp a week or so ago, you have to walk through a huge team store, and the logo and the nickname, it's everywhere, and it's in huge letters, and I bet there are seven or 8,000 people at practice in Richmond, Virginia, the day I was there. They're all -- you know, 80% of the people have some team garb on. So it's not an easy thing for them to do. Although I do think it's going to change, I think it could take some time.
RUSH: Basically he was upset. He saw all these Redskins fans not bothered by the name. Not bothered by the logo. He walked through the Redskins practice, he sees all these fans wearing Redskins gear, "Oh, no." Purely political reaction. The name change has nothing to do with sports. This is purely political. What's political about it? The effort of the left to advance their agenda to control everything, is what's political about it. The agenda of the left is to tell everybody in the private sector that is doing something they don't agree with to stop it, to put 'em in jail, to take their property away from 'em, that's political. Has nothing to do with sports. Who in the world would walk through, see a bunch of people wearing stuff supporting their team, get mad about it? You've gotta be looking at it politically to have that reaction.
he’ll get over it.
Pinko pansy... the team should tell that leftist pansy to STF out of their facility and away from their players. This nonsensically idiotic and totally fabricated issue forwarded by the libtards had better be squashed, or it is going to be exponentially worse in what used to be America.
King is an obedient left wing writer for a company that’s part of Time, inc, another group of lefties....he bemoaned the trayvon martin verdict without an ounce of fact...
he espouses BS and his predictions (half the teams in the NFL have taken Johnny Manziel off their draft boards...the Philadelphia Eagles will trade up for Johnny Manziel) are awful...
the professionals at ESPN (Schefter, Mortensen, Caplan) make peter king look like a rank amateur....
NAACP, United Negro College Fund, Congressional Black Caucus, BET, Harlem Globetrotters....I guess he’s not offended by any of those racist organizations.
King joined SI as a staff writer in 1989 after spending nearly a decade as an award-winning newspaper journalist.
He's been writing sports columns for over 30 years now. When did he start writing that the Redskins logo was personally offensive?
When it became politically correct to do so.
Waiting for the attack on White Castle.
You should here the fat slob rant on guns when he gets on the subject with Costas.
Buy Redskins gear now - before the fascists make is illegal.
Petey might want to go see a shrink. The sight of fans in Redskins gear doesn’t seem to bother any of the REAL Indians that I know. Many of them are Redskins fans.
Just one more media crack-pot. The typical media Leftist does certainly illustrate the Compulsion For Uniformity so prevalent in American "higher" education.
If I was not a Bengals' fan, I think I would start wearing Redskins support gear, this football season. Of course, nothing will wake up a jerk like this King fellow, as to what rational people actually think of his frothing over something as silly as this.
William Flax
Eh, I don't get too excited about ESPN making Time/SI look bad; ESPN (ABC) has their share of left-wing pundits as well, who have suddenly got on the "R-word" bandwagon. This includes Mike Greenberg, of "Mike & Mike" fame.
Bet he’s devoted to the political party that celebrates Andrew Jackson... Mr Trail of Tears...they have a jackass mascot for a reason.
I grew up hating the Redskins. It just comes naturally to Cowboys fans. It’s tradition. But with all this hubbub about their name lately … gosh … i kinda almost like them now.
Almost.
I would love to see just once when the Redskins come here to play the Cowboys, all the Cowboy fans decked out in Redskins gear to tell the PC-Brigade to F-Off.
BAZINGA !!
You are the winner of the current 24 hours.
I’d be willing to do that.
Plus side to that idea … it might give Jerry a heart attack.
win-win
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