Posted on 09/12/2014 3:35:48 PM PDT by Dave346
RUSH: Last night was incredible. I didn't know what time the pregame stuff started on CBS. The game started at 8:30, and I thought, "Well, okay, pregame stuff will start at eight o'clock." So at about a quarter 'til eight I turned on the tube to get ready for it and I found myself in the middle of the most incredible pregame show of a football game I've ever seen.
Now, remember, yesterday was 9/11. Ray Rice and Roger Goodell in the media trumped 9/11. Ray Rice and Roger Goodell trumped football. I don't know about the rest of you guys out there, but I'm starting to get it. I'm starting to hear. It's starting to connect. I'm not doing enough to stop wife beating. Wife beating is an epidemic. It's happening all over the country, and it's really, really happening in the NFL, and we are all responsible for it. And we have got to do something about it.
I have learned that I am not aware enough, that my conscious has not been raised enough, that I am not worried or concerned enough about this, that it is an epidemic, and that it's happening all the time. Why, I learned that just since Ray Rice cold cocked his fiancee in the elevator, 600 women have supposedly died from wife abuse since February. I heard that on CBS in the pregame show last night. I heard that from James Brown, who I think wants to be the Bob Costas of CBS. Maybe he wants to be Bob Costas, period.
I've also learned, as I predicted, football is politics. Football has jumped the shark and has now become politics.
(Excerpt) Read more at rushlimbaugh.com ...
What is sad to me is to see the morbidly obese and over the hill guys (I could be a part of both) in jerseys ranting, raving, and jumping around.
Something that is even sadder is what little I’ve caught the local sports talking head call in shows. Probably some of the same guys call in obsessing over some teenager’s every move going sometimes back years. Frightening really.
Small quibble with Rush: it was napalm, not Agent Orange, that caused the burns. And, BTW, it was the South Vietnam Air Force that dropped the bomb in a friendly fire incident.
Ron Rivera says they’re waiting for the outcome of the jury trial. Once the legal system plays out, they’ll make a decision.
But that’s never enough when any of the Cherished & Sacred Victims have a grievance. The resultant hysteria demands that everyone get down on their knees right NOW.
I’m not a Dolphins fan, so I know nothing about Richie Incognito.
You are aware he was given a bench trial, and after 11 hours of testimony he was found guilty by the judge. The only hysteria I see are people having enough of criminal behavior by professional athletes, going back decades, being swept under the rug. I will give an example. If I was found one night drunk out of my mind, passed out behind the wheel of my car idling in an intersection, I would have done jail time. But when Tony LaRussa was found that way in St. Petersburg, FL. nothing happened to him. He did not a day in the slam, and resumed his managing duties like nothing happened. All I ask is that everyone be held to the same standards. Us peons get the book thrown at us, while celebrities (that includes athletes) and politicians seem to get the benefit of the doubt everytime.
I am, yes. Are you aware that under North Carolina law the next step following an appeal is a jury trial? Hardy filed immediately for an appeal, and the legal process will play out.
"The only hysteria I see are people having enough of criminal behavior by professional athletes, going back decades, being swept under the rug."
Are you serious? You see no element of hysteria in the screams of outrage from the NOW broads, who have had pro football in their sights for years?
Rush Limbaugh said that the pregame show the other night was completely spent discussing domestic violence...said it was like nothing he's ever seen. Come ON. It's ridiculous. These situations can be addressed by cool heads, without rending of garments and wholesale prostrating before the altars of political correctness.
" I will give an example. If I was found one night drunk out of my mind, passed out behind the wheel of my car idling in an intersection, I would have done jail time. But when Tony LaRussa was found that way in St. Petersburg, FL. nothing happened to him. He did not a day in the slam, and resumed his managing duties like nothing happened. All I ask is that everyone be held to the same standards. Us peons get the book thrown at us, while celebrities (that includes athletes) and politicians seem to get the benefit of the doubt everytime."
Sure, it happens all the time and it isn't right. But to discipline Greg Hardy before the legal process is exhausted wouldn't be the thing to do, either.
I have no use for thugs. But I also have no patience with all of this shrieking and screeching and blowing things out of proportion.
The old loaded question was “Have you stopped beating your wife?”
The new one is “Have you stopped other people from beating their wives?”
Okay, let’s say instead that the sports-news guys have jumped the shark and become political-news guys instead. I gently suggest most sports-news consumers, most of the time, would rather set themselves on fire than have to watch or listen to that.
The jury trial isn’t until next year.
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