Posted on 09/27/2017 5:08:29 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: What I was done be gonna said (sic) about the NFL is that — we got the audio sound bites coming up — everybody now is saying, “This isn’t about the flag! This isn’t about the police brutality! This isn’t…” Oh, yes, it is! And if they don’t know that’s what it is, then it proves my point. They’re a bunch of tools. I’ve told everybody what this is all about from the get-go, starting with the focus on concussions. This is an effort by the American left to damage — severely damage — the NFL. The NFL is clueless, sitting in the middle of this tornado. They’re clueless as to what’s really going on.
They’re caught up in all the hodgepodge of thinking this is about equality and fairness and whatever else they think it’s about. It’s not about that. They don’t want to destroy the NFL ’cause they want to be able to fleece it, but this is about inflicting damage. The NFL is an anathema to liberalism. It’s masculinity. It’s patriotic. It is rough-and-tumble. It’s a team sport that requires individual greatness, everything the left is trying to drum out of our culture. And that is not an exaggeration. That’s what this is about, and it’s always been about that. And the racial component here is just a distraction and smoke screen. I’ve been telling you this from the get-go.
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RUSH: There’s a huge NFL Stack here today, folks, and not a lot of it is repetitive. Huge NFL Stack here today. Big, big trouble for the Steelers in Pittsburgh over what happened on Sunday in Chicago. That has monumental possibilities to it as well.
But this morning on the Fox Business Network, Stuart Varney’s show, talking to Steve Cortes… He’s the Hispanic Advisory Council member — Trump Hispanic Advisory Council member — and they’re talking about my take, one of my many takes on the situation involving the NFL.
VARNEY: Rush Limbaugh came on and said… He said: Look, football has lost its joy.
CORTES: Mmm.
VARNEY: What do you make of that?
CORTES: No, he said it’s lost its mystique, the NFL, which I think it has, unfortunately.
VARNEY: Mmm-hmm.
CORTES: Sadly, the NFL has, you know, I think gone out very, very far on a limb here — has disrespected America, disrespected cops, disrespected the military — and thankfully it is gonna pay a financial price. This is also a league, an organization, which is receiving enormous amounts of corporate welfare, frankly —
VARNEY: Yeah.
CORTES: — from the American taxpayer, which I think is despicable.
CORTES: Mmm.
VARNEY: For example, Heinz Field where the Steelers play — the Steelers who refused to come out for the national anthem on Sunday — Heinz Field. A majority of the funding for that field, $170 million, was the taxpayers of Pittsburgh and of Pennsylvania. I hope in the future we are done with that nonsense.
RUSH: Yeah, the Steelers management, you know, they played the old “We’re gonna move card” if we don’t get the stadium. Even in Pittsburgh, they played that card. I mean, not heavily. They threw it out one time. They didn’t make a big deal of it, but they did play that card before they built the stadium. (interruption) I knew it! I knew it wasn’t a hoax. Hillary did say that she hopes Trump isn’t gonna start shooting journalists. You thought that was a hoax, but it’s not. It’s real. It’s in the book.
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RUSH: Trump also said he thinks the NFL’s in a box. “In my opinion, the NFL has to change or their business is going to hell.” I’ve been making this point since Monday. And as I say, we have an NFL Stack that’s building and audio sound bites coming upping. Looking forward to getting into it.
So many people are, again, they’re close, but they’re missing what actually is the objective here of the people behind what’s happening. And it isn’t the players. The players are like most other protesters at events. They’re what you see, but they’re not the brains behind it. That’s not a take on their intelligence.
I’m just saying that there are people responsible for this making things happen, and the players are caught up in it. I’m sure many seriously believe what they’re doing. They just don’t know what they’re doing, or they wouldn’t be doing it if they did. Just trust me on this.
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RUSH: This is Lou Ann in Indiana. Great to have you, Lou Ann. Thank you for letting us call you back.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I can’t believe I’m talking to you, you are my hero. If I could just take a minute and just tell you a little bit about how much you mean to me and my family. Thirty years ago I was an empty headed little liberal. I had no idea. I just assumed that Ronald Reagan must have been a dummy, because that’s what the media all said. And then I said, listening to you — I’m a lifer, I’m a 29-year listener, okay — and it was like the lightbulb came on. And since then I have read conservative authors and listened to other conservative people, and now I know exactly why I’m conservative. So I want to thank you for that.
RUSH: Thank you very much. You have made my day. I can’t tell you how —
CALLER: You make mine just about every time I listen to you.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: Okay. The reason I called is because I wanted to touch on this strategy, this ugly little game that the left plays called divide and conquer. And originally I was calling in relation to the NFL, but actually now that I think about it, it actually is going to apply to the upcoming tax battle that’s gonna be coming up, okay? And these insights, I really can’t take all the credit for them because I did read Shelby Steele and his insight about how one side is pitted against the other and the other has to purchase their innocence, you know —
RUSH: That’s exactly what — I said this yesterday. Liberalism is about dividing people. It isn’t about unity. Look, I gotta take a break here, Lou Ann. Hang on. Don’t go anywhere. Don’t hang up.
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RUSH: Okay. We’re back on the Rush Limbaugh program and Lou Ann in Lakeville, Indiana. Lou Ann, before you resume here, I want to focus on something she said. She mentioned Shelby Steele. Folks, this is so dead-right on. Lou Ann made a great point mentioning Shelby Steele, that our side… This is Shelby Steele’s theory; he’s just dead on. We have to purchase our innocence. Now, what that means, the left is always presumed to have the moral high ground. The left is always presumed to be morally correct and to have the best of intentions.
But we who are not leftists? We have to make some grand gesture in word or deed or money to show that we are not racist or bigots or homophobes or whatever — and even then, it doesn’t work. David Koch gives $50 million, $25 million to a hospital in New York, and the left rejects it claiming he’s simply trying to fool people that he’s not a racist. It’s true, and we fall for this. We make these grand gestures, we go out of the way to try to demonstrate they aren’t racist, and this is as divisive as anything you could imagine.
When we fall for it, we automatically, by falling for it, surrender to them the moral high ground. They own the presumption they are correct — they are morally correct, they’re perfect — and it’s we who are the bigots and so forth. And that’s got to stop, because that is how they extract and force this division throughout our culture. And before you went on, Lou Ann, I wanted to emphasize that because that’s exactly right what Shelby Steele had said. And your quoting of him there was perfect.
The NFL is not used to mass negative pressure. They better get used to it or change their ways.
Too late, the Rubicon has been crossed.
NFL, too ate. Apology or explanation NOT accepted.
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I agree. This is NOT just about the Anthem, it’s also about:
The ridiculous price of tickets.
Billionaire owners screwing over the taxpayers for their stadiums
Too many games, and only available on pay channels.
The general decline in the quality of play.
The thuggery of many of the players
The anthem was just the straw that broke the camel’s back.
The NFL was dead to me when they dissed Hank Jr.
$170 million, was the taxpayers of Pittsburgh and of Pennsylvania.
I wonder if there is a “Moral Terpitude” clause in any of these contracts??
Exactly, they can do their Chain Gang National Anthem formations before 50-80 percent empty seats.
Every NFL team for the most part will pull the Dallas Cowboys "kneel and stand" routine for the anthem this week. (They will never bring themselves to admit they were fully wrong.) The most popular stars from each team will hit the local press to talk about team and team unity, and the "true meaning behind the protest". There will be nearly no mention of Trump's condemnation or tweets. Ratings will continue to plummet. November will be designated Veterans' Appreciation month, with patriotic displays at all league games/venues and pregame vignettes on current players who are military veterans. The Super Bowl will have a Patriotic themed half time show.
They've shown their true colors. As far as I'm concerned, they've made their bed, now they can lie in it.
Cuz u were ALREADY watching drama-seeking pussies, right..?
Not much will change, but THEY do stand.
“That’s holding and get that guy off the field.”
Sorry for the shameless self-promotion. LOL.
Rambling Thoughts about the NFL and their "Dixie Chicks Moment" (Vanity)
Hey NFL, just keep shoving your anti-American political s**t down America’s throat, ya ungrateful SOBs.
You're too classy. As far as I'm concerned ... They've made their bed, now I will piss on it. LOL.
If it’s not about the flag or anthem, why do they kneel when we pay tribute to the flag with the national anthem.
If I were NFL commissioner, I”d come out and say the anthem has nothing to do with political views and never should have been used as a prop.
Then I’d say the NFL will have zero tolerance for any political expressions either way. Play ball!
Good one..!
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