As Predicted, Drive-Bys Take Me Out of Context on Trump and the NFL

The Rush Limbaugh Show ^ | October 12, 2017 | Rush Limbaugh

[EveningStar]

RUSH: I told you yesterday, Snerdley, I told you yesterday that my comments on Trump and the NFL were gonna be purposefully taken out of context. I told all of you they would be taken out of context. I told all of you I knew exactly what would happen. I mean, Snerdley walks in here before everybody had left yesterday and said it’s already happening. He showed me a story from TheHill.com where they left out a very crucial aspect of what I said because the Drive-Bys are eager to report that a staunch Trumpist like me might be breaking from Trump.

I’m not breaking from Trump. I didn’t indicate that I’m breaking from Trump, but they’re so desperate to report it. They’re so excited they even went out and found some Republican strategists on TV to confirm it to tell me how brilliant I was as a means of trying to encourage me to keep breaking from Trump.

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RUSH: So yesterday on the program, I admitted that something was making me nervous about the entire NFL situation. And remember when I finished it, Mr. Snerdley, I came back from a break, or maybe it was during the break, I asked you, “Did I make this clear?” ‘Cause I wasn’t sure that I had. And you said, “Perfectly crystal clear to me.”

[EveningStar]

Related thread: Limbaugh: Trump's comments on NFL 'starting to make me nervous'

[EveningStar]

ping

[ilovesarah2012]

The Hill seems to have turned totally anti-trump or were they always and I just didn’t notice?

[SMGFan]

can someone ping everyone who posted in the response to the first story. :)

[EveningStar]

LOL! That thread has over 100 replies! :)

[ex91B10]

...that a staunch Trumpist like me...

Only since he won.

[EveningStar]

ping

[EveningStar]

ping

[Sicon]

Yeah, Rush wasn’t much of a “Trumpist” before election night 2016.

[sarge83]

I heard the comment Rush made live. He wasn’t taken out of context, he went wobbly with victory in sight.

[Godebert]

Rush thought Trump would lose. I believe he WANTED Trump to lose.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The Hill is wildly left-wing. Always was.

[skimbell]

Naw, Rush started being a “staunch Trumpist” right after the “full throated conservative”- Lil’ Marco drug up.

[Sicon]

I agree. I got the impression that Rush didn’t want Trump to win the primary. I always felt like he was for Cruz, though I couldn’t understand why. Cruz always struck me as a greasy weasel - pretty much like a used car salesman.

[Hot Tabasco]

Yeah, Rush wasn’t much of a “Trumpist” before election night 2016.

Care to legitimize that ignorant statement by providing facts?

As a side note, so what, he's fully on board with Trump now........so what's your problem?

Divide and conquer, which one are you holding the pitchfork?

Harriet: "Who we going after today?"

Larry: "I'm not sure, lets go after Rush"

Harriet: "Then why are we going after him?"

Larry: "Didn't you read that article in the New York Times or The Hill? Didn't you see what CNN said about him?"

Harriet: "Oh, OK......Could you please relight my torch?"

[Godebert]

That, and the fact he wasn’t eligible (see my tag line).

[TigersEye]

The MSM lied about what Rush Limbaugh said?

[EveningStar]

I don't know. But they did jump on Rush's comments like flies on poop.

[DoughtyOne]

In a way I understand Rush’s perplexed reaction to the feed-back he received. On the merits, the issue could have been a valid one, but I failed to assess Trump’s actions as qualifying for what Rush was trying to address.

Addressing displeasure is called, “Using the Bully pulpit.” The president addresses issues to raise awareness. Trump does that better than anyone has IMO. His tweets respond to flawed thinking in mere minutes. God bless him for that.

Had Trump threatened to, or issued an Executive Order or a Presidential Directive against the NFL, it’s owners, team coaches, or league players, it would have been wrong, and deserving of criticism.

He didn’t do either of those things. He raised the issue of tax breaks and anti-trust protections. What’s more, he should have.

The league’s entities get special treatment for the government. If they are going to unify to denigrate respect for the flag, the anthem, or even the police, government has a right to assess they are not working in the public’s interest, and reassess if they deserve special treatment.

That is all Trump was suggesting. He suggested a review be made and action be taken if need be.

This is all above board and well within his purview of duties. It was not an abuse of power, or even a hint of it, by any stretch of the imagination.

Rush was wrong to express so much angst over Trump’s actions.

Here’s one more reason why I think what he did was wrong.

There is something that Republican’s do better than anyone else. They shoot themselves in the foot. They destroy their own momentum.

Karl Rove predicted Trump would come out of this NFL spat a big loser. Well folks, he didn’t. He came out a massive winner. The NFL blinked!

Not six hours later, Rush was on the air stating that what Trump had done made him nervous. He didn’t want to see a president coerce a business to do something. It was concerning to him.

So Rush joined a long list of folks who have on the day of our victories, carped about the fact we didn’t achieve the victory exactly how they think we should have.

This plays right into the Left’s hand in at least four ways.

1. First they can claim it was unfair what the president did, perhaps even dangerous
2. This can then be used to cloud the issue, as if the outcome was not just
3. They can play it up as a fracturing of the right
4. They can play it up that a well-known Conservative disagrees with what the president did

All this does is deflate the massive victory.

Rush really blew it. I know what he was trying to say, but it was not only not a valid concern in this instance, it also played right into the Left’s hand.

Instead of the big story being Trump’s victory, the big story became a split on the right, disagreement on Trump’s tactics, and even a big name guy realizing Trump was wrong. (Was that last charge accurate? No, but we have to avoid feeding them an issue, even if they have to twist facts to get there.)

Ah no he wasn’t wrong. No Trump didn’t suggest he was. He merely said this made him nervous. Well, this wasn’t the time to mention it. BIG MISTAKE.

Rush can try to dance around this, but he should know better than anyone how his words would be used to grasp defeat out of the jaws of victory.

He screwed up on this one, and couldn’t have been more timely about it, for Leftist advantage.

[DoughtyOne]

Correction:

Was Trump wrong? No. And Rush didn’t suggest he was. He merely said this made him nervous. Well, this wasn’t the time to mention it. BIG MISTAKE.