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Limbaugh: Trump's comments on NFL 'starting to make me nervous'
The Hill ^ | October 11, 2017

Posted on 10/12/2017 2:36:29 AM PDT by SMGFan

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To: SMGFan

Well, here’s a solution. Congress must make a law that requires ALL persons standing, hand over heart and silent when Our ANTHEM is played, our PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE is said.
At that time PDJT would be justified in his words. BO’B did and it seemed to work out well for him.


101 posted on 10/12/2017 6:54:09 AM PDT by V K Lee (DJT: "Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. ")
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To: SMGFan

POTUS has the right to free speech too. I don’t see him using the power of the Presidency to enforce anything, so irrelevant.


102 posted on 10/12/2017 6:57:07 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: SMGFan

Rush doesn’t get it. Trump said right from the beginning that he represents We the People. When he uses the bully pulpit, he’s not speaking as an individual, he’s speaking as the voice of the rest of us who are shouting at our televisions (before we turned them off in disgust), for those in the stands, yelling “stand up!” For those who served in the military and paid dearly for these fools to show such a lack of respect. What he’s saying is that the media and liberals have been able to ignore flyover country Americans and our values for way too long, by portraying us as “just one guy talking.” Trump is saying they won’t be able to ignore him talking. And he speaks for us.


103 posted on 10/12/2017 6:58:52 AM PDT by Hoffer Rand (God be greater than the worries in my life, be stronger than the weakness in my mind, be magnified.)
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To: Road Warrior ‘04
I heard his anti-Trump screed and his insults of supporters and cancelled my 24/7 and quit listening to him because of it.

I have listened to Rush since the early 90's. And the 2016 primary season was no different than the rest in that he never endorses a primary candidate. I listen to him typically every week day, generally without fail, and discuss the happenings, as usual, with my wife during my drive home. We would have caught an such change of habit.

He engaged in no "anti-trump screed"


104 posted on 10/12/2017 7:04:33 AM PDT by nonsporting
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To: SMGFan

This article is taken totally out of context. It’s sole purpose is to divide the base.


105 posted on 10/12/2017 7:11:37 AM PDT by PJammers (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Vision Thing
I don’t have any documented links to Rush’s anti-Trumpism, but I listened to one of his broadcasts during the primaries, and his snide tone against Trump and his followers was alarming.

What you may have mistaken for "snide tone", was most likely "irony". But since you cannot supply the quote or any quote we'll never know.

Roxanne: I was being ironic.

C.D.: Oh, ho, ho, irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a, a high priority. We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83, when I was the only practitioner of it. And I stopped because I was tired of being stared at.

(Roxanne '87)

I changed the radio channel and haven’t listened to him since.

Just as I thought.

106 posted on 10/12/2017 7:13:01 AM PDT by nonsporting
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To: SMGFan

Lighten up, Rush.

Trump is expressing his own opinion on the issue. He is not calling for legislation to force anyone to stand.


107 posted on 10/12/2017 7:23:54 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: nonsporting
He all but endorsed Cruz and Rubio. Was anti-Trump! We can agree to disagree.

But, I objected with my money and dropped 24/7. As you, I've been listening to Rush forever and I found his rhetoric beyond the pale when it came to the last election.

108 posted on 10/12/2017 7:23:54 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: mad_as_he$$

Ah so Rush is bothered by talking


I don’t believe that captures what he’s saying at all.


109 posted on 10/12/2017 7:28:53 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: arthurus

Rush is a smart guy and I suspect somewhat of a binary thinker like me. He understands that “the right thing to do” is not always the right thing to do. It can cross the line into being a wrong thing. I think his point is that Under some circumstances, Trump SHOULD say what he is saying, but under others, it is really inappropriate for the “office of the president” to go there. And the difference between the two situations can be almost undetectable by most people.


110 posted on 10/12/2017 7:31:01 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: SMGFan

What does or did 0bama/Clinton do to their enemies?


111 posted on 10/12/2017 7:33:19 AM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust! 4c)
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To: stockpirate

So Rush doesn’t think Trump has 1st Amendment rights and should just shut up.


No, that is not what he said at all.

To use an analogy, if a friend tells you that you should not perform in an adult film, they are not forcing you. They are just telling you that it might not be the prudent thing to do, and you may regret it later. i.e. it is not about 1st amendment rights.


112 posted on 10/12/2017 7:33:59 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: Panhandle.deporable

I don’t believe he said this. I was listening to him talk about this yesterday and I don’t think he said it, at least not in the context this article claims. Rush knows that a tweet by Trump is not “dictating” or “forcing” anybody to do anything.


113 posted on 10/12/2017 7:36:51 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: robroys woman

I read the transcript. I think it does capture what he said. What has Trump done other than talk? Has he signed an EO? Has he introduced a bill in Congress?

I think Rush is catching hell about this from his NFL buddies.


114 posted on 10/12/2017 7:37:59 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Not my circus. Not my monkeys.)
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To: mad_as_he$$

My point is that I do not believe that rush is bothered by talking. Rather, it is the talking the person sitting in the oval office is doing.

Fact is, a president, unlike you and me, cannot just say whatever falls from his brain to his tongue. I could spend a couple of paragraphs explaining why, but I don’t think I need to. ;-)


115 posted on 10/12/2017 7:41:44 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: SMGFan

Rush is wrong on this. Presidents inject themselves into the cultural issues of their days. God knows Obama was all over it with homosexuals and trannies. Reagan was all about the greatness of America vs. the evils of the Soviet Union.

Unless Trump has signed a law or an EO outlawing kneeling in the NFL, I don’t think Rush has much to worry over here.


116 posted on 10/12/2017 7:42:25 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: stanne
'Trump had to defend the flag.

Every patriotic American could have stood up and walked out of the stadium on seeing any player disrespecting the flag and sent the message'

I disagree. If he 'cared' then he would change the flag code and such to 'allow' the use of the flag on a sports uniform.

I dislike the flag on sports uniforms. It gets trash on it and it's purely for marketing.

I was taught to never let the flag touch the ground or get dirty. That's they way it's always been. It gets 'disrespected' every time it touches the ground and soiled. Nobody raises that concern or issue.

If the President cared about the flag then he should support the flag code.

This is purely for politics.

117 posted on 10/12/2017 7:47:10 AM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: mad_as_he$$
I think Rush is catching hell about this from his NFL buddies.\

I think his NFL buddies have hinted they can get him back on ESPN if he can get Trump to drop this.


118 posted on 10/12/2017 7:54:03 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Theoria

Nobody is talking about the flag on a sports uniform.

When these players kneel during the anthem they are saying that the flag represents racism.

It does not.


119 posted on 10/12/2017 7:58:52 AM PDT by stanne
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To: SMGFan
And suckers, even knowing how the liberal media LIES, continue to be led around by the nose....and are copying propaganda being pushed by DU, Liberals and Trump haters

Rush: The point that I was making was that I don’t want to get to a point where if a president doesn’t like the way people are behaving, that he can call the people that own that business and make ’em behave the way he wants. I’m not suggesting that’s happening here.

Rush didn't say anything bad about Trump. He's thinking past Trump to a possible President Sanders, President Biden or President Booker.

120 posted on 10/12/2017 8:08:23 AM PDT by TXSearcher (Interesting times we live in...........)
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