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RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, yesterday on this program, I mentioned it but did not discuss it, and that is Michael Sam, University of Missouri, announcing that he\u2019s gay prior to entering the NFL. He wants to enter the NFL. He\u2019s a defensive end from Mizzou, number 52, entering the NFL draft. He\u2019s going into the draft as the first public professional-in-waiting player to come out. <\/p>\n

The sports world and much of the pop culture world yesterday was abuzz with this. I, El Rushbo, stood back. I stayed on the bench yesterday. I had some theories about this. I wanted to see if my overriding two or three theories actually happened — and they did, for the most part. Again, I\u2019m not touting myself here, not blowing my own horn. I\u2019m just telling you: These people on the left in the media are so predictable. <\/p>\n

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A lot of people may not have thought about a couple things, \u2019cause the media is gonna turn this guy — whether he wants to be one or not, they\u2019re gonna turn him — into an activist. He is going to become one. They\u2019re already calling him things. He\u2019s the Rosa Parks, he\u2019s the Martin Luther King, he\u2019s the Jackie Robinson. They\u2019re gonna turn this guy into an activist. I already saw a story praising an unnamed team for drafting him — even if he can\u2019t play, for drafting him — just to make the social statement. <\/p>\n

This is going to be a totally media driven-story, totally — and because of that, it\u2019s gonna mess everything up. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. Something happened on CNN yesterday. This is last night, Anderson Cooper 360. Anderson Cooper was not there. Fill-in host John Berman was interviewing Jonathan Vilma. He\u2019s a linebacker for the New Orleans Saints. <\/p>\n

Vilma has been very public. (summarized quotes) “I don\u2019t think this is gonna work out. I don\u2019t know about a gay guy in the showers here in the NFL. I just don\u2019t know.” Ryan Clark of the Steelers says, “Look, what do we say to the guy? Do you guys know what goes on in the NFL locker room? Everybody gets teased. I mean, guys with ugly wives get teased about it. The fat linemen get teased about it. I mean, we show no mercy. If a guy\u2019s dating an ugly woman, we laugh at him, we laugh at her. We make a point of it.”<\/p>\n

He\u2019s quoted as saying all this. He says, “We don\u2019t know what to say. Somebody better tell us what we can and can\u2019t say when a gay guy shows up in the locker room. We\u2019re gonna need some guidelines on this,” and that\u2019s where the media is gonna come in and be policing all this stuff. So because Vilma has been somewhat outspoken, CNN breathlessly tracked him down, and they had the substitute host for Anderson Cooper, John Berman, interviewing Vilma last night. We\u2019ve got three sound bites. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Berman\u2019s first question: “You talked about the showers, Jonathan — and this is a subject that does come up quite a bit: The showers. You said, ‘You know, if I\u2019m naked in the shower, what if he looks at me? How am I supposed to react?\u2019 Jonathan, what\u2019s your concern there? You say you\u2019re in the shower, you\u2019re naked in the shower, and a guy comes in and looks at you, and you want to know how you\u2019re supposed to react. What\u2019s your concern there, Jonathan?” What\u2019s the big deal?<\/p>\n

VILMA: No, there is no concern. The point I was trying to make — or the context I was trying to take it in — is that I\u2019ve never been put in that situation. No player in the NFL has been put in that situation. So it\u2019s not as simple as anyone saying, “Well, there\u2019s nothing wrong with it.” I don\u2019t see anything wrong with it. You have other players that may; you have other players that may not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Everybody\u2019s walking a tightrope here, and there are gonna be people who fall off of this thing — and the media is gonna be waiting for that. The media is gonna just be waiting to pounce on the first or any instance they perceive to be wrong, \u2019cause remember who they are and who they champion. This guy is gonna go into the NFL as a victim. He\u2019s gonna go in as a victim.<\/p>\n