{"id":11551,"date":"2013-08-26T16:20:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T16:20:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-08-26T16:20:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T16:20:52","slug":"ex_new_york_giant_leonard_marshall_responds_to_something_i_never_said_about_concussion_preventing_technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/08\/26\/ex_new_york_giant_leonard_marshall_responds_to_something_i_never_said_about_concussion_preventing_technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-New York Giant Leonard Marshall Responds to Something I Never Said About Concussion-Preventing Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I have never seen it like it this, folks. My good friends, I\u2019ve never seen this before. Seventeen sound bites… How many do we have? Let me count how many we have here. Okay, we have 27 sound bites in the sound bite roster today, and the first 17 are about me — and not just casual, throwaway mentions. Cookie, she doesn\u2019t do that. She looks for ones where I am the focal point. I don\u2019t know what to do.<\/p>\n

As you know I try not to make the program about me. I try seldom to ever talk about myself \u2019cause we stick on the issues on this show, but I\u2019ll give you the subject matter. Obama is blaming me for the gridlock in Washington<\/a>. There are more comments on that. It\u2019s not Obama. We already did Obama saying it. For one example, Joe Trippi (former Democrat consultant, now at Fox) says that this is a huge error for Obama to be making. <\/p>\n

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The comparison between the Trayvon Martin case and Chris Lane murder in Oklahoma. There are a bunch of people that say, “Why in the world should we sit here and let Rush Limbaugh claim that there\u2019s anything similar or that there ought to be race involved in the Chris Lane story?” Then we have the Democratic National Committee chairwoman weighing in on whether or not I should host a Republican debate. There\u2019s more on my comments about Ashton Kutcher<\/a>. <\/p>\n

You know what\u2019s interesting about that? Everybody\u2019s commenting on Ashton Kutcher now, after we took the lead on that. Then we have audio sound bites on the White House petition on Ben Affleck as Batman. The effort is being made to convince both Warner Brothers and Obama to get rid of him, and that\u2019s a carryover from Friday. We have a former NFL player ripping me for saying the NFL has become chickified. Leonard Marshall of the New York Giants — who I\u2019ve met one.<\/p>\n

He wouldn\u2019t remember it. We met at Rochester Big & Fat. It was a joint promotion in New York. I think it was 52nd Street. They had just gotten back into town. It was a Wednesday, and they had just gotten back, the Giants had, from a Monday night game against the Fort\u2019iners. But he wouldn\u2019t remember. We have a sound bite here from a sales manager at one of our radio stations talking about the value of my audience — you — to people in the radio business.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s seven topics, 17 sound bites. I\u2019m of a mind here just to broom \u2019em and then get to the other 10. (interruption) Well, I\u2019m not going to make this program about me. Everybody else makes their program about me. If I talk about me, that\u2019s all that\u2019s gonna be in the media! (interruption) You mean just play \u2019em back to back to back? No commentary, just play \u2019em? Just play \u2019em all? (interruption) All right, let\u2019s do that. Let\u2019s get started.<\/p>\n

Since I\u2019ve got it at the top here, grab number 17. We\u2019ll start with Leonard Marshall. This was last Wednesday morning on the radio, and Leonard Marshall is being interviewed during a discussion about… Well, it says here “my criticism of the NFL for instituting new rules ostensibly in the name of player safety.” The host says, “What\u2019s your response to Limbaugh saying the use of concussion-preventing technology in the NFL proves that everything in our culture is being chickified?”<\/p>\n

I did not say that! <\/p>\n

See, this is how this stuff gets started. So Leonard Marshall has an entirely skewed question. I never once talked about that! The only thing I have said about this concussion-preventing technology is that it is not settled science. It\u2019s like global warming. It really isn\u2019t settled science. There\u2019s nobody that can tell you unalterably that are there long-lasting effects from hits to the head playing football. Everybody thinks it\u2019s conventional wisdom now. Everybody thinks it\u2019s a fait accompli. <\/p>\n

Everybody think there\u2019s no question about it. But it is not settled science, either at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where one of the research areas is, or in Boston. That\u2019s why there\u2019s gonna be a lawsuit about it. But it\u2019s not settled science. Anyway, I never once have been critical of the NFL for trying to reduce concussion-related injuries! Now, we have talked about wearing pink accouterments in the month of October and other elements of football that are becoming chickified, but not the concussion prevention!<\/p>\n