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RUSH: “Smokers and pro football players have something in common.” What do you think it is? This is an AP story from yesterday. “Smokers and pro football players have something in common: They engage in risky behavior that can be potentially harmful to their health over time. And to hear some lawyers tell it, the National Football League is the equivalent of Big Tobacco.”<\/p>\n
I, as you know, predicted this, but I am way off in the number of years I thought this was gonna take. I thought we\u2019d be looking at 10, 15 years down the road before people started getting serious about trying to poison people\u2019s minds about football and being serious about banning it. But I\u2019m telling you, we are on the road. When the NFL is equal to Big Tobacco, when the NFL is Joe Camel, I hope the people in the NFL have an understanding of what faces them. I hope they know what\u2019s ahead of them.<\/p>\n
I know a lot of people don\u2019t look at things as ideologically as I do, which is a problem for them. But if you think going after Big Tobacco was a health related thing, if you think the people that are going after Big Tobacco are motivated by your health and keeping you safe, you are full of it. It had nothing to do with your health. These people couldn\u2019t care less about your health. They couldn\u2019t care less whether you get cancer. This was all about what it always is about. Another avenue, another springboard for more liberal control, big government, and a small group of people being able to dictate behavior for everybody else. And it was a money opportunity. It was an opportunity for a bunch of lawyers and others to score huge amounts of money off of Big Tobacco. It was a shakedown. And the proof of it, throughout the whole process nobody once suggested banning the product.<\/p>\n
If they really cared, if they really thought tobacco\u2019s a killer, if they really believed that, if they really were interested in your health, they\u2019d make that product illegal. They would ban it under their concerns for your health. But there\u2019s no way anybody involved is ever gonna ban that product because there\u2019s too much money to be made off of it. Probably the same thing with the NFL. But there are going to be people — I can picture them. I know what they look like. I know where they live. I know what kind of people are gonna start running around suggesting it be banned, and it\u2019ll be done on the basis of safety for the players, and there will be a racial component that\u2019ll be introduced into it at some point. Well, you can\u2019t miss this one. What, 75% of the players are African-American. This is made to order. Wait \u2019til somebody tells Al Sharpton the opportunity he\u2019s missing here. You got slavery in America disguised as the NFL.<\/p>\n
“What do you mean, Rush, slavery?” Well, look at who\u2019s getting injured, look who\u2019s risking their lives. Yeah, they\u2019re being paid a lot of money. It doesn\u2019t matter. The vast majority of people playing this game are nothing more than gladiators on Sunday afternoon to keep the rich entertained. It\u2019s gonna happen like that. You know it and I know it. A $206 billion tobacco settlement, supposed to be shared among the states, supposed to go to education programs, all of that money. Where\u2019s all that tobacco lawsuit money gone? You can still buy cigarettes. I\u2019ll tell you how convoluted it\u2019s gotten, you can still buy \u2019em, but you can\u2019t smoke \u2019em. Not legally anywhere. They haven\u2019t banned the product. They are funding children\u2019s health care programs with the sale of tobacco products. At some point if you can\u2019t smoke the product but you can buy it… it\u2019s convoluted. And now the National Football League is the equivalent of Big Tobacco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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