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<\/p>\nRUSH: Now, about Gisele Bundchen. Folks, Kathryn tells me I “drop the ball” all the time. I didn\u2019t see anything really different or unique in this. When you\u2019re like me and you\u2019re told every day you\u2019re dropping the ball on things, so what? It happens. But people want to know my thoughts on this. I\u2019ve had a number of e-mails and I\u2019ll share them with you as the program unfolds. I do think this Brady thing, what\u2019s happening to Tom Brady is a great illustration to what happens when you…<\/p>\n
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Well, not “let,” but when the media has a role in defining your personality. When the media has a role in defining your image, then the media can shatter it, then the media can tear it apart.<\/p>\n
This is, I think, a great illustration of the old saying: “If the media can make you, the media can break you.” That is why, in my case, the media has had nothing to do with establishing any aspect of my persona. I don\u2019t have a PR agent. I don\u2019t massage the media. I don\u2019t do anything like that. And so the media, try as they might, cannot break me. They\u2019ve tried, and they continue to try. But celebrities, mainly Hollywood people, mainly from the entertainment field, who are totally… Everything you know about them is not because you know them, not because of a connection that they have with you. It\u2019s because of what you read about them or what you see about them.<\/p>\n
Those celebrities and athletes are vulnerable as they can be. You hear about… I\u2019ll illustrate it this way. One of the criticisms of Mitt Romney is that he “doesn\u2019t connect with people.” Now, what\u2019s that? What is “connecting” with voters? It means that voters have no personal relationship with him. He hasn\u2019t revealed himself personally. He hasn\u2019t found a way to get beyond just being a face and a voice on television. So it\u2019s left to the media to define him for people. Now, some say that this ability to connect is innate and that you either have it or you don\u2019t have it. Let me illustrate it this way. This is where I first learned about it, by the way.<\/p>\n
And you know I don\u2019t like talking about myself. You know, I\u2019m very uncomfortable with that. But I must in this instance. In 1992, coming home from Houston, the Republican Convention, I happened to be on a flight with Peter Jennings (ABC World News Tonight) and, I think, Ed Bradley. We get into whatever airport we came into, JFK or Newark, I don\u2019t remember. Might have been LaGuardia. Anyway, we\u2019re all at baggage claim to get the bags. And I was shocked at the number of people who came up to me and just said hi and started talking to me as though they knew me — and they did. They were listeners, and they started talking.<\/p>\n
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He never shared any of himself with anybody on the news. That\u2019s not what his job was. But of course me, on this radio program, that\u2019s largely what this is. And I think it\u2019s the same thing with athletes. We all see them on television. We all know who they are. We know them and have our thoughts of them based on their performance, and their talents and their abilities. And of course those are quite rare — and, as such, there\u2019s awe for that. But we don\u2019t really know who they are in most cases. The media fills that in. So when the media fills it in, it\u2019s up to whether they like the guy, whether they don\u2019t like the guy. Whether they like the guy\u2019s wife or don\u2019t like the guy\u2019s wife. Then when something goes wrong and the media turns, there\u2019s nothing to counter it. That\u2019s why I say, “The media can\u2019t break you if they haven\u2019t made you.”<\/p>\n
I think that\u2019s a little bit of what Tom Brady is experiencing right now.<\/p>\n