{"id":17062,"date":"2011-12-16T19:29:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T19:29:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-12-16T19:29:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T19:29:10","slug":"rick_perry_wants_to_be_the_tim_tebow_not_the_joe_flacco_of_the_iowa_caucus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/12\/16\/rick_perry_wants_to_be_the_tim_tebow_not_the_joe_flacco_of_the_iowa_caucus\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Perry Wants to be the Tim Tebow (Not the Joe Flacco) of the Iowa Caucus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BR\/>RUSH:  Well, I knew that this was coming, but I would have never guessed where it\u2019s coming from. &#8230; I\u2019m not disappointed that it\u2019s coming from where it\u2019s coming from.  I\u2019m just a little surprised.  I knew it was coming.  Jealousy of Tim Tebow has surfaced in the National Football League.  Brian, you\u2019re a big football aficionado.  Tell me which quarterback has just expressed frustration and jealousy. You don\u2019t know yet, do you?  So take a wild guess.  Which quarterback has expressed frustration and jealousy over the coverage that Tebow is getting? (interruption) No.  Not Aaron Rodgers.  Not Tony Romo. (Don\u2019t worry, Snerdley.)  Joe Flacco of the Baltimore Ravens &#8212; and, frankly, as a Steelers fan, this is not disappointing to me. <\/line><img id=\"eZObject_57457\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Flacco_medium.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[A] Tebow backlash has emerged.&#8221;  This is Mike Florio from his blog, pro football talk at NBC.  &#8220;&#8216;I mean, look at Tim Tebow,\u2019 Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco told [a radio station] in Baltimore, via NFL.com.  &#8216;I like Tim, but you have a tendency to want to &#8212; I don\u2019t want to see Tim do bad &#8212; but look what happens after he wins a football game.  If you watched SportsCenter today, it was Tim Tebow then something else, Tim Tebow then something else, and Tim Tebow then something else.  When we beat the Steelers, were we on TV?  No.  I couldn\u2019t even find a Baltimore Ravens highlight.  I think that\u2019s kinda the way it is around Baltimore.  We don\u2019t always get our respect but you gotta deal with it and go out there every week and just win football games.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Flacco believes the Ravens are &#8216;disrespected\u2019 by the national media.  &#8216;The bottom line is we don\u2019t need a lot of help because we have a great fan base every week and we win football games,\u2019 Flacco said,&#8221; and we\u2019re sick and tired of seeing Tebow everywhere! He didn\u2019t say that, but it\u2019s implied here. &#8220;&#8216;We\u2019re not a losing football team that needs to be out there in the media and be talked up like we are all-world.  We are.'&#8221; This&#8230; (snorts) I am stunned.  I am stunned. I can\u2019t think of the last time something like this has happened. Look, I know these guys feel this stuff. I know in the privacy of the locker room and at home they\u2019re saying, &#8220;Tebow? For crying out loud, he\u2019s a rookie! Look at what I\u2019m doing. I\u2019m lighting it up! Why ain\u2019t I getting coverage?&#8221; but you never go public and whine about it.<\/p>\n<p>Ooh, I gotta&#8230; I don\u2019t know.  Speaking of Tebow, I wonder if Flacco was watching the <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=4457\">debate last night<\/a> and heard Rick Perry.  Audio sound bite number seven:<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_57439\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushPerryTebowJersey.jpg\"\/><BR\/>PERRY:  I\u2019m getting to where I like these debates.  As a matter of fact, I hope Obama and I debate a lot &#8212; and I\u2019ll get there early, and we will get it on and we will talk about our differences, which are great.  There are a lot of folks that said Tim Tebow, uh, wasn\u2019t gonna be, uh, a very good NFL quarterback.  There are people that stood up and said, &#8220;Well, he doesn\u2019t have the right flowing mechanisms,&#8221; or, &#8220;He doesn\u2019t&#8230; You know, he\u2019s not playing the game right,&#8221; and, you know, he &#8212; two national championships. That looked pretty good. We were the national champions in job creation back in Texas but I\u2019m all ready for the next level.  Let me tell you, I hope that I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa Caucuses. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8220;I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa Caucuses.&#8221; He did not say, &#8220;I am the Joe Flacco of the Iowa Caucuses.&#8221;  &#8220;I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa Caucuses.&#8221; Now, I don\u2019t know whether Flacco was watching the debate last night.  Can you imagine if he was?  (interruption) My first reaction when he said that? My first reaction when I saw Rick Perry say he wanted to be the Tim Tebow, I thought it was an attempt to create linkage between something that\u2019s very hot and popular right now &#8212; and I thought it\u2019s a little bit of a stretch.  Little bit of a stretch.  But you have to remember, Perry makes me laugh in a good way.  I thought Perry was alive last night. Perry was on fire. He has, I think, a charismatic personality.<\/p>\n<p>He has a great smile. In fact, there was one time the camera caught him frowning last night, and it was the first time I\u2019ve really ever seen him frown.  I\u2019m sure that he frowns more than I\u2019ve seen and the camera hasn\u2019t been on him when he\u2019s do, but it stood out because he was frowning.  I don\u2019t remember what the question was, but normally he\u2019s got this big wide grin, and looks like even when he gets tongue-tied he\u2019s having a great time up there.  But he didn\u2019t get tongue-tied.  Here\u2019s Rick Perry on Fast and Furious.  Audio sound bite number eight.  The question was from Megyn Kelly: &#8220;Are you and other Republicans &#8216;politicizing\u2019 the issue as Attorney General Holder claims?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>PERRY:  If I\u2019m the president of the United States, and I find out that there is an operation like Fast and Furious and my attorney general didn\u2019t know about it, I would have him resign immediately.  The president of the United States comes to El Paso, Texas, yearly this year and proclaims that the border of Texas and Mexico &#8212; the US border with Mexico &#8212; is safer than it\u2019s ever been.  Well, let me tell you: I\u2019ve been dealing with this issue for 11 years.  I\u2019ve sent Texas Ranger recon teams there.  Our law enforcement men and women face fire from across the border or in the US side from these drug cartels.  It is not safe there.  Our country is in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Yep.  He was on last night.  He was really on.  Santorum came back on , &#8220;I wouldn\u2019t wait for my attorney general to resign.  If I find out he knew about Fast and Furious, I\u2019d fire him,&#8221; which was good because Holder\u2019s excuse is, &#8220;I didn\u2019t know.&#8221;  Wa&#8230;? You\u2019re attorney general, you run the Justice Department, that\u2019s what the ATF is. What do you mean you didn\u2019t know?  So I mean these guys, these guys were on. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Snerdley, were you thinking it was sacrilegious to compare yourself to Tebow if you\u2019re Rick Perry?  Tacky.  You thought it was a little tacky out there to compare yourself to Tebow.  Could be.  I don\u2019t know.  I don\u2019t look at it as tacky.  I thought, &#8220;Okay, here\u2019s Perry. He\u2019s trying to make a connection. Relate, perhaps.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Well, I knew that this was coming, but I would have never guessed where it\u2019s coming from. &#8230; I\u2019m not disappointed that it\u2019s coming from where it\u2019s coming from. I\u2019m just a little surprised. I knew it was coming. Jealousy of Tim Tebow has surfaced in the National Football League. 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