{"id":228893,"date":"2017-04-10T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=228893"},"modified":"2017-04-11T16:40:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T20:40:39","slug":"sergio-wins-the-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/04\/10\/sergio-wins-the-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergio\u2019s Win Had Nothing to Do with Seve\u2019s Birthday!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: We go to Atlanta. It\u2019s Holly. Great to have you with us, Holly. How are you doing?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m doing great, Rush. Good to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you. Same here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I am a big fan of yours, but I\u2019m also a golf fan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, cool.<\/p>\n

Matt Kuchar<\/p><\/div>\n

CALLER: I was sitting at the 16th tee yesterday at Augusta, and it was such a good feel-good moment and Matt Kuchar hit his hole-in-one and he was high-fiving the crowd. He took somebody\u2019s hat, he flung it into the air. He got down there, he got his ball, he signed it. He gave it to a little boy sitting there wearing a Sam Snead hat, and it just made you feel great.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We saw it. Kuchar is a great guy. You know, he looks like he has a perpetual smile on his face because he\u2019s got joker-like cheekbones.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He looked like a kid at Christmas.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, he is. He\u2019s naturally smiling all the time, and he\u2019s really a great guy. I\u2019ve played Augusta with him, and you\u2019d love him. He\u2019s everything you would hope he would be when you meet him. He\u2019s an excellent, excellent guy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But you feel so good, and we leave 16, we walk up 17 and 18 as we\u2019re leaving, and the leaders are finishing up, and they\u2019re doing their playoff. Then we turn on ESPN. Oh, we\u2019re all fans of Sergio. And I\u2019ve watched enough golf —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What, CNN is saying we\u2019re all fans of Sergio?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m sorry, ESPN.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, you said ESPN is saying that we\u2019re all fans of Sergio?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, that there were chants going up amongst the crowd. I mean, if someone asked me who I want to win and I\u2019m at the Masters, my first answer is, an American.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What, you\u2019re anti-Spaniard?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Evidently. I\u2019m supposed to be global, I guess, politically correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, wait a minute. How is ESPN being politically correct by celebrating Sergio\u2019s win?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, they made it seem like the crowd was cheering for Sergio. And I\u2019ve been to the Ryder Cup —<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Well, they were. They were. I was watching it. They were cheering for Sergio. I mean there was no chance for an American to win here because —<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — the playoff was Justin Rose, and he\u2019s a Brit.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just sometimes feel like it\u2019s not okay to be proud of our country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, now, I understand that. I don\u2019t know that I would agree with you on this specific example you\u2019re citing about Sergio, but in a generic sense, liberalism always builds up the people they think are victims of America, and that is usually minorities. And whenever a minority wins, it\u2019s a special victory because it\u2019s a triumph over the evil, gigantic, dominating United States. I know exactly what you mean. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what was going on with Sergio. I think they genuinely love Sergio. It goes back to he came up with Tiger, Tiger Woods.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you the thing that got to me, since we\u2019re talking about TV coverage. I gotta tread very, very, very lightly here, my friends. They interviewed Sergio after his Thursday round, maybe Friday, and they asked him, “Would there be any special meaning to win this year\u2019s Masters because it would occur on the 60th birthday of Seve, Seve Ballesteros, great Masters champion, great golfer from Spain.” And I looked at Sergio\u2019s face. This is where I have to tread very lightly, but I can\u2019t tread at all now because I\u2019m out of time so, I\u2019ll have to take a brief break. It\u2019s one of these hard breaks, you can\u2019t break \u2019em, they don\u2019t move, so I\u2019ll finish this sometime.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m gonna go back to my Sergio Garcia story. We had a caller from Atlanta who was upset. She thought ESPN was showing undue favoritism to Sergio because he wasn\u2019t American and she\u2019s tired of watching CNN and ESPN and all these networks who seem to want to blame America and celebrate when America loses, or when an American loses, or when a minority or some other country\u2019s sports star wins.<\/p>\n

\"\"I told her I disagreed with her that that\u2019s what was happening here with Sergio and ESPN. But, in a generic sense, she\u2019s right. I mean, the left always sides up with whoever they think the victim is, and the Americans are always the victimizers, and minorities are usually the victims. Any kind of minority, racial, gender. Any minority is automatically a victim, and CNN, the media always will sidle up to that person. And she detected it, and she\u2019s right about that.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s what I noticed. And to me, this is classic, folks. This is an object lesson in how stories are created. Sergio Garcia is from Spain. There are two other accomplished professional golfers from Spain. One is Seve Ballesteros who died very early in life, age 60, and Jose Maria Olazabal, and both Seve and Jose Maria have won Augusta, The Masters, twice.<\/p>\n

So on Friday, after Friday\u2019s round, the media, whoever is covering it, CBS or ESPN, is interviewing Sergio. And I\u2019m watching all during the coverage, I watched it when I got home, and every time they show Sergio, or practically every time, they mention, “Isn\u2019t it going to be so touching and heartwarming if Sergio were to win on Sunday, that\u2019s the 60th birthday of Seve Ballesteros.” I said, “So what? What does it matter?” Except it\u2019s manufactured tear-jerker. It\u2019s manufactured sentiment. And they forced it on Sergio.<\/p>\n

In an interview Friday, they\u2019re asking, “Sergio, would it mean something special, would it be even more special to win this on Seve\u2019s 60th birthday?” And I could tell, looking at the immediate facial reaction from Sergio Garcia, was a fleeting moment, but he bowed his head in just a tiny expression of mini-frustration, he looked down, and he came back up, “Look, I don\u2019t want to get ahead of myself. We don\u2019t talk about winning until we\u2019ve won. I don\u2019t want to get ahead of myself.”<\/p>\n

“But wouldn\u2019t be wonderful, Sergio, if you won?”<\/p>\n

“Well, Seve\u2019s great,” and then he immediately started talk about Jose Maria Olazabal. Jose is more of a contemporary of Sergio\u2019s, and Jose had tweeted him his support and how proud of him he was. My only point, Sergio was close to Seve, but my guess is — purely a guess — this is why I\u2019m on thin ice here. I\u2019m walking a very, very narrow line here with this. But it\u2019s all because that facial expression I\u2019m sure I saw.<\/p>\n

There was no way Sergio was gonna say, “Look, Seve isn\u2019t here. Seve is not swinging the club. Seve\u2019s spirit is not determining my strategy. I\u2019m the one playing.” But they all loved Seve. And there\u2019s nothing wrong with Seve, don\u2019t misunderstand. My point here is how a story of sentiment and emotion gets created and then forced on people, and they have to attach themselves to it, \u2019cause there\u2019s no way Sergio can say, “I don\u2019t care that it\u2019s Seve\u2019s 60th birthday or his 160th. I\u2019m playing, and if I win, I win.” He can\u2019t say that. I don\u2019t even know if he thought that.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And to tell you how effective this is, I played golf Saturday and Sunday, I got out of the car both days at the place I\u2019m playing, two different places, and the bag drop guys and the caddies, “Wouldn\u2019t it be great if Sergio won on Seve\u2019s 60th?” Oh jeez. Can\u2019t escape it. And to me, maybe I\u2019m too into this stuff, but this is how it happens. In this case it\u2019s innocent, in a sense. But this is how stories that do not exist are manufactured, and people are plugged into \u2019em and then have to go along with it, because if you don\u2019t go along with this, what kind of reprobate are you.<\/p>\n

And as another aside, whenever Sergio got the chance to talk about Jose Maria Olazabal, he did, because none of them were talking about him, it was all Seve. They loved Seve. I met Seve. Gary Player had a tournament at Wayne Huizenga\u2019s course up in Palm City for a long, long time. That\u2019s where I met Kathryn, by the way. She was running Gary Player\u2019s foundation, running the tournament and she thought I was too controversial to attend. But somebody told her that it would be a good get. So she invited me and I went.<\/p>\n

Seve Ballesteros<\/p><\/div>\n

And the second year I\u2019m sitting next to Patrick Duffy, all the celebrities are lined up. And Seve Ballesteros, one of the greatest golfers of all time, was putting on a demonstration of how to get out of a sand trap, and he couldn\u2019t. It was the most amazing thing. Gary Player had to jump in the trap and take over. Seve was just having a bad day, couldn\u2019t get out. He had been retired, I think he had just the beginnings of his illness. But he was just a prince of a guy, nice guy, I don\u2019t want anybody to misunderstand me here. It\u2019s just that Seve\u2019s birthday had nothing to do with Sergio winning this.<\/p>\n

But everybody hoped, they wanted to believe that there was an extra inspiration for it. Okay. That\u2019s it. I\u2019ll be prepared — (interruption) yes, I did. I\u2019m gonna get beat up like you haven\u2019t seen for this. By all the left-wing comedians, it\u2019s gonna be, “Rush, do you have no soul? Do you not have one ounce of compassion? Not one? Do you have to find a liberal communist behind every golf –” Some such thing. This has nothing to do with liberalism or communism. This is how media works. How media manufactures stories and plugs everybody into it whether they want to be part of it or not. I could give you countless other examples.<\/p>\n

I mean, we\u2019re gonna see things like this. It happens every day in politics, these kind of things that add sentiment, supposed to touch your heart so that you can\u2019t object to it, you can\u2019t disagree with it, you can\u2019t reject it in any way. In this case, it\u2019s harmless. But when you start talking about political events and other things, it would be like gay marriage or anything that\u2019s a cultural upheaval, this is how it\u2019s done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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