{"id":250228,"date":"2017-10-10T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=250228"},"modified":"2017-10-11T16:04:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T20:04:09","slug":"trump-will-not-let-up-on-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/10\/10\/trump-will-not-let-up-on-the-nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Will Not Let Up on the NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Trump will not let go of this NFL thing. Normally in the old days of yore, something like this would happen and a powerful Republican would offer a bit of criticism of some institution, and that would be it. The institution would react in mock outrage and make fun of or attack the Republican accuser, and it would be over.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is not letting it end. Trump is not stopping until the NFL bends to his will. I\u2019ll tell you something. Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys&#8230; Sorry. Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Capboys &#8212; that\u2019s how you have to say. How about them Capboys? C-a-p-b-o-y-s. &#8220;How about them Capboys?&#8221; Jerry Jones owns the Dallas Capboys, and Jerry Jones says you either stand for the anthem or you don\u2019t play. You stand or you\u2019re benched. Well, the Drive-Bys today, the sports Drive-Bys are all asking, &#8220;What is the NFL gonna do to Jerry Jones? How is the NFL gonna punish Jerry Jones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2017\/10\/09\/jerry-jones-wants-to-save-his-business\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-250254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NFLKneelJerry-Jones-kneeling.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NFLKneelJerry-Jones-kneeling.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NFLKneelJerry-Jones-kneeling-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Jerry Jones can\u2019t do that,&#8221; is the inference when you read this. &#8220;What is the league gonna do to Jerry Jones?&#8221; Jerry Jones and the other owners are the league, number one. Number two, what\u2019s gonna happen, and I got a little headline link that I just saw here on the Drudge Report, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/10\/10\/nfl-owners-to-consider-rule-change-that-would-require-players-to-stand-for-national-anthem-report.html\">NFL Owners Consider Rules Change Requiring Players to Stand<\/a>.&#8221; It sounds like what the league is gonna do is move in the direction of Jerry Jones. But the sports Drive-Bys, man, are they hoping the league comes down hard on old Jerry, \u2019cause Jerry can\u2019t do this!<\/p>\n<p>Jerry can\u2019t require his employees to do this, and that is the whole point. These players are talking about their platform. It isn\u2019t theirs! How many times, my friends, have I spoken of the field of play in professional sports is the equivalent of the stage? It is. It\u2019s the stage. And I will tell you when I first made this reference. I\u2019ll never forget it. Dusty Baker was the manager, I think, of the San Francisco Giants. I may getting the team wrong. I\u2019m not sure he ever managed the Giants. At any rate, it was a playoff game.<\/p>\n<p>I think it was Dusty Baker. The manager\u2019s kid, like five or six years old, was in the dugout watching the game, and somehow ended up&#8230; I think he was playing bat boy. The owner\u2019s kid was wearing a uniform, playing bat boy, very young, single-digit ages, and the kid ended up dangerous am close to home plate where there was going to be a collision, a runner was trying to score. One of the, I think, Giants players had to scoop up the kid to get him out of the way &#8212; in the middle of the game!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WzV7x8WcR4g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I remember saying, &#8220;You don\u2019t let people on the stage that don\u2019t belong there! You don\u2019t let nonperformers on the stage.&#8221; The NFL field is a stage. The stage is owned by the owners. It is their platform; it\u2019s their stage. They are the ones that invest and pay for every aspect of each week\u2019s games. Now, I know that there are deals with cities and state governments on tax favorability for building a stadium. I\u2019m not trying to get in the weeds here. My point is, the players don\u2019t own any of it. They are employees like you and me.<\/p>\n<p>And any employee taking time-out from the job to protest America, the flag, or whatever&#8230; If you went into McDonald\u2019s, you wanted a Happy Meal and you had to sit there and listen to the clerk or the checkout person preach to you about police brutality and all, what would you do? Would you expect the media to come in and support the so-called right of free speech for McDonald\u2019s employees to do this while you await your Happy Meal?<\/p>\n<p>Put yourself in any business and have the same thing happen and ask if you would be expected to sit there and put up with it and shut up and not disagree with it and understand they have a right. &#8220;They have a platform! They\u2019re protesting the evils of America, and you have to listen to it.&#8221; What\u2019d you do? You\u2019d walk out of the place. You wouldn\u2019t put up with it. You\u2019d tell other people what happened, and nobody else would show up. Which is exactly what\u2019s happening in the NFL. Last night\u2019s ratings, Monday Night Football, in the tank, according to what I just saw.<\/p>\n<p>Not a record low, but way, way down. In fact, it was a dull game. You know, I didn\u2019t watch it, but I\u2019ll tell you what I did do. Well, I was working. I\u2019m always working. It\u2019s not work, but I mean to define the activity, I\u2019m working. I\u2019m reading. I\u2019m preparing. I\u2019m remembering. I\u2019m logging. I\u2019m injecting my memory with things that I expect to be there on immediate recall. And I decided to check the game. I had the TV on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-250269\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/650-050417-Combat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/650-050417-Combat.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/650-050417-Combat-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>I was watching some shows I\u2019d recorded last week and hadn\u2019t had a chance to see. I tuned in and the score of the game near the end of the first half was 3-2. And I said, &#8220;This has gotta be the biggest bomb of an NFL Monday night game in recent &#8211;&#8221; 3-2? That means a field goal and a safety? Or maybe it was 2-2. I don\u2019t know. Then the next time I checked it was 17-17 late in the fourth quarter, it looked like they might be heading to overtime. But that didn\u2019t happen. And I was telling myself, this is not good.<\/p>\n<p>And then I noticed something in all of the &#8212; you know, I look at video highlights. And I\u2019m noticing, I\u2019m not seeing any more shots of the upper decks at NFL stadiums. And I said to myself, &#8220;Why am I not seeing, you know, wide shots that show the full stadium dynamics?&#8221; It\u2019s because there\u2019s some empty seats up there, probably. And the broadcast networks obviously, their partners are the NFL, they\u2019re doing what they can. They\u2019re starting to televise the national anthem less.<\/p>\n<p>But wait. I thought the players had a platform. I thought the players could demand. No, no, no, the players don\u2019t own it; the owners do. This is why so many people, led by me, have been asking, what are the owners &#8212; they got a choice here. They\u2019ve got one of two choices. And they\u2019re choosing to go with the side that\u2019s actually hurting them. The way they look at it, either choice they make is gonna hurt them.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Namath was on Fox, was it this morning? Yeah, Joe Namath, Joe Willie, and they played a sound bite of me claiming &#8212; not claiming. I didn\u2019t claim anything. I said that I don\u2019t think the NFL knows its audience. The NFL, like the Democrats, they lead their own polls and believe them. These CEOs and marketing people, advertising people watch the media, and they really think the country\u2019s gone left of center culturally, and that\u2019s who they think the audience is. And they\u2019re dead wrong about who their audience is, and that\u2019s why they side with the players.<\/p>\n<p>They think the players are actually exhibiting behavior that reflects a majority of thinking in the country. In other words, the people that run the NFL probably do believe that most of the country is livid at the cops. Because if they watch any news, other than Fox, if they read the New York Times, Washington Post, you know they do, that\u2019s the picture of America they get every day. And as incurious as people on the left are, they may believe it.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why I think that they really misunderstand who their audience is, despite their expertise in marketing and all that. You can tell who their audience is by looking at the most frequently advertised product. And it\u2019s not the wine and brie crowd.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-250320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/650-101017-Trump-Goodell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/650-101017-Trump-Goodell.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/650-101017-Trump-Goodell-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>Well, anyway Namath made the point that the Afro-Americans &#8212; that\u2019s what Al Davis said. That\u2019s cultural too. At one time they were Afro-Americans, then became African-Americans, then black, and went back and forth. But there was a certain era in America\u2019s recent past where the term was Afro-American.<\/p>\n<p>Al Davis called me one day in the 90\u2019s after seeing me talk about tax cuts with Paula Zahn on Fox News. He called me to tell me how his Afro-American players don\u2019t understand their position, that they\u2019re part of the wealthy that are being targeted. But they don\u2019t think they are because of their life experience.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Anyway, I was gonna say, Joe Namath was saying that he really relates to the cause of the Afro-Americans and their belief that the police mistreat them and so forth. But then he went on, he made the point that he doesn\u2019t understand the owners. The owners own the stage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-250255\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FOXNamath-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FOXNamath-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FOXNamath.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Here, grab audio sound bite number 17. It was Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade talking to him. Do you think this is crisis time for the NFL? Audio sound bite 17. Here it is.<\/p>\n<p>NAMATH: I\u2019m not sure it\u2019s a crisis time. I don\u2019t think the sport\u2019s ever gonna go away. But going back to what Colin Kaepernick initially did, it was to point out some injustice that\u2019s being done to the black race or to people that obviously, when you look &#8212; and I say &#8220;obviously&#8221; &#8212; some of these dash cams and shootings that were done to unarmed people and all, he was reaching out to try and get it more investigated. So that\u2019s what\u2019s where this oppression thing comes in.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019m going to give Joe a pass in misunderstanding what Kaepernick was up to because Joe, I know what Joe is doing here, and I don\u2019t blame him. He\u2019s royalty in the NFL and he\u2019s not gonna start causing fights. But this is what he said about the owners.<\/p>\n<p>NAMATH: I don\u2019t understand the NFL owners. I mean, here we\u2019re working, if somebody walks across here with a sign right now protesting, excuse me, you\u2019re gonna let \u2019em do that? No. Well, initially when this took place, that\u2019s the NFL ownership. They own that theater at the time; they own that stage. Are you gonna allow protests out there? They don\u2019t allow players to wear different signs on their shoes. They don\u2019t &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-250256\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FOXnamath2-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FOXnamath2-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FOXnamath2.jpg 489w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>KILMEADE: The NBA has to stand for the national anthem.<\/p>\n<p>NAMATH: You know what? That\u2019s because they\u2019ve been told to. But no one told Colin Kaepernick prior to that that they had to. We just assumed it was the right thing to do, it\u2019s always been the right thing to do, to live in this country, thank the Good Lord.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Joe is really wanting it both ways here. He goes out of the way to establish understanding and support for Kaepernick and then pulls it back by claiming, why\u2019d the owners let him do it? Which really is the question, when you get right down to it.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I love all these people now referring to the field as a stage. Go back to the audio graveyard here and you\u2019ll find that I initiated that, at least in the modern era. Probably can\u2019t claim original credit. Somebody\u2019s obviously said that. But he\u2019s right.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Donald Trump has praised Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys threatening to bench anthem protesters. There were many calls for the league to come down on Jerry, and it looks like the opposite is gonna happen. I was looking at the sports Drive-Bys today and they were livid and they were eager&#8230; You could tell by the way they were writing that they were eager awaiting what they thought was forthcoming: The league coming down hard on Jerry Jones, telling him he can\u2019t say things like that.<\/p>\n<p>The way it\u2019s turning out? &#8220;NFL Owners Consider Rules Change Requiring Players to Stand.&#8221; Things are moving in Jerry\u2019s direction. Well-known activist Al Sharpton is demanding that&#8230; What is this? I put it on the bottom of the Stack. Al Sharpton Furious Over Jemele Hill Suspension, &#8216;We Won\u2019t Stand for This.'&#8221; Grab the Mama Told Me Not to Run Al Sharpton parody tune, one of our all-time favorites here from the Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites. We will have that coming up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-250310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NFLKneelBills-Kneel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NFLKneelBills-Kneel.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NFLKneelBills-Kneel-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>Mike Ditka, the former coach of the Chicago Bears, was on with Jim Gray on Westwood One\u2019s Monday Night Football pregame show, and Mike Ditka said, &#8220;There has been no oppression in the last 100 years that I know of. Now maybe I\u2019m not watching it as carefully as other people. I think the opportunity is there for everybody &#8212; race, religion, creed, color, nationality. If you want to work, if you want to try, if you want to put effort in, you can accomplish anything. And we have watched that throughout our history of our country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jim Gray was interviewing him. Ditka said, &#8220;I don\u2019t care who you are, or how much money you make, if you don\u2019t respect our country then you shouldn\u2019t in this country playing football. Go to another country and play football.&#8221; Then he was asked about sporting legends Muhammad Ali and Jesse Owens &#8220;using their platforms for social justice.&#8221; Ditka said, &#8220;Muhammad Ali rose to the top. Jesse Owens is one of the classiest individuals that ever lived. Is everything based on color?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t see it that way. You have to be colorblind in this country. You have to look at a person for what he is and what he stands for and how he produces, not by the color of his skin. That has never had anything to do with anything.&#8221; Ditka clearly doesn\u2019t get identity politics. He hasn\u2019t seen any oppression in the last 100 years. (summarized) &#8220;Muhammad Ali? What are you talking about? He rose to the top. He was the greatest ever. Where\u2019s the oppression?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s Ditka\u2019s thinking on this, and another ESPN host has decided that Trump is winning and they can\u2019t stand it. This host said that Trump is making football bow, and this is in reaction to the story that the owners and coaches are pressuring players to stop kneeling during the anthem. Another ESPN host, &#8220;Damn it, Trump\u2019s winning! Damn it, the league is bowing!&#8221; That takes me to one of the points that I want to make here today about Trump and people that still to this day do not understand him and what he\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n<p>Here it is in one sentence: With Donald Trump as president, the Drive-By Media cannot drive by stories as they please any longer. Remember what the definition of the Drive-By Media is. They arrive on the scene of some event and they blow it up &#8212; filled with lies, misrepresentations, distortions, leaks, whatever &#8212; and they create and cause general havoc. And then they leave. And everybody else has to pick up the mess, people whose lives have been damaged or in some cases destroyed &#8212; institutions that were under assault, whatever.<\/p>\n<p>The Drive-Bys come in; they blow things up. They head on down the road waiting for the next event. Well, with Donald Trump as president the media is not allowed to behave as they normally behave. In other words, they\u2019re not getting away with driving by. Donald Trump is forcing them. Every issue Drive-Bys want to blow up, Donald Trump stays on that issue and counters them and fights against them and does not let them automatically create and drive the narrative. I think it is undeniable that Donald Trump serves as a roadblock, if you will, to the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n<p>By this I mean that stories that might have come and gone with issues and reputations all shot to hell and left to rot for the next narrative. These stories are kept alive. Trump can take to Twitter, make a comment. The media\u2019s next narrative comes to a screeching halt and they\u2019re forced to return to the scene of their previous crime. The media had their way. Time to target the NFL over concussions? Do it. Players start protesting police brutality? The media blows that up; supports the players. &#8220;Yes, America sucks! The cops are racist.&#8221; Trump arrives on the scene and the media doesn\u2019t get the last word.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-250313\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/TrumpBoxer-America-Great.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/TrumpBoxer-America-Great.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/TrumpBoxer-America-Great-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>The media doesn\u2019t get to own the story. Trump fights back. Trump keeps fighting back. Every response to Trump, he gives it right back again. The Drive-Bys do not get to own the narrative. In so doing, Trump is emboldening others to fight back. It took a while in the NFL, but now here is Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys fighting back. Not all the owners were on board with the media narrative in the first place, but they were silent. There were many owners that donated to Trump, voted for Trump. They haven\u2019t said a word about this. Other people in their organizations have.<\/p>\n<p>But these particular owners or head honchos haven\u2019t. Trump is forcing the issue back down the media\u2019s throat, back downs the players\u2019 throat, keeping the media reporting on the story in a way they wish they didn\u2019t have to. All of it\u2019s kept alive, emboldening people to ultimately do the right thing or to bend to Trump\u2019s view on this, as is now happening. And the Drive-Bys fit to be tied over it. The Drive-Bys and sports media are wishing the league would punish Jerry Jones for saying that his players that don\u2019t stand are not gonna play.<\/p>\n<p>They want the league, they want the commissioner &#8212; who any other day of the week they despise. They want the commissioner to come down on Jones. They want him to fine Jerry Jones. They want him suspended. They want Jerry Jones made an example of. The story\u2019s now circulating that Jerry Jones is the epitome of modern-day slave owners, and Trump is not having it. Like I said many times: <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2017\/10\/09\/mike-pence-pushed-back-at-the-colts-game\/\">This is what pushing back looks like.<\/a> This is what fighting back looks like. It\u2019s not gonna be pretty. It\u2019s going to be messy.<\/p>\n<p>The Drive-Bys and their agents on the left are used to getting their way. They get to write the narrative of the story; they get to decide who gets punished. They get to decide who gets harmed &#8212; and then they\u2019re done, on the road, down to the next event to cause the same type of thing. Trump is keeping them at the scene of the crime. Trump is not letting them define things. For example, Donald Trump is not going to let the Colin Kaepernick-inspired anthem inspired protest go until he\u2019s good and ready to let them go.<\/p>\n<p>And because Trump is not done with them, there is a better chance of a long-term resolution to this rather than a continued deterioration. Because Trump stays on it. Because Trump doesn\u2019t let go and doesn\u2019t let others up for air. The league is going to be forced to do the right thing and deal with this and shut it down so people can return free and able to watch a football game without being preached to by a bunch of radicals.<\/p>\n<p>The solution is going to be for the players to find some other way to express their grievance, but not on the stage they don\u2019t own. They\u2019re not gonna be silenced. They\u2019re not gonna be shut down. They\u2019re just going to be told, &#8220;You can\u2019t do it on my stage, buddy. You don\u2019t own it, and I am not gonna support this.&#8221; That\u2019s a dire consequence change from the original owner reaction.<\/p>\n<p>The original owner reaction was based in fear and fright. They all felt they had to join the players in this or otherwise lose their locker rooms and maybe, in the worst-case scenario, deal with players who would not show up and play. And so they took the path of least resistance, which is letting the inmates run the asylum.<\/p>\n<p>Not Trump, though. There\u2019s gonna be conflict. But direct confrontation is better than leaving an infected wound untreated. A bitter, direct confrontation where victory emerges and the right thing ends up happening is worth it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/10\/10\/new-black-pantherette-jemele-hill-suspended-by-espn\/\">Trump\u2019s tweet about ESPN this morning has added a new dimension<\/a>. ESPN\u2019s attached to the NFL\u2019s hip. Multiple billion-dollar industries are at risk of alienating lots of zeros off of their checks. This call for a sponsor boycott? Guess who\u2019s not putting up with it? It\u2019s not just ESPN. It\u2019s Trump joining the fray.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-231522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ESPN-Whitehouse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ESPN-Whitehouse.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ESPN-Whitehouse-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>It would be easy &#8212; I\u2019ll give you another example &#8212; it would be easy to let Republicans drop the ball on Obamacare and then blame \u2019em in 2020. It\u2019d be easy to let the Republicans drop the ball on tax reform or immigration. You remember the Drive-Bys said Obamacare\u2019s dead, Obamacare\u2019s the law of the land. Nobody told Trump. He\u2019s still fighting for it. The Drive-Bys say tax reform, not enough time to do it, isn\u2019t gonna get done by Thanksgiving, Congress isn\u2019t gonna do anything, they\u2019re proclaiming victory over Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Trump says, &#8220;Wait a minute. I\u2019m not through here. We\u2019re gonna get tax reform. We\u2019re gonna get immigration done.&#8221; Introduces a 70-point immigration plan, tells Chuck and Nancy if you want your DREAMer deal, you\u2019re gonna get along with all the rest of these points, we\u2019re gonna build the wall. Chuck and Nancy expectedly say &#8220;no way, Jose.&#8221; Everybody else would have dropped it.<\/p>\n<p>When the media said it\u2019s over, Obamacare remains the law of the land, other Republicans &#8212; and they did. &#8220;Okay. Well, we tried. We tried. Our voters know we tried and we\u2019ll kick the can down the road and we\u2019ll stop \u2019em on the debt ceiling in six months. That\u2019s where we\u2019ll really confront \u2019em,&#8221; which we\u2019ve been hearing for seven years, but they never confront and they never stop.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is keeping these issues alive. He\u2019s keeping the issue alive. In the process he\u2019s making it possible to kill Obamacare by continuing to return to Obamacare as an issue. He keeps pressure on Republicans to act. The media can\u2019t just move on. The media can\u2019t proclaim victory for the Democrats or for Obama on Obamacare as they did because Trump doesn\u2019t let go of it. They have to cover what President Trump says and does. And if he says we\u2019re still gonna build a wall and we\u2019re gonna have a massive immigration reform plan with these 70 things in it, they\u2019ve gotta cover it.<\/p>\n<p>They can\u2019t say Trump lost. Just like they can\u2019t say Trump lost to the players of the NFL. The media is 100 percent invested in protecting the legacy of Barack Hussein O. If Trump even hints at diminishing Obama\u2019s regulations or policies, the media has to speed back to the issue hoping to shoot down Trump\u2019s plans before he acts. But it is Trump that is driving the train. It is Trump driving the issue. It\u2019s Trump refusing to let ultimate victory be claimed by the Democrats or by the media.<\/p>\n<p>He will not let border safety go. The media would love nothing more to leave that issue for dead and to claim that Trump lost. Not gonna happen. The Drive-By Media is as worried today as Hillary Clinton. They\u2019re all asking, &#8220;What the hell is happening? We\u2019ve got the dumbest guy we\u2019ve ever had in the White House. We got a guy that doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing, he\u2019s an open idiot, he\u2019s such a clown that he\u2019s not even running the country. His subordinates have to run the country \u2019cause he\u2019s so dangerous,&#8221; and yet he keeps beating them. This is what pushing back looks like. Trump is a roadblock to the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Steve in Orange County, California. Hi. What\u2019s happening?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-247076\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/FB-091417-Trump-Melania.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/FB-091417-Trump-Melania.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/FB-091417-Trump-Melania-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>CALLER: Sir, Rush, what you were just saying about Trump is what I was calling about, which is that people forget he\u2019s a real estate developer and spent his whole career being told &#8220;no&#8221; for years and years until finally someone said &#8220;yes&#8221; and made it happen. And so the media, the Drive-Bys, they cover what he does almost like a failed jailbreak attempt every week, right? It\u2019s sensational and look at this, we got Trump again, right?<\/p>\n<p>But, meanwhile, he\u2019s breaking out of jail more like that guy in Shawshank Redemption, like three pocketfuls of dirt every day and then one day he\u2019s gone, right? But Trump\u2019s got the patience and the determination to just wear everybody down. I think people forget that, that he\u2019s used to dealing in timeframes that are years or even a decade long, and they all have an attention span that lasts like eight minutes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, the thing about his timeline that he\u2019s working on, I think you\u2019re right about. But the important point you made is actually an echo of a point I just made, but I\u2019m not accusing you of anything because you called before I said it. Trump is the one &#8212; folks, ask yourself. I remember the Drudge headline. It was a lead headline above the fold of the Drudge Report: Obamacare: Law of the Land, after the supposed last vote had failed, one of many so-called bills in the Republican Senate, and of course Susan Collins and whoever the hell else, Murkowski voted &#8220;no&#8221; and McCain, and everybody said that\u2019s it, Obamacare survives, and yet who is still trying to get rid of it?<\/p>\n<p>Just today while sitting next to Henry Kissinger, Trump said, &#8220;The reason I called the Democrats is because it\u2019s imploding. It\u2019s hurting people. We\u2019ve got to do something about it.&#8221; Trump doesn\u2019t take &#8220;no&#8221; for an answer. How many times have they claimed in the Drive-By Media that Obamacare has failed for good since March? Why is Trump still even messing with it? The media has told us at least three times since March that every effort to get rid of it has failed and it is now with us forever. And yet Trump\u2019s still on the case.<\/p>\n<p>This is exactly what I\u2019m talking about, roadblock for the Drive-By Media. He\u2019s not letting them move on, after they have in their own minds successfully repelled yet another Republican attempt. And the same thing\u2019s happening on tax reform and a number of other things, immigration, you name it. He\u2019s not letting go. Defeat is not permanent.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Do you all remember when the NFL scandal began? Now &#8220;the scandal.&#8221; But when Trump first called out the NFL and suggested that the owners should fire these SOBs for not standing, do you remember what I said? Among the many things, do you remember what I said? I said, &#8220;No way Trump does not win this thing. There is no way Trump loses this.&#8221; Everybody else said, &#8220;Why did he do this? There\u2019s no way Trump can win this!&#8221; I said, &#8220;Ah, ah, ah, ah! It\u2019s the exact opposite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no way you can lose standing up for the flag and the anthem and the American military. The people that are gonna lose are the people who want permission to openly disrespect it or protest against it. I have here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a memo from the commissioner of the National Football League, Roger Goodell, sent to chief executives and club presidents. Today. Subject: &#8220;Fall Meeting\/National Anthem.&#8221; It opens thus: &#8220;We live in a country that can feel very divided.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-250357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Goodell-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Goodell-1.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Goodell-1-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>&#8220;Sports, and especially the NFL, brings people together and lets them set aside those divisions, at least for a few hours.&#8221; Do you see where this is going? &#8220;The current dispute over the national anthem is threatening to erode the unifying power of our game, and is now dividing us, and our players, from many fans across the country. I\u2019m very proud of our players and owners who have done the hard work over the past year to listen, understand and attempt to address the underlying issues within their communities.&#8221; Da-da, da-da, da-da, da-da, da-da.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like many of our fans, we believe that everyone should stand for the national anthem. It is an important moment in our game. We want to honor our flag and our country, and our fans expect that of us. We also care deeply about our players and respect their opinions and concerns about critical social issues. The controversy over the anthem is a barrier to having honest conversations and making real progress on the underlying issues. We need to move past this controversy, and we want to do that together with our players.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-248166 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NFLGoodell3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NFLGoodell3.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NFLGoodell3-256x300.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/>Translation: Commissioner Goodell of the National Football League has sent a memo to owners, executives, and presidents to stand for the national anthem. (interruption) &#8220;What happened to him?&#8221; (chuckles) What do you mean, &#8220;What happened to him?&#8221; (interruption) No&#8230; (interruption) No, of course it wasn\u2019t&#8230; (interruption) I told you: There\u2019s no way the people standing for the right to oppose the flag, disrespecting the flag, the anthem, the military &#8212; no way that was gonna end up winning this. That Trump was gonna win it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What\u2019s happening?&#8221; Have you seen the TV ratings? Now you\u2019ve got NBC and New Black Panther anchors calling for a boycott of the sponsors, to both the NFL and ESPN? (Unknowingly, I think.) You\u2019ve got television ratings dropping. You have got fewer and fewer people going to the games. What\u2019s happened is, the NFL\u2019s learned who its audience is. What do you mean, &#8220;What\u2019s happened?&#8221; (interruption) I know, they all were. They all were thinking this Trump guy\u2019s a buffoon! He can\u2019t tell us what to do! Our players are the greatest players in the world!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is why you keep fighting! This is why you don\u2019t let the issue go, why you don\u2019t let the media decide who wins and who loses it. There\u2019s only one reason this happened, only one. No, that\u2019s not true, because actually the fans made this happen. But without Donald Trump, the fans would not have been listened to. Without Donald Trump, the fans would have, &#8220;(Raspberry) you!&#8221; I guaran-damn-tee you, folks. I\u2019m telling you, this IS what everybody\u2019s talking about when they say, &#8220;You don\u2019t win it all in one election.&#8221; Once you win the election, this is the kind of stand-up to this stuff that has to happen issue by issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: The Drive-Bys and their agents on the left are used to getting their way. They get to write the narrative of the story; they get to decide who gets punished. 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