{"id":276706,"date":"2018-06-15T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=276706"},"modified":"2018-06-18T16:19:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T20:19:24","slug":"the-big-nfl-see-i-told-you-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/06\/15\/the-big-nfl-see-i-told-you-so\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big NFL See, I Told You So"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: In answer to some email questions: Yes, I\u2019m gonna get to the NFL story that I\u2019ve been hyping the past two days. By now, I\u2019ve kind of raised expectations. It\u2019s not that big a deal. It\u2019s just a gigantic See, I Told You So. I mean, it\u2019s a bull\u2019s-eye See, I Told You So. Cookie sent me a note. I woke up today and I already had a note from Cookie<\/a>, “Can you give me a hint? I\u2019l go find the audio.” I said, “There isn\u2019t any audio. It\u2019s a published piece. Even if there was audio, I wouldn\u2019t use it for this source.” It\u2019s even been on her mind.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me get this NFL thing out of the way. I fear I may have been talking about this for two or three days and I\u2019ve built up an expectation here that can\u2019t be met. But let\u2019s see. When the first signs of trouble in the NFL popped up — and they were actually before Colin Kaepernick decided to take a knee during the anthem. There were other indications — during Black Lives Matter protests and other things — that the NFL was being politicized. I made a series of predictions that would eventually redefine the game to be something that current fans will not find compelling or interesting.<\/p>\n

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Essentially the insertion of politics into the game, when you look at professional sports as an escape from the humdrum, from the controversial, an escape. It\u2019s playtime. You know, it\u2019s make-believe. At the end of the day, it really doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s serious if you\u2019re a fan, but it doesn\u2019t matter to your life. If your team wins or loses, it could affect your attitude and all that, but it\u2019s basically something you set aside over here — it\u2019s the one place in life you can invest total passion without consequence.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s just leave it at that. There\u2019s nowhere else in life you can do that. Try telling your boss every day how much you love the job. Tell your boss every day how much you love him. Tell the boss every day you\u2019ll do anything. What\u2019s gonna eventually happen to you? (chuckles) You\u2019re gonna end up being a gopher. You\u2019re gonna be looked at as the sap who will do anything — and behind your back, people are gonna be joking. You\u2019re never gonna get a significant raise because nobody is ever gonna be threatened that you would ever leave.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why people are guarded. That\u2019s why people have to put limits on exuberance and happiness lest people get the wrong idea. But in sports, you can go all out! You can take the boundaries away, and your team? They may lose, and they may disappoint you, but they will try to take your house away from you — and your team cannot fire you. Of course, unless you work for them — in which case, we\u2019re talking a different set of ingredients anyway.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s why… That\u2019s the great thing about it. You can invest all you have in your team. But that\u2019s ending. By the time you inject politics into this. Now you\u2019ve got other factors that determine whether or not a fan likes a team or a player, and that\u2019s gonna be the beginning of the end. It\u2019s gonna take some time. One of the things that I predicted (just to cut to the chase here), after the Kaepernick thing happened — and I tell you, when it really began was this concussion business, if you recall.<\/p>\n

When they started talking about concussions and how dangerous they were and people having shortened lives and people, players committing suicide and this kind of thing. One of the predictions I made was, “You just wait until they figure out — \u2019til somebody in the media figures out — the angle that the owners are all a bunch of rich white guys, and the players (the vast majority of them) are African-American, and that they\u2019re the ones getting killed. They\u2019re the ones getting injured. They\u2019re the ones committing suicide. They\u2019re the ones to whom all of the bad things are happening.”<\/p>\n

I said, “You just wait. When somebody figures that out and actually starts putting that in daily commentary about what\u2019s wrong with the NFL.” Well, it\u2019s happened. That prediction has come true, and I want to read to you from the publication. I don\u2019t want to mention the reporter\u2019s name \u2019cause he isn\u2019t worth it — and I\u2019m not gonna mention the publication \u2019cause that would enable you to go out and find it. I really don\u2019t want to mention this reporter\u2019s name. The only difference between a bag of excrement and this guy is the bag. Okay?<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s see here. (muttering) Okay.<\/p>\n

“The NFL is supposed to be … ‘a buffer,\u2019 and ‘a concentration camp for adolescents and a Disneyland for adults.\u2019 Instead, we are seeing football … as a center of the rebellion against both our racist system of police violence and mass incarceration as well as resistance to Donald Trump. By taking knees during the anthem, the kids in the ‘concentration camps\u2019 and the performers in the Adult Disneyland are doing more than showcasing a political resistance. They are brashly and boldly displaying an independence from what they are supposed to be doing.<\/p>\n

“They are refusing to be a buffer,” the escape people are using them for. “They are rejecting the idea that they will be part of the ‘theatrics of a dying empire'” of the NFL. “Instead, they are living by the credo set forth by Muhammad Ali, who said, ‘I don\u2019t have to be what you want me to be.\u2019 This is polarizing,” the players are engaging in “polarizing” behavior. It\u2019s “enraging in some quarters, and political red meat for Trump\u2019s frothing base. But for NFL owners, the threat is far more daunting:<\/p>\n

“To [NFL owners], it\u2019s players refusing to be mere extensions of equipment on the field or robots advancing the ball. It\u2019s players noticing … that the league is not in fact integrated. It\u2019s segregated, with mostly black bodies taking all the risk, pain, and traumatic brain injury, while an almost entirely white ownership class reaps the rewards.” And there it is! Now it\u2019s out there. This is the one element I have been waiting to happen. This is going to be defined as modern-day slavery, an equivalent to modern-day slavery.<\/p>\n

You have these rich, white, billionaire owners, and they\u2019ve done everything they could to hide the evidence of brain damage via concussions. And they\u2019ve sent their players, mostly black, to go out there and risk their lives, to risk their limbs, to put their families at risk all for the financial benefit of the rich, white, billionaire owners. It was only a matter of time before this analogy was realized by the leftists who are trying to do great damage to the game, and now it\u2019s happened. Now, it was published…<\/p>\n

\"\"I saw it three or four days ago, however long I\u2019ve been talking about it. And, granted, it hasn\u2019t established or created its own momentum. I haven\u2019t seen others pick this up yet. Maybe they have. I haven\u2019t been watching a whole lot of sports lately, but maybe they have. But never mind. Maybe they will. As we get into the season with the first serious injury of an African-American player, I guarantee you thrown into the mix with all the Kaepernick stuff and the first black player that kneels and breaks the rule, this analogy is gonna be recalled and remembered.<\/p>\n

And it won\u2019t be long — in fact, maybe you\u2019ve heard. I could be behind the game here. Maybe it\u2019s already been stated in places like SportsCenter or Bleacher Report or “Instant Chat” or wherever. But once it is and becomes mainstream — and it will — then you can say good-bye. Nobody wants to, I mean, get into an argument about whether slavery still exists in America. It\u2019s crazy. To try to convince the NFL players, 75% of them African-American, are modern-day slaves because these white billionaire owners don\u2019t care?<\/p>\n

Sending \u2019em out there to get concussions, sending \u2019em out there to die early, to commit suicide, suffer major injuries that shorten their lives? Believe me, the people targeting this game are going to be making that case big time. Probably not \u2019til the season begins. They\u2019ll need some events to occur to trigger the usage of this acknowledgment or this recognition. But I wanted to point it out to you because this has gotta be… However long we\u2019ve been talking about concussions and the NFL trying to hide the evidence and the increased risk these players are taking with their lives and their futures, suicide. However long it\u2019s been going on.<\/p>\n

Four years ago, I made this prediction. Now it\u2019s finally happened.<\/p>\n

I know these people.<\/p>\n

I want to read you another text exchange here because, as I said at the opening of the program, the text messages in the inspector general report, to me, explain pretty much everything that you need to know. Oh, and one other thing. I noticed something last night, and it\u2019s now all over the place. I can\u2019t claim that I arrived at this by virtue of original thought. But it is uncanny, and I\u2019m gonna point it out to you: The structure of this inspector general report, the structure and the reasoning laid out by the inspector general himself.<\/p>\n

It is uncanny how it mirrors James Comey\u2019s press conference on July 5th. It really is, folks. Remember how Comey went through a long list of the various laws and regulations that Hillary violated. In fact, if you recall when he did that, many of us who still thought that Comey was on the right side of law and order — I was one of them. Until that July 5th press conference, I actually believed all the publicity and spin and buzz about Comey. I thought he was Mr. Integrity. I knew that he was Republican.<\/p>\n

I knew he\u2019d worked for John Ashcroft, who is also Mr. Integrity, and I thought that Comey as an FBI director was smack-dab down the middle. And I was surprised. Because I thought Comey was a straight shooter, when he went through all of the crimes that Hillary committed and then announced that he wasn\u2019t charging her, I gave him the benefit of the doubt then. I opined that, “You know what? He probably just can\u2019t bring himself to charge the duly nominated Democrat candidate for president. Comey doesn\u2019t want to be the guy responsible for taking out a candidate.” (laughing)<\/p>\n

Little did I know, he certainly did; just the other one! I thought — and I said so. I thought he was, in truth, giving us the indictment. He was identifying for the country the crime she had committed, and I thought he was frustrated that he couldn\u2019t charge her. I thought he was frustrated that, despite all this evidence, he couldn\u2019t do anything with it. So what did he do? He went to the American people — he violated FBI ethics, policy, and all that — and listed the charges and listed the violations of law. I could not have been more wrong.<\/p>\n

\"\"But I was giving Comey the benefit of the doubt. I really thought he was trying to help the American people understand what she did since she was gonna get away with it. It didn\u2019t take me long to figure out that what he was doing was actually engaging in a long-thought-out, conceived and executed strategy to exonerate her. So he goes through all the crimes. I mean, it was detailed. Remember that? It was detailed, all the violations, the things she did with her server and where she had done them and so forth.<\/p>\n

And then he said… Inventing part of the law that doesn\u2019t exist, he said that he couldn\u2019t find any “intent.” They just couldn\u2019t find where she intended to break these laws and commit these violations, and so no reasonable prosecutor would charge her. The inspector general report is almost identical to this in structure. Horowitz carefully outlines all of the wrongdoing that went on at the FBI during their investigation of Hillary, for 568 pages. He lists every offense. He gives the supporting documentation and evidence but concludes there was no bias — and, therefore, nobody did anything wrong. It\u2019s uncanny, the similarities between Comey\u2019s press conference and this IG report in terms of how both seek to exonerate the without-any-doubt-about-it guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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