{"id":283924,"date":"2018-09-10T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=283924"},"modified":"2021-06-01T09:27:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T13:27:18","slug":"tennis-through-the-prism-of-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/09\/10\/tennis-through-the-prism-of-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Through the Prism of Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: So I have here a story from the Daily Telegraph in the U.K.: “Climate Horror Exposed as Swiss Millionaire Loses Evening at Tennis Game.<\/a>” This is actually a story where the New York Times is being made fun of.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Daily Telegraph: “According to the New York Times, Australia\u2019s John Millman did not defeat Roger Federer at the U.S. Open. Instead, Federer was beaten by climate change: Federer, who is ranked No. 2, seemed to struggle all night in the heat and humidity at Arthur Ashe Stadium, losing in a fourth-round upset to John Millman, an Australian ranked 55th. ‘It was hot,\u2019 Federer said. It ‘was just one of those nights where I guess I felt I couldn\u2019t get air; there was no circulation at all …\u2019<\/p>\n

“To some, the comments by Federer, 37, may sound like sour grapes. But they also underscore a growing problem: increasing nighttime temperatures. Under climate change, overall temperatures are rising — 2018 is on track to be the fourth-warmest year on record — but the warming is not happening evenly.”<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not making this up! The New York Times actually blamed climate change for Federer\u2019s defeat. See, Federer is part of the tennis elite. And the tennis elite is the same as the Washington\/New York media corridor elite, the same as the Washington establishment elite. And these challengers are a bunch of upstart outsiders who are just there to provide opposition, much like the Washington Generals did versus the Harlem Globetrotters. And now their heroes are losing, and they can\u2019t handle it.<\/p>\n

Now, this business with Serena Williams, I\u2019m not making this up. The comparisons between Serena Williams and Hillary Clinton and Naomi Osaka and Donald Trump are just stunning if you stop to think about it and if you know what happened.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how many of you paid any attention to what happened in the U.S. Open, but Serena Williams melted down. She got swamped. She lost in two sets. She was never in the match. She got skunked by a 20-year-old upstart who, interestingly, is also a minority female. She\u2019s Japanese, spent some time growing up in America, but her heroine her whole life has been Serena Williams and her dream was to play in the U.S. Open finals against Serena Williams.<\/p>\n

And it happened on Saturday, and she beat Serena Williams, and they made her cry! They made her feel like excrement for daring to beat Serena Williams. Serena Williams was left to complain that the judges were being unfair, the referees were unfair. She threw her racket in disgust after losing a point, started shouting that she\u2019s never cheated, that she\u2019s honest, that she\u2019s got a daughter now, she\u2019s tried to be an excellent role model, demanding that the referee owe her an apology.<\/p>\n

And the tennis elite circling the wagons around her thinking the referee blew it. They had no problem booing the winner at the U.S. Open. They booed the winner! I\u2019m telling you, folks, the comparisons are many. That U.S. Open women\u2019s tennis final, a microcosm for how Trump is treated by the elites in Washington. Same thing. How all of us are treated, in fact. Expected to lose. Expected to be second or third class. Supposed to apologize for winning and then reject the victory and give it back, make allegations that our victory was tainted by cheating that benefited us.<\/p>\n

A lot of people are saying, “Well, Rush, you\u2019re missing the point on this. It\u2019s \u2019cause of race.” It\u2019s not race, because Naomi Osaka I think has got some Haitian, did somebody say? Haitian. Somebody said Haitian. So she is a woman of color as well. She is Japanese, Haitian. It\u2019s not race, folks. This is elitism. This is pure “We\u2019re better than you. We are in an upper class and you\u2019re not.” That\u2019s what this is.<\/p>\n

Now, Serena Williams is one of the chosen beneficiaries of the elites\u2019 affection because she does check off all the boxes. But they\u2019re also legitimately impressed with her talent. But that\u2019s not the primary thing. I just don\u2019t think race is the primary, predominant factor here in what happened.<\/p>\n

I think the expectation that she is chosen, she is the perennial representative of leaders and of winners and that this defeat of hers was a personal affront to the elites, not just to her. How dare that other girl win! They made that other girl feel like crap. When she was given the trophy, when she was awarded the trophy, she was in tears, and she did apologize.<\/p>\n

She apologized for causing all of this that upset Serena Williams. And Serena Williams sat there and nodded as though that\u2019s exactly how this young upstart ought to behave. I don\u2019t doubt there\u2019s a lot of sympathy for Serena Williams because of her race, but this is elitism, folks. It\u2019s more about being an accepted insider and losing to some exciting new outsider that drove \u2019em nuts.<\/p>\n

At the awards ceremony, let me tell you about this \u2019cause I\u2019m telling you that the similarities are striking. At the awards ceremony, the winner, 20-year-old winner, Naomi Osaka covered her face with her visor and cried. The crowd booed her! The president, the chairman of the United States Tennis Association, a woman named Katrina Adams opened the awards ceremony by criticizing the winner and speaking longingly of the loser.<\/p>\n