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<\/p>\nRUSH: This is Neil in Matthews, North Carolina. Welcome, sir. It\u2019s a thrill to have you with us. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thanks for taking my call, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You bet! I\u2019m happy to have you here.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Okay. Listen. You spoke about the liberal media and the Democrats leading this coronavirus panic — you know, leading to the shutdown of the NBA, now the NHL, Major League Baseball — you thought, “How about in the NFL in the fall?” Well, I think it\u2019s time for President Trump to call their bluff and for the health and safety of American citizens, he needs to call to postpone the November election and stay on as president until we get this thing under control.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Hey, you know what? I actually like that. Same premise. The Democrats are trying to cancel their primary. Plugs are out canceling his rallies. Can\u2019t have people showing up! Can\u2019t have the virus spread. Can\u2019t have large crowds assembling. They want Trump\u2019s rallies to stop.<\/p>\n
Folks, let me tell you what else. In the National Football League, team after team after team is announcing today that they\u2019re closing their facilities. Now, this is the off-season in the NFL, and players are not at facilities this time of year. They can\u2019t legally be there because of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.<\/p>\n
So, the only people at the facilities are team executives as they get ready for free agency — which legally kicks off next week — and the draft, which is coming up, which is gonna be in Las Vegas, which is gonna be very, very interesting. They\u2019re doing the draft in Las Vegas \u2019cause the Raiders are moving to Las Vegas. It\u2019ll be very, very, very, very interesting to see if they do the draft.<\/p>\n
Because, you know, Las Vegas expects to double or triple the number of people usually visiting on a week because of the NFL Draft. So the latest team: The Philadelphia Eagles just closed their facility and pulled their scouts off the road. Daniel Snyder of the Washington Redskins is closing the facility. The Carolina Panthers, I think, are. I\u2019m not sure.<\/p>\n
I just saw the list. More and more NFL teams are closing. You know what this has become? This is a PR bandwagon. “Oops! We better close our facilities so that the public thinks we care.” It\u2019s like companies jumping on the climate change train to make customers think they care, because companies are making the mistake of assuming that everybody believes in climate change.<\/p>\n
So they glom onto it — and why do they make the mistake of assuming that? It\u2019s because they all pay attention to the media. You know, one of the reasons — one of the reasons — if you watched the Super Bowl ads last couple of seasons, how many of you have said, “Man, they just… I don\u2019t know. They\u2019re not what they used to be.”<\/p>\n
They\u2019re not. Advertising itself, to me, particularly television advertising, is nowhere near as creative and innovative as it used to be, and do you know why that is? It\u2019s because they\u2019ve stopped deciding for themselves, stopped trying to figure out for themselves where culture is and they\u2019re depending on the media. So they think everybody believes in climate so they glom onto climate change this and that.<\/p>\n
A company will be “going green,” announcing climate change promotions or whatever, putting polar bears in TV commercials and so forth. I\u2019ll guarantee you what\u2019s happening here. This has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. So the NBA cancels or suspends its season. Well, the NHL can\u2019t be left off. The NHL can\u2019t appear to be irresponsible, so they cancel.<\/p>\n
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Now here comes the NFL. The NFL doesn\u2019t start playing \u2019til September — well, preseason games in August — but they can\u2019t appear to be insensitive and left out. So they\u2019re closing whatever they\u2019ve got to close, which is nothing. Nobody goes to the NFL facilities executive team executives. So they\u2019re shutting those down.<\/p>\n
Now Major League Baseball\u2019s gonna have to do something because their season starts next month. Well, depending on where, the end of this month. What you have right now is a bunch of bandwagon players. I… (chuckles) We have 1,200 cases in America with 39 deaths, and we\u2019re doing all of this? We\u2019ve literally become a culture of a bunch of followers.<\/p>\n
You have to look far and wide to find any courageous leaders anymore. It\u2019s a sad, sad thing, and it\u2019s because of the politicization of so much and it\u2019s because of the dominance of wimp politics — which is liberalism — that is infecting everything. A bunch of wimps disguised as compassionate, concerned, sensitive people is wimpifying practically everything they can get their political hands on.<\/p>\n
So pretty soon, you\u2019re gonna be… (sigh) If you\u2019re a business, if you\u2019re an industry, it\u2019s gonna be foolish to stay open, in the PR sense — and everybody\u2019s making the mistake of assuming that a majority of Americans are living their lives cowered in fear in the corner, worried and scared to death, when that may not be what a majority of Americans are thinking about this.<\/p>\n
But we\u2019ll never know because everybody\u2019s relying on the media\u2019s portrayal of this country every day to be representative of the national attitude on everything. That\u2019s why they think everybody hates Trump! Yet Trump is cruising to a landslide reelection victory. They are convinced everybody hates Trump.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re convinced that everybody thinks Trump is an idiot and a buffoon, and that\u2019s not what the majority of Americans think. (interruption) No, I don\u2019t know what to do about it. I don\u2019t know how you deemphasize the media. It\u2019s a question people have had for as long as we\u2019ve been alive.<\/p>\n
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Well, one of the big problems is the media is not being hurt by having no audience. CNN literally, in another time, another world, would be out of business. They would have had to shut down. They\u2019ve got no viewers, they\u2019ve got no advertising revenue. But they\u2019re part of a conglomerate where they can act as the loss leader. They can use the profits of other areas of the corporation that owns them to stay afloat, whereas a standalone they\u2019d have been bankrupt and shut down years ago.<\/p>\n
CNN\u2019s got no audience. Ditto MSNBC. But they\u2019re propped up by other things. Anyway, so the NFL offices are shutting down their facilities. The National Hockey League spending its season. After the NBA suspended its. So you got a bunch of copycats. Ladies and gentlemen, let me assure you, the EIB Network will not be shutting down. The Excellence in Broadcasting Network will not be shutting down. And, I will not be suspending necessary travel, travel I must engage in. I\u2019m not gonna be suspending it.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no place that I\u2019m gonna cross off the list where I will not be going. I\u2019m not gonna travel internationally, but that\u2019s for whole other different reasons. But I\u2019m just not gonna play, like when they give a recession, I\u2019ve always said, I\u2019m not participating. And I\u2019m not gonna participate in this. Places I have to be, I gotta go. And if I have to go, I\u2019m gonna go. (interruption) No, no, that won\u2019t be a problem. (interruption) No, no, no, no, nobody\u2019s gonna refuse to take me. That\u2019s what\u2019s crazy about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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