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RUSH: Hey, look, I understand it, I understand it totally, and I\u2019m fine with it. Don\u2019t misunderstand. But, folks, I got my audio sound bite roster here sent to me by the estimable Cookie. How many sound bites do I have? I\u2019ve got 24 sound bites in the roster today. The first 14 are about air pressure in footballs in the National Football League and whether or not Bill Belichick needs to be put in prison, needs to be suspended, the Patriots need to be kicked out of the league, all because of a possible rules violation regarding air pressure in footballs in games played by the Patriots. <\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m all for the attention, don\u2019t misunderstand here, and I addressed this in a way yesterday. I feel like I ought to develop it a little bit more. It\u2019s a bit out of proportion. Look, I say this again. Do not misunderstand. It\u2019s not sour grapes at all. Nobody is more fascinated than I am by this, and we\u2019re gonna talk about it fully.<\/p>\n

But, at the same time, wouldn\u2019t it be great if there were even half the concern for the nation\u2019s rule book being obeyed and being enforced. And when it\u2019s violated people being outraged and action being taken against the perpetrator, and, of course, I\u2019m talking about the Constitution, and I\u2019m talking about the body of law that exists in this country. It\u2019s funny, the scrutiny that Bill Belichick and Tom Brady and the Patriots are getting, and the worry and the hand-wringing over the integrity of the game, the National Football League. <\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s all fine and dandy, but isn\u2019t it funny how there isn\u2019t anywhere near that kind of scrutiny, there isn\u2019t anywhere near that kind of concern or worry about the integrity of the Constitution and our founding documents and so forth. It\u2019s a striking comparison to me, folks, it really is. It\u2019s funny how in sports there is an overwhelming concern for fairness. There\u2019s an overwhelming amount of attention paid to obeying the rules and not cheating and not getting away with cheating. And if you get caught cheating, the proper punishment being handed down. <\/p>\n

What\u2019s all that rooted around? Fairness, is it not? Why do you have rules in a sports contest? Well, you have to have rules obviously. Look, I don\u2019t want to be ridiculous here. But one of the reasons for the rules is so that the contest, the competition comes under some bailiwick known as fairness. Now, you know me, I have a problem with this whole concept of fairness anyway in the sense that life is unfair and a political party has turned fairness upside down into a perverted, convoluted political concept. But nevertheless in sports it\u2019s what it\u2019s all about. <\/p>\n

In politics this notion of fairness is a moving target. What\u2019s fair in politics is determined solely by whether or not it helps the Democrat Party or not. If something helps the Democrat Party, then it\u2019s fair. No matter what they do, voter fraud, violating the Constitution, writing law from the Oval Office, writing law from any number of bureaucracies, infringing on the freedoms, the real human freedoms of the American people, lying to them left and right in order to impose on them things that they wouldn\u2019t otherwise, if they knew, support. And ho-hum, oh well, we\u2019ll just blame it on the Republicans not knowing how to play the game right. Yeah. There\u2019s no love in politics, folks. The aggressor sets the rules. If the Republicans can\u2019t fight the battle… <\/line><\/p>\n

The problem is you have referees in sports, you got the league, the commissioner\u2019s office. Where is that in politics? About the closest you can come to it is the Supreme Court when you get right down to it. I don\u2019t want to sit here and tell you it bothers me. I don\u2019t want to sound all Pollyannish and like a Miss America contestant or something. Not to insult Miss America, or contestants. I\u2019m not trying to be trite here. I\u2019m not trying to be naive. <\/p>\n

This is, to me, as a student of society and keen observer of sociological, philosophical, psychological movements, it\u2019s all fascinating to me. Because over here in the world of sports none of this really matters. Sports, for most people, is a getaway. Sports, for most people, is an escape from the humdrum. It\u2019s Fantasy Island. It\u2019s pretend and one of the great things about sports, and I\u2019ll share this with you one more time — I was with the Kansas City Royals. After one season all the marketing representatives from all the teams get together at the winter meetings, annual marketing meetings. <\/p>\n

We had a speaker come in one year. He was a sociology professor at Harvard. He looked the part: bald headed, glasses down on his nose, jacket with the leather patches on the sleeves, and a pipe. He\u2019s standing up there lecturing us and he had brilliant thing to say. He said the one thing about sports that sets it apart from everything else — now, listen carefully to this, because it is profound. Sports is the one thing in which you can invest total passion without consequence. Meaning, you don\u2019t have to worry about opening yourself up.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t have to be guarded. You can root for your team, your favorite players, with everything you got. You don\u2019t have to hold anything back. You don\u2019t have to worry about being too honest and somebody taking advantage of you. You don\u2019t have to worry about being too open and honest and being manipulated. You don\u2019t have to worry about anything. And then he said, after saying, “Sports is the one thing in which you can invest total passion without consequence,” he paused and said, “Try that with your wife.” Your spouse, he meant, meaning nobody is totally open with anybody. <\/p>\n

Everybody puts up some sort of boundaries to protect themselves. But in sports you can just forget all that and let it all go. And people do. And the evolution of media and celebrity and stardom and so forth, sports has always had a lofty position in our culture, but now it\u2019s even higher. It\u2019s up there with royalty. It\u2019s up there with actors, actresses, and so forth and so on. But the attention, the concern, I\u2019ve got audio sound bites here from people, ladies and gentlemen, who will do anything to look past anything Bill Clinton\u2019s ever done, look past anything Barack Obama\u2019s ever done, but are demanding that Belichick be suspended from the game. <\/p>\n

The same liberals, hell, not just liberals. All kinds of people who object to any holding to account Barack Obama or Bill Clinton are the first people to demand that Belichick be sent to prison, exhibiting zero tolerance for the transgressions of Belichick, whatever they might be, or Brady in this case. But there are so many subplots in this story. I wish I had said this publicly yesterday. I have to rely on Mr. Snerdley to confirm for you that I said this. It was during a commercial break on the program yesterday, and we were talking about this Patriots thing, and I got on the IFB, the intercom to the staff on the other side of the glass and I said, “When this is all said and done, it isn\u2019t gonna be about Belichick.” <\/p>\n

And they said, “What do you mean?” <\/p>\n

“Brady. Right now Brady is getting a pass. Brady\u2019s the pretty boy. Brady is the guy everybody wishes he was. And Brady\u2019s gonna get a pass.” But I said, “Before this is all said and done, who benefits from a deflated football? The quarterback. Who touches the ball all the time? The quarterback.” And then last night here comes John Madden. John Madden out of the woodwork (paraphrasing), “Hey, well, I mean, it\u2019s clear that if anybody\u2019s responsible for this, it would be the quarterback,” and that would be Tom Brady.<\/p>\n

Now, there\u2019s even subtexts and subplots to that. When\u2019s the last time you heard John Madden call out a player? Madden doesn\u2019t do it much, even when he was working regularly in the NFL on CBS and on Fox and then NBC with Al Michaels. You know, Madden\u2019s a guy, an NFL guy, and he\u2019s one of the greatest advocates, promoters, defenders of the league, the game there is. I was shocked when he called out Brady like that. Then I had to remember, Madden\u2019s a Joe Montana guy. And you just never know, speculating idly, this is the beauty of sports, you can talk about whatever you want and it doesn\u2019t matter to anything at the end of the day. And that\u2019s precisely what kind of amazes me about this. <\/p>\n

It really doesn\u2019t matter to anything, and yet that Harvard professor is exactly right. Invest total passion without consequence. I mean, it\u2019s all over the place. I don\u2019t know, but I would bet that Matt Drudge is getting record numbers of hits right now on the Drudge Report, people trying to find out the latest on this. As I say, 14 out of 24 sound bites I have today are about this. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m here to tell you, there have been far greater damaging transgressions that have really, really, really hurt people and this country, that have come out of Washington, that don\u2019t get any attention at all, and don\u2019t seem to amount to anything that people have grave concerns over. And I just, you know, in one of my dreams and one of my fantasies, if the Constitution, and if the laws of our country were treated with the same reverence and respect as the rules governing, in this case, the NFL, do you realize how screwed the Democrat Party would be? <\/p>\n

Do you realize, if there were this kind of attention from the fans, let\u2019s say the Constitution has fans, like the Patriots have fans, and the NFL has fans, do you realize if the people of this country were as oriented toward fairness and adherence to the rules and angry at cheaters, upset with liars, the Democrat Party would be in heap big trouble right now. <\/line><\/p>\n

You could play all kinds of games with this. Okay, let\u2019s say liberal-conservative. The Patriots are the conservatives in this case, because everybody hates \u2019em, they want to get rid of them. So what are the Patriots to do? Well, if the Patriots follow the Republican playbook — (laughing) — I\u2019ll tell you what I would do if I were Brady. Too late for Belichick. Already had a presser today. <\/p>\n

But, if I were Brady, his press conference is normally on Friday, but they moved it up to four o\u2019clock today, after this program, by the way. And, if I were Brady, I\u2019d come out and I\u2019d laugh, I\u2019d be lighthearted about it, it\u2019s just football, for crying out loud, we\u2019re talking about air pressure in footballs? If he said, “Man, this is nothing. I finally know what it feels like, I finally know what President Obama feels like to have all these Tea Party people after him.” And that would end it. The media would immediately be on the side of Brady, Belichick, and the Patriots. It\u2019s how it works. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I gotta grab a phone call here before we get to the Belichick sound bites \u2019cause I need to straighten something out here, and it\u2019s from my adopted hometown of Sacramento. It\u2019s Kevin. Glad you called, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Good morning. I\u2019m sure I\u2019m hearing you wrong, but it sounds like you\u2019re kind of giving a pass to Tom Brady and Belichick about their lack of integrity or perceived lack of integrity —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, Kevin, I need to ask you seriously. What in the world — seriously, now. I\u2019m not argumentative. I\u2019m not I\u2019m trying to be contentious. I want to know, what did I say that makes you think I\u2019m giving them a pass?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, the kind of tongue-in-cheek advice to Tom Brady about, you know, doing a press conference or what to say. The only thing the quarterback needs to say is —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m dead serious about that. You know, you\u2019re making my point. You are more upset over the fact I\u2019m not ticked off about this as much as you think I should be, and my point is, I\u2019m mad about it. I\u2019m intrigued by it. I\u2019m interested in it. But at the end of the day it doesn\u2019t have any impact on your life or mine. I wish people were as mad about being lied to by their president, as mad about vote fraud, as mad about what\u2019s being done to this country via illegal immigration and that, I wish people were as mad at that as they are this. <\/p>\n

\"original\"<\/a>I wish people really, really were concerned about the people involved and all these messes that have been made in this country being held accountable. And I\u2019m dead serious. I\u2019m trying to illustrate a point. If Tom Brady goes out there today and says, “You know, I finally understand what it\u2019s like to be Obama being hounded by the Tea Party,” you watch what would happen. There would be an immediate outpouring of sympathy for the guy from some quarters. I\u2019m not saying it would get him out of it, but you know it as well as I do that he would form a bond.<\/p>\n

Look, when you\u2019ve got a guy at ABC named Brian Ross and there\u2019s a school shooting in Ohio and the first thing he does is try to find the name of the guy who did the shooting on a Tea Party roster? For crying out loud. And you tell me that I\u2019m the one not taking things seriously here? I\u2019m trying to tell you that this is all out of proportion. Bill Belichick is not Barack Obama. But he\u2019s being portrayed as Darth Vader and who knows whatever else. In the meantime, we have a massively incompetent secretary of state running around making a mess of everything around the world. He followed a massively incompetent secretary of state named Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve got an incompetent guy in the White House who\u2019s still running around wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt as though it\u2019s still his junior year in college with the choom gang and he\u2019s making mincemeat of the Constitution. He is chipping away at liberty and freedom everywhere. He\u2019s transferring wealth. He\u2019s raising taxes. He\u2019s creating more and more people in a state of dependence, unable to provide for themselves. There\u2019s a genuine assault on the character and the makeup and the backbone of this country. It would be nice if just for a day there were the same kind of outrage and anger. I\u2019m not kidding you. <\/p>\n

I have the sound bites here of people who think that Bill Belichick ought to be banned from the game, and they are the same people who think Ken Starr was what was wrong with Monica Lewinskygate. The same people who think Obama should get a pass on everything, same people who think Bill Clinton didn\u2019t do anything wrong, who think Belichick ought to be sent packing. Bunch of hypocrites. <\/p>\n

All right, now to the sound bites. Here\u2019s Belichick. I\u2019ve met him a couple times. This is just full disclosure. I\u2019ve run into him on the sideline a couple times. I\u2019ve run into him at the AT&T Celebrity Pro-Am. He\u2019s always been a nice guy, but he doesn\u2019t suffer fools at all, much less gladly or well. He doesn\u2019t like divulging secrets. Everything is a secret about his team. He doesn\u2019t like answering questions, and he doesn\u2019t. As such, the media thinks he\u2019s surly and mean and distant and uncooperative. Then you add Spygate in there. Deflategate wouldn\u2019t have anywhere near the weight that it has if it hadn\u2019t been for Spygate back in 2007. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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