{"id":8276,"date":"2014-09-26T17:16:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T17:16:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-09-26T17:16:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T17:16:28","slug":"the_numbers_say_your_child_is_safer_in_an_nfl_locker_room_than_any_public_school_in_america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/09\/26\/the_numbers_say_your_child_is_safer_in_an_nfl_locker_room_than_any_public_school_in_america\/","title":{"rendered":"The Numbers Say Your Child is Safer in an NFL Locker Room Than Any Public School in America"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: What is dominating everything in the NFL today? Aside from the media trying to force the commissioner out? And make no mistake, that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s going on. For those of you unaware, it\u2019s not written anywhere. It\u2019s one of the understood resume enhancements for advancement in journalism.<\/p>\n

If you take somebody out, if you expose a fraud or a cheat — or if you just take out somebody that you don\u2019t like who has a lot of power — if you as a journalist are instrumental in doing that, then you are considered worthy of advancement in that industry, and it\u2019s best exemplified by Watergate. Woodward and Bernstein and getting Nixon, forcing Nixon to resign. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Since then, if you troll the halls of any journalism school and grab any first or second year J-school student and say, “Why are you here?”<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll hear something along the lines of, “I want to make a difference!” <\/p>\n

“Really?” <\/p>\n

“Yes. I want to make the world a better place..” <\/p>\n

“Well, that\u2019s not what journalism is.” <\/p>\n

“Yes, it is! Yes, it is! Don\u2019t you watch 60 Minutes?” <\/p>\n

“Yeah. But it\u2019s not about making the world a better place. That\u2019s not what journalism should be.” <\/p>\n

“Well, that\u2019s what I want to do. I want to make the world a better place. I want to strive for equality and for fairness, and I want to make a difference.” <\/p>\n

“Well, then you need to run for office or work for somebody who\u2019s elected, because that\u2019s what they do. Or maybe become the owner of your own company and establish your own business culture, but journalism\u2019s not about ‘making a difference.\u2019 Journalism isn\u2019t about ‘making the world a better place.\u2019 In fact, journalism is about reporting what other people aren\u2019t around to see.” <\/p>\n

“Well, that\u2019s not fun. No. No. I want to make the world a better place.” <\/p>\n

So, if you then persist, you\u2019ll eventually hear a journalism student say, “And you know what else I want? I want to speak truth to power.” <\/p>\n

“Oh, really? What does that mean?” <\/p>\n

“It means I want to hold the powerful accountable.” <\/p>\n

“Why?”<\/p>\n

“Because the powerful…”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just an assumption in journalism that the powerful are guilty, that they couldn\u2019t become powerful otherwise. Not legitimately. Now, there are exceptions, obviously. Democrat presidents? (snorts) That\u2019s perfectly fine. That power, not only are we not going to take that power out, we\u2019re gonna help that power get built! <\/p>\n

Because journalism now is uber-partisan. But one of the base elements is taking people out, destroying people, destroying their lives — like they tried to do with Mitt Romney, for example. So one of the things happening here in this NFL thing, is they\u2019re trying to get Goodell, and they will tell you, if you know how to listen. <\/p>\n

Turn on any sports talk show, read any sports website, and you won\u2019t have any trouble finding commentary from any number of people who will just flat-out openly say, “Goodell\u2019s got to go. Goodell\u2019s a liar. Goodell\u2019s lying. Goodell… Goodell\u2019s gotta go. We\u2019ve gotta get rid of Goodell.” It\u2019s a fever that spreads, and these people get caught up in it, and after a while they even forget why. <\/line><\/p>\n

It just becomes a way that journalists can demonstrate to themselves and everybody else their power and also effect the kind of change politically that they want, because journalism is total politics. Total. So the effort here is to get Goodell. The reason they\u2019re trying to get Goodell, the way theory trying to get Goodell is spouse abuse. So the picture has been painted that it\u2019s horrible in the NFL.<\/p>\n

“Oh, boy, it\u2019s just reprehensible. It\u2019s bad! I mean, these brutes, these guys, this is terrible. Goodell is not nearly severe enough in meting out punishment,” and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But then you learn that statistically the incidence of crime in the NFL, like spouse abuse, drug abuse, substance abuse, whatever, is between 13 and 15% what it is in the general population. <\/p>\n

In other words, these incidents occur far less in the NFL. The thing is, there are cameras on the NFL all the time. There are cameras on all the players who play every Sunday. These guys are TV stars. Football players are TV stars, and football is a reality show, and it\u2019s part of the daily soap opera. It also is in the crosshairs now because of concussions and the injuries that the game causes to people who play it, and it\u2019s a target.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just become a huge, huge target, and the people that run it have got to go. In light of all of that, there\u2019s this effort to create the image of the NFL as the absolute bastion of brutish, reprehensible male predatory behavior is all over the place. Yet I ran across some statistics. This is, I say, something that we all know because we pay attention to the news.<\/p>\n

But it doesn\u2019t register because there aren\u2019t any pictures of it, and there hasn\u2019t been a big effort to do anything about it. But look at this. “The NFL is currently mired in controversy surrounding issues of domestic abuse among its players, as well as how Commissioner Roger Goodell has handled the issues. There have been five arrests for domestic violence and one arrest for child abuse since the start of 2014.<\/p>\n

“That doesn\u2019t count multiple arrests for assault, drugs, DUI, and more as USA Today has tracked. Disturbing?” Well, yeah, but… But! “Compare that with the 325 school teachers and employees arrested for sexual misconduct with children since the beginning of the year.” The bottom line is this: Your child is much safer in an NFL locker room than he or she is in any public school in America.<\/p>\n

Stop and think. How many stories do you see here and there, now and again, over a period of time about a teacher abusing a child? Speaking of which, how many of you can recall being shocked and surprised at how many of the teachers abusing young students are women? I\u2019m sure, as you start thinking about it, your memory kicks in. You\u2019re starting to say, “Yeah, yeah! I remember that.” <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a pull quote from this story: “If the NFL players and league office deserve wall to wall coverage over the past two weeks for five incidents of domestic abuse within the past year, what level of attention do our children and schools deserve with 325 incidents of sexual assault by teachers or school employees within the past year? …<\/p>\n

“US Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) and US Representatives Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Frederica Wilson (D-FL), and Steve Stivers (R-OH) recently attempted to bring attention to the problem in a press conference and news release announcing a bill to protect students from sexual predators. It was met with a resounding thud, as primarily only local Pennsylvania news outlets covered the announcement, according to a Google search.<\/p>\n

“Yes, there are hundreds of NFL football players versus millions of school-age children, so the representation of these instances of sexual misconduct with school is statistically smaller. That doesn\u2019t excuse the response and horrible judgment by teachers and administrators…” The point here is look at the differing degrees of intensity. The focus of evil in all this is the NFL.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s reprehensible!<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve gotta get the commissioner!<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve gotta get those guys!<\/p>\n

You gotta fire \u2019em, gotta put \u2019em in jail!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s horrible, it\u2019s rotten!<\/p>\n

Everybody is focused on it, and now pregame shows of football games are taken up with this issue before they even get to the football aspects of the game they\u2019re carrying later. And yet here\u2019s an issue that is literally swept under the rug every time an incident is reported. The teachers union has a lot to do with that and politics has a lot to do with it, too, because leftists run the education system, and they circle the wagons and protect each other. <\/p>\n

But I found this. I ran into this a couple nights ago, and I found it fascinating. You know, just as a societal study of the way the media is able gin up overflowing emotion and anger on certain things and at the same time able to suppress and hide the same conduct, oftentimes worse, in other places. The murder rate in Chicago, for example. Black-on-black crime in Chicago versus one incident in measuring, Missouri.<\/p>\n

Look at the difference in media coverage there. That\u2019s politics, that\u2019s the media, and that\u2019s what\u2019s… By the way, don\u2019t misunderstand here. I don\u2019t think any of you are, but for some nitpickers, this is not to defend what\u2019s happening in the NFL. This is an exercise here in, again, understanding\/comprehending journalism. I mean, the morally outraged would have you believe that no instance of child abuse is tolerable.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s not permissible! We\u2019re not gonna put up with it.” Yet, depending where it happens, they don\u2019t even care, and they don\u2019t spend much energy at all reporting it. But let it happen in the NFL, which is now the latest target of the media, for a host of reasons. It\u2019s why I say, “I don\u2019t think the NFL and its owners, even now, realize fully who it is coming after them and why.” I hope they do, but I haven\u2019t seen enough evidence to be confident of that. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Mark in Houston. Mark, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello. <\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s great to talk to the Children\u2019s Book Author of the Year because I know it\u2019s the biggest dig of all. It hurts \u2019em when they hear that. But I called because I believe that all these people that go to this J-school or journalism school are coming out and becoming salesmen, and they should be called such. Like: “Bob Schieffer, National Sales Director for Deface the Nation,” or “Christiane Amanpour, International Sales Correspondent.” You know, that\u2019s gotta be an insult to those people because that he really what they do, and they should be treated like snake oil salesmen.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I like that. They are advocates. They are advocates of a point of view. And, by the way, folks, let me say something about that. You know, I think this idea that journalists have to be objective and unbiased is impossible. It\u2019s impossible for an engaged human being to not care with the outcome of events. Everybody cares. I mean, that spends time in this business, that endeavors to become informed. <\/p>\n

Everybody cares. <\/p>\n

Everybody has a desired outcome. <\/p>\n

The challenge for journalism is not total objectivity. It\u2019s honesty. Some might say “fairness.” Journalists love to say, “Yes, we might be biased, but we\u2019re fair.” No, you\u2019re not fair because you\u2019re not honest. The key to journalism is honesty, and the willingness to report and cover things that are gonna result in an outcome we don\u2019t agree with. That\u2019s why I love this analogy that they\u2019re actually salespeople, they\u2019re advocates. I think that\u2019s a great way of putting it. “CNN\u2019s Christiane Amanpour, International Sales Rep for CNN,” because that\u2019s exactly what she\u2019s doing. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a great point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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