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RUSH: Dale Hansen is a sports anchor at WFAA-TV<\/a> Eyeball 8 news in Dallas, and he had some thoughts on Michael Sam, the University of Missouri football player who has sex with other men and who is going to be joining the National Football League in the draft this year. This is Monday night on air, Dale Hansen speaking about the University of Mizzou defensive end Michael Sam\u2019s announcement that he is gay.<\/p>\n

HANSEN: You beat a woman and drag her down a flight of stairs pulling her hair out by the roots, you\u2019re the fourth guy taken in the NFL draft. You kill people while driving drunk, that guy\u2019s welcome. Players caught in hotel rooms with illegal drugs and prostitutes? We know they\u2019re welcome. Players accused of rape and pay the woman to go away? You lie to police, trying to cover up a murder? We\u2019re comfortable with that. You love another man? Well, now, you\u2019ve gone too far.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s his take on the current makeup of the NFL. That sounds like he sees it as the Crips and Bloods. “Well, you beat a woman, drag her down a flight of stairs, pull her hair out by the roots, you\u2019re the fourth guy taken in the NFL draft. You kill people while driving drunk, you\u2019re welcome.” That\u2019s true. There\u2019s a player… That\u2019s also true in politics, by the way. That happened in Massachusetts. <\/p>\n

You kill people while driving drunk, that isn\u2019t just the NFL. That\u2019s also Massachusetts, but let\u2019s just be honest about it here. “Players caught in hotel rooms with illegal drugs and prostitutes. We know they\u2019re welcome.” Hey, that\u2019s happened for mayors of Washington, DC, too. Marion Barry. “The b-i-itch set me up,” remember that? Washington, DC, hotel room. “Players accused of rape and pay the woman to go away?<\/p>\n

“You lie to police, trying to cover up a murder? We\u2019re comfortable with that. You love another man? Well, now, you\u2019ve gone too far.” Nobody\u2019s saying keep the guy out. In fact, they\u2019re bending over to… Unintentional. People are, I think, really opening their arms to be welcoming to Michael Sam. Now, Dale Hansen continued and got a little bit more political in the next sound bite.<\/p>\n

HANSEN: It wasn\u2019t that long ago when we were being told that black players couldn\u2019t play in our games because it would be uncomfortable, and even when they finally could, it took several more years before a black man played quarterback, because we aren\u2019t comfortable with that, either. So many of the same people who used to make that argument, and the many who still do, are the same people who said government should stay out of our lives, but then want government in our bedrooms. I\u2019ve never understood how they feel comfortable laying claim to both sides of that argument.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, is that an attack on conservatives there? Is that what that was? Let me see. “It wasn\u2019t that long ago when we were being told that black players couldn\u2019t play in our games because it would be uncomfortable…” Well, it was the fifties. “[E]ven when they finally could, it took several more years before a black man played quarterback, because we aren\u2019t comfortable with that, either. <\/p>\n

“So many of the same people who used to make that argument…” Who still makes that argument? Who is still saying blacks can\u2019t play quarterback? “So many of the same people who used to make that argument, and the many who still do, are the same people who said government should stay out of our lives,” that\u2019s a non sequitur, “but then want government in our bedrooms”? <\/p>\n

Who\u2019s he talking about? Who wants the government in our bedrooms? What is that in reference to? Is that in reference to abortion? Is it in reference to prostitution? What\u2019s that reference to? “I\u2019ve never understood how they feel comfortable laying claim to both sides of that argument,” and finally, he wraps it up with a plea for all of us to celebrate Michael Sam.<\/p>\n