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RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. It was this morning on the Fox News Channel\u2019s Fox & Friends. Geraldo Rivera was the guest, and they were talking about the case and the arrest of the former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez. Steve Doocy, said, “You know this guy had a $40 million contract.”<\/p>\n

RIVERA: The gang banging. He\u2019s got the gang tattoos all over him. It wasn\u2019t even in the heat of passion. It wasn\u2019t a beef over a girlfriend. What it was is, ‘You have offended my macho pride. Now I\u2019m going to, y\u2019know, uh, do this kind of, uh, jungle ethos. I\u2019m gonna to hunt you down; I\u2019m gonna kill you. How dare you disrespect me?” I mean, so many, uh, youngsters from the, uh, inner city, from the ghetto go down that road where meaningless deaths, uh, just pile up, like in Chicago with this whole gang thing. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: So there\u2019s Geraldo Rivera claiming that the gang mentality exists in the National Football League, the “jungle ethos.” “You don\u2019t dis me, dude! I\u2019m going to kill you just for looking at me the wrong way.” Geraldo: “He\u2019s got the gang tattoos all over him. It wasn\u2019t even in the heat of passion. It wasn\u2019t a beef over a girlfriend,” but this was just because he got dissed. Geraldo then continued…<\/p>\n

RIVERA: I don\u2019t know why the league who recruits these kids from the inner city, how they don\u2019t have minders, how the agents who are collecting 10% of $40 million… Where are they in all of this? Why aren\u2019t they mentoring these young men who are fatherless, many of them — Ray Lewis and all of the rest. Michael Vick. Uh, you can count them. There\u2019s a ton of them. They sign them because they\u2019re superb athletes and doing nothing to preserve their character and put them on the right road.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Holy cow! It\u2019s almost like he\u2019s saying that the NFL is a contest between the Crips and the Bloods<\/a>! It\u2019s almost like Geraldo is saying the gang culture has taken over the NFL.<\/a> And he\u2019s probably not going to get in any trouble for that.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I want to go back to Geraldo here. After basically saying that what Aaron Hernandez did, he did because he\u2019s got the gang mentality. He\u2019s a gang guy. He\u2019s got all the tattoos! He\u2019s a Blood and a gang member in Bristol, Connecticut. He has the “jungle ethos.” Let me try to describe the NFL that way. But Geraldo is the stamp of approval of the American left so he can say these things.<\/p>\n

Then he said he doesn\u2019t know why the league doesn\u2019t provide “minders,” why the agents don\u2019t mentor these young men who are “fatherless.” Why don\u2019t the owners provide mentors? What, are the teams now supposed to become fathers? Are businesses supposed to become fathers in addition to evening else they have to do as employers. “Why aren\u2019t they mentoring these young men who are fatherless, many of them? Ray Lewis! Why isn\u2019t Michael Vick?” <\/p>\n

Geraldo, would you want either of those two guys mentoring your kids? Anyway, folks, all we\u2019ve got here is the Aaron Hernandez story. We don\u2019t know anything yet beyond alleged and here\u2019s Geraldo basically saying that the NFL looks like the Crips and the Bloods. Gang ethos, “jungle ethos.” “You dissed me! You dissed me!” I remember when I said sometimes the NFL looked like that to me, I was ripped across the whole country for race-baiting or bigotry and all of that stuff. <\/p>\n

Geraldo, probably nobody would even pay any attention, had I not amplified it for you. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let\u2019s move on to the audio sound bites. <\/line><\/p>\n

This is on SportsCenter this morning on ESPN2. The Aaron Hernandez arrest and possible gang ties are being discussed, and here is Bristol County, Massachusetts, Sheriff Thomas Hodgson. <\/p>\n

HODGSON: Our gang intelligence unit has already interviewed him once, they\u2019re gonna be dealing with him again. And obviously the concern around that is, if in fact there were any affiliations with gang members or currently, we have to make sure when we place him in a unit that there aren\u2019t issues around rival gang members. ‘Cause we have a lot of gang people who are housed here. So that could create a security concern for us, for anyone who has rival issues. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Holy cow, folks! So now they\u2019re investigating his gang ties to figure out where to put him in prison. Because there are a lot of rival gangs in there and they can\u2019t put him in the population with the wrong gang or they might have a riot, another murder, mayhem, who knows what? This guy is a star player in the National Football League, a star player for the New England Patriots. This has the potential to blow the lid open on the NFL and gangs and the whole concept.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll never forget this. The former coach at University of Tennessee, a man by the name of Phillip Fulmer. There was an ESPN announcer guy, a Ron Radio-type guy, a “puker.” When they were doing Tennessee games, he\u2019d always pronounce his name, “Phillip Fulmeeey!” Anyway, the University of Tennessee had about half the team arrested one year and Phillip Fulmer said, “For the life of me, I can\u2019t understand why young men with just one of the greatest futures in store for them to would come here and get involved in criminal activity like this,” and I was blown away that the coach couldn\u2019t understand why. I\u2019m still blown away by it. Fulmer is a good coach, too. Don\u2019t misunderstand. It\u2019s just… I don\u2019t know. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay. Here it is: Aaron Hernandez grew up in Bristol, Connecticut, where he was a member of a gang there known as ESPN. He lives in Bristol County, Massachusetts, which is where North Attleboro is. Okay. So there\u2019s two Bristols. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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