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RUSH: The Super Bowl. Forget football. The Super Bowl\u2019s not about football. You know, I had to be reminded last night that the game is Sunday. I am not kidding. Just as I was not kidding when I told you a week ago that I was shocked when I saw that people in the Northeast were still without electricity and heat because of Hurricane Sandy. I genuinely thought that had been dealt with, because I hadn\u2019t seen any media reports about it. I don\u2019t want to run through the whole thing, but they\u2019d had the concert. I was not kidding about that. By the way, Staten Island has some sort of tent city that had been constructed to help deal with recovery.<\/p>\n

It blew down. Something happened. It\u2019s a mess. I didn\u2019t know that, either. I thought it had all been fixed \u2019cause of what Governor Christie and Governor Cuomo said, and what Obama said and what the media hadn\u2019t said. I thought it was all fixed. Last night, I kid you not, I had a momentary lapse that the Super Bowl is Sunday. It had slipped my mind. Now, the only thing remarkable about that is that\u2019s the first time in my life that on the Thursday night before the Super Bowl, I haven\u2019t been thinking about it. The Super Bowl isn\u2019t about the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl is not about football. The Super Bowl\u2019s about gay rights. I had a little story here about this Culliver guy of the Fort\u2019iners. It turns out he\u2019s just one of many. We\u2019ve gotta do a Gay Community Update on the Super Bowl when we get back.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut! (playing You Don\u2019t Own Me) It\u2019s time for a Gay Community Update, and it\u2019s about the Super Bowl, folks. The Super Bowl\u2019s about gay rights this season, more so than it is about the game. Here\u2019s Klaus Nomi with the song…<\/p>\n

NOMI: You don\u2019t Nomi! I\u2019m not just one of your many toys.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is our official update theme.<\/p>\n

NOMI: You don\u2019t own me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Klaus Nomi, the late great.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

NOMI: Don\u2019t say I cant go with other boys! Don\u2019t tell me what to do, and don\u2019t tell me what to say. Please, when I go out with you, don\u2019t put me on display. Because you don\u2019t Nomi. Don\u2019t try to change me in any way!<\/p>\n

RUSH: I wouldn\u2019t think of it. No way!<\/p>\n

NOMI: You don\u2019t Nomi. Don\u2019t tie me down \u2019cause I never stay!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, you tough guy, you!<\/p>\n

NOMI: And don\u2019t tell me what to say.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You must play for the Ravens!<\/p>\n

NOMI: Don\u2019t tell me what to do. Just let me be myself. That\u2019s all I ask of you. I\u2019m young, and I like to be young! I\u2019m freeeee and I want to be free, to live my life the way I want, to say and do whatever I please!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the song.<\/p>\n

(song cuts off)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, we must interrupt our Gay Update Theme Song with a sound bite, the first of our many bits of news here about the gay community and the Super Bowl. Chris Culliver, cornerback of the Fort\u2019iners, got into big trouble by saying he didn\u2019t want any of that “sweet stuff” in his locker room. He didn\u2019t want gays around. He said it wouldn\u2019t happen in the NFL. No gay players. None of that. He went out there and apologized, and the coach said, “That\u2019s not who he is,” and he said that\u2019s not who he is. So everything\u2019s okay now, but he wasn\u2019t finished. Yesterday at the Superdome in New Orleans he spoke with reporters again about his remarks about gays, and the reporter said, “Chris, what do you want people to know about you at this stage?”<\/line><\/p>\n

CULLIVER: I don\u2019t have no differences in other sexualities, and, uhhh… You know, just — just like that, and that\u2019s… Like I said, that\u2019s not what I — what I feel in my heart, and — and I treat everyone equal in any type of way. So, uhh, it\u2019s not how I feel.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, there you have it. Chris Culliver of the San Francisco Fort\u2019iners, quote, “I don\u2019t have no differences in other sexualities. … Like I said, that\u2019s not what I … feel in my heart, and … I treat everyone equal in any type of way. So that\u2019s not how I feel.” (song instrumental picks up) Again: “I don\u2019t have no differences in other sexualities.” It\u2019s perfectly clear now. He\u2019s erased any doubt, and there\u2019s nobody with any questions. So everything\u2019s cool; everything\u2019s hunky-dory. We can get back to who\u2019s gay on whatever team now. That\u2019s what\u2019s important. Now we resume our Gay Community Update Theme Song. (song instramental swells) This is the late great Klaus Nomi with the vocal portrayal. You know, Lesley Gore did this song originally.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know why 49er fans care about gay issues, but they do, so we talk about it.<\/p>\n

NOMI: You don\u2019t Nomi!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sing it, Klaus!<\/p>\n

NOMI: I\u2019m not just one of your many toys!<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s gonna really rev it up here, folks.<\/p>\n

NOMI: Don\u2019t say I cant go with other boys!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, get ready. Buckle up. Here we go.<\/p>\n

NOMI: Don\u2019t tell me what to do, and don\u2019t tell me what to say. Please, when I go out with you, don\u2019t put me on display.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, now zip up.<\/p>\n

NOMI: I\u2019m young, and I like to be young! I\u2019m freeeee and I want to be free, to live my life the way I want, to say and do whatever I please!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Klaus Nomi, let\u2019s hear it for him! (clapping) Yes siree, Bob! From the Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites, that\u2019s Klaus Nomi, everybody. (clapping) Our Gay Community Update Theme. You can unzip now. That\u2019s it. That\u2019s the crescendo. That\u2019s the high point. We dedicate, of course, the song to Chris Culliver of the San Francisco Fort\u2019iners. We have time to squeeze in one more bit of news. Terrell Suggs of the Baltimore Ravens was asked if he would have a problem with a gay teammate. Terrell Suggs said, “Absolutely not. No, we wouldn\u2019t have a problem with it. We don\u2019t care. Our biggest thing in the locker room is just to have fun, stay loose. We don\u2019t really care too much about that. We\u2019re a football team. I said it yesterday: Everybody deserves a certain amount of privacy. Who cares?”<\/p>\n

So the Ravens are on board with it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We have one other item here for our gay community update, which is actually not Super Bowl news, but it is football news. The mastermind of the Manti Te\u2019o girlfriend hoax, this Tuiasosopo guy, this from the New York Post, not TMZ. “The mastermind of the Manti Te\u00c2\u2019o girlfriend hoax believes he needs to ‘recover from homosexuality.'”<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t know that that was something you needed to recover from, but this guy, Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, confessed to Dr. Phil that he created Manti Te\u2019o\u2019s fake girlfriend because he\u2019d fallen in love with Manti Te\u2019o himself. Yes, Tuiasosopo fell in love with Manti Te\u2019o, but he was embarrassed to go tell Manti that he, a guy, had fallen in love with him. So he created the fake girlfriend, and then got involved in this vicarious relationship, although it was real for him. <\/p>\n

Dr. Phil asked Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, “Were you in love with him?” And Tuiasosopo, who was crying, said, “I mean, yeah. It\u2019s very shameful and very painful to even talk about, [but] I grew feelings, I grew emotions that [I] couldn\u00c2\u2019t control anymore. You\u2019ve heard of recovering drug addicts? It takes a lot of courage to stand and say that — to recover from homosexuality and this type of thing. Not only that. Coming back to your real life — as hard as a task as that is — I\u2019m going to do all that I can to live right,” he said in the hour long interview, which will continue on TV today.<\/p>\n

This is how you get your life right, by the way, go on television, you know, go on Oprah, Dr. Phil, TMZ, or what have you. So this guy, folks, he\u2019s toast now. If he had any prayer of having this pay off, he shoulda said he was ecstatic and happy about being gay. But to go out there on Dr. Phil and say that he had to fake being a woman because he was gay and he was in love with Manti Te\u2019o, and now he needs to recover from homosexuality, that\u2019s about the worst thought crime that anybody can commit today, is to want to recover from being gay. So that\u2019s what he said, living right. “I\u2019m gonna do all I can to live right,” which, that\u2019s what he means, I guess, is recover from homosexuality. So there you have it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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