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RUSH: You\u2019re probably pretty close to it. I think that especially you\u2019re right that these people don\u2019t listen. I think they do Nexis searches. I think they get caught up in what has been written about me and others, by critics and people who disagree, people who are frightened. All this is really oriented around the fact that I was right. All this is become the tempest that it is because I must have been right about something. If I wasn\u2019t right, then there wouldn\u2019t be this cacophony of outrage that has sprung up within the sportswriter community. <\/line>And I remember I told a bunch of people when this ESPN thing started, I said, “You wait. The liberal sportswriters throughout the country are going to be outraged and they\u2019re going to be laying in wait because they\u2019re every bit as political as anybody else is.” And one of the things that has supposedly been laying in wait out there is the press, the sports media has just been waiting for me to introduce politics on this ESPN show, because I\u2019m not supposed to do that. This is a sports show, and I\u2019m not supposed to bring politics into it. <\/line>Well, let me ask you this: What is it when the sportswriters automatically and in unison, in lockstep, agree with Martha Burk when she makes her claim about Augusta National? Is that not political when these liberal sportswriters demand that Augusta change its private membership policy and admit women? What of that, if it\u2019s not political? These liberal sportswriters are every bit as political – you\u2019re exactly right, Sean – as anybody else is. They make political analyses, judgments all the time in their sports writing because you can\u2019t separate the cultural from the political, and they must certainly do.<\/line>Now, what\u2019s going on here is I said something that they find disagreeable. I said something that not only do they not agree with, I said something that they prefer not to hear, and so they have risen up here and are demanding my head on a platter simply because I haven\u2019t said what they want to hear. If there really was so-called freedom of speech in this country, there would be a tantamount admission that there are all kinds of opinions everywhere, and whether an opinion is about a particular player or an opinion is about the media, it\u2019s just an opinion. It\u2019s just words. <\/line>You take a look at some of the actions that take place either on the field in the NFL or on the sidelines, and you\u2019ll find far more tolerance on the part of these sports reporters than you will for words uttered by somebody that are just that: they\u2019re just words. An opinion is an opinion. If it\u2019s right in somebody\u2019s mind, fine. If it\u2019s wrong in somebody\u2019s mind, fine. But certain opinions expressed in this country – it\u2019s not just in sports; it\u2019s throughout all of life, as you said. I\u2019ve been facing this throughout my 15 years on this radio program. <\/line><\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t say what the appointed, anointed superiorists and those who think that they are at the top of judgmentalism – if you don\u2019t say what they want to hear, if you don\u2019t say what they think is right, then not only are they going to disagree with you, then they\u2019re going to demand that you not be allowed to say it, that you not be given a position or forum to say it because they don\u2019t want to hear it. Now, that is discriminatory in itself. It is also prejudicial in itself. There are many things that have been written about this episode that are so far from the truth that it\u2019s laughable. <\/line> And it\u2019s clear that many of the people writing about this have no real experience listening to this radio program and probably haven\u2019t even heard some of the other things that I have said on this ESPN show. I think in my essay in the second week of this ESPN show came to the defense of black coaches in the NFL, talking about the new hiring policy the league has… It\u2019s actually not a hiring policy. It\u2019s an interview policy. And I came totally to the defense of black coaches. There wasn\u2019t a word about that. Last week [I gave] an essay on Maurice Clarett and his attempt to speed up his admission into the NFL draft. Not a word about that. Here\u2019s this little Donovan McNabb comment. <\/line>Actually, if I can boil it down, what I did was compare Donovan McNabb\u2019s reputation on the field to his reputation in the media. When you boil it all down, that\u2019s the essence of what I did. And I said, “I don\u2019t think he\u2019s as good a quarterback as everybody else does.” I also said, in that same segment, that I think the Eagles not only have made a good investment in McNabb, but they need to keep making the investment. I didn\u2019t say they ought to get rid of him, bench him or anything of the sort. I just said, “I\u2019m a sports fan. <\/line> I don\u2019t think he\u2019s as good as some people do.” So if I\u2019m wrong, I\u2019m wrong. I added to it that I think some of the sports media is influenced in their opinion of his performance by their desire for a black quarterback to do well. And now that – that<\/emphasize> – my friends, is the point of this. For that comment, I am now said to be a racist. And the point is, I\u2019m right about it. I\u2019ll say it again today. I\u2019m dead right about it, and their reaction to what I said is evidence that I\u2019m right about it, otherwise they\u2019d have laughed at it and said what an idiot I am and let it roll off their back. Well, it\u2019s been going on for two days now. <\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/emphasize><\/strong><\/line>BEGIN TRANSCRIPT OF CALLER 1:50 PM EST<\/emphasize><\/strong><\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Ed in Philadelphia. Ed, welcome to the program. Good to have you with us.<\/line>CALLER: Hi, Rush. It\u2019s good to talk to you again.<\/line>RUSH: Thank you.<\/line>CALLER: Let me preface my statement by saying, one (thing). I\u2019m a huge fan. I\u2019m a 24\/7 subscriber, and I also listen a lot to Philly media. First – the first comment I have is that the African-American callers that called yesterday were actually more understanding of your words than the media was. But enough of that. There is one point that you made that I have to disagree with, and I think if we had stayed away from it, the hubbub wouldn\u2019t have been there. I don\u2019t think the problem with the Eagles was Donovan McNabb being overrated. Considering the talent he\u2019s got to go along with him, and the horrible play calling that Andy Reid has done, that would be more a contributor to their failure at this point rather than Donovan being overrated. Yes, Donovan is an inaccurate passer and, you know, he\u2019s throwing forever into linemen\u2019s heads and hands, but I don\u2019t think the problem is Donovan McNabb. When he is let go and let free and let loose to do what he can do, he\u2019s pretty, he\u2019s pretty good.<\/line>RUSH: Okay. Now, let\u2019s…hold it, let\u2019s stop right there.<\/line>CALLER: Go ahead.<\/line>RUSH: You have just uttered an opinion, okay? You may be right, you may be wrong.<\/line>CALLER: That\u2019s true.<\/line>RUSH: That\u2019s where it ought to end.<\/line>CALLER: Well, see, the thing is, the media in Philadelphia really wasn\u2019t arguing the football point than they – more they were arguing the fact that you had the audacity, if I may say, to bring the issue up, as though the Philadelphia media coddled him to this point and in fact he\u2019s not as good as everybody thought he was. That\u2019s – and I think that\u2019s the point that. One got them the most upset, and two is probably the thing that I think you don\u2019t make the best point on. If you want to say he\u2019s inaccurate and he\u2019s just played horrible these first couple games, okay, but it\u2019s too early in the season to say that McNabb is overrated and that he\u2019s overrated because the media has hyped him up.<\/line>RUSH: Okay, look, I got no quarrel with that. That may be fine. I could have been totally wrong in the opinion. But, you know, this is – I don\u2019t know quite how to say this other than that. I could have been totally wrong. So what? You know, you could be totally wrong in what you\u2019re saying here. So I introduced a racial component. So what? It\u2019s not worth all this. You know, it\u2019s, I think this is all an illustration of a real problem the culture and society has, and it\u2019s not getting any better and it\u2019s simply going worse. There\u2019s simply some certain areas you just can\u2019t touch…<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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