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RUSH: This business — what do we have out there? Hillary, the first woman who has a chance to be president. Obama, the first black who has a chance to be president. Bill Richardson, the first Hispanic who has a chance to be president. John Edwards, the first ambulance chasing lawyer who has a chance to be president, and Joe Biden, the first hair implantee who has a chance to be president. We got a lot of firsts out there, but these are not the firsts running for president. <\/line>I personally know of three blacks who have sought that office. The Reverend Jackson, the Reverend Sharpton, and of course Alan Keyes once sought the presidency — and there have been two other women to seek the presidency. One was Shirley Chisholm. Anybody want to take a stab at who the other woman was that sought the presidency? Well, I don\u2019t think it was Angela Davis. It was the lovely and gracious Carol Moseley Braun, but of course those were not viable candidacies, ladies and gentlemen. Anyway, I\u2019m deeply troubled. Well, that may be putting it a little heavy. But as I watched this first woman to do this, first black to do this, the first two black head coaches in the Super Bowl, I understand why people are saying it, and I particularly understand why the media is promoting it. But, I honestly do not like all these labels and firsts and all the rest. <\/line> I mean, we\u2019re all Americans. Only in America can anyone with talent and motivation become anything they want. Liberals and the media seem to think this is unusual for our country, because they don\u2019t understand our greatness. They think this is actually unusual, that qualified competent people would have a chance to reach the heights. They think that a lot of qualified, competent people can\u2019t reach the heights because certain powerful forces are constantly pressing them down. So when Obama emerges, when Hillary emerges, it somehow is a sign to them that America finally is ridding itself of the horrors of 200 years ago or 150 years ago, that finally something remarkable is happening in America — when something remarkable happens in this country countless times a day! We end up diminishing these people when we cast these labels on them based on race and gender, if you ask me, and we give them credit for things that denies the credit that they\u2019re actually due: and that is the credit for their achievement and their accomplishments, such as is the case with Lovie Smith and Tony Dungy.<\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line> All right, here we go. Lovie Smith, the coach of the Chicago Bears. By the way, congratulations to Chicago and to Indianapolis. Those were great games yesterday. It\u2019s going to be a great Super Bowl, too: the Horses and the Bears. Whoa! What an environmentalist wacko pick this is going to end up being. Anyway, I want to congratulate Lovie Smith and Tony Dungy. They are much more than the first… This is what I mean: they are so much more than “the first two African-American head coaches in the Super Bowl.” These labels, folks, are Balkanizing our society, and I just don\u2019t like \u2019em. We are all Americans, and only in America can anyone with talent and motivation become anything they want, and the problem here is that liberals and the media seem to think this is unusual for our country because they don\u2019t understand our greatness. I understand all the talk about how Dungy and Lovie Smith can be role models for young blacks, and, “Oh, now I can be a coach!” <\/line>Well, that\u2019s fine and dandy. I\u2019m all for that. I\u2019m all for people having role models and having people to inspire them because everybody needs that, but the media and the left in this country, I\u2019m sorry, do their best to beat down some other great role models such as Condoleezza Rice and Clarence Thomas. Why is it not also said by the same media that young black kids can run around America and say, “Wow, I can be a Supreme Court justice or I can end up being secretary of state like Colin Powell or Condoleezza Rice”? It\u2019s because of liberalism. It\u2019s pure and simple. Lovie Smith and Tony Dungy are great coaches, and they have been great coaches for a long time. They have been assistants. They have worked and toiled in obscurity. They are not where they are because they\u2019re black! They\u2019re where they are because they\u2019re good. They competed, and they won. We all want to project — and the left especially wants to project — their racial views and social agendas into this, but that isn\u2019t why they\u2019re where they are.<\/line>Lovie Smith and Tony Dungy are in the Super Bowl because they were the best this year, as it should be. I think all these racial and gender labels cheapen successful people. If you listen to the media on this, Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith are going to the Super Bowl because some racial barriers have been broken down, and that\u2019s not why! They\u2019re going to the Super Bowl because they are the best. They\u2019ve worked long and hard for this, and to somehow focus attention on their skin color, even if the attempt is in a positive way, cheapens them in my opinion, because it focuses attention on something other than their work. These racial and gender labels are also a sleight against a country that is the most open, free, and progressive on the face of the earth. This storyline is going to be around for the next two weeks, and one of the purposes of the storyline from the Drive-By Media, which will be promulgating the story, is that somehow, despite the odds and this racist, sexist, bigoted country of America, where we are all obsessed with guilt, finally two African-Americans are going to be coaching in a Super Bowl at the same time!<\/line><\/p>\n

This is not the first time two African-Americans coach against each other in the National Football League. But this is the first time in a Super Bowl with this worldwide audience, and so the left and the media (and believe me, they\u2019re one and the same) look at this as some sort of (sigh). What? I wouldn\u2019t call it the Hope Bowl. I\u2019m just saying they look at this as extraordinary. They look at this as, “Wow, wow, America may finally be getting its act together,” when in fact the opportunity, the affluence, the ability to be whoever you want based on your ambition and desire has never — that opportunity has never — been greater that is not in the United States of America today. But the left, the media, act like we still live in a world of segregation and stereotypes, when for most of us it doesn\u2019t even enter our heads. <\/line>They want to perpetuate a mind-set that most people in this country don\u2019t have anymore: racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobe country! They tried this in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, too. People of all races and religions were contributing billions of dollars in charity and time, to help the people there regardless of color. The Duke Lacrosse story is another situation. These templates, these formulaic scenarios that the left has about what life in this country really is all about, based on — if we\u2019re going to call this anything, not the Hope Bowl, this is the Guilt Bowl! In fact the presidential race in \u201908 is going to be the presidential race of guilt. The country is on the warpath for guilt. We\u2019re feeling guilty about everything, and so any of these stereotypes that make us assuage our guilt or feel like we\u2019re assuaging it, well, then we\u2019ll gladly get on board. The problem is we diminish the achievements of the people that we are objectifying on the basis of their gender or their race. Americans of all creeds, sizes, shapes, colors, religions donated for tsunami relief as well. The left out there, they defend illegal immigration by arguing among other things that these people only want to come here to work, and they only want to come here to better themselves. <\/line>Yet when they do, they act like there\u2019s something unique about their success related to race! On the one hand the left will totally defend illegal immigration. “Well, these people are coming to my country and they\u2019re trying to improve themselves, well, I am not going to stand in the way of anybody trying to improve themselves if my country can provide it,” and yet, when those achievements take place, there\u2019s something unique about it because of their race. It\u2019s the same thing here with Lovie Smith and Tony Dungy. Whereas, everybody acknowledges the opportunity for success here, somehow we still have to beat ourselves up over the notion. “No, it\u2019s really not a fair opportunity out there, ladies and gentlemen.” I was reading something last night, before retiring to my comfortable Select Comfort <\/a>Sleep Number Bed (sleep number 75) and it was a story<\/a> on one of the sports websites about, well, Mike Tomlin has been hired as the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Art Shell got canned. Denny Green got canned.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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