{"id":24351,"date":"2007-01-26T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:05:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T06:05:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:05:21","slug":"liberal_sports_fans_and_war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/01\/26\/liberal_sports_fans_and_war\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Sports Fans and War"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/>We\u2019ll go to St. Louis next. Steve, thank you for waiting. You\u2019re on the program, sir.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: It\u2019s an honor to talk to you, Rush.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Thank you.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: I am furious, and I\u2019ve been furious for quite some time. (Oh, third-time dittos, by the way.) This whole thing with the nonsupport of the war and everything that\u2019s going on over there and the political parties? I\u2019ve got a question for you &#8212; and I know you can answer this, and I know it\u2019s going to make you look good. How would you categorize the sports fans in this country? It doesn\u2019t matter if they\u2019re football, baseball, basketball. Are they, on the conservative side mostly, or liberal side, or is it kind of evenly split?<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: I would have absolutely no way of knowing. Sports fans?<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: The fans, yeah. I know you\u2019re connected with a lot of sports people up higher, but how would you categorize the people that sit down and watch?<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Well, you may be going somewhere here that I don\u2019t know, but remember, I worked for a baseball team in marketing, and it was the objective to get some of these people out to the ballpark as possible, as often as possible and we didn\u2019t look at them and I didn\u2019t study them on that basis. They were looked at in an entirely different way. I\u2019ve never focused on whether the fans are liberal or conservative. See, what we knew was that sports, to the average fan, is an escape from all of the drudgery and the humdrum and the boredom and the disappointment of every day life. Sports was an escape for them to go fantasize and forget things for whatever length of time they\u2019re spending engaging in being a spectator. So that\u2019s why I never attached an ideology label to sports fans. Sportswriters, sports media people are an entirely differently thing where I would have to tell you it\u2019s 95% liberal if not more.<\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>CALLER: Well, that might add a little more to the question, then. The reason why I\u2019m asking is, say it\u2019s the football playoffs, Super Bowl. Say that one team is down by 20 points at halftime, and the staff on that football team says, &#8220;You know, we just can\u2019t win this. Let\u2019s start pulling our guys out. We\u2019ve got too many injuries. Let\u2019s just pull out.&#8221; How do you think the fans would feel?<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Oh, the fans would get livid. <\/line><BR\/>CALLER: They would lynch that team!<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Yeah, but the correct analogy is that the coach gets a call from the owner or somebody on the owner\u2019s staff like the general manager. The coaching staff probably, the generals, they wouldn\u2019t want to pull out. The quarterback, who\u2019s the field general wouldn\u2019t want to pull out. But the owner, maybe his staff, the general manager up there would think, &#8220;My gosh, you\u2019re going to lose the whole team. We won\u2019t have a season next year. It\u2019s silly. Why should I get my team involved in a civil war down there?&#8221; Yeah, the fans would be livid. Okay, I see where you\u2019re going now. <\/line><BR\/>CALLER: The other question is: How would the players feel on the team if all day they started being called off the field and they were outnumbered by the other team?<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: You don\u2019t want me to answer that. (Laughing.)<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: So now you correlate that to the war in Iraq. Pardon me. Not &#8220;the war in Iraq,&#8221; the war on terrorism.<\/line><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/open_line_friday.Par.0008.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"265\" height=\"173\" class=\"alignleft\"\/> RUSH: I understand it. I understand it. That\u2019s why you gotta go back to, this is an escape. This is not looked at as life and death, whatever. The Super Bowl &#8212; the biggest sports event in the country &#8212; it\u2019s not viewed as having any relevance to national security nor does its continuation, in some cowards\u2019 minds, put us at risk. There are a lot of people in this country that think the more we go at war and try to defend ourselves, we\u2019re gonna make these people angrier and we\u2019re just at greater risk. Plus, most sports fans do not think their team needs to be &#8220;taught a lesson&#8221; like so many liberal Americans think their country needs to be taught a lesson. Every sports fan whose team wins loves it and they want them to keep stomping the enemy, the opposition, and they don\u2019t want to give any quarter, and they don\u2019t like any of this backing down and giving \u2019em &#8220;a chance want to go back in the game.&#8221; They want complete, utter domination!<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: So my question is, there must not be very many liberal sports fans. How can they relate? I\u2019m kind of nervous, but, you know, I\u2019m furious over this fact that if you\u2019ve got a room full of liberals watching the Super Bowl, and they\u2019re all rooting for one team, and all of the sudden the coach starts pulling people out or the head office starts pulling people out because they\u2019re losing anyway; they might as well just go home, how do you think they would react? They would be furious.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: I don\u2019t think they\u2019d even get to that point. They\u2019d still be counting up how many black coaches are in the game, versus black players.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: (Groans.)<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: They\u2019d be all upset about whether there are black referees, or if the guys that are carrying the yard sticks are black. How come there aren\u2019t any more blacks in media, sports media? Do you know how many blacks there are in sports media? <\/line><BR\/>CALLER: No, I don\u2019t.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: It\u2019s tiny. The percentage of black sports reporters and TV people, is tiny, compared to the full population of sports media. So they\u2019d be worried counting all this stuff. They\u2019d be worried if one team at a disadvantage and maybe the game is not fair from the get-go. But look, I get your point, and it\u2019s an excellent point. But see, this is the great conflict. I think there are plenty of liberals who watch their sports teams. The real question is, are there any liberal sports fans, because it\u2019s so violent; it\u2019s so brutal. But to the extent that there are, I still think these liberal sports fans love it when their teams win! They love it when their teams crush; they love it when their teams dominate. (interruption) No, I don\u2019t feel guilty with their team wins. That\u2019s the point. The sports media might feel guilty if a team wins based on something, but the fans&#8230;? The analogy is somewhat flawed even though I really appreciate the thought process that you\u2019re engaging in out there, Steve, because the whole thing is an escape from realty, and liberals will not see a football game or a basketball game the way they see war. They just won\u2019t. Plus we don\u2019t have college professors telling me that sports sucks. What\u2019s the sports equivalent to Vietnam? There isn\u2019t one. The political aspects of this&#8230; Liberals are probably more upset when I talk about sports than when they watch it.<\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>CALLER: Well, I have one other thing.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: All right.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: I have you on the radio whenever I work. I\u2019m an independent carpenter, and when I go into somebody\u2019s home to work, I play my radio, and it\u2019s amazing to see the responses of a lot of people where they just look at me and say, &#8220;How could you listen to that?&#8221; and I said, &#8220;I love this, and you ought to listen to it to.&#8221; So I don\u2019t turn it off. I\u2019m doing the best I can to promote you.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: I appreciate it, but how many people want to listen along with you?<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Oh, no, they just walk through the room and go on. But it\u2019s playing.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Right, but how many people are glad, and what I\u2019m getting at?<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Oh, there are a number of them. I would say it\u2019s probably a 50-50.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Yeah.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Yeah.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: That makes sense. What do they do, the ones that can\u2019t believe you\u2019re listening to this show? What do they do when you tell them that they should?<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: They give it the same response that most of them do when they hear you, you know, talking about, oh, you know, fat ass things or they talking about just ranting and raving things and not making any sense, and I said, &#8220;Well, you haven\u2019t listened long enough.&#8221;<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Well, they haven\u2019t listened at all. This program makes more sense in five seconds than anything else they could possibly listen to. You could listen to inspector in five seconds, you know what you\u2019ll hear on NPR in five seconds? Mmm-hmmmmm. Hmm-mm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. Mm-huh-hmm. I haven\u2019t heard a thing yet in five seconds, anyway. <\/line><BR\/>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: Bob in Cherry Valley, Illinois, welcome to the EIB Network.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Hi, Rush.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Hi.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Thanks for taking my call. I\u2019ve listened for the last 15 or 16 years, and this is the second time I\u2019ve called.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Well, I\u2019m glad to have you back, sir.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: I grew up reading Lincoln Steffens and The Muckrakers, and I love satire, and I think you carry on in that tradition beautifully.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: I appreciate that greatly. I had two comments on the previous call. One, the immediate one about the sports thing: the true politically correct liberal position on the Super Bowl is that the game ended in a tie and was equal on all sides.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Yeah, but, see, they do that in kids\u2019 sports. They do that in Pop Warner Football and Little League, if the teams are not evenly matched, but when it comes to professional sports, liberals are fans just like everybody else is.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: I know.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: We can sit here and have fun about how liberalism would impact, say, pro football if liberals were actually in charge of it, but the point is that they\u2019re nowhere near that. Now, when they start making the case that women should be allowed to play on pro football teams, just as they should be allowed to be in the military.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Then we got a problem.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Hold your thought here, because you made me realize something here.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Yes?<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ll go to St. Louis next. Steve, thank you for waiting. 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