{"id":244556,"date":"2017-08-15T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=244556"},"modified":"2017-08-16T16:18:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T20:18:42","slug":"will-the-nfl-eliminate-the-national-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/08\/15\/will-the-nfl-eliminate-the-national-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the NFL Eliminate the National Anthem?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Oh, some clown, some sports columnist at Yahoo — I don\u2019t remember his name. I just glanced at the story. Ready for this? Marshawn Lynch, who now plays with the Las Vegas Raiders, although they\u2019re not in Las Vegas yet, they\u2019re still in Oakland. But Marshawn Lynch sat on the bench during the national anthem during a preseason game over the weekend. And so the media, panting breathlessly, want to speak to him after the game. And he said (paraphrasing), “Hey, nothing to it here, man. I\u2019m just being me. Just doing what I always do, been doing it for 11 years.”<\/p>\n

\"\"The media, “Eleven years? We\u2019ve never seen you sitting on the bench during the anthem for 11 years. What are you talking about?”<\/p>\n

“Yep, that\u2019s me, man, just doing what I do. Don\u2019t read anything into it. Just doing what I do.”<\/p>\n

The sports media is very proud of Marshawn Lynch. And they\u2019ve gone back and they\u2019ve tried to look through game tape to try to find if, in fact, he did sit down during the national anthem for 11 years. They can\u2019t find any evidence to support the claim. But it\u2019s Marshawn Lynch and you don\u2019t call him a liar to his face. They went to the coach of the Cleveland Browns, Hue Jackson, said, “Hey, Hue, what do you think about all these players here, the Kaepernicks of the world?”<\/p>\n

Hue Jackson\u2019s African-American, he said (paraphrasing), “I don\u2019t want to see it here, man. I talked to our team. I don\u2019t want to see it. We play the anthem. We stand for the anthem. That\u2019s what we\u2019ve always done. That\u2019s what we continue to do. I hope it doesn\u2019t happen. I hope there\u2019s nobody on this team that\u2019s gonna take a knee, stay seated on the bench.”<\/p>\n

So a Yahoo columnist, Yahoo Sports columnist<\/a> whose name when I saw it I didn\u2019t recognize, which is why I don\u2019t remember it, has a solution, and it\u2019s right along the lines of the solution in Iceland to Down syndrome<\/a>. This guy\u2019s brilliant idea, if you want to fix the problem, stop playing the anthem. He says they don\u2019t play the anthem at concerts. They don\u2019t play the anthem before Broadway plays. Why do they do it before sports events? Just eliminate it. And if you don\u2019t have the anthem, then nobody can get in trouble for sitting down, \u2019cause there won\u2019t be anything being played while people are seated.<\/p>\n

\"\"And there you have the intellectual clarity of the left. Eliminate the patriotic, eliminate the symbolism that is meant to inspire people and connect them with the history and the greatness of their country. Eliminate it. That\u2019s the problem, of course, let\u2019s just get rid of the anthem. Why didn\u2019t anybody else think of this? And then our players couldn\u2019t get in trouble.<\/p>\n

Hey, Mr. Yahoo Sports columnist, let me tell you how the real world works. If this ever happened — and don\u2019t discount it, because this guy\u2019s idea is gonna be picked up throughout sports media. And I guarantee you by the end of tomorrow, this will be a topic on Fox News, a panel discussion, maybe many of them, and it\u2019ll be on CNN, and it\u2019ll be all over the place.<\/p>\n

“Is the solution to this problem eliminating the anthem? Can we eliminate this disrespect or this controversy by simply taking what\u2019s controversial out of the equation?” And therefore we have set up for us that the controversy here is not the players who are ignoring it or disrespecting it; it\u2019s the anthem itself which is the controversy, you see.<\/p>\n

Yes, my friends, it is America itself which is controversial. America has such a sordid past. It is not worth it to honor America. We shouldn\u2019t do this. It gives people the wrong idea. This is not a great country. It never has been great, and it shouldn\u2019t be great, ever. And so getting rid of the anthem will get rid of the controversy. Always the left\u2019s solution. And we\u2019ll see if I\u2019m right. How long\u2019s it gonna take for this to become a mainstream discussion?<\/p>\n

And then they\u2019re gonna start going to owners, then they\u2019ll go to players, “What do you think about just getting rid of the anthem?” Let me tell all of you what\u2019s gonna happen. If that ever did happen — and I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if it did, because, as you know, corporations don\u2019t like controversy. And if the anthem is causing controversy, causing distractions, if all these players begin to take a knee, sit on the bench, that\u2019s a distraction we don\u2019t need here at the NFL. Let\u2019s just get rid of the anthem. That won\u2019t stop anything.<\/p>\n

The people who are gaining attention and fame by disrespecting or opposing the anthem will find something else to cause the cameras to focus on them. And they already know what the basic ingredients are. Go out there and diss the country, and the media will love you. Go out there and proclaim that you have serious problems with the United States, and the media will be immediately sympathetic. So they would just find some other way of, quote, unquote, protesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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And I guarantee you by the end of tomorrow, this will be a topic on Fox News, a panel discussion, maybe many of them, and it'll be on CNN, and it'll be all over the place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":244621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nWill the NFL Eliminate the National Anthem? - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/08\/15\/will-the-nfl-eliminate-the-national-anthem\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Will the NFL Eliminate the National Anthem? - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Don't discount it, because this guy's idea is gonna be picked up throughout sports media. 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