{"id":245468,"date":"2017-08-29T10:20:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T14:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=245468"},"modified":"2017-08-30T15:58:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T19:58:56","slug":"leftists-target-the-star-spangled-banner-uscs-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/08\/29\/leftists-target-the-star-spangled-banner-uscs-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftists Target the Star-Spangled Banner, USC\u2019s Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Get this. Have you all heard of the controversy at USC? The USC mascot is the Trojans, which some might say is a condom. But actually a Trojan is a soldier. Well, the Trojan mascot at USC football games rides a white horse. Do you know the name of the white horse, traditionally, whatever the horse is, there might have been a bunch of horses over the many generations that the Trojan has ridden a horse, it\u2019s required a lot of horses, always a white horse. The horse\u2019s name is Traveler.<\/p>\n

\"\"Well, guess who else\u2019s horse was named Traveler? Take a wild guess. Robert E. Lee<\/a>! Exactly right. Robert E. Lee\u2019s horse was named Traveler. The difference is that Robert E. Lee spelled Traveler with two L\u2019s and USC spells Traveler with one L. Guess what? Brent Musburger, formerly of CBS, then formerly of ABC, then formerly of ESPN, in an interview, Brent Musburger said he\u2019s very upset to learn this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He said, “I\u2019m very upset. There\u2019s a move afoot to change the name of the horse from Traveler because Robert E. Lee\u2019s horse was named Traveller. You can\u2019t have that.” He went on to say “that he would withhold his Heisman vote from USC star quarterback Sam Darnold if the school ended up changing Traveler\u2019s name, even though Darnold is his early Heisman favorite. ‘If they mess around with my horse, I\u2019m off him,\u2019 Musburger added. ‘I\u2019ve got a vote. I will not vote for Darnold if they change the name of that horse.'”<\/p>\n

So actually Musburger is standing up, going against the tide claiming it would be silly to change the name of the horse simply because Robert E. Lee\u2019s horse was the same name. A profile in courage. How long is Musburger gonna last here before his buddies in the leftist sports Drive-Bys get hold of him? When I first read this, the way the headline\u2019s written, it\u2019s very confusing that Musburger was upset that white supremacy had been going on at USC all this time and he didn\u2019t know about it, which would have made perfect sense. I would have totally believed it.<\/p>\n

The USC horse is white like Robert E. Lee\u2019s horse was. The horse\u2019s names are not spelled the name. Robert E. Lee had two L\u2019s in Traveler, and USC\u2019s Trojan horse has one L. And again, Musburger, “I\u2019m very upset. There\u2019s a move afoot to change the name of the horse from Traveler because Robert E. Lee\u2019s horse was named Traveller. You can\u2019t have that.”<\/p>\n

So how will the sports world decide to punish Brent Musburger for his racism? We\u2019ll wait and see.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Salon.com. I saw the tweet. Hang on a minute, folks, I have to deal with one of my screen savers here. There we go. I saw the tweet last night, Salon.com. I predicted this the week before I went on vacation<\/a>. I said where do these national anthem protests naturally end up? You get rid of the anthem. That\u2019s the way to solve the problem. That\u2019s what the left will say, you get rid of the problem. The anthem is the problem. The anthem and the flag are why Kaepernick\u2019s protesting, not because Kaepernick\u2019s a bad guy. This country\u2019s not worth the anthem and this country\u2019s not worth the flag.<\/p>\n

And Salon.com tweeted last night that the United States has a neo-Confederate national anthem<\/a>. Jefferson Morley, the writer at Salon, “contended that the United States adopted the ‘Star Spangled Banner\u2019 as its national anthem due to an ascendant ‘neo-Confederate spirit\u2019 during the decades after the Civil War. Morley played up that ‘observing Memorial Day and singing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner\u2019 are uncontroversial patriotic gestures, yet there is no disputing that neo-Confederates developed these rituals.'”<\/p>\n

In other words, white racists are responsible for the national anthem, the Star-Spangled Banner, and the flag, because white racists, neo-Confederates, by the way, those of you not familiar with political lingo, neo-Confederate would simply mean sort of like the self-styled Confederates at the end of the Civil War and for years going forward, new Confederates, modifying themselves in admiration of the Confederacy.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s white supremacists who wrote the national anthem, Francis Scott Key, the Star-Spangled Banner, and the flag, and for that reason we need to get rid of both. And while it\u2019s funny and while it\u2019s off the wall and while it\u2019s crazy, folks, these people are serious. And whenever anybody on the left comes up with one of these cockamamie ideas, the rest of them go right along with it and it\u2019s gonna be mainstream media before long.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re gonna see panel discussions on TV debating whether or not the Star-Spangled Banner is inspired by slavery and was the American flag inspired by people who were neoConfederates. You\u2019re gonna see a debate, and of course you\u2019re gonna have people on CNN, “Oh, yes, it\u2019s about time we\u2019re getting to the truth of this.” The effort to not just transform, the effort to finally destroy this country as founded is in full swing and is not taking any time off because of this hurricane.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So I checked the email during the break. Some people think I\u2019m making this Star-Spangled Banner stuff up. And the reason they think that is, “Rush, the Star-Spangled Banner was written in 1812. That\u2019s so much before the Civil War that there\u2019s no way Francis Scott Key could have been a Confederate.” The point here in Salon is not that the Star-Spangled Banner was written during or after the Civil War. It\u2019s when it was adopted as the national anthem. Again here, the Salon.com writer is a guy named Jefferson Morley.<\/p>\n

\"\"I wonder if he\u2019s gonna change his name. You know, Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner, and here\u2019s this guy at Salon carrying a similar name: Jefferson. Gotta be embarrassing, wouldn\u2019t you think? Jefferson Morley. Anyway, he wrote a book about Francis Scott Key. He emphasized that the “Star-Spangled Banner, with its lyrics deriding black people who took up arms to gain their freedom in the War of 1812, became a point of pride for Southerners.\u2019 However, there is a debate among historians over the intentions of the lyrics in question, which show up the rarely-sung third stanza…”<\/p>\n

And they point out that Francis Scott Key was a slave owner, and that fact alone should disqualify anything he wrote from being adopted as the national anthem. Folks, they are serious about this. Also, last night… Whenever the Berkeley rally was, the Antifa people were chanting at the Berkeley rally. They were protesting nothing. They set it up as a protest against a bunch of neo-Nazis and right-wingers and none of them showed up.<\/p>\n

This was simply a protest and there was violence and there was hatred and there were very many events where heads got bashed in. It was the left that did this! And all I could think of was Gary Cohn, Trump\u2019s economic adviser who disagreed with Trump on his characterization, “There\u2019s good people on both sides.” He said, “You can\u2019t draw a comparison be people who standing up for freedom and equality versus these neo-Nazis.” Antifa is not about freedom or equality! No leftist bunch of people is.<\/p>\n

These are a bunch of Alinskyites when you get right down to it. They\u2019re not about freedom and they\u2019re not about liberty, and they aren\u2019t about equality whatsoever. These people are the problem, and the people like Gary Cohn don\u2019t see it is what is the problem here. These Antifa people were chanting, “No Trump! No wall! No USA at all!” These are the people that the media\u2019s defending as they attack Trump.<\/p>\n

You know, Trump\u2019s out there saying (paraphrased): “Hey, you know, that side on the left, they had some bad actors in there too. There\u2019s a bunch of it to go around.” And the media went had a cow just like Gary Cohn, Trump\u2019s economic advisor. He said, “No, no, no! Those people are standing up for equality and freedom, and you can\u2019t draw distinction. You cannot say that the people on the right are the…” He totally misses the point.<\/p>\n