RUSH: I just want to give you Kaepernick in his own words. And, folks, you may think I\u2019m overdoing this, but I\u2019m not. Just like in climate change, much — in fact, maybe everything the left holds dear and wants to achieve is wrapped up in that one issue. If they get it, it\u2019s major, major damage. This NFL thing is not quite that comprehensive. But this is huge. This is an all-out assault on the American national pastime, is what this is.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s frustrating as all get out for me to see the people that run the game go along with it because they think everybody in the country is a bunch of snowflake liberal wusses. They think the country\u2019s gone over to whatever it is that progressivism is, and it hasn\u2019t. They\u2019re making tactical marketing mistakes. They\u2019re making very big mistakes in judging who their audience is. And they\u2019re helping this plan to damage the NFL, they\u2019re helping it along, and it frustrates the hell out of me because I love it. And I wish it would stop.<\/p>\n
“I wish it would stop.” That doesn\u2019t work. You have to beat it back. And in my own small, little way it\u2019s what I\u2019m trying to do here. Colin Kaepernick, his own words — all this started a year ago. Why is it, by the way, that the United States media stops everything and wants to make a hero out of people that talk this way? Why does the American media want to make heroes, unassailable heroes out of malcontents?<\/p>\n
We\u2019re not putting people in jail in this country illegally. We\u2019re not starving them. We\u2019re not doing what happens in tyranny, authoritarian dictatorships. Why do we have to be treated as though we live in a place like that? We don\u2019t. It\u2019s the greatest place on earth. Why do malcontents who have a personal grievance and then blow it up into something that\u2019s irrelevant to the problem they\u2019re having, Kaepernick can\u2019t get hired \u2019cause he can\u2019t play. It\u2019s no more complicated than that.<\/p>\n
And the sports media, everybody, “You must hire Kaepernick to show that America is just and fair.” Why? He can\u2019t play. For crying out loud, media, if he could play, he would be starting somewhere. NFL teams are as competitive as any of the entities in the country. If they thought the guy could help them win, he would be there, unless because now hiring Kaepernick would be one of the biggest mistakes anybody could make because it is clear the Kaepernick-led anti-NFL protests aren\u2019t working.<\/p>\n
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They are not growing the game. The American people don\u2019t think the NFL is an unfair, unjust, and illegitimate entity or place. They revere it. They look up to it. They love it. Everybody\u2019d love to be in the NFL one way or the other. And they don\u2019t understand malcontents who want to take a grievance they have against a country and turn it into harm for the industry that made them wealthy, or gave them a chance at it.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what Kaepernick said. “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.”<\/p>\n
I will guarantee you that\u2019s about Ferguson. I will guarantee you that\u2019s “hands up, don\u2019t shoot,” and that\u2019s Baltimore and all these other places the media lied to everybody about what was going on. He believes it \u2019cause he trusts the Drive-By Media. “There are bodies in the street –” Mr. Kaepernick, I\u2019m getting tired of pointing out, go to Chicago if you\u2019re worried about bodies in the street. And it isn\u2019t the cops killing people there.<\/p>\n
But now the players are saying, as these protests are fizzling and not working, “We\u2019re not protesting the flag. We\u2019re linking arms for unity.” Unity against what? What do you mean, unity? “Well, we\u2019re linking arms for diversity.” Diversity? You got plenty of it. The league\u2019s 75% minority. How about that? The league is 75% minority. Run the numbers on that. Seventy-five percent of the players in the NFL are African-American.<\/p>\n
Diversity? By the left\u2019s definition of diversity, the NFL ought to be a model organization, no problems whatsoever, because they keep telling us that the strength of America and the value of America is found in her diversity. Well, the NFL, 75% African-American, as far as the left looks at it, you can\u2019t get most of favorably diverse than that, so what\u2019s the grievance?<\/p>\n
The grievance isn\u2019t the NFL. The grievance is an opportunity to bash America by forces on the left which are populated in the Drive-By Media and every other institution in this country. Well, most of them. And that\u2019s what\u2019s happening, what\u2019s occurring. “Well, we\u2019re not protesting the flag.”<\/p>\n
“You aren\u2019t? You\u2019re taking the knee during the anthem. You\u2019re not protesting the flag?”<\/p>\n
“No, no, no. We\u2019re linking arms for unity and solidarity and togetherness and so forth.” Anyway, it flips me off, I\u2019m just telling you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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