supporting Kaepernick — who clearly said he didn\u2019t like the cops and he thinks the country\u2019s racist and the cops are racist<\/a>. Now, these guys all stand up in support of Kaepernick.<\/p>\nNow they want to back off, “Oh, we\u2019re not disrespecting the flag.” Yes, you are, and, yes, you are disrespecting the anthem. The point is it\u2019s the people playing the game causing the damage, and that\u2019s why I say the owners don\u2019t know what to do. They\u2019re scared. I mean, they want unity. They want to win. They want their players to be happy and content; they want their players to think the owners got their backs. So they join them in this thing, thereby angering the fans.<\/p>\n
And you can see what\u2019s happening to TV numbers. You can see what\u2019s happening to sales of tickets and memorabilia. The NFL\u2019s in a world of hurt right now, and it\u2019s the people who play the game who are doing the primary damage: The players. Okay, so you say, “No, Rush, it\u2019s Goodell.” Goodell, yeah, doesn\u2019t have a good image with be but Goodell\u2019s not doing anything other than supporting what the players are doing. It all starts there.<\/p>\n
Now, the reason I mentioned this again is the news hit right as the program ended yesterday that… In fact, we read the memo from Roger Goodell to the teams, to the executives, the general managers and presidents where he finally essentially threw in the towel. You know what? Let\u2019s just stand for the anthem and let\u2019s find another way for the players to register their social anger. Let\u2019s all stand for the anthem. Let\u2019s have your teams all go out and stand for the anthem.<\/p>\n
And this constitutes a Trump win.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t care how you slice it, it constitutes a Trump win.<\/p>\n
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Trump was never going to lose this. In the United States of America, even today, the person standing up for the flag, standing up for the military, standing up for the cops is not going to lose. The left has not taken over the country despite what the media makes it look like every day. Now, one thing I mentioned yesterday because it was near the end of the program, the players are not going to be happy when they get the memo that Goodell sends a memo to the owners and executives and general managers saying, “Let\u2019s get the players. Let\u2019s all stand up.”<\/p>\n
That\u2019s gonna make this even worse. And right here, again in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, Gerald McCoy of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, defensive lineman, says he thinks there might be an uproar if players are forced to stand for the national anthem. He said, “I don\u2019t think guys are gonna like it. I think it\u2019s gonna be an uproar if that is to happen because you\u2019re basically taking away a constitutional right to freedom of speech. If guys wanna have a, I guess you would call it a peaceful protest, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s right to take that away.”<\/p>\n
Now, this illustrates something else. Mr. McCoy has no idea what he\u2019s talking about, but he thinks he does. The First Amendment and the free speech clause are irrelevant to this story. This is a workplace event, and his freedom of speech can be abridged by his employer. Everyone\u2019s is, every day. And the Constitution doesn\u2019t do you any good. But they all think they have a constitutional right to free speech. They don\u2019t own that stage. They don\u2019t own that field.<\/p>\n
So there\u2019s gonna be even more protest. Mr. McCoy indicates there could be an uproar, and I don\u2019t doubt that he\u2019s right. I have to share one more thing with you. There\u2019s a part of this story that\u2019s starting to make me nervous, and it\u2019s this. I am very uncomfortable with the president of the United States being able to dictate the behavior and power of anybody. That\u2019s not where this should be coming from.<\/p>\n
Trump is continually tweeting — I know what he\u2019s doing, and I understand why he\u2019s doing it, and his motives are pure; don\u2019t misunderstand. But I don\u2019t think that it is useful or helpful for any employee anywhere to be forced to do something because the government says they must. That scares hell out of me. This should come from the league, as it looks like Goodell wants it to. The owners should be demanding this, not the president. The commissioner should be demanding this, not the president.<\/p>\n
We don\u2019t want the president being able to demand anybody that he\u2019s unhappy with behave in a way he requires. That\u2019s scary to me, even if the president\u2019s somebody I happen to like. This is a workplace issue. It\u2019s the owners and the league that let this get out of hand because they didn\u2019t know how to deal with it or were afraid to.<\/p>\n
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And if this is gonna be made to work, the players are gonna have to be told who the boss is and they\u2019re gonna have to be given specific workplace rules and regulations that they know have nothing to do with the Constitution, the First Amendment, freedom of speech. If you want to work for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, you are gonna stand for the anthem. If you want to work for Dallas Cowboys, you\u2019re gonna stand for the anthem.<\/p>\n
But I\u2019m really nervous if all that happens because the president makes it happen. He can make it happen by forcing the owners. But this is a slippery slope to me, and it hit me a while ago and crystallized last night. Trump is in the right, don\u2019t misunderstand. But no president should have dictatorial power over individual behavior.<\/p>\n
A president should not be able to tell the owners of a business how their employees are gonna act and what they\u2019re gonna swear allegiance to and all that. That\u2019s up to the owners to do, and it\u2019s up to the owners to come up with a system of punishment if their employees violate company policy, like it is in any other business.<\/p>\n
They don\u2019t own the stage, they don\u2019t have a right to it. Theirs is a privilege just like every employee\u2019s is. You don\u2019t own where you work unless you do. You\u2019re always subject to the rules, guidelines, and wishes of the people who do own the business. The NFL should be no different. But when the NFL misjudges its audience and doesn\u2019t know who its audience is and the NFL is afraid of its players, then the inmates start running the asylum.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s when the president does stand up, because what he says about this is absolutely on the money. But it ought not be a presidential dictate. It can be involved in fixing it, but it ought not be why all of a sudden people start snapping to and behaving accordingly. This is local issue, it\u2019s a team issue, it\u2019s a workplace issue.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Middletown, New Jersey. Tony, thank you for waiting. You\u2019re next, sir. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Great to be with you, Rush. Rush, regarding Trump being a dictator as to the NFL and their bad behavior. He\u2019s really just put a focus and a spotlight on the problem. The people who are dictating to the NFL now are the people who are not going to the games and, as you said, the people who are not buying the products and the sponsors that are leaving them.<\/p>\n
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So, like a lot of things in life, it\u2019s all about the money. These people in the NFL, Goodell and the rest of these clowns, they didn\u2019t all of a sudden gain any respect for Donald Trump or patriotism for what they\u2019re supposed to do. They\u2019re responding from the dictatorship of the public who is withholding funds from them, and it\u2019s about the money. And that\u2019s the reason why they\u2019re finally —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, wait, wait. I know what you\u2019re saying. But I\u2019m gonna go out on a limb and I\u2019m gonna disagree with one element. Now, I\u2019m glad you called because I asked Snerdley when I finished that riff if I made myself clear, and he said, “Oh, yeah, crystal.” But I\u2019m not sure that I did. I was not trying to diminish — in fact, I came back and said what really gives the Trump the power to win over the NFL is the 63 million people who support him on this. But I said that after a break.<\/p>\n
The point that I was making was that I don\u2019t want to get to a point where if a president doesn\u2019t like the way people are behaving, that he can call the people that own that business and make \u2019em behave the way he wants. I\u2019m not suggesting that\u2019s happening here. It\u2019s not. But I don\u2019t want to even have anything appear to be that way. I don\u2019t want that kind of power. The president here is right, and that\u2019s what\u2019s propelling this. But the one area that I want to disagree with you on —<\/p>\n
CALLER: What is that?<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m not so sure that if Trump had not applied pressure, that they would have changed. I think they would have permitted the players to continue to protest. I think they would have allowed these things to get even bigger. I think as they kept losing audience and TV ratings, they would make a mistake in assuming why it\u2019s happening, and they would continue to allow that which was harming them to harm them, because they are misjudging most every element of this and why they\u2019re in trouble in the first place.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I tend to agree with you. You\u2019re absolutely right, because they don\u2019t understand — that\u2019s why the left is so confused and so in disarray, \u2019cause they don\u2019t really understand the temperament of the real people in this country that we live. They only have their own agenda, and that\u2019s all they listen to. They don\u2019t listen to the real people, and that\u2019s why Donald Trump got elected.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, they understand it. They understand it and they hate it, and they hate you. And they resent it. And they can\u2019t wait to ram themselves down your throat. They know who you are, and they know what you believe, and they resent the hell out of you.<\/p>\n
When I say the NFL\u2019s misjudging their audience, I think Hillary misjudged her voters. I think they believed their media, and I think the NFL has a misconception about why people watch, and what would make them sour on the game or whatever, and I think they think they can withstand it. I think it\u2019s a great miscalculation.<\/p>\n
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But the real point that you made that I\u2019m not sure is right, normally you would be — you\u2019re saying the loss of revenue is ultimately what\u2019s dictating their change in behavior. And I\u2019m telling you I think if Trump were not involved and yet everything else was happening, everything else would continue to happen. The players would continue to protest and fans would continue not to go and not to watch, and I don\u2019t think they\u2019d be in any hurry to change anything.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, this started last year, as we all know, with Kaepernick, and it\u2019s just grown. Then the president brought the spotlight to this. And you\u2019re right. I mean, he\u2019s a big president, obviously, and his views telegraph in manner so much, that, yeah, it threw a big spotlight on this problem, and it probably would have gone on had he not continued to put pressure on them. But he\u2019s really not dictating —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Let me tell you something. The fans started leaving stadiums and stopped watching games before Trump spoke up. When Trump spoke up, it validated what they were doing. It was finally a national leader on their side agreeing with \u2019em, and it propelled it even further. Let me ask you a question.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Do you think that the league could stop this if somebody would go to Colin Kaepernick and say, “We want to put you on TV in a press conference and we want you to say that you were not protesting the police. That you were not protesting those things you said you were,” in an effort to shut this down — In other words, if Kaepernick went on TV and said, “I don\u2019t support this if it\u2019s anti-anthem and anti-flag,” do you think the players would stop taking a knee if Kaepernick changed his attitude about this?<\/p>\n
CALLER: It\u2019s a very good question, Rush. I don\u2019t really have an answer.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No way. It wouldn\u2019t change a thing.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I just don\u2019t think so. You know?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Kaepernick is a convenient excuse for why this is happening.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: This is gonna happen because the ultimate purpose here is not to change the way the police treat African-Americans. The ultimate purpose here is not to change whatever the inequalities are. The purpose here is to damage the NFL. And I think many of the players are unwittingly, some knowingly, but many are unwittingly participating in this, believing that it\u2019s about social justice. And, by the way, it\u2019s working, this effort to damage the NFL.<\/p>\n
When you find out the NFL Players Association is accepting money from George Soros and other left-wing causes and then donating some of their own money to some of these causes — the left targets successful capitalistic enterprises, particularly enterprises that are devoted to celebrating American patriotism, decency, goodness, the flag, the national anthem, masculinity, rugged individualism. These are things that the left is trying to wipe out of American culture.<\/p>\n
And don\u2019t laugh, because on college campuses today more and more courses are springing up for kids to take on the problems with masculinity, the areas of America that have deteriorated because of masculinity. There\u2019s an assault on all of these things. And the NFL not only typifies many of \u2019em but glamourizes a bunch of stuff the left absolutely hates.<\/p>\n
And so the players — I don\u2019t know what percentage. Some of them know what they\u2019re doing, but I think most of them are dupes believing they\u2019re actually doing something in the interests of social justice and righting wrongs and getting even with the cops or whatever, and all of that\u2019s just a cover and a smoke screen for the real objective here.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Gene in Youngstown, Ohio. Great to have you on the show.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n
CALLER: It is a thrill and honor to speak with you. I\u2019ve been trying for 25 years. I actually put it on my bucket list, and there ain\u2019t much left, so maybe the end is near.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing) Well, I hope not, but I\u2019m glad you made it.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Anyway, last Sunday while others were kneeling for the anthem across the country, here in Youngstown we held a little NFL burn-your-stuff protest rally at a local American Legion Hall. And it was one of the most patriotic events I\u2019ve been to. We had music. We had a gun salute by the American Legion members. We had speakers, and then for the people that wanted to burn their items, we had a burn barrel. As they put them in, we took a little video clip of them telling us why they were burning their NFL stuff, and one of our members who did it — or one of the organizers, rather — she sent those clips to the NFL. So I guess we\u2019re kind of thinking that maybe we had something to do with Goodell\u2019s memo. (chuckling)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, look, the NFL now realizes that they have a problem. There\u2019s no question. That\u2019s what Goodell\u2019s memo to the teams yesterday means. They realize they have a problem. Their problem is not Donald Trump. Their problem, folks… I\u2019m trying to think of a number of different ways to say this to drive it home. Their problem is that the people who play the game are driving fans away.<\/p>\n
The people who play the game are causing the harm, and they are employees! Think of any analogy you want. Would McDonald\u2019s allow employees to kick customers out of the store? How long would that list before those people were gotten rid of, or a policy was changed to make sure everybody knew that this is gonna stop? But there\u2019s so much… Really, this is a very tangled-up mess here, and the NFL let it all get out of control, because I think…<\/p>\n
You know, there\u2019s one thing here that really… You may think this sounds simplistic, but I think part of this is we don\u2019t have any adults anymore. We have nobody willing to treat kids as kids. We have nobody willing to discipline kids or people that are violating policy or what have you. Instead, we want to be understood, and we want to show our tolerance, and we want to show our sensitivity to whatever it is that has these people upset, because that supposedly is going to buy us respect and goodwill.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s never been the way to raise kids. It\u2019s never been the way to control young people in confined circumstances like a classroom or a school. But liberalism\u2019s on the march and we just have to see how this plays out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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The Rams are trying to stay under the radar while they build their stadium. What a bunch of caca! There\u2019s nobody in the in the NFL that\u2019s trying to lose money. Up until this season, it was very hard to lose money in the NFL, with the guaranteed money you get as a league, as an owner from the television rights money. But the Chargers are playing, the LA Chargers, in a 27,000-seat stadium, and they can\u2019t even put 25,000 people in there. Most of the people showing up at Chargers games are showing up for the visiting team.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FB-083017-Kaepernick.jpg\")
<\/a>Neither option sounds very smart, \u2019cause when you strip this all away, the people playing the game are the ones causing the damage. They might like to try to blame Trump, but Trump is not disrespecting the anthem, and Trump is not disrespecting the cops, and Trump is not disrespecting the military. The players may not think they are, but you can\u2019t tell by looking. Their actions, by