{"id":298582,"date":"2019-02-04T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=298582"},"modified":"2019-02-05T16:05:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T21:05:13","slug":"how-the-drive-bys-see-the-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/04\/how-the-drive-bys-see-the-super-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"The Super Bowl: Boring Game, Boring Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Man, that game was so boring last night, I betcha some people wish that some players had kneeled during the anthem and raised their fists. You don\u2019t think so? You don\u2019t think some people would have — I\u2019m not saying I wish it would have happened, but I\u2019m just saying I betcha there are some.<\/p>\n

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Calling it a throwback game because it featured defense. That was not a throwback game. That was just — ah, folks, that was just a quarterback for the Rams not ready for the stage is what that was and maybe an offensive game plan, neither, but no matter how you look at it — greetings. Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network. A brand-new week of broadcast excellence. No matter how you look at this — let me tell you how the sports Drive-Bys are looking at it. Not all of them. But I have to tell you it\u2019s not just the sports Drive-Bys.<\/p>\n

The Drive-By Media is looking at this as though the Kaepernick supporting Los Angeles Rams lost to the Trump-loving white supremacist New England Patriots. Don\u2019t get on me for politicizing the game. I\u2019m not. Wait \u2019til you hear how this game was written about in The Daily Beast, which has become a mainstream left-wing news website.<\/p>\n

In fact, let me just cut right to that. I mean, there were all kinds of things. Brady last night calls an audible and because most of the crowd was Patriots fans, they\u2019re quiet during the Patriots\u2019 offensive series and so you can hear Brady calling signals. He points out which linebacker\u2019s the mike linebacker, which is how blocking assignments are assigned to the offensive line.<\/p>\n

And then he starts putting his hands together, which means audible, audible, and shouts, “Reagan! Reagan!” It was an audible, and they ran a sweep to the right, and Tony Romo says, \u201cObviously, Reagan means we\u2019re going to the right.\u201d (laughing) I don\u2019t know that it means that, but it lent itself perfectly to that kind of analysis. But that\u2019s how little action there was in the game.<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s the Daily Beast writer, and this guy\u2019s name is Corbin Smith<\/a>. And I\u2019m just gonna read you some excerpts. And I\u2019m doing this — again, this is an object lesson. This is simply a lesson for people in the media and how insane, literally insane the mainstream of American liberalism has become. He\u2019s not alone, this guy Corbin Smith. There are a lot of writers, news and sportswriters, who were disappointed by the game, mad that the Patriots won and are attaching political identities to both teams. I\u2019m not making a word of this up.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir star quarterback, coach, and owner all supported Trump. But that\u2019s not the only thing that makes the Super Bowl LIII-bound Patriots the preferred team of white nationalists.\u201d On Brady\u2019s speech at the Patriots send-off rally he said: \u201cObviously, Brady is referring to his aging, decrepit, cheating-[teams] progression to the big game. But, imagine you didn\u2019t know anything about football, or who Tom Brady was, or anything like that. You would think that you were watching some square-jawed grifter throwing red meat to the hogs at an alt-right rally, screaming at the libs who thought Nancy Pelosi and her gender warriors were gonna keep DECENT AMERICAN FOLKS from BEING HERE.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is how he saw the Patriots pep rally before they got on the plane to fly to Atlanta. And he\u2019s talking about a bunch of people that live in Boston! I think the Patriots fly out of Providence, Rhode Island, but their fans are still Northeastern.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, even if you do know stuff about Brady you may still think he\u2019s on his way to pursuing this line of grifting. He flashed a red MAGA hat … in his locker back in the primary days,\u201d a symbol of white nationalism in America. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t the only one! Patriots\u2019 Coach Bill Belichick wrote a goddamn letter to Trump right before the end of the campaign,\u201d and the owner, Robert Kraft, is also Trump\u2019s buddy, \u201cand was even shouted out at Trump\u2019s pre-Inauguration dinner in D.C. Look, it doesn\u2019t matter if the Patriots like it or not, they are the official team of American White Nationalism, the MAGA Boys On the Field.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you root for the Patriots, you are associating yourself with a virulent and revolting strain of politics that seeks to Make America Great Again\u2014which is to say, white, European, English-speaking.\u201d<\/p>\n

That last is really the lesson here. The guy could always fall back, \u201cHey, I\u2019m just trying to be funny. I\u2019m just trying to appeal to my left-wing reader base and you guys always say you do satire.\u201d So we\u2019ll grant him the opportunity to try to be funny. I don\u2019t think so because I don\u2019t think they have it in them. The left does not have comics anymore. They don\u2019t have people that tell jokes and get laughs. Their comedians are seeking applause.<\/p>\n

But “Make America Great Again” is and equals white European, English speaking country. And that is bad, and that\u2019s what needs to be overthrown. And I don\u2019t think that a significant percentage of Americans yet understand, even after the attack on the Covington kids and the Make America Great Again hat, I really don\u2019t think enough Americans understand that the modern-day left, the mainstream of American liberalism actively hates this country as founded. And its mission is to overthrow it, transform it, however you want to phrase it.<\/p>\n

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But this game last night, because there was so little to it, got the mainstream media writing about it in pure political terms. I\u2019d rather see it as the old, experienced, grizzled veterans up against the upstart, young, up-and-coming phenoms who had a life lesson spanked on their backsides last night. That\u2019s how I choose to see it. I mean, does it not bother you? I understand sports is what it is, and during the Steelers dynasty, people hated \u2019em. My dad hated the Steelers. And he hated \u2019em because they were a machine. They were superhuman. They didn\u2019t make mistakes. They won and won. And that\u2019s understandable in sports.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also true in politics. People that win and win and win and win, i.e., the Kennedys, there are people that just resent that. But the Patriots are unique in all this. There\u2019s never been a dynasty like this, particularly in football. There probably will not be again. And it doesn\u2019t matter from year to year who the players are, the team performs as great as it has in previous years.<\/p>\n

I mean, they don\u2019t win every game, they don\u2019t win every Super Bowl, of course, but it\u2019s a phenomenal achievement and a testament to the pursuit of excellence and a testament to a culture that is unwavering. And in all of the news about football players doing things that are sabotaging themselves, social life, social media, things that young players do because of their immaturity.<\/p>\n

You never read about anybody on the New England Patriots in a nightclub at two in the morning throwing hundred-dollar bills at strippers. You just don\u2019t read about it because they don\u2019t do it. They may do it in the off season, and Gronkowski may be leading the bunch, but during the season they do not do it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had a lot of people sending me emails, “Rush, I don\u2019t understand these ads. Am I getting old? These ads are not working for me. They\u2019re not funny. The ads in the Super Bowl used to be edgy and so forth.”<\/p>\n

No, you\u2019re not getting old. This is a key point. You know, you can ask, \u201cwhat was better last night, the ads or the game?\u201d The Super Bowl used to showcase edgy and truly funny commercials. But times have changed. And there aren\u2019t any edgy commercials because everybody in advertising land is worried about Twitter blowing up. Everybody in corporate America is worried about the internet blowing up.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re worried about Twitter mobs blasting companies who make products and sell services who may be engaging in politically incorrect behavior. So that\u2019s why you get an Anheuser-Busch ad selling beer made by windmills. That\u2019s what\u2019s apparently safe. I don\u2019t know that they even think that\u2019s how you sell beer. It\u2019s just safe. If you\u2019re advertising beer made by windmills as opposed to fossil fuels, then you\u2019re probably not gonna cause a Twitter eruption by the deranged left urging people to not buy or boycott your product.<\/p>\n

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So in a microcosm of what\u2019s happening here, corporate America has become like the Republican Party with the media: Afraid, worried, hell-bent on trying to show everybody that they are not what the public image of them says they are. So everybody is in a fearful, defensive posture. And when you run across somebody or come across somebody who does not live that way, they really stand out. Some people think they\u2019re crazy. Some people think they\u2019re courageous. But Trump would be a great example of somebody who simply does not act according to the current zeitgeist. But the Super Bowl ads, for the most part, were.<\/p>\n

The first two Super Bowl ads were about women\u2019s rights, for example. One was about the new season of The Handmaid\u2019s Tale. You liked that, didn\u2019t you? (interruption) You liked it. (interruption) See, I\u2019ve got a woman here on the staff who liked The Handmaid\u2019s Tale. It\u2019s one of the most undermining, fright-inducing pieces of BS that could ever come down the pike, that the future of women in America is as sex slaves owned by white, corporate, English-speaking bad guys who force women to run around looking like they\u2019re milkin\u2019 cows all day until it\u2019s time to come home and get raped.<\/p>\n

\"\"This is what\u2019s portrayed as the future for women. Now season 2 is coming, and it was one of the first ads in the game. (interruption) Season 3. Sorry! Excuse me! Season 3 is coming. It\u2019s on Hulu, right, when it airs live? It was one of the first ads. Women\u2019s rights. There was another women\u2019s rights ad next. It was a new website. How about the Pepsi commercial? Do you remember the great, great Pepsi ads? Now we have a slogan, “Is Pepsi okay?” When I saw that, all I could think of was a Millennial uptalker. “Is Pepsi okay? Is Pepsi okaaaay? Can I have a Pepsi?”<\/p>\n

Because everybody thinks Coke has been the official brand of the National Football League, and Coca-Cola is headquartered in Atlanta. I think PepsiCo is too. No, they\u2019re up in New York. Coca-Cola is in Atlanta. “Is Pepsi okay?” It was Pajama Boy week! I saw so many Pajama Boy-type ads. That Budweiser ad used Bob Dylan\u2019s blowing in the wind, the Bob Dylan song, to tout beer brewed with wind per hour. Millennials don\u2019t even react. They like craft beers. The state of advertising is not strong, but it is quite indicative of where advertisers and corporate America think our culture is right now.<\/p>\n

Ralph Northam. No, I have not been avoiding this. I just… The fact that this guy is still hanging on and that there are people trying to make sure he can hang on, like Terry McAuliffe, former governor of Virginia… This is quite another object lesson in the differences in the two parties and how they go about dealing with controversies and where the media falls on each one. But as a prelude, I want to share with you a real story before we go to the break here. (interruption) You like the Amazon ad with Harrison Ford? Now, that was funny. With the dog ordering all the food because the Alexa was out of control and Harrison Ford… I thought that was edgy.<\/p>\n