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<\/p>\nRUSH: Jay-Z being hired by the NFL. We were going to get into this yesterday and of course time expired before I had a chance to get into it. And here\u2019s what happened: Jay-Z\u2019s real name is Shawn Carter. He\u2019s the husband of Beyonce. And they\u2019ve put together a massive musical empire.<\/p>\n
His net worth reportedly is a billion dollars. You should know that\u2019s not enough to own an NFL team. You need more than that to be approved for ownership. It\u2019s not enough anymore. So the NFL has hired Jay-Z essentially as music director for the Super Bowl halftime entertainment. But it\u2019s going to be more than that.<\/p>\n
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Now, if you go back to the beginnings of the Kaepernick taking a knee over the Anthem and the flag at NFL games, we were told that this was being done because Kaepernick was sick and tired of the cops running around and murdering people of color. And he had had it. And as such, he couldn\u2019t stand and honor America either by way of the National Anthem or the flag.<\/p>\n
So he took a knee. Other players joined him. The media loved it. The media ate it up. And one of his first early supporters and advocates was none other than Jay-Z. Jay-Z joined forces. Jay-Z has a sports agency group, by the way, too, called Roc Nation — R-o-c Nation. Jay-Z has athletes as clients. I think what this is, I think Jay-Z wants to be an NFL owner at some point down the road, and this is a step-by-step process to try to become approvable with the NFL ownership group.<\/p>\n
So the first thing that he did, he threw Kaepernick under the bus. Audio sound bite one, yesterday, New York City, at Jay-Z\u2019s Roc Nation entertainment company offices, he and the commissioner, Roger Goodell held a press conference to explain what Jay-Z is going to be doing here with the halftime show and presiding over that, basically being musical director and producer for the National Football League. So a reporter who remembered that Jay-Z was once in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick said, “Mr. Z, would you kneel or would you stand today?”<\/p>\n
JAY-Z: I think we passed kneeling. You know, I think it\u2019s time to go into actionable items. I think everyone knows what the issue is, and we\u2019re done with that. I\u2019m not minimizing that part of it, \u2019cause that has to happen. That\u2019s a necessary part of the process. But now we all know what\u2019s going on, what are we going to do, how are we going to stop? ‘Cause the kneeling was not about a job, it was about injustice.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Ohhh!<\/p>\n
JAY-Z: Everyone\u2019s saying, \u201cHow are you going forward if Kap doesn\u2019t have a job?\u201d This wasn\u2019t about him having a job. That became a part of the discussion. He was kneeling to bring attention to injustice. Now how do we address that injustice?<\/p>\n
RUSH: He just threw Kap overboard, folks. He said it was never about a job. He said he was never supporting Kaepernick so Kaepernick could get a job. That\u2019s going to come as a shock to the Drive-By Media because to them all this is about is Kaepernick getting a job. They want to bring the NFL ownership to its knees. They want to force the NFL ownership to hire Kaepernick.<\/p>\n
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They would love, the sports Drive-Bys would love to force the NFL to hire Kaepernick, hire the guy who refused to honor America. Hire the guy so that they can show that they aren\u2019t racist. That\u2019s what the media wants. So here comes Mr. Z who has been hired by the NFL and he promptly throws Kaepernick overboard and said his involvement was never about getting Kaepernick a job.<\/p>\n
Now, I want to read — this may need some parsing. “I think we passed kneeling, you know, I think it\u2019s time to go into actionable items.” Don\u2019t ask me, I\u2019m just telling you what he said. “I think everyone knows what the issue is, and we\u2019re done with that.”<\/p>\n
What are we done with? Are we done with kneeling? Are we done with protesting? Is that what the issue is? And we\u2019re done with it? He said, “I\u2019m not minimizing that part of it because that has to happen.” What has to happen? “That\u2019s a necessary part of the process, but now we all know what\u2019s going on, what are we going to do? How are we going to stop?” I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m sorry. I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019ve started the Jay-Z stuff and the NFL.\u00a0 I want to get back to it because it\u2019s fundamental to what Trump is doing.\u00a0 Now, to set the table again: It\u2019s 800 days since Colin Kaepernick has worked in the NFL.\u00a0 There are 365 days in a year.\u00a0 So it\u2019s a little over two seasons that Kaepernick has not worked.\u00a0 Kaepernick began the protests against the flag and the anthem.<\/p>\n
His stated reason for doing so was he\u2019s sick and tired of the cops murdering people of color, sick and tired of the social injustice of America.\u00a0 This created a number of people in the NFL also joining him in the kneeling.\u00a0 The media ate it up.\u00a0 The media loved it!\u00a0 The media televised all of this during the anthem, and the NFL didn\u2019t know what to do.\u00a0 The NFL didn\u2019t… They think their audience is people that love what Kaepernick was doing.\u00a0 They were afraid to condemn it.\u00a0 They were afraid to do anything other than…<\/p>\n
They tried to throw money at these players with social justice buy-offs and any number of things.\u00a0 It took Donald Trump to end it.\u00a0 Donald Trump saved the NFL. I firmly believe that Trump saved the NFL by calling everybody out on this.\u00a0 Now the protests are over.\u00a0 The kneeling, if it happens, nobody cares. Nobody televises it. It\u2019s come and gone, and Kaepernick does not have a job.\u00a0 Now the Drive-By Media has had an objective since this happened, and that\u2019s to force the NFL to get Kaepernick back on a team, on a roster.<\/p>\n
And the reason they want that is the sports Drive-Bys want to be able to force these racist, rich, white owners to have to hire the guy who was trying to bring down the league.\u00a0 That, to them, would be the epitome of — the ultimate in — social justice.\u00a0 And the owners have refused to do so.\u00a0 Now, one of the early advocates that Kaepernick had in his mission was none other than the music impresario Mr. Jay-Z, otherwise known as Shawn Carter.\u00a0 Mr. Z was an early ally, an early supporter.<\/p>\n
He joined in the refrain that cops were indiscriminately murdering black people.\u00a0 And he wrote songs including this fact in his lyrics.\u00a0 In one of them in 2009, he even included me, your host, in the lyric! It claimed that I was doing something vaguely obscene to him, and I was totally… I\u2019m not even aware that I\u2019ve met Mr. Z.\u00a0 So the NFL has hired Jay-Z, who is a rap music and hip hop impresario, to ostensibly be the music director of the NFL Super Bowl halftime extravaganza.\u00a0 Now, it\u2019s got to be for more than that.\u00a0 The halftime show at the Super Bowl takes 20 minutes, max.\u00a0 You don\u2019t need to have somebody on payroll for the whole year to do that.<\/p>\n
Now, the NFL claims, no, that 20 minutes, that\u2019s the biggest 20 minutes in showbiz. And this is how they think the league can expand its demographic reach, and you can tell which way they think the demographic reach ought to go by virtue of hiring Jay-Z.<\/p>\n
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So there was a press conference between the commissioner, Roger Goodell — we\u2019re back to sound bite one here — and the newly hired director of music and halftime entertainment, Mr. Z, and after the press conference a reporter said, “Mr. Z, would you kneel or would you stand today if there was a protest at a game?”<\/p>\n
JAY-Z: I think we passed kneeling. You know, I think it\u2019s time to go into actionable items. I think everyone knows what the issue is, and we\u2019re done with that. I\u2019m not minimizing that part of it, \u2019cause that has to happen. That\u2019s a necessary part of the process. But now we all know what\u2019s going on, what are we going to do, how are we going to stop? ‘Cause the kneeling was not about a job, it was about injustice. Everyone\u2019s saying, \u201cHow are you going forward if Kap doesn\u2019t have a job?\u201d This wasn\u2019t about him having a job. That became a part of the discussion. He was kneeling to bring attention to injustice. Now how do we address that injustice?<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019ve listened to this. I\u2019ve read this two or three times. I think I know what Mr. Z is saying. Mr. Z\u2019s saying, I didn\u2019t come on board this protest to help Kap get a job. It\u2019s never been about Kap getting a job. Kap may think it\u2019s about him getting a job, but it ain\u2019t. It\u2019s about the injustice. It\u2019s about white cops murdering black kids, but we\u2019re done with the kneeling now. Been there, done that. That\u2019s over with. It ain\u2019t about getting Kap a job.<\/p>\n
Well, Kaepernick is out there tweeting and all kinds of stuff. \u201cColin Kaepernick Celebrates Three-Year Anthem Protest Anniversary with Graphic Video of Police Violence.\u201d So it ain\u2019t over for Kaepernick. He\u2019s still out there tweeting about the injustices of the cops while one of his early allies, Jay-Z, just threw him under the bus and overboard at the same time by saying the kneeling wasn\u2019t about a job; it was about injustice. Everybody\u2019s saying how are you going forward if Kap doesn\u2019t have a job. That\u2019s the sports Drive-Bys. The sports Drive-Bys have set up this narrative that this can\u2019t end until Kaepernick gets a job. Yntil the NFL is forced to hire this guy, this cannot end.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s Jay-Z saying, oh, yes, it can, because it has. It is over. Now that I\u2019m part of the league, it\u2019s over. Now that I\u2019m part of the league, all that stuff that went on, why, that\u2019s over with and done now. The reporter said, \u201cDid you speak to Colin Kaepernick about this? Did you talk to him about you taking this new gig with the NFL?\u201d<\/p>\n
JAY-Z: I would never tell you what me and Kap\u2019s private conversation was about, but we spoke, yeah.<\/p>\n
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: And is he supportive?<\/p>\n
JAY-Z: I will never tell you about our conversation. (laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Obviously, Kaepernick is not supportive of Mr. Z taking this new gig with the NFL because Mr. Z does not want to divulge the nature of the conversation. Kaepernick is no doubt feeling sold out. Kaepernick is feeling sold down the river by one of his allies, Jay-Z, who was originally on the bus with him, protesting the injustice and whatever else was being protested. But now Kap has learned today that it was never about him. It was never about getting a job.<\/p>\n
The sports Drive-Bys are not going to be happy about this, because to them that\u2019s all this has been about, forcing these owners to hire Kaepernick. Here\u2019s the commissioner, Roger Goodell had this to say about the league\u2019s relationship with the players at the joint press conference with Mr. Z.<\/p>\n
ROGER GOODELL: We listened to our players, we understood what our players were saying, and we created a platform of which to help drive change. This partnership, in addition to the entertainment aspect and bringing football and music together, is going to help us make even greater change. And we call it protest to progress. Right? We need to make progress.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Does anybody have any idea what either of these two guys are saying? Okay, well, tell me. Protest to progress, bringing football and music together. Football and music have been together for I don\u2019t know how long. There\u2019s nothing new about football and music. What is this?<\/p>\n
So you tell me, Mr. Program Observer, what are these guys saying? (interruption) Okay. So what they\u2019re saying is they\u2019re going to make so much money but they can\u2019t talk about that being the reason they\u2019re doing this and they\u2019ve got to tell everybody they\u2019re doing this for justice reasons and they\u2019re doing this for progress reasons, and they\u2019re doing this for reasons of demographics. They\u2019re doing this for spreading the reach of the league to stop the protests, but actually all this is, is greed.<\/p>\n
All this is, is the pursuit of profit, which is not greed. Let me take that back. But they\u2019re just trying to hide the fact they\u2019re both trying to get rich here by saying it\u2019s about something other than that. Last night, one more bite here, before we have to go to the break. Harvey Levin at TMZ caught up with Mr. Z and got an interview with him and it\u2019s just about 20 seconds. Very quick. Listen fast.<\/p>\n
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LEVIN: The halftime show, I thought he boycotted last year\u2019s?<\/p>\n
UNIDENTIFIED ANNOUNCER: He did!<\/p>\n
MALE PRODUCER 1: He has completely cut the legs out from underneath Colin Kaepernick.<\/p>\n
FEMALE PRODUCER: This is a typical Jay-Z move. He is going to go in that room, he\u2019s going to try and make it where he is speaking for people that are not in that room.<\/p>\n
MALE PRODUCER 2: Isn\u2019t it more likely the NFL\u2019s going to hide behind Jay-Z next time they have a controversy?<\/p>\n
FEMALE PRODUCER: Anybody who first heard about it was like, what the heck is happening?<\/p>\n
RUSH: I misread this. This is not an interview with Jay-Z. This is TMZ throwing Jay-Z overboard. Jay-Z throws Kaepernick overboard. TMZ throws Jay-Z overboard. And basically what they\u2019re saying is he threw Kaepernick overboard, and it\u2019s a typical Jay-Z move. He\u2019s just going in there to provide cover for the league on these racial matters and getting paid a lot of money to do so. That\u2019s what Harvey Levin\u2019s opinion is. It could well be.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: So, it\u2019s clear that the NFL thinks that they are buying some cover here. And for Jay-Z, he\u2019s willing to be paid to provide the cover and so forth. I was telling people earlier today that I think Jay-Z would like to be an NFL owner, but there\u2019s problems. Some of the Jay-Z lyrics in previous songs are problematic. He\u2019s going to have to do some things to allay any concerns owners might have.<\/p>\n
This is going to give him direct contact with owners. It\u2019s going to give him a chance to change their thinking of him. He\u2019s already got people like Robert Kraft in his corner. I can see a day where a team might be owned by Jon Bon Jovi and Jay-Z. (interruption) Has Beyonce weighed in? (laughing) Beyonce will be doing the halftime show every year. (interruption) Why wasn\u2019t Beyonce at the press conference? That\u2019s a good question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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