{"id":353748,"date":"2020-06-24T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=353748"},"modified":"2020-06-26T16:37:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T20:37:50","slug":"espy-award-ratings-bomb-with-black-lives-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/06\/24\/espy-award-ratings-bomb-with-black-lives-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPY Awards Ratings Bomb with Black Lives Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: The ESPYs, which were on ESPN, you know, we chronicle &#8212; do you know Brett Favre is walking back those comments he made about Kaepernick? What did he say? Kaepernick being the equivalent of Pat Tillman. Yeah, you know why he did that? I\u2019ll guarantee you &#8212; see, Pat Tillman was a big media story. And so since Pat Tillman was a media story, that\u2019s what people will associate with, okay, so Pat Tillman, great guy, media story, I saw it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-353511\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-062320-ESPN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-062320-ESPN.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-062320-ESPN-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-062320-ESPN-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So we get this Kaepernick guy, how can I relate Kaepernick? He reminds me of Pat Tillman, for only one reason. Kaepernick\u2019s made a big news splash, and so did Pat Tillman. Because there could not have been any serious thinking about similarities between Kaepernick and Pat Tillman.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, ESPN\u2019s ESPYs ratings plummeted. They had a ratings disaster. Sunday night, when everybody thinks that sports shows that have not been seen before are the magic elixir, the magic fix, sports fans are gonna watch sports no matter what, if it\u2019s brand-new, if it hasn\u2019t happened before, whether it\u2019s a game or an awards show.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-353782\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-062420-ESPY-RUSH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-062420-ESPY-RUSH.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-062420-ESPY-RUSH-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-062420-ESPY-RUSH-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nobody watched. Tops, 482,000 tuned in. Why do you think that is? &#8216;Cause the ESPYs bragged about what it was gonna be. It was gonna be woke, it was gonna be social justice, it was gonna be the equivalent of a bunch of people kneeling and criticizing the flag. ESPN getting in on where they think society is headed, and they bombed big time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: ESPN getting in on where they think society is headed, and they bombed big time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":353782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ESPY Awards Ratings Bomb with Black Lives Matter - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/06\/24\/espy-award-ratings-bomb-with-black-lives-matter\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"ESPY Awards Ratings Bomb with Black Lives Matter - 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