{"id":358333,"date":"2020-07-31T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=358333"},"modified":"2020-08-03T17:05:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T21:05:05","slug":"more-mlb-games-cancelled-for-covid-nba-players-kneel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/07\/31\/more-mlb-games-cancelled-for-covid-nba-players-kneel\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Barkley Defends People Who Stand for the Anthem!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The Milwaukee Journal… The Journal Sentinel is the newspaper. They\u2019re reporting that the home opener for the Milwaukee Brewers is off because of positive tests for the St. Louis Cardinals, COVID-19. The Cardinals just came in from Minnesota where they were playing “the Twinks,” the Twins. By the way, those Twins uniforms are really pretty, those home powder blue things? I have to say.<\/p>\n

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I mean, this is Tom Haudricourt in the Journal<\/a> saying, “I have confirmation the Brewers home opener is off because of positive tests with the St. Louis Cardinals. The Cardinals just came from Minnesota, so this is bad news for the Twins as well. I\u2019m guessing that there will be no games at Miller park in Milwaukee this weekend. Oh, boy.” Seems like a problem going forward out there.<\/p>\n

Maybe if everybody wore goggles and masks, then everything would be okay. Dr. Fauci seems to think so. So the Miami Marlins, they\u2019re fini. I mean, not officially for the season. But now the Cardinals, probably no games in Milwaukee this weekend. The NBA… Oh, the NBA had their opener, and everybody kneeled. Everybody kneeled for the national anthem, and Charles Barkley was on television defending the people who didn\u2019t want to kneel.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s gotten to that point. The people who want to stand for the national anthem in the NBA are the people who have to be defended, not the people who are kneeling in opposition to the anthem, in opposition to the country. They don\u2019t have to be defended. But the people who don\u2019t want to kneel, the people who want to express their appreciation and honor for the national anthem, for the country?<\/p>\n

Barkley felt the need to defend them lest they be exposed and open for attack.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: My question is this. Since the NBA players, they\u2019re kneeling, maybe baseball players ought to start kneeling. Maybe that\u2019s the way to stop the spread of the virus. Maybe the NFL and Major League Baseball should listen to people like Dr. Fauci and the others and start protesting. I mean, from the moment the pregame begins, when the anthem plays, protest it, because they are telling us, you\u2019ve heard it, they are saying that protesters do not spread the virus.<\/p>\n

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If you go to church, you\u2019re gonna spread the virus. If you go to a funeral, if you go to a wedding, you\u2019re gonna spread the virus. You go to school, you\u2019re gonna spread the virus. If you join the protest march, burn down a building, throw Molotov cocktails, you are not going to get the virus. You\u2019re not gonna spread it and you\u2019re not gonna get it. That\u2019s what they\u2019ve said, folks.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let\u2019s do 8 and 9, \u2019cause I mentioned this as well. Last night, TNT, coverage of the restart of the NBA season. Now, this is before a game between the New Orleans Pelicans and the Utah Jazz. After both teams knelt during the national anthem, the analyst Shaquille O\u2019Neal said…<\/p>\n

O\u2019NEAL: That was so beautifully done, done in unity. Nice to see. Think it\u2019s very important that you speak up. Very important that you speak your mind. So we use our voice to bring awareness. Now we have to go vote. We have to continue to fight, continue the movement. Again, I\u2019m proud of everybody.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s a basketball game, for crying out loud! Shaquille O\u2019Neal, doing NBA basketball analysis, talking about the kneeling was beautifully done, done in unity. That\u2019s really hard choreography, I bet, training he can\u2019t be know everybody to kneel at the same time. A bunch of NBA players. That may be a challenge, but Shaquille O\u2019Neal was very honored and very proud of how well they did.<\/p>\n

“Great to see it,” he said. “I think it\u2019s very important you speak up. It\u2019s very important you speak your mind.” Oh, no. If you speak your mind and it\u2019s not what people like Shaq want to hear, then you better be prepared to be shut up. The left doesn\u2019t want to hear what you have to say. They only want… They\u2019ve got confirmation bias.<\/p>\n