{"id":377095,"date":"2020-12-22T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=377095"},"modified":"2020-12-23T16:40:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T21:40:36","slug":"charlie-gasparino-on-all-you-racists-boycotting-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/12\/22\/charlie-gasparino-on-all-you-racists-boycotting-the-nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Gasparino on All You Racists Boycotting the NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: They have just figured out… The NFL has taken a poll, National Football League. They found out they have lost 17% of their fans, at least 17%. Here\u2019s the report.<\/p>\n

GASPARINO: The league\u2019s embrace of social justice issues apparently is resonating with enough fans that the ratings are off. And they found that of all the things people are listing of why you\u2019re boycotting sports, why you may not watch a sports game, 17% of all the respondents — and that was the highest number — said it was the embrace of social justice issues that all sports are doing that\u2019s turning people off.<\/p>\n

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Now, does that mean Americans are largely racist? I don\u2019t know if you can make that point. I\u2019m someone who doesn\u2019t care about one knee. I — I — I support it. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s the most provocative social justice statement in the world. But a lot of, uh, NFL fans who generally trend conservative, heavily military, middle class, not rich, they don\u2019t like it, and, uh, y\u2019know, you gotta know your customer out there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. So all of us are racist. Charlie Gasparino just figured it out. “Well, I don\u2019t know, but maybe. Does this mean Americans are largely racist? I don\u2019t know if you can make that point. But, for me, I\u2019m somebody that doesn\u2019t care about one knee. I support it.” Charlie, you know, for all the other things you talk about, you\u2019re reasonably bright and intelligent.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t hard to figure out. This is not hard to understand. I\u2019ve been explaining this to people for a couple of years. I actually think it\u2019s more than 17%, and so does the league. Did I keep this story out in a separate stack? I must not have. There is a separate story on the NFL\u2019s ratings problem. What did I…? Yeah, I put it somewhere else. It\u2019ll come up as I go through The Stack<\/a> here on the program.<\/p>\n

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The league does not know its customer. The league wishes it had a different fan base, or at least a certain percentage of the fan base they wish were different. And they are running their business as though that difference existed, as though that… They\u2019re running the business as though that section of the fan base doesn\u2019t exist, is the best way to explain it.<\/p>\n

So 17% in a poll they conducted are boycotting them. It\u2019s probably, as in the case of any poll, a higher number than that. People don\u2019t like this stuff forced on them in areas they go to to escape it. It\u2019s no more complicated than that. People do not watch sports to be preached to politically. They go to sports to escape that for three hours a Sunday afternoon, six hours maybe — or nine, if they watch all three games.<\/p>\n

But they go to escape it. They don\u2019t want to be lectured, and they certainly don\u2019t want to be blamed, and they don\u2019t want to be told by multimillionaires how unfair things are and how racist things are when they can\u2019t possibly be that bad. Otherwise, these people wouldn\u2019t be living the lives they are living, which are far more lucrative and far more wealthy than the average American who is a fan or a customer earns or has.<\/p>\n

To be lectured to and preached to and then blamed? You know, an NFL players decide to take a knee because cops are murdering black people, and we\u2019re told we have to believe it. We\u2019re told we have to accept it, and we have to understand it, and we have to oppose it. Otherwise, we\u2019re racist pigs or what have you. It\u2019s not the way to grow the fan base. It just isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re not gonna build support for star athletes if those very star athletes serve a new role of antagonizing the fans. But the owners have decided, or they have concluded that if they don\u2019t support the players, the players will strike or walk out and not play and there will be nothing. So they have to go through the motions of supporting the players and letting them put signs on their helmets and jerseys, “Racism sucks,” whatever it is.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s not why people tune in to watch. But Gasparino\u2019s little last statement here. “A lot of NFL fans generally trend conservative. So what does that mean? Well, they\u2019re heavily military.” Oh, yeah. They love murdering people! They love guns, and they love missiles and rockets, and they love nuking people, right? “And they\u2019re middle class.” Well, that means they\u2019re stupid.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not as wealthy as we are. They simply don\u2019t know enough. “They\u2019re not rich,” which he covered, “and they don\u2019t like it. They don\u2019t like social justice. And you know, you gotta know your customer.” It\u2019s not that conservatives don\u2019t like social justice. It\u2019s that they don\u2019t accept that it\u2019s as real as a Democrat Party political plank.<\/p>\n

Social justice is simply an excuse to censor. It\u2019s an excuse to go in and deny people their freedoms and their rights and a whole lot more, and it is conservatives who are very much aware of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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