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\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: To Stone Mountain, Georgia, next we go. This is Leonard. It\u2019s great to have you, sir. Leonard, how are you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m great. How you doing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine and dandy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve been a fan since the early nineties. I love you, brother. I bought my grandbabies the Rush Revere books<\/a>, but today you sound like Hillary defending Bill. I think you need to get the Hillary pantsuit on the way you\u2019re protecting the Pittsburgh Steelers.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What? Protecting the Pittsburgh Steelers?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. They\u2019re one of the most violent teams in the NFL. You\u2019re talking about Vontaze Burfict hit on Brown<\/a>. You kind of slid past the fact that Shazier, number 50 for the Steelers, speared our running back. No call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh!<\/p>\n


\nCALLER: It was early in the game when Vontaze Burfict was blocked 10 yards after the whistle was blown —<\/p>\n

RUSH: “Our” running —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — driven into the ground. No one made a call against that. Come on, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re talking about number 50, Ryan Shazier.<\/p>\n

CALLER: There you go.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who hit the running back of the Bengals —<\/p>\n

CALLER: He didn\u2019t hit him. He speared him. He led with his helmet, and that is against the rules, and they didn\u2019t call a foul.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, they didn\u2019t. In fact, you know, when that happened I\u2019d lost the telecast because of thunderstorms here, so I went to the NFL app and I got the Cincinnati radio broadcast, and they were outraged. The Cincinnati radio broadcast was outraged at the fact that no penalty was called on the Shazier hit. I didn\u2019t see it, because we had lost the telecast. I didn\u2019t see it then. I saw a replay of it later on. So your point is that that\u2019s what started everything and the refs not calling that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, no. This started back after the first game and Le\u2019Veon Bell got hurt and then the Steelers had death threats to some of the Cincinnati Bengals players. That\u2019s why the second game was so bad.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, come on.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s been going on all year.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re talking about linebacker number 98, Vince Williams, who tweeted something about a death threat to Vontaze Burfict and so forth. All I know is, and I\u2019m not trying to be protective of the Steelers, but I don\u2019t think the Steelers have a player on their team that has anywhere near the reputation or image of two or three of the Bengals. The Bengals, for the longest time, your guys were more often found in jail or under arrest. You remember the Chris Henry days. It became something of a joke that the Bengals went out and drafted these guys and took a chance that Marvin Lewis could control \u2019em. They cleaned that up for a while, but it looks like it\u2019s gone back and reversed itself.<\/p>\n

<\/a>I mean, the Bengals led the league in arrests. I\u2019m going back now to the nineties, the early 2000s. But, anyway, I should have known that you were a Bengals fan when I heard you say “our.” I don\u2019t care what you say, you can say the Steelers did this and that all night long. The fact of the matter is, what number 55 did, what number 24 did, lost the game. Forget everything else. Just the sheer stupidity, especially 55, could have been the toast of the town, could have been the MVP of the weekend, could have been the MVP of the playoffs, had just a great, killer game. Blew it all up, and it was clear this guy wanted to settle scores more than he wanted to win the game. It\u2019s just mind-boggling.<\/p>\n

Bobby in in Las Vegas. Great to have you, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, and it\u2019s a pleasure to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know you\u2019re a big Steelers fan and all I want to say is it actually goes way back to the middle nineties when everybody would come into Cincinnati and beat \u2019em like a drum. And Pittsburgh was very proud of the fact that they called Cincinnati stadiums, whether it was Riverfront or whatever, they treated it like their annex. They go in and they\u2019d expect to win. But everybody went in there and expected to win. So it really goes further back. And I think they were trying to say, don\u2019t come in our house and treat us like your b-i-itch ever again. I really think that\u2019s part of it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You think that\u2019s what the Bengals were doing on Saturday night?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think that\u2019s part of it, not all of it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Listen to the way you\u2019re talking. I tell you, there\u2019s cultural stuff to learn here. This is the exact point that I\u2019m making. You don\u2019t get to come to our house and call us bitches anymore. That\u2019s why they played the game. To hell with winning or losing. Now after this the Steelers can\u2019t call \u2019em bitches anymore, you want to bet that\u2019s not gonna happen? I mean, this is classic, but, you know, say what you want, the numbers are in, and the game is the highest rated wild card playoff game in the last four years, 31 and a half — what are you guys in there looking at each for? You think should blip me for saying bitch? It is amazing, here we are on the recognized leading political radio talk show in the world. But, see, everything is politics, folks.<\/p>\n


\nI always tried to tell you, everything is politics. So is this thing that happened Saturday night with the Bengals and Steelers. And it\u2019s politics in the sense of what it says culturally about where we are, and the fact that no authority figure seems to think they can stop it. The boss, the people that run these teams think they can\u2019t stop this. Well, if they can\u2019t, then why should a parent be able to?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey, look, when I started the discussion of the Bengals-Steelers game, it was not from the standpoint of being a Steelers fan. I guess I should have made that clear. I was hoping it would be. As a Steelers fan, that game was lost. We won that game with 30 yards of penalties. It\u2019s a moral victory if nothing else, and we\u2019ll take it, but, you know, my comments have nothing to do with being a Steelers fan. You gotta strip the partisanship out of this.<\/p>\n

What happened in that game is problematic for a host of reason. You Bengals fans, you also think what started this — we had a couple calls here — you think what started this was that Ryan Shazier hit on Giovani Bernard, the running back for Bengals, number 24, you think it was crown of the helmet to crown of the helmet, explicit violation of the rules and should have been a flag and there wasn\u2019t a flag. What\u2019s Shazier supposed to do when a running back lowers his head into the hit? I think why that wasn\u2019t called was that was just straight good old-fashioned up-and-down football. And the running back lowers his head, supposed to keep your head up, he lowers his head, and ends up with crown of the helmet to crown of the helmet. And I don\u2019t know if that hit happened in the five yards or not.<\/p>\n

But, anyway, my comments had nothing to do with being a Steelers fan. The game was, to me, they better get a handle on it or it\u2019s only gonna get worse. Look, I\u2019ve said enough about that. The Stick-to-the-Issues Crowd is pulling their hair out by now. Have you got phone calls from \u2019em? Just one? That\u2019s why I\u2019m telling you there is politics in everything that happens and there was in that game and the way it was dealt with and handled. You know, the real take-away, forget this game. How many dumb penalties do you see — well, I\u2019ll tell you one, the Steelers. Number 22, William Gay, picked up a fumble, scored a touchdown, it was called back, but he participated — not for the first time — he participated in an illegal celebration after the touchdown by having two or three players celebrate with him.<\/p>\n


\nYou\u2019re not allowed to have more than one player celebrate, and he was doing some bird dance in there, and he got 15 yards penalized. The touchdown was not allowed, but the penalty was upheld, and it was big, the Bengals got 15 yards. It was stupid. You know, and I\u2019m asking myself, why can\u2019t the coaches take these guys aside and say, don\u2019t do it or you\u2019re not playing? And the answer I get back is, the coaches all say, hey, these are grown men, I can\u2019t tell \u2019em what to do. Really? When did when did authority vanish? Authority\u2019s a problematic thing, like, we don\u2019t want authoritarian presidents. We don\u2019t want presidents violating the law by running roughshod over the Constitution like Obama with executive orders and executive actions. That\u2019s not authority. That\u2019s authoritarianism. That borders on tyranny. That\u2019s violation of the Constitution.<\/p>\n

But when you have a structure, when you have boss and employees, parent and child. When you have somebody responsible for enforcing the rules and conduct set down by the team, somebody, an authority figure, has got to be able to tell people you can\u2019t do that or punish them otherwise. And if you\u2019re gonna throw your hands up and say, “I\u2019m sorry, they\u2019re grown men, I can\u2019t tell \u2019em what to do,” then all bets are off. If nobody can tell \u2019em what to do, what they can\u2019t do, then you have to expect that no authority figure\u2019s gonna be respected. And then when one comes along and does implement his authority, like Goodell, he ends up being despised and hated. To me it\u2019s eye opening and revealing about a lot in our culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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