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RUSH: Okay, to briefly restate, it is my humble observation — and I, by the way, stand to be corrected on this if I\u2019ve got this wrong. But I\u2019ve read enough of this report to draw the conclusion that the NFL purposely allowed a game to be played, no less an AFC championship game, with footballs that were underinflated, that were not inflated to required PSI. <\/p>\n

And they did this, it appears, to catch whoever it was doing this, i.e., cheating. It was brought to the league\u2019s attention long before the game by the Indianapolis Colts. It was brought to the league\u2019s attention in weeks prior and on the day of the game. And simply on the basis of the Colts registering complaint, the league decided to find out what was going on. <\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t think you can look at this in a vacuum. I don\u2019t think you could look at this event without keeping something else present in your mind and that is Spygate. There are still a lot of really ruffled feathers and angry feelings about Spygate. That Belichick was not suspended, for example. I\u2019ve read in the voluminous reading that I\u2019ve done last night and today that some people think that the commissioner of The NFL, to this day, regrets not suspending Belichick. <\/p>\n

But I keep coming back to why in the world would you as a league, as an enterprise, as a company, however you want to look at it, why would you put yourself in the situation that you\u2019re at today? You have your biggest star player now under a cloud. You have the media and fans clamoring for your star player to be suspended and fined and severely punished. <\/p>\n

You have other coaches and players throughout the league eagerly watching to see what happens here because, as I mentioned, Sean Payton, the coach of the New Orleans Saints, was suspended a whole season precisely because he did not know what was going on in his locker room. And this report says that Belichick did not know what was going on with these footballs. <\/p>\n

So Sean Payton\u2019s gonna be looking at this. I don\u2019t think he\u2019d say anything. But he\u2019s gonna be looking at it. You\u2019ve got a bunch of players who\u2019ve been suspended for things that did not have anything to do with the integrity of the game, other than it doesn\u2019t help the game to have a criminal element play in it. But I mean being suspended for wife beating or marijuana is not a direct attack on the integrity of the game like this was, or is. <\/p>\n

The Patriots, as the Super Bowl champions, open the season Thursday night, first game of the season, in September, and they\u2019ll host the Pittsburgh Steelers. The league is now faced with the likelihood, apparently, that the star quarterback of the league is gonna be suspended and not available for that game. And if he isn\u2019t suspended and only fined, you\u2019re gonna have all other kinds of hell break loose here. <\/p>\n

So it makes me wonder, why even run the risk of getting to this point when this could have maybe been shut down on game day. If you get a report, an allegation that some footballs are illegally inflated, well, find out. And if you find some that are illegally inflated, either throw \u2019em out or properly inflate them and play the game and then try to figure out what happened, instead of allowing a game to be played with footballs that do not meet the rule book regulations. <\/p>\n

So, with Spygate over here silently, it makes me wonder if there isn\u2019t a lot more going on with this. Meaning if there isn\u2019t a real — I don\u2019t know how to put this, \u2019cause I\u2019m just wildly speculating here. But it would not be difficult to believe, given everything that\u2019s happened here, it wouldn\u2019t be hard to understand if somebody somewhere with authority in the league really has it out for the Patriots and thinks that they got away with too little punishment over Spygate and may think that there\u2019s a culture of this stuff going on with the Patriots. And they want to get to the bottom of it, and they want it exposed once and for all because ultimately that would be more damaging to the league than just one little incident here. <\/line><\/p>\n

But this is all idle speculation because I can\u2019t think of one reason other than that why you would allow circumstances to develop in such a way that we are where we are today. And where are we today? Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. Here\u2019s a montage of Drive-By Media people just gushing with excitement over the fact that Brady\u2019s been caught cheating.<\/p>\n

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Super cheat. Calls this morning for the NFL to suspend Super Bowl hero Tom Brady.<\/p>\n

CHRISTINE ROMANS: Did Tom Brady cheat his way into the Super Bowl? <\/p>\n

JOHN BERMAN: Did the most handsome man on earth cheat his way into the Super Bowl?<\/p>\n

T.J. HOLMES: Did the MVP cheat?<\/p>\n

MIKE GOLIC: If you knowingly try to cheat.<\/p>\n

DARA BROWN: Don\u2019t cheat. Their superstar quarterback may have done just that.<\/p>\n

COY WIRE: Tom Brady doesn\u2019t have to cheat. He\u2019s so good.<\/p>\n

DON LEMON: Did he cheat?<\/p>\n

MEL ROBBINS: Hell, yes, he cheated.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hell, yes. You\u2019ve got Bill Rhoden at the New York Times, sports columnist, demanding that something be done here \u2019cause he\u2019s a big cheater, and this is unacceptable. I mean, it\u2019s everywhere you look. once again, the best player in the National Football League, and maybe I should qualify that as the best quarterback, clearly the biggest star in the league, has now been tarnished and damaged, integrity up for grabs, being questioned. <\/p>\n

The Drive-By Media is salivating and excited over the fact that he might be suspended, thrown out of the game for a while, fined extensively. It\u2019s a strange place to want to be. Not that anybody wanted to be here. Now, they\u2019re circling the wagons at the Patriots. Brady\u2019s agent is attacking the report and Ted Wells\u2019 lawyer who put it together, and the owner of the Patriots the same. And I must say, folks, let me read something to you. This is page 228. <\/p>\n

Let me just read this, page 228. “In sum, the data did not provide a basis for us to determine with absolute certainty whether there was or was not tampering, as the analysis of such data ultimately is dependent upon assumptions and information –” That\u2019s like an asterisk saying, “We don\u2019t know whether anything we\u2019ve said here is true, because the data doesn\u2019t provide a basis for us to determine with absolute certainty.” Well, then what\u2019s the rest of this report? This, folks, to me, as is the case with most things, there\u2019s way more going on here.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, one of the problems is that Tom Brady would not turn over his telephone so that they could look at the text messages and e-mails that might have been back and forth between him and the equipment guys. Now, he did sit for a one-hour interview with his agent. The agent recorded everything that happened. They said he was cooperative and forthcoming, but they wanted his phone. He would not give them the phone. <\/p>\n

Ted Wells said, “Look, your lawyer can pull off only texts and e-mails related to this thing. We don\u2019t care if there are pictures of your wife on your phone. We don\u2019t care about any of that. We\u2019ll let your lawyer harvest the data relevant to our investigation,” and Brady said, “No.” Well, in a circumstantial case, which is what this is, that has given rise to suspicion \u2019cause the question is, “Okay, what is he hiding?” <\/p>\n

And let\u2019s not forget this. Do not… (chuckles) Folks, when it comes to the media and everybody, there is something that didn\u2019t get a whole lot of notice. It was remarked upon, but it didn\u2019t get a whole lot of notice. Recently the Super Bowl Champion Patriots went to the White House to be treated and hosted by President Obama, and Brady didn\u2019t go. And it is known why he didn\u2019t go. He didn\u2019t go because Josh Earnest, in one of these White House press briefings, had made a joke about Deflategate<\/a>.<\/line><\/p>\n

Brady takes this allegation that he\u2019s a cheater very seriously. So he said, “Screw it, I\u2019m not going.” This is the report, anyway. That\u2019s insulting enough. To the Drive-By Media, that was a direct insult to Obama. “Okay, the next opportunity we have to go get Brady, we\u2019re gonna take it.” Well, here it is. And then it\u2019s been reported that Brady… You know, he had a great day this past Saturday. He and his buddies chartered a plane.<\/p>\n

They went to the Kentucky Derby, and after the Derby they went to Vegas to the fight. And it was learned that Steve Wynn, who isn\u2019t a big fan of Obama\u2019s, had a little confab with Brady where they bonded over the fact that neither of them like Obama. That\u2019s the news anyway. Forget whether it\u2019s true. Who knows? So the Drive-Bys see all of this, and they see Brady dissing Obama, not going to the White House, getting together with Steve Wynn, and Steve Wynn being open about his disgust for Obama.<\/p>\n

You put it all together… But it still doesn\u2019t explain why we\u2019re here. It doesn\u2019t explain why this situation is at this point. And you\u2019re gonna have people with all kinds of reactions. Some are saying, “Come on. Brady can\u2019t be the only one. All these quarterbacks have to do this.” Others are saying, “It\u2019s gotta be a suspension. There\u2019s gotta be some sort of penalty. It can\u2019t just be a fine. They\u2019ve gotta suspend him for a couple games!” <\/p>\n

<\/a>If you\u2019re looking at this cavalierly like this is just another infraction that the NFL has to deal with, you need to change the way you\u2019re thinking about it. This is much bigger. Despite what you may think, this is bigger than Ray Rice,<\/a> in terms of its potential to the league. And they know it. And you can\u2019t take Spygate out of this. By that I mean, you\u2019ve got a lot of people who may think the Patriots still haven\u2019t paid the right price for that. You\u2019ve got people who think that the Patriots steal radio signals. <\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got people — I\u2019m telling you, you have people — who think the Patriots stole the Seahawks play call radio signal on last play of the Super Bowl and knew what was coming. You\u2019ve got people… I\u2019m not saying in the league. You\u2019ve got people who think the Patriots are routine cheaters and Spygate didn\u2019t get anywhere near exposing it, and that the league knows it and they\u2019re trying to take all kinds of steps to uncover it all and root it out and just be done with it because it\u2019s a cloud. <\/p>\n

My point is, whether any of this is true is… Well, it\u2019s not irrelevant. But it need are not have arrived. I still can\u2019t quite understand — and I\u2019m sorry for the redundancy. I\u2019ve said this three times already. But I just can\u2019t understand how the league allowed it to get to this point. It\u2019s not good to have all this speculation out there. You might think, “Hey, man, anything, talking about the league, man, this is cool. All this intrigue, it just makes people more curious about it.”<\/p>\n

Maybe. Maybe so. But I have to think that people that own teams and run the league really don\u2019t want people speculating about whether there\u2019s rampant cheating. You don\u2019t want records and trophies and stuff to be questioned in terms of legitimacy, particularly this league, the NFL. It was the pinnacle of professional sports. It was at the top of the mountain, and still is. I mean, in terms of integrity and respect, image, it\u2019s taken some hits in recent years.<\/p>\n

Because of the culture, the players, some of the infractions off field that these guys have been caught getting into, and even some on-field stuff. So we\u2019ll see. It\u2019s just unfortunate. Now the Drive-Bys, I tell you, folks, they just… Let me play some more of these sound bites for you as they just dump on Brady. Here\u2019s Bill Rhoden. This is… We\u2019re up to sound bite three. CBS This Morning, sports columnist for the New York Times. Charlie Rose. “So what\u2019s the worst thing about this, Bill?”<\/p>\n

RHODEN: Well, the worst thing about it is — is that a guy who\u2019s on top of the world, who seems to have everything — great family, a legacy, Super Bowl — still feels so much pressure and the need to cheat.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: See, it\u2019s concluded now. He cheated. They\u2019re not even considering that he didn\u2019t cheat. And this is a circumstantial case. I mean, the report says they can\u2019t prove anything. I just read to you… Look. Where did I put it? Let me find that. I want to read you from the report. I read this really hurriedly toward the end of the previous hour. You just heard Bill Rhoden there. He said, “Well, the worst thing about it is that a guy who\u2019s on top of the world, who seems to have everything — great family, a legacy, Super Bowl — still feels so much pressure and the need to cheat.” <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s page 228 of this report. “In sum,” that means in toto; that means adding everything up, “the data did not provide a basis for us to determine with absolute certainty whether there was or was not tampering, as the analysis of such data ultimately is dependent upon assumptions and information that is not certain.” (interruption) What do you mean, “Come on Rush?” (interruption) Well… (laughing) You\u2019re telling me this is lawyerese? <\/p>\n

So they just put that in there as a CYA? Okay, keep the lawsuit off of \u2019em? (interruption) Okay. All right. So this doesn\u2019t mean anything. See, here we… (interruption) Okay, this doesn\u2019t mean…? (interruption) What they\u2019re saying is, “We can\u2019t prove anything. The data didn\u2019t provide a basis for us to determine with absolute certainty…” Okay, so a guy is gonna get an suspended, be called a cheat, and have his reputation damaged forever, and this is just in there for the lawyers? <\/p>\n

(interruption) Okay. Well, we\u2019ll see. We shall see. Despite that on page 228, all the other stuff in there is quite clear circumstantially that there was a whoooooole lot of cheating going on out there. Right. And the media has already concluded. So after Rhoden said, “Man, he has a just great family, great legacy, Super Bowl, and still feels the need to cheat,” Charlie Rose said, “Well, what do you think the punishment\u2019s gonna be?”<\/p>\n

RHODEN: I\u2019ll tell you what I think it should be. I think they should suspended him for at least half the season. At least half the season. Don\u2019t fine him because he has more money than… You know, don\u2019t fine him. Don\u2019t make this a financial penalty.<\/p>\n

ROSE: (grunts)<\/p>\n

RHODEN: Suspend him, Charlie. Suspend him for half the season. What do you think about that?<\/p>\n

RHODEN: I like Tom Brady, okay?<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) “What do you think about that?” I\u2019ve never heard Bill Rhoden ask anybody what they think of what he thinks! Bill Rhoden doesn\u2019t care what anybody else thinks, and all of a sudden now, “What do you think about that,” Charlie? “I like Tom Brady.” What\u2019s that mean? “I think you\u2019re full of it, Bill”? Half the season! Half the season. The Miami Herald guy says he\u2019s heard it\u2019s gonna be a whole season. Half the season. All right, here\u2019s the owner, Robert Kraft, back in January in Phoenix at the site of the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

KRAFT: If the Wells investigation is not able to definitively determine that our organization tampered with the air pressure in the footballs, I would expect and hope that the league would apologize to our entire team — and in particular, Coach Belichick and Tom Brady — for what they have had to endure this past week. I am disappointed in the way this entire matter has been handled and reported upon.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, he\u2019s not gonna get an apology. Nowhere near is he getting an apology. In fact, just the opposite. Mr. Kraft has reacted to the report by saying, “This is incomprehensible,” \u2019cause I\u2019m sure he read the excerpt I just read to you on page 228 that Snerdley says is just in there for the lawyers to prevent the lawsuit and doesn\u2019t really mean anything. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure he read that. And he said it\u2019s incomprehensible. But he concluded by saying that whatever happens, we will support, whatever the league does, we will deal with it. After registering his profound shock and dismay that this report could have uncovered this. Peter King, Sports Illustrated, Monday Morning Quarterback on the Today show, Savannah Guthrie said, “When you look at the Patriots\u2019 Super Bowl victory, they went on to win after all this. Do you think it has an asterisk by it now for a lot of fans?”<\/p>\n

KING: For a lot of fans it will because the Patriots are like the Yankees, they\u2019re like the old Cowboys; they\u2019re a team that America loves to hate. And I think that is one of the things that people take great delight, in the kingpin getting toppled. And that\u2019s why I think people take great delight this morning in looking at Tom Brady and saying that, “Hey, look, he should get what\u2019s coming to him.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: So that\u2019s an acknowledgement that people are just jealous and feel better when somebody bigger than them gets taken down a peg. (interruption) Yes, they did. Snerdley said nobody hated the old Cowboys. They sure as hell did. In fact, people hated the Steelers. In the seventies the Steelers were a machine. My dad hated the Steelers. He hated them \u2019cause they were just a machine. They\u2019re so damn good they\u2019re superhuman. People hated the Cowboys. <\/p>\n

<\/a>The hatred of the Patriots, I\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s tied to Spygate and Belichick and the hoodie and all this. But this is the kind of stuff, normally this fuels fan passion in a game, which is cool. That\u2019s all good. But this isn\u2019t. I don\u2019t know. If I owned the Patriots, if I ran the league, this is not the kind of stuff that I would want the league to be known for. (interruption) No, we\u2019re not gonna get stories on how cheating is sometimes good and if you got small hands and still have a supermodel wife and still need an underinflated football, it\u2019s okay. <\/p>\n

No, we\u2019re not gonna get stories like that, particularly because Obama\u2019s been dissed in all of this. I think actually that the Patriots\u2019 defense and the Hillary defense are somewhat similar here, and that\u2019s another thing. Who wants to be associated with the way the Clintons do things? (interruption) Now that got your attention, huh? Oh, that made you sit up and perk up, huh?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s a guy out there today, an American, in the midst of all this hullabaloo and he\u2019s shouting. He\u2019s trying to be heard above all this noise, saying, “What about me? What about me?” and his name is Pete Rose. He didn\u2019t take performance enhancing drugs. He didn\u2019t beat up his wife, girlfriend, any of the sort. He\u2019s not drawn a cartoon of the prophet, least I can tell. (interruption) What did I mean about the Clintons?<\/p>\n

Well, okay, take a look at this. If Bill Clinton can get away with blaming their accountant at the Clinton Crime Family Foundation, if Bill and Hillary can get away with saying (imitating Clinton), “Yeah, I just work here man. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on. Hell, somebody\u2019s gotta pay the bills here.” If the Clintons can get away with this scot-free, then why can\u2019t Brady get away with blaming the ball boys? <\/p>\n

Do you realize more people care about whether or not the footballs in the AFC championship game were underinflated than they care about Democrat vote fraud and care about flooding the country with illegal aliens who are just gonna add up to more Democrat Party voters? Sports is closer to people and they can relate to it more, I understand that. But still, no sense of proportion. <\/p>\n

To the phones we go. People want to weigh in here. We\u2019re gonna start in Indianapolis. Rose, you\u2019re first. It\u2019s great to have you. Hello.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, hello. I\u2019ve got a mouthful. Does anyone think this is the first time that he\u2019s involved this kid with deflating these balls? He thought he was beyond getting caught. That\u2019s why he risked it. Why do you think they\u2019re the winningest team? Duh. What do you think? Rush?<\/p>\n

RUSH: My cough button was stuck. I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m sorry, honey. Would you like me to start over?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, I didn\u2019t mean to scare you. Dead air never hurt anybody. It\u2019s okay. My cough button was stuck. I was talking, I didn\u2019t even hear myself. Only because I\u2019m a super professional that I didn\u2019t panic —<\/p>\n

CALLER: This is true.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — and start yelling at the engineer. I knew I had a button stuck here. Anyway.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re telling me that you think that Brady has cheated for a long time? Is that what you mean?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Why do you think he\u2019s winning all these games? Look at Payton —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m asking you. You think the Patriots, Brady has been cheating on a lot of things for a long time. Is that what your point is?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, there\u2019s no way to prove it, but the way Brady\u2019s been acting.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What\u2019s that? How\u2019s he been acting?<\/p>\n

CALLER: He won\u2019t give up his phone. He\u2019s getting up there and giving these speeches, all this stuff. I don\u2019t believe that for a minute.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. He did deny all this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Of course, would you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Would I what?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Would you deny if you were caught? I know you wouldn\u2019t. I wouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, I wouldn\u2019t do it. You know what? I would not allow it to be done in my name. If I knew about it, no, no, I cannot imagine coming to this microphone with the people of America on the other side and knowingly tell something that I know is gonna be proven a lie down the road. I can\u2019t imagine doing that. Since you asked me, I can\u2019t. But I\u2019m not these guys. I\u2019m not in that circumstance. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going through their minds. It could well be that they don\u2019t think they\u2019ve done anything wrong here or that the ball boys ran with instructions that they never got and were just acting on their own like the accountants at the Clinton Foundation apparently have been doing. Anyway, Rose, I appreciate the call. There you have it, folks. I mean, there\u2019s no question here, not only this, they\u2019ve been cheating forever, and they just now happen to be getting caught. <\/p>\n

Bob in Chelsea, Michigan, you\u2019re next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Greetings. Dittos from a fellow general aviation traveler.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir. I appreciate that. Little inside baseball.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My comment, the NFL has absolutely no evidence that Brady was involved. They have nothing. But we all know how the NFL has become really politically correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We know that Brady didn\u2019t go to the White House. We all know how petulant Obama can be when he feels slighted. I would agree with your point that the word is out, Brady needs to be punished not because of deflategate, but because he insulted Obama.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, wait, I didn\u2019t say that that was the reason.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know you didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I said the reason why the media partly, partial reason why the media is salivating over this is because they might think he dissed Obama. But I don\u2019t think that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I agree, you didn\u2019t make that point, you didn\u2019t say that he did that. But I\u2019m saying, you know, I think that the media and everybody that — and that Obama\u2019s not above putting out the word that, you know, Brady needs to be punished.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Man. I hadn\u2019t even considered that. You\u2019re involving Obama in this. I did not.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I agree.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All I said was that the media has another reason to pile on because they think Brady dissed their guy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I agree.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But I want to go back to what you said at first. Zero evidence, absolutely no evidence for anything that\u2019s in this report?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yep. But it\u2019s the seriousness of the charge.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, it is that, but do you realize that this investigation has been going on five months?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yep. I do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Five months. And a lot of people said, “Why don\u2019t they release the results before the draft?” If there gonna be any penalties, then mete the penalties, hand \u2019em out before this draft rather than next draft, next season and so forth. All right, well, I\u2019m glad for your take on this. Absolutely no evidence in this report, other than circumstantial. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Corky, driving a truck in western Pennsylvania. Great to have you on the program, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. How are you doing? Super trucking, massive petrochemical-consuming dittos to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) I love it. Thank you very much, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: This thing with the Drive-By Media and Tom Brady, could some of it be…? Do you recall back at the beginning of the season when he had two real bad games and everybody started saying that was the end of Tom Brady and the end of Bill Belichick? And of course he gathered it back up, came steamrolling back; ended up winning the Super Bowl. You think that might be some of the angst they have toward him?<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: No. I think it\u2019s part of the mix. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s one thing. I\u2019ll tell you what I really think is go on. Let me… I\u2019ve kind of nibbled around the edges here, and I\u2019ve left some of it for you all to understand so that I don\u2019t have to say it. But I\u2019m beginning to think maybe I\u2019m gonna have to say it. Now, what you\u2019re talking about first, Brady had a game against the Kansas City Chiefs that had everybody writing the following week that he was over.<\/p>\n

He was finished. It was done. It was horrible. I\u2019ll never forget it. All these writers and TV people said, “You hope to see a guy go out gracefully. Oh, my God, to see a player lose it in one day like this! Oh, my God, this is just horrible.” They started speculating about, “Is this it?” Now, I know some things about Tom Brady. One of the things I know about him is, he and George Brett are two of the most I\u2019ve-never-seen-anything-like-it competitive people I have ever encountered. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure Michael Jordan is the same way, and Tiger. They all are. But that game and that aftermath was all the inspiration, motivation, whatever that Brady needed for the rest of the season to just shut everybody up. And because he came back from what they wrote as the grave, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s why they are so eager to bury him here. I really think it\u2019s nothing more than human nature. When you get right down to it, sportswriters are people. They\u2019re groupies. <\/p>\n

Many of them are groupies. That\u2019s why they go into the business. And don\u2019t kid yourself about the number of guys that are jealous as they can be of Tom Brady. “Nobody\u2019s that good! Nobody\u2019s that lucky. Nobody in real life has it all like that. It only happens in books.” So when this guy takes a plunge, everybody feels better about themselves (clapping), and they salivate, and they eat it up and they applaud it, \u2019cause they feel better about themselves. Not just sportswriters. I mean everybody, the whole culture.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an interesting aspect of our culture, that we love seeing people at the top taken down. We love it even more when they screw themselves or when they sabotage themselves, or when they get caught cheating. “Because we know in our hearts they\u2019re not really that good.” That\u2019s what we tell ourselves, because we feel too insignificant compare ourselves to Tom Brady. “Oh, jeez. Oh!” Then when anything that happens makes Brady look like he\u2019s subject to the same rigors of life as everybody else?<\/p>\n

Not everybody, but some people take great comfort in that. You know this as well as I do. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Jack in Columbia, South Carolina, as we head back to the phones. Rush Limbaugh with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair. Jack, hi. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, good afternoon, Rush. I\u2019ll try to fulfill my obligations as a caller as you fulfill yours as a host. I\u2019ve been thinking about this whole Patriots thing, and I\u2019m perplexed with the media reaction. They\u2019re up in arms with the cheating, the cheating, the cheating, yet I don\u2019t hear a word about Iran cheating on their nuclear deal.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ahhhh.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And one other thing. Your analysis or other people\u2019s analysis that it could be because of his attitude toward Obama, just remember, the leaders of Iran have called President Obama a monkey, so where is the outrage?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, this is a fascinating question. The first answer I\u2019m gonna give you to cover both aspects of your question, \u2019cause your question basically is, when you boil things down, when a football team or player cheats, the impact on the country is negligible. But if Iran is cheating and is gonna get a nuclear weapon and could blow up Israel and maybe us or a city here or there, that\u2019s really serious and we really need to be concerned about that, and we\u2019re not. Instead we\u2019re turning the country upside down because Tom Brady might have played with some balls that are underinflated. <\/p>\n

Well, the answer is rooted in something that a Harvard socialist told me way back when I worked in sales and marketing for the Kansas City Royals. He said the one thing about sports that separates it from everything else that you do or observe or live in life, the one thing about sports is, it is the only thing, it is the one thing that you can invest total passion without consequence. You can give everything you\u2019ve got to your team and your favorite players. <\/p>\n

You can invest every hope, all the love in the world you have, and you don\u2019t have to worry about that they\u2019re gonna reject you. You don\u2019t have to worry that they\u2019re going to make fools of you. If you invest total passion, say, in another person, they\u2019re gonna let you down. They\u2019ll use you if they know that you\u2019re investing, they think they\u2019ve got you wrapped around their little finger. So in this case, sports is much more personal. Tom Brady is much more personal and relatable than the Ayatollah Khamenei.<\/p>\n

The Ayatollah Khamenei remains this mysterious, removed, distant figure that we don\u2019t really ever hear speak, we don\u2019t really know this guy, but Tom Brady and the Patriots are in our living rooms every Sunday in the fall and the winter. People forget everything else going on in their lives for the three to four hours every Sunday or Monday night, whenever they watch the team. So there\u2019s a much greater personal connection on the part of average, ordinary people than there is with any foreign policy issue. That would be one answer. <\/p>\n

The other answer as to why the media is much more, in fact, applauding — your point is, the media practically applauds the Iranians for getting what they want. Never forget that the real objective in any news story or in any event is defeating conservatives and Republicans, and anybody that does that is going to be a hero. Now, you say, “Well, what\u2019s that got to do with Iran?” <\/p>\n

Well, I can tell you right now, the Republicans in the Senate have made it clear that they don\u2019t think Obama has the right nor the power to unilaterally make a deal with Iran on nuclear weapons or anything else without them having a say-so in it. That alone will cause the media to hate the Republicans and automatically support Obama in anything he\u2019s doing, because the objective is not to beat Iran. <\/p>\n

The objective is to beat Mitch McConnell or Jeff Sessions, or take your pick. The objective is to beat the Republican Senate. The objective is to beat the Republican National Committee. The objective is to beat John Boehner. The objective is to beat conservative media. And to the extent that the Iranians are aligned with Obama and the Democrat Party means that the Iranians are not gonna be perceived as the enemy in this; the Republicans are. <\/p>\n

The Republicans, the conservatives, whatever, the opponents of the left, wherever you find them, whoever they are, are the enemy. They are the threat. They are the constant enemy. It\u2019s why Bill Clinton is so loved. I\u2019m convinced Clinton is so loved by the media because he didn\u2019t just beat the Republicans. He humiliated \u2019em. He enabled people to laugh at them. And Obama, same thing. Whatever Democrat can come along and make the Republicans look like the bigger fools, the biggest jokes, the bigger star, the bigger hero or heroine that Democrat, or foreign leader, is going to be.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Scott, Columbus, Montana. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello, Scott.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, sir. Unending mega dittos —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — from Montana.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, I thought you said unenvied.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, unending.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Unending, yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Forever.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, I find it funny because by about eight o\u2019clock this morning I was ticked off, you know, after all the findings that came out about Tom Brady, the Patriots, et cetera. You know, I\u2019ve kind of gotten over it since then. At the same time I wonder, okay, all the furor that\u2019s going on in the press right now, what are they sneaking behind us? What\u2019s back dooring? What\u2019s going on that our attention does not need to be paid to?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean in the NFL or in general?<\/p>\n

CALLER: In general. ‘Cause it seems like whenever there\u2019s some big social issue, they\u2019ll sneak a few things in behind us, and then we find out later.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the case. I think the Brady NFL story is in fact genuine and it\u2019s real. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s contrived. It happened. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s there to mask anything else, \u2019cause it is —<\/p>\n

CALLER: ‘Cause, you know, I have a really bad disease. I\u2019m a Denver Broncos fan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. I had somebody send me an e-mail today, just to answer your question, I had one of the graphics designers at the Limbaugh Letter sent me a note today saying, “Don\u2019t fall for this, Rush. This Brady story, this deflate gate is just to cover up Rapegate. It\u2019s just to take everybody\u2019s attention away from all the rape stuff in the NFL. That\u2019s why they\u2019re doing this. The NFL would much rather have people worried about underinflated footballs than all of the domestic abuse going on out there.” <\/p>\n

No, it makes sense, except there isn\u2019t a current Rapegate story going on. There\u2019s a lot of off-field criminality stuff going on, but nothing prominent, not like Ray Rice. But just to answer your question, I\u2019ve got CNN on here all day, and they\u2019re covering everything. They\u2019re covering their story about the police investigation undermining the state attorney in Baltimore, which I\u2019ve been promising for two and a half years hours to get to today, and it\u2019s coming next, after the break. They\u2019re covering that. They\u2019re covering everything. They\u2019re not going to wall-to-wall Brady, and neither is Fox. So it\u2019s not overwhelming any other story. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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