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RUSH: In the past couple of days discussing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the ensuing controversy, which, do you know what the latest with that is? Coach K, Mike Krzyzewski, the coach of Duke basketball team, refused to comment on it. The NCAA\u2019s demanded to pull out of there and the Final Four, whatever\u2019s going on there, I guess it\u2019s in Indiana. I\u2019m sorry for not knowing. I don\u2019t follow basketball, college basketball. So if I appear ignorant, it\u2019s because I am and I\u2019m not ashamed to admit it.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I happened to be watching my monitors today as part of the show prep routine, and I never have the sound on, cause it\u2019s just irritating to me, so I look up there, look at CNN, and there\u2019s a picture of Coach K, and there\u2019s a feverish discussion going on with a has-been punter <\/line>for the Minnesota Vikings, Chris Kluwe. Kluwe is a big supporter of gay marriage, so I said, “Hmm, this must be about Indiana.” So I turned the sound on. You know what they were doing?<\/line><\/p>\n

They were giving Coach K the business for not commenting on it. Coach K said he wasn\u2019t gonna comment on this, and they were giving him the business for not saying anything. I just printed it out, right here\u2019s the story. “CNN\u2019s Carol Costello attacked Duke head basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski for refusing to weigh in on the new religious freedom law in Indiana. … Krzyzewski didn\u2019t come down one way or the other on the law, he simply refused to address it.”<\/p>\n

But, see, this is the new statism. Because he didn\u2019t fall in line with other sports figures condemning the law, CNN does a whole segment attacking him for not saying anything. So this is the double way that they pressure you. If you say the unacceptable thing, then they destroy you. If you don\u2019t say what they want you to say because you saying it would add ammo to their point of view — and of course Coach K, one of the most highly respected basketball coaches ever, the anti-Indiana forces would love to have Coach K on their side.<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t come down on any side and so he has to be taken out for that reason alone. The intimidation in stories like this and the veiled defamation, by the way, cuts both ways. If you don\u2019t say what they want you to say — and to them, you matter — they\u2019re gonna come after you. If you say what they don\u2019t want to hear, they\u2019ll come after you for that, too.<\/p>\n

I saw this written about at TheRightScoop.com. They make a great point here. For crying out loud, Duke\u2019s on the verge of going all the way to the NCAA championship. That\u2019s what Krzyzewski\u2019s thinking about. They play this weekend and this is the last thing probably on his mind.<\/p>\n

What head coaches do in any sport is take the heat off the players. They try to take as much media attention off the players and onto themselves as they can, for obvious reasons, to depressurize the players, to keep them focused, any number of things. Krzyzewski knew if he weighed in on this, didn\u2019t matter how, didn\u2019t matter what, that would be the only story about Duke and being in the championship in the tournament. What Krzyzewski said would supersede everything. He simply didn\u2019t want Duke or his team or his players or himself anywhere in the middle of this story, one way or the other.<\/p>\n

But you see, it doesn\u2019t work that way because Carol Costello representing the forces of doom here, the Stalinist type forces of doom demanding that Coach K speak up and demanding that he say what they want him to say. They\u2019re going after him practically the same as if he had spoken up in favor of the law. But he didn\u2019t. He didn\u2019t say a word about it, and, in fact, said he didn\u2019t want to address it.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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