{"id":8343,"date":"2014-09-19T16:10:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T16:10:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-09-19T16:10:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T16:10:24","slug":"drive_bys_haven_t_moved_the_nfl_needle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/09\/19\/drive_bys_haven_t_moved_the_nfl_needle\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive-Bys Haven\u2019t Moved the NFL Needle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I\u2019ll tell, folks, the Drive-Bys are beside themselves. I, frankly, am not surprised by, this, but the Drive-Bys are. Nearly 90% of Americans say they don\u2019t care about all of this going on in the NFL. “Nearly 90% of Americans say the recent outcry about domestic violence in the NFL hasn\u00c2\u2019t changed how much professional football they watch,” or their enjoyment of it, “and less than a third of the nation believes NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell should resign.”<\/p>\n

Now, you have to understand. The Drive-Bys will look at this and they will chalk this up as total failure. The people that write the daily media narrative, that write the daily media soap opera measure their success by learning how much of the general population\u2019s thinking on a subject they\u2019re able to move or manipulate. And this is the second in a row that they\u2019ve bombed out. <\/p>\n

They tried to take what happened to the gentle giant in Ferguson, Missouri, and they tried to turn that into a national scandal of Republican Party proportions, and that bombed out on \u2019em. That didn\u2019t work. They really thought that they were on the verge here of getting this commissioner forced to resign or be fired. They thought they were on the verge of getting the Redskins name changed. <\/line><\/p>\n

They thought they were on the verge of major upheaval in the NFL<\/a>. Much of journalism — and don\u2019t doubt me on this. Much of journalism\u2019s success is determined by how much upheaval they can cause in citadels of power. Now, it used to be that anybody who held power was a target of the Drive-By Media. That\u2019s no longer the case when avowed politicians of the liberal Democrat stripe are in power. <\/p>\n

Then there is no attempt to hold them employable. There is no attempt whatsoever to harm they happen. It\u2019s just the exact opposite. They are propped up, until they\u2019re no longer useful, and then they move on to a replacement left-wing liberal to prop up, which is why all the talk on Hillary right now. <\/p>\n

How many times over the course of the many years of this highly popular broadcast have you heard me say that the way journalists climb their ladder of success is point to the resume when we were working in a smaller media market and say, “See, there was a guy that ran tire store, and the guy was corrupt, and I did the piece that took him out of business!”<\/p>\n

“You did? Why, you may be on the fast track to the Washington Post.” <\/p>\n

I mean, that\u2019s what they saw happen on 60 Minutes: The powerful got destroyed, taken down a peg. Well, I\u2019m here to tell you that there\u2019s always an agenda behind everything. There\u2019s no news anymore. The NFL story quickly became an agenda<\/a>. You had to know the politics of it to be able to correctly spot the agenda. The secondary aspect of this was the media measuring their power.<\/p>\n

They wanted to see how much upheaval they could cause by taking on what they and everybody else thought — what they wanted you to believe — was a totally corrupt institution, a beloved corrupt institution. The NFL is the most popular sport in America.<\/a> What better show of force and power than to take it down or to cause great upheaval? Lo and behold, this is exactly what happened.<\/p>\n

Now, with this poll out — this is an NBC News\/Marist poll — nearly 90% of Americans say that the recent outcry about domestic violence the NFL hasn\u2019t mattered a whit in terms of how they like the game, watch the game, how much they\u2019re gonna watch the game. The poll also “also finds that a majority of Americans — including nearly six in 10 self-described football fans — say they disapprove of the way the NFL has handled the domestic-violence allegations,” but it doesn\u2019t matter. <\/p>\n

So Americans can hold two thoughts in their head at one time. The media bulrush on the NFL<\/a> and its commissioner are seen as overblown, yet a lot of people think the NFL and the Ravens mishandled the Ray Rice punishment. We can walk and chew gum at the same time. Drive-Bys, fit to be tied. You know, folks, there\u2019s also something else going on here. (sigh) I think I\u2019d better keep this one close to the vest. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Given that the Democrats are out there waiting to just totally lie and take any number of words I say totally out of context and put \u2019em in a different order to mean something else, I\u2019d better be very guarded on a certain aspect of it. But the Drive-Bys have realized… I mean, if you can figure it out on your own, fine and dandy. Most of you can. After a week to 10 days of calling attention to all of these domestic abusers and child abusers and all of these miscreants in the NFL, the Drive-Bys have realized something about all of the suspects. <\/p>\n

And it\u2019s counterintuitive. They\u2019re saying, “Wait a minute, now. This isn\u2019t… Uh, um… We need to find another example of this, and fast.” So I think… (interruption) I think… (interruption) Yeah, that doesn\u2019t count. He doesn\u2019t play. Doesn\u2019t play. (interruption) Yeah, doesn\u2019t play. That\u2019d be big stretch. Big stretch. Has gotta play, has got to be a player. Got to be a player. <\/p>\n

So they\u2019ll I\u2019m predicting you\u2019re gonna see a little bit less intensity in reporting the actual number of incidents. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. F. Chuck Todd. So much instructional material here. This is the Today show today, and Matt Lauer is speaking with the brand-new host of Meet the Depressed, F. Chuck Todd, about the NFL\u2019s recent troubles. <\/p>\n

Matt Lauer said, “People have very strong feelings about what they\u2019re seeing unfold with the NFL, and yet, Chuck, they don\u2019t seem to be letting those feelings create a wide-scale indictment of the game itself.”<\/p>\n

T<\/line>ODD: No, that\u2019s what we\u2019re seeing here. It was a whopping 85% of those we surveyed said they\u2019re not gonna change how much football they watch, that it\u2019s not gonna impact what they watch. In fact, only 11% overall said what\u2019s been happening in the game and how the NFL has handled it makes them want to watch less football. So if you thought that fans would be providing the pressure in the NFL to do something more, this poll indicates that\u2019s not the case.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m telling you, the Drive-Bys are totally out of sync with the country, as they are on many things. They\u2019re totally out of sync. I guarantee you — do not doubt me on this. The vast majority of them — be they website writers, magazine writers, newspaper writers, television, radio broadcast — they all thought, they all think that major upheaval in the corporate suite of the NFL is just around the corner. <\/p>\n

They all they think major, major change is coming because they\u2019re so self-focused and so self-centered, they assume it. What did I tell you the other day when the whole thing about the way the media reports the Redskins name controversy. They start with the premise that everybody agrees with them, right? As they report on it, they make it sound add attitudinally like everybody in the country agrees the Redskins are horrible.<\/p>\n

“They need to change their name!”<\/p>\n

Most people don\u2019t care, and then they\u2019re shocked when they learn most people don\u2019t care. They\u2019re shocked when they learn that most Americans don\u2019t think like they do. And then they conclude, “That\u2019s why most Americans are stupid and fools.” So after F. Chuck gave the statistics of the polls, Matt Lauer said, “Well, let\u2019s go to these numbers. Do you agree with how the league is handling it? Fifty-three percent of America said, no, they don\u2019t agree. When you ask that question of people who say they\u2019re football fans, 57% say no, they don\u2019t like the way the league is handling it. When they say ‘the league,\u2019 they\u2019re talking about the commissioner and some owners, right, Chuck?”<\/line>