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RUSH: I think it was only yesterday on this program<\/a>, in discussing the latest controversy in the NFL — and that would be Tony Dungy telling a reporter for the Tampa Bay Tribune that he would not have drafted the openly gay linebacker from Missouri, Michael Sam, if he were still a head coach in the league. He said (paraphrased and summarized), “I don\u2019t care. Sam should have an opportunity, fine.<\/p>\n

“He should be given an opportunity. That\u2019s cool. No problem. I wouldn\u2019t draft him. I wouldn\u2019t want,” as he later clarified, “the media circus.” One of the things that I said yesterday in the form of a prediction… You gotta understand my impression of Dungy and his standing in the league. I think he\u2019s always been… He\u2019s occupied a very delicate position. On the one hand, Tony Dungy is the conscience of the NFL. <\/p>\n

On the one hand, whenever there is a question about “the right thing to do,” Tony Dungy is who they go ask. With the media, NFL officials, Tony Dungy has achieved that status. But the platform on which he is standing while occupying that position is very, very thin — and, in fact, may even be made of ice because Tony Dungy is also a very public, unashamed Christian. <\/line><\/p>\n

That makes a lot of people… Not just in the NFL, anywhere you go where there is a preponderance of liberals, that is an automatic friction point. So Dungy has always been, in my estimation — look, don\u2019t doubt me on this. Just like I knew 27\/30 years ago that the modern environmentalist wacko movement<\/a> was actually just a new home for communists, don\u2019t doubt me on this. I know whereof and what of and who of I speak. <\/p>\n

(interruption) Well no, it\u2019s that… What I\u2019m saying is that the accolades Dungy gets as the conscience of the league are not very deep, because he\u2019s standing on a very thin sliver of ice as a public, witnessing Christian. That makes anyplace where there\u2019s a preponderance of liberals very nervous. Christianity is a profound enemy of much of liberalism, and the reason why is liberals inherently know that…<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s put it this way. Many liberals are liberals because they are seeking a… (sigh) They are seeking the declaration of normalcy for what they do, what they believe. I think that they look at Christians as indoctrinated, judgmental punishers. Christians, witnessing Christians like Tony Dungy, make liberals… I\u2019m not just talking about lifestyle liberals. I mean ideological liberals; I don\u2019t care who. <\/p>\n

“Liberals” covers a whole bailiwick of different kinds of people, and they all are made nervous, \u2019cause liberalism is their religion. Remember, they claim that their religion is the one that\u2019s ultimately tolerant. Of course, it is the least tolerant political ideology out there. Well, if not the least, it\u2019s near the top. They demand tolerance for whatever they do and think, but they do not tolerate anybody that disagrees with them. <\/p>\n

Don\u2019t doubt me on this, either. <\/p>\n

This is not an opinion; this is fact. You see it every day in this country by virtue of who they attack and why, who they try to destroy and why, what institutions and traditions they\u2019re trying to destroy and why. They\u2019re not interested in debate. They\u2019re not interested in bipartisanship. They\u2019re not interested in everybody getting along. They don\u2019t want to hear it if they disagree with it. They don\u2019t want to see it if they don\u2019t want to do it. <\/p>\n

<\/a>So public, witnessing Christians like Dungy — who explain their own behaviors by virtue of their Christianity, who explain their belief systems by virtue of their Christianity — are automatic suspects. So that\u2019s one leg Dungy\u2019s standing on. The other leg is conscience of the league, winner, African-American, Super Bowl coach, considered to be unquestionably moral.<\/p>\n

That is traceable to his Christianity, although they don\u2019t acknowledge that\u2019s the reason for it. He\u2019s just a great, solid, moral guy. But it\u2019s a very, very delicate\/uneasy combination, and if one of those legs is pulled out from under Dungy, then it\u2019s all over. He cannot be one or the other. He has to be both at the same time. If they are able to get rid of Dungy as the conscience of the league because over on the other leg his Christianity makes him anti-gay?<\/p>\n

(Gasp!)<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what they know. <\/p>\n

Now, Dungy up \u2019til now\u2019s been unassailable, unattackable, but he never did anything to anybody. He\u2019s always stood for fairness, equality. All these things that are attached to good citizen, Tony Dungy is. Not just was, but is. (whispering) “But there\u2019s this thing out there. He\u2019s Christian and — and just… (sigh)” That\u2019s the unspoken part of Dungy that everybody else, all the other liberals that are in the league — be they media, owners, whoever — have just a little bit of unease about. <\/p>\n

Now, if you doubt me, grab audio sound bite number seven. Here we have an excerpt, an audio excerpt of yesterday\u2019s Pardon the Interruption on ESPN featuring the cohost Tony Kornheiser and the cohost Michael Wilbon, who has become a golf buddy of Barack Obama, by the way. And of course Wilbon joined the chorus of racists spreading lies about things I never said during the ill-fated period where I was said to be attempting to be in a group buying the St. Louis Rams.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s known now as this host on ESPN and a golf buddy of Obama. So Kornheiser, they\u2019re talking about Dungy. Keep in mind what I just told you. Kornheiser says, “You and I differ on this, I think. The under-30 athlete is gonna be far more tolerant and accepting of different ideas,” meaning Michael Sam in the locker room. “It\u2019s not a big deal to them, Michael.” And here\u2019s Wilbon\u2019s response.<\/p>\n