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RUSH: Now, Tony Dungy. It\u2019s interesting. Last night I\u2019m playing around with my new beta operating system and I\u2019m surfing websites, I\u2019m checking out new features here, playing with it, and I decide, you know what? I want to see what they\u2019re saying about Dungy and Michael Sam on the ESPN website. <\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not there. There\u2019s not a single word. There is not a single story about the Tony Dungy story in the Tampa Tribune on ESPN. Not a single. Now, ESPN Radio, yeah, and they may be talking about it on Sports Center, I don\u2019t know, but on their website there\u2019s not a single word. <\/p>\n

If all you do to consume sports news is read the ESPN website, you do not know what Tony Dungy said. But as predicted yesterday, elsewhere in the sports Drive-By Media the long knives are coming out. Oh, yeah. The LA Times dares take on Coach Dungy. The USA Today dares take on Coach Dungy. There a number of sports websites that dare take on Coach Dungy. And we\u2019ll have details as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Slate.com<\/a>: “Tony Dungy\u2019s terrible comments about Michael Sam are homophobia defined.” Mediaite — well, I\u2019m outta time. YahooSports: “Tony Dungy\u2019s assessment of Michael Sam shows stunning lack of courage.” But the cardinal sin committed here is intolerance, folks, that\u2019s just intolerable.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I need to ask you all question. Yesterday when the news hit<\/a> of Tony Dungy, I remember previewing the news by saying, “Folks, there is a huge ‘uh-oh\u2019 I just learned about. I mean, it is an ‘uh-oh,'” and I admitted to teasing you, and I held the details through a commercial break, pleasing several program directors on the EIB Network. <\/p>\n

And then I revealed the news to you. <\/p>\n

I need to ask you: At any time yesterday when I reported the Tony Dungy story, did I “endorse” Tony Dungy\u2019s remarks, and\/or did I criticize Michael Sam of the Los Angeles — sorry, St. Louis — Rams? Now, I asked the staff here, and the staff affirmatively said without any hesitation, “No, you didn\u2019t endorse Dungy, and you didn\u2019t criticize Sam.” I said, “That\u2019s what I thought.” <\/p>\n

But Media Matters<\/a> has a story out there headlined: “Rush Limbaugh Endorses Dungy\u2019s Remarks, Attacks Michael Sam,” and that did not happen here. H.R. said, “Well, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s gonna matter because I haven\u2019t had anybody from media to call and confirm it.” I said, “Well, when do you ever have the media calling you to confirm something they read on Media Matters?”<\/p>\n

“Well, that\u2019s a good point. They don\u2019t.”<\/p>\n

<\/a>Precisely! The Drive-Bys just run with it because to them Media Matters is the gospel. But the fact is I didn\u2019t say one thing or the other. I just reported what he said with, “Uh-oh!” You know, it\u2019s the same thing that happened Tim Tebow. There were a lot of teams that said, “Oh, we\u2019re not gonna get anywhere near Tebow! Are you kidding me? The kid can\u2019t play!<\/p>\n

“He can\u2019t throw the football! I don\u2019t want this media circus,” and they didn\u2019t take him. But Denver did in the first round, and then when it came time for Denver to trade him, the only team that would take him is the Jets. Nobody had a problem with that. Nobody had a problem with teams and coaches, saying, “I don\u2019t want to mess with this Tebow thing! No way, dude,” and what was Tebow? <\/p>\n

He was a devout Christian, he leads with his Christianity, and that\u2019s what they were saying: “I don\u2019t want this circus! I don\u2019t want this mess.” Even the Broncos decided after a while they didn\u2019t want it, even after they won a playoff game against the hapless Steelers. Okay, so Dungy comes out and says (summarized), “I\u2019m not against Michael Sam having an opportunity. I just wouldn\u2019t have taken him. I wouldn\u2019t have drafted him. I don\u2019t want to deal with the mess.” <\/p>\n

Now, I have no idea what… Some of the sports Drive-Bys are saying, “Now, let\u2019s wait a minute. Dungy is such a revered figure. This is probably taken out of context. We must give Dungy a chance to explain himself.” Okay, fine. I don\u2019t know. I have not read the Tampa Bay story. I\u2019ll be up front and honest with you about that. I haven\u2019t read it. The only thing I could do is take a wild guess what he meant, based on who he is. <\/p>\n

I think you have to look at what Dungy said, if you\u2019re looking for context, from the standpoint that he\u2019s a coach. We\u2019re talking about a player who was near the last selected in the whole draft. He was a seventh-round draft choice. Seventh-round draft choices don\u2019t make the team unusually. Seventh-round draft choices get no attention whatsoever. They fill out a roster in training camp.<\/line><\/p>\n

They play during preseason games so you can save your starters, but they don\u2019t — they seldom make the team — and there never, ever is anybody in the media who cares about a seventh-round draft choice. So Dungy, with his coach\u2019s hat on, might have been saying, “You know, seventh-round draft choice, it\u2019s not worth it for that.” I\u2019m just wild guessing. I never met… I take it back. I have met Coach Dungy at dinner once. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s as nice as he could be. He\u2019s a solid individual, I\u2019ve found. I\u2019ve interviewed him on this program when his first book came out, in fact. I had him on the program in the second hour. LA Times<\/a>: “Tony Dungy\u2019s Comments on Openly Gay NFL Player Michael Sam Draw Ire.” Dungy said, “It\u2019s not going to be totally smooth … things will happen. … I wouldn\u2019t want to deal with all of it…”<\/p>\n

All right, some reaction. Yahoo Sports:<\/a> “Tony Dungy\u2019s Assessment of Michael Sam Shows Stunning Lack of Courage.” Slate.com: “Tony Dungy\u2019s Terrible Comments About Michael Sam Are Homophobia Defined.” Mediaite<\/a>: “Olbermann Rips ‘World\u2019s Worst\u2019 Tony Dungy for Michael Sam Comments.” Olbermann has a show somewhere? <\/p>\n

Where does Olbermann have a show? (interruption) H.R., you\u2019re… (interruption) Olbermann\u2019s back at ESPN? I didn\u2019t know that. No kidding. Well, I thought ESPN didn\u2019t want anything to do with politics. Oh, well. Uh, let\u2019s see. (interruption) He can only talk about sports, Olbermann? So you knew he had a show there, too. I didn\u2019t. <\/p>\n

USA Today<\/a>, Chris Korman: “Wasn\u2019t it so warming and fulfilling to think, a few years ago, of Tony Dungy as a wise and rational man guiding some of the NFL\u2019s most troubled players through a league and a world so intent on bending and breaking them? His earnest face. His measured words. We were fools to believe it was anything more than a calculated act.”<\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s pretty tough. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s Chris Korman at USA Today: “We were fools to believe [that Dungy] was anything more than a calculated act. Dungy opened up about Michael Sam, the first openly gay player to be drafted into the NFL, this weekend. What he told The Tampa Tribune makes very little sense: ‘I wouldn\u2019t have taken him,\u2019 said [Dungy]. ‘Not because I don\u2019t believe Michael Sam should have a chance to play, but I wouldn\u2019t want to deal with all of it.\u2019<\/p>\n

“‘It\u2019s not going to be totally smooth … things will happen.\u2019<\/line><\/p>\n

“Yes, Michael Sam has generated more media interest than probably any other draft pick not named Johnny Manziel. If a head coach can\u2019t deal with that, he shouldn\u2019t be in the league.” Oh, and on page two, Chris Korman, USA Today: “Of course Dungy\u2019s comments come as no surprise, and are not rooted in logic but ideology instead. He\u2019s raised money for anti-gay causes before, and said he doesn\u2019t agree with openly gay NBA player Jason Collins\u2019 ‘lifestyle.\u2019<\/p>\n

“Dungy has said before that he believes gay players have the right to make a living, and many who have similar feelings like to point out that sports are a meritocracy. Those who can do the job well get the chance. But Michael Sam falls into a majority category of players who are nearly indistinguishable as athletes. They\u2019re ultimately judged on work ethic, intelligence, hustle, leadership and other intangibles.<\/p>\n

“And, in some sad corners, by whether the gender of the person they choose to love might earn them a little bit of extra attention.” Ooh, I\u2019m telling you, I knew this gonna happen. There is nobody — there is nobody — immune from the lancet charge of intolerance. Let\u2019s see. There\u2019s one other story. Let\u2019s see. Ba ba ba ba ba. Well, that\u2019s pretty much it. I have an audio sound bite of Jason Whitlock here at ESPN. <\/p>\n

Oh! Here I\u2019ve got a sound bite from Olbermann\u2019s show and I didn\u2019t even know it. Jason Whitlock was on Olbermann\u2019s show on ESPN2 last night. Olbermann says, “I think you have an opinion that might suggest how this goes forward in the days to come after his remarks about Michael Sam, how he should be given a chance, except I wouldn\u2019t want to coach the team where he\u2019s going to get the chance.”<\/p>\n

WHITLOCK: I was astonished by Tony\u2019s statement. I have a great deal of respect for Tony. I don\u2019t understand what he\u2019s thinking, and I think over the next 24\/48 hours, he\u2019ll figure it out that you can\u2019t be morally inconsistent. Doing the right thing is very difficult — and Tony Dungy has always stood for doing the right thing — and doing the right thing sometimes means doing things that you disagree with. But in the long haul, it\u2019s consistent with your overall philosophy about fairness, and treating everyone properly. So I — I — I hope and expect Tony Dungy to recant and restate his opinion.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Every story that I have consulted on this — well, pretty much every, not every one, but a large number of these stories, last line, “NBC Sports had no comment.” Which is where Dungy works. He\u2019s a studio analyst on the Sunday night NFL telecast on NBC. And they reached out to NBC for comment. And the ESPN website, as I say, there\u2019s not one syllable, there is not one word of this story on the ESPN website. <\/p>\n

Now, obviously he\u2019s on their television networks and their radio networks, but nothing else. So you think he\u2019s gonna recant? (interruption) You don\u2019t think so? Well, the sports Drive-By criticism is — there are some exceptions like the USA Today guy said he didn\u2019t want to string him up — he\u2019s a fraud, he\u2019s a liar, it\u2019s all been an act. He never was this great guy we always thought. But other than that, most people, “You know what, Dungy\u2019s great, Dungy\u2019s smart, Dungy\u2019s brilliant. We don\u2019t really know what was in his mind. We need to give him a chance to explain himself and the context of what he meant.” <\/p>\n

It was pretty clear. He wouldn\u2019t want to be the coach in this situation. He wouldn\u2019t want to deal with the mess, or whatever he said that is going to occur. He just wouldn\u2019t want the distraction. He wouldn\u2019t want to have to deal with it. How do you recant that? “You know what? I take it back. I\u2019ll be happy to deal with the mess. I would love to deal with the mess. I misspoke and now I\u2019m all for the mess.” What\u2019s he gonna say? (interruption) Would any coach say, “I want a distraction for my team”? Well, no, would any coach say, “I want a media circus around my team?” What a coach says and what he wants could be two different things.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll not convince me that some of these coaches that say they hate the media circus don\u2019t actually like it. Media\u2019s media. Attention is attention. Fame is fame. I think our culture and society\u2019s addicted to it. I think they\u2019re so addicted to it people want to become famous for not having done anything. I think people want to be famous without having to achieve anything. I think fame, I think it\u2019s one — (interruption) Do I think professional football teams? Yeah. Professional football teams are just people, like corporations. They\u2019re just people. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Has Tony Dungy not essentially made his point or has his point not been made for him? So he tells the Tampa Bay Tribune that he\u2019d be worried that the Michael Sam situation would create a media frenzy and that he wouldn\u2019t want to deal with it, and it turns out that just saying that has caused a frenzy!<\/p>\n

Exactly what he predicted, that he said he didn\u2019t want to be part of, has happened. He was right about it. But, you know, here\u2019s the thing about this. What do you have to do these days to satisfy the left on their demands? You know, they talk about being open and tolerant and accepting and so forth, and they are the antithesis of that. They are the most intolerant, the most un-accepting. <\/p>\n

You had better toe the line, you had better love what they love, you had better support what they support or you are finished. They want to lay claim to holding the intellectual high ground and the emotional high ground, and they\u2019re nowhere near it. They have zero tolerance whatsoever while demanding it from everybody else. It is the ultimate in hypocrisy. <\/p>\n

So Dungy\u2019s point has been made. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Well, I just read this clarification piece from ESPN.com<\/a> on Tony Dungy and it is what it is. It\u2019s pretty close to what I thought he would say and pretty close to what I thought his viewpoint on this is. He says, “I was not asked whether or not Michael Sam deserves an opportunity to play in the NFL. He absolutely does. I was not asked whether his sexual orientation should play a part in the evaluation process. It should not. I was not asked whether I would have a problem having Michael Sam on my team. I would not.<\/line><\/p>\n

“I have been asked all of those questions several times in the last three months and have always answered them the same way — by saying that playing in the NFL is, and should be, about merit. The best players make the team, and everyone should get the opportunity to prove whether they\u00c2\u2019re good enough to play. That\u00c2\u2019s my opinion as a coach. But those were not the questions I was asked.<\/p>\n

“What I was asked about was my philosophy of drafting, a philosophy that was developed over the years, which was to minimize distractions for my teams. I do not believe Michael\u00c2\u2019s sexual orientation will be a distraction to his teammates or his organization. I do, however, believe that the media attention that comes with it will be a distraction. Unfortunately we are all seeing this play out now, and I feel badly that my remarks played a role in the distraction.”<\/p>\n

What he was saying — I knew this was what it was gonna be. He says, look, we\u2019re talking about a seventh-round draft choice here. Not a first round or second round choice. A seventh-round draft choice, you don\u2019t want this kind of attention to a seventh-round draft choice. I wouldn\u2019t want to put up with that mess — or not mess. I just wouldn\u2019t want to put up with the distraction, whatever it was he said. I even observed that he has made his own point here, that all he has had to do is characterize it as that, and look, here\u2019s a media circus. And I just wouldn\u2019t want to be dealing with this as a coach. So I would not have drafted him. Because I don\u2019t want to deal with the distraction. It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t approve of homosexuality. It\u2019s not that I think he\u2019s gonna be a distraction in the locker room. It\u2019s not that I think he\u2019s gonna be a distraction on the field. It\u2019s because I don\u2019t want the media circus. <\/p>\n

No, this will not be good enough. In the sportswriter community there are some genuine activist, really mean social warriors, and this is gonna be viewed as a cop-out and, “Come on, he didn\u2019t mean to be this fine print about it. This is an escape act, but he\u2019s not fooling us,” will be some of the reaction you\u2019ll get.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I just read this clarification piece from ESPN.com on Tony Dungy and it is what it is. It\u2019s pretty close to what I thought he would say and pretty close to what I thought his viewpoint on this is. He says, “I was not asked whether or not Michael Sam deserves an opportunity to play in the NFL. He absolutely does. I was not asked whether his sexual orientation should play a part in the evaluation process. It should not. I was not asked whether I would have a problem having Michael Sam on my team. I would not.<\/p>\n

“I have been asked all of those questions several times in the last three months and have always answered them the same way — by saying that playing in the NFL is, and should be, about merit. The best players make the team, and everyone should get the opportunity to prove whether they\u00c2\u2019re good enough to play. That\u00c2\u2019s my opinion as a coach. But those were not the questions I was asked.<\/p>\n

“What I was asked about was my philosophy of drafting, a philosophy that was developed over the years, which was to minimize distractions for my teams. I do not believe Michael\u00c2\u2019s sexual orientation will be a distraction to his teammates or his organization. I do, however, believe that the media attention that comes with it will be a distraction. Unfortunately we are all seeing this play out now, and I feel badly that my remarks played a role in the distraction.”<\/p>\n

What he was saying — I knew this was what it was gonna be. He says, look, we\u2019re talking about a seventh-round draft choice here. Not a first round or second round choice. A seventh-round draft choice, you don\u2019t want this kind of attention to a seventh-round draft choice. I wouldn\u2019t want to put up with that mess — or not mess. I just wouldn\u2019t want to put up with the distraction, whatever it was he said. I even observed that he has made his own point here, that all he has had to do is characterize it as that, and look, here\u2019s a media circus. And I just wouldn\u2019t want to be dealing with this as a coach. So I would not have drafted him. Because I don\u2019t want to deal with the distraction. It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t approve of homosexuality. It\u2019s not that I think he\u2019s gonna be a distraction in the locker room. It\u2019s not that I think he\u2019s gonna be a distraction on the field. It\u2019s because I don\u2019t want the media circus. <\/p>\n

No, this will not be good enough. In the sportswriter community there are some genuine activist, really mean social warriors, and this is gonna be viewed as a cop-out and, “Come on, he didn\u2019t mean to be this fine print about it. This is an escape act, but he\u2019s not fooling us,” will be some of the reaction you\u2019ll get.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: So my staff, always excited by the exclusive opportunity they have to ask me what I think (face it, you would love that chance, too), asks, “So, Rush, is this enough? Is this enough? Will this put out the fire?” <\/p>\n

I said, “No, it is not gonna come close to putting out the fire.” <\/p>\n

“Why not?” <\/p>\n

“Because he blamed the media.” He just threw gasoline on it. What he essentially said was, “Sam\u2019s great! Sam\u2019s not gonna be a problem anywhere. Not for his teammates, not for his organization. He\u2019s not gonna be problem in the locker room. He\u2019s not gonna be problem on the field. The media is gonna cause the problem. Finished, over and out.” It\u2019s right here. It\u2019s right here. <\/line><\/p>\n

“I do not believe Michael\u2019s sexual orientation will be a distraction to his teammates or his organization. I do, however, believe that the media attention that comes with it will be a distraction. Unfortunately, we are all seeing this play out now.” So he is saying he predicted that the media would make a circus out of it, and it\u2019s happening, and he feels bad to have played a role in it. <\/p>\n

But he\u2019s saying that it essentially proves his point. Ohhh! That\u2019s just throwing gasoline on this. Blaming them? They are the saviors! They are the arbiters! They\u2019re the guarantors. They\u2019re the protectors of the victimized and the aggrieved and the taken-advantage-of and the victimized and all of this. Dungy… You know another thing they\u2019re gonna say? I guarantee you. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re gonna say, “Tony, where do you work? NBC, right? What\u2019s NBC, Tony? It\u2019s the media, Tony! You are the media now, Tony.” That\u2019s what they\u2019re gonna say, too. You wait. Headline: “Hey, Tony: You. Are. The Media!” exclamation point. It\u2019ll all be said. I have a couple tweets to back this up. Olbermann has tweeted: “Tony Dungy responds, tries to clarify his Michael Sam comments, makes it worse.”<\/p>\n

Bingo. <\/p>\n

TMZ<\/a> calls Dungy\u2019s statement “double-talk.” It wasn\u2019t double-talk. See, you can\u2019t be precise. That\u2019s another reason he\u2019s not gonna get away with it. He was engaging in precision. “I was asked about drafting philosophy. I said I wouldn\u2019t draft him because I don\u2019t want…” Now, what he didn\u2019t throw in there, which I think… I shouldn\u2019t do this \u2019cause I\u2019m putting words in his mouth.<\/p>\n

But you can\u2019t talk about this without mentioning that the guy was barely picked! He was picked near the end of the last round. He\u2019s a seventh round choice. Seventh round picks are anonymous. Nobody cares about seventh round picks. As a coach, you don\u2019t want anybody… The seventh round picks round out preseason rosters and just you don\u2019t… They\u2019re right up there with undrafted free agents, in terms of their likelihood to make the team and all that.<\/p>\n

I tell you what else he\u2019s not saying… Well I can\u2019t say that. I don\u2019t know what else he\u2019s thinking so I shouldn\u2019t go there. (sigh) But, folks, look, what does media pressure or circus mean in this case? What it means is (and everybody knew this going in), “If you pick the guy, he\u2019d better make the team. Because if he doesn\u2019t, you\u2019re gonna have hell to pay with the media.<\/p>\n

“You\u2019re gonna have questions coming at you left and right. ‘Were there any homophobes in the locker room? Was it uncomfortable for him? Did you never give him a chance? What do you mean he can\u2019t play? We watched him in the preseason and he looked just as good as your third round pick! What do you mean?'” All of that.<\/p>\n

I guarantee you, no coach wants that. So I don\u2019t know if Dungy was thinking like that. I refuse to put words in his mind or certainly his mouth, but that\u2019s what “media circus” means. That means, “I\u2019m now part of a social experiment, and there is only one right thing that can happen here according to the media, and it is not the player being cut.” <\/p>\n

Let me grab another quick phone call. This is, oh, Terry in Paducah, Kentucky. This is close to where I grew up. Great to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. As with all your callers, it is a great honor to talk to you, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I thank you, sir, very much. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: When I heard you talk about intolerance and tolerance earlier in the show —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

CALLER: — over this Tony Dungy thing —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and the intolerance of the left for Tony Dungy, and they\u2019re calling out for tolerance for everybody? Well, Tim Tebow is not in the NFL now because of the intolerance of the left. Just because the man is a Christian, no team wants to touch him with the media circus they would have, and where\u2019s the tolerance there? It\u2019s called hypocrisy, Rush, and it\u2019s killing our country. It is destroying us. That and political correctness are destroying us.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: I think a simpler way… I agree with you. But a simpler, more direct, and obviously much more controversial (which is my choice) way of saying it is: Liberalism is destroying the country.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Yes. Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because all of those factors are part and parcel of it. Now, in Tebow\u2019s case it must also be said that everybody except one guy, who was the coach that drafted him… I have a mental block on the name. He is now the offensive coordinator for the Patriots. Josh…? He thought he could play. He drafted him in the first round. But practically any football expert you talk to says that Tebow just can\u2019t play quarterback. <\/p>\n

His throwing motion… You\u2019ve heard about the “quick release” that Dan Marino has. Tebow winds up like a windmill to throw the football. Apparently NFL experts tell you that that can\u2019t hold up. It\u2019s just not accurate and so forth. A lot of teams say that if this guy would willingly switch to tight end or H-back or something, he\u2019d play.<\/p>\n

I mean, his heart and his desire and his work ethic is what everybody wants, but they say that you can\u2019t play quarterback and that apparently is all he wants to play. But even saying all that, you\u2019re absolutely right. There was a bias against Tebow, and everybody knows what it was. He was all God all the time, up front and first — and that just offends the sensibilities of the same people who are all wound up about this current circumstance.<\/p>\n

And believe me, Dungy is an all-God guy. There\u2019s always been that. Nobody will admit it, but there has probably always been underneath the surface a little bit of unease about that. Lovie Smith, a good friend of Dungy, coach at Tampa Bay. They\u2019re both very up front about their Christianity and how it is the most important thing in their life. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s just, to some people… You know, this is liberalism today. That\u2019s unacceptable. There no tolerance, or very little, for that if it\u2019s on your sleeve, if it\u2019s a you-wear-it-your-sleeve situation. If you keep it hidden, if you don\u2019t proselytize about it, that\u2019s cool. But if you do anything other than that, you\u2019re marked, and they\u2019re laying in wait for you when you screw up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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