“Now, in professional sports, college sports, any sports, the rule book is about fairness. The rule book is how you establish the way the games gonna be played and how you mete out punishment for violation of the rules. And the purpose of the rules is to, obviously, guarantee an orderly playing of the game. And much as I hate to use the word, it applies here, the rules are about making it fair for both teams, right? Thats why this ball business got everybody so bent out of shape... Im telling you here and now, if the people of this country were as concerned about the rules and the laws, the Constitution or the laws of this country as they are about them being enforced in professional and amateur sports, the Democrat Party would be in major trouble. Let me prove it to you. If the New England Patriots were considered to be the progressives and lets say, in this case, the Indianapolis Colts were the conservatives, and it was learned that the liberals, the Patriots, the liberals -- well, what are they? Well, theyre compassionate and they try to help people and they only want to do good, and they help. But stop complaining, grow up. The Colts would be told to shut up and get with it and focus on their own problems, like racism and bigotry and so forth, instead of complaining about the Patriots breaking the rules. If the Patriots were the progressives in this circumstance, do you think the media and the blogs covering them would do so with the same intensity and hostility? I mean, the Boston media is going after this team like crazy right now, the Boston media, Indianapolis, theyre going after the Patriots, they want to get to the bottom of this. But if the Patriots were Barack Obama, no big deal, right? Its like the IRS taking out organizations with the word Patriot in their names. If the IRS were focusing on the Patriots, if the IRS were demanding that the Patriots change their name because it was offensive to British people, and the Patriots said, Screw you, were gonna do what we want to do, people would be up in arms. What receives more media coverage, Patriots rule violations or election fraud? But look, even I, ladies and gentlemen, Im here talking about the integrity of the game and how the NFL has a problem. This cannot be allowed, and this is true. The NFLs got to handle this somehow. And what started out as a drip from a faucet has become a pretty powerful waterfall now with everything thats come up here. This goes directly to the integrity of the game, but why does the integrity of the country never seem to matter, the integrity of the Constitution?” --Rush Limbaugh, on his radio show, 1/22/15
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 17:17:37 +0000
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