September 21, 2021 • 11 mins
RUSH: There is a story today, SI.com. Actually, it was posted yesterday. Headline: ‘There’s No Better Place to be Sports Fan Right Now Than Philadelphia.’ I want to read a small excerpt, go to the break, and come back and delve into this in detail. It’s a good story about Philadelphia at SI, SportsIllustrated.com. But buried in this article, which I hold here right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, buried in this article is this: ‘Passion like this takes strange forms. While the rest of the country saw Donovan McNabb as a franchise quarterback, Philly fans sensed, earlier than most of us, that McNabb was overrated.’
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The questions keep poring about the new iPhone app, and
as I've explained, when again the iPhone app does play
on the iPad, there is not a special iPad app.
What we've done is just do it. If you have
an iPad to download the app, and when you start
the streaming video whatever the source, hit the two X button,
it'll fill the iPad screen at full resolution. That's down.
(00:23):
We did it. I mean, we got a lot of
room for growth here, but we wanted to get the
first app out. We did it for the iPhone specifically,
and then I made it compatible with the iPad. So
hit the two X button to expand the iPhone app
on the iPad, fill the screen. And you're sitting pretty now.
Stick with me on this mcnap stuff, because we're talking
two thousand three. There's been seven years and there are
(00:46):
still media people who refer to all of this. At
no time did I ever say Donovan that was a
bad quarterback. All I said was and he was overrated.
That I thought he was overrated, not a gray eight quarterback.
I didn't say it was a bad quarterback. I thought
the media had a you know, a social consciousness, consciousness
(01:06):
about black quarterbacks doing well. I know they do their media,
their leftists, and I know who these people are, I
know what they're what their interests are, and and I
simply said so, and nobody said a word about it.
When the show went into the Philadelphia print media went
ballistic on Tuesday. Now, at the same time, ESPN was
running a mini series called Playmaker, and it featured a
(01:29):
and I had nothing to do with this mini series,
by the way, it featured star of the program was
a black running back on this mythical professional football team
which did lines of cocaine, who did lines of cocaine
and shot up drugs or whatever before every game. This
prompted the owner of the Eagles, Jeffrey Lourie, to go
live in and say that ESPN was filled with institutional racism.
(01:52):
I remember on Tuesday when they when the Philadelphia print
media stuff hit, I got a call from an ESPN
exec who was all excited, Why can you imagine numbers
we're gonna have on Sunday, This is exactly what we're
looking for. The Next day, the same exact calls and says, look,
we're losing Tommy, meaning Tommy Jackson. Tommy said it's either
you or him. He says. Little kids in Cincinnati are
(02:15):
calling him and saying, Mr Jackson, does this mean I
can't be a quarterback in the National Football League if
I'm black. So there were other things going on my
wife at the time, so I just chose to resign.
I didn't do go on that show to do it,
but but be part of it and help it, and
you know, trying to get away from all this. He
was a excursion into fund for me in advocation. So
(02:39):
it continued to resonate, and it continued to be reported
that I was critical of McNabb because it was black.
It continued to be reported I said McNabb was a
bad quarterback because it was black. I never said anything
such thing. I never said he was a bad quarterback.
I said I thought he was overrated by a media
socially conscious about um past racism in the country and
(03:02):
making things right, so forth and so on. I am
the one who said he's overrated. I and I have
an excoriated cream. I have been just vilified for this
ever since it happened, and nobody cared a wit about
it till the Philadelphia print media went ballistic. A couple
of days later, and there have been stories about this
(03:23):
four of the last seven years. I mean, if you
do a Google search mcnabbin Limbaugh will get sixty three returns.
It's ten years later. So there's this story from si
dot com website of Sports Illustrated. It was posted yesterday
by Michael Rosenberg. There's no better place to be a
sports fan right now than Philadelphia. I am not mentioned
(03:46):
in this piece. It's a great story about Philadelphia, what
it's like to be a fan there. And buried in
the article is this one line. Passion like this meaning
Philadelphia fan passion takes strange forms. While the rest of
the country saw McNabb as a franchise quarterback, Philadelphia fans
(04:08):
sensed earlier than most of us in the media that
McNabb was overrated. Now, who is us? This is a sportswriter.
Let's keep that in mind. I thought I was the
only person who thought McNabb was overrated. It was the
first local Philadelphia media, quickly followed by the national media
(04:29):
that distorted and blew up my comments that were in
line with most Philadelphia fans. As it turns out, so
most of us, meaning the sports media, were wrong about McNabb.
And I was right, uh I. I thought McNabb back
then was considered by every reasonable human being to be
(04:51):
the greatest quarterback that ever lived in any They called
him a premier quarterback in the NFL. And and and
anybody who suggested the Eagles defense wasn't getting credit it
deserved was a racist. And now it turns out from
Mr Rosenberg and SI dot Com that I and most
Philadelphia fans new McNabb was overrated. The media was dead
raw who knew? Who knew? As I say, I am
(05:16):
not mentioned in this story, would say, rarely on a
story of McNabb, the Eagles and Philadelphia fans. But this
was pointed out to me, oh this morning about when
I got these things. It's amazing how things come around
after seven years that that passage. While the rest of
the country saw McNabb is a franchise quarterback, Philly fans
(05:40):
sensed earlier than most of us in the media that
McNabb was overrated. Now, guess the last thing I want
to say about this, as far as the media is concerned.
Very safe now for these guys to say this at
the end of McNabb's career, when he is having trouble.
Everybody knows what's going on with Donovan McNabb and the Redskins.
He's handled by that of the way as classy as
(06:01):
as any individual his circumstances could and uh and would,
and I want to reiterate it. No time was McNabb
ever personally criticized by me on that show or since
other people have done that. It's other people in the
media that poorl McNabb is being dumped on by people
now like you would not believe saying things that I
(06:24):
said seven years ago. And I just thought, well, how
about this. This is just funny, timely and just goes
to show you that just sit around and wait and
things will always even out. The truth will out. Maybe
I could get McNabb as a guest host on this program.
(06:44):
I'll bet you that McNabb has a lot of things
he would like to say about a lot of people. Uh,
we might think about that. Call him after Christmas, see
if he wants to guess those the and he can
talk about on anything he wants if he uh, if
(07:05):
he wants to do it. Folks, have you heard about this?
We did. This is our morning update today. The latest
fundraising idea from the Democrats Senatorial Campaign Committee is selling
something called a poetry magnet. It contains a bunch of
words that you can arrange on your refrigerator. It's a
refrigerator magnet. According to the Democrats Senatorial Campaign Committee website,
it's a it's a quote creative outlet for your frustration.
(07:29):
You can get one four six dollars, or you can
get two poetry magnets for ten dollars. The d s
c C says that every magnet purchased, we'll go towards
helping keep the Senate blue. And they say, think of
all the fun phrases you can make with words like
Sarah Palin, tea party, Rush, Limbaugh, and and wrong. Now
(07:51):
here's some of the poetic possibilities that these people at
the d s c C suggests. I'm not making this up.
They're actually selling refrigerator magnets with rearrangeable letters for six
and ten bucks and suggestions for you to put on
your refrigerator. I hate the filibuster because that's the Democrat's
(08:15):
latest move now is to get rid of the sixty
vote requirements since they are effectively losing control of the Senate.
Sarah Palin equals wrong is another thing. They suggest that
you put on your fridge. Fight the right his another suggestion.
So they must think that their voters and donors idiots.
First they sell them the stupid magnet. You've gotta be
(08:36):
stupid to buy one of these, and then they think
they're so stupid they gotta tell them how to arrange
the letters to make words that fit the template of
the modern day Democrat Party. Do they really think in
this economy people are gonna pay good money to sit
around spelling out worthless dribble talking points on their refrigerators.
(08:57):
And they probably are right. I bet you got some
near lunatic, insane base leftist cookes who thinks this is
want to be the greatest Christmas presents they could give
somebody and start. I get to see these liberals sitting
at home playing around on their refrigerator with a bunch
of magnet rearrangeable letters, witless liberals plunking down money. Somebody
(09:21):
else's probably to buy these lame magnets. But the problem
for the Democrats is what do you need for a magnetism?
He need magnetism, and they've lost theirs, the Democrat Party. Obama,
I mean I figured out, you know what, Obama's winning
the day right comeback kid, and all he's done, his
cave on everything he believes. If he really wants to
(09:41):
get accolades cave on healthcare, you know, he ought to
come up and say, you know what, I'm pulling it.
I'm gonna join the efforts to repeal it. We can
do it better. And then think of the things that
DC media, WHOA, what a, Oh my god, he Obama,
he's undefeatable. Now why he's lamenting every aspect of the
Republican agenda. The comeback kid, that's what they're telling us.
(10:05):
Obama the comeback kid, as he implements a Republican agenda. So,
Mr President, repeal healthcare, go all away on your comeback.
Because the magnetism is gone. Obama has been exposed. Those
once great oratorical powers now as empty as his suit.
(10:26):
Democrat policies repel clear thinking Americans. They divide us along racial, class, gender,
every other line you can imagine. They don't attract people,
which is why voters stomp Democrats in November. They're selling
refrigerator magnets. Do you have any magnets on your refrigerators
neeratily do you down you have magnet? Well, if it
(10:49):
you've got kids brand you have refrigerator good. I don't either.
I have never ever had a refrigerator magnet. I don't
know that I've even ever had one to put on
the refrigera. I know that they I know I've never
had one on the refrigerator. Uh. But Russia, Russi limbaugh
(11:13):
is one of the words they have for their magnets,
and the biggest, the biggest word they have in size
is me m e at at any rate. Um. I
go ahead and play with your magnets, play with yourselves.
For remember, roses are red, Democrats are blue, and American
(11:38):
voters are fed up with you.
The questions keep poring about the new iPhone app, and
as I've explained, when again the iPhone app does play
on the iPad, there is not a special iPad app.
What we've done is just do it. If you have
an iPad to download the app, and when you start
the streaming video whatever the source, hit the two X button,
it'll fill the iPad screen at full resolution. That's down.
(00:23):
We did it. I mean, we got a lot of
room for growth here, but we wanted to get the
first app out. We did it for the iPhone specifically,
and then I made it compatible with the iPad. So
hit the two X button to expand the iPhone app
on the iPad, fill the screen. And you're sitting pretty now.
Stick with me on this mcnap stuff, because we're talking
two thousand three. There's been seven years and there are
(00:46):
still media people who refer to all of this. At
no time did I ever say Donovan that was a
bad quarterback. All I said was and he was overrated.
That I thought he was overrated, not a gray eight quarterback.
I didn't say it was a bad quarterback. I thought
the media had a you know, a social consciousness, consciousness
(01:06):
about black quarterbacks doing well. I know they do their media,
their leftists, and I know who these people are, I
know what they're what their interests are, and and I
simply said so, and nobody said a word about it.
When the show went into the Philadelphia print media went
ballistic on Tuesday. Now, at the same time, ESPN was
running a mini series called Playmaker, and it featured a
(01:29):
and I had nothing to do with this mini series,
by the way, it featured star of the program was
a black running back on this mythical professional football team
which did lines of cocaine, who did lines of cocaine
and shot up drugs or whatever before every game. This
prompted the owner of the Eagles, Jeffrey Lourie, to go
live in and say that ESPN was filled with institutional racism.
(01:52):
I remember on Tuesday when they when the Philadelphia print
media stuff hit, I got a call from an ESPN
exec who was all excited, Why can you imagine numbers
we're gonna have on Sunday, This is exactly what we're
looking for. The Next day, the same exact calls and says, look,
we're losing Tommy, meaning Tommy Jackson. Tommy said it's either
you or him. He says. Little kids in Cincinnati are
(02:15):
calling him and saying, Mr Jackson, does this mean I
can't be a quarterback in the National Football League if
I'm black. So there were other things going on my
wife at the time, so I just chose to resign.
I didn't do go on that show to do it,
but but be part of it and help it, and
you know, trying to get away from all this. He
was a excursion into fund for me in advocation. So
(02:39):
it continued to resonate, and it continued to be reported
that I was critical of McNabb because it was black.
It continued to be reported I said McNabb was a
bad quarterback because it was black. I never said anything
such thing. I never said he was a bad quarterback.
I said I thought he was overrated by a media
socially conscious about um past racism in the country and
(03:02):
making things right, so forth and so on. I am
the one who said he's overrated. I and I have
an excoriated cream. I have been just vilified for this
ever since it happened, and nobody cared a wit about
it till the Philadelphia print media went ballistic. A couple
of days later, and there have been stories about this
(03:23):
four of the last seven years. I mean, if you
do a Google search mcnabbin Limbaugh will get sixty three returns.
It's ten years later. So there's this story from si
dot com website of Sports Illustrated. It was posted yesterday
by Michael Rosenberg. There's no better place to be a
sports fan right now than Philadelphia. I am not mentioned
(03:46):
in this piece. It's a great story about Philadelphia, what
it's like to be a fan there. And buried in
the article is this one line. Passion like this meaning
Philadelphia fan passion takes strange forms. While the rest of
the country saw McNabb as a franchise quarterback, Philadelphia fans
(04:08):
sensed earlier than most of us in the media that
McNabb was overrated. Now, who is us? This is a sportswriter.
Let's keep that in mind. I thought I was the
only person who thought McNabb was overrated. It was the
first local Philadelphia media, quickly followed by the national media
(04:29):
that distorted and blew up my comments that were in
line with most Philadelphia fans. As it turns out, so
most of us, meaning the sports media, were wrong about McNabb.
And I was right, uh I. I thought McNabb back
then was considered by every reasonable human being to be
(04:51):
the greatest quarterback that ever lived in any They called
him a premier quarterback in the NFL. And and and
anybody who suggested the Eagles defense wasn't getting credit it
deserved was a racist. And now it turns out from
Mr Rosenberg and SI dot Com that I and most
Philadelphia fans new McNabb was overrated. The media was dead
raw who knew? Who knew? As I say, I am
(05:16):
not mentioned in this story, would say, rarely on a
story of McNabb, the Eagles and Philadelphia fans. But this
was pointed out to me, oh this morning about when
I got these things. It's amazing how things come around
after seven years that that passage. While the rest of
the country saw McNabb is a franchise quarterback, Philly fans
(05:40):
sensed earlier than most of us in the media that
McNabb was overrated. Now, guess the last thing I want
to say about this, as far as the media is concerned.
Very safe now for these guys to say this at
the end of McNabb's career, when he is having trouble.
Everybody knows what's going on with Donovan McNabb and the Redskins.
He's handled by that of the way as classy as
(06:01):
as any individual his circumstances could and uh and would,
and I want to reiterate it. No time was McNabb
ever personally criticized by me on that show or since
other people have done that. It's other people in the
media that poorl McNabb is being dumped on by people
now like you would not believe saying things that I
(06:24):
said seven years ago. And I just thought, well, how
about this. This is just funny, timely and just goes
to show you that just sit around and wait and
things will always even out. The truth will out. Maybe
I could get McNabb as a guest host on this program.
(06:44):
I'll bet you that McNabb has a lot of things
he would like to say about a lot of people. Uh,
we might think about that. Call him after Christmas, see
if he wants to guess those the and he can
talk about on anything he wants if he uh, if
(07:05):
he wants to do it. Folks, have you heard about this?
We did. This is our morning update today. The latest
fundraising idea from the Democrats Senatorial Campaign Committee is selling
something called a poetry magnet. It contains a bunch of
words that you can arrange on your refrigerator. It's a
refrigerator magnet. According to the Democrats Senatorial Campaign Committee website,
it's a it's a quote creative outlet for your frustration.
(07:29):
You can get one four six dollars, or you can
get two poetry magnets for ten dollars. The d s
c C says that every magnet purchased, we'll go towards
helping keep the Senate blue. And they say, think of
all the fun phrases you can make with words like
Sarah Palin, tea party, Rush, Limbaugh, and and wrong. Now
(07:51):
here's some of the poetic possibilities that these people at
the d s c C suggests. I'm not making this up.
They're actually selling refrigerator magnets with rearrangeable letters for six
and ten bucks and suggestions for you to put on
your refrigerator. I hate the filibuster because that's the Democrat's
(08:15):
latest move now is to get rid of the sixty
vote requirements since they are effectively losing control of the Senate.
Sarah Palin equals wrong is another thing. They suggest that
you put on your fridge. Fight the right his another suggestion.
So they must think that their voters and donors idiots.
First they sell them the stupid magnet. You've gotta be
(08:36):
stupid to buy one of these, and then they think
they're so stupid they gotta tell them how to arrange
the letters to make words that fit the template of
the modern day Democrat Party. Do they really think in
this economy people are gonna pay good money to sit
around spelling out worthless dribble talking points on their refrigerators.
(08:57):
And they probably are right. I bet you got some
near lunatic, insane base leftist cookes who thinks this is
want to be the greatest Christmas presents they could give
somebody and start. I get to see these liberals sitting
at home playing around on their refrigerator with a bunch
of magnet rearrangeable letters, witless liberals plunking down money. Somebody
(09:21):
else's probably to buy these lame magnets. But the problem
for the Democrats is what do you need for a magnetism?
He need magnetism, and they've lost theirs, the Democrat Party. Obama,
I mean I figured out, you know what, Obama's winning
the day right comeback kid, and all he's done, his
cave on everything he believes. If he really wants to
(09:41):
get accolades cave on healthcare, you know, he ought to
come up and say, you know what, I'm pulling it.
I'm gonna join the efforts to repeal it. We can
do it better. And then think of the things that
DC media, WHOA, what a, Oh my god, he Obama,
he's undefeatable. Now why he's lamenting every aspect of the
Republican agenda. The comeback kid, that's what they're telling us.
(10:05):
Obama the comeback kid, as he implements a Republican agenda. So,
Mr President, repeal healthcare, go all away on your comeback.
Because the magnetism is gone. Obama has been exposed. Those
once great oratorical powers now as empty as his suit.
(10:26):
Democrat policies repel clear thinking Americans. They divide us along racial, class, gender,
every other line you can imagine. They don't attract people,
which is why voters stomp Democrats in November. They're selling
refrigerator magnets. Do you have any magnets on your refrigerators
neeratily do you down you have magnet? Well, if it
(10:49):
you've got kids brand you have refrigerator good. I don't either.
I have never ever had a refrigerator magnet. I don't
know that I've even ever had one to put on
the refrigera. I know that they I know I've never
had one on the refrigerator. Uh. But Russia, Russi limbaugh
(11:13):
is one of the words they have for their magnets,
and the biggest, the biggest word they have in size
is me m e at at any rate. Um. I
go ahead and play with your magnets, play with yourselves.
For remember, roses are red, Democrats are blue, and American
(11:38):
voters are fed up with you.
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