Rush Limbaugh: NFL protests are a conspiracy to destroy "masculinity"

[DonViejo]

Limbaugh says that the left “wants to cause great damage to the NFL” in order to rob our nation of its ruggedness

CHARLIE MAY
09.29.2017•2:08 PM

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, said he believes that the left has "hijacked" the National Football League and "wants to cause great damage to the" sports organization because it stands for "masculinity."

Limbaugh spoke with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday night, and asked him "what's the point?" in regards to the protests during the national anthem, according to Media Matters for America. "They're not accomplishing anything except harming the enterprise. Whatever's happening in the NFL right now, it's not how you grow it."

"I do believe that the left wants to cause great damage to the NFL," he continued. "What does the NFL stand for? Masculinity, strength, toughness. So, what are they doing to it?" Limbaugh then bashed college campuses and said "you'll find classes on how to take masculinity out of men."

"It's actually happening. There are studies and courses in college that do this. It's patriotic, you've got the flag, you've got the anthem, you've got uniformed military personnel, all the things that the left wants to erase from this country," he added.

Limbaugh said that the left is using NFL players to destroy the league because "they don't like displays of patriotism, strength, rugged individualism." He continued, "they think it's about police brutality, they think it's about righting social wrongs, and so forth. This is an attack on the NFL as an institution for shaking it down and lowering its profile and impact on American culture. We're in the midst of a culture war. Everybody knows it."

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[prayin4rain]

1. Shoot, he's on to us!!! nt

[OriginalGeek]

2. Sez that paragon of male spectacularity.

[maxrandb]

3. Rush Limpballs

wouldn't know masculinity if it bit him on the ass.

If I ever met Rush in a dark alley, I'd show him some "rugged individualism"

[OldHippieChick]

4. LOL!

Oh Rush, as if you had any idea!

[procon]

5. "Masculinity" is one thing Rush doesn't have to worry about. LOL nt

[SonofDonald]

6. How would they know what being masculine is?

When they sit on their asses and bitch for a living?.

[Initech]

7. Colin Kaepernick is five times the man Limbaugh and Hannity ever will be.

Oh and fuck them both. I am a liberal, I watch football and love it, I hope it never dies.

[ck4829]

8. That says a lot more about Rush's image of "masculinity" than it does the left

If all it takes is kneeling to deal damage to it.

[oberliner]

9. He actually used to be an ESPN Monday Night Football announcer

Rush Limbaugh Brings Racisim to ESPN/NFL

Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh, now an NFL analyst for ESPN, is again in the hot seat for racially offensive statements.
On Sunday, during ESPN s televised pregame show, former NFL quarterback Steve Young questioned McNabb s "ability to run the offense," saying that his White backup, Koy Detmer, would likely do a better job.
Limbaugh chimed in. "I think the sum of what you re all saying is that Donavan McNabb is regressing, he s going backward," Limbaugh said. "Sorry to say this, I don t think he s been that good from the get-go."
But Limbaugh didn t stop there.
"The media has been very desirous that a Black quarterback do well. "There is a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn t deserve. The defense carried this team."
http://truth-out.org/archive/component/k2/item/45739:rush-limbaugh-brings-racisim-to-espnnfl

Anyone remember this?

[Joe941]

20. Yup, they had to get rid of him for spewing his racist garbage.

[WinkyDink]

10. Dog-whistle for : "Democrats are GAY!"

[meow2u3]

14. Actually, it's a dog whistle for... drumroll...

Rush is a closet case because it's unacceptable in RW circles, so he's trying to make Democrats out to be gay.

[WinkyDink]

18. Bwah! True dat!

[TheFrenchRazor]

17. this; a lot of "progressives" still basically accept that there are appropriate "masculine" and

"feminine" roles, behaviors, appearances, etc.; they just define those differently than conservatives. seems to me that fear, conformity, closed-mindedness, superstition, misogyny, and homophobia are really at the root of it.

[Bengus81]

11. So...don't watch NFL games anymore Rush.....

You know your fat ass can't do it,so you spend your time whining. People are support these players in droves. Kind of like the droves that called up ABC and said they'd NEVER watch MNF if you became a commentator all those years ago.

[Hortensis]

12. Psychologists say some will believe any statement that seems to

support something they believe. There does not have to be a rational linkage as in cause and effect, but only the belief and something they're told supports it.

Belief: Stolen masculinity.
Supporting lies they'll grab onto: NFl. Aliens in their drainpipes. Chemicals in tidy whites. Aid to Puerto Rico. Hillary.

[The_Casual_Observer]

13. Actually the NFL is having problems related to all the brain injuries.

"patriotism, strength, rugged individualism" have nothing to do with anything.

Limpballs knows nothing of strength, he does nothing but whine about how some unnamed lefty is making him shit his pants all the time. He's a weak pathetic fool.

[geardaddy]

15. ...

[Buns_of_Fire]

16. Did he say anything about sapping and impurifying our precious bodily fluids? nt

[hurple]

19. oh man...

Opoids are bad things.

[Johonny]

21. I'm willing to watch him tell Ray Lewis to his face that Ray's not man enough

[Nac Mac Feegle]

22. Rash Limbaugh is a conspiracy

to destroy civility, common sense, and decency.

[keithbvadu2]

23. "masculinity" says Rush who takes Viagra with him to a child prostitution resort area.