Posted on 10/12/2017 2:36:29 AM PDT by SMGFan
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday voiced concerns about President Trump's comments on NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem to protest racial injustice, saying Trump should not have the power to dictate who can kneel during the anthem.
"There’s a part of this story that’s starting to make me nervous, and it’s this: I am very uncomfortable with the president of the United States being able to dictate the behavior and power of anybody. That’s not where this should be coming from," Limbaugh said on his show. Limbaugh said he believed Trump's motives were "pure," but he argued that the president's actions were unhelpful in the broader debate on players kneeling.
"Trump is continually tweeting — I know what he’s doing, and I understand why he’s doing it, and his motives are pure; don’t misunderstand. But I don’t think that it is useful or helpful for any employee anywhere to be forced to do something because the government says they must," he continued.
"We don’t want the president being able to demand anybody that he’s unhappy with behave in a way he requires," Limbaugh added.
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Well, here’s a solution. Congress must make a law that requires ALL persons standing, hand over heart and silent when Our ANTHEM is played, our PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE is said.
At that time PDJT would be justified in his words. BO’B did and it seemed to work out well for him.
POTUS has the right to free speech too. I don’t see him using the power of the Presidency to enforce anything, so irrelevant.
Rush doesn’t get it. Trump said right from the beginning that he represents We the People. When he uses the bully pulpit, he’s not speaking as an individual, he’s speaking as the voice of the rest of us who are shouting at our televisions (before we turned them off in disgust), for those in the stands, yelling “stand up!” For those who served in the military and paid dearly for these fools to show such a lack of respect. What he’s saying is that the media and liberals have been able to ignore flyover country Americans and our values for way too long, by portraying us as “just one guy talking.” Trump is saying they won’t be able to ignore him talking. And he speaks for us.
I have listened to Rush since the early 90's. And the 2016 primary season was no different than the rest in that he never endorses a primary candidate. I listen to him typically every week day, generally without fail, and discuss the happenings, as usual, with my wife during my drive home. We would have caught an such change of habit.
He engaged in no "anti-trump screed"
This article is taken totally out of context. It’s sole purpose is to divide the base.
What you may have mistaken for "snide tone", was most likely "irony". But since you cannot supply the quote or any quote we'll never know.
Roxanne: I was being ironic.
C.D.: Oh, ho, ho, irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a, a high priority. We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83, when I was the only practitioner of it. And I stopped because I was tired of being stared at.
(Roxanne '87)
I changed the radio channel and haven’t listened to him since.
Just as I thought.
Lighten up, Rush.
Trump is expressing his own opinion on the issue. He is not calling for legislation to force anyone to stand.
But, I objected with my money and dropped 24/7. As you, I've been listening to Rush forever and I found his rhetoric beyond the pale when it came to the last election.
Ah so Rush is bothered by talking
Rush is a smart guy and I suspect somewhat of a binary thinker like me. He understands that “the right thing to do” is not always the right thing to do. It can cross the line into being a wrong thing. I think his point is that Under some circumstances, Trump SHOULD say what he is saying, but under others, it is really inappropriate for the “office of the president” to go there. And the difference between the two situations can be almost undetectable by most people.
What does or did 0bama/Clinton do to their enemies?
So Rush doesn’t think Trump has 1st Amendment rights and should just shut up.
To use an analogy, if a friend tells you that you should not perform in an adult film, they are not forcing you. They are just telling you that it might not be the prudent thing to do, and you may regret it later. i.e. it is not about 1st amendment rights.
I don’t believe he said this. I was listening to him talk about this yesterday and I don’t think he said it, at least not in the context this article claims. Rush knows that a tweet by Trump is not “dictating” or “forcing” anybody to do anything.
I read the transcript. I think it does capture what he said. What has Trump done other than talk? Has he signed an EO? Has he introduced a bill in Congress?
I think Rush is catching hell about this from his NFL buddies.
My point is that I do not believe that rush is bothered by talking. Rather, it is the talking the person sitting in the oval office is doing.
Fact is, a president, unlike you and me, cannot just say whatever falls from his brain to his tongue. I could spend a couple of paragraphs explaining why, but I don’t think I need to. ;-)
Rush is wrong on this. Presidents inject themselves into the cultural issues of their days. God knows Obama was all over it with homosexuals and trannies. Reagan was all about the greatness of America vs. the evils of the Soviet Union.
Unless Trump has signed a law or an EO outlawing kneeling in the NFL, I don’t think Rush has much to worry over here.
Every patriotic American could have stood up and walked out of the stadium on seeing any player disrespecting the flag and sent the message'
I disagree. If he 'cared' then he would change the flag code and such to 'allow' the use of the flag on a sports uniform.
I dislike the flag on sports uniforms. It gets trash on it and it's purely for marketing.
I was taught to never let the flag touch the ground or get dirty. That's they way it's always been. It gets 'disrespected' every time it touches the ground and soiled. Nobody raises that concern or issue.
If the President cared about the flag then he should support the flag code.
This is purely for politics.
Nobody is talking about the flag on a sports uniform.
When these players kneel during the anthem they are saying that the flag represents racism.
It does not.
Rush: The point that I was making was that I don’t want to get to a point where if a president doesn’t like the way people are behaving, that he can call the people that own that business and make ’em behave the way he wants. I’m not suggesting that’s happening here.
Rush didn't say anything bad about Trump. He's thinking past Trump to a possible President Sanders, President Biden or President Booker.
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