Another Nail in the Coffin of Football
RUSH: Folks, the coffin in which will be buried the game of football has many nails. There are many nails yet to be hammered in the coffin that will bury football, but another one was just hammered. Here we have Frank McGurty writing in Scientific American. "Study Finds Evidence of Brain Injury in Living NFL Veterans."
Now, the reason this is news is because the brain damage and injury known as CTE is only discoverable in autopsy. It cannot be diagnosed in a living brain. It can only be found during autopsy. That's why this news is so big. And that is if people choose to believe it. Once again we have to recognize, or rather we have to admit science has now been corrupted by politics. There isn't anything pure, or there's very little remaining that is pure. But science is not one of them.
Science has been corrupted and polluted by liberalism just as everything liberalism has touched has been corrupted and polluted. And in some cases, perverted. So you have to be suspicious of this, because in virtually everything there is an agenda. Wherever you find liberals and Democrats, you find an agenda. There are no liberals who are docile. Meaning, if you have a group of scientists and most of them are liberals, they're not just sitting there and when they leave the office, they become liberals.
Liberalism is guiding their work. Liberalism is informing their work. Liberalism is forming their prejudices. It's inescapable. It's O'Sullivan's law. "Any organization that is not constantly, actively conservative will become liberal." It's to that state that things will descend. Liberalism is not an ascension. You don't raise yourself up to liberalism. You descend and plummet into it. And the only way to avoid it is active conservatism. Don't doubt me.
That's why I am so leery of moderates. Moderates are simply liberals-in-waiting. They're in transit and on the way. Anybody tells you they're not conservative, they're on the way to liberalism whether they know it or not.
So many people in our country today, all across the political spectrum, are dependent on funding from other people in order to eat and live. I don't consider having a job funding. But, I mean, if you're the recipient of grants, if you run around asking for donations, either as a for-profit or nonprofit, then you are feeding at the trough, as opposed somebody who's literally working.
Now, I know that these places have employees, and they work, but if the place is funded, then the odds are it has a political purpose, whether it's a nonprofit or not. And that's what has happened to so much in science. People in it, in order to survive, have to be given money, for one reason or another, to advance their research. And of course if the money is given, there is an expected outcome. You don't have a lot of money people giving money away and just willing to deal with the results, whatever they may be.
If you have somebody funding climate research, the odds are they expect a favorable outcome commensurate with the amount of money they're giving, and so many people are, quote, unquote, employed in such a fashion these days. Many conservatives, in fact. Many conservatives. To me it has always been a little contradictory. Conservatism stands for what? Among many other things, what does it stand for, Mr. Snerdley? Hard work. You don't feed off the government teat. You provide for yourself. You do not become an entitlement into and unto yourself.
And yet there are more and more people who -- I can tell the number of people asking for money. I don't mean, can you loan me five bucks? No, it's can you donate X-amount so I can continue my work here? Whatever it is. Anyway, I've just become aware of how much of that has become politicized.
So here we go. Scientific American. "More than 40 percent of retired NFL players tested with advanced scanning technology showed signs of traumatic brain injury, a much higher rate than in the general population." The first time this has ever been alleged, because, as we speak, it has always been said supposedly truthfully that the incidence of brain trauma and other injury among NFL players is actually below the national average.
Well, we can't have that, if we're trying to destroy football. If we're trying to create the illusion that football is deadly and dangerous and we're trying to wipe it out as good liberals because liberalism looks at football and sees everything in it they hate. There are losers. There is pain. There is suffering. There is barbarism. There are wealthy owners that sit up in skyboxes and watch people destroy themselves for their entertainment. It's no different than the old events that used to take place in the Roman Colosseum. It's just despicable.
And of course the players are looked at as victims of these wealthy plutarch's and oligarchs who are simply seeking a little fame and entertainment, and little did anybody know that what they're doing kills them, so we've gotta stop it. And so now -- (interruption) Oh, you don't think that's going on? You better wake up because it's exactly what's propelling this. And I'm just gonna remind you again. Mark my words. Wait until -- and it's not far down the road -- wait until they introduce the racial component into this. It's gonna happen sooner than you think. What do I mean?
How many African-American owners are there? Zip, zero, nada. What's the percentage of players in the NFL that African-American? Seventy-five percent. Therefore, 75% of all the bad stuff is happening to who? African-Americans, on the football field and within the football plantation. And we find that their lives after the game are, in many instances, filled with depression, suicide, and any number of things.
You just wait 'til the enemies of football -- and they are there; you can't deny that -- and they're timing this. I mean, they're aware of it. They're waiting for the right moment. I don't know what it'll be. But they will introduce the racial component to this. And they'll say there's no black owners, there's no Hispanic owners, there are no female owners. It's white guys. And they all happen to be what? Billionaires! Do any of them have CTE? Are any of them committing suicide at age 45?
Folks, this is going to happen. And it's little stories like this that are the precedents or the precedents, if you will.
"More than 40 percent of retired NFL players tested with advanced scanning technology showed signs of traumatic brain injury, a much higher rate than in the general population, according to a new study of the long-term risks of playing American football.
"The research, presented at an American Academy of Neurology meeting that began in Vancouver on Monday, is one of the first to provide 'objective evidence' of traumatic brain injury in a large sample of National Football League veterans while they are living, said Dr. Francis X. Conidi, one of the study's authors.
"Conidi, a neurologist at the Florida Center for Headache and Sports Neurology and a faculty member at the Florida State University College of Medicine, said traumatic brain injury was often a 'precursor' to CTE, a degenerative brain disease.
'What we do know is that players with traumatic brain injury have a high incidence of going on to develop neurological degenerative disease later on in life,' Conidi told Reuters.
"CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, has been found in dozens of the NFL's top players after they died. At present, a CTE diagnosis is only possible after death. Conidi said no one has ever looked at this number of living players before." So as I say, the coffin in which will be buried football has many nails, and another one was just hammered.
RUSH: Folks, the coffin in which will be buried the game of football has many nails. There are many nails yet to be hammered in the coffin that will bury football, but another one was just hammered. Here we have Frank McGurty writing in Scientific American. "Study Finds Evidence of Brain Injury in Living NFL Veterans."
Now, the reason this is news is because the brain damage and injury known as CTE is only discoverable in autopsy. It cannot be diagnosed in a living brain. It can only be found during autopsy. That's why this news is so big. And that is if people choose to believe it. Once again we have to recognize, or rather we have to admit science has now been corrupted by politics. There isn't anything pure, or there's very little remaining that is pure. But science is not one of them.
Science has been corrupted and polluted by liberalism just as everything liberalism has touched has been corrupted and polluted. And in some cases, perverted. So you have to be suspicious of this, because in virtually everything there is an agenda. Wherever you find liberals and Democrats, you find an agenda. There are no liberals who are docile. Meaning, if you have a group of scientists and most of them are liberals, they're not just sitting there and when they leave the office, they become liberals.
Liberalism is guiding their work. Liberalism is informing their work. Liberalism is forming their prejudices. It's inescapable. It's O'Sullivan's law. "Any organization that is not constantly, actively conservative will become liberal." It's to that state that things will descend. Liberalism is not an ascension. You don't raise yourself up to liberalism. You descend and plummet into it. And the only way to avoid it is active conservatism. Don't doubt me.
That's why I am so leery of moderates. Moderates are simply liberals-in-waiting. They're in transit and on the way. Anybody tells you they're not conservative, they're on the way to liberalism whether they know it or not.
So many people in our country today, all across the political spectrum, are dependent on funding from other people in order to eat and live. I don't consider having a job funding. But, I mean, if you're the recipient of grants, if you run around asking for donations, either as a for-profit or nonprofit, then you are feeding at the trough, as opposed somebody who's literally working.
Now, I know that these places have employees, and they work, but if the place is funded, then the odds are it has a political purpose, whether it's a nonprofit or not. And that's what has happened to so much in science. People in it, in order to survive, have to be given money, for one reason or another, to advance their research. And of course if the money is given, there is an expected outcome. You don't have a lot of money people giving money away and just willing to deal with the results, whatever they may be.
If you have somebody funding climate research, the odds are they expect a favorable outcome commensurate with the amount of money they're giving, and so many people are, quote, unquote, employed in such a fashion these days. Many conservatives, in fact. Many conservatives. To me it has always been a little contradictory. Conservatism stands for what? Among many other things, what does it stand for, Mr. Snerdley? Hard work. You don't feed off the government teat. You provide for yourself. You do not become an entitlement into and unto yourself.
And yet there are more and more people who -- I can tell the number of people asking for money. I don't mean, can you loan me five bucks? No, it's can you donate X-amount so I can continue my work here? Whatever it is. Anyway, I've just become aware of how much of that has become politicized.
So here we go. Scientific American. "More than 40 percent of retired NFL players tested with advanced scanning technology showed signs of traumatic brain injury, a much higher rate than in the general population." The first time this has ever been alleged, because, as we speak, it has always been said supposedly truthfully that the incidence of brain trauma and other injury among NFL players is actually below the national average.
Well, we can't have that, if we're trying to destroy football. If we're trying to create the illusion that football is deadly and dangerous and we're trying to wipe it out as good liberals because liberalism looks at football and sees everything in it they hate. There are losers. There is pain. There is suffering. There is barbarism. There are wealthy owners that sit up in skyboxes and watch people destroy themselves for their entertainment. It's no different than the old events that used to take place in the Roman Colosseum. It's just despicable.
And of course the players are looked at as victims of these wealthy plutarch's and oligarchs who are simply seeking a little fame and entertainment, and little did anybody know that what they're doing kills them, so we've gotta stop it. And so now -- (interruption) Oh, you don't think that's going on? You better wake up because it's exactly what's propelling this. And I'm just gonna remind you again. Mark my words. Wait until -- and it's not far down the road -- wait until they introduce the racial component into this. It's gonna happen sooner than you think. What do I mean?
How many African-American owners are there? Zip, zero, nada. What's the percentage of players in the NFL that African-American? Seventy-five percent. Therefore, 75% of all the bad stuff is happening to who? African-Americans, on the football field and within the football plantation. And we find that their lives after the game are, in many instances, filled with depression, suicide, and any number of things.
You just wait 'til the enemies of football -- and they are there; you can't deny that -- and they're timing this. I mean, they're aware of it. They're waiting for the right moment. I don't know what it'll be. But they will introduce the racial component to this. And they'll say there's no black owners, there's no Hispanic owners, there are no female owners. It's white guys. And they all happen to be what? Billionaires! Do any of them have CTE? Are any of them committing suicide at age 45?
Folks, this is going to happen. And it's little stories like this that are the precedents or the precedents, if you will.
"More than 40 percent of retired NFL players tested with advanced scanning technology showed signs of traumatic brain injury, a much higher rate than in the general population, according to a new study of the long-term risks of playing American football.
"The research, presented at an American Academy of Neurology meeting that began in Vancouver on Monday, is one of the first to provide 'objective evidence' of traumatic brain injury in a large sample of National Football League veterans while they are living, said Dr. Francis X. Conidi, one of the study's authors.
"Conidi, a neurologist at the Florida Center for Headache and Sports Neurology and a faculty member at the Florida State University College of Medicine, said traumatic brain injury was often a 'precursor' to CTE, a degenerative brain disease.
'What we do know is that players with traumatic brain injury have a high incidence of going on to develop neurological degenerative disease later on in life,' Conidi told Reuters.
"CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, has been found in dozens of the NFL's top players after they died. At present, a CTE diagnosis is only possible after death. Conidi said no one has ever looked at this number of living players before." So as I say, the coffin in which will be buried football has many nails, and another one was just hammered.