At
the beginning of this year, Limbaugh predicted the landmark decision
handed down Wednesday by the Patent and Trademark Office. He told
listeners Jan. 9 that, “the way the feds are going to get the Redskins
is the federal trademark office.”
Sure enough, “that’s exactly what the Redskins are dealing with today,”
Limbaugh said on the air.
“I want you to imagine the federal government eliminating your
private-property rights due to the interpretation of political
correctness by five people, or a very tiny minority of people,” said
Limbaugh.
“The tiny minority of people are ostensibly, they say, offended by
something that you own. (…) Because of interpretation of political
correctness, because they’re liberals, because they’re statists and
authoritarians and assigned to them that kind of sweeping power.”
The radio host went on to say that what happened to the Redskins is
neither the first nor the last “assault on private-property rights”
citizens can expect to witness.
“Cheer if you want,” Limbaugh said, but scoffers need to remember that
“no one is safe when the protections of a constitutional republic are
stripped away.”
He warned his audience not to take media reports on the Redskins
decision at face value. Mainstream outlets are naming the source of the
decision as the Patent and Trademark Office.
However, Limbaugh pointed out, “This is Barack Obama. This is the
executive branch. All this stuff is coming out of the executive branch.
All of this, well, tyranny.”
Limbaugh added that “the people responsible” for Wednesday’s decision,
such as “civil rights” activists and other “progressives,” will be
smugly satisfied – but not for long.
“They never are. They’ll gloat maybe for a while, but they’ll just be
angrier at those things remaining that offend them, and will set out to
attack them,” too.
Finally, Limbaugh predicted the law of unintended consequences would
kick in shortly, as it always does after a left-wing victory.
If the decision stands, he pointed out, “anybody can market [the
'racist' Redskins logo.] Anybody can use it. Anybody can make money off
of it.”
In other words: Americans may soon be seeing the Redskins name and logo
on more merchandise than they ever did before.
“And I don’t think that’s quite what [activists] had in mind,” Limbaugh
said.
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