Senator Gives Rush Pushback On Football Tirade

Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh's tirade Friday about reaction to the National Football League scandal was fascinating, according to Hal Boedeker at The Orlando Sentinel, for what it said about Rush Limbaugh.

"We're feminizing this game, and it's a man's game, and if we keep feminizing this game, we're going to ruin it," Limbaugh told his listeners.  "If we keep chickifying this game, we're going to ruin in."

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., answered Limbaugh's complaint on CNN's "The Lead With Jake Tapper."

"Well, if he believes criminals should be playing in the National Football League, he's got a serious issue," Gillibrand said. "These are criminal cases of assault and battery and sexual violence. And our players are role models. We don't want young kids looking up to these folks who are beating their wives. It's not right. So we should have a zero tolerance policy, and he's wrong."

She is among 16 female U.S. senators who wrote a letter to the NFL demanding a zero tolerance policy on domestic violence.

Limbaugh also lashed out at CBS' James Brown for commenting on domestic violence and CBS for taking a pregame show in an issue-oriented direction.