Rush was on a roll yesterday.  After talking about Armstrong Williams (which I talked about here), he proceeded around the end of the show to talk about Randy Moss.

And lo and behold, we were on the same side of things.  Check it out:

Anyway Moss scored the second of his two touchdowns yesterday and strode to the nearest goalpost where he simulated dropping trow and mooning packer cheesehead fans in the bleachers behind the goalpost. At the time this happened Joe Buck, the play by play man for Fox called it a disgusting move, but that's really not what was disusting. I mean the emulated moon was disusting, but then after having dropped trow, and without pretending to pick the trow back up, while then still in his pantomime still with his trowsers down, he wiped his butt on the Packers' goalpost. Folks, that was the last straw. The moon, that's one thing but wiping his butt on the Packer goalpost and enjoying it, rubbing it in there, if you will, that didn't sit well with anybody. And this, of course, has caused a reaction from all of the pontificators on all of the networks. Terry Bradshaw and Howie Long said it's hopeless for Moss, he's a bat actor he's a bad character, the league ought to suspend him, fine him, kick him out. Tom Jackson on ESPN, why, you would have thought McNabb's name had been mentioned yesterday to listen to Tom Jackson go bonkers on the ESPN program. I think it was last night, their highlight show.

Here's what Randy Moss said in the locker room when asked about the mooning and the wiping of the butt incident on the Packers goalpost.

MOSS: The celebration was more of a fun thing and not more of a hatred thing; you know what I'm saying? I just tried to enjoy myself and as you see after the play my teammates came and smacked my helmet and picked me up in the air and things like that so that's why I say I was just playing and having fun man, you know, just caught a touchdown in a big game, I don't even know what quarter it was but I know it was a big game late in the second half, and, you know, I was just very enthused, and that's what I felt like doing.

RUSH: I don't know what quarter it was, but it was late in the second half. That would be the fourth quarter, Randy. Here's what Tom Jackson said on NFL prime-time on ESPN last night.

JACKSON: I cannot talk about this any more. I can't talk about Randy Moss and his responsibility to his football team, to the league, to the game itself. He will have to make decisions on his own, commissioner, team, owner, Red McCombs will have to make those decisions as to how to get through to him. We cannot. I said it this morning. He's made it clear to me that no one can tell him what to do or when to do it, and he acts that out all the time. So those issues right now, as far as I'm concerned, are for somebody else.

RUSH: Now, stop and think of that. Randy Moss is supposed to listen to a bunch of TV commentators in pre-game shows telling him what to do, when to do it, what not to do, and when not to do it, so Tom Jackson, who is I guess the morality czar of the ESPN pre-game show is now effectively wiping his hands of Randy Moss and is going to leave it up to the league, his teammates, and to his owner, Red McCombs. Oh, they were all high dudgeon over this, they were beside themselves that Moss had done this, and taken away the victory and the celebration of victory from his teammates by stealing the spotlight, mooning the Packer fans and then wiping his butt on their goalpost, probably had some Pimp Juice after the game, too.

Tom Jackson comes across as someone's father who's exhausted of their juvenile deliquent child.  Problem is, Moss isn't TJ's child, nor should he try to tell someone else how they should act.  Moss knows the difference between right and wrong.  If he doesn't, let him learn it the hard way.  Sitting back and trying to dispense fake moral outrage as if you're his guardian is ridiculous.

But Rush hit the nail on the head with this comment:

I mean, I just find some of this, I'm not supporting what Moss did, don't misunderstand, when I saw it I had the same reaction that everybody else did and knew what the reaction was going to be. You know, some of the characters in this league that get celebrated, some of the characters in this league that are held up as role models and so forth and then you got Randy Moss only because he doesn't kiss their behinds. He doesn't seek their approval. He doesn't go out and try to be a model with phony charitable involvement and this sort of thing, so he's made himself a target. I guess he's got the personality type that likes that.

and later:

And I tell you, if you didn't see this live and you came in late in the day and you turned on TV and you heard sports people talking about this, I will lay you ten to one you probably thought Randy Moss actually dropped trow and actually mooned the crowd. You probably thought that's what had happened, since they weren't showing the replay. It was so bad, they were so righteously indignant, they were so appalled at what Randy Moss had done that they wouldn't replay it, and yet the stuff that gets televised on prime-time television at night, broadcast television, this pales in comparison to some of it. So you can't take Randy Moss out of the equation. He's earned it. I mean, he's earned the attention. He's earned the label of bad boy. And his antics give some of these people in football the opportunity to get on their moral high horse and show how sweet and pure they are and how they've got standards and so forth. He serves a purpose for him. But the outrage, the mock outrage over this, I'm sorry, does not match the action.

Now, if he'd actually mooned the crowd, I could understand them not showing that again. But to not show this and to act like you're protecting the young eyeballs of the nation and the children and the women, we're not going to show you this, it's too disgusting, that's just, even with the cultural decay that has occurred in the country, that is a bit over the top.

Randy Moss isn't Peyton Manning.  He isn't Tom Brady.  He's Randy Moss.  And because he isn't like those guys, the announcers want to take the time to show moral outrage.

Does Terry Bradshaw show his outrage when Fox airs "Temptation Island"?  Where was Howie Long when Fox aired "Who's Your Daddy?"  Was TJ scolding the ABC brass when "Desperate Housewives" debuted?  Spare me the drama guys.

If there is anything to be pissed at Randy Moss about, it's this:

RUSH: Now, you have just, and I want to applaud you for this. You have just swerved into what to me is the real question. Why doesn't Randy Moss play every game with that much fire? How come it took an incident with him walking off the field before the game was over being chastised by teammates for him to come out and actually give it his all? Now, here's a guy that can selectively turn it on, you're supposed to go a hundred percent in every game and he has said if he's not in a play if his route is not being called, he's going to dog it. That didn't sit well with these guys who went all out on every play throughout their whole careers, yada yada yada yada. But it is an interesting point. The Vikings came out all fired up yesterday.

Precisely.  If the Vikings play with the same heart and passion they played with going into Lambeau Field, not only will they make it to Jacksonville, but they'll WIN in Jacksonville.  Minnesota has always had the talent.  They just don't believe in themselves.  That's why they continued to choke all season.  The Vikings shouldn't have to wait until some controversy is over their heads to play like winners, and we shouldn't have to wait until Monday nght for Moss to put on a big game.  But in today's NFL you can't win on just talent alone.  You've got to want to win. 

Moss, Culpepper, and that defense need to find a bigger chip to place on their shoulders, march into the Vet like they own it, and beat Philly's ass as if they didn't deserve to be on the same field as them. 

They did it to Brett Farve.  Now do it to Donovan McNabb.

Oh; and don't worry guys.  I didn't forget the rest of the playoffs.  I'll talk about the rest of the Wild Card and this weekend's games in the next day or two.