Posted on 10/01/2007 1:29:57 PM PDT by vietvet67
Democrats on Monday called on the chief executive of Clear Channel Communications to denounce remarks by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, whom they say made a “hateful” and “unpatriotic” attack on U.S. troops opposed to the war in Iraq.
At issue is a remark from Limbaugh that characterized such troops as “phony soldiers.” Democrats have seized on the issue, allowing them to hit back at Republicans who similarly latched onto a MoveOn.org ad that referred to Gen. David Petraeus as “General Betray Us.”
“Thousands of active troops and veterans were subjected to Mr. Limbaugh’s unpatriotic and indefensible comments on your broadcast,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said in his letter to Clear Channel Chief Executive Mark Mays. “We trust you will agree that not a single one of our sons, daughters, neighbors and friends serving overseas is a ‘phony soldier.’ We call on you to publicly repudiate these comments that call into question their service and sacrifice and to ask Mr. Limbaugh to apologize for his comments.”
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Rush Limbaugh has eaten and defecated liberals for 20 years now. These Rat Senators are a bunch of lying and hypocritical douchebags.
I noticed that right away. The Hill perpetuates the smear by intentionally misreporting it. No email contact for the deceitful reporter, of course.
Here. I posted the exact transcript in post 62.
I have Martinez and the idiot Nelson; but you have it far worse than I do!
The whole thing is a joke, and it makes Senator Reid look the fool he is. Just another backfire coming up. As someone said: Its another Wellstone moment.
Here it is, dude:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_092807/content/01125106.guest.html
look for the word CALLER:
and you’ll find your context.
I'm lovin' it.....
Agreed. There are chunks in Rush’s morning constitutional bigger than Reid.
He’ll be fine. In fact, he’s going to get numbers.
Al Qaeda is on the ropes. No doubt about it, and with horrible timing to the election. Reid’s from Nevada too. It’s not like Nevada is deep blue like Washington State.
Yeah, you can almost hear Rush yelling Senator Reid please don’t throw me into the Briarpatch!
Pray for W and Our Troops
And Rush says (condensed version):
Please don’t throw me in the briar patch, bwahahahaha
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_092807/content/01125106.guest.html
RUSH ARCHIVE: It’s not possible intellectually to follow these people.
CALLER: No, it’s not. And what’s really funny is they never talk to real soldiers. They like to pull these soldiers that come up out of the blue and spout to the media.
RUSH: The phony soldiers.
CALLER: The phony soldiers. If you talk to any real soldier and they’re proud to serve, they want to be over in Iraq, they understand their sacrifice and they’re willing to sacrifice for the country.
RUSH: They joined to be in Iraq.
RUSH: It’s frustrating and maddening, and why they must be kept in the minority. I want to thank you, Mike, for calling. I appreciate it very much.
Here is a Morning Update that we did recently, talking about fake soldiers. This is a story of who the left props up as heroes. They have their celebrities and one of them was Army Ranger Jesse MacBeth. Now, he was a “corporal.” I say in quotes. Twenty-three years old. What made Jesse MacBeth a hero to the anti-war crowd wasn’t his Purple Heart; it wasn’t his being affiliated with post-traumatic stress disorder from tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. No. What made Jesse MacBeth, Army Ranger, a hero to the left was his courage, in their view, off the battlefield, without regard to consequences. He told the world the abuses he had witnessed in Iraq, American soldiers killing unarmed civilians, hundreds of men, women, even children. In one gruesome account, translated into Arabic and spread widely across the Internet, Army Ranger Jesse MacBeth describes the horrors this way: “We would burn their bodies. We would hang their bodies from the rafters in the mosque.”
Now, recently, Jesse MacBeth, poster boy for the anti-war left, had his day in court. And you know what? He was sentenced to five months in jail and three years probation for falsifying a Department of Veterans Affairs claim and his Army discharge record. He was in the Army. Jesse MacBeth was in the Army, folks, briefly. Forty-four days before he washed out of boot camp. Jesse MacBeth isn’t an Army Ranger, never was. He isn’t a corporal, never was. He never won the Purple Heart, and he was never in combat to witness the horrors he claimed to have seen. You probably haven’t even heard about this. And, if you have, you haven’t heard much about it. This doesn’t fit the narrative and the template in the Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party as to who is a genuine war hero. Don’t look for any retractions, by the way. Not from the anti-war left, the anti-military Drive-By Media, or the Arabic websites that spread Jesse MacBeth’s lies about our troops, because the truth for the left is fiction that serves their purpose. They have to lie about such atrocities because they can’t find any that fit the template of the way they see the US military. In other words, for the American anti-war left, the greatest inconvenience they face is the truth.
Is there anything on the face of the earth lower than scum Democratic Senators? Actually, most Republicans can join them, since there really isnt any difference.
Reid is defending convicted criminals.
Perhaps what SHOULD happen is the names of the CONVICTED FAKES should be read into the record in order to further humiliate Reid.
Is Reid executing payback because of the defeat of his Amnesty bill?
Rush can hold his own.
For one thing, he’s immeasurably more intelligent than those buffoons.
9 seconds apart, Great Minds!
First they go after Petreus and now Rush. Could you see HilaryCare’s lips moving while Reid said this??
Pray for W and Our Troops
yes, yes there is something lower.
It is a person who PRETENDS TO BE A SOLDIER FOR PERSONAL OR POLITICAL GAIN.
The ad rates for tommorrow’s show just shot up.
Reid is completely stupid on this because all we need do is show that Reid is defending these convicted of posing as soldier frauds.
The only thing the democrats in congress need is a laugh track.
Well, we should all take great comfort that there are apparently no threats to America or our interests coming from anywhere and no other issues of importance that should consume the senate and house democrat’s attention which enables them to focus on critical items such as this.
We’re so safe and secure with them in Washington, donchaknow.
(/dripping sarcasm)
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