As Brent Baker of MRC/NB has documented, MSNBC has been among the worst MSM offenders in propagating the falsehood that Rush Limbaugh had accused all anti-war military members of being "phony soldiers." Posted on 10/02/2007 4:05:25 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
As Brent Baker of MRC/NB has documented, MSNBC has been among the worst MSM offenders in propagating the falsehood that Rush Limbaugh had accused all anti-war military members of being "phony soldiers."
A point of light at that same network this morning, however, as Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist combined to debunk the Media Matters allegation, accusing the organization of using a "phony story about a phony soldier" to go after Rush.
It began at 6:04 A.M. EDT today, during the "Morning Joe" opening coffee klatsch.
View video here.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Now you've got Media Matters going after Rush Limbaugh. This really does look like a phony story about a phony soldier.During all this, the normally voluble Mika Brzezinski stayed silent as the Sphinx. Later, when Joe displayed the cover of New York magazine showing Bill Clinton as a "First Lady," Mika suddenly found her voice, wanting viewers to understand that "it's a joke, it's a joke," adding that Bill "will be much more than a First Lady." "Will"? Guess Hillary's election is a done deal.
WILLIE GEIST: Once again, Joe, as we did with O'Reilly [regarding his "Sylvia's" comments] we went back and looked at the transcript. The comment they're talking about is the, quote, "phony soldiers" comment that Rush Limbaugh made when he was talking to a caller on his show last week. Well, he was talking about a specific solder, this guy Jesse Macbeth, you might remember, who claimed to have served in Iraq and came back and criticized the war. He never went to Iraq, never served.
SCARBOROUGH: Hold on one second, by definition, can I Google "phony soldier"?
GEIST: I don't think you have to Google on this one. So, it's sort of hard to argue that he was, that Limbaugh was [not] right on this one. Again, no context ever given. They see the quote "phony soldiers," and that's all they hear. But he was actually talking about a person who actually was a phony soldier.
SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, so it's been blown out of context.
GEIST: Of course.
SCARBOROUGH: I'm sure Media Matters will make a lot of money for blowing it out of context, cause people hate Rush Limbaugh, and you know, so who knows, maybe George Soros will write them a big, fat million-dollar check.
Pleasant surprise: Scarborough sets record straight on Media Matters smear of Rush Limbaugh. Ping to Today show list.
Too bad only several hundred viewers saw it.
True, but hopefully it will reverberate beyond the show. Rush is likely to pick it up, for example, and let’s hope my original NewsBusters article is widely disseminated.
I just heard about this whole thing in the last 8 hours and I gotta say, if the story is accurate as Scarborough reports it, the Democrats have sunk to a new low even for them. Obvious payback for the “Betrayus” thing, and a sign that they’re easily rattled. It’s sadly hilarious hearing Harry Reid talking about patriotism and the brave troops, isn’t it?
Reid’s grandstanding in the Senate means these idiots are committed... no turning back now.
Great! Harry Reid is a disgrace. The soldiers should know that Rush is supportive of them.
http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/americasupportsyou/Message.aspx?SectionID=5
Hillary Clinton Told YearlyKos Convention She Helped Start Media Matters--As NewsBusters reported Sunday, the leftwing organization responsible for the recent smear campaigns against Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly, Media Matters, has direct ties to the Clintons.
Glad to see Joe Scarborough being the voice of reason. I thought it was too late and he had gone over to the dark side. We need more of this from Joe and others in the media.
Folks, imagine a world with a "Fairness Doctrine," the way it was long ago when I was younger. A time when the MSM would be reporting the Dems' attacks on Rush. A time when the MSM were the gatekeepers of "news" and issues.
Thanks to the new media the truth is racing around the world ahead of the Dem lies.
Our free speech is worth defending with blood. Our free speech, their blood.
'They were easy,' laughed an annonymous conservative spokesman."
Do like I do when I go to the doctor. I change the channel to Fox News or ask the receptionist to do it if I can’t change it myself. It works for me. ;^)
SCARBOROUGH: Media Matters went after Bill O'Reilly, and I just have to put a little asterisk here, I went after Bill pretty hard too, because I thought what he said was ridiculous. But I heard a lot of people this weekend, like liberals, on the Upper West Side, as I was walking up and down Broadway, you know, people smoking dope, saying "hey Scarborough, I think you're being a little tough on O'Reilly."
GEIST: Really?
SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, I did, I did, I seriously -- and some people around here saying it may have been blown out of proportion. I don't know.
Mika could be heard in the background uttering a skeptical "ehhh." She's clearly sticking with the bash-Bill brigade.
View video here.
It’s going to be a good day !!
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