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.
Never pick a fight with a guy who has 15 hours of national radio time a week. (Especially when you are dead wrong.)
LOL... that hair should be white!
I will not forget the week of Sept. 11, 2001 - the day that President Bush was standing on The Pile, with the first responders, William the Impeached was twenty blocks north, pressing flesh with the women in the crowd, feeling their... pain.
The newsblonde on NPR was having an on-the-air orgasm about how wonderful it was to have a passionate President, still referring to Willie in the present tense.
I guess this Brzezinski wench is no different.
“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.”
Sorry, but Scarborough has gone over to the dark side. He is as self serving as they come. He also had said this a.m. that President Bush is incapable of finishing a sentence so before you start jumping on the Scarborogh band wagon, listen to him for a while.
Actually I was watching the show since 6 this morning. They touched on it at least three times that I saw.
You’re right...I thought the 7 a.m. slot was weak, but they got more into detail with Annie. Now if they’d just get off the topic of Britney...
"Grotesque" is the word I would choose!
Thanks for reporting. Decaf Joe didn’t mention Harry POS Reid, Dungheap Harkin, etc., etc.?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“Will we now see the rest of MSNBC, from Tamron Hall to Chris Matthews down to Keith Olbermann, correct the record and apologize for the serial misreporting, or the Senate dims? It will be an icy day in hades.”
I doubt we will see the record corrected by the MSM, unless they are really afraid the truth is getting out to the public BIG TIME! If they have to, they will blame it all on Media Matters and then let it go. I hope Rush keeps it going FULL SPEED to push the DEMS against the wall for all their lies!
Mathews, Olbermann apologize? Don’t hold your breath.
Thorough info, with documentation, at rushlimbaugh.com. It’s been a disgusting series of lies, with even Tom Harkin (a real phony soldier himself) spewing his vitriol at Rush from the floor of the Senate.
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