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.
Great idea! Another gadget I gotta buy. LOL!
If Scarborough is defending Rush so easily, it means this has backfired big and the Libs know it.
CONSIDER scarborough an indicator that even Libs think they’ve stepped in it, because he would never stick his neck out for conservatism or be so emphatic against M.M. otherwise.
Look to his comments on O’Reilly as proof. He’s saying he may have been wrong, but doesn’t know. That response indicates the Libs got stung, but weren’t seriously wounded. probably more in reaction to Media matters’ credibility being harmed by their attack on Rush, so by default he’s willing to say *maybe* they got it wrong about Bill.
Uh, no. The libs don't know it. But then, they never do know or realize when they are 100% wrong about anything. They are spewing this anti-Rush crap on every web outlet that I've had time to visit.
Uh, no. The libs don't know it. But then, they never do know or realize when they are 100% wrong about anything. They are spewing this anti-Rush crap on every web outlet that I've had time to visit.
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