‘Phony Vets for Truth’ Join Reid Attack on Rush Limbaugh

Scrappleface ^ | October 1, 2007 | Scott Ott

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Just hours after Sen. Harry Reid, D-NV, took the senate floor to call on radio talkshow host Rush Limbaugh to apologize for using the term “phony soldiers” during his Friday broadcast, a newly-formed, grassroots veterans organization endorsed the senate majority leader’s efforts.

Phony Vets for Truth, an non-profit group comprised of ex-military personnel who have publicly and deceptively disparaged the United States, the president or fellow U.S. troops in time of war, applauded “Sen. Reid’s bravery, and his appropriate use of senate debate time to discuss Mr. Limbaugh’s scurrilous remarks.”

In a statement completely independent of the Democrat National Committee, Phony Vets for Truth, a non-partisan think tank, also said: “When private citizens start to believe that they can say whatever they want without being subject to the normal democratic process of selective sound-bite editing, and selective outrage, then it’s time for Congress to take action.”

[SkyPilot]

“When private citizens start to believe that they can say whatever they want without being subject to the normal democratic process of selective sound-bite editing, and selective outrage, then it’s time for Congress to take action.”

LOL!

Michelle Malkin was right. This was generated because they needed their own "Betray Us" outrage following the debacle of the MoveOn.org ad.

It isn't working.

[Long Island Pete]

Was about to post the same thing. It sure doesnt take them long to grasp at straws now does it?

[martin_fierro]

lol

[GreenAccord]

Silly liberals! You just can't make this stuff up!

^{Psst. I know}

[period end of story]

This is going nowhere: Rush wins again.

Liberal idiocy at its finest.

[gridlock]

Desperation makes people do strange things. I cannot think of a more self-destructive thing for the Democrats to do than to repeatedly associate themselves with Jesse Macbeth and the like.

People who pay close attention will realize that Rush is right. People who pay scant attention will realize that Rush is probably right, because he is right 98.4% of the time. And people who are not paying attention will just think that the Democrat Party doth protest too much.

The only people who are buying this are the idiots at MoveOn and Code Pink, and they were for the Democrats already. What are they going to do, vote twice? (On second thought, don’t answer that...)

[TLI]

I actually ran a Google search before realizing...

Just shows how idiotic the dems have become.

[gridlock]

BTW, I know that this article is Scrappleface. I was just commenting on the entire situation.

[ml/nj]

Phony Vets for Truth, an non-profit group comprised of ex-military personnel who have publicly and deceptively disparaged the United States, the president or fellow U.S. troops in time of war

It seems to me as if fabrication of personal military experience is one of the most important attributes of a Phony Vet.

ML/NJ

[Bogtrotter52]

As a peruser of DU I have been following their reaction to the whole phony soldier story. At this point, they know they have lost, were caught, however you wish to put it, but refuse to accept defeat. One of the more telling threads I came across had this as the first response:

“Meanwhile, back in Iraq....”

This of course is meant to convey that the phony soldier story is keeping people from thinking about or talking about “important” issues and it is time to move on. It is also a very clear attempt to deflect. That in itself is a admission of defeat.

When confronted with the evidence of the manufacture of the attack on Rush, I have found that rather than discuss the issue, the majority of the comments, and I mean the VAST majority, are childish personal attacks on Rush, O’Reilly, Scarborough, or anyone else who dares question Mediamatters or any other member of the lynch mob.

They come across like little kids in a schoolyard who, failing to win a argument, resort to screeching and name calling. And they really hate it when the other side does does the mature thing by not screeching back in response.

[WayneM]

So has anyone compiled a list of all the phony soldiers trotted out by the left over the past few years?

I can recall several total impostors who detailed all kinds of supposed civilian abuse, and who ended up exposed as frauds, but I don’t recall their names.

[Red Badger]

This is gonna blow up so bad in their faces..................

[Red Badger]

... DU I have been following their reaction to the whole phony soldier story. At this point, they know they have lost, were caught, however you wish to put it, but refuse to accept defeat.

The kool-aid drinkers are really admitting that it was a false story? I'm amazed...............

[NavyCanDo]

Expect this assult on conservative talk radio to intensify into a firestorm. Media Matters, Move-on, and other front groups for the Left are actively listening to and recording conservative talk radio waiting for the one sound-bite that could end someones career, or grow support for more laws governing the airwaves.
Rush has always said when the Democrats are worried about losing control, when they are worried about being kicked out of power - thats when they get crazy, real crazy. That’s when they yell “banzai” and then go for the juggler of the opponents - but that’s also when they begin to show their true colors - and those colors don’t sit well with the moderates and swing voters.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

front groups for the Left are actively listening to and recording conservative talk radio waiting for the one sound-bite that could end someones career

They were encouraged by the Imus debacle. That's why we should never, EVER cave to their rantings when they demand a show host's head over a remark, especially one ripped out of context.

[digger48]

Unfortunately, I fully expect several Republican Senators (starting with Specter) to be completely ignorant of the actual facts, and will chime in with the Democrats on this

[bmwcyle]

It’s War

[wingsof liberty]

And why not? Specter is the mother of all RINOS.

[Thermalseeker]

It isn't working.

Yep, Reid probably should have taken on a foe that was a little closer to his own, single digit IQ. This is like one of those lady finger firecrackers going off next to a hydrogen bomb. This time, Reid has bitten off way, way more than he can chew.

Just when you think the Senator from Nevada can't possibly be more absurd, he outdoes himself once again. I wonder if the voters in Nevada are proud of their Senator attacking the free speech of a private citizen? I also wonder if the good voters of Nevada are proud of the way Senator Reid has placed his lies in the Congressional record? (again)