Posted on 10/02/2007 4:46:05 AM PDT by 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 leaders 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. Reids bravery, and his appropriate use of senate debate time to discuss Mr. Limbaughs 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 its time for Congress to take action.
(Excerpt) Read more at scrappleface.com ...
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.
Was about to post the same thing. It sure doesnt take them long to grasp at straws now does it?
lol
Psst. I know
This is going nowhere: Rush wins again.
Liberal idiocy at its finest.
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...)
Just shows how idiotic the dems have become.
BTW, I know that this article is Scrappleface. I was just commenting on the entire situation.
It seems to me as if fabrication of personal military experience is one of the most important attributes of a Phony Vet.
ML/NJ
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.
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.
This is gonna blow up so bad in their faces..................
The kool-aid drinkers are really admitting that it was a false story? I'm amazed...............
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
It’s War
And why not? Specter is the mother of all RINOS.
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)
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