It doesn’t even matter what Rush meant. The major offense here is that the United States congress in both houses is putting out speeches, resolutions, and letters against a private citizen, an American citizen. Not a politician, 527 group, tax-supported institution, or administration official, but a private citizen. What next? Gold stars to wear if your speech should not be heard by others? Disgraceful.
Not only that, but the call for Clear Channel to make Rush apologize is an unconstitutional Bill of Attainder.
My thoughts exactly. Sounds like Stalins Russia. What next Soviet Style Reeducation camps? Liberals are not just liberal they are flat our heading for Communism.
What’s worse is that so far as I can tell, the name “Jesse Macbeth” was NEVER once uttered into the congressional record. Not when he was originally found to have made up stories (I think some knowledge of that extends back over a year), nor since he was found guilty of lying about his service.
I can’t even find his name in recent testimony, which suggests nobody’s used his name even talking about the Rush Limbaugh stuff (unless I’m searching all wrong).
Why didn’t the Democrats jump up to condemn Macbeth’s attacks on our soldiers? Why didn’t that complain about their own side’s believing this liar?
What’s worse, a radio talk show host saying the phrase “phony soldiers”, or a fake soldier being invited by the Iraq Veterans Against the War to tell his lies about the troops killing innocent women and children?
What’s worse, a radio talk show host showing disdain for soldiers who disagree with him, or a guy PRETENDING to be a veteran who makes a video translated into Arabic that talks about our troops storming mosques and committing other atrocities, certain to be used by our enemies to stir up the local population against us?
And yet the elected democrats said NOTHING about this, even though it was there own supporters who gave this guy money, time, and a platform to tell his lies.