Posted on 10/10/2007 4:23:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
The major news media no longer have the monopoly they once enjoyed. The way millions of Americans get their news and news analysis is through talk radio. The Rush Limbaugh Show stands at the very top of talk radio, carried on more than 650 radio stations and listened to by an estimated 20 million people each week. As an occasional fill-in for Rush, and being a professor, I see the show as being my big classroom, but I learn a lot as well.
Over the span of some 20 years, Rush has been attacked from just about every leftist corner, as would anyone who tirelessly espoused the founding principles of our nation -- private property, rule of law and limited government. What has made Rush so effective with this message has been his ability to put things, and ask questions, in a manner that the average citizen can understand and relate to, and do so with a bit of humor. Humor creates madness among leftists who want their interventionist agenda taken seriously.
Rush's show, as well as many of his competitors' shows, has ended much of the isolation among Americans. For example, if you were against racial quotas, you were made to feel like a racist by the major media. With the growth of talk radio, people found out that they were not alone and that being against racial quotas didn't make one a racist. As such, talk radio has been a painful thorn in the sides of those whose agenda is to control the news and debate as a means to control our lives. This is why the priority agenda for leftists is to attack talk radio, and their biggest target is Rush Limbaugh.
The latest attack from the left alleges that Rush referred to our fighting men, who disagreed with our Middle East policy, as "phony soldiers." The truth of the matter is that Rush was referring to people like Jesse Macbeth, who became the poster boy for the anti-war and anti-military movement. Macbeth passed himself off as an Army Ranger and a Purple Heart recipient. He said he participated in gruesome war crimes with other U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. An investigation proved that none of his claims was true; he wasn't an Army Ranger or a Purple Heart recipient, and he didn't serve in Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, he was kicked out of the Army after 44 days of boot camp.
Last September, Macbeth was sentenced to five months in jail and three years' probation for falsifying a Department of Veterans Affairs claim and his Army discharge record. Macbeth, idolized by the anti-war movement, is truly a despicable person. On a video translated into Arabic, for Middle East consumption, he said, "We would burn their bodies . . . hang their bodies from the rafters in the mosque."
False misrepresentation of oneself as a soldier has become so widespread that Congress enacted the Stolen Valor Act of 2005 to prosecute people posing as veterans. In fact, a Sept. 29 ABC News report by Charles Gibson did an expose on people such as Macbeth, and they were called "phony war heroes."
The members of Congress who are attacking Limbaugh know all of this, but they're trusting that the average American doesn't so they can pull the rope-a-dope. By attacking Limbaugh, they hope to breathe some life into the Fairness Doctrine, which was repealed by a unanimous vote by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1987. The doctrine, said the FCC, "restricts the journalistic freedom of broadcasters and actually inhibits the presentation of controversial issues of public importance to the detriment of the public and the degradation of the editorial prerogative of broadcast journalists."
Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., is leading the charge in misrepresenting Limbaugh's phony soldier comment. In a few weeks, I shall have a column about phony congressmen and Harry Reid, and about 500 of his colleagues are among them.
God Bless Walter Williams! He is right on!
As a child in the 1950s my mother told me that communists lie, intimidate, twist vocabulary, warp the law to achieve their desired end. They define people as subhuman if they disagree with them. Then it is no disgrace to dispatch subhumans. All of these things now apply to Democrats. Taxes are “contributions.” We have “dues” we owe to the United Nations, a communist dominated organization. The boldness with which the Marxists pursue their agenda today is frightening. Look for reeducation camps and one world government should the Democrats take power.
If they grade Humanity on the bell curve, Walter Williams, Clarence Thomas, and Thomas Sowell are going to make Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton look very bad indeed.
The liberals of this country are nothing more than a cult of control freaks. They have taken over the Democrat Party and many of the old line voting Dems out in the hinterland don’t realize it. My mother and mother-in-law are good examples. Neither want to face the fact that the Democrat Party they once knew and voted for is very different, neither will vote for a Republican because it is so ingrained that “the Democrats are for the little man” and “the Republicans are for the rich and the corporations.” There is very little I can say to them to get them to see the light. Pity.
Amen & Amen!!!
Rush is on the right, and he is right!!!!The left only like dialog when it only in their favor.
Just by the number of times Limbaugh has been denounced by the left and elected Democrats in the press should tell you all you need to know. This pompous entrepreneur for conservatism is their most hated enemy for one reason... he exposes them for the lying, jelly-spined socialists they really are!
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Sorry, Rush, but I like your show better when Walter Williams is on.
I disagree. They are communists at heart. Most don't realize it though. The average "Joe Sheeple" suffers from the attitude that he/she is "owed" something, usually from the governments unlimited coffers. Look at the "give-away" programs that are available...socialist security, childrens programs, etc. All funded by everyones dollars. The sheeple just don't see it though.
Now the leaders of the left do understand that they are communists at heart. Why else would they shun the term 'communists,' then adopt the term 'liberal,' until it too became associated with the hated term 'communist.'
Recently they have revived "progressive," a term used at the turn of the 20th century by American communists.
But they are counting on you not knowing that little snippet of information. Especially the "hands-out sheeple followers" of their lies.
Last night my wife was watching a TV show, the one w/ Sally Fields in it, and they had a phony Rush straw man denouncing “Gold Star” moms. I just caught it walking by, but it struck me as amazing that they (& you know who “they” are) were able to incorp. such a recent topic into the show.
They want to control everything from cradle to grave; including wages, prices, education, social mores etc. But everytime you try to tell someone that they (the libs) are communists their eyes glaze over and their ears cease to work. It won't be long before they will also shun the term "progressive" because they know the conservatives know it is just a euphemism for "communist".
Thank you, Walter E. Williams! WOOOOOOOHOOOOOO!
An unprecedented attack by a United States Senator on an innocent American. Resign Harry POS Reid.
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