Posted on 10/20/2007 7:24:52 AM PDT by yoe
The auction of the Senate Democrats' letter falsely attacking Rush Limbaugh concluded yesterday with a winning bid of ($2,100,100 by Betty Casey) of the Eugene Casey Foundation, to be matched by Rush, for a total contribution of $4,200,200 to the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation. (The New York Times) brings its characteristic passion for accuracy to the story on the auction. In the very first sentence of its story, the Times misreports:
"After Rush Limbaugh referred to Iraq war veterans critical of the war as “phony soldiers,” he received a letter of complaint signed by 41 Democratic senators. "
The Times gets the "41 Democratic senators" right, but it is incapable of a fairly reporting Rush's remarks. It regurgitates the Hillary Matters lie maintained by the 41 Senate Democrats who signed the letter to Clear Channel condemning Rush.
The auction of the letter for the benefit of the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Fund was of course Rush's ingenious response to the Democrats' impugning his support for the armed forces. It was his way of embarrassing the senators who, while absurdly attacking him for his lack of support for the armed forces, have not hesitated to undermine our efforts in Iraq, for example, by declaring defeat. The Times is nevertheless happy to let Harry Reid make the auction a sort of joint venture with Rush, quoting Reid on the floor of the Senate yesterday:
"“I strongly believe that when we can put our differences aside, even Harry Reid and Rush Limbaugh, we should do that and try to accomplish good things for the American people,” he said."
The Times could have served a useful purpose if it had been able to disclose precisely how Reid put aside his differences with Rush and attempted to accomplish something good for the American people. Did it include seeking to have Rush muzzled? (Rush responded to Reid on his show yesterday: “It wasn’t your letter that raised this money. It was your abuse of power that is responsible for raising this money.”) Did Reid send the Democrats' letter to Clear Channel as a charitable act? Did the Senate Democrats pitch in with a contribution to the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Fund?
Before we leave the subject, I want to revisit a few of the Democrats' greatest hits expressing support of our armed forces. They provide useful context for the phony "phony soldiers" controversy orchestrated by Hillary Matters and executed by HM's dutiful Democratic poodles. Here are a few statements previously made by signatories to the letter attacking Rush:
Harry Reid (on "the surge"):
"Now I believe, myself, that the secretary of state, the secretary of defense and you have to make your own decision as to what the president knows: that this war is lost, that the surge is not accomplishing anything."
More Harry Reid:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid confirmed Thursday that he told liberal bloggers last week that he thinks outgoing Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Peter Pace is "incompetent." Dick Durbin (on Guantanamo):
If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime -- Pol Pot or others -- that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.
Hillary Clinton (to General Petraeus):
[T]oday you are testifying about the current status of our policy in Iraq and the prospects of that policy. It is a policy that you have been ordered to implement by the president. And you have been made the de facto spokesmen for what many of us believe to be a failed policy.
Despite what I view as your rather extraordinary efforts in your testimony both yesterday and today, I think that the reports that you provide to us really require the willing suspension of disbelief.
Edward Kennedy:
"Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management: U.S. management."
John Kerry: "Education -- if you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
Barack Obama:
We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there.
Charles Schumer (on "the surge"):
[L]et me be clear, the violence in Anbar has gone down despite the surge, not because of the surge. The inability of American soldiers to protect these tribes from al Qaeda said to these tribes we have to fight al Qaeda ourselves. It wasn’t that the surge brought peace here. It was that the warlords took peace here, created a temporary peace here."
More John Kerry:
"And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the -- of -- the historical customs, religious customs."
Oh it’s okay. They will make it all better for you. A nice Hillary run, socialized healthcare, gulag, uh, spa, will give you all the Zoloft and Xanax you need to come around to their way of thinking.
Lord help us.
:-)
You must realize that what they say doesn’t matter because it will never be held against them and if it is they will simply deny it.
All of that doesn’t matter any way because truth can’t penetrate the liberal rind encasing the leftist brains.
No, but in typical lib fashion, he wanted to contribute other people's money...
As Bill Safire said Hillary is a “congenital liar”. I always thought that sociopathic liar was a better description.
“Rush called the soldiers phony. Reid and some brave RAT Senators sent a letter scolding Rush for his attack on the troops.
Then both sides got together and auctioned the letter off and collected 4.2 million for charity.”
Even FOX news hasn’t reported the story fairly.
They are fully invested in a "big lie," total war strategy that is taken straight from Saul Alinsky's playbook. They've got quantity; they sure as **** don't have quality, and they think they don't need it. And with their open borders policy, they may be right.
As I have faith in G-d, I also have faith in reality (the same thing, really, I guess). The left is at war with reality, and there can be no doubt that eventually reality will win, as it always does. So take heart.
And make reality your friend.
"You say you're a patriot and you love your country? Let's put it in terms of a husband who says he loves his wife . . . but
He refuses to wear a ring (an American flag lapel pin);
He denigrates and "disses" his wife in public at every opportunity, calling her evil, immoral, materialistic, and greedy;
He ignores their wedding anniversary (4th of July);
He refuses to be seen in her company publicly, but loves to be seen in the company of other "women" (Castro, Chavez, or any other Third World dictator);
He does not want to punish anyone who calls her names or even physically attacks her, choosing instead to "understand them" because after all, "she made them do it."
But of course, he is outraged if you suggest he is anything but a faithful, loving husband. Does that about cover it?
Yes, interesting. Bill Safire was the Times’s token conservative, and during the 90s he only let himself speak out against the clintons once or twice a year at most. But that “congenital liar” remark at the head of a column was all the stronger as a result.
He was a cautious man, but I guess he just slipped up that once and said what he really thought.
btt
It is endlessly entertaining to watch lefties cheer on their “marcher lord” armies of Islam in an orgy of hypocracy as Islamic fundamentalists jihad their way into the hearts and minds of hippies, enviros, professors and professional radicals by employing every method of cognition they purport to despise. Cappuccino leftists, anticapitalist tree-huggers, and global warming hysterics unite! You have nothing to lose but your life if you stop sandbagging the struggle and actually join the Moslem brothers and sisters in struggle who are doing your step n’ fetchit dance. At least they are willing to fight, eh, pacifist...
Yollopoliuhqui
“Yah, go see “Rendition”, have your wife put a couple of black paint filled water balloons in her handbag” -T. Payne
Yes Safire was a token and not very conservative. All true.
The basic fact that Reid and the Dirty Dims who signed the disingenuous smear letter, meant to get Limbaugh fired, refused to match 5the donations as well, shows their true hateful faces, and that *they* really don’t give a *damn* about our troops, just using them as disposable tools to attack Republicans...Just like the Vets they promoted for office,until they got one of their party stooges lined up for the office, and then they cut the anti-war vets off at the knees.
Democrats are despicable and most definitely *untrustworthy*. They are liars and phoneys. All of them. From Hillary the Phony, all the way down to the newest Daily Kos lying pervert.
To the 41 people who DID SIGN the letter, remember you have been challenged to meet the donation as Rush DID.
PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS!!!!
PONEY UP THE CASH IF YOU , as you say, BACK THE TROOPS!!!
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