Exactly. Planned from the start, IMO.
One must listen to Rush very carefully. The MSM does not! To those who do pay attention, the MSM looks very foolish and hypocritical. Rush's playing with the MSM gets him a lot of notoriety, but it seems like it take years to set the record straight about what actually happened when he does stuff like this. The issue of the phoney soldier remark was resolved rather quickly, but the McNabb thing still has some legs.