Posted on 09/28/2007 8:47:17 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Thanks for the clarifying that. I, too, thought of Beauchamp when he said it. Rush pounded Media Matters, Soros, the Soros media (formerly known as the LameStream Media) and the dummies on the floor. That somethingkowski woman and Webb were absolute disgraces.
YouTube link is being absolutely crushed even now. Will not load.
I hope to find a shopping bag stuffed with hundred-dollar bills on the way home and Hayden Panettiere in my bed when I get there.
Your hope, however, is way too unrealistic.
Es un tie.
That's not the correct or answer I wanted to hear, but you are skilled in the art of politics :)
Thanks. I will check it out sometime
The word spread fast
From NR today.
Whats missing from the Media Matters account is one important thing: context and without context, you get a completely false account of what happened. But perhaps thats the intent.
If you go to this link, you can read the entire exchange. What youll find is that when the caller to The Rush Limbaugh Program, Mike in Chicago, mentions that the media never talk to real soldiers. They pull these soldiers that come out of the blue, Limbaugh interjects: The phony soldiers. The discussion continues, with the caller mentioning weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. In response, Limbaugh says the WMD issue is moot at this stage and returns to other matter. This is what Limbaugh says:
I want to thank you, Mike, for calling. I appreciate it very much. I gotta Here is a morning update that we did recently, talking about fake soldiers. This is a story of who the left props up as heroes. And they have their celebrities. One of them was Army Ranger Jesse Macbeth. Now and he was a corporal. I say in quotes. Twenty-three years old. What made Jesse Macbeth a hero to the anti-war crowd wasnt his Purple Heart, it wasnt his being affiliated with posttraumatic stress disorder from tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. No. What made Jesse Macbeth, Army Ranger, a hero to the left was his courage, in their view, off the battlefield, without regard to consequences, he told the world the abuses he had witnessed in Iraq. American soldiers killing unarmed civilians, hundreds of men, women, even children. In one gruesome account, translated into Arabic and spread widely across the Internet, Army Ranger Jesse Macbeth describes the horrors this way. We would burn their bodies. We would hang their bodies from the rafters in the mosque. Now, recently, Jesse Macbeth, poster boy for the anti-war left, had his day in court. And you know what? He was sentenced to five months in jail and three years probation for falsifying a Department of Veterans Affairs claim and his Army discharge record. He was in the Army, Jesse Macbeth was in the Army, folks, briefly. Forty-four days before he washed out of boot camp, Jesse Macbeth isnt an Army Ranger, never was. He isnt a corporal, never was. He never won the Purple Heart. And he was never in combat to witness the horrors he claimed to have seen. Probably havent even heard about this. And if you have, you havent heard much about it. This doesnt fit the narrative and the template in the Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party as to who a genuine war hero; dont look for any retractions, by the way. Not from the anti-war left, the anti-military Drive-By Media, or the Arabic websites that spread Jesse Macbeths lies about our troops, because the truth for the left is, fiction is what serves their purpose. They have to lie about such atrocities because they cant find any that fit the template of the way they see the US military. In other words, for the American anti-war left, the greatest inconvenience they face is the truth.
Youll be shocked to learn that Media Matters does not include this portion of the transcript in their posting and Senator Kerry and the others failed to mention it as well. I wonder why?
Perhaps and this is only a wild guess its because it would demonstrate that when Rush Limbaugh mentioned phony soldiers, he meant, literally, phony soldiers.
It happens that last Sunday Fox News linked to an AP story about Jesse Adam Macbeth. The Fox headline was titled, Phony Soldier Charged With Making Up Claims of Atrocities in Iraq. The AP story begins this way: A man who tried to position himself as a leader of the anti-war movement by claiming to have participated in war crimes while serving in Iraq is facing federal charges of falsifying his record.
THEY CANT MOVEON
Whats obviously going on here is that antiwar advocates were deeply damaged by the MoveOn.org ad smearing General David Petraeus. They were desperate to try to climb their way out of the hole they were in and so they decided this was their opportunity to find a way out. MoveOn.org attacks Petraeus, they say, but Rush Limbaugh attacks members of the military who want to withdraw as phony soldiers. So if Republicans are going to criticize us for what we said about General Petraeus, they should criticize Limbaugh for his slander.
The problem, of course, is that that the charge leveled against Limbaugh is obviously false; his phrase phony soldiers applied to Jesse Adam Macbeth and the phrase itself was clearly based on the news headline.
This effort to manufacture outrage does not sustain even minimal scrutiny which doesnt mean this story wont be picked up by some news outlets. But in the end, the truth will out. The Left in America clearly wants to take Limbaugh out, and for obvious reasons: he is a deeply influential conservative voice and during the last 20 years he has changed American politics and the American media in profound ways. The Left hates him but they have found no way to stop him. Like the Mississippi, he just keeps rolling along. And one gets the feeling that (as Churchill said in another context) he will continue to roll on full flood, to broad lands and bright days.
Peter Wehner, former deputy assistant to the president, is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
Aside...Stubbs...have eaten and enjoyed music at this establishment more than once. Adore Katz’s (no, that doesn’t add to the BBQ talk). Rudy’s is now on my list, but are some Rudy’s more equal than others?
OK...full transcript...Thank You, kcvl.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1903810/posts?q=1&;page=57
See post 57
The transcript can be found at The Rush Limbaugh website:
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Mike in Chicago, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush, how you doing today?
RUSH: Fine, sir, thank you.
CALLER: Good. Why is it that you always just accuse the Democrats of being against the war and that theres actually no Republicans that can possibly be against the war?
RUSH: Well, who are these Republicans? I can think of Chuck Hagel, and I can think of Gordon Smith, two Republican senators, but they dont want to lose the war like the Democrats do. I cant think of who the Republicans are in the anti-war movement.
CALLER: Im not talking about the senators. Im talking about the general public. You accuse the public and all the Democrats of being, you know, wanting to lose
RUSH: Oh, come on, here we go again. I utter the truth, and you cant handle it so you gotta call here and change the subject. How come Im not also hitting Republicans? I dont know a single Republican or conservative, Mike, who wants to pull out of Iraq in defeat. The Democrats have made the last four years about that specifically.
CALLER: Well, I am a Republican, and I listened to you for a long time, and youre right on a lot of things, but I do believe that we should pull out of Iraq. I dont think its winnable. Im not a Democrat, but sometimes you gotta cut the losses. I mean, sometimes you really got to admit youre wrong.
RUSH: Well, yeah, you do. Im not wrong on this. The worst thing that can happen is losing this, getting out of there, waving the white flag.
CALLER: Im not saying that, Im not saying anything like that.
RUSH: Of course you are.
CALLER: No, Im not!
RUSH: The truth is the truth, Mike.
CALLER: We did what we were supposed to do, okay, we got rid of Saddam Hussein; we got rid of a lot of the terrorists. Let them run their country now. Lets get out of there and lets be done with it. We won it.
RUSH: Im never going to be able to retire. Its not going to work. You are depressing me.
CALLER: Well, sometimes, like you said, the truth hurts, Rush. Sometimes it hurts.
RUSH: I have explained this so many times. I cant believe that you actually listen to this program a lot, because youve heard me say what Im going to say to you. War is never plottable on a piece of paper or on a map. It never goes exactly as anybody thinks its going to go because nobody can predict the future, for one thing.
CALLER: Thats true.
RUSH: Thank you. So whats happening now is that the very enemy that blew us up on 9/11 is facing us in Iraq. We cant cave in defeat and run out of there and say, Hey guess what, we won, we got Saddam. We are going to be setting ourselves up for future disasters. We will never be able to have any other nation trust us as an ally when we have to go in there again. If we pull out of there before we take care of this, Mike, were just going to have to do it sometime later at greater cost.
CALLER: Are we ever going to take care of it, though? How long do you think were going to have to be there to take care of it?
RUSH: Mike, you cant possibly be a Republican.
CALLER: I am.
RUSH: You cant be Republican.
CALLER: Oh, I am definitely Republican.
RUSH: You sound just like a Democrat.
CALLER: No, but seriously, Rush, how long do we have to stay there?
RUSH: As long as it takes.
CALLER: How long?
RUSH: As long as it takes. It is very serious. This is the United States of America at war with Islamofascists. Just like your job, you do everything you have to do, whatever it takes to get it done, if you take it seriously.
CALLER: So then you say we need to stay there forever?
RUSH: No, Bill (Laughing) or Mike. Im sorry. Im confusing you with the guy from Texas.
CALLER: I used to be military, okay, and I am a Republican.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: And I do listen to you, but
RUSH: Right, I know. And I, by the way, used to walk on the moon.
CALLER: How long do we have to stay there?
RUSH: Youre not listening to what I say. You cant possibly be a Republican. Im answering every question; its not what you want to hear, and so its not even penetrating your little wall of armor youve got built up. I said we stay to get the job done, as long as it takes. I didnt say forever. Nothing takes forever. Thats not possible, Bill. Mike. Whatever. Nobody lives forever, no situation lasts forever, everything ends. We determine how do we want it to end, in our favor or in our defeat? With people like you in charge, who want to put a timeline on everything do you ever get anything done in your life? Or do you say, Well, I wanted to have this done by now, and its not, so screw it? You dont live your life that way. Well, hell, you might, I dont know. But the limitations that you want to impose here are senseless, and they, frankly, portray no evidence that you are a Republican.
Another Mike. This one in Olympia, Washington. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.
RUSH: You bet.
CALLER: I have a retort to Mike in Chicago, because I am serving in the American military, in the Army. Ive been serving for 14 years, very proudly.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: Im one of the few that joined the Army to serve my country, Im proud to say, not for the money or anything like that. What I would like to retort to is that, what these people dont understand, is if we pull out of Iraq right now, which is not possible because of all the stuff thats over there, it would take us at least a year to pull everything back out of Iraq, then Iraq itself would collapse and wed have to go right back over there within a year or so.
RUSH: Theres a lot more than that that they dont understand. The next guy that calls here Im going to ask them, What is the imperative of pulling out? Whats in it for the United States to pull out? I dont think they have an answer for that other than, Whens he going to bring the troops home? Keep the troops safe, whatever.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: Its not possible intellectually to follow these people.
CALLER: No, its not. And whats really funny is they never talk to real soldiers. They pull these soldiers that come up out of the blue and spout to the media.
RUSH: The phony soldiers.
CALLER: Phony soldiers. If you talk to any real soldier and theyre proud to serve, they want to be over in Iraq, they understand their sacrifice and theyre willing to sacrifice for the country.
RUSH: They joined to be in Iraq.
CALLER: A lot of people.
RUSH: You know where youre going these days, the last four years, if you sign up. The odds are youre going there or Afghanistan, or somewhere.
CALLER: Exactly, sir. My other comment, my original comment, was a retort to Jill about the fact we didnt find any weapons of mass destruction. Actually, we have found weapons of mass destruction in chemical agents that terrorists have been using against us for a while now. Ive done two tours in Iraq, I just got back in June, and there are many instances of insurgents not knowing what theyre using in their IEDs. Theyre using mustard artillery rounds, VX artillery rounds in their IEDs. Because they didnt know what they were using, they didnt do it right, and so it didnt really hurt anybody. But those munitions are over there. Its a huge desert. If they bury it somewhere, were never going to find it.
RUSH: Well, thats a moot point for me right now.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: The weapons of mass destruction. We gotta get beyond that. Were there. We all know they were there, and Mahmoud even admitted it in one of his speeches here talking about Saddam using the poison mustard gas or whatever it is on his own people. But thats moot. Whats more important is all this is taking place now in the midst of the surge working, and all of these anti-war Democrats are getting even more hell-bent on pulling out of there, which means that success on the part of you and your colleagues over there is a great threat to them. Its frustrating and maddening, and why they must be kept in the minority. I want to thank you, Mike, for calling. I appreciate it very much.
OOOOO, I neglected Cooper’s. Also on my list of gotta go when in the area.
Don't ever do that again :)
...talking myself into a trip to Cooper's this weekend
With the full transcript of the call there was no prior context, (as you all assumed and I wanted to verify to be thorough), context that established Rush was referring active duty soldiers before his comment. However it is still clear to me that the caller was referring to active duty soldiers and on its face Rush did call them phony soldier(s). But then Rush does discuss in depth the Jesse Macbeth case so what has to be established is if (IN HIS MIND) Rush was thinking about real phony soldiers or active duty. I think the one thing that establishes it was Jesse Macbeth Rush had in his mind is the title of the AP story “Phony Soldier...” . I do not recall Rush bringing up the AP title yesterday but to me it is the one thing that exonerates him, obviously he could not have told the Jesse Macbeth story after his comments if he had not read it. But without that title it would have been his word against the medias,,,and you know how that would turn out.
Good find roses of sharon, that NP article is the proof we/I needed, thanks for posting.
I concur with rwi.
The transcript confirms my first hearing.
#1 caller Mike was a seminar caller.
#2 caller Mike was referring to Fake vets and Liars,a la #1 caller Mike.
I thought it was obvious.*shrugs*
kcvl posted the transcript on FR that I found. TY, kcvl, again.
I found it and moved it here for relevant discussion.
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