Phony senator:
Posted on 10/03/2007 4:23:15 AM PDT by advance_copy
WASHINGTON — The owner of the company that airs Rush Limbaugh's show has come to his defense, telling Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that while he isn't certain to whom Limbaugh was referring when he used the term "phony soldiers," the radio talk show host has a long history of supporting U.S. troops.
Mark P. Mays, president of Clear Channel, the parent company of Limbaugh's broadcast, on Tuesday responded to a letter signed by 41 Democrats that called on the network "to publicly repudiate" comments made by Limbaugh "that call into question" the service and sacrifice of troops who oppose the war in Iraq.
Click Here to Read the Letter from Clear Channel (.PDF)
"Mr. Limbaugh's comments have stirred a lot of emotion, and I have carefully read the transcript in question," Mays wrote. "Given Mr. Limbaugh's history of support for our soldiers, it would be unfair for me to assume his statements were intended to personally indict combat soldiers simply because they didn't share his own beliefs regarding the war in Iraq.
"I hope that you understand and support my position that while I certainly do not agree with all the views that are voiced on our stations, I will not condemn our talent for exercising their right to voice them," he wrote.
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Excellent.
Rush rules, and these idiots can’t stand it.
The sudden heartwarming concern by Democrat Senators is so good to see. Our soldiers have gone from Gestapo like guards at Guantanamo and raiders in the night terrorizing families to just the church going boys next door, all in about a week.
The hypocrisy of these Senators is stunning, even to the most jaded observer. They make me sick at my stomach.
I will not accept them siting on their ass watching this miscarriage of justice.
The pathetic libs have "Jumped the Shark"!
I hope that 5-10% of Rush's audience raise continue to raise hell and call the democrats what they are PHONY PATRIOTS!
I think the website Cafexpress will have a bumper sticker today and I'm buying a couple.
Phony senator:
Interesting parallel between the reaction from liberal Democrats attacking Limbaugh for the term, “phony soldier” and some freepers reactions to supporters of an authentic conservative presidential candidate.
We have Rush daring these Senators to speak outside the house so he can sue them for slander. Mark calling Media Matters a Criminal Organization. Then we have John Murtha, head of Armed Services Committee in the house, being sued by American soldiers for calling them cold blooded murderers.
This is getting good. The two organizations Hillary started appear to be nothing more than tax exempt War Rooms.... flooding NBC, CBS and ABC drive by news with ammunition for hit jobs.
telling Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that while he isn’t certain to whom Limbaugh was referring when he used the term “phony soldiers,”
How can he not be sure? It’s blatantly obvious from the transcript who he was talking about. When even the owner of Clear Channel radio can’t come right out and say the Dems are wrong then something is seriously amiss. I suspect anyone who might defend Rush right now is running scared.
No-one who has a bully pulpit has supported the troops more than Mr Rush Limbaugh.
Trust me, I know perfectly well what disparagement of the troops is, and Mr Limbaugh hasn’t even come close to it.
Jesse MacBeth never even attained the status of “Soldier”.....as that status is attained only if one successfully completes basic training. Jesse MacBeth was never anything but a trainee (perhaps some would prefer “enlistee”), and only for a few weeks before his defective performance came to notice and he was discharged. The lies that he told later in support of his anti-American handlers are dishonorable and criminal.
The course of events since the late 60’s and early 70’s might have been quite different if Rush had been broadcasting then as he is now.
Phony Outrage.
A far more important issue than RUSH....
Reid should be as irate at Oakland Airport for refusing our MARINES to disembark as well as San Francisco for refusing the silent Marines to film a commercial. What a hypocrit. Reid is a phony senator...he wasn’t sent to Washington to critique RUSH...take care of America’s business & stop the grandstanding. MY BLOOD IS BOILING AT THE TREATMENT OUR MARINES RECEIVED.
Ike Skelton (D-MO) is chairman and Murtha isn’t even on that committee. Murtha is chairman of the subcommittee on defense and that’s bad enough.
FReepers keep accusing Democrats of hypocrisy, forgetting that to be a hypocrite one needs to have a notion of virtue that one doesn’t abide by. The Democrats are incapable of hypocrisy because they have no conception of virtue, and indeed, being moral relativists almost to a man, deny the existence of virtue.
Their condemnation is not that applied to the pharisees, as ‘white-washed tombs’, who nonetheless earned a ‘do as they tell you, for they sit in Moses seat’ from Our Lord, but the condemnation of the false prophets, who call evil ‘good’ and say ‘peace, peace’ when there is no peace. Like the false prophets they say whatever they think the hearer wants to hear, currying popularity, opposing and trying to destroy those who speak uncomfortable truths that unmask their deceit.
I also thought the letter from this guy was lacking - I heard the show first hand and knew exactly who Rush was referring to - he makes millions of dollars for this company and that letter is the best they could do !!
Limbaugh Broadcaster Comes to Radio Host’s Defense
This is what is in this article that many will missed if they don’t go in and read all of it!
Fox News channel
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298999,00.html
YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKM_NsTswco
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http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,298999,00.html
Rush is MUST LISTEN TO radio today!!!!!
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