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I really think the fox story was a trail balloon and when Rush ran with it first thing and spent most of the first 2 hours with it that the call was made to Rush with a word of no. And of course with all the help of those who called the offices of republicans to tell on Rush. LOL

Rush spent most of the week slamming the antiwar movement but when he saw the republicans were going to cave he was upset with the republicans and said so on his show over and over. Rush even said what was the point of getting rid of Lott.

[cyncooper]

but when he saw the republicans were going to cave

Just remember: The Republicans were NOT going to cave. You can say they were until you are blue in the face, but that does not make it so.

The Fox story was not the only article out there on this subject, putting the lie to the trial balloon business. Fox would not retract a story simply because the Republicans said "we didn't mean it". They said it was WRONG.

[PhiKapMom]

I am going to repeat this one more time -- THE FOX STORY WAS NOT A TRIAL BALLOON!!!!!

The Fox piece by Garrett was a hit piece by Fox. The headline of this story was a hitpiece by Rush. The headline does not match the story which means Rush changed the story and didn't change the headline.

Now Fox has only changed some of Garrett's story on their website. It still is wrong!

Why can you not admit that Garrett wrote a hit piece on the Republican Senate that was wrong and Rush ran with a wrong story from Fox?

[justshe]

"...but when he saw the republicans were going to cave he was upset with the republicans and said so on his show over and over.

Rush was wrong. The Republicans were never going to cave.

YOU are wrong. The Republicans were never going to cave.

It is not a trail balloon. It is a trial balloon.

In order for it to be a trial balloon, it would have required the Republicans to deliberately give false information to Fox News.
I seriously doubt that happened.

The only other explanation is that the story issued by Fox was wrong.

To recap: Rush was wrong. You are wrong. Fox was wrong.