Posted on 09/28/2007 5:37:09 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Dems Hot Over Rush's 'Phony Troops' Comment Talk Show Host Draws Fire
POSTED: 7:54 am EDT September 28, 2007 UPDATED: 8:22 am EDT September 28, 2007 The war of words over the conflict in Iraq took a new turn Thursday as Democrats in Congress excoriated radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh for calling some soldiers "phony troops."
Limbaugh had argued with a caller on Wednesday about when U.S. troops ought to be brought home. The caller, who identified himself as "Mike" from Chicago and said he was an a Iraq veteran and a Republican, pushed Limbaugh on whether the occupation in Iraq would last forever.
Limbaugh and his next caller, who also said he was in the military, both referred to soldiers who criticize the war and urge that troops be brought home as "phony troops."
The exchange came a week after the Senate passed a resolution condemning the anti-war group MoveOn for an ad in the New York Times that asked whether Gen. David Petraeus, in testimony before Congress, would be "General Betray-us." The House passed a similar resolution this week.
Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Pa., an Iraq veteran critical of the war, scolded Limbaugh in a Thursday column on the HuffingtonPost.com Web site.
"When someone like Rush Limbaugh says that soldiers who disagree with the failed strategies of President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld are 'phony soldiers,' you have to consider the source," he wrote.
"Rush Limbaugh, who, in January, called Vietnam veteran Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., 'Senator Betrayus' for disagreeing with President Bush, has made no secret of his disdain for those who serve and speak out. Where was Rush Limbaugh when it came time to serve his country?"
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Sorry Mike in Chicago. My memory was wrong. It was not you that tried to trick Rush. It was a caller one or two ahead of you. You were responding the the punk.
Sorry!!
Not only served, but served with distinction, and was a genuine war hero. In fact, it's not going too far to say that he saved the colonial army from defeat at one point. Check into his service during the battle of Lake Champlaign (sp?).
Of course, later on he turned traitor.
Mark
Marine Corps uses specialty, as in MOS, military occupational specialty (IIRC). No "rating" or proficiency. 0311 is a grunt, 0811 a cannon cocker, etc.
Another MSM lie. Limbaugh was talking about Jessie McBeth, convicted of telling lies about the Army and now in prison.
Oh yea, the Air Force brass that my friend spoke with thought my story was just too funny.
I loved Texas and in the end I was very to have been there but I really wanted to go over seas for a while.
Great suggestion
Rush was saying earlier in the show that its times like this that he wishes his father were still around to see this.
His son being the center of attention on Capitol Hill.
It got even better when we landed at McGuire AFB. Usually it takes about 7-10 days for separation and during that time the troops waiting just hang out and pull details like policing the base, driver duty etc, depending on rank. But when my crown landed they were really short of barracks space and nowhere to put us so they rushed everything and had us out of there in 48 hours.
Going to their links page, this is what you will find:
Links:
Wespac
Veterans for Common Sense
Stop Iran War
Americans Against Escalation in Iraq
SEIU
Moveon.org Political Action
Center for American Progress Action Fkkund
USAction
Americans United for Change
Progressive States Network
National Security Network
Institute for Policy Studies
Blogs:
The Daily Kos
Huffington Post
Crooks and Liars
American Blog
Think Progress
MyDD
Going to their links page, this is what you will find:
Links:
Wespac
Veterans for Common Sense
Stop Iran War
Americans Against Escalation in Iraq
SEIU
Moveon.org Political Action
Center for American Progress Action Fund
USAction
Americans United for Change
Progressive States Network
National Security Network
Institute for Policy Studies
Blogs:
The Daily Kos
Huffington Post
Crooks and Liars
American Blog
Think Progress
MyDD
Not just typical Dems. There is a pattern here of harassing conservative talk show hosts in an effort to silence them. Just to review:
- There are calls to restore the Fairness Doctrine
- A report is made public stating that talk radio is “unbalanced”
- Imus is fired for remarks - the sort of remarks that he’s said in the past and he’s been paid handsomely to make
- Michael Savage’s studio is surrounded by a howling mob calling him a bigot for statements about illegal aliens
- O’Reilly is targeted for supposed racist slurs
- Now this with Limbaugh...
All I can do now is drop names and list concepts. Antonio Gramsci. Saul Alinsky. The Clinton war room. George Soros.
The Left is in this to win, and not just be victorious, but obliterate the opposition. Remember the old Clinton approach - deny the allegation, deflect blame, and destroy the opposition. They are willing to win in 2008 at all costs.
Eventually they’ll target us once they have sufficient power to do so. It’s what Leftists have done for more than 100 years wherever they’ve gained power and control. Maybe I’m being overmelodramatic, but I don’t think so.
THANKS, FOR THE POSTS/THREAD. :)
The producers defiantly stood by their bogus story and the president of CBS defended the broadcast. After recounting the sorry episode of journalistic malpractice, Burkett wrote: “Why won’t Rather and CBS admit their ‘documentary’ was a fraud, that it perpetuated an unwarranted, false picture of men who fought in Vietnam?”
Sounds like lies and slander are a proud tradition at cBS.
“This is why I won’t be voting for republicans next year.”
Your logic excapes me. You would rather have another Clintoon in the Oval Orifice and a Congress with both houses 2/3rds or more Dims? We aren’t Facist enough for you yet?
Voting for Republicans that you want to see win must begin now - vote out the DIRC’s and vote in RealRepublicans.
NOTE: DIRC = Democrats in Republican’s Clothing. This is much more discriptive than RINO.
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....and Bi-Coastal....
Dan Rather washed out of basic too
Dan should adopt him
It would at least finally get us out of Claire Wolfe's "awkward time."
Voting for Republicans that you want to see win must begin now - vote out the DIRCs and vote in RealRepublicans.
Seeing the performance of former Senator Rick Santorum vis' a vis' Specter cured me of any such delusions.
Republican and Conservative are not synonymous terms.
“Republican and Conservative are not synonymous terms.”
You are correct, of course. In one matter that the President has much say, it is less dangerous for the President to be Republican than it is to be Democrat - court, especially Supreme Court, appointments. This is generally true even if the Republican President proves himself to be a lot less conservative than he might have pretended to be during the campaign season.
We already have a Hillary Clinton appointment on the Supreme Court - Ruth Bader Ginsberg - we really do not need any others like her.
I see no reason to believe either the republicans have the stomach for, or the democrats will permit, an actual idealogical shift of the SCOTUS.
We've gotten all we're going to get on that front.
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