Posted on 09/29/2007 7:55:04 AM PDT by jdm
Bloggers jumped all over a comment made by Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday, in which he supposedly called military personnel who oppose the war in Iraq "phony soldiers." Immediately, voices on the Left rushed to defend the honor of men and women in the military, accusing Limbaugh of insulting their integrity. In fact, the same blogs who had no problem with MoveOn's ad accusing General David Petraeus of potentially traitorous conduct reacted with outrage to Rush's comment.
However, unlike the "Betray Us" ad, Rush' critics took the comment out of context. Let's take a look at the transcript from the broadcast (via Worldwide Standard). Rush made it clear what he meant by phony:
RUSH: It's not possible intellectually to follow these people.
CALLER: No, it's not. And what's 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 they're proud to serve, they want to be over in Iraq, they understand their sacrifice and they're willing to sacrifice for the country.
That was the sequence that generated the controversy. However, at the end of the call, Rush explained exactly what he meant by "phony soldiers":
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. They have their celebrities and one of them was Army Ranger Jesse Macbeth. Now, he was a "corporal." I say in quotes. Twenty-three years old. What made Jesse Macbeth a hero to the anti-war crowd wasn't his Purple Heart; it wasn't his being affiliated with post-traumatic 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 isn't an Army Ranger, never was. He isn't 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. You probably haven't even heard about this. And, if you have, you haven't heard much about it. This doesn't fit the narrative and the template in the Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party as to who is a genuine war hero. Don't 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 Macbeth's lies about our troops, because the truth for the left is fiction that serves their purpose. They have to lie about such atrocities because they can't 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.
Now, I will say that Rush should have mentioned that some real soldiers oppose the surge strategy in Iraq, and some oppose the deployment altogether. However, the media seems to fixate on Jesse MacBeths and Scott Beauchamps, who served but lied about their experiences, and then never give the refutations anything close to the same coverage they gave the lies. Jesse MacBeth had served as the Left's poster boy for several months, but his guilty plea has not made much of a splash in the Leftosphere -- certainly not the fanfare his fantasies received.
That's the context of Rush's remarks. That's the context that his critics seem to ignore. Even if Rush had said what they claimed he said, they also managed to avoid asking why they felt so outraged over it when most of them defended MoveOn's slanderous accusations of treason against an American Army officer. It's on a par with last week's howler about how George Bush didn't know Nelson Mandela was still alive.
Phony, indeed.
DemocRATS love lies. They really love lies. The truth is anathema to them.
Archive as a classic example of the Liberal selective hearing syndrome.
Dems ARE lies.
Rush completely nuked them. He played the tape. It totaly exposes the Leftists at Media Matters as not only taking him out of context but making up their claims about what he said knowing full well they were lying when the said them.
Anyone who cites Media Matters as a source should be considered a propagandist, not a “Journalists”.
The left-wing group Media Matters is the cause of this trouble. The feel there must be a “payback” for Congress’s condemnation of MoveOn.org in regards to the “General Betrayus” scandal. They tried to catch Bill O’Reilly over a remark about race relations, but that didn’t work. So, in their rage they went after Rush and used his comments “out of context”. These people don’t realize that the only ones they are exposing are themselves.
Wasn’t selective hearing. They knew what he said. They simply went out and LIED about it.
Rush played the tape. There is no selective hearing this. He was talking about the Anti war icon “Jessie the Ranger” who turned out to have never even passed Basic. There is no way to hear his comments and misunderstand what he saying.
I was listening to Rush right when he said those words. There was no impropriety. I stand by his comment. phony soldiers phony soldiers there I said it.
Because they were being exposed and critized on the ‘Betray us’ ad in NYT, they had to ‘change the subject’.
Classic leftist tactic when they’ve lost the debate!!!
The sad part is, the people who follow and support these people and groups don't even care how exposed they become.
They will stoop to any level "for the cause".
For this reason, they are dangerous, both for their propaganda and it's use by our enemies and for their desire to turn elections at ANY COST.
The DBM is NOT in the business of news... the news makes itself. These propagandists MANAGE the news.
It’s John Kerry’s slimy “Winter Soldier” tactic, all over again.
"Phony soldiers", making phony claims, being distributed as fact by the left and MSM.
Despicable!!!
Macbeth was in the Army, folks, briefly. Forty-four days before he washed out of boot camp....
the type of soldier that the lib/dems put up on pedestals!!!!
A tactic of the Left is being revealed.
Anyone who cited Jesse Macbeth is a propagandist and not a journalist either.
Where are the headline stories about his hoax? That is out and out treason to lie about such horrors. It is aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war.
Put him on trial. Let his sentence be carried out.
And then we question the journalists and activists who know. What did they know and when did they know it. Certainly there had to be some who covered up this scandal.
Truly, liberalism is a mental disease. And it gets worse each day. Hopefully it will eventually prove to be terminal.
George Orwell observed the Socialists in American and the UK doing the same thing to those nations during WWII.
It turned him off Socialism how the activists in the press would slam the US and England and heap nothing but praise on Joseph Stalin and mother Russia.
He wrote a number of good books on the evil tactics of Stalinists. They are even read in schools today. But the wrong lessons in life are learned from them.
George Orwell wouldn’t have called the Bush Administration “Big Brother” but there are people “making up facts” to crush their political enemies.
the number of phony Veterans and Medals is astonishing......these people (and the orgs listed below their page hotlinked) put considerable effort and expense into exposing military poseurs:
http://www.pownetwork.org/phonies/phonies.htm
LINKS to others uncovering phonies:
TUSKEGEE AIRMEN
SPECSEC - Former Army MP and DoD SWAT Officer helps ferret out the false, the frauds, the phonies!
Stolen Valor: - The liars on this page were never PJ’s.
Viper’s Vietnam Veterans Pages, Wannabe’s - Wannabes, Valor Thieves, Poseurs, Fakes, Frauds, Scumbags, Low Life’s, Imposters, Charlatans, Cheats ... You will be caught!
RATPACK - Uncovering the phonies within the VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars.
The F.B.I. - Major Cases - Medal Of Honor — turn in a suspected sale or phony...
Medal of Honor — the men that EARNED it in Vietnam... and the phonies that didn’t...
FBI False Medal of Honor
Marine Corps phonies - by a Marine for Marines (and the rest of the world)
veriseal.org - INVESTIGATES PHONY SEALS
U.S. Naval Warfare Archives - SEALS
SEALs - Wall of Shame: Fake SEALs?” — The phony SEAL list of thousands - caught in their own lies...
SEALs - Links, information and more on phony SEALs and other wannabe’s.
U.S. Army Ranger Association
MACVSOG - SOG Hall of Shame
Phonyveterans.com - Phonies, photos and more. No holds barred.
ARTICLES - PHONIES EXPOSED or related Articles
[some - NOT all - the articles available]
click on the link for full article -
others will link from names on the “list” of names
http://www.pownetwork.org/phonies/phonies5.htm
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