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Posted on 10/03/2007 7:55:08 AM PDT by vietvet67
On Monday evening, September 24, Rush Limbaugh was struck by a story that appeared on ABC’s World News with Charles Gibson. “A closer look tonight at phony heroes,” Gibson said in his introduction to the report, which was about men who claim to be veterans but are not. In the story, reporter Brian Ross discussed two men who claimed to have served in wartime, possibly to receive free veterans’ hospital and other benefits.
And then this: “Authorities say the most disturbing case involves this man, 23 year-old Jesse Macbeth,” Ross continued. “In a YouTube video seen around the world, Macbeth became a rallying point for anti-war groups, as he talked of the Purple Heart he received in Iraq and described how he and other U.S. Army Rangers killed innocent civilians at a Baghdad mosque.” Ross played video of Macbeth saying, “Women and men, you know — while in their prayer, we started slaughtering them.”
As it turns out, none of that happened. Macbeth was in the Army for just six weeks, was discharged before completing basic training, and was never in Iraq. “Last week in federal court in Seattle,” Ross concluded, “Macbeth offered an apology for defaming the real American heroes as he admitted to lying about his service record and his supposed atrocities.” Ross’ story was headlined “Phony War Vets” on the ABC News website.
Among the viewers that night was a person who works for Limbaugh’s radio program. “My call screener saw the ABC News report and he told me about it,” Limbaugh told me yesterday. Limbaugh decided to make the story the subject of his commentary for Tuesday, September 25, a commentary that played in the morning on the 600 stations that carry Limbaugh’s show.
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The IRS needs to go look at MEDIA MATTERS books!!!
PHONEY squared!
Hatriots!!!! BRAVO....PERFECT description!!!
That would be a great tag line.
If they did they might find where HilLIARy is getting a most of her millions.
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Someone needs to file a LAWSUIT on Media Matters, the Hillary Front Group!!
Hillary’s attack-dogs on the loose.
I wonder why no one is talking about Hillary’s criminal Chinese fundraiser Hsu anymore?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Rush needs to unleash his 20,000,000 viewers on the Demo senators emails,faxes and phones. Shut em down !!!!!!!
IS THERE A LINK TO THE COURT TRANSCRIPT OF MCBETH’S IN COURT ADMISSION TO BEING A PHONY SOLDIER?!!!
That CONFESSION should be read into the congressional record, THEN a demand for Reid to resign.
There is something else in this story that is not being publicized. And that is, Rush’s original claim that the media picked up all of Jesse MacBeth’s lies without investigating them first. There doesn’t seem to be any embarassment over that fact, even though it was a “Dan Rather” moment for those media sources that ran MacBeth’s lies. We need to identify and castigate those media sources who propagated those lies.
According to the TALKERS magazine survey Rush is clearly
#1 with over 13.25 million listeners daily. Many other
conservative hosts are (high up) on that list including
Hannity, Beck, Dr. Laura, Savage, Ingraham, Mike Gallagher,
etc. The few libs on there like Ed Schultz are way back
in the pack. AND THIS DRIVES THE LIBS NUTS...
They are gunning for the most popular host.
longtermmemory...brilliant idea. Of course, it would take integrity to resign...which is why no dhimmicrat will ever be capable of resigning.
Hey looks like that androgynous pop star from the 80s...what the heck was his name...Prince?
Jeez... what a soup sandwich!
Rush doesn’t have to make a case - ‘jesse macbeth’ and those like him make it perfectly clear.
The real troops know who the the phonies are and they know who Rush was talking about.
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