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 ABCs 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 Limbaughs 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 Limbaughs show.
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
Rush should be real proud. He’s been badmouthed in the US Senate.
All Michael Savage got was a resolution of censure from the San Fransicko Board of Supervisors.
http://www.politico.com/static/PPM43_071002_reidletter.html
phony soldiers.
phony stories.
phony watchdog group.
phony backroom editing.
phony media.
phony politicians.
phony speaches.
add em all up and what da ya get?
purposefull obtuseness ....
oozing mendacity ....
vile defamation ....
intellectual turpitude ....
paid for by George Soros for purposefully obtuse liberals everywhere.
do we really want a threepeat on shifty grifter Billy “Back of the Bus” Clinton and his ilk?
Just remember that while he lied and was caught, we was still a real soldier, who did serve in Iraq.
“””LOL as Rush says they will ALWAYS step in excrements with both feet!!!”””
Usually it’s their own stinkin’ poop - dropped in public places.
Great letter - dripping with sarcasm that Reid will not grasp - because he is probably the dumbest, most phony, obsequious public speaker on any topic.
I read the whole article, (BTW, Thanks for posting it), and I found it very interesting.
If you take the qoutes from Rush’s critics, and replace his name with, say, TED KENNEDY, or MURTHA, or KERRY, they make much more truthful statements.
Just remember that while he lied and was caught, we was still a real soldier, who did serve in Iraq.
WRONG - he washed out of boot camp in 44 days. He’s never been over seas in our military.
Yes, but he lied about the circumstances of that service, making him a “phoney soldier”, just not quite as phoney as some of the others who have crawled out from under rocks lately.
Been locked away in a closet for the last several weeks?
You are confusing Scott Thomas Beauchamp with Jesse Macbeth.
I think she’s referring to Scott Thomas Beauchamp (post 20), not to this phony soldier
“....And even though there are political arguments on all sides of this controversy, independent-minded critics who look at Media Matters might conclude that its political motivations are simply too strong to merit serious consideration. In addition to its ties to major Democratic donors and to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Media Matters is a deeply politicized organization down to its lowest levels. In the past few days, it has posted eleven stories on the Limbaugh matter. Those postings were written by, among others, Julie Millican, a veteran of the Kerry campaign, MoveOn.org, and the Democratic turnout organization America Coming Together; Sarah Pavlus, formerly of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee; Andrew Ironside, who worked for the Howard Dean campaign; Adam Shah, a lawyer who worked for the Alliance for Justice, the organization best known for opposing President Bushs judicial nominees; Jeremy Schulman, a former spokesman for Colorado Democratic congressional candidate Dave Thomas; and Matthew Gertz, former deputy campaign manager for Connecticut Democratic congressional candidate Diane Farrell, as well as intern for New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer.”
Sometimes the usual suspects really are guilty.
HARRY REID MUST STEP DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The post I was replying to talked about Scott Beauchamp, not Jesse Macbeth. Scott is still serving in Iraq, and was and is a real soldier, just one who made up lies about things he and his fellow soldiers did.
So he’s a phony, but not a fake soldier.
Didn’t he join just to write negative stories???
He may have, but in my book anybody willing to life the rifle and take the bullet has earned the right to be negative, so long as they don’t lie about it.
In this case he lied, so he abused the privilege. But he’s still a real soldier, just a lying one.
Rush needs to unleash his 20,000,000 viewers on the Demo senators emails,faxes and phones. Shut em down !!!!!!!
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The liberals have outdone themselves by GOING AFTER A PRIVATE CITIZEN USING THEIR GOVERNMENT POSITIONS in Washington. This just smacks of STALINISM. The left has gone waaaaayyyyy beyond simple liberalism. They can now be justifiably called Stalinists. Their lies, smear campaigns, attacks on the Constitutional rights of citizens and businesses, all of it.
They ARE the enemy within.
Jesse MacBeth was Tom Harkin’s wingman in Vietnam.
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