This whole Rush thing...

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Originally Posted by VRM

Mike,
It could absolutely be clearer! He could have said 'phony soldiers like MacBeth'.

There are plenty of real soldiers who feel insulted by what Limbaugh said. There are also plenty who do not. Limbaugh did respond by insulting other soldiers who are in that first group, and I think that was just not a classy response. That seems to be typical Limbaugh response - call people names when they disagree with him.

Limbaugh loves it though - all kinds of free publicity. He will keep fighting it and continue smearing everyone who disagrees with him and milk it for as long as he can.

Either way, Congress has no business getting involved in either the Move On ad or Limbaughs radio program.

Steve

You are liberally insane. The controversy arose when a caller, "Mike in Olympia," who identified himself as an Iraq war veteran, complained Democrats and journalists "never talk to real soldiers. They like to pull these soldiers that come up out of the blue and talk to the media."

"The phony soldiers," Mr. Limbaugh responded. After the caller hung up, Rush elaborated: "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..."

The left wing group Media Matters passed out an edited transcript of the conversation that omitted all references to Mr. Macbeth, to bolster their claim that Mr. Limbaugh had been referring to all antiwar veterans.

BTW - it seems particularly reckless for Sen. Harkin to have taken part in the smear, because in 1991 he had been caught embellishing his own military record. He claimed he was a Naval aviator who had flown combat missions in Vietnam. Mr. Harkin was indeed a Navy pilot, but he never got near the war zone.

This whole "effort" is to compensate for the embarrassment Democrats suffered over the MoveOn.org ad attacking the patriotism of Gen. David Petraeus.