Limbaugh: ‘Phony Soldiers’ Story is a Phony Story


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Recent reports about Rush Limbaugh calling military members who oppose the war "phony soldiers," led to an extended analysis on Limbaugh's radio program today. Limbaugh calls it -- "Anatomy of a smear."

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September 28, 2007 at 3:01 pm - Rush Limbaugh Show
Dateline: Palm Beach County, Florida
Shark   September 28th, 2007 - 3:25 pm

This little chicken hawk draft evading dropout would insult God if he thought it would make his ratings go up…

Walt   September 28th, 2007 - 4:08 pm

Xposing the Liberal Agenda at its Best. Rush has been on fire all week long and this just goes to show the pathetic attempt of the wounded animal,(( democratic party))to snap back at the eventual outcome it faces in the weeks and unfortunately years to come.Its sad to see what the Democratic party has become….a utter waste of potental tallent that could have given this country great benifit. Winners dont run away…good job Rush.

Doug   September 28th, 2007 - 4:38 pm

“Shark”, did you not listen to one word of what Rush said? When you come up with an actual intellectual analysis of the clip, please write back.

Mike   September 28th, 2007 - 5:59 pm

Doug, what makes you think “Shark” is interested at all about accuracy or intellectual analysis?

Short answer — he’s not interested at all.

And neither are most Liberal Democrats.

boat guy   September 28th, 2007 - 6:08 pm

Rush illustrates regularly how the Democratic Group of elitists do what they can to serve themselves and not the American people. The problem with Rush is he calls them on it with annoying regularity.
Democrats don’t stand for anything other than that which makes their enemies look bad. They are largely pathological liars.(See: “I voted for it before I voted against it..” “I plan on fixing health care(Social Security, high taxes, etc.)!” “I did not have sex with that woman”)If they can make Rush look bad, they figure they win. When you stand for nothing, you’ll fall for anything. When the elitists and the “drive by” media join in the “gravitas” of lockstep faxes and emails, Rush comes along to stub their toes…Nice job, Rush!

RealityCheck   September 28th, 2007 - 6:09 pm

“Shark September 28th, 2007 – 3:25 pm

This little chicken hawk draft evading dropout would insult God if he thought it would make his ratings go up…”"

What did Howard Dean do that made you so mad at him?

sorosux   September 28th, 2007 - 6:47 pm

Typical drive-by concoction of a non-story into a “crisis” for Rush, which of course takes him all of 5 seconds to rip it to shreds and once again prove that reason and intellect will expose, and beat emotionally shrill – yet devoid of thought teleprompter reading, every time. Oh yes, the libs will trump this up to try and make it stick but anyone with an IQ above 80 will instantly see it for what it is – a whole lot of media don’t-matters nothingness. Somebody please give them back their crayons !!

Steve Taylor   September 28th, 2007 - 7:10 pm

Not sure why Rush cares, libs lie, everyone knows that

John   September 28th, 2007 - 7:46 pm

Rush says he was talking about ONE soldier. But in the clip he says phony SOLDIERS. Naturally the spinmaster twists it to his version. And the slack-jaw rushbots follow right along.

Shark   September 28th, 2007 - 8:12 pm

@Doug
““Shark”, did you not listen to one word of what Rush said?”

Yes I did, he said go to mediamatters.org where all leftists go to find out what he says. So I did!

I guess I could have listened to the speech challenged moron and pondered if he was all high on heroin “this time” too… But why bother listening to someone who couldn’t get a job at McDonalds (but obviously eats there)…

Now if you Rushtards “still” want to listen, that is fine… But you should all really be out looking for a job…

Marv W   September 28th, 2007 - 8:29 pm

Rush is clearly a lot smarter than his followers. It’s a shame that the liberal education system has turned out people so bereft of comprehension and analytical skills that they mistake a grandiose and bombastic entertainer for an honest commentator.

Cyborg   September 28th, 2007 - 10:01 pm

They say he is irrelevant but they get all upset over his words. If he is irrelevant, why do they care? They criticize him but they cannot do it honestly. They actually make it up as they go and mold a headline for to hoodwink the readers.

smc   September 28th, 2007 - 10:06 pm

John, you must room with Shark. Shark, you are insulting to God, trust me.

John   September 28th, 2007 - 11:15 pm

Um, turns out that the “unedited” tape Limbaugh shows is, in fact, edited.

Why can’t he just be a man, take responsibility for his words, and apologize for the creepy “phony soldiers” comment?

RushBot   September 28th, 2007 - 11:20 pm

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
…Mark Twain

Mr Hyde   September 28th, 2007 - 11:24 pm

We’re still waiting for an apology from John Kerry for having called our soldiers “baby killers.”

Joel Weymouth   September 29th, 2007 - 12:47 am

The context was the soldiers making false claims, about their service record or about atrocities. Phony soldiers can either be men that were not soldiers or soldiers that lie about atrocities in Iraq (or Viet Nam). In this sense Kerry was a phony and lied about the atrocities. He lied about being in Cambodia. That makes him a phony soldier. I think Webb being outraged is a hoot. Have you read his books, he is a child pornographer and a deviant. I wish the FBI would take a look at his computer.

Shark   September 29th, 2007 - 1:15 am

SMC…

There is no God… You superstitious morons like to think there is… Gives you an “out of body” excuses to justify your killing and other odd feelings…

My many roommates spent a lot of time cleaning guns… My three guns spend 98% uptime ready to rock “instantly” :D

But your are all dumb… Just realize it and get over it… Don’t tune your AM radio to a retard like “Rush”. He is just “using” your ignorance… He is like a political comedian that caters to your dumbest feelings…

I know it is real hard for you to do… But now, more than ever, “you” have to try and think too!!

Shark

DJ   September 29th, 2007 - 4:54 am

And when did Rush serve?
When did Bush serve?
When did Cheney serve?
When did Wolfowitz serve?
When did Ashcroft serve?
When did Gonzales serve?
When did Hannity serve?
When did O’Reilly serve?

The list goes on and one. Chickenhawks….disgusting.

Jessie McBeth, liar he may be….but he still served 44 days longer than any of the fools above.

Walt   September 29th, 2007 - 9:57 am

When Did DJ serve?
When did Hillry serve
When did Bill serve?
When did Al serve?
When did Oboma?
When did Jesse J
when did Alan combs serve,
Cris Mathiews,katie Couric,Wolf Blitzer, Lou Dobbs,John(breck girl) Edwards,Dan Rather,whats his name at NBC and on and on and on.?

jim   September 29th, 2007 - 10:17 am

Hey DJ…
” And when did Rush serve? When did Bush serve?
When did Cheney serve?…yada yada yada….”

“Jessie McBeth, liar he may be….but he still served 44 days longer than any of the fools above.:..

44 days of doing nothing but lying and betraying your country does NOT count as “serving”, you fascist automaton.

Rush, Bush, and the Mighty Dick Cheney have done more for this country than a MILLION jesse mcbeth’s could ever do in a MILLION lifetimes.

He is a traitor, you are a traitor, the whole fascist “democrat” party is full of traitors. You disgust me.

ingramdr   September 29th, 2007 - 11:03 am

All you liberals would not know the truth if it bit you in the BUTT. Rush was talking about on soldier, the idiot that only served 44 days because he could not make it through boot camp and that the lies that he said later on down the road. You libs would know about lies, does Dan Rather mean anything, the guy that had forged documents on President Bush? Rush was right, you cannot win in the arena of public opinion, so you labs distort the truth to fit your agenda.

ingramdr   September 29th, 2007 - 11:07 am

Revised after corrections were made.

All you liberals would not know the truth if it bit you in the BUTT. Rush was talking about on soldier, the idiot that only served 44 days because he could not make it through boot camp and the lies that he said after he was kicked out of the army. You libs would know about lies, does Dan Rather mean anything, the guy that had forged documents on President Bush? Rush was right, you cannot win in the arena of public opinion, so you libs have to distort the truth to fit your agenda.

NTrop   September 29th, 2007 - 12:00 pm

All you liberals would not know the truth if it bit you in the BUTT. Rush was talking about on soldier,

You librul hatin’ folks are really really stupid. Your defense of Limbaugh is hilarious to anyone who read the transcript or actually listened to what the idiot said… You’re dead wrong, simply read the transcript and your defense of Rush was amazingly lame.

1. Rush FIRST (say it 10 times – first, first, first) accused all soldiers who disagree with him (Limbaugh) and not interested of dying in a war “largely about oil” (Alan Greenspan) of being “phony soldiers”. He made no mention of Jesse MacBeth at this time, they were CLEARLY making a general statement about ALL soldiers.

THEN (as in “next”, as in “later”, as in after he called all soldiers who disagree with Limbaugh as being “phony soldiers”) he cherry picked ONE incident of one real “phony soldier” – Jesse MacBeth, who came out and criticized the war in the media. Using a propaganda technique known as “gross generalization” he tried to imply that the soldiers who disagree with him (limbaugh) are ALL just like “this ONE I cherry picked over here… See? They’re ALL like this here one I just cherry picked)

This defense of Limbaugh is extremely weak. Absolutely laughable. Limbaugh ABSOLUTELY accused those solders in harms way in Iraq who want withdraw as being “phony soldiers”. AFTER HE MADE THAT ACCUSATION, he then cherry picked Jesse MacBeth and in an attempt to bolster the case he just made about soldiers against the war being “phony soldiers” using “gross generalization” to imply that ALL soldiers who are for a withdraw are just like the one I cherry-picked.

Honest to God, if you buy into this laughable “defense” of Limbaugh – that he was talking about MacBeth and taken out of context, you must be really, really, really stupid. Sorry, you just are. He actually cherry-picked MacBeth to BOLSTER his case that those who disagree with his take on the war are “phony solders” – saying they’re all just like MacBeth! It make what he said even worse, he went out of his way and cherry picked and used “gross generalization” to support his “phony soldiers” accusation!!!

One Person   September 29th, 2007 - 1:48 pm

Most liberals will see this as they want, no matter the whole context. Those who listen to Rush often know exactly how he feels about our troops.
Trust me I have read and heard so much negativism and hatred for and of our military in Iraq from progressives. Go visit a progressive web-site , it is totally disgusting.

Shark   September 29th, 2007 - 2:50 pm

This guy says it well.

http://armyofdude.blogspot.com/2007/09/real-deal.html

Marv W   September 29th, 2007 - 2:51 pm

When I was an 11B (heavy weapons infantry), 64-68, we had a name for civilian males who were always gushing about the troops. We called them “buckle suckers.” Maybe things have changed, but those guys always seemed like — well, we called them homos — who were hot for any guy in a uniform. We didn’t mind chicks who were like that, of course.

The thing is that guys in the service are just guys who happen to be in the service. They join up for lots of different reasons: to get away from home, to impress a girl, because they can’t find a job, to impress their parents or buddies, to get training in a trade, a sense of patriotic duty,and so on. Many of them go on to become brave, even heroic. Some of them go on to become cowards. Many of them go on to be dead or crippled for life. Many of them get messed up in the head. Most of them go on being more or less ordinary, although those who have seen battle are changed forever.

So stop romanticizing the troops. They’re real people, not toy soldiers to fantasize about or icons to use to bolster careless thought-out political positions.

Marv W   September 29th, 2007 - 2:55 pm

I meant to type “bolster carelessly thought-out political positions” although “bolster unsubstantiated political positions” would do, too.

James 22   September 29th, 2007 - 3:53 pm

Got to love the Demonrat party, they are 100% wrong 100% of the time! If you listen to the dinasor media they lie 150% of the time! Media Matters funded by Soraaas a left wing activist group run by Klintoons WAR ROOM and GOON squad like Lackey Davis and friends who are trying to make Rush apologize (he will never unless he is wrong)for a comment he made about phony soldiers was taken out of context! John KERRY a phony soldier who went in front of congress in 1972 with another phony Soldier that never stepped foot in Viet Nanm and was a draft dodger (he knew this idiot was never in the Military) that stated we where killing inocents killing kids raising villages ETC was 100% BS and the Kennedy and the Anti American Pro VC CROWD the Demoncraps bought it hook line and sinker He knew(Kerry got an award from the Viet Cong as the best person for their cause, it’s hanging in a war museum in Viet Nam in a form a of a letter), so I call for the entire Congress House and Senate call BS Kerry to the Denounce Kerry because he lied and is a phony self decorated piece of human debris!
Ask yourself a question why was Kerry honarably discharged in 1978 by Carter, when the military gave him a dishonorable discharge in 1972, and his records are sealed, he truely is a piece of dreck as are the entire unpatriotic Demoncrap party! It’s ok for a real phony soldier Kerry to damn Rush with everything taken out of context on a non story, sad some of coward rhino guttless wimpy Republicans joined in on this BS!! Sad!
The entire Democrap party is anti Military they hate America! These bozos including Billary are the most unpatriotic humans on the planet! I bet Rush gets 2 million new listeners over this, same with Oreily his numbers went up this week!
Media matters needs to be investigated where and how they get there money Hsu, Act, CAIR a Terrorist Charity gave them money all are under investigation and Hsu will not be killed by Arkanside like most Klintoon enemies he is locked up so the Klitoon GOON squad can’t get him and he is singing like a big bird! To bad all liberals have Bush Derangement Syndrome or BDS! Every Demoncrap in the 2006 congres is ati Ameican unpatriotic and pro communist, just look at how the conduct them selves! 3% aprove of Piss on America Pelosi and dingy Harry Reid on handeling of the war!

KVEC 920 AM Radio   September 30th, 2007 - 1:20 am

On Monday October 1, 2007
the Dave Congelton Show,
KVEC, 920 AM, radio,
San Luis Obispo, Ca. will be discussing
Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly’s
comments with his Liberal call-in audience.

jim   September 30th, 2007 - 8:25 pm

Monday Oct 1st? Liberals will be discussing?I thought animals could only speak once a year at midnight on Christmas Eve?

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