You gotta wonder - are they really so stupid they figure people won't check out the transcripts and get the words in context? Or do they figure their target audience wouldn't check it, so who cares if it's taken out of context or not...

Snff. Well, I'm not listening to him yet...

I've wondered that 100 times.

It is clear to everyone with a brain that as soon as the call was over Rush immediately went to the topic of fake soldiers... Who did they think they would fool?

My benevolent side says they missed the upcoming monologue and just screwed up.... but they have a long history of quotations out of context.

They were so eager for a distraction from MorOn.org's Betray Us ad, they glommed onto anything.

If they were patient, they would have waited for remarks that were more nebulous or not easily disproved in a relatively short sound bite which was the case for O'Reilly. If O'Reilly didn't have Juan Williams on hand to help verify the context, he'd still be on the hot seat.

Also the Lefties religiously maintain that Mediamatters is somehow objective. They ended that this past week as well.

Gateway Pundit has a good review of Votevets, the liberal group founded by Wesley Clark who is smearing Rush in a commercial. Apparently they have had their own "phony soldiers" moment.

So we have John Kerry, a man who stood side by side with phony Vietnam Vets to slander his fellows soldiers; Tom Harkin, who lied and stated he was a Vietnam fighter pilot when he wasn't; and VoteVets, who featured a vet telling lies about his war experiences. These are the one demanding apologies from Rush for pointing out the liberal-love of phony soldiers who embellish their credentials and experiences to slander the troops. This is priceless.

BTW

What's with Wizbangblue? This is the first time I looked at the site. Why would you give your brandname to such trash? I don't see DaiykosGOP.com.

JPM100,

I think you nailed it. This whole thing is nothing more than a gigantic, desperate "cover your ass" move designed to steer attention away from the odious "General Betray Us" ad that Democrats didn't dare criticize (and probably secretly helped to create), until they were shamed into it by Republicans and everyone else with a lick of common sense.

Looks to me like SCARY HARRY is trying to ruin the opisition to his crooked parties whole nafarious plans what he trying anyway besides bigger goverment?

It's as jpm100 suspects, and also a typical leftist set-up. A phony-baloney charge which gets refuted - usually it takes longer than this one did - but is first embedded in the public conscious so it can be resurrected at some future point as if it were true.

Alar and apples is a classic example. Totally bogus, it was proven after a year or so, but sometimes even today you will hear a reference to "Alar in apples" in some laundry-list of supposed environmental "catastrophes" which usually includes several phony ones. Especially when merely referred to in a list, people fail to discern the difference between fake items and real ones (if any).

The leftists have been doing this stuff since Stalin, and they are good at it.

You only need a third grade education to 'find' the truth by reading the transcript of Rush's show. That leaves out 99 44/100% of the democrats (aka: Kindergarden cops).

Hundreds of people should send Dirty Harry an email through the senate web site and dare him to have to 'balls' to admit he was totally wrong and to apologize to Limbaugh. He, like all democrats of today don't have the balls to do anything truthful. Lies and slander is all they know. I"ve already contacted Harkin and let it be known that he is a worthless hack and liar. No, I'm never polite to the dumb a** democrats in congress. Call them as you see them

Notice the usual morons (Brian, JFO, nogo, civil, etc.) are not here to comment. They CAN'T. Even they must be embarrassed to be democrats today.

None of the links in the quoted post are working, btw, at least not on my system.

Anyways, I agree its a lame attempt to strike back at the Republicans lame attempt to hush political speech. But I don't think there is any question that he called anti-war troops phonies, nor do I think there is any spin in calling O'Reilly's comments racist.

But who cares, really? Rush is the best thing the Republicans have, even though he himself admitting being a phony. (Remember - he "no longer has to carry water for these people.") There is nothing he could do or say that would get him off the air. Nothing. Same with Coulter, or Savage, O'Reilly or Hannity. They can say anything the want, call people fags, invite terrorists to attack San Francisco - anything at all.

Get back to work. (Though I am in favor of setting a term limit of one week for every member of this congress)

Hi, Sock Puppet Jo! I'm so glad you've missed me! Lately you've been posting great things that support the Democrats. Keep up the good work!

Anyway, since you brought me up, I'll remind you that I said that within two weeks no one will be talking about this anymore. Looks like I should have said two days instead of two weeks, eh?! Thanks for giving me a chance to point that out. (I wonder if Rovin likes his crow rare or well done.)

Thanks again for remembering me. Say hi to your sock puppets!

The lefties must be running low on Prozac . . .

Sort of like nightime prayers, Brian mumbles to himself in the corner before turning to.
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Somewhere, on a liberal blog, Mantis is warning them to be careful of what fights they pick. Or maybe not.

Sorry to drag you into this, Mantis. But your once sage warning is ringing in my ears right now, especially since Beauchamp is so relevant to this issue now.

Brian
I'll remind you of what I said the other day when you attempted to divert the discussion by predicting no one would be talking about this in two weeks:

This failed liberal smear tactic will provide audio/video content for Republicans well into 2008.

The alphabet media, cognizant of their own self interest, may be ignoring it, but the alphabets don't control the news anymore.

Your prediction will be proven wrong in, what, eleven days now?

Well, he reassured himself enough to nod off. It's proved; see, he linked.

If it fades, it'll only be because of suppression by MSM, which is sensible enough to see that this is an absurd issue, and just makes the nutroots look nutty.

Or make credulous independents look nutty.
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Never could trust anything coming out of David Brock's piehole...

Hey Scrapiron,

I think you may have a point. Since the Democrats have spent the last six years or so demanding apologies from the Bush Administration on at least a weekly basis, perhaps we should start demanding that they lead by example.

Brian says:

(I wonder if Rovin likes his crow rare or well done.)

HughS says: Your prediction will be proven wrong in, what, eleven days now?

Your crow's gettin' marinated as we speak Brian.

from AnonymousDrivel:

The "Betray Us" ad is providing sweet, delicious schadenfreude the likes of which a Karl Rove could have never envisioned. As the Democrats throw spaghetti at the fridge to try and rehabilitate themselves from their Soros-funded complicity, we observe the wonderful, and thankfully more transparent, theater that is politics.One would have to engage in the willing suspension of disbelief to think that Democrat wailing will tarnish Rush's known and undeniable support of the military. The Left's distraction can be seen for what it is and Rush has just been given more ammo to fire at his critics. It'll be a turkey-shoot."

One question (for now) Brian. How do you really feel about your liberal leadership attempting to put a muzzle on the 1st amendment rights that the left has preached for 200 years as the fundamental foundation of our democracy? If you do not see the hypocrisy, your credibility comes into question. And that would be a "fowl" thing to swallow.

What this has done is legitimize the Republicans use of the Democrats anti-war own words in 2008 political advertising. They can run a clip of Harry Reid decrying Limbaugh, then follow up with half a dozen ripe quotes by Reid, Pelosi, Clinton, Murtha, et al -- and then ask if these are the type of people you want running the country.

The campaign theme for 2008 for the Republicans should be something on the order of "It's time for grown-ups to run this in Washington again -- not Democrats."

Because the war in Iraq is essentially over, we have the luxury of this discussion of 'Who is a patriot'. I'm glad we are having the corollary of the 'Who lost China' debate, 'Who won Iraq'. Let us rejoice that we are all patriots, after all, even the poor anti-wear fools. It's a big tent.
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It's a big tent that won't wear out, despite the rents in the tissue of society caused by war.
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The hostilities in Iraq may be cooling down but are far from over, and the War on Terror has only just begun. Wrong time to gloat about that.

While he who I won't name may have been "right" about things being quiet in 2 weeks, I also agree that such episodes are great fodder for future political campaigns. This and many other episodes will be resurrected. Bad thing for him to gloat about.

Also, the smugness required to gloat reveals the dishonesty of the argument.

Really, just another idiot with counterfeit thought. They have a printing press.
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These are not trolls. They are shameless propagandists. That 's why they can support vile groups like MoveOn and MediaMatters, who are intentionally lying for propaganda purpose. The dem party is in a sew*ge with these groups. The dem in congress are willful in lying.

The modern left is beyond the pale and knows how ugly/vile they are. So they have to lie to justify their culture of corruption.

Wonder how any informed and decent American can support the modern liberal left and the dem party.

http://www.rightwingnews.com/mt331/2007/10/the_phony_limbaugh_controversy.php

what you are seeing from the American Left in this attack on Limbaugh is nothing less than Goebbels' concept being put into practice by liberals without honor, decency, or any sort of intellectual integrity.

This is what an honest liberal would do. Unfortunately, these "honest" liberals seem to be a tiny minority on the left. Otherwise, Hillary, Obama, Edwars wouldn't be the front-runners in the Dem pres nomination.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OGRjZDJkZTliYzk5MWY3YWM0NDhlMzY1MWFiYTZkYTc=

Edward Padgett, a Los Angeles blogger who spread the word about MoveOn's attempt to silence critics, laments: "For several years I have found MoveOn.org to be an inspirational anti-war group, but the past few weeks they have been an embarrassment to all Americans with their attacks upon President Bush and General Petraeus. I subscribe to the MoveOn newsletter, and even considered hosting an antiwar rally in San Dimas, but now I want no part of this radical group and will remove my name from their newsletter subscription . . . I guess to MoveOn, the First Amendment is only for the rich."

Sort of like nightime prayers, Brian mumbles to himself in the corner before turning to.

Not to myself. Apparently to you. Thanks for listening and responding.

Your prediction will be proven wrong in, what, eleven days now?

Nope. Seems like it's already close to being proven right. As I said, "Come back here in two weeks and link to a major news source that is still talking about it."

I'll remind you of what I said the other day...

No need. That's what you said, not what I said.

Your crow's gettin' marinated as we speak Brian.

Because Hugh misrepresented what I said? I think not.

Liberals the practicers of intorence

Well Brian, for a devout leftist, at least you recognize that the "major new source(s)" are nothing more than socialist propaganda.

You're welcome. We try to respond to such earnest supplication.
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