Where's the outrage against Rush Limbaugh?

[techs]

http://www.latimes.com/news/na...ll=la-headlines-nation

Brian McGough, a 31-year-old former Army staff sergeant who was wounded in a roadside attack in Iraq, knew he wouldn't get a warm response from talk show host Rush Limbaugh when he starred in an ad by the anti-Iraq war veterans group VoteVets.org. The ad, which featured a photograph of McGough's shaved head with jagged scars, was a response to Limbaugh's implication during his broadcast last week that antiwar vets were "phony soldiers":

"Rush, the shrapnel I took to my head was real. My traumatic brain injury was real. And my belief we are on the wrong course in Iraq is real," McGough says in the ad. "Until you have the guts to call me a phony soldier to my face, stop telling lies about my service."

Limbaugh responded on air Tuesday, comparing McGough metaphorically to a suicide bomber. He said the ad was "a blatant use of a valiant combat veteran, lying to him about what I said, then strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media in a TV ad to walk into as many people as he can walk into."




So Rush says soldiers who are against the war "aren't real soldiers" and the Congress doesn't blast him like it did Moveon.org?
Hypocritical.

 

[StageLeft]

I would like to think people stopped listening to that addict after his hypocrisy was brough to light, but sadly that never happened.

 

[Genx87]

Repost

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Originally posted by: Genx87
Repost

Yep, repost and nothing but a fabricated smear by Media Matters.

 

[Genx87]

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY

Originally posted by: Genx87
Repost

Yep, repost and nothing but a fabricated smear by Media Matters.

Isnt MM the same one who cut and slash Bill Oreillys show last week and tried to selectively quote him to make his conversation look completely different than it was?

What a credible bunch of losers they are.

 

[HomerJS]

Originally posted by: Genx87

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY

Originally posted by: Genx87
Repost

Yep, repost and nothing but a fabricated smear by Media Matters.

Isnt MM the same one who cut and slash Bill Oreillys show last week and tried to selectively quote him to make his conversation look completely different than it was?

What a credible bunch of losers they are.

If you bothered to check it out yourself they played the clip from his show unedited and without spin. If Fox News had a news story of a bridge collapse with video I wouldn't disbelieve it because I don't like them.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Originally posted by: Genx87

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY

Originally posted by: Genx87
Repost

Yep, repost and nothing but a fabricated smear by Media Matters.

Isnt MM the same one who cut and slash Bill Oreillys show last week and tried to selectively quote him to make his conversation look completely different than it was?

What a credible bunch of losers they are.

Yep, that was MM.

 

[RightIsWrong]

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY

Originally posted by: Genx87

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY

Originally posted by: Genx87
Repost

Yep, repost and nothing but a fabricated smear by Media Matters.

Isnt MM the same one who cut and slash Bill Oreillys show last week and tried to selectively quote him to make his conversation look completely different than it was?

What a credible bunch of losers they are.

Yep, that was MM.

Ah yes. a circle-jerk of "the facts/claim doesn't matter because the source is biased" philosophy. Although, to be fair, CAD is merely verifying the above statement and has shown the ability to break away from the group-think since his reappearance (Welcome back BTW).

As with the Moveon ad, either refute the facts/claims or be quiet. As was stated in a different thread yesterday, if Adolf Hitler claimed that 2+2=4, that doesn't automatically disqualify the statement because he made it.

Either refute the claim on the basis of the content and not on the source or just stew in your biased state with your fingers in your ears screaming "lalalalala I can't hear you".

 

[Wheezer]

yes, yes, by all means, a private citizen should be scolded by our congress for utilizing his freedom of speech.

What a great way for our congress to flex it's mighty muscle and go after a talk show host simply because he may have said something "offensive".

They probably have nothing better to do.

 

[QuantumPion]

Originally posted by: techs
http://www.latimes.com/news/na...ll=la-headlines-nation

Brian McGough, a 31-year-old former Army staff sergeant who was wounded in a roadside attack in Iraq, knew he wouldn't get a warm response from talk show host Rush Limbaugh when he starred in an ad by the anti-Iraq war veterans group VoteVets.org. The ad, which featured a photograph of McGough's shaved head with jagged scars, was a response to Limbaugh's implication during his broadcast last week that antiwar vets were "phony soldiers":

"Rush, the shrapnel I took to my head was real. My traumatic brain injury was real. And my belief we are on the wrong course in Iraq is real," McGough says in the ad. "Until you have the guts to call me a phony soldier to my face, stop telling lies about my service."

Limbaugh responded on air Tuesday, comparing McGough metaphorically to a suicide bomber. He said the ad was "a blatant use of a valiant combat veteran, lying to him about what I said, then strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media in a TV ad to walk into as many people as he can walk into."




So Rush says soldiers who are against the war "aren't real soldiers" and the Congress doesn't blast him like it did Moveon.org?
Hypocritical.

I think this really shows how brainwashed liberals actually are. The transcript from Rush's show has always been available, yet they never take the time to read it. They KNOW that they are misquoting what he said, and KNOW what he actually meant, yet distort the truth anyway and then internalize this lie to such a degree that they actually believe it themselves. This is the exact definition of doublethink from Orwell's 1984.

 

[teclis1023]

Originally posted by: Wheezer
yes, yes, by all means, a private citizen should be scolded by our congress for utilizing his freedom of speech.

What a great way for our congress to flex it's mighty muscle and go after a talk show host simply because he may have said something "offensive".

They probably have nothing better to do.

I agree that it's stupid. Just like it was stupid for congress to flex its mighty muscle to go after a business that ran an advertisement.

they're both very, very stupid uses of our tax-payer's time and money.

 

[QuantumPion]

Originally posted by: teclis1023

Originally posted by: Wheezer
yes, yes, by all means, a private citizen should be scolded by our congress for utilizing his freedom of speech.

What a great way for our congress to flex it's mighty muscle and go after a talk show host simply because he may have said something "offensive".

They probably have nothing better to do.

I agree that it's stupid. Just like it was stupid for congress to flex its mighty muscle to go after a business that ran an advertisement.

they're both very, very stupid uses of our tax-payer's time and money.

Apples and oranges. The former was critisizing a private citizen over something he demontrably did not say. The latter is an illegal in-kind political contribution.

You raise a good point though. The whole Rush phony soldier thing was just a ruse to deflect media attention over the moveon add.

 

[teclis1023]

Originally posted by: QuantumPion
Apples and oranges.

They're both phony outrages being used by politicians to boost their own image as patriots, to create political buzz and to skirt real issues. And they're both mega wastes of our time and money. Not so different after all.

 

[imported_Shivetya]

Repost and already the accusation was proven false.

Everyone but an idiot knows exactly who Rush was referring too.


This stupidy non-issue made me actually have to listen to him to get the facts (played from podcasts a Rushie at work has)




Personal attack edited out.

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Red Dawn

 

[RightIsWrong]

Originally posted by: QuantumPion

Originally posted by: teclis1023

Originally posted by: Wheezer
yes, yes, by all means, a private citizen should be scolded by our congress for utilizing his freedom of speech.

What a great way for our congress to flex it's mighty muscle and go after a talk show host simply because he may have said something "offensive".

They probably have nothing better to do.

I agree that it's stupid. Just like it was stupid for congress to flex its mighty muscle to go after a business that ran an advertisement.

they're both very, very stupid uses of our tax-payer's time and money.

Apples and oranges. The former was critisizing a private citizen over something he demontrably did not say. The latter is an illegal in-kind political contribution.

You raise a good point though. The whole Rush phony soldier thing was just a ruse to deflect media attention over the moveon add.

Can you explain what was illegal about the moveon ad?

They did not place the ad on behalf of any party or candidate (which is a requirement for it to be a political contribution) and it was also completely taken out of context by the entire right-half of the country.

Did you even see the ad for pete's sake or are you just being two-faced and hypocritical and condemning it because Rush himself told you what was the context of the ad was?

I'll help you out....here's the ad with their sources cited. If you would like to dispute any of the claims within the ad, please feel free to do so and return the common courtesy displayed by Moveon and cite your sources.

 

[Craig234]

Originally posted by: Genx87

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY

Originally posted by: Genx87
Repost

Yep, repost and nothing but a fabricated smear by Media Matters.

Isnt MM the same one who cut and slash Bill Oreillys show last week and tried to selectively quote him to make his conversation look completely different than it was?

What a credible bunch of losers they are.

No, MM published huge amounts of accurate problems with the right-wing media. You misrepresent them.

What a credible poster you are.

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
Yep, repost and nothing but a fabricated smear by Media Matters.

QFT. Hillary Clinton takes credit for getting Media Matters off the ground BTW, which makes her a direct accomplice in this BS.

 

[BMW540I6speed]

Originally posted by: Wheezer
yes, yes, by all means, a private citizen should be scolded by our congress for utilizing his freedom of speech.

What a great way for our congress to flex it's mighty muscle and go after a talk show host simply because he may have said something "offensive".

They probably have nothing better to do.

It seem they don't. I guess the lame congressional vote on the MoveOn add is contagious. monkey see - monkey do.

 

[cwjerome]

I freakin DENOUNCE Rush Limbaugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I propose the Senate spend the winter recess in session to denounce everything else that needs denouncing. This country would be a helluva lot better.

 

[BMW540I6speed]

Rush Limbaugh has called our military who criticize or oppose the war in Iraq "phony soldiers." Thus, according to Mr. Limbaugh, the numerous American soldiers who, notwithstanding their opposition to the war, followed orders, bravely did combat in Iraq and were injured or even gave their lives there (such as Omar Mora and Yance T. Gray who wrote an Op-Ed in the New York Times criticizing the war) are "phony soldiers."

I have family members who have served honorably. 1 still active and another a 20 year vet. But today they both oppose the war in Iraq. I assume Rush will call them "phony veterans." Considering the source, a man who has the gall to defame those who served while he himself never served a single day in the military, allegedly because of a boil between his buttocks, I personally would wear such an accusation as a badge of honor.

What is ironic is that Limbaugh is whining about being the victim of distortions and lies, when distortion and lies are what he and his followers specialize in. If they were ever to utter an honest word, their tongues would probably erupt into flames.

 

[Stoneburner]

Everybody who is claiming this was "proved false" is full of more fecal matter than a colostomy bag. Everybody who claims this is any different than the moveon.org stuff is full of more fecal matter than a warehouse full of colostomy bags.

If he was referring to the macbeth person, why would he only mention him 2minutes after the fact? Why would he remove the plural from "soldiers?" Why would he edit his broadcast before being sent on the armed forced network? Why would he be calling a republican a phony republican because he didn't agree with the war?

Unless you are painfully stupid you understand perfectly well that rush meant two things:

1) Republicans who don't support the war "can't be republicans
2) Soldiers who don't support the war "are phony soldiers"
3) Oxycontin makes you count funny.

 

[Narmer]

The Republican Party is the party of hypocrits. What else do you expect from them? Nothing new here, folks. Move on (no pun intended).

 

[BigRig04]

dude, NO. Stop believing what these stupid smear campains what you to believe and look at the entire conversation in context. I cannot stand these people who freak out over an out of context quote.

here's is the best representation i can find about what was talked about and what context it was in.

On his Sept. 26 show, where the controversy started, Limbaugh spoke with a caller and referred to "the phony soldiers." After the call finished, Limbaugh told his audience: "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. Now, he was a 'corporal,' I say in quotes. Now, recently, Jesse Macbeth, poster boy for the anti-war left, had his day in court. And you know what? He was sentenced to five months in jail and three years probation for falsifying a Department of Veterans Affairs claim and his Army discharge record. He was in the Army. Jesse Macbeth was in the Army, folks -- briefly -- 44 days before he washed out of boot camp. Jesse Macbeth isn't an Army Ranger, never was. He isn't a corporal, never was. He never won the Purple Heart, and he was never in combat to witness the horrors he claimed to have seen. You probably haven't even heard about this. And, if you have, you haven't heard much about it. This doesn't fit the narrative and the template in the Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party as to who is a genuine war hero...."


He's talking about a 100% phony soldier. someone who said he was what he was not. He claimed he was a purple heart recepient and was in Iraq, and he was not. This is flat out pathetic how people are foaming at the mouth about this "phony soldier" thing. It's a joke.

 

[Sinsear]

Originally posted by: Pabster

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
Yep, repost and nothing but a fabricated smear by Media Matters.

QFT. Hillary Clinton takes credit for getting Media Matters off the ground BTW, which makes her a direct accomplice in this BS.

LOL; I swear I heard a bit from her taking credit for starting MM.

 

[Moonbeam]

Rush Limpbrow appeals to an emotionally needy segment of American society, a group of people easily brainwashed by irrational logic, the very same kind of people who are susceptible to advertisement. And that is why Rush is on the air. His purpose is his pay check which is proportional to the product he sells. His outrageous statements and garner him media attention are there to broaden the net of suckers he can milk.