Yet Limbaugh's "rant,'' as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called it this week, certainly sounded like a slap at "phony soldiers'' protesting the war -- and Limbaugh went on to expand his roster of "genuine phony soldiers'' on his show Friday, adding Rep. Jack Murtha of Pennsylania, a retired Marine colonel and decorated Vietnam veteran who opposes the war in Iraq.
Limbaugh maintains it is his critics who owe veterans an apology for misconstruing his remarks. Critics are pressing Limbaugh for the same.
"This is not just the anatomy of a smear,'' Limbaugh complained on his program yesterday. "There's much more going on with this than just smearing me. There is an attempt, I think, as they have done throughout my career, to discredit me.''
(Rush Limbaugh on the radio. AP Photo by Medialink/WirePix, Jim Sulley)
VoteVets.org, a group of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, is launching a modest run of TV ads -- there's only $60,000 behind an overall TV and radio buy, which won't corner much cable time. The group says it will air a radio version of the ad during the Rush Limbaugh Show in the Washington, DC., market and and in his home market of Palm Beach, Florida.
The ad features Brian McGough of Washington, who was wounded by shrapnel in an enemy's explosion. McGough received the Purple Heart for his traumatic brain injury.
"More and more troops and veterans of Iraq believe George Bush's military policy has been a disaster...I am one of them,'' McGough says in the ad, facing the camera with stern words for the radio commentator. "Rush Limbaugh called vets like me "phony soldiers" for telling the truth about Iraq.
"Rush, the shrapnel I took to my head was real,'' he continues. "My traumatic brain injury was real. And, my belief that we are on the wrong course in Iraq is real. Until you have the guts to call me a "phony solider" to my face, stop telling lies about my service."
The ad closes with the comment: "Tell Rush Limbaugh to stop insulting our troops and veterans.''
Jon Soltz, an Iraq war Veteran and chairman of VoteVets.org, says: "Maybe Rush Limbaugh and his ilk haven't heard, but there's a new sheriff in town - America's troops and veterans, who are not going to sit idle while people like Rush demean the service of those who oppose the President's failed policy in Iraq.
"Maybe Rush got away with smears like this in the past, but he's not going to on our watch,'' Soltz says. "There's nothing phony about those who chose to wear the uniform and fight. And someone like Rush Limbaugh, who avoided service, is the one of the least qualified people on the face of the earth to pass judgment on us."
2007-10-02 06:12:16 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Limbaugh is the model of a chickenhawk. He'd be against the war if his draft number came up.
2007-10-02 06:17:10 · answer #1 · answered by El Duderino 4 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Enough already - this is nothing but an out of context, far left smear campaign by the far left loons. Don't buy into it - such a statement is so far out of character for pro-Bush, pro-war Rush Limbaugh that even I smelled a rat when I first heard it - and I'm definitely no Rush Limbaugh fan.
2016-05-19 06:36:12 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cyst on LimbaUGH's butt that prevented(?) his becoming a soldier, real or otherwise, has obviously spread to his brain, It really didn't have all that far to go.
2007-10-02 07:27:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Rush Limbaugh managed to get out of serving in Vietnam thanks to a cyst he had on his butt, and yet he somehow has the NERVE to criticize decorated veterans who served valiantly in that damned war! What nerve!
2007-10-02 06:20:33 · answer #4 · answered by tangerine 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Rush is a smear merchant - the man has no honor, honesty, or sense of fairness.
Typical of the party of "you first after me", and "might makes right".
2007-10-02 06:23:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
They guy he was talking about is a vet poser..served 44 days and got kick out of basic training. Then goes on to claim he served in Iraq and witnessed atrocities total BS artist...sound familiar...Kind of like Kerrys tall tales.
2007-10-02 06:18:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
schrapnel vs Oxycontin... hmm...
I think I'll side with the schrapnel.
Rush is proof that when you anger a conservative enough, he will then spew so much hate-filled rhetoric that his brain can't keep up with his mouth.
2007-10-02 06:25:58 · answer #7 · answered by Lily Iris 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Rush the pillpopper huh? Well, At least he is an honest pillpopper! I would rather him be that than try to cover up his pillpopping!
2007-10-02 06:20:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
"The pill popper" - how mean of you! I am serious. Rush has an addiction that he has faced and brought under control. For that he should be congratulated. Most addicts cannot do this.
2007-10-02 06:16:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 7⤋
Nothing
But to Kerry (stupid) Reid (loser) and Murther (cold blooded killers) I say to these three go to hell
2007-10-02 06:16:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 6⤋