Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Coming home today
I'm flying home today, so perhaps I'll get something up late afternoon. To tide you over, read Byron York's deconstruction of the phony Rush Limbaugh "phony soldiers" controversy. As others have observed, the left's attempt to construct a scandal to countervail the "Betray Us" blowback is more preparation of the coming electoral battlefield than honest outrage.
Now, I have no opinion about Rush Limbaugh. I believe I have only heard him once, driving from Orlando airport to some bad hotel, and I remember thinking that he was tedious as all get out. Perhaps he was not in peak form during those 15 minutes or, more likely, I am just not a talk radio kind of guy. But I do love a man who can spin up lefties into a spittle flecking rage just by talking every day.
3 Comments:
By 
Silas, at
Wed Oct 03, 05:00:00 PM:
If I'm understanding correctly:
Limbaugh and the caller didn't say that anti-war veterans are "phony soldiers". They said that such veterans don't exist and that anti-war groups only put forward imposters.
Arguably the latter is less offensive than the former, which is why Media Matters is so eager to rewrite the latter into the former. It's still obnoxiously untrue, though.
By 
, at
Wed Oct 03, 05:15:00 PM:
Have a good flight...
For myself, it is interesting to see how dishonest the Partisan Democrats have become.
As if they learned from the Clinton Experience in the 1990's, that being deceitful will work.
There is nothing new in this Democrat Debasing effort, except maybe the unethical use of our Governmental Institutions to push politics against the free marketplace of expression.
Harry Reid could play this slander game on any channel of the MSM, but his use of the Senate floor seems even more ugly.
Ever since we embarked on the GWOT, the Democrat Party has been undermining the effort to defend Americans.
They have debased, demeaned, etc., many in some petty effort to gain power.
This President has been the subject of the most regretful attacks.
One would believe those who disagree with the Democrat Agenda would be eager to rebuke their folly at the voting booth.
But sadly, it seems some just don't care, until they themselves are the subject of the smear.
Quite a few, reacted almost indifferently to the lies being produced about the Bush Administration.
How could anyone not understand, they are only next in line?
Even if there are those who do not agree with Mr. Limbaugh, Republicans, this President, (for example; Libertarian Elements) there should exist sincere concern over the manipulation being produced by those dedicated to the Democrat Agenda.
In fact, a famous Actor advocating for the Democrat Party, actually claimed in a popular campaign Ad, that the Republican Candidate was opposed to medical advancements to find needed cures.
That sort of dishonest expression should be rejected by everyone.
Prior to the 2006 election, Nancy Pelosi repeatedly lied about the connection of Iraq to the GWOT, with outrageous claims that al Qaeda wasn't even in Iraq.
Yet, some seemed eager to empower such misguided negligence out of some jaded angst, unwittingly empowering the opposite of their desires, and a truly corrupted Party.
I can only hope Americans unite to oppose and strongly rebuke this malfeasant Democrat effort in 2008.
By Assistant Village Idiot, at
Wed Oct 03, 11:00:00 PM:
JSinger: No, you are not understanding it correctly. Limbaugh is long on record as believing that the numbers of serious opponents to the war are exaggerated and sought out by the media, but has never suggested that they don't exist or are anything other than dutiful but wrong. In this particular instance, his contention is that he was speaking about actual phoneys. After a few days of spin and counterspin, the record bears him out that this is indeed what he said.
