Comedian Rush Limbaugh and MoveOn.org
Unless you’ve been living on a tropical island somewhere, you know that General David Petraeus testified in front of Congress this month about the U.S. “progress” in Iraq. The day before, the left-wing political group MoveOn.org, took out a full page ad in the New York Times asking the question “Is he General Petraeus or General Betray Us?” This opened the floodgates to a litany of name calling and accusations against MoveOn from both ends of the spectrum, culminating this week in a resolution in Congress against verbally attacking our serving officers in uniform, or words to that effect.
On September 26, Comedian Rush Limbaugh on his radio show was talking to a soldier serving in Iraq who said that none of the service members in his aquaintence ever had anything bad to say about the Bush administration’s current policies. Then The Comedian dropped the bomb and called those that might have a dissenting opinion “phony soldiers.” This has since culmiated in MediaMatters.com posting the entire recording of the conversation (The Comedian’s posted one too, with about a minute and a half edited out; he claims to have been talking about one “soldier” when, on the recording on MediaMatters, he clearly says “soldierS;” plural). Now you have several left leaning pundits and sites asking for Congress to do to The Comedian what it did to MoveOn.
I’m sorry, but I don’t agree that what Congress did was right at all. The last I heard, this was the United States. You know, the place where we have freedom of speech. I don’t know about you, but as far as I’m concerned, MoveOn can put out any kind of ad that it wants to. Let the consumers decide if it is unpatriotic, or even appropriate. Same with The Comedian. He is a gas bag that frequently tells his listeners exactly what they wanna hear, but I will defend to the death his right to say any stupid thing that’s on his pea sized mind.
My opinion about the MoveOn ad? It wasn’t calling Gen. Petraeus Gen. Betray Us, it was asking the question. Quite a differnt matter than what The Comedian did which was flat out calling troops that dare to dissent phony soldiers. Congress condemning the ad is like a slap in the face to everyone who values the First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution. Calling for them to do the same thing to The Comedian is equally heinous.
Has the level of political discourse sunk so low in this country that we have to get Congress to pass non-binding resolutions on ads that don’t make us feel warm and fuzzy? Shame on the Republicans who introduced this resolution and shame on the Democrats who voted its assent.
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Rush Limbaugh has been the puppet of the RR since the Clinton days, only idiots like the RR listen to that fat hypocritical bastard anyway. He is just a tool for Bush.
The Comedian is still denying that he said what he said. What is it with these guys? Media Matters has you dead-to-rights ON QUICKTIME for crissakes, Rush. I guess you think if you wish something hard enough it becomes true like Pinocchio turning into a real boy or Tinkerbell coming back to life.