Limbaugh Outrage Amplified! Limbaugh's response is to name Jack Murtha!
By John Amato Thursday Sep 27, 2007 12:17pm
He not only doesn't deny, or apologize ... but names Jack Murtha!
UPDATED: He also attacked Paul Hackett: "Limbaugh Calls Iraq Vet "Staff Puke," Claims He Volunteered For War "To Pad [His] Resume"
Rush Limbaugh's anti-troop remarks has set off a ton of responses so far. Send a message to Rush via Wesley Clark: "Is Jon Soltz a phony soldier?"
Does Rush Limbaugh really want to look General Odom in the eye and call him a phony? … And while we’re at it, let’s pay attention to the 72% of american troops serving in iraq who also think the US should exit the country within the next year and more than one in four who say the troops should leave immediately according to the Zogby poll. I guess they’re all a bunch of phonies according to Rush Limbaugh.”
Howard Dean via Press release:
"Rush Limbaugh should immediately apologize to our brave men and women in uniform for undermining the sacrifices they make every day serving our country. Limbaugh's comments were un-American, have no place in the public discourse, and show just how far he'll go to defend President Bush's failed policy in Iraq. America's troops deserve better, and Limbaugh owes them an apology."
DCCC Chairman Chris Van Hollen:
Rush Limbaugh's personal attack on our men and women in uniform is reprehensible. It minimizes the sacrifice our troops in Iraq and their families are making and has no place in the public discourse. Rush Limbaugh owes our military and their families an apology for his hurtful comments that minimize their service to our country
Iraq Vet And Dem Congressman Patrick Murphy Blasts Rush
“Someone should tell chicken-hawk Rush Limbaugh that the only phonies are those who choose not to serve and then criticize those who do.
Steve Soto: ....when can we expect GOP senator John Cornyn of Texas to sponsor the resolution condemning Rush Limbaugh? You see, Omar Mora, one of the seven soldiers who wrote the New York Times op-ed opposing the war last month, and who was killed later, was Cornyn's constituent from Texas City.
Think Progress: A Challenge For Lawmakers: Will They Now Condemn Limbaugh?
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Ms. Nancy will take the resolution "off the table."
Just like she did with Impeachment.
Nice one, Mr. Anal Cyst
It's time to call out this bloated bastard for the lying charlatan that he is.
The Political Junkie @ 1:
I'm confused. I thought she wanted it 'off the table' because she thought it would needlessly tie up the senate and such.
Why didn't she then say anything against the whole MoveOn amendment?
Where's the damn censure from congress? Jesus, I'm ready to bolt the democratic party. Do something!!!!! Anything!!!!! Give us a little red meat!!!!!! Acknowledge ....anything.....
Rush would most likely want to Moveon from this :)
(In my best Cleavon Little voice...)
"Hey, where's John McCain at?!"
W... T... F...?
I think we need to stop giving these guys a place at the table. Let them say whatever they want; they have no credibility with regard to anything.
Patriot Actor @ 6:
Boooooooo!
This is Right Wing Debating Tactic #1: Never defend! Attack, Attack, Attack!
Just wait til the trolls show up here (or anywhere) and watch.
He is such a LIAR....
But for real folks... Now can you see why so many Americans dont vote...and are totally disengaged?
Aw, come on, you made me listen to this bloviater 2 days in a row. I feel so dirty.
OK, so Rush is still spewing.
But what's happened to Coulter? She's been nowhere to be seen for weeks. Psychotic breakdown, maybe?
Is it just me, or is Rush really trying beat Bill O'Reilly for the most Worst Person in the World awards this week?
As a Vietnam vet I say where the hell are the Swift Boat A-Holes on this one??? They can agree or disagree with Kerry, however, he still had boots on the ground whereas Limburger had cyst in Jockeys. The Swift should be removed from their organization and be renamed to just "Boat A-Holes".
Indignation is a republican strategy, a diversion.
If you want to send a message about the chicken-hawk, focus on his sponsors.
List them here, for that matter, so that we will know which corporations support chicken-hawks.
Forgive me folks, but I Feel A Song Coming On...
http://www.drewdaniels.com/rush.mp3
Lollimom @ 16:
Sure enough, good plan.
Typical wingnut playbook fashion....When you say something stupid and ill considered, attack everybody else. I wish I hadn't listened to that. I need a shower now.
When Republicans get ticked off they contact the advertisers. They know that money talks. I looked at Rush's home page and Barnes and Noble has a banner ad there. Wouldn't it make more sense to get B&N to pull their advertising? And what about sponsors of his radio broadcast? Hit him in the wallet!
Lollimom @ 16:
excellent idea, and let the sponsors know!
Okay, so Limpballs is a phoney excuse for a human being. Can we talk impeachment and war crimes trial yet ?
Well, on the prior Limbaugh thread some trolls appeared -- it seems that Limbaugh has spent much of his day attempting to throw chaff into the wind. I'm pre-emptively calling that garbage out right here -- Limbaugh wants us to think he's talking about non-soldiers who actually pretended to be Iraq vets in order, mostly, to gain medical benefits. That opens up a WHOLE CAN of worms right there but mostly it's a smokescreen for him to avoid the very reality that he insulted every single soldier who had the temerity to speak his mind regarding the war effort.
Those who haven't watched or listened to Limbaugh before probably are unaware that this is his tactic dejure -- he says the most outrageous, inflammatory, insulting things he can in order to discredit someone who disagrees with him, and then when he's called on it he either pretends he didn't say it (harder since his show is videotaped all day long now) or he makes shit up about what he was really saying. As someone else said of O'Really: he'd claim he was taken out of context if he got caught red-handed robbing a bank.
Don't pay the slightest attention to these trolls when they arrive. Rush was talking about this guy and these people, not about some con artist. The con artist is him. Know it. Say it. The man is a liar and a fraud.
Now let's see if the Dems have finally learned how to play this game. The GOP just did it with Moveon.org....now it's time to return the favor.
Limbaugh the victim. Another bleeding heart conservative; bleeding for himself.
Jeannie @ 20:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/
contact them at the above web site.
The only way for rush to back away from his statement is to attack anyone and everyone. He will attack the patriotism of anybody, on any subject who is different than his and the neocon talking points. GO SAY IT TO A SOLDIER RUSH! it will never happen!
This little snowball is picking up speed and growing. Let's hope the fat man holds his ground.
Consider the source. A bloated, drug addled hypocritical draft dodger with an overactive mouth. It's a simple as that.
Poor little Rushy sounds a little upset. It's fine for him to sit on the radio for 3 hours a day attacking people but when Rush gets attacked he's a little pussy.
We need to hit this hard. Limbo, the drug-addicted degenerate who got out of serving because he had a boil on his bum, needs to be given the same treatment Moveon got, especially since this is much worse--he really is attacking the troops.
Come on guys; you know Rush was only kidding. Can't you take a joke?
Guarantee this is how his comments will be spun.
You heard the Republican Senator explain the difference between the MoveOn ad and the Swiftboaters? One was directed at an elected official who should be expecting that kind of treatment; the other was a military general just doing his job.
They have an excuse for everything, and they play the Dems for the spineless fools they are!
A draft dodging reich-wing wimp that never wore a uniform a day in "his" life calls troops "phony soldiers".....how typical.
Rush is a phony American (and a seditious traitor) what do you expect?
Yes I agree, let's find his sponsors.
Jeannie @ 20:
When Republicans get ticked off they contact the advertisers. They know that money talks. I looked at Rush’s home page and Barnes and Noble has a banner ad there. Wouldn’t it make more sense to get B&N to pull their advertising? And what about sponsors of his radio broadcast? Hit him in the wallet!
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/
contact them at the above web site.
Probably better to go right to the top. It looks like B&N uses first initial/last name for email addresses. Here is what I think are probably email addresses for the top people in the company (can't guarantee it, I'm just guessing!). Please be respectful and businesslike. Ask them if they know they are sponsoring what he says, and let them know what he said.
Chairman Leonardo Riggio, lriggio@bn.com
CEO Stephen Riggio, sriggio@bn.com
CEO Marie Toulantis, mtoulantis@bn.com
COO Mitchell Klipper, mklipper@bn.com
CFO Joseph Lombardi, jlombardi@bn.com
Sr. VP Communications Mary Ellen Keating, mkeating@bn.com
WH distances itself from Rush on ‘phony soldiers’ remark.
Why is this pigfucker, this blowhard bastard, still on the air?
oh please don't give links to this jerk's diatribes (too classy a word, I know). I hate to have my head polluted by the sound of his voice, much less what he is saying.
He does deny it. He claimed he said "phony soldier" about a person who he believes was not indeed in the military. Of course, he digs himself deeper in by bringing up Murtha, but that doesn't change the fact that his comment WAS taken out-of-context. Rush is an ass. He's al liar. He's a racist. He's a chickenhawk. He's a shill for the right-wing. He's a drug-addled gasbag. He's many awful things. But this kind of reaction just fuels his ego and his idiot supporters. He did not say what he is accused of saying, and he now has (in his own embarrassing and stupid way) clarified that remark. Please, can we focus on other things? I'm sad that because I value integrity and fairness above all else, I have to end up looking like I'm defending Rush friggin' Limbaugh!
(W)hen can we expect GOP senator John Cornyn of Texas to sponsor the resolution condemning Rush Limbaugh?
When Texas freezes over.
I wonder how this is playing with the troops in Iraq. Most of them think we should get the hell out of there and the only talk radio they get is Limpballs. I have a feeling they may take umbrage at his calling them "phony soldiers". Get Rush off of Arm Services Radio!!!
songtraveler @ 13:
Taking some more hormone shots?
If congressional democrats can waste the the time to attack a political ally with a resolution of censure, they should make time to attack censure Limbaugh.
But if you're angry about this dust up, just wait until congressional democrats tuck tail and agree to absolve the telecommunication companies of their criminal behavior in spying -on-and-data mining Americans.
Limpballs loves this crap, as long as people are talking about him for any reason.
He's a non issue, his audience is angry old (or young) whitemen who can't get laid, and are unhappy with thier McJob,s so they rant about Immigrants, gays and Hillary.
Even the Rabid Right know he's a total putz.....
Bud @ 7:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB7tClTaQbg
I say it is full scale war on Limbaugh. I am sick of the whole lot of them (Hannity, Coulter, O'Rielly) crying they were "taken out of context" or was "just joking". Look at what the damn Republicans did to MoveOn. The Republicans have gotten away with this BS far too long. Did anyone hear an apology from Boehner? Further any reference from now until doomsday concerning "Republicans" should be the "Republics". I am sick of the shit Bush pulls when he consistently says Democrat and now Limbaugh in referring to the Democratic party as the Democrat party, it is a slur and should stop. These whiny assed bastards do not have the right to "anything" they please to smear a large population of people.
WAR ON SLURS
IOKIYAR
Let's play a game.
Reich-wing apologists will defend Drugbaugh with:
a) He was taken out of context
b) It doesn't matter, he's only an entertainer
c) He was only joking
d) He was high at the time
e) It's the fault of the librul media
f) Why do you libruls hate America?
ysbaddaden @ 43:
My bet is: vomiting a new book
Dr. Matt @ 49:
I liked the part where he tells his audience that he's been drumming his propaganda into their heads for years.
Charles @ 8:
I totally agree.
As so well argued by Scarecrow over at Firedoglake, the Congress needs to stop stifling free speech and do its job which is legislating. We don't need any more censure of free speech. We've known for a long time Limbaugh is a piece of shit, let the Iraq war vets handle him and let's get Congress focused on getting their comrades in arms home.
baylaw73 @ 40:
Do you also think we should just ignore the fact that the republicans voted against the MoveOn ad, and be content that we knew what they were REALLY trying to say?
g) he was brought up in another era, where whining = pussy = phony
h) he was just being himself, so don't pay any attention to him
i) his comments does not drive policy making.
j) we are avoiding the issue. The issue is that if we get out of Iraq we and the world will be a mess, and we will be called cowards.
h) librul are not man enough to withstand criticism. Our president has bigger d***, look at the photo-op on Mission Accomplished, how about you?
Has it been blamed on Clinton yet?
It's party before country with the GOP, so they will not comdemn Limpd*ck.
[...] on Media Matters, the “drive-by media,” and Rep. John Murtha (D-PA). C&L has the audio. 1:36 pm | [...]
I wonder, were Limbaugh's comment aired on Armed Forces Radio?
As if Limpball knows anything about military service or the military at all.
This is the same pathetic putz that got out of Vietnam by using the huge pimple on his
ass as an excuse.
Dr. Matt @ 37:
Better than I would have expected. Bush won't throw him under the bus, but he's not going to stand in the way of the bus either.
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Quick! Hand me my fiddle! Rome is burning!
A few hundred years from now, readers of history will look back at this period of U.S. history and wonder how people could be so corrupt and petty. While the Empire collapses around them, the "leaders" pass resolutions "shooting the messenger".
Nothing will please me more than the final collapse of this bloated institution called the U.S. political system.
Heliogabalus @ 63:
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that encouraging murder is a bit more serious than calling a soldier a 'phony'
Rush looks like he's really enjoying sucking on that cock substitute.
noone special @ 50:
Honored comfort woman in the Dick Cheney Vice Presidential Undisclosed War Bunker.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/help/customer_service/morehelp.asp?z=y&cds...
"(description of shopping habits)"
That being said, I would like to register my EXTREME disgust in discovering that Barnes and Noble advertises on the website of fascist (yes, I mean this in it's literal definition) propagandist Rush Limbaugh, who very recently referred to the honorable men and women currently serving in the military who do not support the Iraq war (64% by some reports)as "phony soldiers". I and innumerable others, such as the friend and family of those currently serving in the military are profoundly offended by this.......needless to say, I will be shopping at the "Borders" across the street until your corporate sponsorship is removed.....and I furthermore recommend an examination of the process which allowed your advertising to be placed there in the first place.
Anyone else know any other sponsors?
V V
Yeah, well, at about 1:15 today EDT, the Oxycontin Kid here claimed that "those stories" about our troops not having enough body armor or armor for their vehicles were a MYTH, a lie.
Why does this idiot still have a microphone?
Joementum @ 62:
herr dubyah has no problem having a hissy fit on live T.V. about moveon.org, but provides some lame and superficial response via "his" press liar about "his" reich-wing hero and water carrier.
When are we going to learn to stop giving these chicken-shit bully cowards seriously. When I was in high school,one of their tricks which used to make me crazy was t6hey would accuse me of being what they were.They would take what I said and turn it back on me.They would even tell me that I was a bully when I fought back and beat the crap out of one of them.I believed them cause I was 16,unsure of myself, and afraid of them.
That was then.Now,I`m an adult and I wouldn`t give any of their crap creedance.
The same goes for Limbaugh,Coulter,and the people that flock to them like flies to shit.I am so sick of seeing that picture of Limbaugh with the cigar and the arrogant,sinister,pudgy face spewing pretense.I am not interested in anything this rodent has to say,and I would advise others to stop giving this jerk an audience.
Apologize? Limbaugh? You're kidding, right?
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David Brooks knows that Limbaugh wordsmith's his wormy way out of responsibility. When I used to listen to him every day I heard him do this everyday.
See Rush had determined that Mike in Chicago was not a real solider, so in his mind he was not insulting men and women in uniform
Oh and if you listen and tell Rush you listen to him say such and such he will say "No, I didn't. You got that off of media matters." Just like O'Reilly - so who's got a play book?
His mind numbed Dittoheads, follow him without question - even when they know he said something different the day before - they give him a pass, he's got them trained so well. I know I used to be one and listened every day for 4 years . . . . but Rush would say I'm lying.
Limbaugh insults Republicans who don't agree with him and insults
"...the Congress needs to stop stifling free speech and do its job which is legislating. We don’t need any more censure of free speech".
Stifling free speech is the least of it. That vote was an opening salvo of the 2008 campaign. It was eminently successful. As of today, any republican targeted by a Move On ad will be able to point to the bipartisan censure resolution as proof that Move On is a radical, fringe organization driven by "anti-Americans"(or some such characterization). Limbaugh has provided the democrats an opening to turn the tables on the GOP with their own tactics.
Jeannie @ 20:
Then they'll just yell that you (we liberals) are practising censorship amd being hypocritical by trying to get him off the air. See they will always play the victim . . . even this the clip here on this thread you heard Rush playing the victim.
So, I don't know how to locate the people who place ads at Barnes and Noble, but the customer service number is (800) 843-2665, and you can send in a customer service email here: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/help/customer_service/morehelp.asp?z=y. I wrote:
"I would like to know who I can contact to register my unhappiness with Barnes and Noble advertising with Rush Limbaugh. I am a 3x Vietnam vet and am very angry about Limbaugh's recent remarks in which he called members of our military "phony soldiers" for opposing the war in Iraq.
Most of our soldiers now wish to end the war, so he's calling them (and me, I guess I am a "phony Vet") phonies.
I am also a very literate Vet, having averaged at least one book read each day for all of my adult life, and I'm not buying any more at Barnes and Noble so long as it advertises with Rush Limbaugh."
This turd ball needs to be held accountable...If he denies or dances around the issue,
we need to keep pressing. He's the worst kind of hypocrite...one that hides behind his
microphone where he can control the dialogue. This man has no balls.
all the constant indignation at the moveon ad in the mainstream media and yet I have heared nothing about this except from crooks and liers and some other blogs? Makes me wonder....[Makes you wonder what, exactly? Sitemonitor]
Is the mainstream media so slanted now only Republican talking points are important?
Rusty Shackleford @ 66:
Maybe that's why all three of his marriages to women failed.
I'm not saying anything other than offering a possible explanation.
Rush should know, that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Other times you can pretend that it's a long, thick, brown penis. Who knew!
"Now let’s see if the Dems have finally learned how to play this game. The GOP just did it with Moveon.org….now it’s time to return the favor."
Actually all the Democrats are working on it right now!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFvHEXMxrrA
At this point I am tempted to write fat boy and let him know what I think of him, I would need to use my military e-mail for credibility (I never use it, Ako is frustrating to use).
Let the lying sack of shit know what one soldier thinks of him, respectfully of course. Most likely he would ignore my e-mail and chalk it up to more phony soldiers upset about being called out by him. Fat boy seems to believe (at least he sounds like he believes) that all real patriots are cons like him (very Ann Coulterish of him, probably taught her everything she knows).
Rush knows all about phony.
so according to el druggo, the tape lies
and now media matters is a front for hillary???
i thought it was a front for george soros
LongTooth @ 74:
Exactly. If Dems don't hold the Repukes feet to the fire over this, they might as well close up shop and go home now.
repeal the telecommunications act of 1996 and bring back the fairness doctrine. Enough of these eugenicists being allowed all the public airwaves
I agree
Looks like Rush is using the 'Bill O'Reilly' defence...Blame everyone but himself for putting his Foot in his BIG Mouth.
repugs can go around lying but dems have watch what they're saying even if it's true.
dems are the little sister to the big brother repugs
If your wife asks you if this dress makes her butt look to big
And you say no, your butt makes your butt look big
Even though it's true, guess who's sleeping on the couch?
ooj @ 65:
You are right on target Brother, got any problem about that, sue me....
if rush knew as much about the military as he does about scoring illegal narcotics and viagra-fueled sex with dominican boys, i'd say let him speak!
Well he finally went too far. His punishment should be for him to write a letter of apology to every family of a fallen, wounded or soldier still serving or has served in Iraq. And I mean each one Hand Written.
Nothing like a fresh batch of Democratic reactionary blather. I swear, between Rush Limbaugh and MoveOn, the Dems are pretty much just playing Follow The Leader and letting the Administration control all debates. The Cave Dems are an embarrassment, and demonstrate the dead-end that is centrism. By now, Edwards is the only one of the top three that I'd even consider voting for, and Kucinich and Dodd (now that would be a ticket) are right up there with him.