Latest Vote Vets Ad: Rush - Say It To My Face
By Logan Murphy Tuesday Oct 02, 2007 10:51am
Comedian and anti-troop, anti-veteran propagandist, Rush Limbaugh, gets another smackdown from VoteVets.org. Iraq veteran Brian McGough, who suffered a traumatic brain injury in Iraq after shrapnel lodged in his skull, sends a message directly to the draft-dodging Limbaugh, telling him to stop telling lies about his service. Vote Vets isn't about to let up on the coward after his phony troop statement and I applaud them for keeping up the pressure. Will Rush ever accept Jon Soltz's challenge to meet with him face to face? Figure the odds...
UPDATE: (Nicole) Never one to stop digging when finding himself in a hole, Rush lashed out at McGough on his radio program, likening him a suicide bomber:
On the October 2 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh denounced a recent ad by VoteVets.org that featured Iraq war veteran Brian McGough, calling the ad "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."
The ultimate irony? McGough received his permanent brain damage from shrapnel from a suicide bomber. Classy move, Rush.
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Reich-wingers are embarrassing themselves by defending drugbaugh.
el druggo...continuing to dig himself into a deeper and deeper hole
keep talking rush
Dr. Matt @ 1:
The thing is, they are defending the ULTIMATE phony soldier.
Bush.
"lying to him about what I said"
...as though this vet is comparable to Pills LImbaugh's listeners who depend on a drug addict to tell them what to think. Even though this brave vet is/was brain-damaged by shrapnel, he can still think for himself. Good on him for his bravery in battle and in the media.
There are limbaughs everywhere, but what I can't understand is why he has listeners.
Rush is the poster child of the clueless power-broker. A rich, fat, balding white-man smoking cigars and spouting opinions over things he knows nothing about.
Does it surprise anyone that the Neanderthal collection of scrotal material that makes up the repug party would venerate a giant dick?
Dumber than his "phony soldiers" remark -- and even harder to spin. Keep talking, ya fat loser.
Why should these guys wait for Rush to invite them onto his show for a face-to-face? These vets should hunt the fat guy down and GET IN HIS FACE with a camera asking him point blank questions, Fox style. Imagine how he would react to being hounded every day outside his studio by a bunch of veterans.
All I'm going to offer on this is one point... IF, an Iraqi vet decided to take Mr. Limpass to task directly... And who knows, maybe even violently??? I really doubt that there's a jury in this nation that would convict.... I know I wouldn't give Rush two cents for his bloody nose... And if, thats all he ever came away with after the garbage he's filled the airwaves with all these years... He could consider himself pretty damned lucky... all things considered....IF... You know, this is like an OJ thing sort of... IF he did, and if an Iraqi war vet did... etc blah blah... Mostly Rush just continues to show himself to be the penultimate dickhead....Why he's still manages to make it onto the air is a mystery to me..... I think he and his tiredassed act have been losing market share for awhile now.............JD
Archae @ 3:
Isn't that the pathetic truth! And Rush... STFU! You're next to the biggest LOSER on the planet; the several others ahead of you are Bu$h, Cheney, Kristol, and on and on...
thought I'd give Parkinsons patients a break and rip a disabled soldier
Rush wouldn't say "boo" to anybody's face, because, like most of his listeners, he's an enormous chickenshit.
This is an honest and courteous ad.
But I think the time for being courteous to Limbaugh and all the other media pimps-for-Bush is over.
They have proven time and again to be military cowards (too afraid to serve), chicken-hawks (gladly send your kids to their deaths), and in the case Limbaugh, putridly phony drug addicts.
It is time to stop the words and begin the face-to-face confrontations, even if forced in public. Let's see how the likes of Limbaugh and Hannity (and others) react to non-violent confrontations that are captured on video.
Show them for what they are when they don't have the skirts of a camera or microphone to hide behind.
In the olden days, somebody would have just beat Rush's fat drug addicted ass. I wish it were olden days.
Why are we surprised that Rush is clinging to his feeble story? This is standard Limbaugh, make an outrageous statement, get a bunch of conservative zombies to nod in agreement, and then blather about how the left can't meet him head-on in the marketplace of ideas.
It won't matter how many decorated soldiers of whatever rank come forward to dispute Rush's words - Limbaugh will self-edit and cast aspersions on anyone who dares to 'take him out of context'.
What Limbaugh does doesn't really matter. We need a chorus of voices, the Jon Soltz's, the General Wesley Clarks, newspaper editors, and others to call out the sheer hypocrisy and idiocy of Limbaugh and his ilk.
Not to pass a resolution condemning his speech, but simply to destroy the man's credibility through presentation of the facts.
Rush Limbaugh is a national disgrace. He needs to be relentlessly hounded until he's driven off Armed Forces Radio. He is a bloated, degenerate, corrosive, lying, un-American gasbag. But it's a mistake to call him a comedian, that diminishes the seriousness of his crimes. And it gives him cover, just like it does Ann Coulter -- every time these criminal propagandists cross the line, they're able to claim "Oh, I was just joking, I'm a comedian." Call them what they are -- disgusting, vicious liars without an ounce of honesty, humor, or decency.
AF_Comm_Guy @ 8:
I love this idea!!! It's great... okay, you wonderful vets, here's another great opportunity at making Mr. Shoot-My-Mouth-Off-I'm-Just-A-Talking-Head-Limbaugh face you.
The hypocrisy of all this is that while Limbaugh slams "phony soldiers" he himself, when he had an opportunity to display his patriotism, mysteriously managed to avoid being drafted and/or volunteering so he could be sent to the jungles of Vietnam. On his radio show in December 2001, I believe, a caller accused Limbaugh of dodging Vietnam because of a "boil on his butt." Limbaugh denied this, claiming that it was "Internet BS." If he is to be taken at his word [a rather dubious proposition], it begs the question of how he managed not to be sent to Vietnam alongside the other poor working class bastards who ended up fighting and dying unnecessarily in that ill-conceived war. Like O'Reilly and the other chickenhawks, Limbaugh is great at practicing the adage "do as I say, not as I do."
It's a great way to distract from the $140Bil new money for war or the continuing fiasco at Walter Reed.
Archae @ 3:
That's a huge insult to the military to even call herr dubyah a "phony soldier". He's scum, anti-American, anti-military, anti-children, anti-facts, anti-intelligence, anti-truth, anti-Christian, anti-democracy, anti-human, etc., etc., but never use the word "soldier" in any form to ever describe that fascist pig.
MargeAggedon @ 6:
Now THAT is quoteworthy! :lol:
Limpy McBustcyst - troophater.
Apparently drugbaugh also thinks our vets are stupid and that they can't think for themselves.
Erroll @ 18:
Limpdong is a cyst on the ass of the AmurKKKan conscience.
Way to go, El Rushbaugh!!! I bet he NEVER takes tha Soltz challenge!
Great advertisement.
Maybe a phony soldier can pretend to visit Rush Limbaugh in the night, chloroform him into unconsciousness, pretend to surgically remove his fat atrophied limbs and pretend to force him to eat them at gunpoint.
LET'S PRETEND TOGETHER, RUSH!
LET'S PRETEND TOGETHER, RUSH!
LET'S PRETEND TOGETHER, RUSH!
LET'S PRETEND TOGETHER, RUSH!
Dr. Matt @ 23:
Or read the transcript, or listen to the actual clip. How can people who are on a radio/TV show say something, and have it played back to them, still have the nerve to look you straight in the eye and say " I never said that. Don't lie about what I said"?
If there was a shred of a doubt in anyone's mind that Rush and his supporters in the GOP are anything but "unpatriotic, America haters", his comments to McGough seal the deal.
Rush and his backers remind me of McCain. They keep stooping lower and lower and will eventually self-destruct.
Thanks Limbaugh, for knocking the Move-on ad hubbub out of the headlines. Yet another shining Michael Fox moment.
Also a shout-out to Media Matters http://mediamatters.org/ for staying on this story and not retreating.
Classy? Anyone who looks to Rush for an example of class probably looks to a horse to get milk.
A male horse.
Odds are: slim and none. Rush is a coward. He has never allowed dissenting views on his radio program all the way back to the 80's and he ain't gonna start now...
Rush's Dick is just big enough for the little boys he loves and seeks out.
Fanon @ 28:
It's the typical reich-wing mantra: never admit you're wrong and always claim you are taken out of context. When will these so called "liberals" on cable TV point this out?
Brian McGough then responded to Rush's latest outrage in this diary at DailyKos:
goatsage @ 30:
I recommend people donating to MMFA and/or moveon.org for not backing down from these arsehole reich-wingers. I dropped 50 last week to moveon.org; may do the same this week for MMFA. Money well spent.
Attacking policy is one thing, attacking Soldiers is something else. It is easy to have courage from afar. We do have free speech and Soldiers are dying to uphold it. Everyone has their right to their say; however...
Chickenhawk: a politician, bureaucrat, or commentator who strongly supports a war or other military action, but has never personally been in a war, especially if that person actively avoided military service when of draft age.
When I hear Rush Limbaugh speak of anything that has to do with Soldiers and War, as a Veteran this comes to mind immediately and I dismiss him … A pilonidal cyst is a cyst at the bottom of the tailbone (coccyx) that can become infected and filled with pus. Once infected, the technical term is pilonidal abscess. Pilonidal abscesses look like a large pimple at the bottom of the tailbone, just above the crack of the buttocks.
A better description does not exist.
justabill @ 35:
fantastic! shove this in the face of every troll who tries to defend limbaugh.
Take another pill Rush. Before the buzz wears off. Then hide in the safety of your studio and continue your program of sedition.
BTW, fucked any minors in the Dominican Republic lately?
Also yu do have the right to remain silent. Since you've given up that right, anything you have said will be used against you if you walk the streets.
In America, Rush, we support our troops. If you don't want to do that then GET THE FU*K OUT OF MY COUNTRY!!! Might I suggest following Halliburton to Dubai.
CNN just showed the ad. Ah Rush, you bit off more than you could chew this time.
Rush just shut up ! Clear Channel send the non-human for time out. He is clearly out of his head, he and Billo have their lists of people who are out to get them. I thought we put people like this away ?
Limp-Dick Blimpaugh @ 33:
then he will not be allowed to play in the big boys playgrounds in republican pay toilets!
I may get together with Shrub and knock over a few baby carriages this week. Get your own F'ing insurance kiddies!
Dr. Matt @ 34:
Um ... never. The media hasn't learned their lesson yet, and always proceeds from the belief that Limbaugh and the rest speak unassailable truth. Or they end up conceding a minor point and letting the rest slide.
off topic-but important bush just vetoed children's health care call the whithouse and let them know what you think of his veto billions for war but not one cent for our children!
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SteveK @ 5:
DING DING DING DING! There's our winner for today.
you know i'm not threatening rush or encouraging anything like that but he has a well know face. there are lots of vets out there old and new. it's one thing when attacking the opinions and statements of officers--enlisted men have always done that--it's the american way sort of...but when you bash for whatever reason a good number of serving and former on the ground soldiers you really have put your foot in it.
my dad supported nixon but when soldiers came back from vietnam and started telling about the war as they saw it my dad's attitude changed gradually. he knew what it was like to be there. when he saw politicians in suits talk down their noses to soldiers, well he was a working class man and vet first, a republican second.
i would almost feel sorry for rush like i did imus, but like imus this is not one instance. imus didn't insult just those college basketball players; it was his m.o. and maybe this is the first time rush directed his ugliness at soldiers but there is a long list of this vile stuff. maybe like mccarthey he should have left the military alone...snoozing lions and all that.
This fat fuck is the reason we need the Fairness Doctrine. But we'll never get it, because these worthless senators and reps don't do anything except flutter and feather thier own nests.
If they cared, this war would be over, New Orleans would be flooded with National Guardsmen ready to rebuild.
They just keep voting for more money for Iraq and whining they don't have the votes. Who cares? Stand up for the right thing.
What kind of person considers Rush Limbaugh comedic? I suppose if you focus on the drivel that spews from his mouth, you might find him laughable.
Like a slug introduced to a massive dose of salt, Limbaugh is writhing in agony over his shrinking audience. I guess a number of 'dittoheads' are getting their cranial rectal inversion repaired. I hope this happy trend continues.
All good comments
But you might want to think about voting for Rush Limpbaugh's continued presence in our world with your wallet. Here is a list of his advertisers. Apparently they ALSO believe the troops are mindless drones who will believe anything they are told? Or perhaps they ALSO believe that the soldiers on the ground in Iraq are "Phony Soldiers"?
Why else would they continue to SPONSOR his program?
This is certainly not the first time Rush has spewed his insults towards soldiers that have served this country honorably. In past programs he has called Paul Hackett a "staff puke," and Sen John Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran, "a fraud," and "a total phony." All this from a chickenhawk who couldn't be more ill-suited to make any sort of comment about anyone who has put on a uniform for this country, for when it was his time to serve his country proudly, Rush Limbaugh didn't (and that's putting it nicely).
If someone can be a "phony soldier", then what would you call a dopeheaded, militaristic gasbag?
A Phony Patriot!
After reading about Brian McGough, I wrote this response to Rush:
Add me to a list that I am sure is quite long by now:
Impugning the intentions and motives of this decorated soldier for your own personal and political reasons is deplorable and cowardly. Why not meet Mr. McGough in person, thank him for his service, and listen to what he has to say? It can be a private moment, but I believe you owe him a public apology for what you said about him.
As for being somehow (allegedly) manipulated by MoveOn or some other (in your view) dark, nefarious force, you strip him of the dignity of his personal choice to speak as he will. If he didn't want to appear in the ad, don't you think he would have declined? A man brave enough to receive the Bronze Star ought to be granted, at least, that benefit of the doubt from you. He is a grown man, perfectly capable of thinking for himself. Give him the dignity that his service to this country entitles him to.
Chris Crockett
Long Beach, CA
Patty @ 46:
And CBS had a gushing segement on Jenna Bush and her work abroad with poor children (and her new book). I had the sound down, so I don't know if she was asked about her dad's stand on S-CHIP (but I doubt it).
ABC News reported about (and coined the phrase) "phony soldier", Jesse McBeth, who made unsubstantiated, sensationalistic claims about US troops engaged in various criminal acts in Iraq.
Rush's record regarding support for the troops is the stuff of legend:
> ...raises and contributes out of his own pocket millions of dollars to provide scholarships for the children of Marines and other personnel killed in action. There has never been an ideological test for that support. The Marines and their families needn’t agree with Rush’s politics to qualify. Instead, it is and it has always been an expression of heartfelt gratitude for service. <
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It doesn't matter what Votevets.org does if this @sshole still has an audience.
"Rush’s record regarding support for the troops is the stuff of legend" says Sarcastically
A legend in his/your own mind, and if you are going to call ths posters here "crooks" you may consider linking to something other than the dishonst ramblings of the National Review.
blah, blah. blah
seriously @ 55:
goatsage @ 57:
Ah... so that's your educated and informed opinion based on real and documented facts, eh?
Admit it, it's just fun to bash Rush.
Why not try making a real, sunstantiated point in the political forum?
seriously @ 59:
Only if you learn to use spell check first.
seriously @ 55:
Sarcastically- Why not try making a real, sunstantiated point in the political forum?
And why not listen to to the entire UNEDITED version of Rush's blather rather than what you are spoon-fed?
seriously @ 55:
Ah. Standard 'someone else said it first' dodgeball from a conservative.
And how are Rush's words consistent with his supposed charity? Stuff of legend? Legends talk of heroic deeds, not mealy-mouthed hypocrisy wherein one freely insults soldiers and then 'gives millions' to assuage a guilty conscience.
As for the authors on this site, a dig at their integrity doesn't wash away the stain of Rush's words.
hey guys, here is a great blog by another of el druggos phony soldiers
http://armyofdude.blogspot.com/2007/09/real-deal.html
and please note the comments on the page from dittoheads
AF_Comm_Guy @ 8:
Bingo! That son of a bitch wouldn't last two seconds if confronted by a horde of mad-as-hell vets who have walked the walk and seen shit no one should see.
A pox upon Limbaugh and his ass-kissing dittoheads.
Limbo is finished. This will be his Waterloo
Oh and at 'sincerely'. I took the time to read the 'article' (read op-ed). Are we just to take the author's word that Rush does this? Show me where I can apply for said scholarship. I can't seem to find any 'proof' such a thing exists outside of this 'article'.
Ah... the ever-useful tactic of deflecting the argument to areas of non-importance.
Well, Strawberry, I'll work on hitting the "b" instead of "n" for "substantiated" if GoatSack will try not to leave any more "e"'s out of "dishonest".
Feelin' better?
Anyone here feel up to the task of defending this whole crapload of slander/libel against Rush? Someone able to talk in the broader scope and not simply taking two words out of context? or repeatedly parroting lame jokes about drug addiction?
rush limbaugh is no comedian!!!
Rush comparing an American soldier to a suicide bomber, an American who bravely served our country and suffered wounds from a suicide bomber's attack...that is SICK. For anyone to defend Rush now is laughable.
seriously @ 68:
No, apparently not even you can defend his actions.
Fat turds of the world unite
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seriously @ 68:
Why. Rush dropped out of college, supports a war when he was too much of a coward to actually serve himself, has more money than he'll ever be ble to spend on Oxycontin, Viagra and underage prostitutes in the Marianas islands and yet is too lazy to hire a personal trainer. He's been married HOW MANY TIMES? He has no integrity, and really, really grosses me out, but yet attacks real men like Paul Hackett. So why should I waste my time on someone I have no respect for?
seriously @ 68:
Libel/slander requires the charge to be provably false. The transcript lays that to rest in a heartbeat, and the quick-and-dirty edit job by Limbaugh or his staff does not support his claim of being taken out of context, but rather his awareness that his words are, in fact, an insult to many courageous men and women who have capably served this country.
Honor, the same honor that Rush impugns, would call for honesty and an apology, yet he offers neither, just a hollow 'taken out of context' and complaints about those evil liberal media types.
As for Rush's great charitable works, the words 'limbaugh charity marines' yields nothing, though there is reference to a significant donation made to a leukemia/lymphoma charity, and a wikipedia reference to 'charity cigar auctions.' You'd think that 'millions' donated to benefit veterans would get greater play.
seriously @ 55:
Rush is on hilly-billy heaven, what can I say?
Limbo is on the radio now and he is just rambling. Sounds pretty pathetic. From what I'm hearing, I wouldn't be suprised if they pull the plug and send him on an extended vacation.
I think he'll eventually apologize. This is way bigger than him. His puppet masters will have no choice but to make him eat crow.
About time. Clear Channel and EIB have run their course - Thank God!
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seriously @ 80:
What part of "WE HEARD THE ACTUAL RADIO SHOW UNEDITED!" do you not get? The 1:50 version not the 1:30 version Rush is pushing. For cryin' out loud.
Goebbels used to bring the doughnuts every morning . He was a good guy.
Gasbaugh's first line of defense is that McGough was fed "lies" about what the flaming Gasbaugh said and is mindlessly jawing for the camera. (Wow, way to respect the troops Rush!) But his meaning is abundantly, irrefutably clear from his own words, clips and transcripts of which are widely available online to check.
The patronizing notion that critics, particularly those behind whom war pornographers and right-wing assholes routinely hide behind during the Bush Dim Ages, can't "think for themselves", and being fed disinformation and sent out like windup toys is astonishing.
It's the first pushback when vets like McGough (or Cleland or Kerry) or a Gold Star Mom like Cindy Sheehan stand up and expose the lies. (Cindy also gets the sexist mentally unbalanced / shrill labels slapped on).
This even came up during Billawfel's foray into Harlem when one think that surprised him was all the black diners apparently in possession of their respective senses and thinking, independently, for themselves as if ... as if ... not sharing one brain or sump'n!
seriously @ 69:
Fact: he did use the term phony soldiers. Fact: he used the term minutes before he referenced McBeth.
Fact: He edited the tape to mislead his intent when using the phrase phony soldiers.
Fact: When you listen to the unedited tape it is clear he intended to smear any soldier that wasn't lockstep with his views. OK, meathead??
seriously @ 80:
Now who is taking things out of context? That is not what Rush was talking about at all. That ABC show was a piece about people defrauding the government for money. Rush was calling soldiers who disagree with our course of action, and speak about it publicly "phony" soldiers because they do not fall in lock-step with this administration. Yes! Yes! I have listened to the unedited version. Have you?
The word "classy," no matter the context, should never be used in a sentence referring to Rush Limbaugh.
rash limpballs can either confirm what he said face to face with Brian McGough, or apologize face to face.
Otherwise he's a coward as this thread implies, although little proof is needed since he was a draft dodger as well.
What does he want for his anal cyst, John Kerry's purple heart?
Seriously,
Explain his latest comments. What is his justification for comparing Mr. McGough to a suicide bomber? What is his justification for comparing a permanently wounded soldier to a terrorist? I don't know if you know anyone recovering from a serious head injury, but this man literally gave his life to this war. He will never be the same person he was before. What possible rationale could you, or Mr. Limbaugh, have for comparing him to the very people who have altered his life irrevocably?
I would've though he'd lose any and all credibility after he made fun of Michael J Fox's Parkinson tremors.
ysbaddaden @ 89:
He was talking about some other Michael J. Fox who has Parkinsons. Now stop taking him out of context.
Republicans are preparing to forward something called the 'Broadcast Fairness Act,' which - instead of promoting fairness, blocks the restoration of the Fairness Doctrine.
Because, apparently, windbags like Rush should be allowed to spew their vile crap without restriction, but MoveOn.org is a horrible, evil, entity that must be stomped on.
Seriously:
Please let go of that thin, trembling straw that you're grasping. You're in deep, deep water, way over your head with your weak rationalizations. You're adding more insult to injury of Brian McGough. Shame on you and your ilk.
To all who'd question the controversy see:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/10/02/wesley-clark-take-rush-limbaugh...
Or is a former general a "phony soldier" too?
The Falcon of the Alleghenies @ 27:
LMAO!!!!
Fanon @ 88:
Classic Chickenhawk MO, attack anyone, even a "real" soldier who questions you behind the safety of his microphone and security guards. Deflect, regroup, make shit up and delfect some more. Just watch Dana Perino, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, etc. in action.
[Seriously. You're off topic. And I find it interesting that your fake email addy is an attempt at insult and you've only ever apparently posted here today and only on this topic. Smacks of concern trolling. And flamebaiting. Don't get me wrong. We welcome non-progressive commentary, but you need to follow the rules. One of them is to stay on topic. Seriously-Sitemonitor]
For all his charitable work, has he ever gone to Iraq to entertain the troops like Al Franken did?
I hear Al's real hot in his silver lame hot pants, and tube top, grinding to Oops I Did It Again.
Fanon @ 85:
Nicely put. And where is Seriously the troll now?
Boot @ 98:
Might that be what Rush was referring to all along? It just might be.
Cut it out. You cannot revise history. Your own link proves you wrong. It is not what he intended. That is simply the spin put on it afterwards. He said exaclty what he meant to say. If you do not support the administration, if you are not 'happy to serve', if you do not believe that we are doing the right thing by being in Iraq, then you are a phony soldier.
The context was a direct result of a caller saying he served in the army and wanted to know why we weren't leaving and that he felt we were doing the wrong thing. Rush derided him by saying that he had 'walked on the moon'.
The next caller was a lock step caller who also, without any additional proof, stated that he was a soldier. That soldier was immediately believed and the two of them carried on to state that soldiers that talk to the media regarding their anti-war sentiments were 'phony soldiers'.
Concise enough for you? Enough context for you?
If we're talking about "phony soldiers," what about rich drunken frat boys who get cushy assignments to avoid duty in Vietnam, then spend half the time AWOL, or all the chicken-hawks who rah-rah this naked adventurism and never served a day in their life.
You could even include Bill O' Rielly's I've seen combat bit.
I may not be a war-time veteran, but as one guy at the VA hospital said, I'm a Cold War Veteran.
Boot @ 98:
That would also seem to lump together all those retired generals who came out either against the war or how it's been mismanaged by the reichwing.
ysbaddaden @ 101:
Active duty personnel receive campaign ribbons even if they weren't on the battlefield. I know a former Air Force officer who has her Desert Storm ribbon even though she was still 'training' for her specialty at the time.
If you served, it's a damn sight more than Cheney, the Invisible Man (Bush), or an army of Limbaughs ever offered. Be proud, and don't feel you need to qualify your service.
seriously @ 96:
Oy. You're obtuse. What Rush and his caller were alluding to with Jesse was that all soldiers that speak out against the war are fake LIKE JESSE. Get it? If you disagree with the war you must be a phoney soldier like Jesse. That was the point they were trying to make. How many ways must we point that out before it seeps into your brain. But what Roundboy doesn't seem to comprehend is, there are are millions of vets, and active duty and their families who are opposed to this war and we (yes WE) know exactly what he was alluding to. And it pissed us off.
ysbaddaden @ 101:
Yea, I remember that, what an idiot Brillo is. And Seriously, what's the point of parsing Rush's comments so? Are you just here to argue? Do you intend to stick up for all of Rush's seriously misguided rants? Or just this one? And as far as your question:
"You tell me, who’s doing more damage to the troops?" Let's see Rush has a national radio show that reaches millions and this MacBeth person you refer to doesn't. I think the answer is obvious.
Strawberry @ 104:
strawberry forget it , he's as dense as a block of granite, so stop wasting your time. Rush=PIG period...........
Whaaa? @ 106:
You're right, I need a vacation. For some reason it was the sight of that poor man's head, that set me off. That scar. My first instinct was to kiss it make it better. I pray he has someone to kiss it make it better.
The right wing.....What a thoroughly compassionate bunch!
The desperation is as thick as the fetid fumes from one of Gasbaugh's lanced ass boils.
Rethug trollery: can't dispute PharmBoy's phony soldier's remarks? Kern the sucker by introducing an edited version and trying to retrofit the irrefutable facts with that.
The king of the dittoheads should be taken off Armed Services Radio -- after he apologizes for his phony soldiers comments. Republicans who tried to COMMEND him rather than condemn him shouldn't rest easy. They own the comments too now, which will follow them throughout their election campaigns. (I hope everyone has them bookmarked for LTEs and activism in '08.)
Kudos to McGough for standing up to the ass cyst coward
goatsage @ 95:
Gee, I guess Seriously has 'cut and run'.
RUSH LIMBAUGH's LATEST: ‘WOUNDED VETS ARE TAKING PHONY PAINKILLERS’
Rather like a snake eating it's own tail...innit?
Rather wish we could see what Kucinich, Gravel, Biden, are up to....what progress blueamerica is making.
Torment to see all these videos about people who drive us crazy like Porkroast and the rest.
Gave up cable just to get away from this crazy-making go-round that really gets us nowhere and keeps us hopeless and full of rage.
I don't bother watching these videos, we know the nature of these people all too well. So what CAN we do to reinspire or hope instead of keeping the MSM in business?
Where are the alternative news sources?????????
It's sickenly bad enough he insinuated McGough was a suicide bomber when he was in fact injured by a real suicide bomber, this line by Rush Chickenshithawk quoted at Media Matters jumped out at me:
So Rush didn't even see the VoteVets ad with McGough before he blindly, uninformed as normal for Rush, stepped squarely into this latest crap and is now trying to cover it up. The only phony soldiers I know of are the thousands of prosthetics for blown off limbs. The way it's going it won't take long for a phony leg soldier prosthesis kicked up his sorry ass and a phony arm soldier prosthesis shoved down his vile throat.
seriously@96
AP has interview with the caller. He is sure that they were talking about GI's that opposed the war, not McBeth when pumpkin head used phony soldiers.
moondancer @ 115:
Phony ditto-head, obviously.
This was posted above, but is worth another mention.
Brian McGough [the soldier in the ad] responded to Rush's Limpbough this diary at DailyKos:
Damn Straight!
My prediction is that Rush will sink so low as to say this soldier's traumatic brain injury has affected his critical thinking and that is the reason why he does not support the war.
No insult is too base for Mr. Limbaugh to utter.
If Rush really thought for a second that he meant the one "phony soldier" Macbeth, 1) he wouldn't have used plural "phony soldiers" and 2) he wouldn't have felt the need to brazenly try to play a doctored audio clip of the original offensive broadcast, claiming it was "the entire transcript, in context," apparently thinking no one would notice he had edited out a full 1 minute and 35 seconds.
No, he's completely full of $hit.
Limbaugh selectively edited "phony soldiers" clip, claimed it was "the entire transcript"
http://mediamatters.org/items/200709280009
Then, he sure as hell wouldn't have went a step further by smearing Murtha with his "phony soldier" BS either.
Limbaugh expands group of "phony soldiers" to include Vietnam veteran Murtha
http://mediamatters.org/items/20070928001
and now he's not just a chickenhawk liar, he's also a chicken$hit liar
Limbaugh Complains Press Didn’t Call Him For Comment, Then Ignores MSNBC’s Call For Comment
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/03/msnbc-rush-no-comment/
Fanon @ 111:
Is that what I smell?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ITVD9A3hA&mode=related&search=
My gut tells me it's pronounced McGow.
I mean how the hell do you pronounce limbaugh, like Limbag or limbog, or limbough?
ysbaddaden @ 87:
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when you see or hear about a wounded soldier in iraq or afganistan do you wonder if those republican assholes with the purple heart bandaids are snickering about that silly scratch?
maybe this republican delagate from texas has some more of those she could hand out...har har! wounded vets!
seriously @ 99:
Jenny'O @ 122:
I thought exactly that. That site of reichwing conventioneers with those purple heart bandaids was sickening.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCb9lh3nVd0
oops, i meant to put this link in with comment #122.
here's yer bandaid
http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/04/169.html
Rush is all class, minus the cl.
Looks like ma had too much apple pie.
ysbaddaden @ 87:
Damn straight. I would love to see Limpballs go face to face against McGough. McGough would eat that coward for breakfast and Rush knows it.
Rush benefits either way - he gets more publicity, more ratings, more money.
Oink!
Rush is everything I've come to expect from a craven, draft-dodging, Oxycontin-gulping, viagra-taking buggerer of underage boys from the Dominican Republic.
arroyo @ 129:
.....and we ALLOW this FETID BAG OF ROTTING PORK to steal our attention away from what we need to do to stem the Fascist tide from rising over our heads.
Learned from my dad (whom I love very much, don't get me wrong) dealing with certain mentalities is like talking to a building. He says "Limbaugh is right". I was raised surrounded by this unthinking limited Gang of repukes and suffered to find my sanity like you wouldn't believe. Kids, there's a time to stop feeding the Beast.
Why do we give this guy any attention AT ALL? He's a black hole for our energy.
Can somebody explain what the kcuf rush LIMPbaugh has on these putrid repuKKKans senators. They are all dusting off their knee pads while defending this SPOROZOAN
Flush Rim Bowl - BWA HA HA HA
Excellent Vote Vets and Brian McGough! This is the way to fight the rhetoric from the right, not by having Congress decide what is best for us. We are paying their salaries after all.
I would call Rush 'gutless,' but we've all seen pictures of the fat bastard. Unfortunately.
His mommy never hugged him so he's taking it out on everyone. Rush is a spineless coward.
I no longer care what fat boy says, I personally am disappointed in the stupidity of his dittiots. The comments from his sycophants simply parrot his lies and berate others for not listening to his lies. These fools are actually criticizing the soldier in the video for daring to have a liberal opinion, some even claiming that he was obviously reading from prepared statements (I guess they never heard him mention the brain damage from his wounds).
My motto has always been 'People are stupid', but these people are taking their stupidity to another level, listening to them I keep seeing images of Limbaugh in dark robes performing a Jedi mind trick on all his weak-minded lemmings, sad!
Maybe one day Headrush Limpdick will just choke on his own shit.
Hey baby I just shilled for the right, mocked a cripple, insulted some soldiers and popped a Viagra which has gotten me in the mood, so how about a little roll in the hay with ole Rush? http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://content.answers.com/main/c...
Rush would look good next to the squirrel I saw in the street today. I felt badly for the squirrel. This guy is such a pig. He lives in a monstrous house on the very north end of Palm Beach Florida 33480. You rarely see him except when he is speeding off to or back from his studio. He is an elitist who dodged the draft based on a falsehood. He managed to make a lot of money with his radio show that spews devisive pro-big-money Repubican rhetoric and that serves to divide the country, mostly between the haves and have nots. He lives high on the hog, playing golf, travelling to the Carribean, Eating at Fine Restaraunts and taking oxycoton. He is really the worst example of a self interested money grubbing a--hole that I can think of. For him to question the integrity of soldiers who put there life on the line to defend this country, this country who has given his undeserving ass so much, so very very much makes him deserving of severe punishment. He pretends to be pro military while he sits back on his fat-draft-dodging-ass and puffs on his cigars and laughs his way to the bank. His obvious sense of entitlement when he has contributed so negativley to humanity makes it all the more dispicable that he has so much more than so many so much more deserving than he.
Ditto.
Like most overly macho guys, he's a bitch underneath.
Shag @ 141:
My comment here refers to Limbaugh.
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