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From FOX News: Limbaugh Broadcaster Comes to Radio Host's Defense
The owner of the company that airs Rush Limbaugh's show has come to his defense, telling Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that while he isn't certain to whom Limbaugh was referring when he used the term "phony soldiers," the radio talk show host has a long history of supporting U.S. troops.UPDATE:This is Limbaugh's defense and his reasoning why the left-wing has taken "phony soldiers" out of context.[...]
In an attack that began with the first words of the show and continued throughout his daily three-hour broadcast Tuesday, Limbaugh compared Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, claimed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is using a liberal media watchdog to suppress her opposition and said he feels sorry for Sen. Tom Harkin's family for having to be associated with the Iowa Democrat's statements on the Senate floor a day earlier.
He then said the attacks aren't really about him personally.
"It's about them and they are desperately trying to salvage themselves with their own lunatic fringe base who they are not only disappointing but they are deceiving because the dirty, little secret, as I also predicted, was that if the Democrats win the White House in '08 they are not pulling out of Iraq. All the top tier Democrats have said so," Limbaugh told his audience.
"Time to distract those peasants with pitchforks out there who are fit to be tied over being betrayed by Harry Reid, (House Speaker) Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democrats," he said.
The conservative talk radio host was fighting back after Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate lambasted him over remarks he made last week suggesting veterans who oppose the Iraq war are "phony soldiers."
Comments
I'm really curious. If he didn't say what it's been reported that he said, what did he say? I somehow caught a bit of Hardball with Chris Matthews yesterday and he had on one person in support of Rush and one in opposition. From what I caught (and I did miss the first part of that segment), it sounded like both agreed that Rush had said exactly that. Was it just a case of him saying something that sounded like this? What did he actually say?
Posted by: K | October 3, 2007 10:11 AM
Nice to see a 'Crazy Sam' again...
Posted by: Butch | October 3, 2007 11:49 AM
Yes, he did say it. The question is was he referring to the phony soldiers like Jesse MacBeth or was he claiming that soldiers who disagree with the war are phony as Media Matter's claims. Given proper context plus Rush's huge support of soldiers and vets, it's fairly clear that Media Matters intentionally distorted Rush's words out of context to further their political goals. The cartoon is an absurd illustration of how this happens.
Posted by: MrBig | October 3, 2007 10:37 PM
It's pathetic that Senators would rush to the floor of the Senate over this, when it was so easy to check out the matter.
Posted by: Mark | October 5, 2007 09:32 PM