Posted by
Tzimisce on Tuesday, October 02, 2007 4:19:08 AM
This Rush thing just keeps going. For those of you living in a box on Mars with your fingers in your ears Rush Limbaugh commented that the media only talks to "phony soldiers" when they are looking for statements that are negative about the war in Iraq.
Rush was referencing a story about Jesse Adam Macbeth which he had talked about earlier in his broadcast but didn't refresh the details at the time that he made the "phony soldiers" comment.
MacBeth was found guilty ~ meaning he did it ~ of writing fake blogs about attrocities him and his troop were doing to the civilians in Iraq. He became an over night hit with the left wing blogosphere. But the truth is that it turns out that MacBeth washed out of boot camp after 44 days. He never got to Iraq to help with the terrible acts he reported on. In fact, he even lied about his rank of corporal.
Anyway the story went to the unbiased, non partisan Media Matters for America dot Org (a group that gives overwhelmingly to left wing causes and Democrats in particular.) Lazy, mind numbed journalists then picked up the story and ran with it without ever once investigating.
So now with the Democrat Congress too weak to get any of their rotten ideas passed, they are taking the "safe" passage of condemning Limbaugh.
The secondary motive is to take the heat off the other unbiased, non partisan big money special interest group that (coicidentally) only gives to Democrats and left wing causes: MoveOn.Org. Libs charge Limbaugh with hypocracy since Rush ripped MoveOn for the General "Betrayus" ads.
Of course, anyone with a third grade education can tell you difference between someone who lied about being a soldier doing awful things and a bunch of obnoxious know-it-alls not wanting to listen.
But lefties and Dems in the back pocket of these million dollar special interests have to play ball or risk losing the money. (I thought McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform would clean all of this up and get nasty fights like this out of our government - but maybe they were only talking about partisan fighting and not nonpartisan fighting like the war being waged by these 501 groups.)
Here is the irony of this whole situation: the Congress is condemning Rush for trashing the troops? What have the Dems been doing for...well, the last forty years but trashing the troops? Do you realize that the same day all of this came to a head a judge has decided that Congressman Jack Murtha can be brought to court for claiming from the halls of Congress that said Marines had committed "cold-blooded murder and war crimes'' despite the fact that he had no evidence.
Wasn't it John Kerry who almost a year ago stated:
“You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”
A lot of soldiers are highly educated. True, it might not be no fancy book learning like butthead elitist college kids that support Kerry blindly, but it's often been said that life (and the experiences of life) is the best classroom. Best because it's hands on and not just theorical.
Talk about demoralizing the troops.
Or how about Democrat Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur who said:
"One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown."
Yeah our soldiers are terrorists and murderers and Osama bin Ladin is a hero. And Rush is the bad guy?
All these people I mentioned are sitting in office right now. And all these people I mentioned are in "safe" seats - meaning that they are all expected to be re-elected. Despite their insane statements and observations. Despite the fact that they have no evidence to back up any of their charges - unlike Rush who was talking about a guy who has been found guilty in a court of law.
Will the media fix this? Will our unbiased, non partisan press actually bring out the truth? Of course not. The media's job is to "balance" the points of view and even though one side of this case is built on lies and distortion it still has to be presented for "balance". Journalism isn't so much about reporting facts as it is balancing all points of view and treating them all equally, unless it's a "hateful" point of view such as loving the United States, being pro life, loving freedom, etc.
It sucks that in the year 2007 with the internet and other devices that can bring out the truth the lies and falsehoods of the libs and media is still treated as serious.