Rush Limbaugh Harry Reid Smear Letter Exceeds Two Million Dollars

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Is there any way we can get a link to what Rush said? The thing is Rush might very well have deserved the letter.

Not in light of the Democrat refusal to condemn the Moveon ad.

[Whoha]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
Proof positive that our tax burdens should be shifted back to the uberwealthy. They have no use for their millions, while our national debt continues to grow.

You can't tax peasants, but then again you can't really tax oligarchs either.

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Not in light of the Democrat refusal to condemn the Moveon ad.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00344

[DRoseDARs]

And besides, there wasn't anything to condemn, but that's another thread.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LI...n=1&vote=00344

Clinton (D-NY), Nay
Reid (D-NV), Nay
Obama (D-IL), Not Voting
Schumer (D-NY), Nay
Kennedy (D-MA), Nay
Levin (D-MI), Nay

Say again?

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
And the "wasted time" was spent on what amounted to an attempt to limit public speech. By nearly half the Senate.

And this is new (by either side) or shocking how?

[Zkribbler]

I am shocked, shocked to discovery there is politics going on in Washington, D.C.

[CivGeneral]

Does Limbaugh have anything better to do than bad mouthing the Democratic party?

[DinoDoc]

He's raising money for a worthwhile charity.

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Say again?

Say what again? I posted a link to the roll call vote.

[DinoDoc]

And I started posting from the signatures on the letter.

[Theben]

DinoDoc's grasping at straws again, that's what.

[Berzerker]

Context, context, context.

Rush had been talking about soldiers like Macbeth all that week (note the date of that thread, I had heard about it on his show), and Reid took a comment refering to that way out of context.

tsk tsk...

CALLER 2: No, it's not, and what's really funny is, they never talk to real soldiers. They like to pull these soldiers that come up out of the blue and talk to the media.

LIMBAUGH: The phony soldiers.

CALLER 2: The phony soldiers. If you talk to a real soldier, they are proud to serve. They want to be over in Iraq. They understand their sacrifice, and they're willing to sacrifice for their country.

LIMBAUGH: They joined to be in Iraq. They joined --

Its clear Limbaugh is equating real soldiers with soldiers who support staying and phony soldiers with soldiers who dont...

The spin began about 2 minutes later with MacBeth

First Limbaugh claimed his discussion of MacBeth came before his phony soldiers comment, not true, it came almost 2 minutes later.
Then he edited most of that gap out and accused Media Matters of editing his words out of context. He was trying to edit his words into a favorable context. But it doesn't end there,

"He became a hero to the anti-war left. They love phony soldiers, and they prop 'em up," Limbaugh said Thursday [sic: Friday]. "I was not talking ... about the anti-war movement generally. I was talking about one soldier with that phony soldier comment, Jesse MacBeth."

After the caller referred to real soldiers and soldiers that come out of the blue, Limbaugh called them "phony soldiers" but was only talking about 1 soldier?

You gotta be a real dittohead to buy that Bu****

[DinoDoc]

I dunno about you Treban but I feel comfortable in my assertion when it teh Rush letter and teh Nay vote on teh Moveon issue includes so many Dem leaders and major Presidential candidates.

[Theben]

And I feel pretty comfortable that the 2 aren't connected, but whatever fantasy helps you get thru your day.

Any more comments on said letter, btw?