September 30, 2007...10:03 pm
THE DESPARATION OF THE LEFT
Michelle Malkin reports the Dhimmicrats will try to introduce a resolution condemning Rush Limbaugh for supposedly denigrating Iraq War vets opposing the war as phony soldiers. You can read more about the smears and lies of the George Soros-funded front group for Shrillary, Media Matters for America here.
Here is what this phony fiasco is really all about: It’s about the MoveOn.org Democrats trying to save face in the aftermath of the disastrous “General Betray Us” smear. They want their own moment of righteous (or rather, lefteous) indignation, their own empty proof that they really, really, really do support the troops. They want to shift attention away from MoveOn.org, its bully tactics, and its thug brethren at Media Matters. They are making a pathetic attempt to equate the “Betray Us” attack–which was deliberately timed for publication and maximum p.r. damage to our military command when the world was watching our top general in Iraq testifying in Congress–with a radio talk show host’s ruminations about anti-war soldiers who have faked their military records/history.
Bottom-of-the-barrel desperation.
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October 1, 2007 at 6:02 am
Perhaps you’d rather the Dems introduce a resolution against FOX News for this slam on our military’s leaders? “Our generals are betraying our soldiers … again.” If the MoveOn ad was worth time in Congress, what about that?
Look, Republicans started this because talking about the MoveOn ad was easier for them than acknowledging the realities of Iraq or genuinely debating whether another $200b for Iraq is in the best interests of this country. If they didn’t want a fight over media rhetoric and whose side hates the troops more, then they should have just let the MoveOn ad die the death it would have if they’d ignored it.
October 1, 2007 at 8:53 am
So, you think what phony soldiers Jesse Macbeth, Micah Wright and Scott Thomas Beauchamp did was OK? As long as it advanced the anti-military agenda? Lying about being Army Rangers to get credibility then lying about our troops?
And yes, if you have politically correct types in the military prosecuting soldiers and putting them on trial for doing their jobs, they are betraying those who serve under them.
October 1, 2007 at 9:33 am
Amen, Peter.
The resolution against Limbaugh is back-door introduction of the Fairness Doctrine.
October 1, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Udall, House Democrats Looking For Pay Back
After the Senate voted against the moveon.org slander, the Democrats have been waiting on their little perches to swoop down back at the Republicans. MediaMatters, the King of slander, tried aiming their guns at O’Reilly recently which evidently …
October 1, 2007 at 5:15 pm
I’m not making value judgments about any of them, left or right, pro- or anti-war. Their specific politics are irrelevant to me.
It just seems to me that once Congress puts itself in the position of condemning political speech, it ought to condemn all political speech that meets the criteria it set in condemning the first.
Which is why it was stupid for Congress to do anything about the MoveOn ad in the first place. If Republicans had ignored it, it would have faded away. Instead, they couldn’t let go. And now you have Limbaugh calling people “phony soldiers” and making the same “Betray Us” pun about a decorated Vietnam veteran and US Senator; you’ve got FOX news saying our military leaders a betraying soldiers; and any one of those things, by the language Congress adopted condeming MoveOn, deserves the same treatment.
And it’s all stupid! Political speech is political speech and who does what kinds of it is no business of the Congress. And yet, Republicans set a precedent that now they must live with–and when it comes time to face one of their own, they get squeamish.
That’s rank. And it’s wrong. Republicans should never have bothered with MoveOn–it was dumb and now it’s biting them in the ass.
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