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Re: Here is where we get it wrong
By ryad
Oct 11th 2007
at 10:17 pm EDT
Please take the time to go and actually read/listen to the ENTIRE commentary by Limbaugh before questioning is support of the troops. If you do so you will find out that Media Matters took the quote completely out of context (the phrase "Phony Soldiers" coming from ABC originally) and decided to translate it into something completely different.
Mr Limbaugh was referring to ACTUAL "Phony Soldiers" and not participating in name calling of liberal solders. Phony soldiers being people who:
- claimed to be a soldier but never served
and
- people who completely lied about the extent of their service
(He was actually referring specifically to Jesse Macbeth in this particular instance. He is the guy who washed out before the end of boot camp, 44 days into his service, while claiming to have been ordered to kill innocent civilians in Iraq, a country he had never been to)
and
-the mayor of Atlantic city who claimied to be a Green Barret and ended up getting $25k in additional salary because of it.
and
-any other person who lies about their (nonexistant) service to our country to further their political cause
He was NOT name-calling democratic soldiers that do not believe in the war. Soldiers, whether conservative or liberal have every right to voice their opinion whether for or against this war, especially since they are the ones that give their lives to make sure we all keep that right. He is very vocal about this point.
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Students responsible for "Hate Muslims? So Do We" posters confess
The students who canvassed GW’s campus with anti-Muslim posters Monday sent a letter to the GW Hatchet today admitting their role in the controversy.
We’d all realized that the posters were a satirical shot at Campus Progress’ archenemy, the Young America’s Foundation, which is sponsoring Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week at 140 campuses around the country from October 22-26, including GW where Campus Progress’ other archenemy David Horowitz will be speaking. But at least now we know who the students responsible for the posters were. One was Adam Kokesh, “a graduate student and Iraq War veteran, [who] gained celebrity over the past year because of his vocal opposition to the war.”
Kokesh and six other students wrote in an e-mail to the Hatchet:
"It is to our great dismay that the student body and the media missed the clear, if subtle, message of our flier: the hyperbolic nature of the flier was aimed at exposing Islamophobic racism.
There’s still a great debate raging on Jenny Odegard’s original blog post on this Monday about whether this satire is funny, whether racism is ever funny, and shitting on Paris Hilton.
Please remember that Campus Progress' terms of use do not allow promoting or endorsing any particular political party or candidate for office. Posts or comments that do this will be deleted.
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Mr Limbaugh was referring to ACTUAL "Phony Soldiers" and not participating in name calling of liberal solders. Phony soldiers being people who:
- claimed to be a soldier but never served
and
- people who completely lied about the extent of their service
(He was actually referring specifically to Jesse Macbeth in this particular instance. He is the guy who washed out before the end of boot camp, 44 days into his service, while claiming to have been ordered to kill innocent civilians in Iraq, a country he had never been to)
and
-the mayor of Atlantic city who claimied to be a Green Barret and ended up getting $25k in additional salary because of it.
and
-any other person who lies about their (nonexistant) service to our country to further their political cause
He was NOT name-calling democratic soldiers that do not believe in the war. Soldiers, whether conservative or liberal have every right to voice their opinion whether for or against this war, especially since they are the ones that give their lives to make sure we all keep that right. He is very vocal about this point.