Limbaugh: VoteVets lied to soldier in ad ...

[meegbear]

"strapp(ed) those lies to his belt," then sent him out "to walk into as many people" as he can

On the October 2 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh denounced a recent ad by VoteVets.org that featured Iraq war veteran Brian McGough, calling the ad "a blatant use of a valiant combat veteran, lying to him about what I said, then strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media in a TV ad to walk into as many people as he can walk into." Limbaugh went on to say that "(w)hoever pumped (McGough) full of these lies about what I said ... has betrayed him." Limbaugh denounced the ad despite admitting "I haven't watched the ad."

In the ad, which was created in response to Limbaugh's recent characterization of U.S. service members who oppose the war in Iraq as "phony soldiers," McGough says to Limbaugh, "Until you have the guts to call me a 'phony soldier' to my face, stop telling lies about my service."

From the October 2 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

LIMBAUGH: VoteVets.org has -- they describe themselves as an organization comprised of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns who oppose current policy in Iraq. They've put together a TV ad that takes aim at me. This ad's going to run on Fox News, on CNN, it's going to run on WMAL radio in Washington, $60,000 ad buy that's going to run, I think, on our local West Palm Beach station down here. And there's a man identified as Brian McCoff -- McGough -- it's M-C-G-O-U-G-H, I'm not sure how he pronounces it, McGo, McGuff -- I haven't watched the ad.

He discusses his service in Iraq, the wounds he suffered there, and he says to me in this ad, "Until you have the guts to call me a 'phony soldier' to my face, stop telling lies about my service." You know, this is such a blatant use of a valiant combat veteran, lying to him about what I said, then strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media in a TV ad to walk into as many people as he can walk into.

This man will always be a hero to this country with everyone. Whoever pumped him full of these lies about what I said and embarrassed him with this ad has betrayed him. They're not hurting me, they're betraying this soldier. Now, unless he actually believes what he's saying, in which case it's just so unfortunate and sad when the truth of what I said is right out there to be learned.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200710020014?src=item200710020014

[bluerum]

1. Deceits piled upon deceits. Truth is the first casualty of war - and this

drug addled hate monger killed his a long long time ago.

[Gman]

2. This is like the Donovan thing on ESPN

Rush just doesn't know the first rule of holes . He doesn't know when to STFU. If he did, I don't know if he's smart enough to do it.

[radfringe]

3. oxy-phoney

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[BOSSHOG]

4. Hey Meegbear

I guess you cut off the part of the story where limbaugh huffed and puffed and said he'd by gawd sure as hell call the Soldier a phoney to his face. In fact, he'd kick his phoney ass.

It's all lies but I haven't seen IT! Another classic display of conservative values.

[meegbear]

7. No, this is all there was from the article ...

I would have included that too if it was there.

[BOSSHOG]

13. I am an

utter failure when it comes to sarcasm. The last thing chickenhawk limbaugh wants to do is agitate a physical confrontation with a "phoney."

[madame defarge]

5. The soldier responded on Daily Kos...

(Unfortunately, DK is undergoing maintenance right now & I can't get to the story.) It was in Brandon Friedman's diary yesterday afternoon, appended as an update. The soldier in the ad stated emphatically that he knew exactly what he was doing in the VoteVets ad.

[NewJeffCT]

8. You mean Rush lied again?

wow, I can't believe it.

[madame defarge]

10. Yep, sorry but it's true...

And guess what? He has done it more than twice...
http://mediamatters.org/items/200509120008
http://members.aol.com/Falconnn/rushlie.html
http://members.aol.com/Falconnn/Rushlie2.html


And so has Bush...
http://www.bushwatch.com/bushlies.htm

[NewJeffCT]

11. A few years back, FAIR had documented his lies for an entire year

I think they came up with something like 10,000 lies and misstatents/misrepresentations over a year.

I think I had figured out that if Rush's show is on 250 days per year, that translates to 750 hours of programming, or about 13 lies per hour, or more than one lie for every five minutes. And, since Rush tends to focus on a few major topics each day, it is safe to assume that Rush lies about nearly everything.

[adigal]

6. And the monstrousness of the suicide analogy

when the soldier was hurt by a suicide bomber.

[AtomicKitten]

9. Maybe Congress will pass another finger-wagging resolution.

That'll fix 'em.

[zbdent]

12. So ...

This soldier, who would have supported Rush explicitly, believed a "lie", which went against the soldier's 100 percent support of whatever Rush spews?

Is Rush going to now blame the shrapnel in the guy's head for falling for the dems' deception?

Will the Republicans just go ahead and hang themselves? The local stores are reporting a shortage in their rope supply ...

[Supersedeas]

14. When will the America people catch on??