Phony Story About Phony Soldiers

You almost (almost) want to be sorry for Democrats. They're so desperate to be taken seriously, so desperate to mask their divisive bilge that when the slightest opportunity to go "See, they do it too!" about Republicans comes up, they jump on it full tilt, regardless of whether there's any substance to their masquerade.

I'm talking about the latest Rush Limbaugh hate parade over comments taken badly out of context, and how desperate they are to de-arm the national disgust over the MoveOn.org "General Betray Us" ad.

The Hill says these self-righteous blame-America-first Democrats have made themselves a letter condemning Limbaugh for allegedly calling anti-war soldiers "phony soldiers."

In a letter prepared Friday by Senate leaders, Democrats continued to blast conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh’s description of antiwar troops as “phony soldiers,” setting up a parallel to Republican outrage over MoveOn.org’s recent Iraq ad.

During his Wednesday broadcast, Limbaugh responded to a caller who identified himself as an active-duty member of the Army and said troops who criticize the war are not “real soldiers.” Limbaugh responded in agreement, rousing Democrats’ ire.

But it's really nothing but political posturing. The Hill got it wrong. Limbaugh didn't say or agree with a statement that "troops who criticize the war are not 'real soldiers'".

What actually happened is that Limbaugh had done a "Morning Update" prior to the main show where he talked about Jesse Macbeth, who is indeed a "phony soldier." He never completed basic training, yet claimed he had been an Army Ranger, received a Purple Heart, had served in Iraq and committed all the atrocities that put him in the good and proper company of people like John Kerry. And Macbeth isn't alone in making up a phony military record and making up phony "atrocities" (I'm not talking about John Kerry--Kerry actually was in the military--but people like Walter Carlson and others).

Here's a transcript of Limbaugh's conversation in question:

RUSH ARCHIVE: It's not possible intellectually to follow these people.

CALLER: 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 spout to the media.

RUSH: The phony soldiers.

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

RUSH: They joined to be in Iraq.

RUSH: It's frustrating and maddening, and why they must be kept in the minority. I want to thank you, Mike, for calling. I appreciate it very much.

Here is a Morning Update that we did recently, talking about fake soldiers. This is a story of who the left props up as heroes. They have their celebrities and one of them was Army Ranger Jesse MacBeth. Now, he was a "corporal." I say in quotes. Twenty-three years old. What made Jesse MacBeth a hero to the anti-war crowd wasn't his Purple Heart; it wasn't his being affiliated with post-traumatic stress disorder from tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. No. What made Jesse MacBeth, Army Ranger, a hero to the left was his courage, in their view, off the battlefield, without regard to consequences. He told the world the abuses he had witnessed in Iraq, American soldiers killing unarmed civilians, hundreds of men, women, even children. In one gruesome account, translated into Arabic and spread widely across the Internet, Army Ranger Jesse MacBeth describes the horrors this way: "We would burn their bodies. We would hang their bodies from the rafters in the mosque."


Now, recently, Jesse MacBeth, poster boy for the anti-war left, had his day in court. And you know what? He was sentenced to five months in jail and three years probation for falsifying a Department of Veterans Affairs claim and his Army discharge record. He was in the Army. Jesse MacBeth was in the Army, folks, briefly. Forty-four days before he washed out of boot camp. Jesse MacBeth isn't an Army Ranger, never was. He isn't a corporal, never was. He never won the Purple Heart, and he was never in combat to witness the horrors he claimed to have seen. You probably haven't even heard about this. And, if you have, you haven't heard much about it. This doesn't fit the narrative and the template in the Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party as to who is a genuine war hero. Don't look for any retractions, by the way. Not from the anti-war left, the anti-military Drive-By Media, or the Arabic websites that spread Jesse MacBeth's lies about our troops, because the truth for the left is fiction that serves their purpose. They have to lie about such atrocities because they can't find any that fit the template of the way they see the US military. In other words, for the American anti-war left, the greatest inconvenience they face is the truth.

It is clear that Limbaugh is talking about true "phony soldiers," not real soldiers who for whatever reason are dissatisfied with the war.

But this is normal for liberals: they never let the facts get in the way of their agenda.