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Sept. 28, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 28, 2007, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
What?
Am I going to apologize?
You ask me if I'm going to apologize.
It is I who am owed an apology.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen.
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I want to illustrate something for you today, folks.
And I've done it before.
I want to do it again here.
I call this the Anatomy of a Smear.
And what this is is a great illustration of the uh of the liberals in the Democrat Party playbook for 08, uh, which is underway now.
On Wednesday, uh morning update on Wednesday, this program dealt with a soldier, a fake phony soldier by the name of Jesse McBeth, who never served in Iraq, was never an army ranger.
He was drummed out of the military in 44 days.
He had his day in court, he never got the purple heart as he claimed.
Uh, and and uh he described all these war atrocities, and he became a hero to the anti-war left.
They love phony soldiers and they and they prop them up, and when it is dis demonstrated that they have been lying about things, then they just forget about it.
There's no retraction, there's no apology, there's no uh-oh, sorry.
After doing that morning update on Wednesday, got a phone call yesterday from uh somebody.
We're talking about uh uh the troops, and this gentleman said something which you'll hear here in just a second, uh, prompting me to reply, yeah, the phony soldiers.
That comment, phony soldiers, was now posted yesterday afternoon on the famous Media Matters website, which is where all leftists go to find out what I say.
I have a website and I have a radio program that reaches far more people than media matters could ever hope to, but the critics of this program never listen to this program.
They never go to my website.
All they do is read Media Matters, and they get the lies and the out-of-context reports.
They assume it's all true because they want it to be true, and then they start their campaigns, and this has led to me being denounced on the floor of the Senate.
Uh Howard Dean has released a statement demanding I apologize.
Jim Webb on the floor of the Senate.
John Kerry issued a statement.
Three Congress people went out in the floor of the House last night, said some things, and it's uh starting to blossom now in the drive-by media.
So this is the anatomy of a smear, and this is how it starts.
Uh same group is trying to get Bill O'Reilly into problems because of some innocent comments that he made about going to dinner at a restaurant in Harlem.
So the illustration begins with just a sample report from MSNBC, whose whose content is produced almost exclusively by Media Matters for America and Moveon.org.
This is this morning, uh, with the anchor at Contessa Brewer reporting on the phony soldier controversy spawned by me.
Some leading Democrats are attacking radio talk show personality Rush Limbaugh because he called soldiers who opposed the Iraq War phony.
Limbaugh was criticizing the anti-war movement generally and made the comment to a caller.
It's not possible intellectually to follow these people.
No, it's not.
And what's really funny is they never talk to real soldiers.
They like to pull these soldiers to come up out of the blue and stop them and yes.
The phony soldiers.
Democratic Senator John Kerry is demanding an apology from Limbaugh, whose comments he calls disgusting and an embarrassment.
That's really rich John Kerry, whose own soldiers, his own uh uh uh personnel, uh his fellow soldiers on those Swift boats, at least many of them who said he was lying about his supposed heroics.
Uh this is the same John Kerry who went out and insulted the intelligence of the troops, thereby torpedoing his own 2008 presidential candidacy.
Uh now dis statement includes these words this disgusting attack from Rush Limbaugh, cheerleader for the chicken hawk wing of the far right, is an insult to American troops.
Um I was not talking as the Contessa Brewer said here about the anti-war movement generally.
I was talking about one soldier with that phony soldier comment, Jesse Macbeth.
Uh they had exactly what I'm going to play for you.
This is Michael J. Fox all over again.
Uh Media Matters had the transcript, but they selectively choose what they want to make their point.
Here is it runs about three minutes and thirteen seconds, the entire transcript in context that led to this so-called controversy.
It's not possible intellectually to follow these people.
No, it's not.
And what's really funny is they never talk to real soldiers.
They like to pull these soldiers to come up out of the blue and stop them and yes.
The phony soldiers.
If you talk to a real soldier, they're proud, sir.
They want to be over an Iraq.
They understand their sacrifice, and they're willing to sacrifice for the country.
They joined to be in Iraq.
They joined.
Well, I mean it's frustrating and maddening is why they must be kept in the minority.
Uh look, I want to thank you, Mike, uh, 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.
Then they have their celebrities.
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 as 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, the poster boy for the anti-war left, had his day in court.
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 in the template of the drive-by media in the Democrat Party as to who a genuine war hero is.
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 is what 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 U.S. military.
In other words, for the American anti-war left, the greatest inconvenience they face...
is the truth.
That was the transcript from yesterday's program talking about one phony soldier.
Um the truth for the left is fiction that serves their purpose, which is exactly the way the website, Media Matters generated this story.
Fiction out of context did so knowingly.
What is amazing is that after all of the examples of how this organization is simply a Democrat Party Hillary Clinton front group, how they constantly do this, how they take things out of context and embarrass themselves and get things wrong.
They still have credible so-called journalists and others, members of Congress, Democrat Party, who treat what they say as gospel.
Not one member of the media, not one Congressman, nobody has called our office to ask, did you really say this?
And what did you mean by it?
The reason this doesn't work, ladies and gentlemen, is that I have a 19 and a half year record on this program of being one of the most devoted supporters of U.S. military personnel in uniform that there is.
And the effort here is simply to discredit people that they consider effective and powerful on the right, ginning up and leading up into the 08 elections.
They cannot beat us in the arena of ideas.
They cannot challenge what we say and refute it and come out on top.
So this is the anatomy of a smear, and I'll show you how it works.
We come after the break.
We have uh a bunch of sound bites here from uh Jim Webb, uh Jan Schikowski, uh Frank Pallone, Democrats and Senators, plus the Kerry statement that I read to you.
All that coming up right after this.
Don't go away, folks.
Your phone calls up soon as well.
Hi, welcome back to Open Line Friday.
Rush Limbaugh, as usual, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
All right, so we've got John Kerry insulting soldiers all over the place.
His own troops served with him, said that he lied about things that he accomplished.
He insulted the intelligence of the troops.
We all know what they did at the moveon.org ed to General Petraeus.
We know what members of Congress said to General Petraeus, calling him a liar before he even opened his mouth and before they had even read the report that they demanded be issued about the surge back on the 15th of September.
What's going on here is their attempt to deflect attention away from themselves on the same issue because they have they they have uh eaten it big time on the Petraeus ad in the New York Times.
None of it worked out the way they intended.
They're a blowback that they didn't figure on, and so now it's trying to time for them to try to point out that uh somebody like me is insulting the troops, as any of you who listen to this program regularly know has not happened and never would happen.
Here's congressional reaction, Senate reaction last night on some MSNBC show, Jim Webb was uh run into out of the hallway.
Question yesterday in his radio program, Rush Limbaugh called service members who advocate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, phony soldiers.
You want to respond to that?
I really regret Mr. Limbaugh saying things like that.
You know, we have uh political diversity inside the military, just like we do in the country.
If you look at the, I believe it was a six soldiers uh who wrote with honor this piece for the New York Times not long ago.
I think three of them have now uh died.
Uh I think Mr. Limbaugh ought to have to uh take a look at that sort of reality.
I really react strongly when people politicize the service of our military people.
What an absolute lunatic joke to make after the way General Petraeus was just treated, politicised the military.
But Mr. Webb stepped in it, you put a bag of manure in front of a liberal Democrat, and they are sure to step in it.
He just assumed that what he was told was true, that I called anti-war troops phony soldiers, when everybody involved in this knows full well I was talking about one genuine convicted, lying fake soldier who was undermining this mission, who was doing his best to demoralize the troops.
I stand up for the troops.
The Democrat Party has been trying to demoralize them.
The Democrat Party has been trying to lose the Iraq war, the war on terror.
They own defeat.
They are invested in it.
They have failed to hang defeat around the neck of this president and a presidency that they have been trying to destroy.
They have now really upset their fringe base by all of the top-tier candidates in Wednesday's debate, saying there's no way I could have pull troops out of there before two thousand thirteen.
They are beside themselves now.
And so they choose to come after me in an unprovoked and totally out of context fashion.
It is I who am owed an apology here.
Let's go to the floor of the House.
A portion of remarks made by Illinois Democrat Jan Schikowski.
Well, Rush Limbaugh is at it again.
Unable to defend an indefensible war in Iraq.
He's once again resorted to sliming the messenger.
In this case, unbelievably, the messenger he's going after are the brave men and women who have served their country in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other wars.
Men and women who serve in Iraq differ from Rush Limbaugh in two critical ways.
First, unlike Mr. Limbaugh, they actually served in the military.
Second, unlike Mr. Limbaugh, they understand that the war in Iraq is making our country less safe and destroying the military.
These people understand what fools they sound like to anybody who knows the truth about all of this.
They haven't the slightest idea how foolish they sound.
They don't care.
Folks, I do not need, nor do you, lectures from liberals, Democrats, drive-by media people or whether or not they served in the military, but supporting our troops, it is they who are undermining the troops, smearing the troops, endangering them every damn day.
And they know it and they have done it purposefully.
They are undermining the war effort.
They want to be called patriots for doing it.
Shame on Jim Webb.
Shame on John Kerry, shame on them.
They should be speaking out for our soldiers, not throwing in with the anti-war move on.org crowd.
They cannot have it both ways.
Not on this program.
There are 170,000 soldiers in Iraq.
The least we can do here at home is support them.
And on this program, they have universal total support.
Here's more from Ms. Shikowski from the floor of the House.
How dare Rush Limbaugh label anyone who has served in the military as a quote, phony soldier, unquote.
Could Rush Limbaugh actually face soldiers who have risked their lives and tell them that their beliefs don't matter?
Let's pay attention to the 72% of American troops serving in Iraq who also think the U.S. should exit the country within the next year, and more than one in four who say the troops should leave immediately, according to the Zagby poll.
I guess they're all a bunch of phonies according to Rush Limbaugh.
Apparently, however, Mr. Limbaugh thinks they deserve to be smeared and belittled unless they happen to agree with him.
I understand why Rush Limbaugh cannot debate this war on the merits.
But bashing soldiers and veterans who disagree with him is unpatriotic and un-American.
Of course, none of what she said is true.
She's just ignorant.
And I don't need to be lectured to by these people.
But you see, they have taken the occasion of this comment.
They don't care whether it's true or not.
They just launch on their soapbox.
Do you know how much I get under their skin, folks, for them to take to the floor of the House as Tom Harkin has done this?
Let's go back in time, shall we?
Let's go back to uh April 22nd, 1971, uh, John Kerry testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about Vietnam.
They told the stories of times that they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals, and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, raised villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan.
Not isolated incidents, but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with a full awareness of officers at all levels of command.
Senator Carey was was insulting and smearing members of the armed forces back in 1971, people he didn't even serve with and things that he didn't even see.
Does the name Jesse McBeth rise up again here in this discussion of phony soldiers?
Here is John Kerry from December 4th, 2005.
There is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, uh uh, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the uh uh of of uh historical customs, religious customs, whether you like it or not, Iraqis should be doing that.
Well, really, who is insulting the troops here, folks?
And who has a history of insulting the troops?
Certainly not I. It is Senator Carey, who, in that bite from December 4th, 2005, essentially called U.S. troops terrorists.
And said if any terrorism ought to be going on over there, the Iraqis ought to be doing it.
I have to take a brief time out.
There's more to come after the break, and we'll get to your phone calls too, since it's open line Friday, so hang tough.
More straight ahead.
The truth.
You want the truth, you get the truth here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Great to have you with us.
It's open line Friday, 800-282-2882, in the midst here of illustrating the Democrat Party's 08 playbook, uh, The Anatomy of a Smear, taking two words that I uttered yesterday totally out of context, uh, and misrepresenting the meaning entirely on purpose, knowing full well they were doing it.
And now the whole Democrat Party in the drive-by media, typically, without verifying, without asking, without checking, just assumes that what they read on this lying, politically oriented website has to be true.
And even if it isn't true, it serves their purpose to go out and try to nick, harm, impugn, destroy people they fear who are too effective in opposing them.
What we're doing here, after having illustrated all that, is to show you who the real anti-military people are in this country, who they are and how often they have opposed victory, the unkind, vicious things they have said about uniform personnel, the idea that they accused me of this, and demand an apology from me is outrageous.
It is I who is owed the apology.
It won't be forthcoming, but nor will one from me.
Let's go back to June 10th, 2005, the Senate floor, Dick Durbin.
If I read this to you and didn't tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have happened by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime, Paul Potter others that had no concern for human beings.
Sadly, that's not the case.
This was the action of Americans, you know, in treatment of our their own prisoners.
And of course, it was Senator Durban who uh issued then a lame apology after the fire storm that his comments caused.
Let's go back shortly, not long ago, September the 17th, I think it was, maybe the 16th, whenever General Petraeus appeared before the House Committee before he had said a word, before he uttered one word, and this is the day, of course, the move on.org ed came out, calling him General B. Traus.
Here's Senator or Congressman Tom Lanthos lecturing a four-star general in dress uniform sitting before him.
The fact remains, gentlemen, that the administration has sent you here today to convince the members of these two committees and the Congress that victory is at hand.
With all due respect to you, I must say I don't buy it.
So he's calling him a liar.
So this is typical.
This is what's commonplace every day in the halls of Congress inhabited by Democrats.
It is the it is the generals, it's the soldiers, they are the liars, they are the reprobates, they are the ones that need to be demoralized, they are the ones that need to lose so the Democrat Party can reap political power once again.
And they have failed.
They have failed at every effort to end this war in the defeat that they have sought.
They have failed to hang defeat around the neck of George W. Bush, whose presidency they have sought to destroy.
These people, ladies and gentlemen, are uh beyond the pale.
Uh U.S. national security is irrelevant to them at this point in time.
Their acquisition of power is all that matters.
I've been waiting for this to blossom, and it finally did at the White House briefing today, this afternoon, with the spokesman Dana Perino.
Uh uh CNN reporter at asked this question.
Apparently this week, Rush Limbaugh used the phrase phony soldiers to describe American troops who oppose the Iraq War.
Given that the president has commented uh last week on the move on ad uh General Petraeus and called it disgusting.
Is this something that the president would feel compelled to come?
I heard of uh that comment, and taking that it is accurate, I since I have not heard it myself.
Um the president believes that if you are serving in the military that you have the rights that every American has, which is your free to express yourself in any way that you want to.
And there are some that oppose the war, and that's okay.
The phrase phony soldiers to describe these.
It's not one of the president would have used.
Not a phrase the president would have used.
Uh she wasn't aware.
She had to assume that the reporter was relaying the story accurately to her.
Uh but this is how this stuff starts.
This is an illustration.
This is this is the the uh the way the the Democrat playbook in 08, and actually it's been underway for a while.
And it's it's the illustration here, folks, is just how partisan supposed objective uh media people are.
You know, I've got a website and I've got a radio show, and I've got a phone.
And I have people who answer the phone.
And if they read something like this, I've been on the air 19 years, 19 and a half, well, a little bit over 19.
Uh just the blanket acceptance of this, knowing full well that media matters takes things out of context all the time.
The blanket acceptance of this, and then running with it full speed is an illustration of what I have been drumming into people's heads for years.
The drive-by media is as partisan as any organization out there.
They hide under this notion that they are objective, but they've got an agenda, they have their narratives, they have their templates, with anything fits the narrative, whether it's true or not, i.e.
the Duke rape case, you go with it.
You run with it.
You make the mess.
This is why they're called the drive-by media.
You make the mess.
They drive in, they shoot things up, create all kinds of mess, get in a convertible, head back down the road, and it's left to people like me to clean up the mess that they make.
And they make messes every day, over and over and over again.
Uh so the the reason for spending this time on this is to illustrate that that is how this happens.
This organization is a front group for Mrs. Clinton, uh, as is so many other organizations out there that engage in these kinds of smears.
The uh we got one more soundbite here from the uh from a uh floor of the House.
This is Frank Pallone, a Democrat from New Jersey.
Here's a portion of what he said.
Yesterday, House Republicans offered a motion to recommit, condemning Moveon.org for its advertisement, stating that General Petraeus had betrayed us.
I'm wondering if they'll show similar outrage over statements made yesterday by conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
Yesterday, Limbaugh called service members who support a withdrawal from Iraq phony soldiers.
Is Limbaugh serious?
I wonder if Republicans who showed so much outrage towards move on yesterday will hold Rush Limbaugh to the same standard.
And I wouldn't hold your breath.
In the sense that you're talking I never said what you think I said, Congressman Pallone, Congresswoman Shikowski, Senator Kerry, or any of the rest of you in the drive-by media.
I was talking about a genuine phony soldier, and by the way, Jesse McBeth's not the only one.
How about this guy Scott Thomas, who was writing fraudulent phony things in the New Republic about atrocities he saw that never happened?
How about Jack Mertha, blanketly accepting the notion that Marines at Hadith engaged in wanton murder of innocent children and civilians?
If anybody owes anybody an apology, the entire Democrat Party, from Hillary Clinton on down, owes the U.S. military an apology.
They owe me an apology, and they owe the American people an apology.
And they are owed massive Defeat in 2008.
They are irresponsible.
They are dishonest.
They are incompetent, and they pose a great threat to this country, as evidenced by this small little episode.
Now, I've got I could go back and I could get all kinds of resolutions here, remind you of you of them, and I will.
There was a resolutions praising the patriotism of General Petraeus condemning the move on Ed.
Kerry voted no.
Schakowsky voted no.
Didn't want to praise the patriotism because patriotism to them is opposing victory.
Patriotism to them is opposing the U.S. military.
Patriotism to them is lying and distorting and taking out of context the words of people who are among the biggest supporters of the U.S. military in this country.
When I mentioned the term phony soldier, and they all know this, I was referring to a genuine phony soldier about whom I had informed this audience the previous day and did so again the following day, Wednesday and Thursday of this week.
A quick timeout.
It's an EIB obscene profit center break here, folks.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, talent on lawn from God.
I want to read you an email I got last night, ladies and gentlemen.
Nothing to do with the uh the smear, the anatomy of a smear illustration I just uh uh illustrated for you.
But it is an email that does explain why there is such panic and hatred and action taken by the left against those that they consider effective.
Dear Rush, you have ruined my life as a liberal Democrat.
No longer am I a fun-loving hipster that waits for government action.
I live in Minneapolis.
I work in St. Paul, Minnesota.
I have been listening to your show now for about a year.
You make too much sense.
You're much more clever than your liberal counterparts.
While listening to your show is a joy for the pure clever dialogue and discourse you have with the callers.
I have been drawn to the side of conservatism and human action instead of big government help.
The fact that I am a visual artist is even harder for me to agree with the conservative views because liberals get so much government money for art.
However, I now know that I'll make it on my own merits without NEA and other help.
Signed Eric.
We're converting them out there, ladies and gentlemen.
We are of good cheer.
We're optimistic and hopeful here on this program, countering the consistent crisis, angst, and doom and gloom and fear that is presented daily from the mouths of the drive-by media and their willing accomplices of the Democrat Party.
Now to the phones, we go to Atlanta.
And we start with Ray.
You're up first, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Hey, Rush, I'll get right to the point.
I don't think that this uh this whole brew ha ha, the phony soldier, has really anything to do with that particular soldier.
I think it has to do with the fact that they're trying to marginalize you.
They're trying to marginalize us as conservatives, because what's coming up in 08?
It's game time, baby.
Exactly.
This is the this is the 08 playbook.
It's a smear, it's marginalization.
The thing is, they've tried it how many times and have failed.
Well, I think we're going to see more and more of this of you.
They're going to pick out more and more, quote, instances of uh things they have to take issues with.
Mark my word.
No question about it.
No question.
We're going to win in 08.
No question.
Nothing but fire us up.
No question about it, but it's going to blow up in their face eventually.
It's not going to blow up in their face of the media.
It's not going to blow up in their face of the Democrats.
It's going to blow up in their face with the American people.
The American people are not dumb.
They are not idiots, and they can readily recognize when they are being lied to.
They are they can readily recognize uh political attempts and attacks like this.
Uh and they forget that I've got three hours every every day here to deal with this kind of thing if necessary, although I won't devote nearly that much time to it because it isn't necessary.
But this kind of stuff is going to blow up in their face, just like the move on.org ad blew up in their face.
Just be patient, folks, and be confident.
This is uh you know, there's still some really core characteristics of the human nature.
Uh human nature has a and the the American culture has uh a bunch of core beliefs, good character, honesty, this and they still thrive, and they are they survive in large numbers in most of the people in this country.
You just don't know about it because those people are Anonymous.
They're not seeking fame.
They're not seeking uh uh notoriety.
But the people who make this country work have great values, they have manners, they understand when they're being lied to and set up.
Uh tactics like this are used.
This will eventually backfire on these people if they keep it up.
Rich in South Jersey, you're next in open line Friday.
Hi.
Hey Rush.
Um, good to talk to you.
You bet.
Sometimes, like I just heard you say, like it will backfire on them, but sometimes it doesn't because people forget because so much time goes by.
But let me try to like go through this whole thing that I got in my head before I forget it.
Because this could be like a turning point on media distortion.
Um, because like I said, months from now, they're gonna remember you associated with something against the troops, something negative.
They're gonna forget about the specifics.
So it makes you waste time reacting to the negative.
You're just reacting to something that they put out negative.
That's what everybody's doing.
That's what O'Reilly did.
He wastes time where they should or you should illustrate the positive things that go on.
Um just to react to the negativity takes away from your time to illustrate the positive.
That's what you do.
You illustrate the positives.
I but in a nutshell, I think they do this just to divert you.
They're just making you waste time on reacting instead of just saying, You know, this is this is this is another great illustration, too.
This is uh I've I've got emails from all kinds of echo what you say.
Would you stop reacting to it?
Just stop reacting.
All you're doing is giving them time.
You're giving them attention, you're elevating them, and so forth and so on.
And I've shared with you over the course of um uh the number of years of this program that that dealing with this kind of thing has always presented a quandary to me, or it's been a quandary as to how to deal with it.
When do you ignore it?
When do you deal with it?
When I think that the bottom line is when you've got elected Democrats going to the floor of the House of the Representatives in the Senate, uh condemning you.
I mean, my my dad would not, my dad would not believe my life.
My dad would not believe this.
When you've got elected officials, Jim Webb, others, John Kerry, the Howard Dean issued a statement that when you've got uh people that are demanding, I apologize for something that didn't happen, and they're doing it on the floor of the Senate.
You said something at the outset here that's very crucial.
Years from now, months from now, all you think people will remember is that I was associated with something negative about the military.
You're right if I let this go and act like this is nothing.
Uh other than that, uh I've you know, this is one of those times where I have deemed it necessary to respond for a whole boast of reasons.
In fact, I thought this this illustration of the Democrat playbook in 08, this anatomy of a smear was quite positive.
I thought it was quite illustrative of positive outlooks.
Who is it that's supporting the troops?
It's all of us folks, it's not these people demanding an apology.
Can you believe that John Kerry has the audacity to ask me to apologize something I didn't say after his record of bashing and criticizing and demoralizing the troops?
This is laughable.
And I'm throwing it right back in their face.
This is one of those times that I deemed it necessary to uh to respond to it and play their own words right back at them and for everybody else to keep all this in context.
Hi, welcome back.
Not enough time here to uh be fair with another call.
So before we close out the hour, I want to thank Media Matters for America for making it so easy, ladies and gentlemen, to show how the real conspiracy works.
Not the phony baloney, hilarious right wing conspiracy, which is totally made up, but how the left flashes the media who flash the left in Congress and voila.
You have a totally wrong false, filled with lies, out of context story that ends up in the mainstream.
And if you're gonna thank media matters, you have to thank one man, and that would be George Soros.
And you have to thank one woman, and that would be Hillary Rodham Clinton.
What the media want uh is to create a story that fits into their template, their reality.
Then they'll go to their favorite Democrats for comments, they get some stupid comments from them and run and rerun the lies, so that two years from now the truth and their lies become one and the same in the minds of people.
This is their attempt here.
And this is because they don't want to debate the issues, because they can't win.
They don't want to admit their own failures and failings.
They don't want to inform the public, they want to manipulate the news and events to advance their agenda.
So a comment that they've taken out of context is compared to a paid printed ad intended to smear General Petraeus.
Then they asked the White House press secretary this is how it works.
I want you to know it and never forget it.
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