I'm no fan of Rush Limbaugh, but the left-wing echo chamber is passing around a direct lie about what he said.

In context, it is clear that Limbaugh's remark was about one Jesse Adam Macbeth, a former darling of the anti-war left. He claimed to have witnessed terrible abuses in Iraq as a corporal in the Army Rangers. It turned out that Macbeth had never been in the Rangers, and his only involvement in the Army was to wash out of boot camp in 44 days. The anti-war zealots promptly forgot his existence as they sought out more convenient mascots.

Macbeth was a phony soldier, folks. He never want to Iraq, never served as an actual soldier. He flunked out of recruit training.

It's obvious the left is desperate for some sort of retribution for their MoveOn ad fiasco. The timing's very convenient. And if the facts don't justify the response, then to hell with the facts, right? That's something you like to claim that your opponents do, but here you are doing it for certain.

Go check out http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTdhNzdlNmVlMjQ0ZDY1ZTAxOWU0NmM4YWQzMTQyNzQ= for the full text of Limbaugh's statement, and stop lying.

verde101: Stop lying!

The quote, in context, is available at the URL I gave, and goes like this:

I want to thank you, Mike, for calling. I appreciate it very much. I gotta — 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. And they have their celebrities. One of them was Army Ranger Jesse Macbeth. Now — and 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 posttraumatic 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. 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 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 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 US military. In other words, for the American anti-war left, the greatest inconvenience they face is the truth.

He sure has your number, verde101.

Stop attributing to me positions I don't take.

I specifically doubt that every soldier who has complaints about Iraq is a "phony soldier". It would flat-out amaze me if every soldier in that sphere were perfectly content with how things were going; this would be a first in military history. It is the sacred right of every soldier to complain, and most of them exercise the right. It is when they stop complaining that a wise officer knows to watch out!

However, it is certainly worth noting that a lot of the anti-war left's most high-profile complainers are plyaing tot heir audience through deception. Scott Beauchamp and Jesse Macbeth received uncritical acceptance from activists who were more interested in promoting their agenda than in checking the facts. Sadly, far too many of those activists were in positions of responsibility in the mainstream media, and they failed in their professional responsibilities. What's wrong with the anti-war left? Do you not know the difference between facts and falsehood, or do you just not care?

The recent disgusting adulation for Dan Rather and his silly lawsuit is another instance in which the anti-war left decided that the story was correct even though the facts were false. If our reporters cannot be relied upon to check the correctness of their facts, they're worthless. If that is politically inconvenient for you, you should question your beliefs, not the facts.

Censuring the MoveOn ad is not censorship, not a First Amendment issue. AKA Smith and others here have falsely claimed it is; either they lie, or they don't understand basic logic. The censure didn't prevent the slime at MoveOn from posting their little attack ad. Instead, it responded to it in a manner appropriate to a free society...or does Congress have no right to speak?

The American left often likes to complain that it's being censored when it's merely being criticized. Pray that you never learn the difference first-hand.