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- whiskeymb, on 10/10/2007, -7/+50No kidding! That's all I could say. Seriously, do our congressmen have nothing better to do with their time then try to pass bills that either condemn or commend individual organizations and people in this country? Where the ***** is the fixing of our healthcare system, or fixing SS, or fixing this giant ***** called the Iraq war. *****! If I was in Georgia I'd be calling for this guy's resignation for wasting our god-damned time!
- izzybr, on 10/10/2007, -4/+38I'm glad to see that this type of stuff is going on in congress instead of any REAL debate about the war.
- wynja, on 10/10/2007, -16/+46Okay, this is just as retarded as the Congress voting to condemn Moveon.org's ad. I'm not paying these peoples' salary to vote to condemn ANYONE's right to free speech.
This is exactly why the Fairness Doctrine and the Equal-time Rule must be restored to public broadcasting. If you've never heard of either of these, then I suggest you wikipedia them. If you don't trust wikipedia, then pick up an old encyclopedia. Each media outlet should be forced to present both sides of every argument fairly. Without this doctrine and rule, there can be no democracy. - bobothedorkboy, on 10/10/2007, -22/+49Jeezus. Just "Jeezus"... That's all I got.
- Laytonx, on 10/10/2007, -5/+27The Government shouldn't be in the business of condemning the so called 'feed speech' of its citizens.
As much as I hate Rush, the Congress should stay out of it. Its a slippery slope.
Same goes for the condemnation of the move on add. - inactive, on 10/15/2007, -24/+45Excellent. The more the right wing supports that fat bastard, the further they move away from most Americans.
- terrordome, on 10/10/2007, -3/+21The American political system is a circus.
- SheilaNoya, on 10/10/2007, -7/+24The 71% of Americans who are against this war are all "lefty moonbats"??? Are you REALLY that ignorant?
- natedouglas, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17Didn't they recently pass a bill commending Smuckers for their outstanding jams and jellies? This is what we pay these people for.
- brianbennett, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16...at least they aren't making laws. Nothing good ever comes from that.
- EntropyMan, on 10/10/2007, -17/+31No. In Rush's world, he didn't say what he clearly said. He claims he was talking about just one phony soldier, who he tells us was _actually_ a phony soldier, never served, etc... Never mind that he agreed in context that any soldier that doesn't support the war is phony. Never mind that the MoveOn ad never actually called Petraeus a traitor, as Republicans claimed (Betray Us != Treason, unless a specific crime against the US was committed. Conservatives were actually the first to use the word treason).
Never mind revisionist history. What's really important is that this exactly what the Democrats should have done. Instead of cowering and condemning MoveOn, they should have defeated the previous motion on the grounds that Republicans are retarded and issued a confirmation that MoveOn represents mainstream American views that the war is ***** and those who promote it are *****. In fact, there were any number of instances of Republicans dissing anti-war soldiers, even generals, before the MoveOn ad. And all the Dems had to do was change the language to either condemn anyone who attacked a soldier in uniform, or no one on the grounds that soldiers can pretty much defend themselves.
It's as if the Dems are afraid that people might still secretly prefer the Republicans in '08. And the truth is, most people are sick of both -- third party is the only way out. - nplace1, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14The resolution condemning the MoveOn.org ad was a waste of time (even though the ad was both in bad taste and a misdirection of antiwar energies), and this is even more ridiculous. Limbaugh's a jerk, but even if he was awesome, Congress should be spending time, you know, governing and *****.
- FredFredrickson, on 10/10/2007, -10/+22Funny how all the Republican / Conservative ***** who would balk at a 1 cent rise in taxes to help support the poor will applaud this complete waste of taxpayer money and government time / effort.
- smoothmedia, on 10/10/2007, -5/+17Just wait 'till the resolution passes because Democrats vote in favour of it.
- byronm, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13I personally liked it when they condemned skull *****.. i mean, jeez.. i'm sick of walking around town and seeing a bunch of skull *****
- Enfilade, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14It isn't congress's place to be condemning or commending any media operation. Do something besides get fat on our tax dollars you worthless con-men!
- pintomp3, on 10/10/2007, -6/+17rush loves the troops so much he wants them to stay there and die.
- izzybr, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14Seriously? You couldn't even mention ONE WAY he has done this?
- StarlessKnight, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12They'll consider restoring those about the same time they restore Haebus Corpus for everyone, not just the non-Enemy Combatant American Citizenry, and put an end to Rendition.
- SheilaNoya, on 10/10/2007, -11/+21ABC did a story about people who were falsely claiming they were soldiers, when in reality, they were never in the military. Rush accused soldiers who oppose the war of being "phony soldiers". HUGE DIFFERENCE. Now Rush has re-edited his transcript and lied to cover up what he said. He's a pathetic mouthpiece for Bush and the neoCon agenda who is using his show to push propaganda that is dangerous to America. He deserves the same kind of hatred that he spews at others on a daily basis.
- brese1200, on 10/10/2007, -7/+17Rush is a scumbag.
Congress, Senate et al.- GET TO WORK AND STOP WASTING TIME WITH ***** LIKE THIS!!!! - dondara, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12"lefty moonbats"? WTF does that even mean? Is that supposed to be an insult? Sounds like childish gibberish for when you can't defend your position because you are just repeating lies that some neocon ***** spewed since the truth doesn't suit their war profiteering agenda.
- ploop, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Clarity, my friend. Clarity.
- Gerz1219, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Your rant is completely irrelevant. Whatever your opinion of Rush Limbaugh's remarks, it's not the role of Congress to be issuing "gold stars" and "check minuses" to commentators on purely partisan lines. They're supposed to be debating and passing legislation, not acting as a focus group for political discourse.
- leftyslament, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9They're not condemning him, they're commending him. Either way this partisan ***** has to stop. Right now Duncan Hunter is trying to push a bill to "restore patriotism to Columbia University campus" and remove federal funding from the school for allowing Iranian president Ahmadenijad to speak there. Doesn't congress have some slightly more important issues to attend to?
- elcaminos, on 10/10/2007, -8/+17Don't confuse conservatives with neocons. I'm a conservative, and I think rush is an asshat.
- maxpower17@digg, on 10/10/2007, -5/+13Why the hell are they wasting so much time over this dumb SH!T like move-on and rush. They should be focused on the REAL issues like Bush & the war on hate of our policies ( or Terrorism)
- jger82, on 10/10/2007, -5/+13IT FEELS LIKE I'M IN THE ***** TWILIGHT ZONE.
- pickypg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Actually, not only are we paying them to do nothing, increase the deficit by spending more than we have (every time), while at the same time complaining about everyone "else" doing it, and we pay them and they /don't/ pay social security taxes on their salaries (but we the peasants must for the good of the country??).
- wynja, on 10/10/2007, -8/+15Dude, I want some of what your smoking.
- Zarxrax, on 10/10/2007, -8/+15Rush's idea of supporting the troops is allowing his listeners to purchase subscriptions to his "rush 24/7" internet site for the troops. People should be outraged that he tries to profit off of the troops like this. I'm sure the troops would appreciate donations of actual value more than a donation of a subscription to propaganda.
- SpudgeBoy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Because you didn't say the same thing.
- davestar, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Exactly what we should be pissed at in this situation. While it's infuriating that Kingston is so detached from reality, the real sin is that our tax dollars are paying for Representatives who choose to to sit around and draft resolutions that only serve to pander to their base rather than accomplish anything meaningful.
- natedouglas, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Jesse Macbeth was a phony soldier, a liar, a cheat, and a fraud. He was discharged for a mental disorder.
But call this man a phony soldier: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/27/iraq/mai ... - vonnegut, on 10/10/2007, -9/+15Reid, Harkin , Kingston are wasting our time and our money on grandstanding for the cameras, propagating a media-matters lie. PATHETIC. This is why Congress approval rate is around 12%.
We are NOT so stupid that we can be distracted by these liberal democrats pointing to lightening rods like Limbaugh instead of actually doing anything productive or positive regarding the war.
Congressional democrats picking a fight about troop moral? What a joke! - Zarxrax, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Yes, I know thats what it is. And he encourages his listeners to buy subscriptions of it to give to troops. There is practically no cost involved in something like that, it's just pure profit in the name of trying to make people think they are somehow helping troops.
- christor, on 10/10/2007, -5/+11Kingston is one of the first Reps featured on Colbert's Better Know a District. In that interview, he famously agreed that he (a white man who had loved in Africa) was an African American. He's also the guy who complained that the Dem's shift to a five-day workweek in Congress "damages families." It seems that he's on a mission to become a self-parody.
- pintomp3, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8the fairness doctrine only applies to public airwaves, nice try though.
- SpudgeBoy, on 10/10/2007, -5/+10Dugg down for not recognizing that people have been throwing up a little in their mouths and telling people for a lot longer than Dodgeball has been out.
- synarchy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Demagogy (Demagoguery) (from Greek δῆμος, "people", and ἄγειν, "to lead") refers to a political strategy for obtaining and gaining political power by appealing to the popular prejudices, fears and expectations of the public — typically via impassioned rhetoric and propaganda, and often using nationalist or populist themes.
------------------Get a life. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Here's some facts to straighten you out.
Congressional Approval Rating: 24%
Republicans: 37%
Democrats: 23%
http://www.galluppoll.com/content/default.aspx?ci= ... - SpudgeBoy, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9I like how right wing whackos talk like Air America isn't around anymore. I listen to it everyday and their ratings are going up. You need to catch up and turn off Fox and Rush. You might learn something at that point.
- cesig, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7That's not the issue. The fact that a congressman is bothering with this trivial issue, regardless of its political bent or intention, is a travesty.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8The only group this smear has gained traction with is the retards.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Murtha, Kerry, Durbin, the Move On crowd.......................even if limbaugh was calling anitwar troops phonies.........even if he said it - hell, just for the sake of argument i'll agree with you - he called anti-war troops "phonies"............that still does not come even close to what the above have said about our men and women in uniform, murtha called them cold blooded killers, durbin compared them to nazis, and john kerry made his bones in the 70s comparing U.S. soldiers to ghengis khan.....................there is no denying that, period.........................even if limbaugh called antiwar troops phonies it still doesnt even come close to the blanket generalizations made by democratic party members and moveon about the entire military
- pickypg, on 10/10/2007, -7/+12Because they aren't? My brother is in the Marines and his whole unit just volunteered for their second tour in Iraq.
- lead2thehead, on 10/10/2007, -15/+20Rush's comments are being grossly misrepresented here. He wasn't implying that troops who are anti-war are "phony soldiers". He was talking about civilians who pretend to be soldiers in order to push their anti-war agenda. More specifically, Jesse Macbeth, who claimed to be an Army Rangeer who witnessed all kinds of attrocities in Iraq. It turned out that he was not an army ranger, had never been to Iraq, and in fact washed out of boot camp. Here are is the conversation in its entirety:
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 talk to the media.
RUSH: The phony soldiers.
CALLER: 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.
CALLER: A lot of people.
RUSH: You know where you're going these days, the last four years, if you sign up. The odds are you're going there or Afghanistan, or somewhere.
CALLER: Exactly, sir. My other comment, my original comment, was a retort to Jill about the fact we didn't find any weapons of mass destruction. Actually, we have found weapons of mass destruction in chemical agents that terrorists have been using against us for a while now. I've done two tours in Iraq, I just got back in June, and there are many instances of insurgents not knowing what they're using in their IEDs. They're using mustard artillery rounds, VX artillery rounds in their IEDs. Because they didn't know what they were using, they didn't do it right, and so it didn't really hurt anybody. But those munitions are over there. It's a huge desert. If they bury it somewhere, we're never going to find it.
RUSH: Well, that's a moot point for me right now.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: The weapons of mass destruction. We gotta get beyond that. We're there. We all know they were there, and Mahmoud even admitted it in one of his speeches here talking about Saddam using the poison mustard gas or whatever it is on his own people. But that's moot. What's more important is all this is taking place now in the midst of the surge working, and all of these anti-war Democrats are getting even more hell-bent on pulling out of there, which means that success on the part of you and your colleagues over there is a great threat to them. 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. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -9/+14Because that's not true?
- 15charmaxwtf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4What would you all do without these heroic knights in shining armour passing resolutions like this!
- Brain1, on 10/10/2007, -8/+12Well its about time Rush got the recognition he deserves!!!...Im gonna celebrate this wonderful occasion with 3 Oxycontin, and some Glenfiddich !!!
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