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Just watch this video and see how long it takes to spot the first deceptive line. I’m betting it won’t take long.

Brian McGough: More and more veterans from Iraq believe that George Bush’s policy on Iraq is a disaster. I’m one of them. Rush Limbaugh called soldiers like me “phoney soldiers” for telling the truth about Iraq.

Rush, the shrapnel I took to my head was real. The traumatic head injury was real and my belief that we are on the wrong track in Iraq is real.

Rush, until you have the guts to call me a phoney soldier to my face, stop telling lies about my service in Iraq.

My response to Brian McGough is simple. Rush has never said that Iraq war veterans who’ve argued against the Bush administration’s policy were phoney soldiers. That’s a myth started by Hillary Clinton’s propaganda machine, aka Media Matters. Harry Reid used this misinformation in a speech on the Senate floor. That backfired miserably. After that, it was picked up by MSNBC and CNN. It’s since backfired on them.

At best, this was an uban myth just waiting to be debunked. Rush didn’t just debunk that myth this week. Rush used the roadgrader of truth to demolish that little myth. While demolishing Harry Reid, he also exposed Media Matters as a Hillary Clinton creation. Rush also showed that VoteVets aren’t interested in the truth:

Rusty Humphries says, “Why are you doing this, honestly? What is your reasoning
behind this?”

FRIEDMAN: The problem I have with Rush Limbaugh is that he enables policy makers who have gotten our country into a lot of trouble. We’re in a lot of trouble. I mean, we’ve got some serious problems with Islamic extremism globally, and we can’t address those problems correctly –

HUMPHRIES: Why?

FRIEDMAN: — because we’re bogged down in another country’s religious civil war.

HUMPHRIES: Okay, so it’s not what Rush said, it’s who Rush supports, and because he helped get them elected, he needs to be taken down, is that –

FRIEDMAN: No, it’s a pattern of what he does. I mean, this guy has a voice, and he affects people.

Don’t look now but Mr. Friedman’s motivation was just exposed. That was the first Rusty Humphries clip. Here’s the other clip:

HUMPHRIES: Again, he talked about this Jesse MacBeth the day before, he talked about him on that show, the day of the show, the day after the show. He’s explained himself and still you’re going to continue, and you support what Harry Reid said, taking this out of context?
Come on, Brandon, that’s not fair. That’s not right. I could take what you said out of context. I mean this guy explained, and explained, and explained, and you’re still spreading these lies, saying that he called a soldier a suicide bomber? And what about Tom Harkin? Do you think it was okay for Tom Harkin to accuse Rush Limbaugh to be on drugs?

FRIEDMAN: Yeah, maybe it’s not appropriate for the Senate floor, but it’s true.

This is proof positive that Mr. Friedman isn’t versed in the truth. He’s just another man on a mission because he disagrees with President Bush. That’s certainly his right as an American. It isn’t his right, though, to use a different ‘truth’. Like Daniel Patrick Moynihan said ages ago, “Everyone’s entitled to their own opinions. They just aren’t entitled to their own facts.”

Rush granted an interview to a Miami newspaper refuting Friedman’s claim that Rush was using drugs. Here’s the key portion of that interview:

A corrections spokesman this week confirmed Limbaugh has been a good boy and
that the drug tests his doctor has conducted have been negative.

That information alone is reason enough for Mr. Friedman to apologize. I’d be surprised if he did, though. BDS-afflicted liberals aren’t into apologizing. They’re just into moving onto their next victim. That corrections spokesman’s report is enough justification for Ssen. Harkin to apologize, too. That’s wishful thinking, too. There isn’t a chance that Sen. Harkin will do the right thing and apologize for hypothesizing that Rush was using drugs at the time he made his phoney soldiers comment.

In the final analysis, the VoteVets’ advertisements will fail because the public knows what was said. They know that VoteVets is a partisan organization that’s tried peddling a pack of lies.

The public also knows VoteVets’ motivation because Rush went on a weeklong offensive that exposed them as a Democratic propaganda front group. Had they simply said that they disagreed with President Bush’s policies, their opinions would’ve carried some weight. When Brian McGough made the same accusations against Rush that Media Matters and Harry Reid made, they crossed the line in terms of partisanship.

In other words, VoteVets is guilty of overstepping their limits just like Democrats do on an almost daily basis. In the end, that’s why this campaign will fail miserably.

Technorati Tags: Harry Reid, VoteVets, Media Matters, Brian McGough, Hillary, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Harkin, Election 2008

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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