Anti- Rush Limbaugh Attacks Stepped Up, Elizabeth Edwards Joins In

FIRE AT WILL

Desperate For Victory, Left Tries Anything To Get Rush







So far without a single tangible victory in their dishonest smear campaign against Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly, the "progressive" left has resorted to attacking talk hosts with anything and everything, no matter how weak the weaponry might be.

Moving beyond mere dishonesty, Democrats have entered the realm of fantasy against Limbaugh, with Elizabeth Edwards injecting new allegations against the talk titan without a shred of evidence.

Can't make anything else stick? Then let's resurrect the old anti- Bush chestnut, Rush The Draft Dodger. From the Politico's Ben Smith:

Elizabeth questions Limbaugh's draft deferment

An Air America producer just sent over some transcript from an interview their Richard Greene (not our Richard Greene) conducted with Elizabeth Edwards, in which she questioned Rush Limbaugh's Vietnam exemption:


My classmates went to Vietnam, he did not. He was 4F. He had a medical disability, the same medical disability that probably should have stopped him from spending a lifetime in a radio announcer’s chair; but it is true, isn’t it?

If he has an inoperable position that allows him not to serve, presumably it should not allow him to sit for long periods of time the way he does. I think this is a serious enough offense for the people who fund him, who buy ads and allow him to be on the air, need to be asked if this is what they really stand for, do they think it is alright for someone who has never served to denigrate the men and women who have simply because they are expressing an opinion. Frankly, I thought that is what we are fighting for.

Isn't it now clear that the Dems are running against Rush, rather than each other or anyone in the GOP field? Who cooked up this strategy?

Show us where Limbaugh has expressed interest in running for president?


Elsewhere around the lefty blogosphere, the smears are even worse, but at least they aren't coming from presidential campaigns. Over at the Huffington Post, Hal Donahue and the Media Matters crowd want readers to believe Limbaugh equates wounded vets with suicide bombers:

Limbaugh Compares Wounded Veteran to Suicide Bomber


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Where are the VSO's???

Rush Limbaugh, an expert at hate speech and half truths, is now comparing veterans who oppose him to suicide bombers. First, Rush called soldiers who oppose his view "phony soldiers" and now lies about it. Now he is comparing our combat wounded to suicide bombers. A soldier dared challenge Rush in an advertisement and Rush counters by comparing the soldier to the bomber. To quote Bob Dole: "Where were the VSO's?" Senator Dole was talking about the American Legion's and other veteran service organizations' failure to identify the problems at Walter Reed. But his quote serves just as well to ask why the American Legion and the rest are silent while Rush calls troops phonies and now compares them to suicide bombers.

The soldier, Brian McGough, said: "Rush, the shrapnel I took to my head was real. My traumatic brain injury was real. And, my belief that we are on the wrong course in Iraq is real. Until you have the guts to call me a "phony soldier" to my face, stop telling lies about my service." This was in response to Limbaugh's "phony soldier" comment.

Rush's response? Horrendously, Rush compared this soldier, Brian McGough, who was seriously wounded by shrapnel, to a suicide bomber and then insulted the intelligence of that soldier.

Next up: when will Rush finally stop kicking harmless puppies and kittens? By the way, his response is found here.


Elsewhere at the Huffington Post, Rush is compared with Ahmadinejad, while Jane Hamsher does her part to get Limbaugh removed from Armed Forces Radio, which now appears to be a lost cause for the left.

By now, it should be more than clear: the left wants Limbaugh removed from the airwaves before the election season heats up further. That's their apparent 2008 victory strategy.

Good luck, guys.


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