Bloggers are buzzing about Rush Limbaugh’s “phony soldiers” comment and Senate Democrats’ attempts to smear the radio host. Right-wing bloggers are outraged at the gruesome attempt to twist Limbaugh’s words and defame a patriotic supporter of our troops–and agree that Limbaugh should be defended. What exactly did Limbaugh say? He referred to one soldier, Jesse MacBeth, as a “phony soldier,” using the same language as an ABC News headline. MacBeth was indeed a “phony” as Limbaugh describes on his website:
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…
In short, a phony soldier. This is the exact conversation that took place between Limbaugh and a caller:
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