Hey, Harry...Come on !!

Who Said to Send in the Clowns?

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Let me first state that Rush Limbaugh is a lot of things to a lot of people. Mostly, he is a bombastic gas bag who happens to have an acute understanding of his opponents thinking. The worst thing a listener can hear is him saying, "You know how much I hate to talk about myself...but..." because that means the next hour will be full of some crap about himself...usually with the moral that he is smarter than the rest. Interspersed in there somewhere might be something genuinely interesting, it is hard for me to say because I don't listen to him that much anymore. But the last few days the thing that has occupied his show more than anything else is the accusation that he called soldiers who had served in one of our many unpleasant places and returned to become war protesters "phony soldiers". The term is taken out of context and the accusation is not true. The phrase came up in reference to "soldiers" who claim to have "been there"...got wounded...whatever else...when it turns out they did none of those things. It is an apt title. In my day we called them "PX soldiers"...they would load their uniforms up for the trip home to make themselves look like heroes. The whole thing is a tempest in a teapot. He didn't say what the liberals in the senate and the house are saying he said and they are mounting a campaign to drag him through the mud over it. Which begs the over-riding question..."So What?"

What if he did say it? Who cares? Who the heck is he anyway? And now the head lib in the senate wants to draft a letter to Limbaugh's boss demanding an apology...the house is trying for some kind of condemnation, too. The legislative body of our government wants to censure a private citizen who said something they didn't like. And the very people who are so fiercely offended by this comment have themselves said far worse things about our soldiers...where is their censure? I had it in mind to make a long list of all the crap the congressmen and senators have said...but it is late, I am tire, and you can Google it all if you are really interested.

No...the question I want answered is "Why should anything that comes out of either house of congress carry any weight with us, anyway?" The congressional leadership positions are full of people of low moral character...there are liars, adulterers, scoff laws, thieves, bribe takers, and a variety of other miscreants...anybody want to knock back a sixpack and ride out to Martha' s Vineyard with Ted?...and we should take notice of them because they want to save us from a naughty talk radio host who said something disparaging about a certain class of soldiers? This august body that has accused marines of murder without evidence or trial...accused troops of terrorizing Iraqi families in the night..."torturing" detainees...flushing Korans down the old poop chute...and the beat goes on.

Come on, Harry...is this what the citizens of Nevada expect for their tax dollars? Am I the only one who is sick of all this crap?
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top

You summed up the issue pretty well.  And the contempt for congress is justly deserved. Here we now have a bunch of self righteous clowns trying to stiffle free speech!  And not even offensive free speech unless you consider anything said by the person to be offensive.

I was particularly disturbed by the slander that Harkin made.  In any other venue, he would have a law suit on his hands - one likely he would lose.  Yet anything can be said on the floor of congress with total impugnity - simply because they dont like someone.

This whole episode is more telling on Congress than the gas bag (as you call him).  He is an entertainer.  They are supposed to be leaders.  With leaders like that, who needs clowns?

Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
I don't like or agree with pretty much anything Rush Limbaugh says but I don't think this is an issue for congress.  They need to get on with legislating not waste time on crapola like this. 
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
All that is, is the Harry trying to deflect the fact that some high profile people in the anti war movement are people claiming to be Iraq war vets, but aren't.

If they can put Rush Limbaugh (and by extention, anyone who speaks out against these liars) on the spot for saying "Phony Soldiers" then maybe people won't notice the egg on their faces.

Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
I guess what upsets me the most is the congressional folks displaying an attitude of superiority. None of them seem the least bothered by the fact that they are using a falsehood for the basis of their campaign.

I don't like or agree with pretty much anything Rush Limbaugh says but I don't think this is an issue for congress. They need to get on with legislating not waste time on crapola like this.


EGGsaxly!!!

I was particularly disturbed by the slander that Harkin made.


There are too many in congress to list who have said worse about the soldiers, sailors , airmen, and marines...Harkin alluded to Limbaugh's drug use...has he ever mentioned that a certain senator from New England hasn't drawn a sober breath in decades? They live in their cocoon-like world...their little boys club...ruling us as they deem best for us. We shouldn't be allowed to hear opposition voices like Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, Oreilly, and a few others...so they launch another campaign to silence those who would oppose. SCROOM !!! Clancy had the right idea.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
If they can put Rush Limbaugh (and by extention, anyone who speaks out against these liars) on the spot for saying "Phony Soldiers" then maybe people won't notice the egg on their faces


There are more than a few "phony soldiers" in congress, that's for sure.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
whats funny to me is that jimmy carter can say whatever the hell he wants and congress isn't trying to condemn him.
al gore just won a nobel prize for all his crap that is based on whatever "facts" he wants us to believe.
its shocking how politics work. so much is based on things that aren't true.
it's scary to me that people can jump on some crap like this rush thing, and get so much out of it.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
jimmy carter can say whatever the hell he wants


Any Liberal can say anything about a conservative and the press will never critcize...they treat it like it is the red hot gospel. But switch it around and the righteous indignation is so thick ...well...you know.