Tom Harkin attacks Rush Limbaugh on "phony soldier" misquote

[lfd0311]

Tom Harkin should probably shut his mouth. He was too busy making sure Iowa State fans got to watch the Insight.com bowl against Minnesota two years ago and getting a little Hatian girl a visa to help me get VA compensation I'd been owed for 5 years. I contacted his office twice, and finally recieved a letter back stating that "there is no further need for you to contact this office about this issue" screw Tom Harkin and the horse he rode in on

[StoogeWatcher]

The only soldiers liberals support are the phony soldiers like Jesse MacBeth.

[Sh3pardMelody]

dont worry.... hes spending his time with Mr.Buhbah in his little cell......

[wwwLowerTherePaycom]

harkin gives tax breaks to oil company and conoco phillips owes the gov,$100 million bucks

hey tom tell ruth to pay up

harkin had 72% of his money invested in defense? now he has a bunch of bonds in the state of virgina? why not iowa? why the bahamas?

[thetikidude]

Tom Harkin is a douch!

[paratrooper110]

Limbaugh was talking about Jesse Macbeth, not any members of Winter Soldiers or IVAW. Way to take only what you want to hear libbies

[professorenigma]

I wonder if anyone finds Harkin's phoney stories embellishing his war record to be "offensive"? Harkin's legislative record is an offense to intelligent discourse--he favors the Fairness Doctrine and Internet Neutrality; the first being a violation of the 1st Amendment, the second will open the door to more of that.

freewebs..com/professor_enigma­/harkin..htm

[gameshowguy2000]

Harkin's actually been in the military. Jesse MacBeth (while his videos are on YouTube) has NOT. In fact, last year..he got sentenced to prison and mental health treatment.

[grazon]

Kenneth R Thomson

Ed Moore

Edgar Dale Allen

Ollie M. McCaulley

Allen A. Baumann

Robert Anthony Nolan

Reggie L. Buddle

All phony vets and the GOP doesn't mind.

[StoogeWatcher]

Harkin has also been caught lying about his military service.

[xYxYxYxYxYx]

Why are these politicians even acknowledging Rush, Savage or anyone else?

I believe our government officials should ignore the talk shows completely.

Who cares what they say? You see... when these politicans refer to talk shows in our chambers of government, it only serves as a distraction, and a soap opera, and interferes with their work.

It's the same thing as a security guard playing a gameboy while on duty.

They need to ignore talk radio and focus on real debate.

[StoogeWatcher]

Phony soldier Tom Harkin supports phony soldier Jesse MacBeth.

[thefreak985]

Not only are we going to New Hampshire, TOM HARKIN

[redmark2007]

youtube: "Anatomy of a Liar"

[redmark2007]

youtube: Anatomy of a cowardly Liar...

[CaIib0y707]

Harkin has already been called to the carpet for lying about his military record. What a creep. Listen to EIB!

[PhonySoldier]

^*^*^^It's really sad that these liberals smear our troops with false war atrocity accusations as campaign fraud. And try to blame Rush Limbaugh for disrespecting our troops, when in fact he is defending them and a longtime supporter. Brian McGough is a lying imbecile, Rush did not call him a phony soldier. Keith Olbermann is your typical lying bigoted liberal biased left-wing media imbecile.

[PhonySoldier]

If Tom Harkin hasn't already which I doubt, he should apologize for jumping to conclusions and making slanderous and defamatory attacks in public before checking the facts. Anyone including Tom Harkin that has made these ridiculous claims that hasn't already made a public apology should be criminally prosecuted for slander and defamation. And the groups that continue to pump the lies, should be prosecuted for campaign fraud, slander and defamation.

[1984or2007]

Leader Harry Reid Senator of Nevada Should step down as leader today. I think The good People of That State should recall Senator Reid, just like the good people of the State of California did to Gray Davis when he was a failed leader as Governor.

[rjspeleton]

Check out Ebay. The bidding for the smear letter sent by 41 Senators to Clear Channel denouncing Rush, is up to $17,600! The money goes to the children of fallen soldiers, a charity Rush has supported for several years. Rush has successfully turned this thing into the joke it has always been, and he is honoring ALL the troops as he does it. I love this man and I thought last week I couldn't laugh any harder at seething liberals, well I am right now!

[1984or2007]

$4.2 million with Rush matching the bid.

[flying45rabbit]

our tax dollars hard at work. its almost funny.

[bpettit79]

Being from Iowa, I'm disgusted. Harkin is and always has been a waste... how about getting something worthwhile done besides raising our taxes. Complain about media personalities on your own time... you work for us! That soldier is a fake, and anyone who does a little research on jesse macbeth knows that. The left feeds on the ignorant.

[mousepotato64]

By JOSE LAMBIET

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Friday, October 05, 2007

No, Sen. Tom Harkin, radio talker Rush Limbaugh isn't back on drugs!

So says the state of Florida. And Limbaugh himself, who told Page Two, as he enters his last month on probation for a narcotics arrest, that he doesn't even miss getting high and now feels like a better person.

[Lezahnhoj]

This guy doesn't quite know what hes talking about . . . AND SURPRISINGLY ENOUGH . . HE IS A LIB

[w9j15g]

The problem you dittoheads have is that you're uninformed and misinformed. You rely on Rush and Fox "News" for information and you're fed nothing but lies and propaganda. You are also too cowardly to face the truth. "Saddam put his WMD in Syria." Yeah and OJ was framed. You're no better than the true believers who acquited OJ Simpson.

[Lezahnhoj]

get a life

[milt5658]

I heard the whole thing. Rush DID say exactly what Media Matters says he did. Moron.

[ElRancholo2]

The sad thing is, the Democrats KNOW they are lying. Democrat or Republican, if you evaluate this thing fairly, its sickening how Reid and Harkin are using deception and dishonesty.

[cbarrientos1987]

Democrats!!! They don't care about the facts they just see a statement and take out the two words that they know will hit real close to home with the majority of Americans both who are for and againist the war. Rush was talking about idiots like Macbeth not all the soldiers. Do your homework, damn Democrats, they don't know anything but how to lie and spread smears on one of the biggest supporters of our soldiers!! The far left winged Democrats need to shut up already

[PhonySoldiersMom]

Sen Tom Harkin would turn a soldiers funeral into a campaign rally.

Democrats are shameless!

[ronfxv]

Response to deltropico (4 hours ago) he sounds like another dumb-fuck who didn't bother to learn what Rush actually said.

[kellypack]

Does this clown not know how to LISTEN? Does Harkin support ex-con felon soldiers who "never put on a uniform and fought overseas"? Does he even know what this is about? THis "Soldier" WAS a PHONY! And he did time in JAIL! THAT is who Rush was talking about----but don't let facts get in the way of a good story! LOL!

[deltropico]

Never put a uniform to defend our country!!Why should believe a republican

drugadict,full of Shi...t instead of the commentsof soldiers right from the combat zone.God bless our brave men and women, not

limbaugh that only purpose is to increase his ratings with such stupid comments.

[StoogeWatcher]

If the left really cared about our troops, they wouldn't be supporting Jesse Macbeth.

[dblue5213]

Sen. Harkin, check your facts! Edited comments of yours could also be used against you. In fact, unedited comments of yours will be used against you!!

[52381a]

LOOOOOOOOOOOSER

[eksdem]

If I were Harkin I'd want Rush to shut up, too.

Harkin has lied about his own military experience.

He made up a phony story about flying combat missions over Vietnam.

The Democrats want to (metaphorically speaking) "kill the messenger" who tells the world about their lies.

[CastorT64]

Jesse MacBeth - washed out of basic training, claimed to be a combat ranger who served in Iraq and Afghanistan where he supposedly killed men, women, and children. Convict. Darling of the leftist media.

So, the Libs are lying again.

[broman2235]

Capsource1,, please stop stating the facts,, you're confusing the liberal leftist Hate America crowd. What's next?? You pointing out that tax cuts help the economy?

[jscottupton]

Actually, tax cuts DO help the economy.

[broman2235]

amen! i was being sarcastic in my support of Capsource1.

As you know,, it's impossible to reason with a drunk and impossible to deal in the facts with a liberal.

[Advocate1234]

Harkin is a phony excuse for a human being.

[mousepotato64]

How about youy Harkin, Will YOU stand up and take on Rush Limbaugh or will you hide behind your podium??? The NADS on this guy!!!!!

[lalap1988]

So only people who have served in the milliary have the right to totally free speech?

[mousepotato64]

aparently so. unless you are a lib.

[capsource1]

# Bill Clinton fails to report to his duty station at the University of Arkansas ROTC, September 1969

# Bill Clinton reclassified 1-A on October 30, 1969, as enlistment with Army Reserves is revoked by Colonel E. Holmes and Clinton now AWOL and subject to arrest under Public Law 90-40 (2)(a) "registrant who has failed to report...remain liable for induction"

[capsource1]

# Bill Clinton fails to report to his duty station at the University of Arkansas ROTC, September 1969

# Bill Clinton reclassified 1-A on October 30, 1969, as enlistment with Army Reserves is revoked by Colonel E. Holmes and Clinton now AWOL and subject to arrest under Public Law 90-40 (2)(a) "registrant who has failed to report...remain liable for induction"

[capsource1]

Bush joined the military

He wore the uniform

He became a certified military pilot

He was discharged early because the retired his type of aircraft amd didn't want to spend a million dollars to retrain if they are not going to stay in the service.

GEORGE BUSH WAS DISCHARGED

[leopardboy]

Bill Clinton got out of the war because he was a smart kid (in case you don't know, being a Rhodes scholar is a big deal). Bush got out of Vietnam because he was a rich, well-connected kid. I don't blame either for not going, but Bush pretends to be a tough guy and Clinton does not. Carter could whip Bush.

[makoshark123456]

leopardboy,

were you aware that he wrote a letter to his ROTC commander saying that he 'loathed the military' and should be excused from service? Selective outrage from the left. Are any of you intellectually honest?

[leopardboy]

Except for the "Carter could whip Bush" line, what is dishonest about my statement? Clinton got out of Vietnam because he was smart, and Bush got out because he was well-connected. The Clinton letter you cited just proves my statement that Clinton doesn't pretend to be a tough guy. Do you dispute those things?

[gismotech]

harkin lies about flying combat mission in Nam

another phoney

[Angietony]

Back on Clinton - well Dumbya couldn't even show up for the Champagne tour of duty because he didn't want to pee in a cup!

[capsource1]

# Bill Clinton fails to report to his duty station at the University of Arkansas ROTC, September 1969

# Bill Clinton reclassified 1-A on October 30, 1969, as enlistment with Army Reserves is revoked by Colonel E. Holmes and Clinton now AWOL and subject to arrest under Public Law 90-40 (2)(a) "registrant who has failed to report...remain liable for induction"

[capsource1]

I am loving the crap out watching these liberals implode. LOLOLOL

They are something else. LOLOLOLOLOL

[capsource1]

# Bill Clinton fails to report to his duty station at the University of Arkansas ROTC, September 1969

# Bill Clinton reclassified 1-A on October 30, 1969, as enlistment with Army Reserves is revoked by Colonel E. Holmes and Clinton now AWOL and subject to arrest under Public Law 90-40 (2)(a) "registrant who has failed to report...remain liable for induction"

[capsource1]

BRAVO RUSH

"It's about them and they are desperately trying to salvage themselves with their own lunatic fringe base who they are not only disappointing but they are deceiving because the dirty, little secret, as I also predicted, was that if the Democrats win the White House in '08 they are not pulling out of Iraq. All the top tier Democrats have said so," Limbaugh told his audience.

[Angietony]

At least the DEMS serve!!!! How many of these chicken hawk Repukenicans served? Rush Limbaugh had a boil on his ass and claimed he couldn't go. Cheney got 5 deferrals. Talk about hypocrites!Go ahead and "swift boat" everyone you don't agree with! It's the old ROVEBOT trick of trying to discredit people by attacking their strong points!

[StoogeWatcher]

Like you Dumbocrats are one to talk. You still support Jessie Macbeth! By the way, Carl Levin, John Edwards, Joe Biden, and Christopher Dodd voted for the war, but none of them served.

[shifta65]

Let me get this straight, Mr. Tom Harkin: Didn't YOU lie about flying combat missions in Viet Nam and exaggerate your military service? And isn't it true that Harry Reed never served in the military? Do you know what the word hypocrite means? Look up the meaning in the dictionary and you may find pictures of you and Harry Reed next to the written definition.

[VoodooMagicMan]

This man is a PUSSY.

[StoogeWatcher]

Reid and other liberals support those phony soldiers Limbaugh was talking about, like Jesse Macbeth and Jimmy Massey.

And wasn't Harkin caught lying about his alleged military service?

[edmorgan1]

Tom Harkin is reminiscent of the hot, smelly air that eminates from the southbound end of a nothbound mule (no disrespect to those mules who may read this).

[alotafagiana]

Really? Have you always said that Mr. Harkin? Well maybe we should talk to Hillary or Obama since they have worn our country's uniform. Oh wait, thats right. They haven't. Well then how about Bill. No, no, a big fat no. Well then maybe they need to shut the hell up. Is that the game your playing? What a scum bag you know every word that is coming out of your mouth is a lie. How do you sleep at night?

[leopardboy]

But Hillary, Obama, etc., aren't tough guy warmongers. If you want to talk tough you need to have walked the walk. Rush certainly did not. Neither did O'Reilly, Hannity, Bush, Cheney, Savage, Drudge (did you know he's gay?), etc.

[1984or2007]

This lying ratbag is a phony Vietnam combat pilot Tom Harkin talking, by the way, trying to milk yet another phony Soros-manufactured "scandal" for more than it'll ever be worth, along with all those other "mainstream" Commiecrats like Dirty Harry "When I Get Bought, I Stay Bought!" Reid. You remember Tom Harkin, right?

Harkin is a Pussy! What would you expect from a Lib.

[VoodooMagicMan]

For once in you life do the right thing. We will forgive you. Americans always do if asked. If you don't I will be tempted to bundle money against you next year. It's something I have to do. I will help any other person running against you. Please do the right thing. Sincerely, VooDoo

[VoodooMagicMan]

2....You used the senate floor to attack a person that you could never stand up to. I know you will never do it, but if you were a real man you would go the The EIB network and Tell him to his face. I know you won't because your not a man. Your a Lib. It was very immature of you. It sounded like something a 14 year old would say at high school.

[VoodooMagicMan]

Senator Tom Harkin, You need to get back on the senate floor and apologize to every person who has ever had a Drug problem. The number is very high. Somewhere between 25 and 30 MILLION people have or had this problem. Al Gore Jr., All the Kennedy's, Your Hollywood Friends, people in your own family and on and on.

[VoodooMagicMan]

Rush cares more about the troops than any Dem. The Guy Rush was talking about was kicked out of Boot-Camp and said he was in Iraq. I total lie. You didn't hear Rush or you would know what he said. If you belive Harkin your a Fool. More the pity.

[maloney7211]

Rush was talking about Jesse Macbeth in response to callers. Perhaps Tom Harkin should discuss his own military career, which he appears to have shamelessly embellished until the truth was uncovered. Could Harkin be one of the phony soldiers of which Limbaugh spoke? Did Harkin concede that he never flew combat air patrols in Vietnam, as he claimed? Ask Google.

[HearTheTruth]

Rush is right, again. His term "phony soldiers" was in reference to those who claimed military service and/or awards who did not serve or earn them. The same was said on ABC News 9/24/7. Where is the outrage towards ABC?

[O2bnTX2]

If this wasn't so sad that it might be stupid.

You can take anything out of context and make it say anything as long as you want to hear it.

First look at who is pointing fingers. Did ABC get called on their story?

Harkin is a phony and a liar.

Kerry is a liar and you all aree going to take Media Matters as a reliable source give me a break.

[w9j15g]

james1053: It wasn't a misquote. You can visit Media Matters and hear the original broadcast. Limbaugh didn't say anything about MacBeth until nearly two minutes AFTER he made the phony soldiers comment. Wake up. Limbaugh is a liar.

[james1053]

wrong. he was talking about jesse macbeth in a segment prior to the call. in that same segment, he also brought up scott thomas... two people who lied about things they claimed to have seen while soldiers... which makes them phony soldiers.

[w9j15g]

In a segment prior to the call how many days earlier? Limbaugh has proven the charge by also calling Jack Murtha a phony soldier because Murtha wants to end the war. Limbaugh got out of military service because of a cyst on his ass. He lied about that and said it was an "old football injury," which makes me wonder how someone stuck a football up his ass.

[mousepotato64]

w9j15g: Yours is a typical answer of someone with no case.

[w9j15g]

Limbaugh also called Scott Thomas Beauchamp a phony soldier because he was blogging about things in Iraq the war lovers didn't want to hear. The war cheerleaders tried to say he wasn't really a soldier in Iraq, but he was. So I win the argument. Speaking of no case, what happened to all that WMD? You're clueless.

[blastingcaps]

well mcbeth WAS a phony and its come to light his last name on his birth certicicate is al zaid YER BOY, so is john kerry. there is yer plural. this is a cheap political tactic by pussy liberal democrats who are forever tryin to bring our boys up on charges. and now tryin to ride them by way of rush. pathetic.

[mousepotato64]

Rush is not the only one to call Beauchamp a phony. And it's not because of what he said. It was because of the veracity of his reporting. Apparently he is married to a reporter at TNR. Stories like this sell. This is why Rush talks about the "Drive-By Media". They come in, destroy lives and property and move on. (No pun intended). Get the story now, deal with The truth later, after the damage is done.

[mousepotato64]

And WMD's? gimme a break. They were moved into Syria while Hans was playing the shell game with Saddam. He wasn't there to see if Saddam HAD weapons. They KNEW he HAD them. SADDAM was supposed to prove they were DESTROYED. rollseyes&deepsigh.

[w9j15g]

Why would Saddam have weapons if he was going put them where he couldn't use them when he needed them? There is no evidence to support that ridiculous lie that came out of Israel. Furthermore, the US government knew he didn't have WMD as far back as 1995. They learned this from Hussein Kamal. The CIA and UN inspectors were ready to certify Iraq as WMD free when Clinton pulled the inspectors out of Iraq and the CIA was told it was really about regime change. You need to do your homework.

[Blackrain4xmas]

Maybe the same reason he had an air force and sent it to Iran?

[mousepotato64]

The result of about 19 seconds of homework...

'Saddam's weapons in Syria'

09/01/2004 22:02 - (SA)

London - Chemical and biological weapons produced by Saddam Hussein were hidden at three sites in Syria after being smuggled out of Iraq months before the US-led war, a Syrian dissident claimed on Friday.

Nijar Nijjof, who is based in Paris, told Britain's independent Channel Five News that he had been told about the weapons by a senior source inside Syrian military intelligence.

[mousepotato64]

The unnamed source revealed the weapons were smuggled across the Iraq border in ambulances before the US-led war which toppled Saddam was launched in March, Nijjof said.

"I knew this man during the last two years, he sent me much information," Nijjof said of his source.

[w9j15g]

Yeah, the unconfirmed story of one guy--another Curveball!

[mousepotato64]

"There is no evidence to support that ridiculous lie that came out of Israel."

First, You scoff and say that there is no evidence. I show you evidence from Syria via London (Which last time I checked is not even IN Isreal). And your best Rebuttal is....Scoff again. Let me stand back and admire your debate technique. So should I only believe what I hear from CNN or Moveon. org?

[mousepotato64]

1/2

By IRA STOLL

Staff Reporter of the Sun

January 26, 2006

The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed.

[mousepotato64]

The Iraqi general, Georges Sada, makes the charges in a new book, "Saddam's Secrets," released this week. He detailed the transfers in an interview yesterday with The New York Sun.

2/2

"There are weapons of mass destruction gone out from Iraq to Syria, and they must be found and returned to safe hands," Mr. Sada said. "I am confident they were taken over."

[w9j15g]

Here is what you are not smart enough to figure out. In the run up to the Iraq war, Iraq was under constant surveillance, not only by satellites, but the US and UK air forces were patrolling the skies EVERYDAY. (Remember the no-fly zones?) There is no way that would have happened. Even if it would have, it would just prove that Saddam's weapons were NO THREAT to the US if he were unwilling to use them--even to save his life. You have no argument.

[mousepotato64]

"(Remember the no-fly zones?) There is no way that would have happened."

Yeah, it seems that the NFZ,s were to the north and south. But Syria lies right between them.(on a map anyway)

[w9j15g]

Here is what you don't know about Sada. He RETIRED in 1986. He was imprisoned by Saddam in 1991 and then kicked out of Iraq TWELVE YEARS before the war started. He was in no position to know anything. He's just another goon from Chalabi's group of liars. You want to know who got Saddam's WMD? It was Big Foot.

[mousepotato64]

From Sada's book, "I know it because I have got the captains of the Iraqi airway that were my friends, and they told me these weapons of mass destruction had been moved to Syria."

He now lives in Baghdad, just because Saddam didn't want him around Doesn't mean he had no connections in Iraq. Saddam wanted him jailed, But not Harmed.

When I wear my tfh i can talk to BigFoot.

[mousepotato64]

"Hussein Kamel Hassan al-Majid (Arabic: حسين كامل حسن الماجد) (died February 23, 1996) was the son-in-law and second cousin of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. He defected to Jordan and took to helping the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) and the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA inspection teams assigned to look for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq."

Saddam's son-in-law, Ha, good source.

[w9j15g]

Saddam had him assassinated for what he did. You read an article on him and conveniently IGNORED that fact because you're an idiot.

[mousepotato64]

Oh Saddam had someone assassinated...What a surprise.

And I am only an idiot for carrying on this conversation with a venom spitting loon like you.

[mousepotato64]

pt1/3 From January 2004

"For as much political hay that has been made over Iraq Survey Group head David Kay's resignation from the WMD hunt and subsequent declaration that Saddam had no WMD, I hope there is a peep or two about THIS PIECE in the London Sunday Telegraph:

[mousepotato64]

pt2/3 "In an exclusive interview with The Telegraph, Dr Kay, who last week resigned as head of the Iraq Survey Group, said that he had uncovered evidence that unspecified materials had been moved to Syria shortly before last year's war to overthrow Saddam.

[mousepotato64]

pt3/3 "We are not talking about a large stockpile of weapons," he said. "But we know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam's WMD programme. Precisely what went to Syria, and what has happened to it, is a major issue that needs to be resolved."

[w9j15g]

Re: pt3/3: "Iterrogations" = torture; i.e., "we got guys to tell us whatever we wanted to hear after we tortured them enough." And to prove that, he can't provide any details. "Precisely what went to Syria..." What a bunch of bullshit!

[mousepotato64]

"Iterrogations" = torture; i.e., "we got guys to tell us whatever we wanted to hear after we tortured them enough."

Pure speculation based on soothsaying. If you are going to torture someone for info why bother if you are just going to make up what they say anyway.

[w9j15g]

Something else you don't know is that Saddam hated and mistrusted Syria. Syria fought on the US side during the Persian Gulf War. The Syrians are Shiites. Saddam was Sunni. The lie, which originated with Ariel Sharon, is as absurd as saying the US sent nukes to Cuba.

[mousepotato64]

2la. org/syria/

Yeah they had a friendly little rivalry going.

And speaking of Satellite surviellance, When you get to the bottom of the page click on Iraq WMD's are in Syria.

[mousepotato64]

Besides I don't know how we got on this subject but it's irrelevant. Everyone knew he had them. Everyone said he had them. Yet only Bush is the one who 'lied' gmab.

worldtribune. com/worldtribune/WTARC/2004/me­_iraq_06_11. html

and

snopes. com/politics/war/wmdquotes. asp

[JakeandElwoodBlues]

You're a moron Harkin.

[angryseraph]

So again, veterans are only worthy of respect so long as they agree with you?

[mousepotato64]

No but they don't deserve respect when they purposely lie about what someone said for political purposes.