What’s next? I think what’s next is that Fox News is going to tell you the sky is orange and you’re going to nod in agreement as you drool on yourself.

You are wrong.

I like how Lush’s home station admits that they won’t run the VoteVets’ ad because they’re afraid the Dittoheads will encounter facts they don’t want to hear:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/04/votevets-censored/

About all you need to know about Lush and his listeners, isn’t it?

I agree that Armed Forces Radio should provide our serving citizens with more choices. But Rush was added after Congressional pressure — from such reality-challenged persons as Bob Dornan, for chrissakes — because the Pentagon’s own surveys indicated no demand for Limbaugh from the service’s listeners. Rush is getting wingnut welfare FROM US, from our taxes, so he can call any soldier who disagrees with him “phony”. Throwing his 4-F butt-boil off of Armed Forces Radio is not censorship, it’s getting fired for violating the values of his employer.

I don’t think the solution is to get him taken off of Armed Forces Radio. Give the Armed Forces more choices, I say. If they want to listen to a drug addled idiot call their colleagues in arms phony, well OK, but they should have other choices.

Politically,

Media Matters provides the entire transcript of the call, so tell me where the context is missing:

LIMBAUGH: Another Mike, this one in Olympia, Washington. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.

CALLER 2: Hi Rush, thanks for taking my call.

LIMBAUGH: You bet.

CALLER 2: I have a retort to Mike in Chicago, because I am a serving American military, in the Army. I’ve been serving for 14 years, very proudly.

LIMBAUGH: Thank you, sir.

CALLER 2: And, you know, I’m one of the few that joined the Army to serve my country, I’m proud to say, not for the money or anything like that. What I would like to retort to is that, if we pull — what these people don’t understand is if we pull out of Iraq right now, which is about impossible because of all the stuff that’s over there, it’d take us at least a year to pull everything back out of Iraq, then Iraq itself would collapse, and we’d have to go right back over there within a year or so. And –

LIMBAUGH: There’s a lot more than that that they don’t understand. They can’t even — if — the next guy that calls here, I’m gonna ask him: Why should we pull — what is the imperative for pulling out? What’s in it for the United States to pull out? They can’t — I don’t think they have an answer for that other than, “Well, we just gotta bring the troops home.”

CALLER 2: Yeah, and, you know what –

LIMBAUGH: “Save the — keep the troops safe” or whatever. I — it’s not possible, intellectually, to follow these people.

CALLER 2: No, it’s not, and what’s really funny is, they never talk to real soldiers. They like to pull these soldiers that come up out of the blue and talk to the media.

LIMBAUGH: The phony soldiers.

CALLER 2: The phony soldiers. If you talk to a real soldier, they are proud to serve. They want to be over in Iraq. They understand their sacrifice, and they’re willing to sacrifice for their country.

LIMBAUGH: They joined to be in Iraq. They joined –

CALLER 2: A lot of them — the new kids, yeah.

LIMBAUGH: Well, you know where you’re going these days, the last four years, if you signed up. The odds are you’re going there or Afghanistan or somewhere.

CALLER 2: Exactly, sir.

Um, no. You can listen to the clip right here:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200709270010

The context is unquestionable. If he was talking about one guy, then how come he used the plural “phony soldiers, rather than the singular? Are you completely fucking retarded?

No, he wasn’t. Listen to the unedited clip. Read the unedited transcript.

(I believe we should just blow-off this Iraqi adventure ’cause it ain’t any of our business to be in the middle of some religious struggle.)

Today (Oct. 3) on Thom Hartmann’s show, he made a comment that could have been easily taken out of context. He actually said “America for Americans” during on part of an interview. What are you fucking morons gonna do when some right-wing nut-job starts spewing that out-of-context quote all over the place?

You asswipes are no better than Rush Limbaugh or Michael Savage, for that matter!

I went back and listened to the Rush clip again. The context is unquestionable. Rush thinks either:

a) All the soldiers who have spoken up against this war are all lying about their service

or

b) All the soldiers who have spoken up against this war are serving, but want America to lose

There’s no ambiguity there. The saddest thing is that half of the wingnutosphere is yelling about how he was taken out of context while the other half is saying that we heard him correctly and he’s right.

The reality about all of this goofiness is that since most Americans are strongly against this war and think that Rush is a loony toon, it wouldn’t have even made a difference if he actually had been taken out of context. No one would believe him.