AdWatch: Rush Limbaugh, ‘The Real Phony’?
September 29, 2007, 10:27am
The left is getting it’s revenge for the recent attacks against the liberal activist group MoveOn.org by counter-attacking one of the right’s media icons: radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh.
MoveOn took fire for a newspaper advertisement that suggested Army Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, is a traitor, and both the Senate and House ultimately adopted language condemning the ad.
This week, Limbaugh criticized “phony soldiers” who oppose the Iraq war, and VoteVets is running an ad that condemns him and calls attention to “some real soldiers who want a responsible redeployment from combat in Iraq.”
Senate Democrats also have decried Limbaugh’s “phony soldiers” criticism in a letter to Clear Channel Communications, which airs his show. And Rep. John Hall, D-N.Y., plans to introduce a resolution that would condemn Limbaugh for his comments.
“It is nearly impossible to think of a more direct insult to the character of the men and women who have served our country honorably, risking life and limb in the process, than to be called ‘phony,’” he wrote in an entry at Daily Kos. “Limbaugh’s comments sought nothing less than to belittle the efforts of these brave men and women, and to cheapen their exercise of the right to free speech that they volunteered to defend.”
Two other House Democrats, Frank Pallone of New Jersey and Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, also criticized Limbaugh in speeches on the floor.
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