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[caduceuskun]

What Bush said to Aznar in February 2003

Soldier tells of shooting unarmed Iraqi

Rush Limbaugh calls service members who oppose Iraq war "phony soldiers (I guess real soldiers want all war, all the time?)

"So, I'm a 'Phony Solider,' Rush?"

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[izuko]

When you take quotes out of context, anyone can be a disgusting hack.

[izuko]

And what was REALLY said? Discussion about a single soldier, who served all of 44 days in the Army - that is, he never even got out of boot camp (includes actual clip). It's all about the context. Who was Limbaugh referring to? MacBeth. Scott Beauchamp. The list of other soldiers who have either been caught lying or who were not soldiers. As usual, Media Matters cherry-picked.

[izuko]

The discussion was not about a single phony soldier. Limbaugh made a blanket statement to the effect that the anti-war soldiers who talk to the press are "phony soldiers" - note the use of the plural. On concluding his conversation with the caller, he then cited the case of Jesse Macbeth, implying that all anti-war soldiers are of this stamp. But Jesse Macbeth did not figure in the initial quote and conversation

[izuko]

You're right, he definitely edited it (or that's how Media Matters makes it sound... they're an advocacy group, just like Limbaugh, so we can say one of them edited the footage, but it's hard to tell, at the moment, which one of them it is). However, even the edited track is damning to Media Matters. It's clear, by the tape he has, that he was referring to the Scott Beauchamps, and the Jessie MacBeths. At the very beginning, he talks about the "one convicted, lying, fake soldier

[izuko]

in case you want a non-Limbaugh source. Though, the replayed audio is more telling.