Contrary to the MM-Reid lies, Rush did not call all anti-war veterans “phony soldiers.�?

He uttered those two words in response to and in agreement with a caller, who was talking about Jesse MacBeth, nee Jesse al-Zaid, who had been used as evidence, by anti-war groups as an Iraq war veteran who had witnessed atrocities.

But, they had lied.  The truth was that Jesse MacBeth was a boot camp washout.  

Rush had a lengthy narrative about MacBeth on his program the day before, in response to a news item (the day before that) on prime time television about “Phony Soldiers.�?There had been others, besides MacBeth, who had falsely presented themselves as veterans, most likely for the purpose of acquiring public admiration-----totally undeserved admiration and glory. MacBeth was one of those phony soldiers.

Rush was making reference to those specific phony soldiers, that both he and the major TV media had covered, just two days before.

Harry Reid was quick to jump on the usual hate-Rush bandwagon.  Par-for-the-course, Reid made no attempt to verify the alleged "facts" that MM had twisted completely out of context.

Nope, Reid saw it as another opportunity to get back at Rush, for all the true things that Rush had to say about the Dems in the Senate and about Reid in particular, especially for Rush's constantly pointing out that Reid and his ilk refused to, or were slow to clearly condemn MoveOn.org’s New York Times ad, which had accused General Petraeus of being a traitor, a Bush puppet, among other disgusting allegations. 

Reid wrote that petition letter then tried and to get other members of Congress to sign it.  The letter demanded that Rush “apologize�?for something he never said.  It was very revealing that only Democrats agreed to sign that disgusting piece of Leftist Lies.

By that action Reid and those who signed that letter of lies, endorsed the constant lies of Media Matters and their regular and deliberate distortions of historical truth.  That was bad enuf, but they were also trying to use the power of the Govt to shut down political speech-----to confiscate the First Amendment rights being exercised every day by those in the media who dared to criticize Senator Reid and his cohorts----those Senators who seem to be undercutting our gallant troops in the field, every chance they get.

Trying to short-circuit the First Amendment, trying to impose "standards" for political speech (something Wesley Clark advocated).  That is what the Reid letter tried to do.  It was a despicable exercise in attempted tyranny.

And, they have the temerity to call GWB a dictator!

Who Signed?