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Targeting Limbaugh’s role on Armed Forces Radio
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Oct 02, 2007 06:01pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, October 2, 2007 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Posted October 2nd, 2007 at 4:50 pm
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About a week after right-wing blowhard Rush Limbaugh attacked U.S. troops who disagree with him on Iraq policy, the subject seems to have grown stale. Dems did their best to generate interest in the story, but the political establishment only seems to care when MoveOn criticizes one soldier, not when Limbaugh criticizes thousands of soldiers.
Worse, any hope that congressional Republicans would be even-handed about this, criticizing Limbaugh the way congressional Dems criticized MoveOn, proved to be naive. In fact, at least one GOP lawmaker wants to reward Limbaugh for smearing troops. How tiresome.
Progressives, Dems, and veterans’ groups can call for an apology that will never come, they can call for condemnations that will never materialize, and they can ask Limbaugh’s employer for some kind of punishment that will never be imposed, but it’s a frustrating endeavor.
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, however, has a feasible idea.
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Why should taxpayers pay to put Limbaugh on Armed Forces Radio? It’s not enough that he’s paid handsomely to broadcast nonsense stateside? |
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