Vladimir Lenin once said, “A lie told often enough becomes the truth”. At this time I would like to amend that by stating, “A lie told from a position of authority becomes the truth”. Think back when you were a little kid and your parents told you about the tooth fairy giving you 25 cents every time your tooth falls out, and how excited you were the next morning when you woke up to find that quarter under your pillow. You may have had one or two friends at the time who did not believe in the tooth fairy but you knew she existed because you had that shiny quarter, and because your parents told you so.

Even in today’s world where information is just a mouse click away, it is sad to see how many people continue to buy into lies told to the American people, simply because they are being told by a person in a position of authority. The comments made by Rush Limbaugh are no exception to this, and it is mind boggling how many on the left have jumped all over the Media Matters article with reckless disregard for the truth.

Today we have retired General Wesley Clark asking Congress to Take Rush Limbaugh Off Armed Forces Radio. Here is what the retired 4 star General, turned leftist troll said:

Last week, Rush Limbaugh labeled any American soldier who supports an end to the war in Iraq as “phony.” We challenged Limbaugh through an email campaign to invite VoteVets.org’s Jon Soltz to his show and repeat these same insults to an Iraq war veteran’s face. Over 10,000 people responded and emailed Rush — but to our disappointment, he has refused to respond to our request.

First of all General, Rush was in no position to “repeat those same insults to an Iraq war veteran’s face”, because there was no such insult to repeat. Limbaugh did not label any American soldier who supports an end to the war in Iraq as phony, it was actually Media Matters who made that distinction.

It sickens me to see how many people have treated the Media Matters piece as gospel and continue to preach it to the American people. Media Matters recently replied to Limbaugh’s claim that he was referring to Jessie Macbeth when he used the term phony soldier by saying Rush “did not mention MacBeth until 1 minute and 50 seconds after he used the phrase “phony soldiers.”

I am sure that those who write for Media Matters have attention spans which last for less than 2 minutes, so any sentences uttered after 30 seconds now become a new topic of conversation, but I think Rush’s listeners are would not agree. It is preposterous for Media Matters to deduce that Limbaugh could not have been referring to Macbeth simply because he did not mention Macbeth’s name for another 1 minute and 50 seconds. Should Limbaugh have immediately hung up on the caller he was speaking with at the time in order to speak in more detail about Jessie Macbeth’s lies, and how the liberal movement held him on a pedestal for it? Of course not, he continued the conversation and elaborated later as most people would.

Media Matters, General Wesley Clark, Senator Harry Reid, and a long list of others who are quick to condemn Limbaugh for saying two words never once mention that only two days before Rush had this conversation ABC news had reported on “phony heroes“. Many of you may not have heard of Jessie Macbeth because the story was not widely covered by the MSM (at least not after he was found to be a phony), but this is what Rush said about him (apparently 1 minutes and 50 seconds to late):

Here is a Morning Update that we did recently, talking about fake soldiers. This is a story of who the left props up as heroes. They have their celebrities and one of them was Army Ranger Jesse MacBeth. Now, he was a “corporal.” I say in quotes. Twenty-three years old. What made Jesse MacBeth a hero to the anti-war crowd wasn’t his Purple Heart; it wasn’t his being affiliated with post-traumatic stress disorder from tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. No. What made Jesse MacBeth, Army Ranger, a hero to the left was his courage, in their view, off the battlefield, without regard to consequences. He told the world the abuses he had witnessed in Iraq, American soldiers killing unarmed civilians, hundreds of men, women, even children. In one gruesome account, translated into Arabic and spread widely across the Internet, Army Ranger Jesse MacBeth describes the horrors this way: “We would burn their bodies. We would hang their bodies from the rafters in the mosque.”

Now, recently, Jesse MacBeth, poster boy for the anti-war left, had his day in court. And you know what? He was sentenced to five months in jail and three years probation for falsifying a Department of Veterans Affairs claim and his Army discharge record. He was in the Army. Jesse MacBeth was in the Army, folks, briefly. Forty-four days before he washed out of boot camp. Jesse MacBeth isn’t an Army Ranger, never was. He isn’t a corporal, never was. He never won the Purple Heart, and he was never in combat to witness the horrors he claimed to have seen. You probably haven’t even heard about this. And, if you have, you haven’t heard much about it. This doesn’t fit the narrative and the template in the Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party as to who is a genuine war hero. Don’t look for any retractions, by the way. Not from the anti-war left, the anti-military Drive-By Media, or the Arabic websites that spread Jesse MacBeth’s lies about our troops, because the truth for the left is fiction that serves their purpose. They have to lie about such atrocities because they can’t find any that fit the template of the way they see the US military. In other words, for the American anti-war left, the greatest inconvenience they face is the truth.

If you belong to the Media Matters school of thought, i.e. if you do not think for yourself, then the entire narrative which occurred less than 2 minutes after the ‘phony soldier’ comment, has no relation whatsoever to the comment itself. You also find yourself getting on a train and then 2 minutes later forgetting where you were headed when you boarded!

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