Stuck in a hole, Limbaugh keeps digging
Posted October 3rd, 2007 at 10:30 am
When MoveOn.org’s “Betray Us” ad drew a firestorm of attention, the progressive group stood by the advertisement, but it didn’t take out another, even more provocative ad. When Rush Limbaugh drew the ire of Dems and veterans’ groups for attacking soldiers who support withdrawal from Iraq as “phony,” he decided to dive right back in.
In a VoteVets ad released yesterday, Iraq war veteran Brian McGough, a Purple Heart recipient, challenged Rush Limbaugh directly: “Until you have the guts to call me a ‘phony soldier’ to my face, stop telling lies about my service.”
In response to the ad, Limbaugh compared McGough to a suicide bomber.
On the October 2 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh denounced a recent ad by VoteVets.org that featured Iraq war veteran Brian McGough, calling the ad “a blatant use of a valiant combat veteran, lying to him about what I said, then strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media in a TV ad to walk into as many people as he can walk into.”
Limbaugh went on to say that “[w]hoever pumped [McGough] full of these lies about what I said … has betrayed him.” Limbaugh denounced the ad despite admitting “I haven’t watched the ad.”
McGough took shrapnel to his head, which caused traumatic brain injury — as a result of an attack from an actual suicide bomber. Could Limbaugh possibly have chosen a more offensive metaphor? |
