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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (765793)	10/8/2007 1:30:16 PM
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But the transcript of the broadcast makes it clear that Mr. Limbaugh was referring to antiwar activists who claim to have been soldiers but weren't. Specifically, he was referring to Jesse Adam Macbeth, who claimed to have been an Army Ranger who had witnessed atrocities in Iraq. "Jesse MacBeth never was an Army Ranger, much less a corporal, never received a Purple Heart for wounds inflicted by a foreign foe, and neither saw nor participated in war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, claims for which he became a poster boy for the antiwar movement," wrote Mike Barber of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sept. 21, the day Mr. Macbeth was sentenced to five months in jail for falsifying a Department of Veterans Affairs claim and an Army discharge record. The controversy arose when a caller, "Mike in Olympia," who identified himself as an Iraq war veteran, complained Democrats and journalists "never talk to real soldiers. They like to pull these soldiers that come up out of the blue and talk to the media." "The phony soldiers," Mr. Limbaugh responded. After the caller hung up, Rush elaborated: "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..." The left wing group Media Matters passed out an edited transcript of the conversation that omitted all references to Mr. Macbeth, to bolster their claim that Mr. Limbaugh had been referring to all antiwar veterans.