Good for Mr. Bozell. Now, I'd like to hear some congressional Republicans start blasting them. Helloooo? Is any senator or congressman there? Maybe we better check in the tall grass...

Add in the twisting of President Bush's commentary about Mandellas in Iraq and as Rush pointed out the prior kerfuffle about the Michael J Fox stem cell videos and you see a desperate move to try to spin for all the left is worth.

Clearly all this does is show how bankrupt they are in the marketplace of ideas.

What I find the most disturbing of all isn't necessarily the attacks themselves (they're to be expected from those who have no cogent arguments). What bothers me the most, by far, is how incredibly stupid they seem to think people are. They tried this with O'Reilly and got hammered for it. Then, less than a week later, they try the EXACT SAME TACTIC on Rush, like nobody will notice. Or maybe we forgot what happened less than a week ago. Am I the only one insulted by this attack, not against BOR or Rush, but upon my intelligence? 

The Closed Mind Erects Strong Barriers

The MSM in conjunction with the far left are simply preparing the battlefield for the Democratic run for the Presidency. I can only hope that the backlash is also coming.

This Thanksgiving, when I publicly at our dinner table thank G-d for my wonderful and successful and beautiful children, my husband since H.S. graduation, my warm and safe home, our troops and our freedoms ... I WILL be thanking G-d for conservative blogs/bloggers, one and all.

Fake war hero Tom Harkin smears Rush Limbaugh

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 1, 2007 04:46 PM

http://michellemalkin.com/2007/10/01/fake-war-hero-tom-harkin-smears-rush/

Eventually, the truth will out. It almost always does. People will learn what Rush Limbaugh said and surely was thinking of when he said, "Phony soldiers." People will learn that an intern at Media Matters falsely claimed that Rush had aimed that characterization at all military people who disagree with US military policy in Iraq. 

The relevant part of the transcript of Rush's program in no way supports the intern's characterization. MSNBC staffers and personalities and a bunch of Democratic politicians chose to denounce a wholly erroneous claim. Nobody apparently looked at the transcript before leaping into the void. If one is going to argue ad hominem, as so many did, one ought to be certain one's insults reflect what a man said or did, not what one of the man's ideological opponents has claimed.

Rush today said that the Democratic Leader of the U.S. Senate uttered "lies." One greatly doubts Senator Reid lied when he repeated the Media Matters claim. To lie, one has to say something one knows to be false. We do not know yet whether the Senator knew the truth. Did he do the responsible thing before denouncing an individual in the well of the Senate, did he notice that the claim he almost surely saw was devoid of quote marks except, most likely, around "phony soldiers"? Did he ask for the transcript, did he ask whether anyone had tried to match the claim with the transcript? 

Perhaps also Reid and the others rushed with what they thought was an incriminating piece against Rush that would accomplish two things. Take down Rush and his influence before th e 2008 elections. Shift public attention from their own egregiously bad record and words--remember Dick Durbin--with regard to US responsibilities and the service of its troops.

As a former reporter, I'm interested in the news. Can't say I can trust MSNBC,  not that I ever did. It would help the network if someone took a fall for rushing with what some outfit inimical to Rush claimed he had said. I'm interested in what others might report of Senator Reid today.

Senator Reid disgraced the Senate today. Shouldn't a recklessly false characterization of what someone said be something a Senator should avoid, lest someone think of historical precedents? Electing Democrats to the Senate gives us Reid in power: not good for the nation. 

Letting MSNBC get away with this episode gives us something equally bad: another reason to distrust the mainstream news media, which well-based distrust can't be good, since so many people share it.