Liberal Media and Liberal Politicians Go All out to Try to Destroy Rush

The WatchdogTHE MRC’ S MONTHLY MEMBERS’ REPORT CREATING A MEDIA CULTURE IN AMERICA WHERE TRUTH AND LIBERTY FLOURISH Vol. 14 • Issue 11 • November 2007 Liberal Media and Liberal Politicians Go All Out to Try to Destroy Rush Limbaugh Dear Friend, MRC Headquarters • Alexandria, Va As I’ve warned you they would, the Center has documented for years—the liberal media, their friends in Congress, MRC is on the liberals’ enemy list too!— and left-wing activists are doing everything the latest attacks show how intellectually INSIDE in their power to silence conservatives on and morally bankrupt the media truly PAGE 3 talk radio and cable TV. The recent vicious, are. They can’t really debate issues or Watch Out, Hillary! and thoroughly dishonest, attacks on ideas anymore because so many liberal Here Comes Whitewash, Rush Limbaugh over his “phony soldiers” policies have failed, and Americans are a new book by MRC comments, as well as Bill moving on — and they’re President Brent Bozell O’Reilly’s comments about moving on with the new media and the many PAGE 4 & 5 gangster-rap music vs. the Bits & Pieces: reality of black culture conservatives working in Toobin’s Tall Tale, in America, are but two that arena. White Wingers?, examples in this war to As a result, liberals Couric Complains, silence conservatives. have turned to their last CNN: Race Hustler, Penn Pimps And there have been resort: character assassin- other attacks. Is there a ation. The politics of day when Ann Coulter isn’t personal destruction. PAGE 6 vilifi ed by the liberal media Forget facts, forget the Liberal media and liberal CNSNews.com truth, forget fair play. Full Speed Ahead and by liberal politicians? congressmen took Rush Supreme Court Justice Limbaugh’s comments out of The liberal-left is out to PAGES 7 Clarence Thomas, while context and tried to smear destroy conservatives MRC in the News not a talk-radio host, is him as unpatriotic. and will do whatever nonetheless perpetually under the gun it takes — the ends justify the means. PAGE 8 from the liberal media because of his This is precisely what the MRC, for the How You Can Help the MRC Fight conservatism and his criticisms of the left- last several years, said would happen. Liberal Media Bias wing media. Laura Ingraham is frequently This is also what was predicted — in maligned, as are Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, detail — in my 2005 book, Weapons of and many other conservatives who make a Mass Distortion: The Coming Meltdown living in the new media: talk radio, cable of the Liberal Media. And this is why TV, and on the Internet. Even Fox News the MRC’s mission is so important: The Channel, which is truly balanced in its liberals are playing for keeps. They want coverage and presentation of conservative to shut conservatives down and shut off and liberal opinion, is regularly smeared by conservative ideas. the so-called mainstream media and the Look at the Rush case. On Sept. 26, left-wing politicians who do their bidding. on his radio show, Rush was talking with While the liberal media certainly tear a caller about the Iraq war and how www.MRC.org into conservatives, as the Media Research Continued on page 2 The 2 Watchdog NOVEMBER 2007 Continued from page 1 the liberal media often trot out any soldier they can But they didn’t stop there. Rep. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) fi nd who will denounce the war. In this instance, Rush introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives was referring to a phony soldier if there ever was one: denouncing Limbaugh — quote, “condemning the attack Jesse Macbeth. This soldier had lied about his military by broadcaster Rush Limbaugh on the integrity and service, lied about viewing atrocities in Iraq, and spread professionalism of some of those Americans” in the his lies further through videos posted on the Internet. military. Rush’s “phony soldiers” comment “constitutes The truth is that Macbeth had been discharged from the an unwarranted slur on the integrity and professionalism Army after only 44 days in boot camp, had never served of members of the Armed Forces” further reads the in Iraq, had never earned the Purple Heart he claimed, resolution. Udall and his friends might just as well have and had pleaded guilty to making false claims in order to read a script drafted by Media Matters and edited by scam more benefi ts from the Veterans Administration. NBC and CNN. He is now in prison. Rush Limbaugh — God bless him — fought back. He Macbeth was indeed a “phony soldier” and he was challenged Reid to come on his radio show, “like a man,” precisely the “phony soldier” referred to — by name! — and make the allegations he made in the privileged by Limbaugh. He wasn’t the only one, of course — there sanctuary of the Senate. Reid pretty much shut up after are at least 60 cases of phony soldiers currently under that. investigation by the federal government. But don’t wait The MRC defended Rush vigorously because he on the liberal media to tell you about those cases. deserved it. Our CyberAlerts and NewsBusters blog Nonetheless, the liberal attack machine went into documented the liberal media’s distortion of Rush’s action. Media Matters, a left-wing media “watchdog” comments, showing exactly how and by whom his launched with the help of Hillary Clinton and George words were mis-reported. The MRC’s Cybercast News Soros, took Limbaugh’s words out of context completely Service kept people informed about the shenanigans and deliberately posted them on their Web site. They in the Senate and House. Also, my syndicated column actually cut off the radio clip at the point where Rush on the issue was distributed by Creators Syndicate and says “the phony soldiers” and didn’t include the rest of an MRC press release was distributed to thousands of Rush’s comments about Macbeth and phony soldiers. people and numerous media, noting that Media Matters Instead they claimed — they invented — the line that and the liberal media are engaged in “nothing short of a deliberate pattern to smear the reputations of Rush was calling Iraq veterans who opposed the war conservative media personalities in order to eliminate “phony soldiers.” any voice of opposition.” From there, the liberal media took off. The networks, MRC experts were also interviewed about the issue most newspapers, and some cable shows, such as CNN on numerous radio shows and cited in newspapers and MSNBC, repeated Media Matters’ version of events and across the Internet. In addition, audio clips of and smeared Rush as an unpatriotic buffoon, intolerant congressmen defending Limbaugh, obtained exclusively of anyone who might criticize the Iraq war. MSNBC’s by our own CNSNews.com staff reporters, were broadcast Chris Matthews, for instance, told his Hardball audience by Rush and other talk-radio shows, reaching millions of on Sept. 28: “Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh says Americans. veterans who support withdrawing the troops are ‘phony America now knows the truth. Rush Limbaugh has soldiers.’ Those are his words.” CNN’s The Situation been vindicated. Room, on Oct. 1, read: “Limbaugh’s charge that some veterans who are criticizing the war are, in his words, While the dust has settled somewhat from this latest quote, ‘phony soldiers.’” attack, the liberal media are not stopping. They are only regrouping and reloading. These attacks are designed It was all lies. Liberals on Capitol Hill who want to to destroy leading conservatives in the new media and, re-introduce the Fairness Doctrine, to effectively kill short of that, set the stage for a Democrat-controlled conservative talk radio, took the lies to the fl oor of the Congress to re-impose the Fairness Doctrine. The MRC Senate. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) denounced is exposing all this and keeping Americans informed. We Limbaugh in a Senate fl oor speech. Rush “went way must stand together and fi ght together. With your help, over the line” and “his unpatriotic comments I cannot we can win — inch by inch, issue by issue, battlefi eld ignore,” slammed Reid. by battlefi eld. It’s a tough fi ght, but we’re in it — for Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said essentially the same keeps! but added this personal insult: “Maybe he was just high Sincerely, on his drugs again.” That is the politics of personal destruction. That is character assassination. And that’s how the liberal L. Brent Bozell III media and their congressional friends operate. Founder and President The NOVEMBER 2007 Watchdog 3 Watch Out, Hillary! Here Comes Whitewash While the national media are beginning to describe ☛ How Hillary’s media allies have rushed to the Democratic side of the presidential campaign as pronounce her “unbeatable” and “inevitable” to Hillary Clinton’s to lose, the Media Research Center counter Barack Obama’s unexpectedly strong is about to expose how the national media have been challenge. blazing her trail to the presidency for the last 15 years. ☛ How the frequent claim that “no one has been In a new book, Whitewash, arriving in bookstores more investigated than Hillary Clinton” is not just on Nov. 13, the MRC’s Brent Bozell and Tim Graham incorrect, but utterly absurd. expose the unprecedented media favoritism that is ☛ The Republican congressman who says the the key to Hillary’s mythic political standing. Clintons “went after” him “mercilessly” for daring Among the questions answered to investigate Hillary scandals. in the book: Why Hillary? How ☛ How liberal reporters did the First Lady to a disgraced, — and female liberal re- impeached president become a porters especially — have presidential front-runner despite ignored Mrs.

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