NewsMax.com Tuesday, October 2, 2007 2:33 PM
Talk-show giant Rush Limbaugh sharply escalated his war of words with Democrats in the Senate Tuesday, calling for the resignation of Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.
He also characterized as “boneheaded” Reid’s effort to enlist senators to pressure Limbaugh’s syndicator, Clear Channel Communications, to censor him.
“And the thing that we ought to demand here,” Limbaugh told his listeners, “is that Harry Reid step down and resign as the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, for his constant, uncontrollable contempt of our armed forces; his repeated use of our troops for political purposes. Harry Reid has failed in his mission to lead the Democrats in the Senate, to get what they want . . . He is the one who is dishonoring the troops; he is the one who is making a mockery of their service.”
Reid has charged that Limbaugh called America’s service personnel in Iraq “phony soldiers.”
Limbaugh’s remarks appeared to actually refer to a specific soldier, Jesse Macbeth, who appeared in a YouTube video stating that he and other American soldiers had killed Iraqi civilians. Macbeth was later sentenced to five months in prison for falsifying his service record. Click here for entire article
