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Massa owes Limbaugh a public apology
Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was recently smeared when a comment he made about "phony soldiers" was taken out of context and represented as an attack on all active-duty soldiers who may oppose the war in Iraq.
In fact, a review of the transcript from the show in which the comment was made clearly shows that it was a reference to an individual, Jesse MacBeth, who never completed basic training, yet claimed to have witnessed American atrocities while serving in Iraq.
Macbeth is serving jail time for falsifying an Army discharge record and VA claim.
Limbaugh also has a 20-year record of supporting the military, so any attempt to portray him as anti-soldier or disrespectful of the military is ludicrous at best.
Yet, apparently without checking the facts and once again demonstrating the influence upon him by left-wing extremists at MoveOn.org and the DailyKos, where he keeps a Web diary, Eric Massa was inspired by this false smear to post a nasty, spittle-flying, name-calling public rant against Limbaugh at YouTube, calling Limbaugh a "coward" and "schoolyard bully."
Now that the facts are in, Massa owes Limbaugh an equally public apology.
Thomas F. Taylor
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