Replies to post #296022 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[Trader77]

So you bash the libs in Congress because they're not being "left wing" enough and then you tell me you're not a leftist?

>>I think he feels that way about anybody opposing Bush's Iraq policy.<<

Do you listen to the man that you can be sure this is his opinion or did you read it on Media Matters? I seem to recall him bashing Republicans after last years mid-term election 'thumpin' so that would seemingly indicate that your pre-judged bias of his opinion is off base.

>> And I'm also sure it doesn't involve any kind of analysis or profiling since you're truly clueless in that field.<<

Considering that I'm a professional buy-side trader who makes dozens of analytical decisions a day (way more than these lousy analysts make), I'd say you're the one in the clueless category my friend.

[ieddyi]

Here's a transcript from the show THE DAY BEFORE the "phony soldier comment was made:

"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. Now, he was a "corporal." I say in quotes. Twenty-three years old. What made Jesse MacBeth a hero to the anti-war crowd wasn't his Purple Heart; it wasn't his being affiliated with post-traumatic stress disorder from tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. No. What made Jesse MacBeth, Army Ranger, a hero to the left was his courage, in their view, off the battlefield, without regard to consequences. He told the world the abuses he had witnessed in Iraq, American soldiers killing unarmed civilians, hundreds of men, women, even children. In one gruesome account, translated into Arabic and spread widely across the Internet, Army Ranger Jesse MacBeth describes the horrors this way: "We would burn their bodies. We would hang their bodies from the rafters in the mosque."
Now, recently, Jesse MacBeth, poster boy for the anti-war left, had his day in court. And you know what? He was sentenced to five months in jail and three years probation for falsifying a Department of Veterans Affairs claim and his Army discharge record. He was in the Army. Jesse MacBeth was in the Army, folks, briefly. Forty-four days before he washed out of boot camp. Jesse MacBeth isn't an Army Ranger, never was. He isn't a corporal, never was. He never won the Purple Heart, and he was never in combat to witness the horrors he claimed to have seen. You probably haven't even heard about this. And, if you have, you haven't heard much about it. This doesn't fit the narrative and the template in the Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party as to who is a genuine war hero. Don't look for any retractions, by the way. Not from the anti-war left, the anti-military Drive-By Media, or the Arabic websites that spread Jesse MacBeth's lies about our troops, because the truth for the left is fiction that serves their purpose. They have to lie about such atrocities because they can't find any that fit the template of the way they see the US military. In other words, for the American anti-war left, the greatest inconvenience they face is the truth.

RUSH: That was the transcript from yesterday's program, talking about one phony soldier.