Limbaugh Smear Letter: Why Talk Radio is Needed

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My reading of the complete transcript of Limbaugh's comments is that his epithet "phony soldiers" was meant for those soldiers who have enlisted with motives other than fighting Islamofascism and are critical of our government or military or the war effort in Iraq. That Limbaugh edited the broadcast when he rebroadcasted it to try to show a relationship between his "phony soldiers" remark and his "fake soldier" story is telling. Ultra-patriot that he is (or portrays himself), with his often cutting characterizations of those whose viewpoints with which he doesn't agree, it would certainly not be out of character for him to call those whose motives are not "pure" "phony soldiers."

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One can infer a lot from reading this transcript, but in fairness, he does not help himself much by not clearly indicating the context of the remark when he said it.
I am a regular listener (I listen daily to both sides, BTW), and it was clear to me then that he threw this out in reference to a prior segment some days earlier in which he described what he believed to be "phony soldiers".. those who were presented to the public as having negative views on the war but were later discredited as in the case of the one he spoke of in the transcript.
I think he assumed that people would know what he was referring to. Whatever, without knowing this, it is easy to draw a different conclusion.