Audio: Limbaugh Calls Iraq Vet "Staff Puke," Claims He Volunteered For War "To Pad [His] Resume"

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Audio has surfaced of Rush Limbaugh viciously attacking another Iraq war veteran who was critical of President Bush's war policy.

Paul Hackett served in the 1st Marine Division in Ramadi and Fallujah during 2004 and 2005. When he returned home, Hackett was a vocal war critic and ended up running for Congress in a special election against Republican Jean Schmidt.

The Huffington Post obtained audio of Limbaugh smearing Hackett on his radio show in 2005. Limbaugh calls Hackett a "staff puke," claims he went to Iraq "to pad [his] resume," and attacks him as "a liberal hiding behind a military uniform." Listen:

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Doesn't matter at all what the Pigboy says because his friends in the Corporate Controlled Conservative Press (CCCP--Sounds familiar???) will cover for him.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:08 PM on 09/29/2007

Much ado about nothing.

Rush will continue to spout his bilious,traitorous agitprop for the good ol' GOP,and this will be forgotten in few days.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:02 PM on 09/28/2007

Wow. I will give a month's salary for 3 minutes with this asspimple in a ten by ten foot enclosed room. Only one of us walks out.
What a disgrace this draft dodger is; always has been. In my experience, most enlisted become dems after service, while most lifers and officers remain repubs. But all work together for the common good when on duty.
Why is it always the repubs and their lackies who shoot off their mouths so much, and brag about being uber patriotic? Guilt?
Badgervan, U.S. Navy, 1968-74

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:55 PM on 09/28/2007

Oh Rusty....you can fool some people all of the time...as long as they are cons.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:17 PM on 09/28/2007

SEND THIS TO KEITH OLBERMANN!!!!


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/


.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:19 PM on 09/28/2007

"Consider the source" is a phrase that comes to mind here, but what a total JERK this guy is. Same is true of O'Reilly, Coulter, Nugent, Hannity, Carlson, and every other right wing mouthpiece who's bullshit we have to suffer through. The same goes for the politicians they protect and speak for. The Republican party is the party of, and the party for, JERKS. What happens when you corner one of them? You get these type of statements which reveal just what these people are really like, and the depths to which they'll stoop. Conservatives fight dirty, and are not afraid to take any shot, no matter how cheap, as long as it levels damage somehow. I have nothing left but total contempt for conservatism, and all the JERKS who espouse this kind of crap, while they do everything in their power to screw up this country. Limbaugh has the utter gall to impugn a war hero like Max Cleland, who sacrificed his LIMBS in service of his country, and who's defeat, aided by more classic republican dirty tricks, has given us Sen. Saxby Chambliss, another jerk if ever there was one. Only jerks are named Saxby. I flip a collective bird to all the conservative pundits out there, and Rush, I'd be glad to meet you in a parking lot somewhere anytime, fat boy.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:42 PM on 09/28/2007

One last thing: I sincerely believe Rush Limbaugh will face a time in his life on this earth when he truly will be sorry that he lived his life as he has. Trouble is, when that happens, no one will care, not even his mama.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:26 PM on 09/28/2007

RUSH = ASSBOILS THE COWARDLY CLOWN.

It is that simple.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:25 PM on 09/28/2007

Continued from above:

Since almost forty years have passed, I now get asked:

Why can't you just let it go?

Why can't you just get on with your life?

What in hell is wrong with you?

Why are you always whining about what happened to you in Viet Nam?

Was Viet Nam anything near as awful as it is in Iraq?

Did you ever get IEDs in Viet Nam?

That body armor you had in Viet Nam must have been nice, my uncle in WWII (the real war) didn't have any body armor.

Yessir, buddy, liberals padding their resumes by volunteering for combat in the Marine Corps are really despicable a*#holes.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:24 PM on 09/28/2007

Sorry 222 I didn't follow your script as a continuation - my apologies

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:45 PM on 09/28/2007

222 - I take it you were in Vietnam? If not, I guess you're just another bag of methane like Limbaugh. Yeah I served 2 tours, and as I recall nearly 60,000 men were killed, I guess the armor didn't help them. How many combat environments have you served in wind bag?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:41 PM on 09/28/2007

Here is another liberal who hid in a military uniform so that I could pad my resume. Let's see, I spent from October, 1966 to August, 1970 in the Marine Corps. From October, 1967 to April, 1970, I was in Viet Nam with 7th Comm Battalion of the First Marine Division.

Because of my training as a Radio Telegraph Operator I had the honor of accompanying a number of different infantry units into what we lovingly called "the bush." I received a number of little silk mementos of my tour. One in particular, the Purple Heart, was memorable.

After my discharge, various questions were asked of me, to wit: Why did you waste 4 years of your life in that endeavor? Where have you been for the last four years? Why are you so far behind the other 25 year-olds, career wise? Couldn't you qualify for some kind of waiver to avoid service, after all, that guy Rush Limbaugh got an exemption? Why didn't you tell them you were queer?

Some padded resume, all right.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:19 PM on 09/28/2007

Rush, you're such a "puffer". You're all blow and no show. You talk about puke? You and your ilk vomit up daily comments about a war you wouldn't fight. Some of you use humor, some use stinging one-liners and most of you just sit out there and bray. You sicken me -you risk NOTHING and you contribute NOTHING. You don't have a solution, you can't offer a suggestion and you toil NOT. Why are you? Please leave.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:11 PM on 09/28/2007

IOKIYAR.

It doesn't matter what they do or say. No matter how hurtful, wrong, ignorant, or malicious, it's OK if it's a republican saying it. But if anyone dare speak the truth, it's firing squad time.

We might as well be a 3rd world, dictator and/or dictatorial regime run country. Oh wait...we're almost there now.

Sick double standard we have. And even sicker people who instill it.

F*uck Rush, Coulter and the other of their ilk. They are unAmerican as disgusting as humanity gets.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:07 PM on 09/28/2007

I'm a Marine and definitely want to see us out of this
mesopotamian nightmare. Rush needs to stick a sock in it until he can qualify for a DD214. Semper Fi

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:32 PM on 09/28/2007

Well Said!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:58 PM on 09/28/2007

My dad was "a liberal hiding behind a military uniform" in 1944-45, and he earned the Silver Star and two Purple Hearts. Even for a professional motor-mouth rabble-rouser like RL, such comments are obscene. As if the Army is supposed to be a Blackwater-RNC affiliate in green uniforms!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:17 PM on 09/28/2007

Staff puke? What, is he in 3rd grade? Or is it that his average listener has a 3rd grade education?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:10 PM on 09/28/2007

rush the oxycontin pedophile lush limpballs is a coward and a fat moron, however he is just a mouthpiece the real pepetrators of devious smearing and blatantly criminal acts are this administration.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:49 PM on 09/28/2007

Talk about parallel universes! At least be honest and base one's opinion on what Rush actually said. It's on his unedited website and YouTUBE. Of course we may continue to disagree, but most of the character assignation in this comment stack is unfounded hysteria.

http://www.youtube.com/jp.swf?video_id=rm84gOXkZaY&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//img.youtube.com/vi/rm84gOXkZaY/default.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskKEoDo23jAMeDDo_R7bIs7d

Criticize the content, not the character.



    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:38 PM on 09/28/2007

JoeHuff-that is the point. Limbaugh makes a living out of marginalizing the people who make any comment that does not align with his perspective. Seldom can you hear Limbaugh address any subject matter without first demonizing, denigrating, ridiculing or otherwise besmirching anyone who offers a differing perspective.

What is occuring hear is Rush getting it back at him in spades (that's not a racial slur in case your unfamiliar with bridge).

I've listen to Limbaugh more than enough to question anything that echos out of the abyss of ignorance beneath his vocal cords.

You seem to be making the defense of so many of Rush's fans. Focusing on the syntax rather than the intended message. Rush is too far down the road to hide behind the cloak of innuendo, double-entente, clever implication sans direct statement, or the ruse of being taken out of context.

Doesn't pass muster. Not everyone can sort the wheat from the chaff but there are more than enough who can distinguish the pepper from the fly shit.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:23 PM on 09/28/2007

RUSH LIMPBALLS...typical Republicunt ..couldn't fight for his country when it needed him because he had a pimple on his ass, has the unmitigated gall to smear those who have served while he hides in his glass booth. it just doesn't seem fair that real americans should be risking their lives to give this fat slob, drug addicted,chickenshit, freedom to spew his crap to his uneducated, dirt poor, sheeple audience.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:31 PM on 09/28/2007

you idiot,

What Rush was saying was correct!! You just drink the Democratic spin and believe!! What a moron you are.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:38 PM on 09/28/2007

He is just plain evil and a coward to boot.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:43 PM on 09/28/2007

So, Rush, I guess that makes you a chickenshit puke, hiding behind an anal cyst, yes?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:24 PM on 09/28/2007

See a pithy tongue-in-cheek graphic which asks the viewer to identify the "phony"...but be sure you don't "Rush" to judgment. Link here:

http://www.thoughttheater.com/2007/09/rush_to_judgment_can_you_identify_the_phony.php

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:17 PM on 09/28/2007

Rush Limbaugh is your a typical conservative who is all for war just as long as someone else is doing the fighting and the money to pay for it is coming out of someone else's pocket.

And you know what,they all weasel out of serving but the minute they pass the age of being able to serve, they get beer muscles.

Welcome to the world of the candy ass conservatives...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:06 PM on 09/28/2007

"staff puke" ?

That's a ballsy statement coming from a drug addicted yellow-belly draft-dodging chickenhawk COWARD.

Plush Lintballs is a wimp.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:05 PM on 09/28/2007

Liberals hide behind military uniforms? Maybe it's because there are so few conservative leaders and pundits who volunteered to wear them.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:56 PM on 09/28/2007

Although Gush Dumbar is a drug-addicted ignoramus who is very Anti-American, yet we should accord him his freedom of speech, as a vital component of the Bill of Rights.

Threats to the Bill of Rights and your homes are the only things that justify war. Once you understand that you can logically deduce the illegality of some of the US administration's actions.

Gush Dumbar supports the Cheney Bush Crime Syndicate's PREVENTATIVE WAR (not preemptive), which is illegal be every global standard except maybe Hitler's, Cheney's and Bush's illogic. Cheney and Bush are guilty of war crimes, and every soldier that is worthy of another day's breath, should stand down from the illegal orders the dishonorable chain of command sends their way.

Right-wing people are often proved to be very ignorant in their actions: they attack the messenger, and fail to address the issues in any substantially detailed manner.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:36 PM on 09/28/2007

Yes but where is the repuglican congress mebers to repudiate his remarks as the so willingly were to do with the move-on ad

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:45 PM on 09/28/2007

What an total sleaze bag. He's on right now claiming that his words were taken out of context. Limbaugh has to be the worst living thing on the planet. I would like to see him say these words to Hackets face. Let's see him call Paul Hacket a phoney soldier to his face.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:29 PM on 09/28/2007

They were taken out of context. If you had the objectivity, which you don't, you could see what he was stating was the plain truth. I pity fools like you that can't see the liberal smears just to get Hillary elected. Unfortunately, it won't work. She'll probably lose 40 states once her policies become public.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:41 PM on 09/28/2007

That I'd pay money to see. From what I have heard of Paul Hackett, he gives as good"perhaps better"than he gets.

In other words, if Paul Hackett threatens he's going to kick your arse, there's a high likelihood that he's deadly serious about it.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:42 PM on 09/28/2007

That's why a pansy like Limbaugh would never say anything like this to Hacketts face. People like Limbaugh like to talk about toughness and sacrifice as long as it is someone else being tough and someone else sacrificing. We're talking about a guy who is a drug addict. Only weak minded people get hooked on drugs (before anyone says anything, I said weak minded, not to be mistaken with people who develop addictions while taking medication for a perfectly good reason).

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:58 PM on 09/28/2007
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