THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume IX, Issue # 186, October 5, 2007
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
PHONY SOLDIERS, PHONY OUTRAGE, & PHONY PATRIOTISM
By Christopher G. Adamo
PSEUDO-PATRIOTISM, SELF-SERVING SANCTIMONY, SELF-RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION, & HYPOCRITICAL PONTIFICATION ON
THE SEAMY SIDE OF AMERICA'S PARTISAN POLITICAL ARENA: THE POLITICAL PROPAGANDA OF DEMOCRATIC
PARTY LIBERAL LEFTIST POLITICIANS & THEIR ALLIES IN THE POLITICALLY BIASED MAINSTREAM "NEWS" MEDIA -- THE
LIES & DISTORTIONS SPREAD BY THE AMERICAN POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT IN EFFORTS TO SMEAR CONSERVATIVE
TALK RADIO HOSTS SUCH AS RUSH LIMBAUGH, AS WELL AS TO DISCREDIT EVERY ASPECT OF THE WAR AGAINST ISLAMIST
TERRORISM, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, THE U.S. MILITARY, & CONSERVATISM IN GENERAL -- LIBERAL DEMOCRATS
REVEAL THEIR MORAL DEGENERATION, PHILISOPHICAL BANKRUPTCY, & INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY AS THEY CONCOCT &
PROPAGATE STORIES IN THEIR ENDEAVOR TO REBUILD THEIR TATTERED IMAGE, DISCREDIT THE TERROR WAR & THE
PRESIDENT'S STRATEGY TO WIN IT, & ELIMINATE EVERY PURVEYOR OF INFORMATION THAT THEY PERCEIVE TO BE A
THREAT TO THEIR FUTURE POLITICAL PROSPECTS
FULL STORY:
Once again, Democratic Party Liberals and their allies in the politically biased mainstream media have wandered into the
unfamiliar waters of patriotism, righteous indignation, and pontification offered in “support of the troops.” And once again,
their moral and philosophical bankruptcy, their intellectual dishonesty, and their overarching hysterics reveal far more about
themselves than about their intended target, in this case radio giant Rush Limbaugh.
U.S. House and Senate Democrats, along with the entire Liberal political cabal, have been in a staged uproar ever since last
week, when Limbaugh made reference to Jesse McBeth and Scott Thomas Beauchamp who, adorning themselves with
fraudulent credentials as members in good standing of the United States military, have been caught in blatant fraud, as they
seek to make a case against the war.
Limbaugh’s attackers have intentionally mischaracterized his criticism of such individuals as a blanket assault on the U.S.
Armed Forces, asserting that he derided any troops who oppose the war as “phony soldiers.”
He did no such thing, and his accusers know it. But why should they hesitate to lie about his words, when they have gotten
so much political mileage in the past few years by lying about virtually every other aspect of the terror war, the Republican
Party, the military, and Conservatism in general?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Democrat - Nevada) achieved a nauseating level of sanctimony in his desperate effort to
prove that Democrats “care about the troops” (at least those who fabricate excuses for America’s surrender), while attacking
Limbaugh and talk radio. Look to Democrats to invoke this latest manufactured firestorm as damming proof of the need to
resurrect the “Fairness Doctrine.”
Reid knows full well that he is lying, and that his principled opposition knows that he is lying. But that is not his target
audience. It is with Middle America, whose citizens he considers stupid and gullible, that Reid hopes to make his case.
But Reid tipped his hand by asserting that Republicans ought to climb aboard the bandwagon of imaginary outrage. Any time
Liberals begin plugging the bipartisan thing, they are really seeking cover and validation from cowardly GOP members.
Furthermore, the shamelessness and brazenness of Reid’s lies stand as proof that he and his political supporters understand
and accept such fraud as an inherent and viable component of the Liberal Leftist Democratic Party playbook.
It is hardly a news flash that the fake anguish expressed by Democrats over this contrived controversy is merely a
continuation of the full-throated lies being proliferated by the Moveon.org/Democrat Party/Old media spin machine. The facts
of this situation are as available as they are inarguable. They are also inconvenient to the political Left. So, to keep their story
going, Democratic Party mouthpieces will simply continue to ignore them.
When the truth is revealed, as it eventually will be, no Liberal retractions or apologies will be forthcoming. The Liberal political
apparatus will simply proceed to its next target to be smeared, knowing full well that it will never be held accountable for this,
or any other deception.
More than merely an attempt by Democrats to rebuild their tattered image after last week’s disgraceful treatment of General
David Petraeus, their real intention is to continually build and expand a façade of perceived wrongdoing on the part of Rush
Limbaugh. It is very telling that, as a purveyor of information, he poses such a raw threat to future Liberal Democratic
political prospects.
Having failed miserably in every attempt to factually refute him, they now hope to eradicate his enormous influence through
the “death by a thousand cuts.”
In truth, Limbaugh was very specific as to which “phony soldiers” he was referring. For Jesse McBeth, the moniker clearly
fits. He was drubbed out of the military during boot camp (after only forty four days to be precise), but then went on to
claim membership in the U.S. Special Forces and, under such false credentials, delivered a plethora of fabricated stories,
deriding the military and the mission.
Likewise Beauchamp, who did, in fact, serve overseas, but whose compilation of similarly fabricated fables of abuse and
atrocity, while buttressing his anti-war, anti-American worldview, have been thoroughly refuted by the rest of his outfit.
Limbaugh never even went so far as to include among the phonies Senator and former presidential wannabe John Kerry
(Democrat - Massachusetts), whose entire “tour of duty” in Vietnam exceeded McBeth’s enlistment by only two and a half
months. And that brief Southeast Asian visit netted him three Purple Hearts under highly dubious circumstances.
Of course, if Kerry’s version of the affair is correct, he could permanently put the matter to rest, while completely
discrediting his critics simply by releasing his military records, which, to date, he steadfastly refuses to do.
Against this murky backdrop, Democrats on Capitol Hill find an occasion in which they can wave their flags and laud their
commitment to God, Country and the troops, or at least those troops who concoct stories discrediting the terror war and
the President’s strategy to win it. Such people predictably receive the unbridled adoration and support of the Democrats.
But perhaps the most telling aspect of this latest offensive is the Liberal characterization of Limbaugh, on several
occasions just this past week, as“unpatriotic.” This is quite the accusation coming from people who insist that the most
heinous crime any Conservative can commit is to “question the patriotism” of America’s Leftists.
In contrast to real America, the “patriotism” of the Left includes cheering for America’s mortal Islamist enemies, assuring
them of their ultimate victory, downplaying or ignoring America’s successes, proliferating every false account of American
atrocities against the enemy on the battlefield or in the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, and undermining the entire
premise of the terror war from its inception.
It seems Liberals presume to now hold complete dominion over who can be called “unpatriotic,” and who should remain
permanently immune to the charge, despite any seditious words or behavior. Admittedly, they have arrived at this position
of power with little resistance, their ploy of redefining “patriotism” having received far too much assistance from timid
Republicans and conservatives who acquiesced to their premise.
Their arrogance having been thus compounded, it should surprise no one that the likes of Democratic Senators Reid,
Obama and Durbin, along with House Democrats Pelosi and Murtha, to name just a few, will expend every effort to
undermine the terror war and endanger America for purely partisan political reasons, while asserting their “patriotism.”
So abominable is their current stance that it is worthwhile to ponder, were it to fully degenerate to the point of crossing
that barrier which defines open treason and blatant support of the Islamists, how their words and pronouncements would
be any different from what they are today.
Yet, we are supposed to believe that the real danger to the future of the nation is posed by Limbaugh’s severe, but
thoroughly appropriate, characterizations of McBeth and Beauchamp as “phony.”
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Politics & Political Competition:
Elections, PACs, & Political Parties
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, & Other Leftists
The Fifth Column -- America's Internal Enemies:
Disloyalty, Subversion, Sedition, & Treason
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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The News Media & Political Bias
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:
COMPETING SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Conservatism
Traditional Conservatism: Questions & Answers
Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status
Constitutional Conservatism: American & British
Liberalism
Classical Liberalism: Intellectual Foundations
Classical Liberalism: Conservative Liberalism
Manchester Liberalism & Social Darwinism
Modern Social "Liberalism": Statist "Liberalism"
Radical & Totalitarian Ideologies
Radicalism, Utopianism, & Totalitarianism
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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