Limbaugh: McChrystal Comments “Indefensible,” But He Should Be Listened To
Written by Oliver Willis
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By Oliver Willis
Limbaugh followed in the footsteps of most of the rest of the media today, focusing on the controversy around Gen. Stanley McChrystal's comments to Rolling Stone magazine. While he indicated that the comments were “indefensible,” Limbaugh went on to say that McChrystal is a “warrior general” and unlike a “corporate general” he's interested in winning the battle and not in merely getting ahead in the Army. Limbaugh said that his comments should be listened to and that it was a natural reaction to having a “community organizer” running the military, and having “Ivy Leaguers” lecturing the military on how to conduct the war.
Limbaugh continued, saying that President Obama was part of a Democratic “cabal” in the Senate that tried to demoralize the military during the Iraq War, as well as an “amateur” who holds the military in “disdain.” Limbaugh also floated the conspiracy theory that the story about McChrystal was designed to push negative news about the Gulf oil spill off the front page.
Returning to his previous comments on the escrow account set up by BP, Limbaugh said that it was obviously a “shakedown” and that BP's property was “confiscated” and “looted” while freedom evaporates before our eyes.
Highlights from today's show:
Limbaugh: Obama committed an “abject violation of the U.S. Constitution” when he “looted” BP
Limbaugh claims Stephanopoulos and Politico's Allen “take their orders from Gibbs”
Limbaugh: “You just don't do this. ... What McChrystal has done here is not defensible”
Limbaugh: Freedom evaporating “right in front of our eyes,” Obama “loves punishing this country”
Limbaugh touts “rumors” of “executive order amnesty for all of the illegal immigrants”
Limbaugh says he “proved” that the BP escrow account was a “shakedown”
Limbaugh suggests that the media is using McChrystal to “get BP off the front page”
Limbaugh: People running the war are “inept, leftist socialist theoreticians who hate guns”
Fae Jencks and Christine Schwen contributed to this edition of the Limbaugh Wire.