Washington Post's Neely Tucker Takes Sides

Neely Tucker writes about the $4.2 million Rush Limbaugh raised for charity by auctioning off a letter sent by Harry Reid and 40 other Democrats to Clear Channel Communications CEO Mark Mays. Letters sent to the chairman of a media firm whose life is controlled by an agency of the Federal Government by powerful members of that government is a serious issue and should be addressed in a serious way.

But the Drive By Media - in the person of Neely Tucker - treats this as if it were a spat among politicians.

At the root of the controversy is Rush Limbaugh's use of two words: "phony soldiers." The Left saw this as a "gotcha" moment and rushed to the microphones to announce that Rush had impugned all soldiers who disagreed about the war in Iraq. Rush claims, with plenty of evidence to back him up (you can read the transcript of the program yourself) that he was referring to such Leftist heroes as Jesse Macbeth whose stories about committing atrocities in Iraq has been shown to be totally false. Quite a few others have come forward, only to have their lies revealed.

But for Neely Tucker, the controversy does not exist. He has made up his mind and she knows that Media Matters and Harry Reid knew what Limbaugh had on his mind when he uttered those words.

Here's his take: Rush referred to any soldier who opposes the Iraq war as a "phony soldier." How else do you interpret this?

The letter in question is an Oct. 2 two-pager from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to Clear Channel Communications CEO Mark Mays lambasting the syndicate's Rush Limbaugh, who had recently criticized U.S. troops who were against the war in Iraq.

"Phony soldiers," blasted Limbaugh.

Phony reporter? Not really. Neely is all too typical of reporters these days. He knows what he knows and everything he writes is sent through the prism of his ideology. He spent some time in Zimbabwe, and based on his writing the problem with Zimbabwe is AIDS. Well, yes, AIDS is a problem for pretty much the entire African continent. But - as they say in Liberaldom - let's look for the root causes. And the root cause of pretty much everything that has gone wrong with Zimbabwe and its people is that Great Black Hope of Liberals everywhere in the West: Rober Mugabe.



Mind reading is a skill that many journalists claim to have. Me, I have to examine the evidence.

Pity.