Rush Limbaugh Speaks Ex Cathedra about Neocons At the basis of Rush Limbaugh's rhetoric is divisive statements. It is reflected in MOST of what he says. Limbaugh likes to use distortion and completely baseless assertions to give the impression that one side is somehow irrational and immoral. In this case, Rush is attempting to portray democrats as racist and mistating the objection sensible people have to the "ideals" and behaviors of "necons". 1/11 : BEGIN TRANSCRIPT Folks, I'm tired of this word "neocon." Let's get it out on the table. When you hear the word "neocon" used by anybody, it just means Jews, Republican Jews. That's what neocon means. You're going to have people argue with me about it, it may be a larger definition to some people, but the people who use that term pejoratively are talking about not Democrat, not liberal Jews, Republican Jews. Wolfowitz, Kristol, Richard Perle, these are the people that are blamed for getting us all into this, and it's all about... Well, you can take it from there. I don't need to add any more to it. END TRANSCRIPT The word "neocon" refers to conservatives who depart from the traditional view of conservatism which holds that we are better off not interfering in general or acting as the world policeman. Neocons are idelogues, not pragmatists. The term necon has nothing to do with the ethnic background of anyone. The problem that sensible people have with neocons is that they used distortion and lies to get us into a war against a country that did not have WMD's, operational ties to Al-Queda or a military capable of launching a serious invasion of any of its neighbors. Thanks to the efforts of the neocons, we are engaged in an occupation of a country that posed little threat, over 1360 American troops have died, our standing and credibility in the world has been dramatically diminished and we the tax payers are being billed for over 1 billion per week. Neoncons did things such as establish the Office of Special Plans which packaged assertions from Ahmed Chalabi, who was known to uncredible by the State Department and the CIA, as real vetted intelligence,. The necons took to the air to convince the US that Iraq posed an urgent threat, even though there was no evidence. The neocons were the architects of the Iraq invasion. They planned it poorly. Their "plan" relied on a best case scenario and had no backup. This is the very legitimate gripe people have with the necons. Ethnicity has not one thing to do with it. Rush is also wrong about where the blame should be aportioned. That lies squarely on the shoulders of the president. Rush could not provide even a single instance where anyone refered to any neocon in a racially pejorative way. In order for what Rush is saying to be true, it would have to be that neocons are all Jewish, or at least the majority. The group "neocons" includes people such as Rumsfeld, Cheney, Woolsey, Ann Coulter, Douglass Feith and more. These are not Jewish people. Without a shred of logic or factual basis, Rush Limbaugh distorts language in an effort to denigrate an entire group of people as racist for their use a commonly accepted slang term, one often used by republicans. It is amazing how Rush's listeners allow him to continue to insult their intelligence as he so often does.
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