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Originally Posted by axiomatik
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No, that is NOT the truth.
He was talking about a "phony" soldier, named Jesse Macbeth, who claimed that he had received a Purple Heart and had witnessed and participated in war atrocities in Iraq, killing women and children. Meanwhile, he was never in the military and had washed out of boot camp after 45 days. This whole case was reported by ABC News and Rush was talking about it.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/...ar-youtub.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/popup?id=3631779
MediaMatters (which is part of the Democratic Party) twisted the facts and Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats ran with the Mediamatters story.