Limbaugh's Deferrment?

@anniepa (27955)
United States
October 2, 2007 11:16pm CST
I've heard several different reasons why Rush Limbaugh didn't serve in the military and for how famous and successful he is I still haven't read anything that confirms the reason. He didn't finish college...another rumor was he flunked out...and he has no children, none that he admits to anyway, so how did he manage to dodge the draft he was apparently so in favor of? Last night Stephanie Miller said on Abrams Live that he had an "anal cyst" and I'm not sure if it was meant as a joke or serious. He's about my age so I can see no reason why someone who to this day speaks with fondness of our involvement in Vietnam didn't offer himself up to serve his country! Do any of you know the truth? To me he's the ultimate, original Chicken Hawk! Annie
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@Destiny007 (5805)
• United States
3 Oct 07
He wasn't eligible for the draft because he was classified as 4-F due to a diagnosis of Pilonidal disease. That is basically a cyst of the tailbone although it can appear elsewhere. In other words, he didn't qualify for the draft due to medical reasons. I gather that you think this somehow makes him a coward? Or perhaps you think that since he did not serve in Vietnam that he should have no opinions about the war.
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• United States
3 Oct 07
The "phony soldiers" charge has already been answered in another post, and it concerned people who were pretending to be soldiers and who were speaking out against the war because they had "been there". Rush was right to come out against them. No, he could not have volunteered, 4F means unfit for duty because of medical reasons. The problem with Rush is that he is right a lot more than he is wrong, and the liberals hate him because he tells it like it is, and they don't want people to know the truth. Thus the many failed attempts to discredit him. Chicken Hawk is a disparaging term for someone who supports a war while having never been in combat... I guess that would include me too, even though I am a Vietnam Era Vet. Vietnam was ending when I enlisted in November of 1974. People like Bush and some others who have been called Chicken Hawk did serve their country, which is a hell of a lot more than a lot of the people did that are throwing these terms around. I find that ironic.
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• United States
4 Oct 07
Evidently you are not used to straight talk if you think that is aggressive. We conservatives don't sugar coat anything and that is what the lying liberals can't stand... therefore they call anything they don't agree with aggressive. The truth is that the most passive-aggressive people in existance are those lying liberals.
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• United States
4 Oct 07
Conservatives are often called mean and cranky and many other things as well, because we look at a situation logically without all the touchy feely emotional garbage that liberals employ. That whole do it for the children routine does not work on me because I know it for the smoke and mirrors that it really is. When you can set aside the emotional baggage and take a cold hard look at an issue it is really easy to see the flaws and the hidden trickery therein. Liberals don't like their trickery exposed.
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@worldwise1 (14885)
• United States
3 Oct 07
I know very little about Limbaugh, anniepa, since I don't care for his brand of politics. I know that he is loud-mouthed and brash, also very partisan. I hear so much about the parties getting equal time that I have to wonder why that rule does not apply to the garbage-spouting talk-radio hosts on my local station. I am seriously thinking of giving up listening to them. There are much better choices I could be making. I don't listen to Rush, Neil, or the other righties. I do listen to Michael Savage only because he is humorous, intelligent, and does not seem to know that he is a racist.