The Failed Pacifist

Limbaugh: Murtha's a Useful Idiot

Media Matters is reporting that Rush Limbaugh, apparently not content with Rep. Jean Schmidt stealing the low-ground, is calling Rep. Murtha (the first Vietnam vet to be elected, in 1974, to the House) a "useful idiot" because he wants U.S. troops to be redeployed from Iraq at the earliest practicable date.

"Not really that interested in Murtha, ladies and gentlemen, to tell you the truth. I know he got everybody's dander up all last week, but I think he's just the useful idiot of the moment. He's just -- I mean I'm not taking away from his service in Vietnam. Uh, it's -- it's not his service that we are questioning. We're questioning his judgment here."

posted by Doran @ 4:02 PM