Limbaugh's Substitute Lies - Just Like El Rushbo

[CO Liberal]

I think his name is Mark Billing, and for the past hour or so he's been griping about all the coverage given to the prisoner abuse story, and how the media has "ignored" the story about a documentart someone named Don North did about Iraqi amputees who were being flown here for medical care.

So I did a quick Google search on ("Don North" + amputee), and found 212 links, including the following:

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Voice of America - http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=04AB8619-23E6-4771-9CCEF7637C98D2E4
www.fortwayne.com/mld/fortwayne/news/local/8711416.htm
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ A41819-2004May20.html
www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/ 93-05202004-303222.html
www.iraq.net/displayarticle3764.html
home.swbell.net/ moonshad/Houston-Chronicle-Iraqi-amputees.html
asia.news.yahoo.com/040520/ap/d82m76eg0.html
www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/ 20040520/news_1n20amputees.html
federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=82&sid=96048
seattlepi.nwsource.com/ national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Iraqi%20Amputees
www.news8austin.com/content/your_news/ ?SecID=278&ArID=103496
quickstart.clari.net/ voa/art/cy/04AB8619-23E6-4771-9CCEF7637C98D2E4.html
www.khou.com/ news/health/stories/khou040409_mh_amputees.10b3ea9b5.html
www.papillonsartpalace.com/wanta.htm
www.whowon.com/ BenchRacing/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=76531
www.mysanantonio.com/ news/metro/stories/MYSA25.01B.iraqi_cowboys_0425.6189e44a.
ibb7.ibb.gov/newswire/309dac6b.html
washingtontimes.com/culture/20040428-111432-4577r.htm
www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,5-2004222948,00.html
www.command-post.org/2_archives/011478.html
www.williambowles.info/iraq/ih.html
hospitals.cancer-help.org/Texas_Medical_Center.html

(unfortunately, not all links copied over peroperly...)

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These news sources cover the spectrum, from the Voice of America to the Washington Post to the Washington Times. Once again, the vast right-wing conspiracy is caught in a lie.

[Wickerman]

1. Good finds, Co

I might have missed it - where is Rush? Rehab again? Jail? Court? Holed up somewhere with his boyfriend under the name Jeff Christie?

[CO Liberal]

2. No One Knows.....

I figure he's meeting with his slimeball lawyer.

[lapfog_1]

3. Here in the bay area

there are routine stories about Iraqi (or sometimes Palestinian)
children who have been horribly disfigured (lose a limb or an eye
or even half a face) who get medical treatment provided by American
doctors.

Of course, much of the funding to do these things is provided by
"bleeding heart liberals" like myself.

And it's almost always children, none of whom should be have had these
things happen to them in the first place.

You don't see men who lose their limbs being flown here for medical
treatment because they, for the most part, don't survive (our armed
forces make sure of that) or, if they do, they are left in Iraq to
be treated as best as they can be...

[RobertSeattle]

4. Oh My God - Rush's substitute is right

And the librul media didn't report that 99.999% of the building in this country didn't burn down last night!!! They only reported the ones that were ON FIRE! What Bias!

/Sacrasm

[bookman]

5. Front Page Story

Here in the Houston Chronicle. Nice story, but hardly equal to the horrors going on in Iraq lately.

Perhaps all NeoCons don't read newspapers.

[CO Liberal]

6. Of Course, They Don't Read Papers

Thay're too dumb to read - that's why they listen to Limbaugh, Hannity, etc.

[maggrwaggr]

7. But Laura said she and Shrub read the papers in bed every morning!

somebody's lying.

What a surprise.

[dgs1258]

8. well

HOUSTON - Nine years ago in Abu Ghraib prison, on the night before doctors were to cut off his right hand, Nazaar Joudi wrote a letter to his wife. It was the final act he was to perform with the hand, which was to be methodically removed on Saddam Hussein's orders as punishment for the crime of doing business in American dollars.



"Do not be sad," Joudi wrote to Um Fuqaan that night. "Hopefully Allah will replace my hand with an even better one. . . . God will reward you for standing next to your husband and being my right hand."

Thanks to a Fairfax-based film producer, a half-dozen health care providers and businesses in Houston, and a legendary "white knight in blue spectacles," Joudi's promise to his wife came true last Monday.


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Doctors and prosthetists moved by the plight of Joudi and six other Iraqi merchants whose right hands were amputated at Abu Ghraib finished fitting each of the men with $50,000 "bionic" hands. Black tattoos of crosses that had been carved into the men's foreheads to label them criminals were removed by a Houston plastic surgeon a few weeks earlier. All the services and products were donated.

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