Tom Harkin: Triple Threat!

A Fool, a Liar, A Liberal Idiot!

The Trifecta of Senatorship!

Tom Harkin (D/Iowa) has joined the Democrats attempt to smear conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh.

Harkin attacking Rush Limbaugh on the Senate floor:

   "Well, I don’t know. Maybe he was just high on his drugs again. I don’t know whether he was or not. If so, he ought to let us know. But that shouldn’t be an excuse."

  The hoohah is over Rush Limbaugh allegedly calling Iraq War veterans who call for the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq “phony soldiers.”

 

 Limbaugh was talking about actual phony soldiers, like Jesse MacBeth and Micah Wright, as well as fabulists who are in the military but also make themselves useful to the anti-war left by becoming war critics, like Scott Thomas Beauchamp.

  Media Matters for America (affiliated with Moron.org and funded by George Soros) which is pretty much a front organization for Hillary Clinton (in fact, she claims to have started it), took Limbaugh's 'phony soldiers' comment, posted it on their website, intentionally misrepresenting it so as to appear that Limbaugh was maligning the US soldiers who oppose the war.

 What makes Senator Harkin's contribution so special?
 

 Well, apparently he is a phony himself!

  From "Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History" by B. G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley:

"During a 1984 bid for reelection to the Senate, Harkin boasted that he had served one year in Vietnam flying F-4s and F-8s on combat patrols and photo-recon missions. Challenged by Senator Barry Goldwater, Harkin did a quick shuffle, claiming that he had actually flown combat sorties over Cuba during the '60s. Harkin finally admitted that he had not seen combat but served as a ferry pilot stationed in Atsugi, Japan (Note: he called himself a 'test pilot'), flying aircraft repaired in Atsugi to the Philippines. When pressed by reporters to explain how much time he really spent in Vietnam, Harkin estimated that he had flown in and out of Vietnam a dozen or so times. But Harkin's military record showed no Vietnam service decorations. He finally conceded he had not flown combat air patrols in Vietnam and began describing himself as a Vietnam-era vet."

And from the Wall Street Journal, entitled "Harkin Presidential Bid Marred by Instances In Which Candidate Appears to Stretch Truth," dated December 26, 1991, p. A12.

So, what's your excuse, Senator?