From NewsMax

In a blog to the Huffington Post, former NATO Supreme Commander Wesley Clark called for Congress to immediately take steps to remove conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh from Armed Forces Radio.

Last week, Rush Limbaugh labeled any American soldier who supports an end to the war in Iraq as “phony,” noted Clark.

“We challenged Limbaugh through an email campaign to invite VoteVets.org’s Jon Soltz to his show and repeat these same insults to an Iraq war veteran’s face. Over 10,000 people responded and emailed Rush — but to our disappointment, he has refused to respond to our request.

“It’s time to put real pressure on Rush Limbaugh. His show is broadcast on Armed Forces Radio, and this time we are going to go straight to the lifeblood of Rush’s show — Congress. Congress has the power to remove Rush Limbaugh from Armed Forces Radio, and it won’t be as easy for elected officials to ignore our call.”

Clark further decried the fact that Republicans in Congress have drafted a resolution supporting Rush Limbaugh, “commending [his] relentless efforts to build and maintain troop morale through worldwide radio broadcasts and personal visits to conflict regions.”

“That’s outrageous,” concluded Clark. “Rush Limbaugh’s ‘phony soldiers’ comment should not be commended — it should be condemned. And it’s time to tell Congress to act swiftly to hold Rush Limbaugh accountable.”

What a slippery-slope this is! Rush Limbaugh has many times been the target of the leftists who want to shut down conservative talk radio and thereby restrict free speech. Their argument is that the successful talk radio shows are conservative and the liberal shows go bankrupt. They say it doesn’t offer the people a choice and a balancing point of view.

I call that what the people want to hear. If people wanted to hear the rantings of the left they would tune in and those shows wouldn’t go bankrupt. Its really that simple. But the left doesn’t want to compete in a fair market and let the people decide. They want to decide what the people want and need - after all, they are ‘THE Party’. They shut down Imus, who was enormously popular and successful for something like 30 years, because they didn’t like something he said. Its a very slippery slop.

I didn’t care what Jeanne Garbledhead said on her sedition radio show, I don’t care what Rush Limbaugh says on his. We live in a country that entitles people to speak their minds regardless of what is on their minds. People choose whether to listen to it or not. The consequence for being looney is that no one listens to you and your revenue sources dry up. Rush Limbaugh is not in danger of his revenue sources drying up. Obviously, people want to listen to him.

It will do us all well to remember when we go to the polls to vote that these are the types of policies the far left wants to put into place. They want to tell you who you can listen to, what you can say and where you can say it.

BTW - what did Rush Limbaugh really say? Check out The Violence Worker and this phony Soldier. Once again, the left is using our Soldiers for their own political purposes. THAT is unacceptable!