Elizabeth Edwards questions Limbaugh’s draft deferment

October 5, 2007 · Filed Under Liberals, Politics

Air America conducted an interview with Elizabeth Edwards in which she questions Rush Limbaugh’s Vietnam exemption implying that it’s fake. She also said that advertisers on his show should think about whether they want to support someone who denigrates the troops and has never served himself.

My classmates went to Vietnam, he did not. He was 4F. He had a medical disability, the same medical disability that probably should have stopped him from spending a lifetime in a radio announcer’s chair; but it is true, isn’t it? If he has an inoperable position that allows him not to serve, presumably it should not allow him to sit for long periods of time the way he does. I think this is a serious enough offense for the people who fund him, who buy ads and allow him to be on the air, need to be asked if this is what they really stand for, do they think it is all right for someone who has never served to denigrate the men and women who have simply because they are expressing an opinion. Frankly, I thought that is what we are fighting for.

Mrs. Edwards also expressed her disappointment with John Kerry’s decision to concede the 2004 Presidential election against her husband’s advice.

By Chris Jones
The Hot Joints