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Originally Posted by cmac2012
I must have missed that claim of treason. Petraeus was appointed by Bush to act as a firewall deflecting public criticism. These game plan has been followed strenuously. Hannity and your esteemed self have said Hillary called GenDP a liar, and the "treason" gambit has gotten much traction. Interesting that some on the left are doing a similar inflation of words with Rush with this comment:
"This is such a blatant use of a valiant combat veteran, lying to him about what I said and then strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media and a TV ad to walk into as many people as he can walk into."
Many, including the vet in question, have said Rush called him a suicide bomber. He did not use those words. His metaphor was very poorly chosen but he didn't go so far as to actually call him a suicide bomber.
I don't think it's too likely that Rush will have any dissenting vets on his show for a lengthy, fair debate any time soon, however.
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betray,
sell
deliver to an enemy by treachery; "Judas sold Jesus"; "The spy betrayed his country"
The sentence you italicized has "valiant combat soldier" as the direct object. The subject of the sentence is implied to be someone else. That someone else, according to the verbs, lied and sent the direct object to do something. Somewhat patronizing from the sound of the sentence, but hey Limbaugh has a reputation for arrogance which is the main reason I never read beyond the first chapter of his book.
Who do you figure the implied subject of the sentence was since it wasn't the direct object?
I agree that he probably won't have any dissenting guests on his show anytime soon. I could be wrong though. Either way I'm sure I won't hear it.
I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that treachery is a synonym of treason.