Attention Rush Limbaugh Fans - I have a bridge to sell you

Rush's comment last week about Cindy Sheehan's son and the circumstances revolving around her asking to speak to Bush between his fishin' time and nap time down in Crawford hit a nerve with a lot of people, especially with those who have lost friends and relatives in Iraq.

Specifically, Rush said, "I mean, Cindy Sheehan is just Bill Burkett. Her story is nothing more than forged documents. There's nothing about it that's real, including the mainstream media's glomming onto it. It's not real. It's nothing more than an attempt. It's the latest effort made by the coordinated left." (listen to the drug addict utter these words, here)

Consequently, for the 1,312,468th time, Rush Limbaugh said something offensive, it pissed people off, and he's blatantly trying to cover his tracks. Actually, on his show today, Al Franken made the perfect analogy:

"See this is what he does. He take a crap in public in front of everyone. And when someone says, 'hey look, that guy just took a crap in public,' Rush kicks dust over it to cover it up to deny he really just took a crap in front of you."

So, Rush has received some hate mail. Actually, LOTS of hate mail. Keith Olberman has publicly called him out on it on MSNBC, and various organizations that document the stupid shit Rush says on a daily basis that's offensive to women, low income people, people of color, free-thinking progressives, and anyone else who is not wealthy, white, male and heterosexual are going after him - as they should - and holding him responsible for his comments.

And what is Rush's response?

"Apparently, what's out there is that I said that Cindy Sheehan is no different than Bill Burkett, that Bill Burkett lied and Cindy Sheehan lied. They're actually out there, people saying that I am accusing Cindy Sheehan of making up the fact that she had a son and making up the fact that her son died in Iraq. And of course, I've never said this." (listen to the audio here)

Now, listen to both clips below and tell me if you can think of any reason why people might think Rush is lying, just a little bit about this:

Click here, and listen. Take a minute, think about what was said. Now click here.

Apparently he has also had his web site admin erase some of the documentation and transcriptions on his site referring to Sheehan, so if you go there now, you're not going to find much. All this despite the fact that anyone doing a 3 second Google search can obtain the audio, Rush is actually denying he ever said any of this. To be fair to Rush, he isn't the only Right wing media figure to trash Cindy Sheehan - because you know, the Republicans support the troops.

I seriously wonder if Rush's audience has been conditioned, like dogs to sit and lay down, that when he constantly denies and backtracks over statements like these that he didn't in fact ever say them.