On the December 2 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh asserted that Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA) -- who on November 17 called for the redeployment of U.S. forces from Iraq -- was “the biggest morale booster that the enemy has in Iraq.” Limbaugh's comments came during a segment in which he was speaking about new economic data and his belief that the Democrats “have been wrong about most everything they have said for the last 15 or 20 years, and even beyond that.”

Murtha is a retired Marine and a decorated Vietnam veteran. On November 17, Murtha announced a resolution (House Joint Resolution 73) that, if approved, would require the president to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq “at the earliest practicable date.”

From the December 2 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show:

LIMBAUGH: All right, these people were dead wrong then. They have been wrong about most everything they have said for the last 15 or 20 years, and even beyond that. They're wrong about Iraq. They are cut-and-run quitters in Iraq. They are defeatists. They are invested in it. This guy Murtha -- I've been thinking more and more about what he said about the Army being broken down and unable to deal with these car bombs and so forth. And it just infuriates me. It just -- it just infuriates me.

What are you looking at me this way for? It just -- it just infuriates me. He's up there going on and on and on about this, and he's -- he may as well be broadcasting this on -- on Aljazeera. They're gonna pick it up, talk about it. Our troops hear it. He's the biggest morale booster that -- that -- that the enemy has in Iraq.

So they were wrong on the economy. They were wrong on Iraq. They're wrong on taxes. They're wrong on national defense. They're wrong on the judiciary. They're wrong just about on everything. And yet, the media props 'em up. They prop themselves up, and it's amazing to watch.