SHAFTWAXER

I love this man.

Bill Burkett is the retired Air National Guard officer that provided CBS News with the questionable documents about Bush’s equally questionable service. Let’s see what Rush had to say about him as of late:

8/15/05: 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.

And then people started to give him heat for insinuating her son didn’t serve in the war. Or maybe the insinuation was even deeper, that she didn’t have a son who died. Who knows what was going on in his head. Well, we at least know what what he had to say 2 days later.

8/17/05: Let me take a brief time out here to address something. I have been the recipient of a pretty decent amount of hate mail, far, far, far more hate mail than I usually get. Just this morning — and I don’t really get a whole lot of hate mail. And most of it’s funny as it can be. But apparently there is something that is out there misreporting what I have said. And of course, these people are reading that rather than listening to this program and choosing to believe it.

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.

So was he being an insensitive ass hole and back peddling on this? Or just a misunderstood cretin?