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Rush Limbaugh Doctors Audio to Slander Mark Levine

“A Glittering Jewel of Colossal Ignorance”

Yesterday, Rush Limbaugh called me a “glittering jewel.”
Actually he called me a “glittering jewel of colossal ignorance.”
But I no more took his quotation about me out of context just now than he took mine.

First, the Rush clip, in its full context:

Now, what I actually said:

See a difference?

OK, it may be hard to spot in the unedited clips. So here’s the same thing tightly focused.

Rush playing me on air (without mentioning he intentionally tampered with the audio to remove a crucial sentence):

What I actually said:

Let me spell it out.

Rush claims I said:

“If you heard Rush Limbaugh today, he specifically compared Barack Obama to Hitler. This is not rhetoric that’s coming out of nowhere. People understand the tea party activists are drawing Hitler mustaches on Obama. They’re doing it for a reason”

What I actually said was this:

“David, if you heard Rush Limbaugh today, he specifically compared Barack Obama to Hitler. He said in fact that Bart Stupak was the Neville Chamberlain to Barack Obama’s Hitler. This is not rhetoric that’s coming out of nowhere. People understand the tea party activists are drawing Hitler mustaches on Obama. They’re doing it for a reason”

Why do you think Rush removed that sentence that specifically showed where he compared Obama to Hitler then went on a long rant saying, “Adolf Hitler was not mentioned on this program yesterday” ?

Maybe it’s because he mentioned the Obama/Hitler comparison on the program the day before yesterday and thinks his dittoheads are too stupid to remember two days ago?
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