It may have been the most unintentionally funny Meltdown yet—and that is saying something!
As Paul Cooper noted last night, both Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews mocked Rush Limbaugh for reporting a (rather lame) satire website’s posting about a supposed college thesis of Barack Obama—then reported Rush’s satirical comments about the piece as though it were straight commentary.
In fact, to say these two propagandists for the Left were clueless, humorless, or just plain stupid is actually the most generous possible interpretation of the facts. It’s pretty hard to avoid the evidence that this was deliberate deception by Olbermann and Matthews. It was such an out of context cut and paste job, that it was the equivalent of blaming Time Magazine for the content of a ransom note in which the words were razored from their text.
While the two propagandists and their producers only played the “But we know he thinks it…We know how he feels about distribution of wealth…so we stand by the fabricated quote because we know Obama thinks it anyway” quote, it is simply NOT possible that they missed the following jab at the media—or that they could have missed its meaning.
LIMBAUGH: “So we have to hold out the possibility that this is not accurate. However, I have had this happen to me recently. I have had quotes attributed to me that were made up, and when it was pointed out to the media that the quotes were made up, they said, “It doesn’t matter! We know Limbaugh thinks it anyway.” Sort of like Dan Rather said, “I don’t care if these documents are forged. I know that Bush did what he did at the National Guard. I don’t care if the documents are forged.” I don’t care if the Limbaugh quotes are made up. So, I can say, “I don’t care if these quotes are made up. I know Obama thinks it.”