Rush Limbaugh says mainstream media misquoted his Robin Williams remarks

[Botany]

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/themargin/2014/08/14/rush-limbaugh-says-mainstream-media-misquoted-his-robin-williams-remarks/

Rush Limbaugh is displeased with the backlash to comments he made about the death of Robin Williams.

The controversial radio-show host claims he was widely misquoted and misinterpreted by the media. In a segment titled “Despicable Leftists Lie about My Comments on the Media Coverage of the Robin Williams Suicide,” he said that the sheer volume of news outlets twisting his words had forced him to respond:

“All of these low-rent, despicable, irresponsible, pathetic, so-called media watchdogs on the left are trying to make it sound like I said Robin Williams gave up because he was a liberal, and he’s hopelessly doomed to misery and despair because that’s what liberals are devoted to. And I said no such thing.”

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Rush's exact quotes w/ a link to the story.

Limbaugh, according to the transcript of the right-wing radio host’s Tuesday show, took a call from a listener about the politics of the coverage of Robin Williams’s death. His response:

“He had everything, everything that you would think would make you happy. But it didn’t. Now, what’s the left’s worldview in general? What is it? It you had to attach not a philosophy but an attitude to a leftists worldview, it’s one of pessimism and darkness, sadness. They’re never happy are they? They’re always angry about something. Not matter what they get, they’re always angry,” he says.

Limbaugh then refers to a news story that addressed Williams’s humiliation at having to take television roles and movie gigs that were beneath him to pay off his debts and costly divorces.

“He had it all, but he had nothing. He made everybody else laugh but was miserable inside. I mean, it fits a certain picture, or a certain image that the left has. Talk about low expectations and general happiness and so forth,” says Limbaugh.

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/themargin/2014/08/13/rush-limbaugh-says-leftist-ways-killed-robin-williams/?link=instory

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And still Rush wonders where his advertisers have gone.

BTW Rush I know you read DU. Isn't the Rude Pundit funny?

[tblue37]

1. IOW, typical RW response: "How DARE they report my exact words!" nt

[Botany]

2. I always like when they go after "media matters" .....

.... because M.M. publishes the exact words along w/ the audio or video of what
the person or persons said but still you get the, "I was taken out of context" crap.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

3. Thank you, Lewis Black, for dressing him down.

[deminks]

4. How does Rash feel now that Robin's wife said he had Parkinson's?

Hmmm?

That was a rhetorical question.

as if I give a rat's behind.

[Botany]

5. I wish I could have 5 minutes w/Mr. Limbaugh so we could have "a chat."

He really is filth.

[frylock]

6. this may answer your question, rhetorical or otherwise..

[deminks]

10. OMG, I had forgotten this.

Yup, that pretty much sums it up.

[Trailrider1951]

11. I just want to vomit when I see this

This short clip will tell you all you need to known about this man.

[gratuitous]

7. Gee, for someone who makes a very good living running his mouth

Mr. Limbaugh sure gets misquoted or misinterpreted a lot. I wonder if his paymasters feel like they're getting their money's worth from such an inefficient communicator?

[spanone]

8. a man with his ass solidly saddled in the low-rent, despicable, irresponsible, pathetic, so-called..

media

[lpbk2713]

9. Limbaugh, as usual, is full of shit.

Disgusting PoS.

[octoberlib]

12. Robin Williams wife released

statement today saying he had Parkinson's disease. I'm on my phone and don't have a link but it was on CNN.com.