For The Record, I Never Said The Things I'm Saying Here

This morning Joe Scarborough went to Rush Limbaugh's defense. Rush is complaining that people are attributing statements to him that he never made. Just like Yogi Berra. "I didn't say the things I said." is the famous quote. Interestingly enough, there is no proof that Yogi ever said that. Only unlike Yogi, Rush wants to sue. It is, of course, the American way.



I found Joe's defense of Rush admirable. And it came a little more than a week after Rush had questioned Joe's masculinity. Way to man up, Joe! Hold out for eight whole days before you knuckle under and kneel before the Supreme Leader! That chickified head of the GOP, Mr. (Ms.?) Steele didn't last a weekend before kowtowing.



But I understand where Rush is coming from. Yogi gets blamed for things he never said. Rush gets blamed for things he never said. Ironically, Rush has often said that Al Gore claimed he invented the Internet. And of course, Al Gore never said that. Should Mr. Gore sue?



It is one of my biggest peeves, right after people not using revolving doors, when so-called journalists take statements and paraphrase them, taking them out of context, changing the context, changing the wording, not verifying any facts in a statement, just to get a hotter story out of a statement. And once the changes begin, the statements can transmorph into anything. Go back and check out exactly what Nancy Pelosi said about the CIA, not what was screamed on political babble shows, but what she actually said. Oddly enough now that more information has come out, not a soul is asking for her resignation, not even an apology.



But Joe should be able to understand how these things can happen. He is world class when it comes to altering a statement and re-phrasing it so that the statement changes.



For example, this morning he had on that whack-job Jim Cramer. Cramer made a comment that China is becoming the most powerful nation on earth. Joe immediately shot back that there was no way that China was going to "take over the world."



Of course not Joe, because that is not at all what Cramer had said. I don't think it's adult ADD that makes the words, both context and meaning, change in your head. I think you could just possibly be that stupid. Or you may be a pathological liar.



I wouldn't put it past you to be both.