Quote:I don't have a problem with people arguing that he was painting a picture but this is one of at least a dozen articles I've seen claiming he SAID robin Williams killed himself because he's a liberal, that's called false reporting.

Quote:If it is false reporting, it's a natural mistake.  All it takes is to lift a very large part of the transcript, verbatim, and you can honestly draw the conclusion that he was saying Robin Williams killed himself because he was a liberal.   Now, if he was actually instead making the point that all liberals are pessimists and naturally depressed, well you could take that and still draw the conclusion that Robin Williams killed himself because he was a liberal.  After all, all liberals tend towards depression. 

 

But from reading the transcript, it's not clear to me what Rush was actually saying.  Maybe I'd have to hear him say it, with all the voice inflections and pauses and various other cues.