Rush Limbaugh used his golden microphone Tuesday to shoot down claims he told a member of his vast audience not to watch Fox News after the caller complained about one of the fair and balanced network's liberal commentators.
A caller named Tony from Tampa dialed Limbaugh on Monday to vent about
a comment Fox News Channel contributor Julie Roginsky had made regarding coal
on a show hosted by Neil Cavuto.
Tony lumped Roginsky, a former aide to the late Democrat
Sen. Frank Lautenberg, in with several other left-leaning contributors who
appear regularly on various Fox News shows. Limbaugh advised Tony not to watch
people he disagreed with, but several websites decided the talk show titan was
telling him to tune out Fox altogether.
"I said, 'Tony, stop watching these people because
they're intended to make you question your sanity.You need to stop watching
these people because they're not gonna change,'" a frustrated Limbaugh
said on his widely-heard radio show. "That has become 'Limbaugh told
listeners to stop watching Fox. 'I did not tell anybody to stop watching
Fox."
Mediaite, one of the websites -- along with Huffington Post
and Politico -- that initially said Limbaugh had told listeners to stop
watching Fox, noted in a Tuesday afternoon posting that Limbaugh had
subsequently "clarified" his remark. Mediaite quoted him as saying,
it “was interpreted by people as a blanket, overall criticism of Fox. It
wasn’t!”
Mediaite reported he said the comment was aimed at the
liberal pundit class that are “designed to make you question your sanity.”
In addition to its new posting, Mediaite updated its
original post to reflect the clarification.
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