Thousands of people can hear the same speech, and every single one of them will interpret it differently - and if they try to repeat that speech to someone else, everyone except those very rare people with total recall will paraphrase it, and more often then not, get it all wrong.
It's called extrapolation. People hear something, and it goes through the filters of their own perception.
So yesterday, Rush was talking about rolling back Democrat policies for the last 65 years - and Chris Mathews extrapolated this through his own prism, and instead of quoting Rush directly, paraphrased what he'd said.
Rush explains it all below:
RUSH ARCHIVE: [T]he people of Wisconsin have fended off what amounted to a government-union takeover. [edit] ... If the taxpayers of Wisconsin can win against all those odds, we should be able to do the same thing in every state, and in Washington, DC. We ought to be able to roll back Obamacare. In fact we ought to be able to roll back everything Obama has given us over the last two and a half years. We should be able to roll back the whole Democrat agenda for the last 65 years. Yes, we can!
RUSH: So "the whole Democrat agenda for the last 65 years." Now, you gotta be... (laughing) You gotta look long and hard. You have to be looking for it, you have to be shameless to make a statement like that and then say this.
MATTHEWS: (huffing) Well, here's Rushbo with his agenda. He wants to get rid of the integration we did under Harry Truman in the United States armed forces. That was what Truman did since '46, which is 65 years ago. He wants to get rid of the Brown case, of course integrating our schools, at least the public schools. He wants to get rid of Medicare/Medicaid, the Civil Rights Bill, the Voting Rights Bill, the ability to vote at the age of 18. What else is on this guy's freaking list of what he wants to ro...? Is this the right-wing agenda, John? This is bigger than Wisconsin! Is this what the Rushbo crowd would like to do if they could win elections, to get back -- everything back to World War II that it -- was done progressively for this country for race or youth or sex or whatever?
RUSH: You know, in actual fact, Truman had to desegregate the US Army by executive order rather than through legislation, and do you know why? Because everybody knew that the congressional representatives of the Solid South, all white Democrats, would have stonewalled any legislation. Nobody wants to admit it today, but everybody knows that the old segregationists were all these Democrats back when Strom Thurmond was a Democrat, J. William Fulbright, Herman Talmadge, and it was another Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, who segregated the military! The Democrat agenda fought desegregation in the army and everywhere else. But, you know, folks, this is... (interruption)
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, "Roll back the whole Democrat agenda for the last 65 years," everybody with a modicum of understanding means, we gotta get rid of the socialism, we've got to reduce the size of government, we have got to get government out of being the central facet in everybody's life. We do have to repeal Obamacare. We do have to fix Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid. They're busted, they're bankrupt, they don't work! Democrat social programs have led to what's happening in London. The same thinking, the same type of mentality. It has led to the paralysis of law enforcement, for crying out loud.
Liberalism has led to the paralysis of law enforcement because the people committing these crimes are entitled in liberalism because they have been so put upon, they are so disadvantaged by whatever socioeconomic unfairness that we have to understand their rage -- and if they destroy somebody else's private property, we can't stop 'em. It would be racist to try it. Discriminatory to try it, insensitive, politically incorrect, or what have you. The Democrat agenda fought segregation in the Army, and it fought it everywhere else! Tip O'Neill country was segregated: Boston! And Chris Matthews was his LA, legislative assistant or whatever high ranking high position. He was more than a spokesman for him.
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