Why is this such a favorite tactic of the Left?
"Reid looks absolutely, embarrassingly incompetent when you think about what he said, in fact anyone who can read could tell what Rush really meant. ...so let's stop arguing and call it a draw."
Whenever someone on the Left says "The debate is over!", or "This is a tedious, unresolvable and ultimately pointless debate.", you can rest assured that the debate is going very badly for the Leftist.
Anyone who hears or reads Mr. Limbaugh's comments in context will have no doubt whatsoever what he meant. It's perfectly clear, with or without debate.
Both Dingy Harry and his liberal media accomplices are left with well-deserved egg on their faces.
Because it's all they've got: twisting other people's words or interpreting ambiguous statements in the worst possible light.
The other word for it is "desperation" and with the goal of creating "news", ... made to order for hysterical, insecure, ignorant, sheeplike masses, a/k/a the American people.
"Context? We don't need no steenkin' context!"