Wow. That is a breathtakingly dishonest account. I remember Rush's website account of this. The point in quoting the 8/12 remarks was to put the 8/15 remarks in context. He was referring back to the 8/12 remarks on 8/15. He didn't say he never said the actual words attributed to him on 8/15. His point was that the context, as shown by the 8/12 notes, was not what was being portrayed by Paul Begala. As for the website being "scrubbed clean", the fact is that Rush updates content every day, by replacing the previous day's content with new material. That is all that happened here.
Good points.