Still convinced that millionaire players and owners in the NFL summarily rejected Rush Limbaugh's ownership bid because of a couple of disputed race-baiting quotes, even thought Limbaugh has a whole library of verifiable ones (see here), right-wing bloggers are now lecturing everyone about how unfair and sloppy journalists are who use disputed facts and quotes. (Oh, the irony.)

The Weekly Standard embarrassed itself by claiming CNN was guilty of “libel.” Oh my. And now Hot Air jumps in and plays dumb about CNN's Rick Sanchez, whose program aired one of the quotes earlier in the week.

Hot Air claims Sanchez, when notified about the quotes, “kinda sorta apologiz[ed] — on Twitter.” Gee, that doesn't sound fair. Sanchez aired the disputed quote on national television, then only “kinda sorta” apologized “on Twitter.” Liberal bias!

Well, actually that's not accurate. When CNN's Sanchez heard about Limbaugh's denial regarding the quote, Sanchez returned to the airwaves and informed CNN viewers:

Among the news organizations that reported that [quote] yesterday was our show at 3:00. Limbaugh's response to this is -- and I -- we want to be fair to Rush -- he says: “We have gone back. We have looked at everything else, and there is not even an inkling that any of the words in that quote are accurate. It's outrageous.” So, Rush Limbaugh is denying that that quote has come from him.

Uh-oh. Sanchez did exactly what any responsible journalist would do in his situation. But that doesn't fit the 'liberal bias' narrative, so Hot Air shoves that part down the memory hole and pretends Sanchez only “kinda, sorta” apologized online.

On with the pity party!

UPDATED: If right-wing bloggers really can't sleep at night knowing that falsehoods might have been used in a pitched political battle, than they ought to start an online petition today urging Glenn Beck to emphatically apologize for falsely claiming Van Jones “is a convicted felon.”

We'll wait....