[DannyTN]

What is inexcusably divisive is attributing quotes to someone that they didn’t say.

[SaraJohnson]

Especially the terrible racist quotes they falsely assigned to Rush. This Sanchez guy is a real sicko.

[nathanbedford]

The left is diabolical and Orwellian in how it clambers to the high ground while it defames its enemies. Sanchez concludes that Limbaugh is a divisive character and in the next breath confesses that the quotations attributed to Limbaugh which would paint him as divisive are bogus. Nevertheless Sanchez confides, "Limbaugh is a divisive character."

So CNN does not wade in the waters of infamy by standing by bogus quotes, it climbs the high ground saying we should not sustain "divisive" characters. As you point out, all the divisiveness come from those who propagate bogus quotes.

This is a tactic abused by the left time and again against Republican or conservative personalities. First defame the man and brand him to be "divisive" because of a furor the left self-created, and piously insist that he should therefore be quarantined out of public discourse.