The gerbalists of the enemedia are not stupid; they are evil. If they thought they could bail out the Terrible Two by explaining what they REALLY said, we'd see them everywhere and even more people would know about it.
IMO this is going to be the vicious attack that never happened because that's the only chance of smothering the reaction.
That will work with really low LIVs, but it has already pumped the TEA Party people right back up and energized us.