Media Matters is the most childish and snarky collection of individuals you will ever encounter. It’s hilarious how they breathlessly relate some mildly controversial opinion shared by Limbaugh or others as self-evidently scandalous. All non-leftist thought is a lie. The fact that the were and are real live phony soldiers is completely beside the point to them. They occupy a very “Alice in Wonderland” type place where truth is defined in a way no normal person would recognize.
They don’t mishear these things, they are socialists who lie by omission and deliberately miscast a statement through redaction.
Joe Biden did it himself during the Clarence Thomas nomination hearing.