I didn't read the transcript, but I read enough quoted excerpts here on this thread to form an opinion. Perhaps my opinion is wrong. I can only judge based on what data I have, but from what I've seen, Rush made a bit of a mess today.
Malice? Hardly.
I listened to Rush since pre Clinton times but, in the last year He has just become too tiresome for me.
I started to find him long winded and so slow to make a point anymore.
I’ll tune him in again after the election.
As I said there were two ways to get the impression that he did not understand. To clarify those two ways are:
1) Have it suggested to you by the way you learn about it.
2) Misunderstand him because you want to, due to malice or some other desire to make yourself feel smarter than him.
As somebody who is familiar with Rush and listened to him enough to know he is not a dummy about tech, I found the report of him misunderstanding dubious, but when I read his words...how he was poking fun at the people that did not realize it was reversed, I was dumbfounded by how easily Mediate and so many freepers were totatlly clueless. I have to suspect its because the headline had already planted the idea, but then I also did see a lot of malice in many of the comments, not sure how you could have missed that as well.