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ABC And Diane Sawyer Manufactured a story trying to portray Rush Limbaugh as a racist!? Edited tape to suggest Rush Wanted Obama to fail because he is black.

... On Monday morning, ABC's "Good Morning America" gave Limbaugh's "I hope he fails" comment a racial slant by editing it in a deliberately misleading way.

In an interview with Sen. John McCain on Monday, anchor Diane Sawyer described Limbaugh's "I hope he fails" comment as "another big issue in the news."

She then tossed to a sound bite comprised of two separate comments made five days apart, which ABC joined together. The edited comment made it sound like Limbaugh wants Obama to fail because he's black.

Here's the ABC version of Limbaugh's comment:

Limbaugh: "I don't need 400 words. I need four. I hope he fails." [Edit] "We are being told that we have to hope he succeeds, because his father was black, because this is the first black president, we've got to accept this."

"Good Morning America" took the first sentence from Limbaugh's Jan. 16 radio program. The second sentence comes from Limbaugh's January 21 appearance on Sean Hannity's TV show. In the interview with Hannity, Limbaugh stressed that Obama's race doesn't matter to him, but his policies do.

Sawyer prods McCain

"So he says he hopes the Obama presidency fails," Sawyer said at the end of the carefully edited sound bite on Monday. "What do you say to Rush Limbaugh?" she asked McCain, apparently hoping to prompt an internal Republican feud.

McCain, however, would not be drawn. He said he hopes that "all of us as Americans can succeed in getting a package that will get this economy going%85"

In response to Sawyer's second question about Rush Limbaugh ("Were you offended by what he said?") McCain said only that he "respects" Limbaugh's opinion on the "issues of the day."

As CNSNews.com has reported, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee last week ran an audio clip on its Web site that misrepresented what Limbaugh meant when he said on his Friday, Jan. 16 radio program that he wanted President Obama "to fail." The audio clip, as played by the DCCC, omitted a key sentence.

Here's what Limbaugh actually said on his Jan. 16 radio program:

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