As I predicted, the Rush Limbaugh letter, the auction of which on eBay was ignored by the mainstream media while the bidding was going on, is now getting MSM attention. But, incredibly, the spin of the completely dishonest and unprofessional Associated Press story is that “a” letter from Harry Reid and other Democrats blasting Limbaugh “was sold Friday” for more than $2 million.

Nowhere in the story does it accurately represent how the letter came to be on eBay. Nowhere in the report does it say that Limbaugh himself put the letter on eBay to embarrass the Democratic senators for attempting to stifle the voice of a private citizen. Only at the end of the story does it mention that Limbaugh matched the $2 million bid, or why he did it. It never explicitly states that Limbaugh himself put the letter on eBay.

That vagueness, in my opinion, is intentional. AP writers understand what their words mean and what they say. This obfuscation, which will appear in most of America’s newspapers tomorrow, along with Harry Reid’s pathetic attempt to take credit for the huge bid today, will cement in the casual news consumer’s mind that somehow Democrats engineered this $4 million windfall for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Fund.

There’s only one word for this kind of dishonest and intentionally inaccurate reporting: biased.

UPDATE: It gets worse. On the ABC News blog the letter auction was summed up this way (emphasis added):

No mater what, Democrats are going to make a ton of money for a charity off their political vitriol.

As Glenn Reynolds said: “I don’t think the active voice is appropriate here.” And angry Rush fans bombard ABC News for their biased reporting of the letter auction story.