Rush Limbaugh accused his critics Wednesday of willfully misconstruing his remarks on the untimely death of noted actor and comedian Robin Williams, accusing his detractors of deliberately taking his words out of context.

“All of these low-rent, despicable, irresponsible, pathetic, so-called media watchdogs on the left are trying to make it sound like I said that Robin Williams gave up because he was a liberal and is hopelessly doomed to misery and despair because that’s what liberals are devoted to,” Limbaugh said during his radio program.