O'DONNELL: But Kathie Lee, you know what it's like for someone to pull one quote out of context for you.
He was comparing it to when the government did give syphilis to black Americans for 40 years. What he was saying is in his history, in his genetic memory, he knows what it's like for the government to infect his own people because he lived through those Tuskegee experiments. And that's what he was talking about.
That didn't happen. The government chose to not treat them, using placebos in some cases to observe the progress of the disease. That was a terrible thing and deserves total condemnation.
But the government didn't infect the men with syphilis. They had the disease when the "study" started. You would think that with all the money Rosie has, and all the assistants, she could at least get important facts straight.
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