Hillary Clinton never called Bernie Sanders unqualified. In fact, she refused to.

Democrats were in a tizzy after Bernie Sanders tore into Clinton on Wednesday for calling him "unqualified" to be president.

"She has been saying lately that she thinks that I am quote-unquote 'not qualified to be president,'" Sanders said before turning the accusation back around. "I don't think you are qualified if you supported the Panama free-trade agreement, something I very strongly opposed, which has made it easier for wealthy people and corporations all over the world to avoid paying taxes owed to their countries," Sanders added, going on to additionally disqualify Clinton for taking money from Wall Street banks and special-interest groups, favoring the war in Iraq, and supporting other free-trade agreements.

But it sounds like Sanders might have been given some misinformation about what Clinton did or did not say about him. Mediaite points out that Hillary Clinton was actually pressured by MSNBC's Joe Scarborough to say that Sanders wasn't qualified to be president and she refused to do so — three different times:

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"Now, there are actually some Sanders supporters pointing out, with a straight face, that [Clinton] also didn't say [Sanders] is qualified, or that what she did say wasn't exactly a compliment, but I've got news for you guys: Hillary Clinton is Bernie’s political opponent, it is not her job to compliment him," Mediaite writes. "It also doesn't change the fact that she did not say what he directly quoted her as saying."

The whole thing seems a little fishy — and baited by the media. Read the whole breakdown over in Mediaite.