Original sentence: Critics of the program argued that, in fact, the actual number of leprosy cases had reached 7,000 in the registry over thirty years, not the previous three years, with 137 cases in 2006.Dobbs' critics have at times accused him of presenting unclear or inaccurate information on his program to buttress his reporting on illegal immigrants.One particular criticism involved a CNN report, filed by CNN correspondent Christine Romans for Dobbs' April 14 2005 program, on the carrying of diseases across the border by illegal immigrants,.The Romans report cited a Spring 2005 Journal of Physicians and Surgeons article, written by the late medical lawyer, Madeleine Cosman, which made the statement that 7,000 cases of leprosy had emerged in the United States within the previous three years (2002-2005), an increase attributed mostly due to an influx of immigrants into the country
Edited sentence: Dobbs has in the past presented unclear or inaccurate information on his program to buttress his reporting on illegal immigrants, which he subsequently clarified and corrected.In addressing the leprosy issue, Dobbs compared his critics from the left and right political spectrums to "commies" and "fascists.On April 14 2005 and May 14 2007, Dobbs' program cited an article by Madeleine Cosman in the Spring 2005 Journal of Physicians and Surgeons which made a false statement that there had been 7,000 cases of leprosy in the United States in the last three years, largely caused by immigrants, when in fact the actual number of cases had reached 7,000 in the registry over thirty years, with 137 cases in 2006