Original sentence: He argued that Fisk's sympathy for his assailants as pathologically anti-American, relativistic and racist.Sullivan used several quotations from Fisk to prove his point and interspersed them with his own interpretation of what Fisk wrote and its implications
Edited sentence: He used several quotations from Fisk to prove his point and interspersed them with his own interpretation of these quotes, putting the worst possible spin on them.Sullivan saw Fisk's sympathy for his assailants as pathologically anti-American, relativistic and racist