Republicans are in a tizzy after several conservative websites said EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson called them “jack-booted thugs” at a speech at the University of California at Berkeley.

But Jackson never said it.

Jackson spent most of her speech debunking myths about the agency, such as that the EPA intended to triple its budget, hire 230,000 new regulators and cut greenhouse emission from backyard grills and cows.

“A massive expansion was never a possibility – and the people who cited the 230,000 new EPA jack-booted thugs knew that,” she said.

(The comment is around the 12:40 mark in the video above.)

Jackson’s “jack-booted thugs” comment was a play on how critics have referred to EPA employees. Jackson goes on to note that a tailoring rule was designed to prevent any additional hires and to limit the number of requirements for the biggest emitters.

However, she said critics only “heard the incredible number.”

E&E and RedState.com quoted Jackson as saying “those jack-booted thugs knew that.” Both sites have since corrected their error. Fox News also published the story, but they haven’t corrected the error.