During his radio show on Wednesday, Rush Limbaugh said "if we’re gonna accept this notion that hurt feelings inspire terrorism" then maybe President Obama's constant "bragging" about killing Osama bin Laden led to the attacks on the U.S. embassy in Libya. The violent assault left a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans dead on Tuesday.
Limbaugh took a call from a listener who presented the following question: "If the Obama administration is so concerned about not hurting the feelings of these terrorists, then why are they constantly spiking the ball about killing bin Laden?"
"You know, that is a great question," the host replied. "If we're so concerned about hurting the feelings of Muslims, why is Obama bragging that he killed Osama so often. That's a fascinating question. Yeah, in fact, their campaign slogan is 'GM's alive and Osama's dead,' or something like that. They're ramming it down the throats of Islamists all over the world. In fact, in Egypt at the embassy yesterday, the protesters were all shouting, 'We're all Osamas, Obama. We're all Osamas, Obama.'"
He added that "if we're gonna accept this notion that hurt feelings inspire terrorism, then maybe Obama is responsible for this, and ultimately maybe the blame falls to him." Limbaugh appeared to be reacting to recent claims that the filmmaker of an anti-Muslim film is to blame for the attack, seemingly deflecting blame from the Islamists who are responsible for killing innocent Americans.
Watch part one of the Rush segment via The Daily Rushbo:
"You think they watched the Democrat convention? You think they saw 'Plugs' Biden up there going on and on about how Osama's dead? This could be the Obama bounce. The media was looking for the Obama bounce, and we found it, the attack on our embassy in Cairo," Limbaugh said, pausing before adding, "The real Obama bounce."
Later in the program he reiterated that if the U.S. embassy is going to apologize for "hurting people's feelings" then Obama falls into the same category for his constant boasting about killing the al-Qaeda chief.
"We're all Osamas, Obama. There are millions of us, Obama. There are millions of Osamas, Obama. We're all Osamas. And our embassy puts outs this whole thing about hurting people's feelings, and that's right. Obama's spiking the football and ramming it down their throats every day about having killed their messiah, Osama Bin Laden," Limbaugh concluded.
Here's part two of Limbaugh's remarks:
