{"id":14578,"date":"2012-09-14T16:42:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T16:42:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-09-14T16:42:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T16:42:17","slug":"new_york_times_scrambles_to_spin_the_president_s_idiotic_statement_on_egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/09\/14\/new_york_times_scrambles_to_spin_the_president_s_idiotic_statement_on_egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Scrambles to Spin the President\u2019s Idiotic Statement on Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Seriously what about all this Muslim outreach? We shut down manned space flight out of NASA, and we turn that into Muslim outreach. And what else did Mrs. Clinton do? Mrs. Clinton did some things that were designed to “reach out” to the Islamic community. This administration has gone out of its way. The Cairo speech?<\/p>\n

You may be remembering things that I don\u2019t mention here. But in the last 3-1\/2 years this administration has made it plain that this is a new day for the United States and Islam. So what the hell is happening here? Don\u2019t forget the Obama speech at the United Nations<\/a> just a year ago. “We got rid of Mubarak, got rid of all these other bad guys, got rid of bin Laden. It\u2019s a new day! We buried the past.” It\u2019s all over now. “Peace is hard, but we\u2019re there!”<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s breathtaking to behold this. I mentioned this New York Times piece. This is great. This is just… (laughing) It\u2019s obvious they think we\u2019re the stupidest people on the planet. First audio sound bite. Let\u2019s go back. Wednesday night on Telemundo, Noticiero Telemundo. The host is Jose Diaz-Balart. He\u2019s interviewing Obama, and Jose says, “Would you consider the current Egyptian regime an ally of the United States?”<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I don\u2019t think that we would consider them an ally, but we don\u2019t consider them an enemy. They are a new government that is trying to find its way. They were democratically elected. I think that, uh, we are gonna have to see how they respond to this incident. Uh, how they respond to, for example, maintaining the peace treaty with Israel. So far, at least, what we\u2019ve seen is in some cases they\u2019ve said the right things and taken the right steps. In others, how they\u2019ve responded to various events may not be aligned with our interests.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. That\u2019s psychobabble, and everybody says so. It wasn\u2019t just me. I remember going nuts here, having heard him say that Egypt isn\u2019t an ally. And then everybody else caught up with this and heard it, too, and the White House does this real fast backtrack on it. “He didn\u2019t say that! Of course he knows that Egypt is an ally.” Again, it\u2019s just incompetence on parade. So yesterday at the State Department, they sent a spokesbabe out, Victoria Nuland at her daily press briefing, and she had this exchange with a reporter.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: So forget about the president\u2019s words. You\u2019re saying that the administration — the State Department — still regards Egypt as a major non-NATO ally and it is still a recipient of all the privileges that that entails?<\/p>\n

NULAND: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: “So forget what the president said,” forget what Obama said. You\u2019re telling us Egypt ‘s still an ally? They still get the money, they get all the privileges, they get all the entrails, they get everything?<\/p>\n