In his desperation to defend Mitt Romney’s botched Libya comments, Rush Limbaugh has devised a wild conspiracy theory that claims the media is trying to protect Obama by blaming Romney.
Limbaugh went on a long winded rant where he rearranged the facts and timeline in order to defend Romney, and then he unveiled his media conspiracy theory.
Transcript via Rush Limbaugh:
How would you like to be a Copt Christian in Egypt, Cairo, and see what happened yesterday? The US embassy can’t even protect itself. How’s it gonna protect you? And then you go over to Libya and you find the US embassy there. The consulate can’t protect itself. And after all this happens, guess who the bad guy is? Mitt Romney, who is the only guy that looked presidential in all of this, who had the guts to go out and characterize this statement from the embassy accurately. And the media is now saying that Romney jumped the gun, launched a political attack before the facts of the embassy violence were known, and then issues a vague foreign policy vision.
Romney took questions today. I was told that there was an open mic and that the media at the Romney event could be heard coordinating their attack questions for him. But we can’t find it. We’ve looked everywhere. I’ve been told it aired someplace, but we cannot find it. I wish we could. I would love to be able to play that for you, but we can’t find ‘em, the media actually coordinating their questions for Romney. It was the same question over and over: “Do you think you jumped the gun? Do you think you jumped the gun? How do you feel about jumping the gun? Why did you want to jump the gun? Have you jumped the gun on this, do you think? Are you speaking out too soon? Don’t you think you should shut up? I mean, you’re not the president. Politics ends at the water’s edge.” All of that stuff.
So it’s a full-court press to protect Obama. And I guarantee you, these people full well understand that this is incompetence on parade. But they don’t care, because the bigger enemy to these people is us, folks. You and I, conservatives, slash, Republicans, are a greater threat to them and their power than Al-Qaeda, a bunch of protesters in Egypt or Libya. We pose a much greater threat. Romney just can’t win. It can’t happen. It cannot be allowed to happen. Obama cannot lose. It doesn’t matter what he does to the economy. It doesn’t matter that we’re gonna financially implode in 18 months, two years, financially collapse. It doesn’t matter. We can’t lose. We cannot have the Republicans in charge. We just can’t. They don’t even know why. They just hate us. They don’t even substantively know why, other than they think we’re all about social issues and judging them and their immorality, which is the way they look at it.
Anytime the media covers Romney’s bungles, gaffes, misjudgements, and generally mismanaged campaign, they are being biased. In the eyes of the right, the media is only being fair when they bash Obama. The fact of the matter is that Romney may have mortally wounded his presidential ambitions today by not being able to put country first.
It is no surprise that the conservative media is defending Romney today. What Mitt Romney did is exactly what they have been calling for. Last night, Bill O’Reilly and Sarah Palin were on Fox News urging Romney to get more aggressive and personally attack the president. Well, Romney took their advice and it has nearly destroyed his presidential campaign.
Limbaugh wants to blame the media for his own candidate’s strategic shortcomings. Somebody needs remind the right that attacking the president immediately after the murder of a diplomat by terrorists makes them look petty and partisan, not presidential.
The blame for Mitt Romney’s latest disaster falls solely on the shoulders of the Republican Party. It was the GOP who held their noses and nominated an odd candidate with fatal flaws that were obvious during the primary season. It was the Republican Party who arrogantly and falsely believed that anyone they nominated could defeat Obama. This deeply flawed arrogance allowed Republicans put Mitt Romney in position to destroy their party. The media didn’t nominate this walking disaster of a nominee. That’s all on the Republican Party.
Just like Romney, Rush Limbaugh is the typical conservative who can’t take responsibility for anything. When things go wrong it is always the fault of others. Limbaugh can try to blame the media, but the truth is that they only have themselves to blame for nominating that pillar of incompetence known as W. Mitt Romney.





kathleen harris
Sep. 12th, 2012 at 3:01 pm
Well, there you go! We have all heard from Palin now, Rush coming in behind her! Both are such misinformed individuals, but like “stirring the pot”! Sad that they have such a twisted minded following! And some value their opinion! Why?
It should be noted that during Romney’s attempt at gaining from this tragedy he erred several times: 1) Tripoli is the Capital of Libya, not Benghazi, 2) Only Embassies are located in Foreign Capitals while Consulates are located in places …other then the capital city, which Romney 3 times erred in his usage of those terms, obviously he does not understand the proper usage of the terms and/or he did not know what the Capital of Libya was in the first place, clearly has no concept of Diplomacy 101 (as also shown in visit to England for the Olympics)!
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Jim H.
Sep. 12th, 2012 at 3:08 pm
Fresh off the heels of saying President Obama could create hurricanes and steer them to Tampa in order to disrupt the RNC, then ignoring the weather in Charlotte that caused President Obama’s acceptance speech at the DNC to be moved indoors, King Oxycontin believes that the guy that put his foot in his mouth as part of a larger foreign policy fecklessness is “presidential”. No wonder Rushbo has been blasting President Obama for the past four years–he does not know what “presidential” means.
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Rmuse
Sep. 12th, 2012 at 3:12 pm
Pillar of imcompetence may well be the best assessment of Willard to date. That is, an assessment devoid of obscenity; because it is nearly impossible to look upon what he did without unleashing a torrent of vulgar invective. He reached a low that transcends despicable, and sadly, he is unashamed.
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Mitt Romney
Sep. 12th, 2012 at 3:19 pm
Seditionist Film Leading to Attacks on US Consulates Features US Porn Actress
http://bulliesforromney.tumblr.com/post/31389906185/seditionist-film-leading-to-attacks-on-us-consulates
You can’t make this stuff up.
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Nancy
Sep. 12th, 2012 at 3:24 pm
Mitt Romney has condemned the Obama Administration for releasing a press statement that he believed apologetic and even sympathetic to the aggressors who attacked our embassies in Egypt and Libya. That statement was released by the embassy in Egypt more than six hours before the incidents had even occurred, was released without the permission of the Obama Administration, and was done in an attempt to mitigate any acts of violence. This is dangerous game that Mitt Romney has decided to play. The very fact that these attacks stemmed from a Youtube video posted in America, with less than six thousand hits on it, should illustrate just how volatile the Middle East is, and Mitt Romney is playing political games that will unequivocally result in the loss of American lives.
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megisi
Sep. 12th, 2012 at 3:32 pm
Well, we heard that there’s video of Limbaugh sexually assaulting an entire flock of guinea fowl. We haven’t seen the video, but we’re checking around for it. We heard it exists, we were told it does and that it aired somewhere, but we just don’t have it yet.
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Ellen
Sep. 12th, 2012 at 7:27 pm
Hmm. I had heard that he preferred goats and young boys.
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shelj
Sep. 12th, 2012 at 6:12 pm
How is this a conspiracy by the media, when some of Mitt Romney’s own supporters are against the actions he has taken. Rush Limbaugh sounds like the announcer from War of the Worlds, shouldn’t we all be heading for our bomb shelters. He sounds just that silly
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majii
Sep. 12th, 2012 at 6:43 pm
The only way anyone could think this is a media conspiracy, shelj, is if they are highly partisan, hate anyone who doesn’t agree with them, and hate the nation and our president. I think these characteristics fit the extremists in the GOP to a “T.”
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Brooklyn
Sep. 14th, 2012 at 3:57 pm
Anyone who can deny that this is a media conspiracy is definitely from the far left.
Maybe you can explain that the entire history of the Lame-Stream Media’s edictorials, for the past 15 years or so, has been 80% favoring liberal views and only 20% favoring conservative views. THIS is an impartial media? Get a grip!
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Bob Sietz
Sep. 12th, 2012 at 9:13 pm
Rush is so stone on drugs of course he would think that way. And of course when you lie enough after enough times you start to believe it!!
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Keith G. Cooper
Sep. 12th, 2012 at 10:28 pm
Please will someone, anyone even a terrorist please cut Rush Limbaughs tongue out. I personally don’t want to ever hear his voice again. I can’t stand what this man says or what he represents…whatever that is.
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Dem
Sep. 12th, 2012 at 11:00 pm
He can’t find evidence of a group conspiracy because there is none. The Dems do not work lie the Repubs, we do not all meet and decide on a phrase du jour.
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get real
Sep. 12th, 2012 at 11:43 pm
Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot
Then. Now. And forever.
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ilegal
Sep. 12th, 2012 at 11:45 pm
the fact that RATney is inept and his vp is just as bad and rush bimbo trying real hard to protect him is just like the blind leading the blind cause sara ryan is not much better though rush bimbo means well they are grown up. and should be able to stand alone rush bimbo must be their father
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D. W. Skinner
Sep. 13th, 2012 at 1:44 am
too late Rush… that dog don’t bark… You’re just making yourself more irrelevant to anyone except the Deliverance Boys eating their Chik-Fil-a on their front porch sofas.
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E.N.
Sep. 13th, 2012 at 2:25 am
Rush, Mitt, Paul, Eric, Mitch, John and all the rest of the extreme right wing nut job’s need to GO away and never come back. They are a disgrace and an embarrassment to our Country. They all do nothing but cause obstructionism and divide us. What ever happened to “United we stand, divided we fall”? Oh I know, Dubya, Karl Rove, the Koch brother’s, and Grover Norquist, and all their rich friend’s that could care less about anyone unless their wealthy!! Obama/ Biden 2012!!
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B. Dover
Sep. 14th, 2012 at 5:57 pm
You are on it Rush. Your “whine” meter has reached an all time high! How does anyone take this clown serious? Time and time again he sets new lows for himself and his kool-aid sotted minions.
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american
Sep. 14th, 2012 at 9:11 pm
why doesn’t anyone care that gas is 4 bucks a gallon?
Obama sucks. F the Muzlims. this is just a diversion that obama is taking full advantage. He is a campaigning genius but a dim wit president.
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Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 14th, 2012 at 10:08 pm
LOL
Let me guess, a few months ago before the hurricane, gas was barely above $3.00. did you blame that on Obama too?
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