Rush Limbaugh Accuses The Associated Press Of Playing Defense For Obama On Gitmo

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by Jon Bershad | 3:21 pm, March 8th, 2011

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Many of the Left are furious with President Obama’s to renew trials at Guantanamo Bay, a clear sign that he’s not, as promised, closing the prison. Everyone’s looking for an explanation and, as Rush Limbaugh pointed out, the Associated Press has one. He’s accusing them of laying the blame on “Republican Congress members” in this article. As for Limbaugh himself, he has his own explanation. He explained today that he thinks the White House is keeping Gitmo open because “they’re going to need a place to put all of us.”

Here’s the bit in the AP article, entitled “Obama restarts Guantanamo trials,” that has Limbaugh riled up:

“Obama made the change with clear reluctance, bowing to the reality that Congress’ vehement opposition to trying detainees on U.S. soil leaves them nowhere else to go. The president emphasized his preference for trials in federal civilian courts, and his administration blamed congressional meddling for closing off that avenue.”

Limbaugh pointed out that there was no AP article blaming Congress when President H. W. Bush broke his campaign promises. Only one now for our, as he called it, “poor, man-child President.”

Listen to the audio below:

Associated Press, barack obama, Guantanamo Bay, Rush Limbaugh

TfT

Rush is so right on this. The media is very silent on Obama’s decision to maintain Bush’s policies regarding GITMO. Back then, when GITMO was W’s responsibility – it was the cause of all our world problems, the be all and end all of causing terrorism….but now that hehimself has embraced W’s policies, GITMO well…..is nothing, it hardly exists. The media has SPIKED the story. oh so typical of the left wing media – they are so predictable, we laugh out loud at them.
roxsteady

Rush is obviously drugged up. It’s Congress who refuses to close Gitmo, not the President. Sorry tubby but, your obsession with the President is really sad. Jealousy is a very ugly thing and so are you. Facts don’t change just because you don’t like them.
GJPinks

The AP isn’t Playing Defense, they simply believe in His Oneness with every fiber of their ComSymp bodies.
Tedderman

Anyone who thinks the AP is PRO-Obama is living in a fantasy world. GITMO cannot be closed because of the hysteria of the right believing that the terrorists will get loose and build bombs or something if brought to the conus. And also there’s that whole Bush torture thing, waterboarding folks up to183 times. Bring them to the US and they’ll garner sympathy when it’s learned they said anything our interrogators wanted them to after torture, even if it wasn’t true. Shocking, torture someone enough and they’ll tell you anything you want to hear.