{"id":14182,"date":"2012-10-23T18:56:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T18:56:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-03-09T10:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:36:21","slug":"it_wasn_t_just_an_apology_tour_it_was_a_condemnation_tour_and_we_have_all_the_evidence_to_prove_it_right_here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/10\/23\/it_wasn_t_just_an_apology_tour_it_was_a_condemnation_tour_and_we_have_all_the_evidence_to_prove_it_right_here\/","title":{"rendered":"It Wasn\u2019t Just an Apology Tour, It Was a Condemnation Tour! And We Have All the Evidence to Prove It Right Here…"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Here is Romney burying Obama on the apology tour…<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: The president in his campaign some four years ago said he\u2019d meet with all the world\u2019s worst actors in his first year. He\u2019d sit down with Chavez and Kim Jong-il, with Castro and with president Ahmadinejad of Iran. I think they looked and thought, “Well, that\u2019s an unusual honor to receive from the president of the United States.” And then the president began what I have called an apology tour, of going to various nations in the Middle East and criticizing America. I think they looked at that and saw weakness.<\/p>\n


\nRUSH: Yeah, and Obama didn\u2019t like this. It got under Obama\u2019s skin.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Nothing, uh, Governor Romney just said is true, starting with this notion of me apologizing. This has been, uhh, probably the biggest whopper that\u2019s been told during the course of this campaign. And every fact-checker and every reporter [who] has looked at it, Governor, has said this is not true.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but the problem is, it is true! He did run around the world blaming America; agreeing that America had been the problem here or there. In Cairo he talked about how the American people had imposed their way on people for far too long. Everybody knows he engaged in an apology tour! And after Obama called him a liar, Romney came back even stronger.<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: Reason I called it an apology tour is because you went to Middle East and you flew to Egypt and to Saudi Arabia and to Turkey and Iraq. And, by the way, you skipped Israel, our closest friend in the region. But you went to the other nations. And, by the way: They noticed that you skipped Israel. And then in those nations, and on Arabic TV, you said that America had been “dismissive and derisive.” You said that “on occasion America had dictated to other nations.” Mr. President, America has not dictated to other nations. We have freed other nations from dictators.<\/p>\n


\nRUSH: Amen. One of my favorite lines. Well, one of my favorite facts of all time on this program. I\u2019ve run into liberals since I\u2019ve been doing this. You know what the phrase is? “We\u2019ve imposed freedom on the rest of the world. We\u2019ve imposed our way of life on the rest of the world.” I\u2019ve heard it from liberals all my life. Obama\u2019s just another liberal, and he\u2019s just echoing the sentiment.<\/p>\n

“The big, bad United States, huffs and puffs and we\u2019ve imposed our way of life.” And I\u2019ve always said, “We don\u2019t impose freedom.” In fact, this is one of the Undeniable Truths of Life: “Freedom is not an imposition.” Freedom cannot be an imposition, by definition! You can\u2019t impose freedom. You liberate people, and that\u2019s what we have done. There are cemeteries of American dead all over the world, men and women who have died liberating others from tyranny and freedom, and Obama denies this and apologizes for this country.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s listen, ladies and gentlemen, to some of Obama\u2019s remarks in speeches around the world. April 3rd, 2009, in Strasbourg, France.<\/p>\n