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Why Our President Chose to Insult Christianity and Excuse Militant Islam at the National Prayer Breakfast BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I have a question, ladies and gentlemen. You go to the National Prayer Breakfast, and you're president of the United States. You go to the National Prayer Breakfast, today -- the National Prayer Breakfast! There are, in attendance, thousands of Christians of one denomination or another. Fundamentalists, evangelicals, Protestants, Catholics, the whole gamut. Why would you insult them? Why would you attempt to downplay militant Islam. Why would you attempt to downplay Islamist extremism? Why would you attempt to put in perspective the actions being taken today by Al-Qaeda and ISIS and Boko Haram and the Khorasan Group and all of the rest of them by claiming that just as many atrocities have taken place in the name of Christ? Why in the world would you make that point? Why in the world would you even be thinking that way? Why in the world, when you are going to the National Prayer Breakfast, would your number one focus point be to insult the attendees? What in the world must have gone through Obama's head? "At the National Prayer Breakfast today, President Obama reminded attendees that violence rooted in religion is not exclusive to Islam, but it has been carried out by Christians as well." Let's go to the audio sound bites. We have three. Here's the first. OBAMA: We have seen violence and terror perpetrated by those who profess to stand up for faith, their faith. Professed to stand up for Islam, but in fact are betraying it. Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history. And lest we get on our high horse and think this is (pause) unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow, all too often was justified in the name of Christ. RUSH: Now, look, folks, Christianity is not the problem today. Jim Crow's not around today. A thousand years ago, yeah. But not today. Sharia law is the present day threat to individual and civil liberties all over the world. Sharia is not a narrow cult. Sharia law is Islam. The problem today is not Christianity. The problem today is that people are being killed, captured, conquered to advance and impose Sharia law. The Christians are doing no such thing, and haven't I don't know if ever, on this scale, and for how long. I don't know of a single Christian leader today who takes the past and uses it as an excuse to blast Christians today. Why in the world would that even be on your mind. And not just that, why would that be among the top of the things on your mind? What is this business about "lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place"? High horse? Who among us is running around here on our high horse, if not for the president of the United States? Who is it, among all of us in this country, who doesn't seem to realize or want to admit the great threat that we all face today? It's not a thousand years ago! Who is it that simply doesn't want to be or can't be honest about the modern day, about the present day? Why in the world is this even on his mind? Why show up and know that this is going to be taken as an insult. I have long believed -- and I've shared with you this belief -- that this man is not at all who everybody thought he was in 2008. We've even got Andrew Young at the prayer breakfast today. He said the world has never been in this bad shape. Has the world ever been in this bad shape? Take you back 2008 in that campaign and remember what we were all told about the Obama candidacy and a potential Obama presidency, and that is what? Do you remember, folks? If one word will suffice, it was "unity." We were all gonna be unified! Finally we were gonna get rid of these base disagreements, large and small. The world was once again going to love the United States of America. We had successfully vanquished the irresponsible cowboy, George W. Bush, and his henchmen, **** Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Yes, we'd finally sent them out to the great pasture in the sky, and now here came a man unlike any America had ever seen -- entering the political world, unlike that world had ever seen. We were going to end climate change! The sea levels were going to stop rising preponderate (not that they ever were). This man was given the Nobel Peace Prize before he had his first dinner in the White House, and look at the world today. The world was going to love us. We were no longer going to have any racial strife in America. We were not gonna have any strife, because we were now going to have a new kind of politics, where there were no blue states and there were no red states and there were no Republicans and there were no Democrats. There were just us, all finally unified and together in a single purpose. That single purpose being unity and love for each other and for the world. We're gonna close Club Gitmo, we're gonna stop torturing people, we're gonna stop taking prisoners, we're gonna stop this ceaseless march of the United States as a superpower all over the world. We were going to finally recognize our place in the world, and that place in the world is not as a superpower but just one of any number of other hundreds of nations. There was no longer going to be anything special about us. Read much more... http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/02/05/why_our_president_chose_to_insult_christianity_and_excuse_militant_islam_at_the_national_prayer_breakfast