Rush Limbaugh Proves: I Never Maligned Obama

Rush Limbaugh was right — it was Teddy Kennedy who first referred to Illinois Sen. Barack Obama as “Osama Obama.”

During his Oct. 23 broadcast, an indignant Limbaugh told listeners, “The Financial Times misquotes me in a story, claiming I am the one who called Barack Obama, ‘Obama Osama.’"

To prove his point, Limbaugh played a sound byte from Sen. Kennedy’s Jan. 11, 2005 luncheon speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

A questioner asked the senator from Massachusetts, “Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was elected with over 80 percent of the vote, and over a million of those voters were also President Bush voters. What did Senator Obama do that Senator Kerry and other Democrats not do?“

Kennedy replied, “There you go. Why don't we just ask Osama bin Laden — Osama Obama — Obamamam what is — since he won by such a big amount.”

“So there you have it,” Rush said. “There is the origin of it. It's even worse than I remembered it being. Osama bin Laden, Osama Obama, Obamamam.

The man at the top of NewsMax magazine’s 25 Most Influential Radio Hosts list had previously explained that he couldn’t resist the opportunity to mock Sen. Kennedy, telling his listeners, “Folks, we had to do a parody tune out of this.”

Meanwhile, Democrats and the mainstream media have been blasting Limbaugh for linking Sen. Obama, a possible 2008 Democrat presidential nominee, with the terror mastermind.

But don’t blame Rush. He was only making fun of Teddy.