Over the top! White House claims Obama’s Cairo speech inspired Iran uprising!

File this one under “you’ve got to be kidding.” But it’s no joke. Incredible!

Caution: Don’t read the following shortly after a meal or if you have a sensitive gag reflex.

From the Washington Post:

Obama’s approach to Iran, including his assertion that the unrest there represents a debate among Iranians unrelated to the United States, is an acknowledgment that a U.S. president’s words have a limited ability to alter foreign events in real time and could do more harm than good. But privately Obama advisers are crediting his Cairo speech for inspiring the protesters, especially the young ones, who are now posing the most direct challenge to the republic’s Islamic authority in its 30-year history.

Ed Morrissey’s take on it is spot-on:

This is the most despicable, self-serving, and arrogant spin I’ve seen yet from this White House, and that’s saying something. Obama gave a speech, and suddenly the people of Iran discovered that they’re being ruled by tyrants? Never mind that two weeks passed between the speech and the uprising, and that the very obvious trigger for the unrest was the incompetent manner in which the mullahs rigged the election for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Never mind the fact that this President took a full week to even sound like a watered-down Nicolas Sarkozy, let alone the leader of the free world.

No wonder the American people are slowly starting to sour on the man. No amount of media spin can camouflage the president’s narcisism forever, no matter how hard they try.

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