Radio host Hugh Hewitt trying to offer Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump the conservative interpretation of what he means by calling Obama the “founder of ISIS”, and Trump… not able to take it.
I can imagine a similar scenario where a sympathetic voice in the media is giving a Democratic politician the interpretation for some heightened rhetoric about George W Bush.  Would, oh, Alan Grayson take it, instead of waiting around to declare “SARCASM”?

Later, in an interview with the radio host Hugh Hewitt, Mr. Trump was given an opportunity to clarify, but did not budge.“You meant that he created the vacuum, he lost the peace,” Mr. Hewitt suggested, leaving Mr. Trump an opening.
 “No, I meant he’s the founder of ISIS. I do,” Mr. Trump said. “He was the most valuable player. I give him the most valuable player award. I give her, too, by the way, Hillary Clinton.”
Mr. Hewitt replied, “But he’s not sympathetic to them,” referring to President Obama. “He hates them. He’s trying to kill them.”
“I don’t care,” Mr. Trump said. “He was the founder. His, the way he got out of Iraq was that, that was the founding of ISIS, O.K.?”

I suppose it comes when you’re arguing for a Fortress America model, making jabs at Isolationist sentiment.  And it comes when your big foray into political discourse in the past decade came in challenging the President to show his birth certificate, and so you’re working that base.

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