Though it's been said, I agree with dragonoverlord. While UM is right that his words (I guess) could be litterally interpretted as blame on "America as a whole", I think it's 100% obvious that it was not what he meant. Furthermore, I find it really really hard to believe that someone with what I know is Universal's considerable level of common sense refuses to acknowledge that by saying "America," he was not blaming 9/11 on the 9/11 victims, but on the government that arguably provoked the attack - unless for the ulterior motive of furthering the "guilty by association" stigma against Obama.

I still agree that he should have chosen his words more carefully, and that he put himself in this position of being persecuted for the way he said what he said, but I think it's overtly obvious what he actually meant, and it wasn't the way it's being spun.