{"id":12261,"date":"2013-06-06T16:18:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T16:18:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-06-06T16:18:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T16:18:19","slug":"us_press_blames_george_w_bush_for_obama_s_unprecedented_eavesdropping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/06\/06\/us_press_blames_george_w_bush_for_obama_s_unprecedented_eavesdropping\/","title":{"rendered":"US Press Blames George W. Bush for Obama\u2019s Unprecedented Eavesdropping"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Have you seen the big news according to the mainstream press? What do you think the big news is in the mainstream press? No, it\u2019s not Verizon. This Verizon story, which we\u2019re gonna get into, by the way, folks, sit tight. I can\u2019t do it all in the opening monologue. This Verizon story — and I don\u2019t think it\u2019s just Verizon. I think that\u2019s just what we know. But it\u2019s broken by the UK Guardian. The American media hasn\u2019t broken a single Obama scandal. The American media hasn\u2019t taken the lead on any of the four major Obama scandals. They\u2019re just playing follow the leader. <\/p>\n

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Glenn Greenwald is the guy who wrote the story for the UK Guardian, and he got a leak from somewhere in the Justice Department. Somebody in the government had to leak it to him and they probably leaked it to others in the Drive-By Media in this country who are not interested. And, in fact, I wasn\u2019t gonna get into this now, but since Snerdley brought it up, our old buddy, Ron Fournier, the former bureau chief of the AP and White House correspondent, now works at the National Journal. <\/p>\n

We have in the Obama administration — there\u2019s nobody even close to the violation of privacy and civil liberties, nobody even close. They can talk about Bush here, but nobody compares to what Obama\u2019s done. In fact, folks, as you know, I read the tech blogs. And I don\u2019t mean to beat you over the head with that, but we have new people tuning into this program each and every day. I\u2019m sorry if some of this is repetitive or redundant, but it\u2019s quite necessary. And in all these tech blogs, they just love Obama. <\/p>\n

They have bought the myth. They drink the Kool-Aid that Obama\u2019s the greatest civil libertarian, that Obama\u2019s into privacy, that Obama\u2019s just the greatest liberal that\u2019s ever been — and they can\u2019t believe this. They just can\u2019t believe that Obama would do this! They hated Bush for doing this! They can\u2019t believe that Obama did this. I don\u2019t expect this to change anything, but our buddy Ron Fournier has this Verizon story with the NSA monitoring.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not monitoring. What they\u2019re doing is this: They have demanded that, for three months, Verizon turn over the records of every phone call, what is called the “metadata.” The metadata is the phone numbers, the length of time of each call, who originated the call, but not the contents (supposedly). The contents are not part of what Verizon has to turn over. The metadata is analyzed with very various algorithms. They it put through computer, analyze it, and come up with a data set.<\/p>\n

Then if there is anything suspicious, the contents might be subpoenaed or requested. But it is massive. It is every phone call that Verizon handles. Every phone call! If you call Domino\u2019s on your Verizon cell phone, that call is being turned over to the NSA. Every phone call. There\u2019s nothing like this that has ever happened. And the media, they just can\u2019t believe it, either. So our buddy Ron Fournier writes: “Welcome to the Bush-Obama White House — They\u2019re Spying on Us.” <\/p>\n

Welcome to “the Bush-Obama Era…” Whose name is first in this story? Bush! And it\u2019s not just Ron Fournier. It\u2019s all over. F. Chuck Todd at NBC says this is all Bush\u2019s fault. If Bush hadn\u2019t been the guy that started this, Obama and Holder would not be doing it themselves. (I kid you not.) “Welcome to the era of Bush-Obama, a 16-year span of US history that will be remembered for an unprecedented erosion of civil liberties and a disregard for transparency.<\/p>\n

“On the war against a tactic — terrorism — and its insidious fallout, the United States could have skipped the 2008 election.” We coulda left Bush in, and everything would have been the same. I mean, this is utterly embarrassingly shameless. To bend over backwards or forwards or to pretzel yourself in whatever perverted position is necessary to include George W. Bush in this? But that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing, because it just can\u2019t be Obama\u2019s fault. <\/line><\/p>\n

It just can\u2019t be! <\/p>\n

They think they are Obama. They think they\u2019re the same culture, the same education, the same value system, the same pedigree, the same worldview, the same age. All of it! They think they are Obama, and they wouldn\u2019t do anything like this. So it has to be some hidden, sinister force that is tugging Obama in this direction that\u2019s totally against his own instincts — and it has to be that Bush paved the way to make it possible! Anyway, we\u2019ll have more details on this the program unfolds. <\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not the big news in the media. The big news in the media is Paris Jackson has been rushed to the hospital after an apparent suicide attempt, and the Drive-Bys have been exemplary in dropping all the nonsense in the news to give us minute by minute updates even though there aren\u2019t any. Now, if you don\u2019t know who Paris Jackson is, then congratulations. You\u2019re officially a high-information voter. <\/p>\n

But since we are in the midst of our outreach to the low-information voter here at the EIB Network, I thought I\u2019d better lead with the news that matters most to them and to the low-information news media. That is that Paris Jackson, Michael\u2019s daughter, tried to commit suicide out in California. But they saved her. She\u2019s okay, and everything is cool.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to focus on the NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers every day. I don\u2019t know that it\u2019s probably just Verizon, but I\u2019ll tell you what: This is the first time that any of this has come up under the Obama regime. That\u2019s not because Obama hasn\u2019t been doing this. <\/p>\n

I have no doubt that Obama has been collecting phone records and data and information on people from the get-go — and I have no doubt because I know liberals, folks. I know how they are. I know what liberalism is. I know that they love exuding power and using it over people. So I have no doubt that Obama has conducted operations like this on a far more massive scale than George Bush ever did. The Drive-By Media today is typified by Ron Fournier\u2019s piece: Oh, my God, look what Obama and Bush have been doing! (In fact Bush\u2019s name appears first in all these stories.) Look what Bush and Obama have been doing! Oh, my God! How can this possibly happen? Bush and Obama! <\/p>\n

In fact, grab audio sound bite number three. This is F. Chuck Todd: Unprecedented Obama surveillance is George Bush\u2019s fault. This is from the Today show this morning.<\/p>\n

TODD: This is part of a secret surveillance — domestic surveillance — program that was first launched during the Bush administration, and in order to do this court order, the Obama administration is essentially exploiting a part of the highly controversial Patriot Act.<\/p>\n