MOYERS: Remember The Lives of Others, the movie that won this year’s Academy Award for best foreign language film? A story of life under East Germany’s secret police. The critic Roger Ebert said the movie is relevant today, as our government ignores habeas corpus, practices secret torture, and asks for the right to wiretap and eavesdrop on its citizens. Such tactics, he said, did not save East Germany. They destroyed it by making it a country its most loyal citizens could no longer believe in.
RUSH: What a crock!
MOYERS: We want to say it couldn’t happen here, but we’ve been close before. During the Cold War with the Soviet Union and then the hot war in Vietnam, a secret government mushroomed in this country.
RUSH: I told you, I knew it! Ebert and Moyers think that that movie represents what’s happening in the United States under the Bush administration. It is hilarious. Scary, but it is hilarious. I love this line, ‘They destroyed East Germany by making it a country its most loyal citizens could no longer believe in.’ They had no choice about believing in it or not! They were trying to flee the place. It’s mind-boggling. This is what we are up against, and I knew it. I know these liberals better than they know themselves. I know what they’re going to say before they say it. It’s the old line, I know them like every square inch of my glorious naked body.
Troubling news here, ladies and gentlemen.