How Hope and Change Gave Way to Spying on the Pres

[cwo_ghwebb]

First they came for Fox News, and they did not speak out—because they were not Fox News. Then they came for government whistleblowers, and they did not speak out—because they were not government whistleblowers. Then they came for the maker of a YouTube video, and—okay, we know how this story ends. But how did we get here?

Turns out it’s a fairly swift sojourn from a president pushing to “delegitimize” a news organization to threatening criminal prosecution for journalistic activity by a Fox News reporter, James Rosen, to spying on Associated Press reporters. In between, the Obama administration found time to relentlessly persecute government whistleblowers and publicly harass and condemn a private American citizen for expressing his constitutionally protected speech in the form of an anti-Islam YouTube video.

Where were the media when all this began happening? With a few exceptions, they were acting as quiet enablers.

It’s instructive to go back to the dawn of Hope and Change. It was 2009, and the new administration decided it was appropriate to use the prestige of the White House to viciously attack a news organization—Fox News—and the journalists who work there. Remember, President Obama had barely been in office and had enjoyed the most laudatory press of any new president in modern history. Yet even one outlet that allowed dissent or criticism of the president was one too many. This should have been a red flag to everyone, regardless of what they thought of Fox News. The math was simple: if the administration would abuse its power to try and intimidate one media outlet, what made anyone think they weren’t next?

How Hope and Change Gave Way to Spying on the Press - The Daily Beast

I think I heard this before....

 

[Dakota]

Here is a pretty good video on the subject and I'm surprised it isn't getting more air time.... but who gives a crap if they snooped on 3 reporters at Fox news?? Never mind it is unconstitutional and nothing short of Communism.

I don't understand how Obama can still sit in office and people not be screaming to impeach him. He doesn't know what is going on in his own administration what-so-ever or so he claims when most of us have enough sense to see this is Chicago thug politics....

 

[Vince]

Here is a pretty good video on the subject and I'm surprised it isn't getting more air time.... but who gives a crap if they snooped on 3 reporters at Fox news?? Never mind it is unconstitutional and nothing short of Communism.

I don't understand how Obama can still sit in office and people not be screaming to impeach him. He doesn't know what is going on in his own administration what-so-ever or so he claims when most of us have enough sense to see this is Chicago thug politics....

It only counts if it's MSNBC or one of the other liberal media networks.

 

[daileyck1]

Patriot act.

 

[Chris0nllyn]

Patriot act.

I wonder if they used "national security" as a reason?

If so, I see them getting off scott free.