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RUSH: Late yesterday afternoon I was sitting in the library at home,
and I was just swamped. It seemed like every 90 seconds somebody needed
something, or somebody had a question or somebody had a comment,
requiring my response. It was during the period of time that I generally
devote to reading my tech blogs, you know, where I abandon all of this
and get away from it and start spending time on, quote, unquote, my
hobby.
But it was one of those days. I'm sure you have them. They may happen
every day, but if I had been watching a TV show I would have hit the
pause button every minute to deal with something. It would have taken me
two hours yesterday to watch a 40 minute program. So in the midst of
all of this, I hear about Prism. Not the NSA sweep of telephone records.
In fact, let me start before I heard about Prism. Even before I heard
about Prism, I am hearing from the intelligentsia in Washington that
there's nothing to be really concerned about here with what we had
learned, the NSA demanding and getting every phone record from Verizon.
And, by the way, we now know T-Mobile and AT&T have been added to
it.
But the intelligent people were saying, "Nothing to see here. The
reaction is way overblown." Those of us who think there's something
worrisome here are overreacting and we're too oriented in politics. And
the mature thinkers that weighed in and sound reason and levelheadedness
assured us that there was nothing to fear here because this was just
metadata, and in fact this is something we should all be thankful that
the government is able to do.
I have to tell you when I'm listening to all the smart people tell me
this, my mind is about to explode, and I'm saying, "Do these people not
realize what we just learned in the last three weeks?" We got the IRS
starting in 2010 taking action to suppress the political involvement and
ultimately votes of Tea Party people and conservative Republicans. This
regime, this government, on the orders of the highest level. In fact,
that investigation is ongoing. We have Fast and Furious. We have
Obamacare. The evidence of the totalitarian nature or the authoritarian
nature of this administration is on display undeniably every day and yet
in the midst of this, "Well, don't go off half cocked on this, Rush. Be
very levelheaded. Nothing really to see," as though there's no context
here.
It made me once again understand, folks, what you and I are up
against here. There are just way too many people -- and I'm talking
about on our side -- who do not want to admit what we face, who do not
want to engage or admit or whatever what we really face here. It
matters. This kind of stuff matters because of who the people doing it
happen to be. It's one thing if Colonel Sanders would be collecting all
this data, but it's not Colonel Sanders. It's Barack Obama and everybody
that works for him, and we know who they are and we know what their
goals are. We know what their intentions are.
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