{"id":2602,"date":"2006-01-05T10:39:44","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T17:39:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-01-05T10:39:44","modified_gmt":"2006-01-05T17:39:44","slug":"americans-dont-mind-being-spied-on-by-the-military-claim-warbloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/05\/americans-dont-mind-being-spied-on-by-the-military-claim-warbloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Don’t Mind Being Spied On by the Military – Claim Warbloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check out these pathetic right-socialist warmonger types<\/a> trying to claim that Americans aren’t bothered by the recent National Security Agency wiretapping scandal. Citing a Rasmussen poll<\/a>, “NewsBusters” claims, “the nation doesn\u2019t feel the Bush administration is doing anything wrong.”<\/p>\n

“Busters” is right, because that wasn’t the question.<\/p>\n

Media Matters has Pat Buchanan – typically right in writing<\/a> and wrong on TV – making the same ridiculous claim<\/a> on Hardball ,<\/p>\n

\n“MSNBC political analyst Pat Buchanan, Washington Post<\/em> columnist Charles Krauthammer, CNBC host Lawrence Kudlow, and conservative radio host Michael Reagan referenced the Rasmussen poll in defending Bush’s authorization of the NSA eavesdropping program. The poll<\/a>, conducted December 26-27, asked respondents: ‘Should the National Security Agency be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States?’ Sixty-four percent of respondents answered ‘Yes.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wowee, well I guess I can ignore the fact that the NSA has been tapping virtually all<\/a> international calls<\/a> and that the law has been broken, since this stupid unrelated poll question was tailored in such a way as to make for a useful soundbite for the warmongering and liberty hating Krauthammers of the world.<\/p>\n

I give up. You conservatives are right. A “Democracy,” as the new leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iraq have taught us<\/a>, “means accepting the will of the majority” \u2013 that is, as determined by misinterpreted phony poll questions on a day to day basis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Check out these pathetic right-socialist warmonger types trying to claim that Americans aren’t bothered by the recent National Security Agency wiretapping scandal. Citing a Rasmussen poll, “NewsBusters” claims, “the nation doesn\u2019t feel the Bush administration is doing anything wrong.” “Busters” is right, because that wasn’t the question. Media Matters has Pat Buchanan – typically right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}