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1984 was not imposed upon us by the Government, we opted in!
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
First they came for Fox News
How Hope and Change Gave Way to Spying on the Press
Much of the Fourth Estate shrugged when the Obama administration
attacked Fox News, writes Kirsten Powers. But now it’s coming for them,
too.
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.
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