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RUSH: Look, I don\u2019t want sound like a National Honor Society candidate. I\u2019m not trying to sound naive here, folks. But this Pew poll today and the Washington Post poll that shows that massive amounts of Democrats totally support the Obama spying programs, and Steny Hoyer out there saying it\u2019s so much better than it was under Bush. John Bolton says, look, all three branches signed off on this. <\/p>\n

Now, all three branches signed off on it. I\u2019m sorry. In my mind — and I\u2019m sorry to be naive — that doesn\u2019t make it legal. All three branches signed off on the internment of the Japanese during World War II. Did that make it legal? I mean everybody knew that was happening, the courts knew it, FDR did it, the Congress knew. Well, was it legal? Was it legal and just not right? Or was it legal? All it means is — and I love John Bolton. I have an incredible amount of respect for John Bolton. But all three branches signing off — this is the most massive amount of spying and data collection ever. It\u2019s happening in the midst of news stories of how this administration is openly targeting for punishment its political enemies. I\u2019m sorry, that\u2019s not in a vacuum. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a context here. It matters who\u2019s collecting this data. It\u2019s all about the potential for abuse. Anything can be abused. That\u2019s why it\u2019s so important who we elect to high office. This is why character mattered so much to the Founders. It\u2019s why we ought to do everything we can within our realm of ability to do so to elect trustworthy people, and we haven\u2019t been doing that lately. How in the world, in the midst of what we know this regime was doing with the IRS and how they\u2019ve tried to cover up what happened in Benghazi<\/a>. Four Americans died in Benghazi, and they blamed some little video maker, some pathetic little video maker, who\u2019s still in jail somewhere in a dungeon in Texas without bail on some bank fraud charge. <\/line><\/p>\n

I mean, using the old adage intelligence guided by experience, there are reasons for red flags all over the place about this, and I\u2019m sorry, the fact that three branches signed off on it doesn\u2019t make it legal. It just means consensus. Yeah, consensus, just means they\u2019re all in on it. But just because they\u2019re all in on it doesn\u2019t make it legal. How about amnesty? They\u2019re all gonna be in on that. They\u2019re gonna have the courts, they\u2019re gonna say fine, if ever gets to \u2019em, you\u2019re gonna have the legislative branch get the ball rolling, Obama\u2019s gonna sign it, all three branches gonna sign off on it, is it legal? Well, yeah, you could say that we have the provision in the law for granting amnesty to people, but is it right just because three branches sign off on it? <\/p>\n

It seems to me that we are in the midst of really lowering our standards here.<\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: James in Toronto. Have a little over a minute. I wanted to get to you. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush, it\u2019s Jason in Toronto. I want to thank you, sir, on behalf of millions of Canadians and hundreds of millions around the world, your allies thank you so much for everything you\u2019ve done for decades, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: From the bottom of my heart. I want to say, sir, very quickly, this is a big conspiracy theory — maybe it\u2019s for a midnight show and not a respected show like yours — but do you think perhaps Obama, they\u2019re leaving a bad taste with this NSA<\/a> in people\u2019s mouth so that people will want to get rid of it so that many of his allies, the Occupy Wall Street movement, the Marxists, the militant Islamists, they are not going to be watched as much because this will be taken away. Do you think this is —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you something.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — sort of part of the plan?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I love midnight hours being discussed from noon to three. Did you catch that? “This is something for the midnight shows but I want to bring it up.” Is this a plan to do away with and limit surveillance of groups like Occupy Wall Street? No. I don\u2019t believe that any aspect of this has been made public for the purposes of getting rid of it. That\u2019s not gonna happen. If Occupy Wall Street gets caught, you just let \u2019em go, like the New Black Panthers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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