Remember this?
"I've got nothing to hide, so electronic surveillance doesn't bother me. To the contrary, I'm delighted that the Bush Administration is monitoring calls and electronic traffic on a massive scale, because catching terrorists is far more important that worrying about the government's listening to my phone calls, or reading my emails."
And remember this?
"What I was finding out, though, is that the collection on those organizations was 24/7 and 365 days a year -- and it made no sense. ... I started to investigate that. That's about the time when they came after me to fire me."
When Olbermann pressed him for specifics, Tice offered, "An organization that was collected on were US news organizations and reporters and journalists."
Or, of course, this about spying on Democrats and political "enemies" as well as this about spying on environmental and other activist groups?
Contrast all of that with this:
After Matt Drudge posted the headline "ENEMIES LIST: WHITE HOUSE PLOTS LIMBAUGH COVERAGE" on his website, several media figures -- including Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs, Tony Blankley, and Newt Gingrich -- advanced Drudge's claim that Obama, like President Nixon, had an "enemies list," or compared the Obama White House to the Nixon administration.
To summarize:
Real, actual, illegal spying on political enemies (that were no doubt part of a formal or informal "enemies list") is A-OK, because (1) it isn’t them, (2) well, it isn’t them.
But paranoid nonsensical delusions of a Nixonian/Bush enemies list and a secret devious plan inside the Obama White House to marginalize those who have already marginalized themselves – at a time when the republican party is doing a helluva job on their own pointing fingers, making their own enemies with each other and generally looking the damn fools? Not to mention the high profile buffoonery by Rush Limbaugh and the Little Limbaughs over the past couple of decades and the general asshattery of many of the republican party public figures? ZOMG!!!! ONOZ!!!! Stop teh presses!!! No fair! We’re being picked on!!
Got it. Now excuse me while I laugh my ass off as I call the waaaaaaaaambulence.