Bu$hCo's Bank Surveillance Program™

So now the Dear Leader is checking out some bank transactions along with email, phone calls, and maybe even your tire pressure.  Can we say whether that's legal?  No.  Can we say  for sure whether its made us safer?  No again. 

So what can we say?  We can say that the right-wing blogs are remarkably in goose lock step in calling for The New York Times's and L.A. Times's collective heads for reporting on the program.  Let's take a look at these talking points:

All Things Beautiful - all those responsible at the NYT and the LAT belong in jail ... and they're always all hysterial with Bush Derangement Syndrome™ 'n stuff.
All Things Conservative - we blame the NYT and LAT, but The Washington Post was naughty too!  They're all traitors and terrorist lovers!
American Thinker - Pinch Sulzberger is a traitor and satanic and an attention seeker, and he and the NYT should be prosecuted, and they can be, but maybe they can't be ... shit, where's the statute books?
Atlas Shrugs - the NYT traitors and the leakers should be pursued and jailed 'cause they put us in mortal mortal danger, and that's even worse than mortal danger!
Blue Crab Boulevard - someone should publish the NYT's floorplan, then maybe some terrorists will kill them, and that'd show 'em!
Bullwinkle Blog - if the NYT wasn't goin' bankrupt, we'd want them jailed and drawn and quartered and murdered and killed, but they're goin' bankrupt ... aren't they?
Captain's Quarters - the NYT is full of traitors, and their readers are idiots, and they shouldn't have released details of a program everybody including the terrorists knows exists anyway.
Confederate Yankee - another blogger said the NYT should be truck bombed, and I pretty much agree, but let's try bankrupting them first.
Expose the Left - the NYT likes the terrorists better than it likes us!
Flopping Aces - can you imagine guys hired to report news actually reporting news?  It's awful ... and it's just more evidence of Bush Derangement Syndrome™.
Freedom Watch - the NYT is worse than The National Enquirer, and they have Bush Derangement Syndrome™, and they're all poopyheads, and they can kiss my ... poopy ... thing!
GOP Bloggers - everyone on the Left has to be exorcised because they have Bush Derangement Syndrome™, and the NYT is a branch of al Jazeera, and they hate America, and ... GAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!
Hot Air - call us crazy, but since the program is legal and since the administration says it helps stop terrorism, isn’t the weight of the public’s interest in this story on the side of keeping the program under wraps so that it can continue to stop terrorists who want to attack the public and their interests and ... where were we?
Hugh Hewitt - the NYT has a Pulitzer and I don't - and Bill Keller's a pussy 'cause he won't let me interview him!
Instapundit - usually I'd have something to say about something like this, but I'm gonna' link to a bunch of other shit because, this week, I'm sitting on the deck drinking beer.
JunkyardBlog - the NYT did what?
Macsmind - the guys who broke the story are making their own nooses, and we should hang them with them, and maybe the DOJ will take care of them eventually, but, well, just in case ... you know.
Michelle Malkin - if we Photoshop Osama's face onto enough WWII-era posters we can make people think Bush is a real War President ... and where's my fucking Pulitzer?
NRO - it's all about Pulitzers, and they don't care how many people die at the hands of terrorists ... hey, shouldn't we get a Pulitzer for this?  What if we killed some reporters?
NRO (K-Lo) - I should write something, but it's Saturday, so I'm just going to link to another stupid NYT editorial supporting their stupid decision to run their stupid story.
Paterrico's Pontifications - the NYT and LAT really piss me off, so we should truck-bomb 'em just like Ann Coulter said, and so what if Bush was abusing the subpoena power?  Happens all the time!
Powerline - the NYT and the LAT are passing classified information directly to al Qaeda!  Why aren't they in jail?  WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY?
Protein Wisdom - we're a free society and we should be well informed, but every time the NYT informs us of stuff we should be informed about we're less informed - it's all their fault, but I also blame Markos and that Townhouse mailing list.
Right Wing News - the terrorists open up the NYT and get all the classified information they need, the NYT gets all the Pulitzers it wants, and we don't get shit!  Oh, and the NYT has Bush Derangement Syndrome™.  Big time.
Security Watchtower - if the NYT staff was a bunch of commissioned officers, then we could kill them!
Stop the ACLU - the ACLU has an absolutist philosophy in favor of civil rights, and that makes them Communists.
The Sundries Shack - one day it's outing government programs, the next it's Osama on the NYT's board and chicks wearing burkhas ... as a Libertarian, I just hate fucking burkhas.
Wizbang - as soon as Alberto figures out how to misapply the Espionage Act the NYT is totally screwed!

Once again, Agitprop has surfed the conservative mainstream so you don't have to!  Now for a shower.  Oh, and why does The Wall Street Journal hate America?

tags: bush new york times wall street journal terrorism 9/11 american thinker atlas shrugs hot air michelle malkin john snow la times msm

Comments

[DivaJood]

RE: Michelle Malkin's analogy - if we photoshop Hitler's face on every image of Bush, maybe everyone will wake up to the truth that we've got a dangerous dictator holding the entire country hostage.

[The CultureGhost]

Not MORTAL MORTAL danger! Have to dive back under the covers.

[Chuck]

DICTATOR, one step at a time (but the steps are getting quicker).

[Miss Cellania]

Alltogether now... KILL the MESSENGER!

[PoliShifter]

Excellent work! Thanks for exposing these morons with a spotlight.

[Creature]

I share Miss Cellania sentiments, excellent work!

[HelenWheels]

Captain's Quarters quote kills me!

WOw. You must feel uber-dirty after wading through all that shit. Hope you were wearing your hip boots.

[ned]

It is absolutely surreal this constipated dump of doublespeak rightwing communists. Unreal. We have people going to jail for speaking at city council meetings and putting up anti-bush posters, yet we have dozens of communists posing as conservatives threatening people and newspapers with terrorist acts. 7 guys in Miami get arrested for being terrorists because they "pledged to Al Qaeda" thanks to a cointel FBI entraper. YEt here we have people writing down actual bomb threats and nothing is done.

[Via]

Everything is under control, Dear leader says, "as long as we run the Congress and occupy the White House." This man lies reflexively, and on the rare occasion hear the truth it is chilling.

[Comandante Agi]

The government knows what brand of toothpaste you buy at the supermarket. Only buy 100%-American brand Victory Toothpaste!

[Tata]

Sometimes I feel catapulted with the propaganda - and neither of us has a net.

[pissed off patricia]

Wow, you put a lot of work into this. The drinks are on me!

I love the spy vs spy cartoon because that says it all. Sort of clusterfuck spy-arama, and all on our dime.

[actor212]

It's nice to see such a difference of opinion on the right....

[blah blah]

>>It's nice to see such a difference of opinion on the right....>>

Yeah, and on this blog, too. Oh, wait....

[Rob in IL]

I'm sure glad someone has the stomach to keep tabs of the rightside of the blogosphere. I can't keep my lunch, or my blood pressure, down long enough to make it though a paragraph. I want to stay healthy a long time so to continue voting against all things rethuglican.