I wake up to morning news on WCBS AM. (I find that if I wake up to music, there is considerably less “waking up” involved.) I am often bemused by how conservative a CBS station is—you know, the network of Dan Rather and all that. But today takes the cake.
Yesterday, I woke up to the story of the NSA tracking millions (!) of American phone calls. CBS presented me with two “person in the street” voices (for “balance”), one was mildly concerned, the other was a man saying “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about” (only with a New York accent) (moron) (y’think his name was Winston Smith?).
So today, the headline is that everyone is exploding about these revelations, both ordinary people and politicians. This time, three sound clips:
- The same moron saying he had nothing to hide (presumably they could only find one person that stupid)
- A politician (sounded like Hastert, can’t be sure) saying that breaches of national security (i.e. the story itself) were of grave concern, and
- A woman with a Hispanic accent saying she was concerned about her privacy.
Your lesson, boys and girls? Real Americans think this is okay. Suspicious brown people with accents worry about (sniff, snort, hehehe) “privacy”.
That funny odor you smell is the Constitution burning.
