Effete Intellectual Snobs

Here's the crap that the Bush-loving hacks are putting out and that the Bush-loving listeners are soaking up:

the "Bush Spying" story for steadfast determination to ignore the facts in the service of the anti-war, Bush-hater agenda. Stories have resolutely failed to mention that the Americans who were spied on were taking phone calls from Osama's terrorists, and that all recent presidents, including Carter and Clinton, have done the same thing with court approval. (Quoted from the Cincinnati Enquirer)

Typical Bush-type obfuscating. What's wrong with this? First, EVERY American was spied upon by Bush, not just those who were taking phone calls from Osama's terrorists. (By the way, to the Bush administration, even the Quakers are terrorists). Second, the crap that every American president, including Carter and Clinton have done this is just bull s##$. To the extent any of them did it, they did it WITH warrants. Bush is flashing the bird at the Congress and at the Constitution by doing it without warrants. And, there is very little evidence Carter et al. did it at all. Beyond that, do two wrongs make a right? How far can the conservatives depart from their William Buckley itellectual base before the whole thing begins to cave?

I guess as far as they want. I'm reminded of Spiro Agnew's "effete itellectual snobs" labelling of the libruals.

Update: This editorial was written by the Conservative Reporters and Pundits of America. Even they recognized the acronym.