{"id":10066,"date":"2013-06-12T20:22:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T03:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10066"},"modified":"2013-06-12T21:16:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T04:16:48","slug":"hannity-dubya-era-vs-hannity-obama-era-surveillance-state-hypocrisy-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10066","title":{"rendered":"Hannity (Dubya Era) vs. Hannity (Obama Era): Surveillance State Hypocrisy Champion [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several days ago, I <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10059\">posted a video<\/a> showing the stark differences between the positions on massive surveillance programs by <i>candidate<\/i> Barack Obama in 2007 and <i>President<\/i> Barack Obama in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>And now, since we&#8217;re nothing if not &#8220;fair and balanced&#8221;, here is a short video of Sean Hannity of Fox &#8220;News&#8221; repeatedly lauding massive NSA surveillance programs during the George W. Bush Administration&#8230;and then decrying the very same programs as &#8220;tyranny&#8221; and a blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution now that Obama is doing it.<\/p>\n<p>With all due respect to Hannity &#8212; and I have <i>none<\/i> &#8212; his over the top hypocrisy then versus now trumps even Obama&#8217;s, hands down. Not to mention the small detail that the programs, as carried out under Bush were, at the time, illegal, while under Obama they have been made &#8220;legal&#8221;. (Or so we are told. There is so much secrecy around them, of course, it is virtually impossible for the public to know either way.) Enjoy!&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"236\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t27ie4qFlXM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><i>Also recently related: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10013\">Republicans Suddenly Decide to Care About Big Government Overreach<\/a>&#8220;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several days ago, I posted a video showing the stark differences between the positions on massive surveillance programs by candidate Barack Obama in 2007 and President Barack Obama in 2013. And now, since we&#8217;re nothing if not &#8220;fair and balanced&#8221;, here is a short video of Sean Hannity of Fox &#8220;News&#8221; repeatedly lauding massive NSA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,14,188,107,61,126,78,127,100],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-fox-news","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-national-security","category-nsa","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-sean-hannity","category-the-constitution","category-war-on-terror"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10066"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}