I did? Conservatives did?

If memory serves me correctly only leader Bush was regularly compared to in those years was Hitler, and it wasn’t by the political right.

And while the right wing was cheering on illegal surveillance and even threatening the press for revealing Republican Bush’s illegal activities, the left was standing up for American principles of a free press and the right not to have an intrusive government prying into their personal business.

Republicans were also suggesting that journalists should go to jail.

Ironically, it was one of the Republican’s moles at the NYTimes that ended up doing prison time to protect the Republican government agents that were using them to push the lies that got US into the wrong war.

It was a Republican prosecutor that had imprisoned the journalist for failing to give up their sources.

Republicans were even using government connected retired military generals, with financial interests in corporations that had military contracts that were being reviewed by other Republicans in government, to put out Republican political messages on cable “news” shows to push for wars that would in turn increase the bottom line of those retired military general’s corporations.

Republicans are exceptionally adept at using government power to alternately repress and manipulate the media.

And of course if Dems ever used any of the methods that Republicons use(d), the right wing would go berserk.

It’s Right Winger’s First Rule: Rules Are For Other People.

Well, it’s better than when ultra-cons like yourself were comparing Bush to Saddam.

I just like to see cons rocking back and forth in a fetal position, clutching their blankies.

Yes, that’s it exactly. Please to continue to tremble in fear and wet your beds, cons.

Waahmbulances are standing by with haldol and xanax.

I hope that isn’t the point but maybe it is. Is Oliver telling us that it is going to get a lot worse? That “we haven’t seen anything yet”.

Let’s say the conservative government doesn’t like what you’re doing as a news organization or journalist.

The state intelligence agency will use U.S. provided electronic surveillance equipment to illegally spy on you, and then the President’s adviser or defense minister will publicly allege that you’re a traitor who collaborates with FARC rebels so that the conservative ruling coalition’s friends in the death squad narco-paramilitaries will just publish your name on flyers or call you up and tell you that they’re getting ready to kill you.

So, each country has its own style.

Barack Obama Shows Socialist Dictators How REALLY Oppressive Governments Nationalize Major Industries

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday that he and Cuban ally Fidel Castro risk being more conservative than U.S. President Barack Obama as Washington prepares to take control of General Motors Corp.

During one of Chavez’s customary lectures on the “curse” of capitalism and the bonanzas of socialism, the Venezuelan leader made reference to GM’s bankruptcy filing, which is expected to give the U.S. government a 60 percent stake in the 100-year-old former symbol of American might.

“Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more and nothing less than General Motors. Comrade Obama! Fidel, careful or we are going to end up to his right,” Chavez joked on a live television broadcast.

Give him time. ‘Ol Gibbsy is still getting his sealegs.