HOW BAD IS IT? WELL, OBAMA’S LOST EUGENE ROBINSON:

The Obama administration has no business rummaging through journalists’ phone records, perusing their e-mails and tracking their movements in an attempt to keep them from gathering news. This heavy-handed business isn’t chilling, it’s just plain cold. . . .The unwarranted snooping, which was revealed last week, would be troubling enough if it were an isolated incident. But it is part of a pattern that threatens to redefine investigative reporting as criminal behavior.

Welcome to the party, Eugene. But some of us have been saying this for a while.

Related: Investors Business Daily: The Obama Objective: To Control The News.

And note that neither George W. Bush nor Dick Cheney ever did anything like this. That was left to The Lightbringer.

UPDATE: If the press wants to strike back, just start covering Obama — on everything — the way you would if he were a Republican President. #Toast.