Obama’s Reverence For The First Amendment
Is this a prelude of things to come in an Obama Administration?
In a surprising attempt to stifle broadcast criticism of its candidate, the presidential campaign of freshman Illinois senator Barack Obama is organizing supporters to confront Chicago’s WGN radio station for having a critic of the Illinois Democrat on its main evening discussion program.
“WGN radio is giving right-wing hatchet man Stanley Kurtz a forum to air his baseless, fear-mongering terrorist smears,” Obama’s campaign wrote in an e-mail sent to supporters. “He’s currently scheduled to spend a solid two-hour block from 9:00 to 11:00 p.m. (Wednesday night) pushing lies, distortions, and manipulations about Barack and University of Illinois professor William Ayers.”
Kurtz, a conservative writer, recently wrote an article for the National Review that examined Obama’s ties to Ayers, a former 1960s radical who helped found a protest group that advocated violence.
I fail to see what’s so surprising about the Obama campaign’s actions.
What concerns me is that after some of our criticisms of Barack Obama, we are all destined for IRS audits within minutes of his inauguration, as well as pressure put on our server hosts to have us sanitized from the Internet.
Who needs the Fairness Doctrine when you have a thin-skinned, no credible response, Obama Administration that will use its power to punish his critics.
What First Amendment?
August 28th, 2008 at 10:00 am
The louder they get, the more people will learn just what kind of people the Uuuuuuhbama crew are. And that does not bode well for them.
August 28th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Let us pray that the people will take heed, for the only recourse will be the Second Amendment and that would be ugly.
August 28th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Talk about fear and intimidation tactics! Loons!!!
August 28th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
I’ve seen some scary stuff the last few days. I’m not liking it.
August 28th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
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August 28th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Stellar example of Obama’s roots… his Chicago “hit man” style of politics.
Oddly enuf, in the e-mail call to action to assail the show, they whined about the lack of a “fairness doctrine”, so to speak. Yet they refused the invitation by the producer to have their own representative there. DOH
August 28th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
This will make an incredibly powerful ad. All the GOP has to do is connect these anti-free speech actions with Uuuuuuhbama’s desire to create a “civilian defense force”. Then show examples of other “civilian defense forces”.
August 28th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
I’m afraid they won’t do that though.
August 28th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Ah the more they talk the more the show the lie of their call that we live in a Facist country. BUT they want to make it a Stalinist country.
‘..The cult of personality…’