Posted on 06/17/2008 8:01:06 AM PDT by ConservativeMajority
Last week, the campaign of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama announced that it had established a “war room” to battle rumors spread on the Internet and amplified by other media reporting. Obama supporters will use a website titled “Fight the Smears” to identify allegedly untrue statements about their candidate and provide evidence in an effort to refute them. That sounds like a good public relations strategy, but the implementation will ultimately have a negative impact on Obama.
The campaign employs the Media Matters for America model for dealing with so-called “smears.” In fact, Obama’s war room uses the George Soros-funded organization to discern “misinformation.” Then Obama’s “flying monkeys,” a reference to creatures from the children’s classic “Wizard of Oz”, attack the source or any media outlet, talk radio host, online discussion forum or blogger that makes reference to it.
Obama’s flying monkeys are targeting the National Press Club (of which I am a member) because a man named Larry Sinclair reserved a meeting room to hold a press conference on Wednesday, June 18. Earlier this year, Sinclair released a YouTube video in which he made claims about sharing sex and drugs with Barack Obama. A lefty blogger has circulated a petition and launched a telephone campaign urging the National Press Club not to allow Sinclair to speak there.
The charges do not sound credible, however the ferocity with which Obama’s flying monkeys are trying to silence Sinclair gives me pause. If this guy is a lunatic or liar as his critics say, what better forum to discredit him than before the Washington press corps?
Obama’s flying monkeys have flooded the National Press Club blogs with their typically vicious and obscene comments. This is the part that will ultimately damage Barack Obama. The candidate of “hope” and “change” cannot have his hateful minions ferociously attack anyone who criticizes him.
I have a great deal of experience with the Media Matters goon squad and its acolytes. Their vitriol is as caustic today as it was in January 2005 when I first asked “The Question.” There has been no limit to their smears, libel and slander.
Barack Obama may be a gentle man, but he has surrounded himself with questionable characters like corrupt developer Tony Rezko, racists Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Father Michael Pfleger, domestic terrorist William Ayers and terrorist-supporting Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans, to name just a few.
The Founding Fathers thought freedom of speech was so important that they enshrined it in the First Amendment. To the Left however, free speech is only for those who share its point of view. Anyone who disagrees, the Left seeks to silence through speech codes or intimidation.
America is going to get a close-up view of how those on the Left view the basic freedoms they claim to cherish courtesy of Obama’s flying monkeys.
I hear their war room is in operation in all 57 states.
Obama and monkeys and the same title. RACIST!
Did they fly out of his arse?
“Obama’s flying monkeys” ???
How racist.
Apologize and resign . . . now.
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I meant to type smear but spear works too.
Referring to Obama’s war room as a flying monkeys is appropriate, but I see them trying to twist that into a racial slur.
Flying monkeys will become the new American GESTAPO under the Obeyme administration. Coming up next: criminalizing conservative talk radio and imposing China-like internet restrictions.
Phwew! I thought for a minute you were calling Obama a spear-chucker!
Just wait, soon a simple "good morning" will be considered racist! PC has become a WMD.
That may be the point of the article, to call attention to the over-the-top reaction from Obama supporters.
I’m mildly surprised Barry’s people are taking on Lunatic Larry. Larry must be doing back flips over this.
Bad move by Barry. Larry is a lunatic that needs to be ignored.
I agree with that. I took constitutional law 25 years ago and thought back then that since the supremes could make the law whatever they wanted, it could not be long before anything the libs don’t want to hear became hate speech.
Interesting...they haven’t yet listed the supposed lie spread by Larry Sinclair on their fight the smears website. Yet, they are attacking behind the scenes in full lunatic mode to keep him off the air. Sounds more like Communism every day.
The left is going to get a taste of how it feels to be Mark Foleyed. In spades.
And hate speech laws will effectively be used to outlaw the Bible. Liberals are nothing more than a bunch of book-burning, anti-free speech hypocrites. Their idea of free speech is showing off their genitles.
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