Why not use the more standard form of American punishment?
Posted on 08/25/2008 3:22:21 PM PDT by kristinn
The campaign of Democratic presidential nominee in waiting Barack Obama is threatening TV stations that dare to run a controversial ad that questions Obama's friendship with unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers.
Politico quotes an Obama aide as saying this afternoon, "The Obama campaign plans to punish the stations that air the ad financially, organizing his supporters to target the stations that air it and their advertisers."
Politico has posted copies of letters the Obama campaign has sent to station managers and a letter the campaign has sent to the Department of Justice demanding a criminal investigation of the group that is running the ads, American Issues Project.
At the same time, the Obama campaign has released an ad respoonding to the Weathermen ad claiming Ayers' acts of terrorism happened when Obama was a child and that he has denounced the actions of Ayers.
The Obama campaign claims its supporters have sent 93,000 e-mails to the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which is airing the Weathermen ad. Sinclair faced similar threats in 2004 when it announced plans to air a critical documentary about John Kerry.
The Obama campaign is unleashing an unprecedented attack against First Amendment rights personally directed by a leading presidential candidate. Should he become president and actually have the power to carry out these threats, the Nation will be pushed to a perilous precipice.
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Orwellian2008
Great name. You couldn’t make this stuff up!!!!!
If I were the cartoonist here, I would erase their mouths for a frame or two. Just like Neo in the Matrix.
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FYI — Austin Hill mentioned this on his radio show tonight, for about 15 minutes amidst DNCC coverage, on 630 WMAL.
I just wonder how many more of his old pals he's going to have to "denounce"??
What’s he gonna do...throw a little hissy fit?
Does he REALLY have that kind of clout?
lets all email this POS commie shyster who sent this bulls*** out, email him RBauer@PerkinsCoie.com
“I was one of the 93,000. I can promise you that what I wrote wasn’t what Obama’s campaign wanted me to write.”
Add another. And I made sure to title it in a way that if someone was reading it they would gain solace in supporting freedom of speech.
I think of ‘Lord of the Rings’. . .
That's wonderful, but too bad Ayers hasn't denounced HIS OWN actions. In fact he's pretty proud of them and wishes he had done more. I also think the picture of Ayers standing on the flag does a lot for Obama.
Excerpt:
Diana went on to the University of Michigan to earn a teaching certificate. This was the critical year of 1966, when U.S. students were being radicalized by the Viet Nam War. While at Ann Arbor, Diana joined the Children's Community School, an unstructured, permissive experiment in education for children from four to eight. There, she worked with Bill Ayers, son of the board chairman of Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co., and with Eric Mann —who later became luminaries of the Students for a Democratic Society. The school, operating on Great Society money, folded in 1968, when its funds were cut off.
Stormy Days. "It was about this time," said Jim Oughton, "that there was less and less communication between Diana and any of us. She'd call and we'd call. She'd be home briefly from time to time." Diana joined S.D.S., and she was in Chicago for the stormy days and nights of the Democratic Convention. Sometimes she would stop in Dwight. She brought Bill Ayers and other radicals, and she would talk politics with her father, defending the revolutionary's approach to social ills.
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Interesting to me is that Ayers effectively repeated history here in Chicago. The Annenberg Challenge., for example.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm....
BTW, my family knew the Oughtons. My grandfather had business ties with them.
Why not use the more standard form of American punishment?
Hogwash!
As detestable as the Obama campaign is, what they're doing has NOTHING to do with the First Amendment, which guarantees that THE GOVERNMENT will not interfere with political speech.
Or used to, before McCain and his "good buddy" Russ Feingold got hold of it...
BRING IT ON! Let the American public see what a Stalinist government looks like. (Next we’ll be like China. Only State-approved ads, only state-approved websites...)
What can one expect from a Chicago leftest organizer.
You will do as I say, and say only what I allow!
This man is a real threat. His supporters must be totally ignorant, or totally brainwashed.
The Obama people are OBVIOUSLY terrified at what is about to come out on the Ayres front tommorrow, and are firing a shot across the bow.
And CNN+ Fox have already agreed not to run it.
These ads are being financed by a Republican Billionaire, Harold Simmons, but do you have ANY DOUBT that ads financed by say....
Oh....
I don’t know...
GEORGE SOROS, would be run over and over again, without a care in the world??
If Barack Hussein Obama is elected President, he'll govern by mobocracy, too!!!!
Our Founding Fathers were opposed to two things above all others--government by an autocrat (King George III) and government by a mob. Obama Hussein will make the second of these worse-case alternatives come true, if he is elected!!!!
Yeah, he's trying to control the media and he hasn't even won the presidency. Can you imagine what it will be like if he wins? Think China and all the other communist controlled so-called news stations...
btt
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