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.
Yet he depends on Ayers to think for him, and hides his past behind him...
With respect, this is like saying "The true communists of today are on the left"
Fascists seek to control the means of production. Communists seek to own the means of production. The two ideologies are functionally the same.
Ah yes....liberal fascism.
BTTT
bookmarked
Ping, just in case you missed it.
It creates search problems.
This is, of course an appalling lie, a disgraceful smear of the lowest kind on the Senator's patriotism and commitment to the rule of law."
No, Robert. The ad factually links Obama to Bill Ayers, and unrepentant terrorist.
Obama released a rebuttal TV ad Monday. "With all our problems, why is John McCain talking about the '60s, trying to link Barack Obama to radical Bill Ayers?" a narrator asks.
Source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-08-25-ayers_N.htm
But you directly asserting that Senator McCain is trying to link Obama to Ayers, when he's clearly done no such thing.
What is it about liberals aversion to truth?
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
Great link thanks
We have entered the era of the Jihad via lawsuits
Nazis burned books.
US Democrats threathen the free press with intimidation and lawsuits.
What’s the difference?
And wheres the outrage in the press?
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Like the TRUE MARXISTS that they are !!
Thanks for the heads up here, AWM !!
gaining press momentum...link on drudge now...
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D92PL7400&show_article=1
Totalitarians.
I have a problem understanding how the news media can treat this leftist as just another candidate.
..Can’t handle the heat, get out of the kitchen. Wrong career for BO. He’ll spend more time and resources on his image than properly handling real problems.
The only issue I had with the ad was the use of the United Flight 93 and it not hitting the capitol. The way they read the ad, it seems as if Obama is saying Flight 93 didn’t hit anything.
I know, it hit the Pentagon. But, the ad is deliberately confuging, IMO. Other than the Flight 93 stuff, the add is SPOT ON.
Absolutely ... the Obamaniacs seem lysdexic!
Truth is anathema to the neoliberal Marxist-socialists running the Democrat party. It is to be avoided at all possible cost.
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