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Obama Campaign Confronts WGN Radio (Directs ObamaNazis to Target Stanley Kurtz Interview Tonight)
Chicago Tribune - The Swamp ^ | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 | John McCormick

Posted on 08/27/2008 8:20:47 PM PDT by kristinn

Sen. Barack Obama's campaign is organizing its supporters tonight to confront Tribune-owned WGN radio in Chicago for having a critic of the Illinois Democrat on its air.

"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 to supporters. "He's currently scheduled to spend a solid two-hour block from 9:00 to 11:00 p.m. 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 looked at Obama's ties to former 1960s radical William Ayers.

The magazine had been blocked in its initial attempts to obtain records from the University of Illinois at Chicago regarding the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which Obama chaired and Ayers co-founded. The school later reserved its position and made the records available Tuesday.

Obama's campaign is urging supporters to call the radio station to complain.

"Tell WGN that by providing Kurtz with airtime, they are legitimizing baseless attacks from a smear-merchant and lowering the standards of political discourse," the note said.

"It is absolutely unacceptable that WGN would give a slimy character assassin like Kurtz time for his divisive, destructive ranting on our public airwaves," the note continued. "At the very least, they should offer sane, honest rebuttal to every one of Kurtz's lies."

(Excerpt) Read more at swamppolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: achillwind; ads; ayersobamaconnection; censorship; dncbrownshirts; dnctalkingpoints; intimidation; liberalfascism; obama; obamaayersconnection; unfairnessdoctrine
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To: ConservativeMan55

This..coupled with other well documented Obama brownshirt moves...some of them even coming from high stakes players in the OIL FOR FOOD SCAM...it more than TOOTHPASTE OUT OF A TUBE!!

I really am frightened for our guys!


61 posted on 08/27/2008 9:12:14 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: freespirited
They are making the Clinton's tactics look tame by comparison.

Send in the Goon Squad!
62 posted on 08/27/2008 9:13:13 PM PDT by Mr. Binnacle (Baby, Everybody's Had to Fight to be Free - Tom Petty)
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To: fanpd

Kurtz has just scratched the surface with this about the relationship between Obama and Ayers. How about that Iraqi that his friend Rezko owes $27 million to? And how about that militant America-hating middle-eastermer who wrote a letter to Harvard recommending Obama be admitted to the school.


63 posted on 08/27/2008 9:14:33 PM PDT by MondoQueen
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To: Unam Sanctam
Liberals don’t believe in the First Amendment.

These people are far far worse than liberals.

They are a coalition of hard core Stalinists and Nation of islam.

64 posted on 08/27/2008 9:14:36 PM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: penelopesire

I see you’ve come across the Alsammarae name ...


65 posted on 08/27/2008 9:15:36 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: Carling
Except, the show invited the campaign to send someone to participate for the entire 2 hours, and it declined. They don't have a fairness leg to stand on.
66 posted on 08/27/2008 9:15:43 PM PDT by JasonC
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To: Velveeta

One of the things I miss most about Chicago is Milt Rosenberg. A wonderful elderly gentleman, with a lot of very keen insights, a former liberal who just got fed up with it.


67 posted on 08/27/2008 9:15:56 PM PDT by cookcounty (Love That Nuance: "Hey, Umm, Uh-uh, eh-eh, where'd you put uh my eh-eh tele uh teleprompter?")
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To: capt. norm
Can a person see how solidly a President Obama would support a Fairness Doctrine, given these overt actions regarding those who try to expose the long-standing, only-ill-producing Ayers-Obama relationship?

Obambi'd renew a daily demand upon Congress for Fairness Doctrine passage until his Justice Department was given every manner of tool to hound conservative voices off talk-radio! It'd be a no-brainer for him!

HF

68 posted on 08/27/2008 9:16:41 PM PDT by holden
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To: ConservativeMan55

nice pics...thanks for posting...


69 posted on 08/27/2008 9:16:46 PM PDT by FreedomProtector
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To: roses of sharon

What’s Axelrod’s Mom’s name and what’s the name of the commie rag?


70 posted on 08/27/2008 9:20:36 PM PDT by fanpd
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To: MHGinTN

Of course...


71 posted on 08/27/2008 9:20:57 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: JasonC
Facts don't matter when they use this as an example next January, and the media certainly is not going to point out that Obama was offered equal time.
72 posted on 08/27/2008 9:21:26 PM PDT by Carling (I'm a Typical White Person)
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To: Carling

Stanley Kurtz article here:

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTgwZTVmN2QyNzk2MmUxMzA5OTg0ODZlM2Y2OGI0NDM=&w=Mg==


73 posted on 08/27/2008 9:23:17 PM PDT by FreedomProtector
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To: kristinn

Very creepy.


74 posted on 08/27/2008 9:27:13 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Islam: Imagine a clown car.........with guns.)
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To: kristinn

Very creepy.


75 posted on 08/27/2008 9:27:18 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Islam: Imagine a clown car.........with guns.)
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To: roses of sharon

What was the phrase Kurtz used …red baby? I need a transcript, or a replay. And didn’t he name another person on Obama’s campaign as a “red baby” (if I caught the phrase correctly)?

Sounds like the big O has entwined himself in a web of RED.


76 posted on 08/27/2008 9:28:55 PM PDT by auboy (Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves. Samuel Johnson)
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To: kristinn

The thought police are alive and well, as they are in Denver arresting an ABC reporter for reporting in a public place.


77 posted on 08/27/2008 9:30:42 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Never kick a leftist when they are down. Wait until they are halfway back up. You get more leverage!)
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To: Spok

Bill Clinton was quoted yesterday as saying Obama had the political instincts of a Chicago thug (or something close to that).


78 posted on 08/27/2008 9:32:39 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: auboy
Red Diaper Baby.

For more on the term, see David Horowitz and frontpagemag.com...

Cheers!

79 posted on 08/27/2008 9:32:46 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: kristinn

“At the very least, they should offer sane, honest rebuttal to every one of Kurtz’s lies.”

So why don’t YOU offer sane, honest rebuttal to every one of Kurtz’s supposed lies?

Hello?

STE=Q


80 posted on 08/27/2008 9:34:33 PM PDT by STE=Q ("These are the times that try men's souls." -- Thomas Paine)
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