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."
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READ EVERY SINGLE WORD FOLKS! THIS IS NOT JUST ABOUT CHICAGO THUG POLITICS!!
I didn't think Greta was very tough on him../he said the CAC was successful....any specifics? None, and not challenged on any.
BTTT
“If Bambi is elected where will free speech go?”
How much faith do you have in him?
Thank you very much. I’ll check the other info, too.
The overblown, frantic tone of these communiques reminds me of nothing so much as the bizarre Chinglish press releases that used to come out of Red China, full of denunciations of lackeys and hooligans and running dogs. Maybe it’s a dog whistle for all the crypto-Marxists.
Myril Axelrod, wrote for PM, a communist New York Daily, owned by Ralph Ingersoll. It failed in l948, thank god!
Laura is your Doberman.
Oh I wish this was on youtube or somewhere. It doesn’t seem to be accessible on WGN’s site and sadly, rosenberg doesn’t archive much.
thank you!
Don’t worry, this show will get archived.
Two things scare Obama. It's verifiable and the truth.
His parents were liberal Marxists, his mom wrote for a communist mag in NYC.
Hence the term, Red Diaper Babies, David Horowitz was one, he wrote about his parents in a book, years ago. Can't think of the name right now.
What about the threats to Disney over the airing of "The Path To 9/11" or the threats to The Sinclair Network over "Stolen Honor" during the Kerry campaign?
IMO, these maggots of the left have finally figured out how to broadcast without the MSM......and the fools at the MSM are digging their own graves by remaining silent.
Whoa ... the big guns are out. Greta had Bill Daley, the Mayor’s brother on about this??? Did he spin and glide?
Don’t forget that Michelle and Dohrn worked at the same law firm at the same time.
You are a wealth of knowledge. Thank you very much!
Obama is making the Clintons look normal.
Wait till he sees the election map.
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