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Obama, Holder Sledgehammer the First Amendment
American Thinker ^
| 08/23/2012
| William Tate
Posted on 08/24/2012 7:38:45 AM PDT by NMRed
In a move that could have chilling First Amendment consequences, the Obama regime this week showed that it's willing to use the full weight and power of the Justice Department to pummel any media outlet that doesn't toe the party line. Within days of the Gallup Organization issuing, essentially, a veiled warning to the Obama gang about tinkering with unemployment numbers, Obama's DOJ jumped, jackboots first, into a multi-million dollar legal action against Gallup, in a case initiated by a former Obama operative.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: firstamendment; gallup; holder; obama
"Gallup's unemployment data stands to potentially refute any attempt the Obama gang makes to portray an improving economy approaching the election. Continuing abysmal jobless numbers, if accurately reported to voters, should all but doom Obama's chances in November. If the Obama administration jobless claims do not jibe with the numbers reported by Gallup, even the Obama propaganda machine, the legacy media, might start to take note."
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posted on
08/24/2012 7:38:49 AM PDT
by
NMRed
To: NMRed
Note to DOJ Jackboot Lawyers:
Court cases take YEARS.
You have only DAYS..................
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posted on
08/24/2012 7:41:36 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Anyone who thinks wisdom comes with age is either too young or too stupid to know the difference....)
To: Red Badger
You ain’t seen nothin’ yest. Wail until Nov. Whether he wins or loses won’t make a difference.
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posted on
08/24/2012 7:46:21 AM PDT
by
freeangel
( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
To: Red Badger; All
Biden must be running the Obama campaign. One hugh & series goof after another!
LOL!
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posted on
08/24/2012 7:46:44 AM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
To: NMRed
Call BOR, he’s a big Gallup guy. Maybe he will report on this?
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posted on
08/24/2012 7:52:04 AM PDT
by
faucetman
( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
To: NMRed
Gallup, out of every government contractor out there, gets charged with padding the bill.
The goal of the modern law is that everybody is guilty of something. That way the government can come along and throw anybody it wants to in jail, any time it wants.
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posted on
08/24/2012 7:54:23 AM PDT
by
Haiku Guy
("The problem with Internet Quotes is that you never know if they are real" -- Abraham Lincoln)
To: freeangel
I do not believe he will finish his term. I expect an Obama meltdown, hopefully live in front of press cameras.
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posted on
08/24/2012 8:11:38 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
To: FReepers; FRiends; Patriots
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posted on
08/24/2012 8:34:03 AM PDT
by
onyx
(FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
To: cuban leaf
You may be right he can’t take the heat and his tricks are failing.
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posted on
08/24/2012 10:00:56 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
To: NMRed; sickoflibs; abb
Within days of the Gallup Organization issuing, essentially, a veiled warning to the Obama gang about tinkering with unemployment numbers, Obama's DOJ jumped, jackboots first, into a multi-million dollar legal action against Gallup... Will CNN or the 'Meet the Press' suckups notice this story? Will some dem PR firm send it to them? Probably not...
Are there any real newspapers left in the country? LA Times?
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posted on
08/24/2012 10:05:21 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Politics is war without bloodshed, and war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Tse Tung. We're at war)
To: NMRed; sickoflibs; abb
Within days of the Gallup Organization issuing, essentially, a veiled warning to the Obama gang about tinkering with unemployment numbers, Obama's DOJ jumped, jackboots first, into a multi-million dollar legal action against Gallup... Will CNN or the 'Meet the Press' suckups notice this story? Will some dem PR firm send it to them? Probably not...
Hannity? Rush? Anyone see this?
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posted on
08/24/2012 10:06:06 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Politics is war without bloodshed, and war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Tse Tung. We're at war)
To: GOPJ; NMRed
A few days later, Eric Holder dropped the fifty-pound sledgehammer on Gallup, joining in a "whistleblower" action. The original complaint alleges that the Gallup organization inflated the number of hours required to do polling projects for the U.S. Mint, the State Department, and other federal agencies. (Why federal agencies even think they need to do polling is another subject for another time.)
The complaint was filed by a former Gallup employee who -- in a sheer coincidence, no doubt -- was a field organizer for Obama in 2008, according to the Daily Caller and other sources. Holder's action essentially makes the Justice Department the lawyer for the former (?) Obama operative.
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posted on
08/24/2012 10:12:08 AM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(Romney is still a liberal. Just watch him. (Obama-ney Care ))
To: NMRed
Article that has the nobama administration's panties in a wad:
August Unemployment Not Looking GoodKickass last paragraphs:
Trying to guess the U.S. unemployment rate has been a thankless task in 2012, even using Gallup's 30,000 interviews as a basis for estimation -- even worse than trying to guess the results of the government's establishment survey. However, like ADP's (Automatic Data Processing) estimates of the establishment survey results, Gallup's numbers have been close to the household survey results much of the time. Regardless, barring heroic adjustments or a sharp change in direction, Gallup data suggest the seasonally adjusted U.S. unemployment rate for August will increase -- possibly substantially -- when announced in early September.
I guess it was the "heroic adjustments" jab that got Gallup in trouble.
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posted on
08/24/2012 10:40:15 AM PDT
by
upchuck
("Definition of 'racist:' someone that is winning an argument with a liberal." ~ Peter Brimelow)
To: NMRed
Who says “killing the messenger” isn’t an effective strategy?
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posted on
08/24/2012 10:52:04 AM PDT
by
RobinOfKingston
(The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
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