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Aug 28, 2010, Washington DC
By Kristinn
Free Republic
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.
All POW-MIA
2 responses so far ↓
1 MugsysMom // Aug 26, 2008 at 11:48 am
Wow! You know, there is medication to help with the paranoia! ~eye roll~
First of all, how in one breath can you say that John Kerry did this and then say that Obama is leading an unprecendented “JIHAD”??!?
And OMG – JIHAD?!?!? Are you really serious?
2 rochester_veteran // Aug 26, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Kristinn wrote:
Sinclair faced similar threats in 2004 when it announced plans to air a critical documentary about John Kerry.
So Obama is doing the same thing Kerry did back in 2004 and is threatening Sinclair Broadcast Group for airing the above ad about his association with American terrorists Bill Ayers and trying to get the Justice Department to investigate American Issues Project. Through threats and possible litigation, Obama is in fact (as Kristinn wrote it), unleashing an unprecedented attack against First Amendment rights personally directed by a leading presidential candidate. Obama is trying to silence his critics on the truth of his past associations.
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