Posted on 08/26/2008 2:13:45 PM PDT by Puppage
DENVER (AP) - Barack Obama is striking back fiercely and swiftly to stamp out an ad that links him to a 1960s radical, eager to demonstrate a far more aggressive response to attacks than John Kerry did when faced with the 2004 "Swift Boat" campaign.
Obama not only aired a response ad to the spot linking him to William Ayers, but he sought to block stations the commercial by warning station managers and asking the Justice Department to intervene. The campaign also planned to compel advertisers to pressure stations that continue to air the anti-Obama commercial.
It's the type of going-for-the-jugular approach to politics many Democrats complain that Kerry lacked and that Republicans exploit.
Obama's target is an ad by the conservative American Issues Project, a nonprofit group that questions Obama's ties to Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground organization that took credit for a series of bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol four decades ago.
The lone financier of the anti-Obama ad, Texas billionaire Harold Simmons, was also one of the main funders of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth who targeted Kerry. Simmons, a McCain fundraiser, contributed nearly $2.9 million to the American Issues Project, according to documents filed by the group with the Federal Election Commission.
Fox News and CNN have declined to air the anti-Obama ad. But by Monday afternoon, the ad had run about 150 times in local markets in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Michigan, according to Evan Tracey, head of TNS Media Intelligence/Campaign Media Analysis Group, an ad tracking firm.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Yeah, we can't have the truth getting out, now can we?
Why has Fox declined to air the ad?
Is there a published picture of them together?
This is very stupid on Obiden’s part. Now everyone will want to see it.
Several anti-Obama websites are now showing “account suspended” notices.
His psychotic sycophants are really good at crushing free speech.
This is but a glimpse of our near and possible future, people.
Vote accordingly.
Everything in the ad is true and is sourced. Obama just can’t take a punch.
Are we now at a point to where effective negative ads can’t be run on TV?
The news of the ad’s suppression is not being run on the TV stations that are suppressing it. Yes, people who read FR and political blogs will know about it, but then we also knew all about Ayers without the ad
We need that picture of Ayers standing on the American flag.
Yet one more glimpse as to how this punk will operate..... should he win the presidency.
Their heavy-handed threats to boycott and sic DOJ on television stations that run the ad are already backfiring in a big way.
I have seen it on Fox several times what are they talking about?
Now why does BO think the Justice Dept is interested in stopping truthful free speech from getting to the citizens?
It just ran on Fox
“This is very stupid on Obiden’s part. Now everyone will want to see it.”
True, I just watched it online because I saw the news article that they are taking legal action against it.
What’s worse (for them), their actions make me more inclined to believe every word in the ad.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.