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Posted on 08/26/2008 2:27:25 PM PDT by the anti-liberal
By Michelle Malkin • August 26, 2008 11:49 AM
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Here is the ad Barack Obama doesn’t want you to see. Pass it on.
I cannot stress how outrageous the Obama campaign’s attempt to silence the creators of the Ayers ad is. Mr. Hope and Change is applying Chicago-style mafia tactics to intimidate those who want to alert the nation to Obama’s troubling ties to, and longtime relationship with, the unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist. Obama’s lawyers and minions are playing hardball with TV stations that have dared to air the ad. They have the gall to champion campaign finance integrity — even as Obama has just admitted hiding payments to his Chicago cronies at ACORN. The Obama campaign can’t cite anything false or defamatory about the ad because it is accurate and truthful. This intimidation campaign is of a piece with the left-wing MoveOn effort to bully GOP donors. Remember?
I’ve just obtained the response of the group running the ads that Obama doesn’t want you to see:
American Issues Project Responds to Obama Campaign’s Efforts to Compel TV Stations, Government to Censor Ad
Obama team fails to convince stations to kill ad in spite of threats, harassment and false claims
Washington, DC – August 26, 2008 – The Barack Obama campaign has resorted to a campaign of intimidation and legal threats to convince television stations and the federal government to force off the air an ad by the American Issues Project detailing the link between Sen. Obama and remorseless domestic terrorist William Ayers.
The Obama campaign has been contacting stations running American Issues Project’s ad in an unsuccessful attempt to compel them to pull the spot. The Obama campaign also sent a letter yesterday to the Department of Justice asking the government to investigate American Issues Project, its officers, board of directors, and donors. With no success on either front, the campaign has begun running its own ad in response. Notably, this ad fails to dispute a single fact in the American Issues Project’s initial ad.
“The Obama campaign knows it can’t argue the facts of the link between Obama and Ayers, so it is instead resorting to a desperate campaign of intimidation and legal threats,” said Ed Martin, American Issues Project’s president. “The scary question this raises is if Barack Obama demonstrates this little regard for free speech from his opponents during the campaign, what could the American people expect from him as a president?”
“The tremendous amount of time, money and effort the campaign is expending to run its own ads on the Ayers controversy and dispatch its hired guns all over the country – during the Democratic convention – speaks to the fear they must have that this issue is resonating with American voters.”
American Issues Project sent a letter today to the Department of Justice responding to the Obama campaign’s claims. Key points from the letter:
AIP is organized as a qualified nonprofit corporation as that term is defined in the regulations of the Federal Election Commission (“FEC”) 11 C.F.R. §114.10. As such, AIP enjoys the protections of the provisions of the Supreme Court’s decision more than twenty years ago in FEC v. Massachusetts Citizens for Life, Inc., 589 F. Supp. 646 (D. Mass. 1984), aff’d, 769 F.2d 13 (1st Cir. 1985), aff’d, 479 U.S. 238 (1986)…
AIP complies with each and every one of the provisions outlined by the Supreme Court in the MCFL case, as well as the regulations of the FEC promulgated subsequently…
Counsel for the Obama Campaign is undoubtedly fully knowledgeable of the reporting and compliance responsibilities of qualified nonprofit corporations, such as NARAL-Pro Choice America (“NARAL”), an organization that, ironically, also claims protection as an entity described in Massachusetts Citizens for Life v. FEC…
AIP functions in exactly the same manner as NARAL and any other qualified nonprofit corporation. NARAL has made substantial independent expenditures in opposition to Sen. McCain’s presidential candidacy during the 2008 election cycle and continuing through the present time. Yet, no objection to those expenditures has been raised by the Obama campaign…
Surely we have not come to a point where the government and its agencies are used to protect presidential candidates from citizens’ speech, essentially destroying the very purpose, meaning and historical essence of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The full text of the letter is available at: http://www.americanissuesproject.org/
The American Issues Project’s ad began airing Thursday, August 21, and will continue through the Democratic Convention. An electronic version of the ad and full documentation of all statements made are available at American Issues Project’s website: www.americanissuesproject.org.
About American Issues Project
American Issues Project is a 501(c)4 organization representing a coalition of conservative activists committed to raising important issues that deserve deeper examination given their impact on policy and politics. In accordance with federal law, American Issues Project only solicits and accepts contributions from individuals and not from any business corporation. For more information, visit: www.americanissuesproject.org.
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Spread the ad far and wide. Will they come after bloggers next?
Shut us up?
No, they can’t.
If this is how he behaves now, just wait until he’s in the Oval Office.
The guy is a criminal, plain and simple.
We have a criminal running for the highest office in the land on the back of affirmative action aided by ‘fellow travelers.’
Disgusting.”
I am going to write a letter and send it to Philip Berg and thank him for his efforts. I will put a couple of bucks into it, even tho I am sure he has far more money than anything I have. I want to show him my support for his guts in filing the lawsuit to save this country from Nobama. Anyone who has a few minutes, please send Berg a letter and thank him.
Turn the lights off Obama, it’s all over. Calling for the prosecution of someone exercising his First Amendment rights, which btw Soros, Michael Moore, and other blabbering liberals do without any respect for the facts has just about ended whatever campaign you might have had.
He's a marxist, you can say goodbye to the Constitution.
I'm sure discovery will be a lot of fun!
Orbit downloader will do the trick.
I can't fathom how it is that he's gotten as far as he has.
A nobody junior senator with nothing but bad associations.
Is there even a single upstanding citizen in his past that he can point to?
(I'd wind up dead were I to wear it where I live though)
Don’t leave the job of getting this story out to just a couple of people. Email your congressmen - I did. They weren’t even aware of the debate and this was two weeks ago. Call ‘em! Don’t assume.
You can tell the liberals are in a tizzy over their most recent choice with the Monday morning quarterbacking that's going on. They are now complaining they should have gone with Hillary after all.
Are they really!? Ha! That's funny! Buyer's remorse - should be interesting...
Remember, when you assume, you make an ass out of u and me..
Disgusting.
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It is clear that the rats have done the impossible, they have come up with a candidate more repulsive than Carter, Clinton, Gore and Kerry wrapped into one.
Make that a "red diaper doper baby".
I bet it really frustrates Hillary that Obama out Alinskyed her considering she wrote her Bachelors thesis on Alinsky and actually knew him.
Modern liberals are ironically and hypocritically illiberal - liberal being traditionally defined as having received a classical education (a quaint process that ended several centuries ago.)
Why the school which continues to pay him continues to pay him, I have no idea!!
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There really is something wrong with this economy! I personally know honest, reliable, hardworking men who barely earn enough to feed their families while slime like Ayers are paid a comfortable living by so-called “universities” and Michelle Obama draws a huge income from a “non-profit” hospital. Something just isn’t right here, any competent tradesman is worth more to this country than a trainload of William Ayers and Michelle Obama types.
Liberal theory which fails to take into account reality is the culprit, politicians the enablers.
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