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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31 seconds too late :)~
He asks, “what are the lies?”, they can't answer.
Hilarious.
I’m just going to come out and say it.
Laura is flat out hot.
Now that is a strong woman. Beautiful too!!
I wouldn’t know...I just like her for her brains.
And what beautiful brains they are! LOL!
They are reading O’s e-mail almost verbatim.
Obamas running an ad saying he was but a wee lad when Ayers was acting up,so why is mean old man mccain picking on him.
These guys have run Chicago for decades and can't believe that the truth is getting out. What a whiner...
His whole past looks like a case for "lowering the political discourse".
I am scared for Kurtz(and his researchers) just reading this crap.
Having this sinking feeling in my heart right now. KURTZ AND HIS RESEARCHERS NEED TO TO GET SOME BODY GUARDS ASAP FOLKS!!
I am not kidding!
bttt
Yes, the 60’s are important because Ayer continues to be an unrepentant terrorist...
Do these people understand the definition of unrepentant?
But let's talk about 90’s Obama - he's a security risk to our country.
Obama's obvious has some of his key people calling in... bwahahaha - when you have to spin the truth, you're going to have to scramble and come off as whiners like these past few PAID pro-Obama callers.
And trying to get people imprisoned for criticizing him.
This stuff is straight out of Communist China.
Simply terrifying.
How dare Chicago get the truth out about Obama? Don't they know how we handle things mob style if anyone dares cross Obama, Ayers and Wright? The Nation of Islam, et al, aren't afraid to handle Obama’s critics.
I came in late, what did he say?
I remember Henry “Scoop” Jackson, Hubert Humphrey, Harry Truman — I knew the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party was a friend of America. The Rat Party is no Democratic Party.
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