Obama, Holder Sledgehammer the First Amendment

American Thinker ^ | 08/23/2012 | William Tate

[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.

[NMRed]

"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."

[Red Badger]

Note to DOJ Jackboot Lawyers:

Court cases take YEARS.

You have only DAYS..................

[freeangel]

You ain’t seen nothin’ yest. Wail until Nov. Whether he wins or loses won’t make a difference.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Biden must be running the Obama campaign. One hugh & series goof after another!

LOL!

[faucetman]

Call BOR, he’s a big Gallup guy. Maybe he will report on this?

[Haiku Guy]

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.

[cuban leaf]

I do not believe he will finish his term. I expect an Obama meltdown, hopefully live in front of press cameras.

[onyx]

Remember in November.

Remember Free Republic Today

[Vaduz]

You may be right he can’t take the heat and his tricks are failing.

[GOPJ]

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?

[GOPJ]

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?

[sickoflibs]

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.

[upchuck]

Article that has the nobama administration's panties in a wad: August Unemployment Not Looking Good

Kickass 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.

[RobinOfKingston]

Who says “killing the messenger” isn’t an effective strategy?