Posted on 08/30/2008 2:45:57 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
The Editors of National Review Online have a good editorial summarizing researcher and writer Stanley Kurtz's investigation of the ties between Barack Obama and radical terrorist William Ayers, and the reaction of Obama campaign and its supporters to their critics:
... WGN, has made a stream of the broadcast available online, here, and it has to be heard to be believed. Obama's robotic legions dutifully jammed the station's phone lines and inundated the program with emails, attacking Kurtz personally. Pressed by Rosenberg to specify what inaccuracies Kurtz was guilty of, caller after caller demurred, mulishly railing that "we just want it to stop," and that criticism of Obama was "just not what we want to hear as Americans." Remarkably, as Obama sympathizers raced through their script, they echoed the campaign’s insistence that it was Rosenberg who was "lowering the standards of political discourse" by having Kurtz on, rather than the campaign by shouting him down.
Kurtz has obviously hit a nerve. It is the same nerve hit by the American Issues Project, whose television ad calling for examination of the Obama/Ayers relationship has prompted the Obama campaign to demand that the Justice Department begin a criminal investigation. Obama fancies himself as "post-partisan." He is that only in the sense that he apparently brooks no criticism. This episode could be an alarming preview of what life will be like for the media should the party of the Fairness Doctrine gain unified control of the federal government next year.
This aggressive thuggery by the Obama campaign really needs a lot more attention from the media. We won't hold our breath. Now there are two stories for the DeMSM to ignore, Obama's history of radical-left associations and activism, and the reaction of his campaign to investigations of that history. Stirring up mobs and threats of prosecution are not the way (small "D") democrats conduct politics in America.
Where are the ACLU and other supposed "civil liberties" groups? Where are all those people worried about (phony) alleged government stifling of dissent by the Evil Bu$hCo Regime? Are they afraid to speak out against real efforts to stop voices of opposition? Or is it just OK when a fellow "liberal" does it?
posted by: The Editors @ 1:00 pm August 30, 2008
Free Republic is doing its part to give it more attention. FReepers can also email their friends. MSM thinks they can shut down criticism of Obama, but in the end MSM is one who loses big time.
“Liberal Fascism” is a redundancy.
I am in the midst of reading Jonah Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism”.
I recommend it to others.
I hate Illinois Nazis.
“Liberal Fascism” is a great book!
No surprise, given that BO is a diligent practitioner of “The Chicago Way”.
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