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Little Caesar
Slublog —
... Good grief - Obama threatening television stations that run ads critical of his gun record. If he wins, what's next? Alien and Sedition Act, part II? ...
Barack Obama vs Freedom of Speech
The Sundries Shack —
Nice First Amendment you have there. It’s be a shame if anything were to happen to it.
I’ve heard for almost eight years how the Bush administration had laid constant siege of civil rights, despite there not being one single example of any American citizen being hauled away for speaking their minds about Chimpy McBushitlerburton and his American Taliban.
Not one. Ever.
Yet Barack Obama shows quite the flair for threatening to use the legal system to silence his critics. Seems I remember that happening a couple other places before somewhere ...
So, Why Not Post The Ad?
Riehl World View —
... If you're as tired of Obama's thuggish tactics as I am, why not just run the NRA YouTube ad on your blog? Really, this is getting way out of hand? And about the only thing that has a prayer of getting around the media covering up for Obama at every turn - in this case, covering up for his heavy handed tactics, is for enough people to stand up against them. ...
Who is the facist here?
QandO —
... alleged distortions on your website and in the media. C. Both A and B. D. Use legal intimidation, i.e. threatening the license of any broadcast media outlet that runs the opposition ad. The Obama campaign chose D: Failure to prevent the airing of “false and misleading advertising” may be “probative of an underlying abdication of licensee responsibility” Cosmopolitan Broad. Corp v. FCC, 581 F.2d 917, 927 (D.C. Cir. 1978).Insty has a whole bunch more. More here as well. And, of course, that’s ...
Required Viewing
Vodkapundit —
Courtesy of Glenn Reynolds , it’s the NRA ad that the Obama campaign has been sending lawyers, (no) guns, and money to stop you from seeing. Spread it around. Tagged as: ...
The video that Barack Obama doesn't want you to see.
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... As Glenn notes,
it's not especially vicious. One issue, yes. Unsympathetic, also
yes. But this is hardly "Obama drinks baby blood," or something. So
why is Obama sending out the ...
gunbanobama.com
Classical Values —
gunbanobama.com Instapundit has a lot of links on Obama's efforts to eliminate free speech in America. Obama threatening the licenses of TV stations that run NRA ads Shut up about Barack's Gun Banning History Obama Attacks - NRA Responds This is politic Vladimir Putin style. Every single Democrat on the ballot needs to be defeated.
Here’s A Surprise
Right Wing Nation —
... thug.
Barack Obama’s campaign is trying to silence the National Rifle Association’s latest ad campaign using strong arm tactics by threatening them with possible legal action if they run the ads
Why the thuggery? Because the NRA is right, and Obama doesn’t want you to know until after election day (hint for Obama: Nobody cares what you have to say about the Second Amendment; it’s your record that counts).
Instapundit has more. Follow the links.
Obama hates the First Amendment as much as ...
'Obama On Guns' From The NRA
Hyscience —
... points to Instapundit's roundup of news and commentary about Obama's (over)reaction to this ad, and notes how very vulnerable Obama is on the Second Amendment. And yes, as Robert suggests, I agree that we're not likely to see Obama going to Ohio to do the John Kerry "can I get me a huntin' license here" trip. ...
Obama and Guns
Chicago Boyz —
... I just finished reading most of the posts to which Glenn Reynolds so helpfully linked on this topic. I also read many of the comments in response to those posts. The gist of the discussion is that pro-Obama people say Obama doesn’t really oppose the right to arms, while pro-gun people say he does. ...
Obama Thuggery UNHINGED!
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS —
Glenn Reynolds is ALL OVER the Obama "Brownshirts" and "Truth Squads" we discussed earlier, including updates on the campaign's blatant, overt and thuggish attempts to use its surrogates to shut down any and all criticism and dissent (even truthful reporting of facts) prior to the election. This is straight out of the GRU/KGB/STASI manual! MORE THUGGISHNESS: Obama threatening the licenses of TV stations that run NRA ads. Haven't we had about enough of this? Related item here. They told me that if George W. Bush were re-elected ...
Obama Thuggery UNHINGED!
The Discerning Texan —
Glenn Reynolds is ALL OVER the Obama "Brownshirts" and "Truth Squads" we discussed earlier, including updates on the campaign's blatant, overt and thuggish attempts to use its surrogates to shut down any and all criticism and dissent (even truthful reporting of facts) prior to the election. This is straight out of the GRU/KGB/STASI manual ! MORE THUGGISHNESS: ...
Friday Open Thread
Stubborn Facts —
... Glenn Reynolds has a link roundup on this latest Obamessiah attempt to use government to strong-arm critics into silence. Is this the HopeChange® you were looking for? ...
Fighting Obama’s Goon Squad
Michelle Malkin —
... has an overview of how “St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch and St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, both Obama supporters, are threatening to bring criminal libel charges against anyone who levels what turns out to be false criticisms of their chosen candidate for President.” Glenn Reynolds has a thorough round-up. American Issues Project, whose efforts to fight the Obama Goon Squad I’ve covered ...
First, they came for the radio talk show hosts...
Classical Values —
... because of his Ayers reporting was a clue. I think it's quite obvious they fear the gun issue, and they should, because they are vulnerable as hell on it. This morning Glenn Reynolds linked ...
Obama, what was that about politics as usual?
Stones Cry Out —
From Glenn Reynolds, a link to a story about Obama threatening the licenses of TV stations that run an NRA ad.
Change… we can believe in.
Here’s the ad:
Honorable But Mistaken Attorney of the Day: Robert F. Bauer
damnum absque injuria —
... the stations in quesiton to contact Ms. Burman rathe rthan Mr. Bauer himself or, barring that, the bar of which he is a member, and who may disagree with his tactics in sending the letter in the first place. To the extent that answers truly should be directed to Ms. Burman rather than to Mr. Bauer, it would have been more intuitive for Ms. Burman, and not Mr. Bauer, to have been the person signing the letter. Patterico, Allah, Uncle, Sebastian, Instapundit and Jonathan Adler, Alphecca, Bitter Bitch, Robb Allen, ...
Obama Campaign refutes Godwin's Law of Nazi Comparisons
Doug Ross @ Journal —
... United Church of Christ) Calvin College: Nazi Propaganda and Intimidation of the Media Campus Press: To tumultuous chants of "Obama, Obama, Obama" and "Yes. We. Can," Sen. Barack Obama entered the Magness Arena Wikipedia: " From 1933 to 1945 the Hitler salute was the common German greeting... Heil Hitler! ("Hail to Hitler!") was used... Sieg Heil! or "Hail victory!" (Victory., sieg "prosperity", Heil "hail") was a common Nazi chant at rallies. " Instapundit: Obama Thuggishness Wrapup Gateway Pundit: Missouri Sheriffs & Top Prosecutors ...
Obama's Police State
Snapped Shot —
... , political pressures, and now confinement, to stop the flow of free speech. If these are the tactics Obama and his ilk use now to intimidate opponents from spreading factual claims, imagine the restrictions that will be placed once Obama gains the ultimate power. And he isn't even trying to hide his intentions. ...
Obama's Constitutional Subversion
Confederate Yankee —
... (more here ) indicates that Barack Obama is precisely the kind of deceptive authoritarian thug liberals claim to see and hate in President George W. Bush. Barack Obama has thus far spent nearly unimaginable amounts of money in an attempt to wrest control of the First and Second Amendments. If he becomes President in November, will any of the Constitution be safe?
Obama's disdain for democracy -- will it stop in the workplace
Power Line —
... a statement by John McCain that "Senator Obama is. . .planning with Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid to … take away your right to vote by secret ballot in labor elections." In one of the no-brainers of this election, CNN concluded that McCain's claim is "true." Obama's low regard for free elections can be attributed, in this context, to his desire to placate organized labor. Increasingly, though, there is reason to wonder whether it is also connected to a more general disregard for democratic freedoms and a willingness to rely on (or at least tolerate) ...
