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Obama/Ayers Update: Obama Campaign Harasses WGN Radio Host
globallabor.blogspot.com - 8/28/2008
Obama/Ayers Update: Obama Campaign Harasses WGN Radio Host
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Tonight was a surreal experience. Chicago is home to a retired conservative University of Chicago professor named Milt Rosenberg who hosts an evening talk show on WGN radio. WGN stands for "World's Greatest Newspaper" because it is owned by the Tribune Company which also owns the Chicago Cubs. Jack Brickhouse , the voice of the Cubs for years when I was growing up, broadcast on WGN. And ...

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A Blog For All:  The Chicago Annenberg Challenge Story Wont Die

JustOneMinute:  Radio Killed The Media Star

Flopping Aces:  Obama sends minions to beseige Kurtz/WGN Radio on Ayers connection

Chicago Boyz:  Obama’s “Brain”

Classical Values:  cracking down on right wing fear-mongers

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The Chicago Annenberg Challenge Story Wont Die
A Blog For All — ... . He was a close associate and Ayers saw something in Obama that led Ayers to elevate Obama to the chairmanship of his organization. In the meantime, the Obama campaign continues to harass media outlets that are questioning Obama's ties to Ayers and who are delving into the CAC. Labels: ...

Radio Killed The Media Star
JustOneMinute — ... on untangling the Obama/Ayers/Annenberg Challenge connection, was listening to the radio while Obama's mob tried to shout down Stanley Kurtz. MORE: A ...

Obama sends minions to beseige Kurtz/WGN Radio on Ayers connection
Flopping Aces — ... NRO’s Stanley Kurtz is only second on this story. The lead sleuth is California Attorney, Steve Diamond, Global Labor and Politics blog, who is far from conservative. Diamond described the onslaught of the Obama faithful’s a “wave of hostile attacks” in his late yesterday. ...

Obama’s “Brain”
Chicago Boyz — ... , the 60’s radical and unrepentant ex-Weatherman terrorist, now a professor of Education at UIC where he is a leading advocate of politicizing teacher certification programs along Leftist lines (Ayers is the son of the late, prominent Chicago business leader, Thomas Ayers, former chairman/CEO of Commonwealth Edison and board member at he Chicago Tribune). Kurtz was invited to be a guest last night on ...

cracking down on right wing fear-mongers
Classical Values — ... 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." No rebuttal was offered by the Obama campaign, which refused to send a spokesperson to the show, but whose callers inundated the show with angry accusations : Caller after caller to WGN read off talking points ...

Obama's Brownshirts
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... Working together as the heads of the Annenberg Challenge, Ayers and Obama facilitated a handout of more than $160 million in and around the Chicago school system . These funds went to groups that purportedly were going to improve student achievement. The effort failed miserably by every measure . Kurtz began his review of the CAC's papers and was invited on Milt Rosenberg's long-running Chicago radio show to discuss his initial findings. Though Obama's campaign declined an invitation to appear on the show, it did broadcast an "Obama Action Wire" requesting supporters to phone ...

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Stan & WGN
corner.nationalreview.com 8/28/2008 — From a reader: Jonah, The WGN broadcast is absolutely fascinating and live on line at WGN.com The host Milt Rosenberg, who is unquestionably an institution in Chicago talk radio, and has never ever been overtly partisan, is clearly stunned by the ...
Obama campaign confronts WGN radio
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Where there is smoke ...
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