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The Obama Campaign Calls Stanley Kurtz a "Slimy Character Assassin"
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] That's our Stanley they're talking about. Via Ben Smith at Politico, we find out that the Obama campaign has become somewhat agitated about Stanley's research into Obama's relationship with William Ayers. When WGN radio decided to interview Stanley, the campaign went ballistic. Smith has an email from the campaign which includes such statements as: In the next few hours, we have a crucial opportunity to fight one of the most cynical and offensive smears ever launched against Barack. Tonight, WGN radio is giving right-wing hatchet man Stanley Kurtz a forum to air his ...

What Is Obama Afraid Of?
Riehl World View — ... My, my, my ... Barack and his sheeples are acting like a pack of Lefty bloggers. I wonder what it is the junior Senator from Illinois has to hide. ...

The Obama Campaign
The Corner on National Review Online — Wednesday, August 27, 2008 [image] The Obama Campaign [Ramesh Ponnuru] makes "an effort to disrupt the appearance by a writer for National Review, Stanley Kurtz , on a Chicago radio program." Ben Smith writes, "The campaign e-mailed Chicago supporters who had signed up for the Obama Action Wire with detailed instructions including the station's telephone number and the show's extension, as well as a research file on Kurtz, which seems to prove that he's a conservative, which isn't in dispute." 08/27 10:23 PM

Obama vs. Kurtz
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — ... ) to discuss what he's found in the files at the University of Chicago. The Politico's Ben Smith has an email the Obama campaign has sent out to supporters hours ago asking them to call into the show. Here are some excerpts: Tonight, WGN radio is giving right-wing hatchet man Stanley Kurtz a forum to air his baseless, fear-mongering terrorist smears. 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. Tell WGN that by providing Kurtz ...

I Am Sort Of Taking This Personally
JustOneMinute — Stanley Kurtz is a " slimy character assassin " because he has been poking at the Obama/Ayers/Chicago Annenberg Challenge story? Geez, that is a bizarre over-reaction from Team Obama. What's next, the Kewl Kids will mock his wheels at the Prom? Here we go: And tonight, the campaign launched a more specific campaign: an effort to disrupt the appearance by ...

Obama Campaign Denounces Kurtz To a Much Greater Extent Than Ayers.--
The Volokh Conspiracy — ... seems a particularly unfair tack to take in criticizing Obama for someone else’s violent acts. To the extent Obama’s contacts with Ayers are relevant at all, then it can’t be as shared responsibility, but merely as a question of judgment and of cando if Obama were to be misleading in his statements. I'm much more interested in what the Annenberg Challenge funded and how its projects mirror Obama's current proposals than in who he served with. Yet I was nonetheless puzzled by this story by Ben Smith at Poltico: Barack Obama's campaign hasn't advertised this a great deal ...

Another Obama Attempt At Silencing Critics
Rhymes With Right — Now that Barack Mugabe Obama has gotten the Democrat nomination, he and his campaign are continuing an effort to silence anyone who dares criticize the newly-minted candidate -- especially over his oh-so-cozy relationship with an unrepentant terrorist. 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 ...

Listen while you can
Power Line — ... Ethics and Public Policy Center who has doggedly investigated the Chicago years of Barack Obama. Most recently, Kurtz has been seeking to reconstruct the relationship of BarackObama and Bill Ayers via the papers of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge held by the University of Illinois at Chicago. Kurtz has painstakingly documented the obstacles thrown up to his review of the documents. Now his efforts have struck a nerve at the Obama campaign, which has viciously lashed out at him as a "slimy character assassin." Last night Chicago's own Milt Rosenberg hosted Kurtz for ...

Obama Campaign Abuses E-Mail List
The American Mind — ... Such comment spam is annoying, but Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign stepped it up a notch by sending an e-mail to supporters asking them to call a Chicago radio station and confront National Review writer Stanley Kurtz who is in Chicago trying to piece together Obama’s relationship with former Weather Underground member William Ayers. Here’s a portion of the e-mail: ...

THE RELATIONSHIP OBAMA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT
Dr. Sanity — First there is the ad (Michelle Malkin has more) his thugs are trying to squelch: Then there is this, from Ben Smith: Barack Obama's campaign hasn't advertised this a great deal this week, but the campaign's "Action Wire" has been waging large-scale campaigns against critics. That includes tens of thousands of e-mails to television stations running Harold Simmons' Bill Ayers ad, and to their advertisers — including a list of major automobile and telecommunications companies. And ...

Linkage and other short notes
TigerHawk — ... that in the case of both the Bork and the Thomas hearings, Joe Biden actually did what he could to diminish the partisanship and personal attacks. I have always thought that Rosen was a pretty sober fellow for a liberal MSMer, so I'll go with this story until I hear a good refutation of it. In case you had not noticed, the Obama campaign is going after National Review 's Stanley Kurtz absolutely ...

Do Not Blaspheme, Non-Beleivers
Confederate Yankee — ... working and personal relationship with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, Barack Obama has chosen another route in an attempt quell the building controversy; he's having his campaign inciting his followers to shout down his critics. Obama's campaign has previously threatened broadcasters who would carry an ad linking Obama to Ayers, and has also asked the Department of Justice to shut down the group that made the ad. The intense campaign to silence dissenting voice has also included a recent campaign email asking Obama supporters to deluge Chicago-based broadcaster WGN ...

Next, the Obama thugs came for Stanley Kurtz
Michelle Malkin — ... condemned the terrorist Ayers. Kurtz has been attacked now as a “right-wing hatchet man” and “slimy character assassin.” As I reported ...

Obama campaign slams Stanley Kurtz as a “slimy character assassin”
Sister Toldjah — ... Ben Smith reports on the Obama campaign’s response to National Review writer Stanley Kurtz’s digging into the  ...

Team Obama’s character assassination to combat supposed character assassination
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... “Slimy.”  “Smear merchant.”  “Character assassin.”  This kind of name-calling tends to undermine an argument against character assassination, especially when the argument comes with no supporting evidence at all.  Yet the Barack Obama campaign feels comfortable with this kind of ad hominem attack on Stanley Kurtz as a means to get him silenced: The campaign e-mailed Chicago supporters who had signed up for the Obama Action Wire with detailed instructions including the station’s telephone number and the show’s extension, as well as a research file on Kurtz, which seems ...

Sic Transit Gloria Obama?
The Sundries Shack — ... . Barack Obama has been getting more and more visibly cocky even as his poll numbers fall and fall again and his campaign has been flailing badly. You may remember how he has threatened radio stations and private citizens with federal prosecution if they dfare to legally exercise their free speech. His campaign has also launched a screechy attack against conservative writer Stanley Kurtz who has been steadfastly digging up the previously buried story of the association between Obama and unrepentant killer William Ayers. ...

Obama wants to silence his critics
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Yesterday I noted how Obama tried to sick the Justice Department on his opponents and now he is trying to silence the media as well: And tonight, the campaign launched a more specific campaign: an effort to disrupt the appearance by a writer for National Review, Stanley Kurtz, on a Chicago radio program. Kurtz has been writing about Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers, and has suggested that papers housed at the University of Illinois at Chicago would reveal new details of that relationship. The ...

The New Juice
Whiskey Fire — ... Of everything the Obama campaign has done so far, this by far has made me happiest. Barack Obama's campaign hasn't advertised this a great deal this week, but the campaign's "Action Wire" has been waging large-scale campaigns against critics. That includes tens of thousands of e-mails to television stations running Harold Simmons' Bill Ayers ad, and to their advertisers — including a list of major automobile and telecommunications companies. And tonight, the campaign launched a more specific campaign: an effort to disrupt the ...

Brave New Wor(l)ds
protein wisdom — ... that encouraged supporters to contact the program (telephone information was provided) and use scripted “talking points” to disrupt Kurtz’s appearance, which it deemed “unacceptable.” As the Politico’s Ben Smith reported , the campaign also urged supporters to demand that Rosenberg scrap the appearance of Kurtz, whom the campaign ...

8/28: Watching And Waiting
Blogometer — ... . (Remember, they're both Illinoisians.) Perhaps because Obama's speech is on the 45th anniversary of [Dr. Martin Luther] King 's 'I Have A Dream' speech." OBAMA III: Bully-Boy Tactics? Conservative bloggers are criticizing Obama after his campaign launched an effort to disrupt a radio appearance by Stanley Kurtz , the National Review writer who has been writing about Obama's relationship with ex-Weather Underground member William Ayers : MCCAIN VEEPSTAKES: Kay Bailey Hutchison, Dark Horse? ...

cracking down on right wing fear-mongers
Classical Values — ... for Kurtz's jugular, while he has yet to denounce his colleague Ayers: 1. Barack Obama and his campaign have denounced Ayers's actions and at least one of Ayers's statements, but I think that neither Obama nor his campaign has ever denounced Ayers himself . As with the first Reverend Wright speech, this is no accident. Obama usually takes the "Christian" position: hate the sin, love the sinner. 2. Kurtz, unlike Ayers, is denounced in the most vicious and uncivil terms (there is a lot more than I quoted). If Obama or his campaign had ever denounced Ayers with the fervor ...

Obama-Ayers: Failed Chicago Schools Under Ethnic Identity Agenda
Stop The ACLU — ... to say more than the email’s talking points. Some pulled out the constant whine that Obama was only eight years old when the Weathermen were bombing our U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, the State Department building, etc. They further pointed out Obama has “denounced” William Ayers. He did not, however, denounce him until he was forced to for the sake of his political campaign, and he wasn’t eight years old when he and Ayers began their educational reform. Obama Wire email as printed in The Politico . From: Obama Action Wire Date: Wed, Aug 27, 2008 Subject: Chicago: CALL ...

What We Are NOT Hearing From Obama
JustOneMinute — On the topic of Bill Ayers, Barack Obama and their joint multiyear effort together on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (dedicated to public school reform) we have seen from the Obama campaign outrage and the attempted ...

What Lurks in the Ayers-Annenberg Files?
Pajamas Media — ... to engage in such activities. Wednesday night the campaign conducted an outrageous and preposterous “ swarm ” of Chicago radio station WGN, the mild and moderate radio host Milt Rosenberg, and the equally temperate guest of his show, Stanley Kurtz. Kurtz, in Chicago to review the 1,000 CAC files the university library relented and allowed him to see, was asked to ...

Joel Mowbray reports: The Obama campaign strikes again
Power Line — ... David Freddoso, a conservative reporter who is perhaps the most careful of the Democrat's critics. After pitching a fit last month over National Review writer Stanley Kurtz appearing on Chicago-based WGN-AM -- the premier talk station in the Midwest and hardly a right-wing operation -- Obama's people are back at it, this time protesting an interview with Freddoso, the author of the New York Times-bestselling ...

Obama Declares War on Conservative Talk Radio
American Thinker — ... to intervene-in the CRA review process, left-wing nonprofit groups have been able to gain control over eye-popping pools of bank capital, which they in turn parcel out to individual low-income mortgage seekers. A radical group called ACORN Housing has a $760 million commitment from the Bank of New York...[emphasis in original]. Understand that even allowing conservatives to be radio talk show guests may provoke a FCC licensing complaint. Just ask "right wing hatchet man" Stanley Kurtz . For Obama, when it comes to radio talk, silence is golden, at least when it comes to ...