Obama's e-mail about WGN-AM - (flag)
www.chicagotribune.com — Text of the e-mail the Obama campaign sent to supporters: August 28, 2008 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 baseless, fear-mongering terrorist smears. He's currently scheduled to spend a solid two-hour block ...
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Obama's e-mail to supporters about WGN-AM's airing of Stanley Kurtz on-air forum (Gestapo tactic to silence free speech)
Hyscience — ... This should scare the hell out of every single American - Text of the e-mail the Obama campaign sent to supporters (via Chicagotribune.com): ...

Obama Campaign Tries to Shut Down Chicago Radio Show
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... After the refusal of host Rosenberg's offer to appear on the air with Kurtz, the Obama campaign issued an extensive email (The Chicago Tribune has the full text) to drum up protests of the radio station, which said in part... ...

Obama Campaign Tries to Shut Down Chicago Radio Show
Stop The ACLU — ... the Obama campaign’s HQ — which is but blocks from the radio station in downtown Chicago — to offer some time on the air with Kurtz to debate Kurtz’ claims about Obama and Ayres. The campaign, however, flatly refused the offer of the equal air time and instead tried to drum up via email a protest of the show, trying to get it stopped. After the refusal of host Rosenberg’s offer to appear on the air with Kurtz, the Obama campaign issued an extensive email (The Chicago Tribune has the full text ) to drum up protests of the radio station, which said in part… In the next few ...

Obama Camp FailsTo Stifle Kurtz's Obama-Ayers Story From Chicago Airwaves
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Hudson Institute’s Stanley Kurtz was invited on to Milton Rosenberg’s radio show on Chicago’s WGN to discuss what Kurtz had discovered about the Bill Ayers-Barack Obama connection. After requesting the Justice Department to bring about criminal charges to a billionaire who funded an ad that linked Obama to Ayers, the Obama campaign sent out an angry email to their supporters urging them to call into Rosenberg's show. Below is the text of the email : ...

Let’s See If I Can Sum This Up
sassafrassin.com — ... waters; threaten and intimidate the primary researcher, Kurtz, and also any media outlet which runs the ads that mention Obama’s relationship with Ayers; as well as address any criticism of Obama as somehow racially motivated. This will only get hotter in the next few days. For further inquiry, check out these News/Actual Sites: Call to Action Used on Obama’s Web site against Kurtz’s appearance on WGN Radio talk show Chicago Tribune.com: Obama’s e-mail about WGN-AM (plus other facts) ...

Palin vs. Obama
California Conservative — ... This brings me to another important point. Changing Washington isn’t the same as reforming Washington. In fact, changing Washington might mean he’s intent on using the legal system or the weight of the federal government to silence his critics. His campaign certainly didn’t hesitate in attempting to silence researcher Stanley Kurtz. His campaign went so far as to call Mr. Kurtz a “right-wing hatchet man.” Here’s a portion of the text of the email his campaign sent out: ...

Team Barry Sends Out Action Alert to Shut Up Critics...Again
Weekly Standard Blog — ... The Obama Action Wire implored impassioned supporters to take a minute to call and counter the "lies, distortions, and manipulations about Barack and University of Illinois professor William Ayers," by which of course was meant the duly sourced and sober reporting of Kurtz about Obama and Ayers. ...

Shutting down opposition voices
Betsy's Page — ... provided them with talking points to call into WGN talk show host Milt Rosenberg when he had conservative writer Stanley Kurtz on to talk about his research into the Obama record. ...

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