Liberals claim to honor free speech, but when the speech is directed at them, they quickly morph into crying toddlers.
And since we’re dealing with Senator Barack Obama, you can be sure the crying will be felt for miles. Truth and facts be damned.
AP: Obama seeks to silence ad tying him to 60s radical by JIM KUHNHENN
Obama’s target is an ad by the conservative American Issues Project, a nonprofit group that questions Obama’s ties to [Bill] Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground organization that took credit for a series of bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol four decades ago.
The lone financier of the anti-Obama ad, Texas billionaire Harold Simmons, was also one of the main funders of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth who targeted Kerry. Simmons, a McCain fundraiser, contributed nearly $2.9 million to the American Issues Project, according to documents filed by the group with the Federal Election Commission.
Fox News and CNN have declined to air the anti-Obama ad. But by Monday afternoon, the ad had run about 150 times in local markets in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Michigan, according to Evan Tracey, head of TNS Media Intelligence/Campaign Media Analysis Group, an ad tracking firm.
Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said Obama supporters have inundated stations that are airing the ad, many of them owned by Sinclair Communications, with 93,000 e-mails. He called the ad false, despicable and outrageous.
“Other stations that follow Sinclair’s lead should expect a similar response from people who don’t want the political discourse cheapened with these false, negative attacks,” Vietor said.Sinclair offices were closed late Monday and officials there could not be immediately contacted.
“It seems they protest a bit too much,” American Issues Project spokesman Christian Pinkston said. “They’re going all of these routes—through threats, intimation—to try to thwart the First Amendment here because they don’t have an argument on merit.”
Obama’s career was merely born out of Bill Ayers’s home, but the public is not entitled to know this?
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