Freedom from the Press
By PaganPower on June 25, 2008 at 2:59 PM in 1st Amendment, 4th Amendment, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Donna Brazile, Hillary Clinton, Obamedia, Racism
Move over, discarded Fourth Amendment. You have company.
For those of you alarmed by Senator Obama’s surprising support for this FISA debacle and his abandonment of the principles of privacy and constitutional law enshrined in the 4th Amendment this may not come as much of a surprise. It seems that Senator Obama has very little regard to the First Amendment too.
Obama’s Unprecedented Attack on Free Speech – Mechanisms and Results [Supplemented]
For many months now, Obama has run a campaign that has as its centerpiece the control and manipulation of the media, and the elimination of free speech. This began as a methodology designed to control the Internet. And moved to the main stream media very quickly.
I can hear my detractors.
“Come on Pagan. Get over it. You are just one of those bitter, clingy white people that has nothing better to do than criticize Obama. Barack is the reincarnation of Thomas Jefferson. Liberty means everything to him. Obama represents the new politics of hope and change.”
And you would be wrong. Because Obama has systematically stifled free speech, crafted a very calculated false message and has stamped out any efforts to bring about an open and fair discussion of the issues.
Taking their cue from totalitarian regimes, Obama developed his own propaganda arm which spewed facts and figures to the media and made false claims designed to keep controversial issues dealing with the candidate off of the main stream media. At the same time, Obama attacked in merciless ways those who voiced opposition on various Internet systems and sources, including the media who dared to question him, and has now stopped debates in favor of tuning his message against McCain again with the help of completely compliant media.
As merely one example of spewing false facts and figures take a look at the latest Obama ad making it’s way across the country.
The most immediate lie is that his grandparents didn’t have much money. His grandfather managed a large furniture store and his grandmother was the Vice President of a bank. From where I come from we don’t refer to such people as exactly poor. Not as Obama would have you believe. Maybe after sending Barky to all those elite prep schools they weren’t exactly wealthy. But they could sure afford to send him.
The next and most glaring lie is that Barky passed a law that “extended healthcare for wounded troops.” The fact is that he missed the vote that passed this law. He wasn’t even in the Senate at the time the vote was taken. And yet he has the audacity to claim that he passed a law.
This is typical of the Obama campaign. They create these myths that sound good and attribute to their candidate whose myth sounds good too. But not a word of it is true. In fact they are blatant lies. But where are the journalists that should be examining and exposing these falsehoods? They are in the pocket of the Obama campaign.
Obama communication and voting control systems designed to eliminate free speech rank at the pinnacle of Obama’s attack on free speech. These include the following important free speech elements without which media, voters, and all in the world fail to understand the truth and could ultimately have no more opportunity to voice their differences and views than those in totalitarian regimes.
So how did he manage to do this? Simple. He claimed bias and racism any time someone said something less than generous about himself. And in certain cases his campaign enlisted the help of complicit bloggers to complain so loudly that the media had to take action.
In January 2008, CNN succumbed to pressure from the Obama campaign and told James Carville, Paul Begala, and Robert Zimmerman that they would not be used again until the Democratic nomination had taken place.
With Carville and Begala out of the way, two Obama friendly commentators were brought in. Both in fact very closely aligned with the Obama campaign: Roland Martin and Paula Brazile. So no more criticism of Obama was allowed on CNN. Only the Obama positive message was permitted. Does this remind anyone else of regimes that carefully tailor the message of the Great Leader?
The next step was removing anyone that was not a supporter from Obama rallies. This is the same method employed by George Bush. In fact I experienced this type of censorship myself when I was denied entrance to a Bush campaign rally when the organizers discovered I was not a Republican.
With a system identical to that employed by George Bush, Obama denied other supporters from being able to attend a rally on a state university and has sustained that approach time after time. The method was recorded on video and remains one of the only documents showing how Obama manipulated crowds.
Other events similarly controlled the message. For example, in New Hampshire an agreement to prevent marchers in front of an arena was forged by Obama in exchange for a no-picketing agreement, effectively controlling speech both ways.
And to seal the deal the Obama campaign, in conjunction with the Democratic elite establishment, declared that any attacks upon Obama that could be used against the presumptive nominee in a general election were forbidden. Thus they could justify character assassination upon Hillary Clinton who dared to speak the truth and point out Obama’s deficiencies.
This explains why the media largely remained silent to the continual misogynist attacks against Hillary and her supporters. A silence that remains unto this day. It was a carefully crafted strategy that required the acquiescence of the DNC, the media and the Obama campaign. And unfortunately for our country, they all went along with it.
In cases where they were unable to fully quash free speech they relied upon an equally effective and devastating strategy: Political Correctness. This was taken to such extreme measures that the lie outpaced the obvious truth. Remember Bill Clinton’s “fairy tale” comments. It didn’t matter that a video existed that showed clearly what Bill was referring to. The distorted message became the reported message and the rest is history.
In addition to mechanics which ensured victory and the concomittant diminution in free speech occasioned by such mechanisms, Obama and his supporters used political correctness as a by word for any attack on Obama and his views. They ranged deep and wide, but the most pernicious attacks were those claiming personal racism based on statements that had nothing to do with racism, and on the wild claims that ended the current campaign, suggesting that Hillary Clinton was calling for someone to kill Obama because of her reference to Bobby Kennedy.
The final nail in the coffin came when the Obama campaign decided that they were going to claim victory before the last two primaries had even taken place. And the media bought the bullshit hook, line and sinker. The message before the results even came in on June 4th was that Obama had already received enough delegates to claim the nomination. The fact that this claim was unsubstantiated meant nothing. It became the message and it all we heard about. Nothing like drowning out a free discussion of the facts to hoodwink the masses.
I had thought that maybe, just maybe after George Bush left office, that we would see a return to a respect for the Constitution and the rule of law. But instead we are becoming more aware day by day how Obama is chipping away at the basic freedoms we have taken for granted for the past 217 years. Freedoms that too many Americans sacrificed their lives for.
In Obama We Trust.
When a man becomes the Nation, we have Stalin.
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