Obama Muzzling the Media [Update]
By Larry Johnson on August 28, 2008 at 10:57 AM in 1st Amendment, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Chicago politics, Commander in Chief, Current Affairs, Freedom of Speech, Terrorism, Weather Underground
On the eve of his climactic convention speech, Obama’s camapign has turned its full energy to shutting down any media focus on his relationship with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Obama’s ludicrous claim that Ayers was just some guy in the “neighborhood” is being exposed systematically for the lie it is. In fact, Ayers was a mentor and close associate for years and was instrumental in launching first his professional and then his political career. Obama has systematically covered up their links and lied about them.
Now Obama has unleashed his fury at Chicago’s biggest AM radio station owned by the Chicago Tribune for allowing a conservative writer and researcher Stanley Kurtz of the National Review to appear on a talk show to discuss his findings on the Ayers-Obama collaboration. [UPDATE: LISTEN to the MP3 of the WGN interview.]
Kurtz may be a conservative. His political views may be obnoxious. But his research is conclusive, factual and inarguable. Ayers and Obama have had a long relationship with Ayers playing the mentor and Obama as protege. And Obama has lied and lied and lied.
Kurtz’s work, unlike Jerome Corsi’s, is not a smear. It is factual.
Why is Obama reacting with such nervousness and such disproportionate anger? Because the truth is so damaging. You can’t hang with an unrepentant terrorist and then want to get elected as commander-in-chief to lead a global war on terror. The average voter won’t swallow that nonsense.
Will the mainstream media report the facts as Kurtz has done? Will it finally do the objective reporting it failed to do throughout the primary campaign? Will the media be upset at Obama’s effort at news suppression and censorship? Will the media discuss Obama’s assault on the First Amendment?






















