The Obama camp has been threatening television and radio stations to keep them from airing anti-Obama ads.
The latest target is the NRA and stations in Pennsylvania. This week, Obama's campaign general counsel Bob Bauer wrote seeking to censor the ads at stations in Pennsylvania. "Unlike federal candidates, independent political organizations do not have a 'right to command the use of broadcast facilities,'" Bauer writes. "Moreover, you have a duty 'to protect the public from false, misleading or deceptive advertising.'" "This advertising is false, misleading, and deceptive," Bauer continued. "We request that you immediately cease airing this advertising." The NRA says Obama's camp are sending out these "intimidating cease and desist letters" to cable operators and television stations, threatening their FCC licenses if they run the ads. The NRA charged that "Obama and the DNC have been using strong-arm tactics reminiscent of Chicago machine politics to try and cover up the truth and silence NRA by forcing the stations to assist them in hiding Obama's radical anti-gun record." And now, Obama and the DNC have opened a new front in their assault on your First Amendment rights by calling on their followers to contact these station managers to demand that the stations not run NRA-PVF's ads. On Sep 29, 7:43 pm, SgtUSMC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As McCain said, Horse shit." > > On Sep 29, 9:28 am, "d.b.baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [Q] - Well there is more. I'm told that the DOJ will be looking into > > (most likely referring to the FBI) this as a possible civil rights > > violation as well as violation of free speech. Specifically St. Louis > > County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney > > Jennifer Joyce, could face individual jeopardy for misuse of office. > > > Actually Governor Blunt himself could order his State Attorney to open > > an investigation. > > > Remember it was the democrats that accused President Bush of > > politicizing the Justice Department and this is far beyond that. Most > > likely the announcement of the DOJ will come this week. > > -http://macsmind.blogspot.com/2008/09/doj-may-open-investigation-into-... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
