10/9/2008
The coming counterrevolution to the alternative media
By Brian C. Anderson at IBD Editorials…, there is also an excerpt posted at Free Republic. This was sent to me by someone who sends out fantastic things through email….without the links!!!
Conservative-friendly media better get ready. Should Barack Obama win the presidency and the Democrats control Congress, as now seems likely, they will launch a full-scale war to drive critics — especially on political talk radio — right out of legitimate public debate.
Signs of what the new environment will be like for the right are already evident:
- When the National Rifle Association recently released television and radio ads in Pennsylvania targeting Obama’s history of anti-gun votes, the Obama campaign’s general counsel fired off bullying letters to stations that ran the spots, implying that they may have violated public-interest obligations.
- When the 527 group, the American Issues Project, came out with a commercial linking Obama to former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, the campaign (unsuccessfully) complained to the Department of Justice that AIP had broken campaign finance laws, and managed to spook some stations away from the ad.
- When two different conservative writers looking into Obama’s background appeared on Chicago’s WGN-AM Radio, the campaign’s “action wire” energized its activists to bombard the station with rage-filled phone calls and e-mails, making the program more difficult to conduct.
(The show, hosted by the eminently reasonable Milt Rosenberg, had on both occasions invited the Obama campaign to send a representative to respond; the campaign preferred to answer with digital brownshirts.)
Read the rest at IBD Editorials.
This is getting to the point where I’ve been wondering where to move to; the sad part is -the US is IT. If we don’t save our country from these idiots, we are in for some long, very dark years ahead.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:44 am
The Oath of Office:
I, (Name), having been appointed an officer in the Army of the United States…in the grade of (Grade), do solemly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, “FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC”; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter; SO HELP ME GOD.
My old Two Star (Major General) looked at me one time and asked, “Chris, at which point must our moral obligation force us to decide who is abiding by the Constitution and who is not, and which side of the road that ‘domestic’ enemy might be?”
October 9th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Yeah, ’cause Bush has really been looking after the Constitution hasn’t he?
October 10th, 2008 at 6:34 am
The lefties claim Bush has violated the Constitution; only they can’t even quote what it is he violated. They can’t seem to get past those empty SLOGANS and think for themselves.
Bush isn’t the one who is robbing people of their free speech, stalking and threatening to kill people who don’t agree; attacking political opponents in the street, etc….
But Obama’s followers are…
October 10th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Instead of the constitution, Obama and his ilk are looking after “The Sayings of Maqo” and “The Communist Manifesto!”
October 10th, 2008 at 11:02 am
That was supposed to read: “The Sayings of Mao” and “The Communist Manifesto!”
October 10th, 2008 at 11:07 am
So true, Chris; so true!!!