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Truly extraordinary story about the Obama campaign's attempt to intimidate and bully WGN into not airing a segment with writer Stanley Kurtz, who has been documenting Obama's ties to the unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers.



Last night Chicago's own Milt Rosenberg hosted Kurtz for the duration of his WGN 720 show. The Obama campaign declined Rosenberg's invitation to have a representative appear with Kurtz on the show. Rosenberg has made a podcast of the show available for download here.

JOHN adds: This is another in the series of near-daily "Democrats vs. Free Speech" stories. It is noteworthy that the Obama campaign's email to the candidate's acolytes says, "At the very least, they should offer sane, honest rebuttal to every one of Kurtz's lies," but fails to disclose that the radio station invited a representative of the campaign to appear on the show. Barack Obama hates debate, but loves bully-boy tactics.



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The WGN incident is just the latest demonstration of the left's new favorite tactic.  You don't need to go to WGN or Obama to see this happening.  Right here in Wisconsin you see it in the coordinated campaign by the left to gag WMC.  Soglin, Riley, Doyle, Faulkner, One Wisconsin Now, and others are trying to shut down WMC for representing their members' pro business agenda.  OWN is now bombing harassing e-mails into WMC member companies calling them all sorts of names and accusing WMC of "lowering the debate" "ruining the tenor of political debate in Wisconsin" etc (sound familiar?)

The most significant thing to notice about the current anti WMC attacks is that  - like the Obama tactic last night - none of them focus on the message/agenda, they just want to bully\gag\punish the messenger. 

That's because  they know they can't beat the message.  The left's only hope is to gag the most effective purveyor of that message in the state.

This is dangerous almost neo-facist stuff, and it is being adopted as the #1 option in the left's playbook nowadays.  And it's not happening by grassroots or coincidence.  It is by finely orchestrated design.  Again.  It is dangerous stuff.

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