The osamabama nazi threatens stations that air ad he doesn't like.

[tuolumnejim]

Maybe we can get fat teddy to drive him bye a lake. 

Link

Obama seeks to silence ad tying him to 60s radical

By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer
Mon Aug 25, 8:47 PM ET
 


DENVER - Barack Obama is striking back fiercely and swiftly to stamp out an ad that links him to a 1960s radical, eager to demonstrate a far more aggressive response to attacks than John Kerry did when faced with the 2004 "Swift Boat" campaign.

 
Obama not only aired a response ad to the spot linking him to William Ayers, but he sought to block stations the commercial by warning station managers and asking the Justice Department to intervene. The campaign also planned to compel advertisers to pressure stations that continue to air the anti-Obama commercial.

It's the type of going-for-the-jugular approach to politics many Democrats complain that Kerry lacked and that Republicans exploit.

Obama's target is an ad by the conservative American Issues Project, a nonprofit group that questions Obama's ties to Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground organization that took credit for a series of bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol four decades ago.

The lone financier of the anti-Obama ad, Texas billionaire Harold Simmons, was also one of the main funders of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth who targeted Kerry. Simmons, a McCain fundraiser, contributed nearly $2.9 million to the American Issues Project, according to documents filed by the group with the Federal Election Commission.

Fox News and CNN have declined to air the anti-Obama ad. But by Monday afternoon, the ad had run about 150 times in local markets in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Michigan, according to Evan Tracey, head of TNS Media Intelligence/Campaign Media Analysis Group, an ad tracking firm.

Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said Obama supporters have inundated stations that are airing the ad, many of them owned by Sinclair Communications, with 93,000 e-mails. He called the ad false, despicable and outrageous.

"Other stations that follow Sinclair's lead should expect a similar response from people who don't want the political discourse cheapened with these false, negative attacks," Vietor said.

Sinclair offices were closed late Monday and officials there could not be immediately contacted.

"It seems they protest a bit too much," American Issues Project spokesman Christian Pinkston said. "They're going all of these routes — through threats, intimation — to try to thwart the First Amendment here because they don't have an argument on merit."

Ayers is now a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He and Obama live in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood and served together on the board of the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based charity that develops community groups to help the poor. Obama left the board in December 2002.

Obama also was the first chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a school reform group of which Ayers was a founder. Ayers also held a meet-the-candidate event at his home for Obama when Obama first ran for office in the mid-1990s.

Obama has denounced Ayers' past activities.

"Barack Obama is friends with Ayers, defending him as, quote, 'Respectable' and 'Mainstream,'" the group's ad states. "Obama's political career was launched in Ayers' home. And the two served together on a left-wing board. Why would Barack Obama be friends with someone who bombed the Capitol and is proud of it? Do you know enough to elect Barack Obama?"

In a letter to station managers, Obama campaign lawyer Robert Bauer wrote: "Your station is committed to operating in the public interest, an objective that cannot be satisfied by accepting for compensation material of such malicious falsity."

Bauer also wrote to Deputy Assistant Attorney General John C. Keeney, noting that the ad is a "knowing and willful attempt to evade the strictures of federal election law."

The campaign's aggressive tactics could draw more attention to a subject the campaign wants to go away. On Tuesday, the University of Illinois at Chicago will make available records of Obama's service on the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. The group was set up to improve the city's schools. The documents could shed further light on whether Obama and Ayers had a relationship.

The American Issues Project is a 501(c)4 nonprofit corporation. It is permitted by law to air a political ad provided that the majority of its spending is nonpolitical. It cannot accept money from corporations and it must identify the donors that finance its ads in reports to the Federal Election Commission. Pinkston said the group has set aside money to carry out non-election related work to meet the legal requirements. It filed a report identifying Simmons as its sole donor for the ad last week.

In the Obama campaign's own response ad, an announcer states: "With all our problems, why is John McCain talking about the 60s, trying to link Barack Obama to radical Bill Ayers. McCain knows Obama denounced Ayers' crimes, committed when Obama was just 8 years old."

The McCain campaign cannot coordinate efforts with outside groups. But the campaign took advantage of being the target of the response ad.

"The fact that Barack Obama chose to launch his political career at the home of an unrepentant terrorist raises more questions about Senator Obama's judgment than any TV ad ever could," said McCain spokesman Brian Rogers.

[rich_t]

Perhaps Barry bin Biden is afraid of the truth?

[Chris]

This is nothing new for Bolshevik Obama

[lizard]

Evidently, Freedom of Speech only applies when it is convenient.  Barky's association with an unrepentant terrorist like Ayers (remember he said he had no regrets and felt like he hadn't done enough), is indicative of the nature of Barky and a direct reflection of his character and judgment <---both of which he lacks sorely.

[DumbAss Tanker]

It's a losing proposition to counterattack with hard-ball tactics instead of facts, all it does is turn the contested commercial into "The spot Barack Obama Doesn't Want You to See" and drive it all viral on the web.

[Lord Undies]

If calling an ad "material of such malicious falsity" is all it takes to discredit an ad, then no ad is safe.  The Obama Nation must point out each "malicious falsity" and refute it with their version of the truth.   The ad as ran seems to jive perfectly with actual history.  We need to know why actual history is wrong.

I was eight years old when Lee Oswald murdered President John F. Kennedy.  If he had lived, Oswald would be sixty-nine years old now.  I'm fifty-four.  Oswald could have been a friend of mine today.  Would that be OK?  Should Oswald's past be forgiven?  Could I run for President of the USA with the nation knowing about my association with Lee Oswald? 

[Lauri]

there was an article written from a child's perspective about the day Ayers bombed a private home of a judge and how that family reacted to it.. why that didnt get more attention, I dont know. but for Obama and the press to act like Ayers never hurt a fly, is pathological.

[jinxmchue]

Obama knows exactly how damaging his relationship to Ayers is.

[Chris_]

Obama knows exactly how damaging his relationship to Ayers is.

And his relationship with his racist pastor, Rev. Wright.

And his relationship with his convicted felon real estate broker, Tony Rezko.

And his relationship with his Islamic/American relations advisor (and PLO shill/money man) Rashid Khalidi.

And his relationship with his mentor (and Communist Party fifth columnist) Frank Marshal Davis.

And his relationship with his America-hating, black-liberation socialist wife, Michelle Obama.

And his relationship with...

(Need I go on?)

[Tess Anderson]

Yep, Ayers is just one of his many *questionable* associations. Chicago Machine politicans tend to come with a lot of baggage, and I think I'll post AIP's official response to the lawsuit Barack Hussein Obama filed:

"This is a sad ploy to circumvent the First Amendment by a campaign who has no arguments with the merits of our ad. It’s the classic maneuver: If you can’t win on the merits, file a lawsuit."

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-camp-threatens-tv-stations-for.html

He's such a crybaby whiner.

[Chris]

update:

Obama camp: Prosecute Simmons

Obama general counsel Bob Bauer today sent a second, sharper letter to the Justice Department, directly attacking the Dallas billionaire funding a harsh attack ad, Harold Simmons.

"We reiterate our request that the Department of Justice fulfill its commitment to take prompt action to investigate and to prosecute the American issues Project, and we further request that the Department of Justice investigate and prosecute Howard (sic) Simmons for a knowing and willful violation of the individual aggregate contribution limits," he wrote.

He called the group's activities "patently illegal."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Obama_camp_Prosecute_Simmons.html(more...)

[Hawkgirl]

but but he's an everyday kind of guy that understand the working class...he's one of us...doesn't everyone have a friend who is a terrorist that does special favors?

[Chris_]

If calling an ad "material of such malicious falsity" is all it takes to discredit an ad, then no ad is safe.  The Obama Nation must point out each "malicious falsity" and refute it with their version of the truth.   The ad as ran seems to jive perfectly with actual history.  We need to know why actual history is wrong.

I was eight years old when Lee Oswald murdered President John F. Kennedy.  If he had lived, Oswald would be sixty-nine years old now.  I'm fifty-four.  Oswald could have been a friend of mine today.  Would that be OK?  Should Oswald's past be forgiven?  Could I run for President of the USA with the nation knowing about my association with Lee Oswald? 

Ayers is worse than Oswald.  Oswald targeted an individual.  Ayers declared war in the entire USA, and acted on that declaration.  He did and does hate the USA.  He also launched uh-bam-uh's political career.

This isn't just shadows crossing -- this is a long-time, deep and cultivated relationship.

[Sadie]

This is a video link to Ayres giving a speech about his books and how proud he is of what he did by blowing up buildings.

http://fora.tv/2006/01/26/Weather_Underground

[Lord Undies]

If calling an ad "material of such malicious falsity" is all it takes to discredit an ad, then no ad is safe.  The Obama Nation must point out each "malicious falsity" and refute it with their version of the truth.   The ad as ran seems to jive perfectly with actual history.  We need to know why actual history is wrong.

I was eight years old when Lee Oswald murdered President John F. Kennedy.  If he had lived, Oswald would be sixty-nine years old now.  I'm fifty-four.  Oswald could have been a friend of mine today.  Would that be OK?  Should Oswald's past be forgiven?  Could I run for President of the USA with the nation knowing about my association with Lee Oswald? 

Ayers is worse than Oswald.  Oswald targeted an individual.  Ayers declared war in the entire USA, and acted on that declaration.  He did and does hate the USA.  He also launched uh-bam-uh's political career.

This isn't just shadows crossing -- this is a long-time, deep and cultivated relationship.

I have no problem understanding that.  My goal was to defuse the idea that just because someone was "eight years old" then doesn't make them clean now.  The idea is absurd. 

Adolf Hitler would be 119 now.  I don't think he would be a changed man.  Not in the public's eye.

[Duke Nukum]

Well, let's look at it from Obama's point of view:

1.  He can't afford to let the truth about him come out.
2.  Sans teleprompter, he lacks even the charisma of John Milhous Kerry so he really has no way to fight back against the truth
3.

Okay, that's all I got from his point of view.

[Lauri]

what gets me is that Obama thinks he can run to the DOJ and force an investgation of a private citizen... I would think any citizen (moonbat or not)  would be outraged by a presidential candidate doing something such as this.

[Jim]

one would think it would just be easier to tell the truth about this pack of lies ad.


oh wait...

nevermind.

[BannedFromDU]

what gets me is that Obama thinks he can run to the DOJ and force an investgation of a private citizen... I would think any citizen (moonbat or not)  would be outraged by a presidential candidate doing something such as this.

    Obama is showing us exactly how arrogant and Soviet he actually is. He wants the DOJ to go after Simmons. He wants WGN to shut down Howard Kurtz. Is there ANY doubt about how he would behave if we were dumb enough to elect him POTUS?

[JohnnyReb]

This is a video link to Ayres giving a speech about his books and how proud he is of what he did by blowing up buildings.

http://fora.tv/2006/01/26/Weather_Underground

Makes you want to take his temperture, don't it...........rectally with a stick of dynamite.