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To: ksuave who wrote (1218)	9/30/2008 3:45:23 PM
From: longnshort	of 1262

Free speech III Another thing fueling conservative suspicion on the Missouri Truth Squad was that just a week earlier, the Obama campaign was organizing supporters to intimidate Chicago radio station WGN-AM into canceling the appearance of author David Freddoso on one of its talk shows. Conservative blogger Dale Price wrote that the Obama campaign "has decided it's going to shout down anybody who offers a criticism in a public forum." Mr. Price satirized the campaign with a picture of Romanian coal miners, linking to a 1990 article about President Ion Iliescu getting thousands of miners to attack anti-government demonstrators in Bucharest with clubs and truncheons. Guy Benson at National Review's Media Blog cited an Obama campaign e-mail that says "the author of the latest anti-Barack hit book is appearing on WGN Radio in the Chicagoland market tonight, and your help is urgently needed to make sure his baseless lies don't gain credibility. David Freddoso has made a career off dishonest, extreme hate mongering ... And WGN apparently thinks this card-carrying member of the right-wing smear machine needs a bigger platform for his lies and smears about Barack Obama - on the public airwaves." Matthew Vadum at the American Spectator noted that Team Obama already had "attempted to mau-mau Freddoso's fellow National Review writer, Stanley Kurtz," who was researching the Chicago Annenberg Challenge "because both Obama and his friend [Weathermen terrorist William] Ayers were involved in it. "The campaign tried to shut down the show. Obama supporters inundated the show with telephone calls and picketed outside the studio. They also called other talk shows and regurgitated the talking points the campaign fed them," Mr. Vadum wrote. Hot Air's Ed Morrissey asked aloud: "Where is the rest of the media on this? It's the second time in three weeks that the campaign itself has organized a brute squad to intimidate journalists into silence ... and the rest of the media seems content to allow it. • Contact Victor Morton

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