That's curious, I thought that Republican's were all in favor of viewers using their free speech rights to try and influence corporate behavior. I don't know anything about Freddoso, so I can't comment on the allegations from him or against him. But I think that it is indeed the exercise of free speech to have people tell a group that they don't care for the product that is being pushed. I may find it odious when Dobson and his ilk try things like pushing boycotts of Walmart when they provide domestic partner benefits or when media outlets get blackballed for unfavorable reporting, but that is, as we say, the price of free speech.
I expect you, Sam, to attack the NY Times when you think it is publishing biased, bogus, fictional journalism (which seems to be often enough). And you can expect me to vomit in my mouth a little most any time something comes up in the National Review. That is, indeed, the miracle of free speech in America, even in this corporatized age. We all have something to bitch and complain about. Judah On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NzQ1NGYzZTYzOTVjMmNmYzhlY2Q0NzFmNDUyOGY0ZWQ= > > Obama's Assault on Free Speech: The Sequel [Guy Benson] > > A few weeks ago, I offered an account of the effort by the Obama > campaign to shut down an interview with Stanley Kurtz on Chicago's WGN > radio. > > Well, here we go again. > > Last night, WGN's studio lines were bombarded with irate calls from > Obama supporters in response to yet another interview on "Extension > 720," hosted by the venerable Milt Rosenberg. This time the offending > "card-carrying member of the right-wing smear machine" was National > Review's own David Freddoso, author of The Case Against Barack Obama. > > What, pray tell, are Freddoso's transgressions? According to the Obama > Action Wire email, he peddles "baseless lies," engages in "dishonest, > extreme hate mongering," and has made a career out of "vicious > partisan attacks." The email urges supporters to call in and > "confront" Freddoso before "this goes any further." They're also > encouraged to report back the details of their phone calls through a > special dedicated page on Obama's website. > > The email even boasts about the success of a previous blitz on free speech: > > A couple weeks ago, we asked you to call into Rosenberg's radio show > when he hosted unapologetic smear artist Stanley Kurtz' incoherent > rantings about Barack and William Ayers. > > And you responded. Rosenberg's producer said the flood of calls and > emails the show received was the biggest response ever for something > like this. > > > How true! Never before had Rosenberg's show been inundated with > hysterical telephone calls and threatening emails aimed at not at > debate but at disrupting a legitimate interview. The Obama campaign's > characterization of the Kurtz conversation as "the incoherent > rantings" of an "unapologetic smear artist" is particularly absurd. > > During the August fiasco, outraged pro-Obama callers fumed that WGN > had offered Kurtz an unchallenged forum, despite the fact that Team > Obama had declined an invitation to appear alongside Kurtz for the > duration of the program. This time, however, Freddoso was actually > paired up with an Obama-supporting counterpart. This wasn't good > enough for the Obama thought police, who blasted out marching orders > to shut down the discussion. Once again, the phones melted down. The > Obama campaign should be proud. > > Interestingly, the call-to-action email devotes a great deal of space > to trying to discredit Freddoso himself citing allegedly offensive > articles he authored as far back as 2003. Apparently shooting the > messenger is a major element of what the email calls "fighting the > good fight." > > Other elements of the Obama "fact check" are just laughable. Consider, > for instance, this item: > > "Freddoso asks Barack, "How many unrepentant Communist terrorists do > you have as friends?" [p. 126] This question is so ridiculous it > refutes itself. Barack might as well ask Freddoso how many leprechauns > he's friends with." > > > A "ridiculous" question? At last count, Obama is friends with at least > two unrepentant terrorists. Despite attending Notre Dame, I don't > think Freddoso has ever known any actual leprechauns. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:269617 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
