http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics...onts_wgn_r.html

Apparently you can only be allowed to speak if you agree with Obama.

Another article about this..

http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-ob...,3744149.story

501©(4) Accused of Violating Campaign Finance Law With Ads Attacking Obama

A new group the American Issues Project (AIP) has been caught in controversy over an ad linking candidate Senator Barack Obama☼ (D-IL) to former domestic terrorist William Ayers. As a 501©(4) organization it is allowed to air a political ad as long as 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 (FEC). The ad however, is being considered by some to be a violation of election law.

The ad "Know Enough" has images of Obama and Ayers, with a narrator asking, "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?"

Those who are calling the ad illegal consider it to clearly be express advocacy; the ad concerns an election, takes a position on the character and fitness for office of the candidate, and raises no legislative issue. The Ayers ad mentions Obama's name and uses the word "elect." According to the Supreme Court decision in FEC v. Wisconsin Right to Life, an ad can be regulated and considered express advocacy "only if the ad is susceptible of no reasonable interpretation other than as an appeal to vote for or against a specific candidate."

In response, Obama's general counsel wrote letters to television stations, asserting that the Ayers ad is illegal and false, and that its airing is subject to a FEC penalty. The letter states that Obama never called Ayers "respectable" and "mainstream." In addition a letter was sent to the Department of Justice (DOJ) requesting an investigation into the group's activities for possible violations of campaign finance law.

According to a Politico story, a spokesman for AIP Christian Pinkston said, "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."

AIP submitted an independent expenditure report that indicates the group is spending nearly $3 million on television ads attacking Obama.
http://www.ombwatch.org/article/blogs/entry/5321/34[/b]

It is illegal and I am so GLAD that Obama is standing up to this BS the way the Kerry never did.

[TigerMom]

Apparently, you also can't cover what they don't want you to see.

ABC News staffer jailed amid DNC
Trying to photograph senators and donors at Brown Palace Hotel


http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Conventions/...8763&page=1

Asa Eslocker and a camera crew were attempting to film and talk to Democratic senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the hotel as part of a nightly news series on the corporate lobbyists and wealthy donors at the Democratic National Convention. Police arrested Eslocker and charged him with trespassing, failure to follow a lawful order, and interference with a police officer.[/b]

Some reports state that the police officers pushed Eslocker into traffic to keep him from taking pictures. The hotel claims the sidewalk is their property, but apparently it is public property.

Apparently, you also can't cover what they don't want you to see.

ABC News staffer jailed amid DNC
Trying to photograph senators and donors at Brown Palace Hotel


http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Conventions/...8763&page=1

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Asa Eslocker and a camera crew were attempting to film and talk to Democratic senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the hotel as part of a nightly news series on the corporate lobbyists and wealthy donors at the Democratic National Convention. Police arrested Eslocker and charged him with trespassing, failure to follow a lawful order, and interference with a police officer.[/b]

Some reports state that the police officers pushed Eslocker into traffic to keep him from taking pictures. The hotel claims the sidewalk is their property, but apparently it is public property.
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I fail to see how this is Obama's fault. Do you have information that we don't. Did he tell the police to idiotically push that journalist with a camera crew into the street. From what I hear the Denver police have also did something like this to a journalist who was trying to take pictures of anti war protesters. The only thing I might find Obama's fault is choosing a city with a history of dickhead cops. But then again how many cities, (that can accomidate that many people) would pass muster?

Also I seem to remember McCain's people asking a little old lady librarian to leave a public event for having a sign that said McCain = Bush. We KNOW he told them to get her out of there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfB4ZqgUlgw

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http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics...onts_wgn_r.html

Apparently you can only be allowed to speak if you agree with Obama.[/b]

I don't see anything in this article that states Obama was trying to get the station boycotted or felt that Stanley Kurtz wasn't allowed to speak.. they wanted a fair rebuttal against a well-known political journalist who was using his current article to slander Obama's campaign. I bet Obama had nothing to do with "call-in campaign" and it was all his supporters doing.