SubscribeObama Demands DOJ Block Bill Ayers Ad
From the Politico:
Obama to DOJ: Block terrorist ad
By BEN SMITH | 8/25/08
Sen. Barack Obama has launched an all-out effort to block a Republican billionaire’s efforts to tie him to domestic and foreign terrorists in a wave of negative television ads.
Obama’s campaign has written the Department of Justice demanding a criminal investigation of the “American Issues Project,” the vehicle through which Dallas investor Harold Simmons is financing the advertisements. The Obama campaign — and tens of thousands of supporters — also is pressuring television networks and affiliates to reject the ads. The effort has met with some success: CNN and Fox News are not airing the attacks.
Obama has also launched his own response ad, directly addressing Simmons’ attempt to link him to domestic terror.
The project is “a knowing and willful attempt to violate the strictures of federal election law,” Obama general counsel Bob Bauer wrote to Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Keeney last week in a letter provided to Politico. Bauer argued that by advocating Obama’s defeat, the ad should be subject to the contribution limits of federal campaign law, not the anything-goes regime of issue advocacy.
Bauer’s letter called on the Justice Department to open “an investigation of the American Issues Project; its officers and directors; and its anonymous donors, whoever they may be.” …
The Obama campaign plans to punish the stations that air the ad financially, an Obama aide said, organizing his supporters to target the stations that air it and their advertisers…
Obama’s campaign has written a pair of letters to station managers carrying the ads.
The letter calls the ad’s attempt to link Obama to terrorism “an appalling lie, a disgraceful smear of the lowest kind on the senator’s patriotism and commitment to the rule of law.”
Airing the ad “is inconsistent with your station’s obligations under Federal Communications Commission regulations,” the letter continues, saying Simmons’ group lacks formal incorporation.
One large group of network affiliates, the Sinclair Broadcast Group — which aired an documentary attacking John Kerry in 2004 — has been running the ads, Obama aides said. The campaign has launched a special effort to pressure Sinclair.
“Obama supporters have now sent more than 93,000 e-mails to the Sinclair stations that have decided to run the ad,” said Obama’s spokesman Tommy Vietor. “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.” …
The ad focuses on Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers, a Hyde Park acquaintance at whose home Obama attended a gathering early in his political career. Ayers is a complicated figure: professor and adviser to the mayor of Chicago despite not having repented his past as a domestic terrorist with the Weather Underground…
“The fact that [Obama] is launching his own convention by defending his long association with a man who says he didn’t bomb enough U.S. targets tells us more about Barack Obama than any of tonight’s speeches will,” said McCain spokesman Brian Rogers…
Somehow one would think the Department of Justice would have better things to do vis a vis Mr. Ayres than to try to prevent the truth about him from coming out.
But just imagine the kind of country we will have under an Obama regime.
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August 26th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Barry sounds like he needs the “Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah”mbulance…
The ‘rats: Free speech for me, but not for thee.
August 26th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
The (un) Fairness Doctrine coming soon to a neighborhood near you if Obamanation is elected - if the guy is just a neighbor - you know someone who lives around you - why all the crying about an ad that isn’t even by the other candidate? I think he dost protest too much.
August 26th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Obomination could marry Bill Ayers, and still his cronies would scream foul that anyone would accuse him of associating with a known terrorist.
Facts are a foreign concept to the idiots backing Obama, and the fact that they are trying to intimidate anyone or group that brings them to the light of day speaks volumes about their willful stupidity.
August 26th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Looks like the Chicago Tribune trying to bury this one:
http://tinyurl.com/5wxv55
August 26th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
“He has a controversial past”
The FBI has a nice collection of files about his “controversial past:
http://tinyurl.com/5b77np
I wonder if they will be scrubbed upon the Obama ascendancy.
August 26th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Let’s just summarize the letters Obama’s campaign is likely sending, shall we?
“If I am elected and you want to keep your broadcast license under my FCC, you’ll stop running these ads now. Yours, Barack”
August 26th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Ayers proved his bona fides as a radical liberal; his strong opposition to the Born Alive Abortion Bill put him in good standing with NOW; Wright gave him the race-baiting street cred needed to win in a predominately black district; Rezko provided the necessary cash; his blind opposition to the Iraq War, including the successful surge, placated the MoveOn.org kooks.
He needed all this to get to where he is today, but now that he’s on a national stage, he wants to bury it all in the past. What’s worse is that he wants to deny us our freedom of speech.
August 26th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Interesting, no denial from Hussein’s minions regarding the domestic terrorist facts against Ayers. They’re just PO’d the ad ties the Obamessiah to Ayers.
Seems like being a domestic terrorist is OK in their book. The old adage “birds of a feather” definitely applies to the libtards.
August 26th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezco etc. etc. etc. just the men behind the empty suit of Barak Hussein Obama. And if I might add a pun, Senator as far as these ads are concerned the United States is ALL EARS!! LMAO
August 27th, 2008 at 12:08 am
“a Hyde Park acquaintance at whose home Obama attended a gathering early in his political career.”
Honestly, correct me if I am mistaken about this. I thought that this “gathering” was a fund raiser that was the official launch of Obama’s campaign. Is that incorrect?
August 27th, 2008 at 8:30 am
LMGS - according to what I know - yes it was a fundraiser and the official launch of Obamanation’s political
careercampaign.August 27th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Maybe Obama can sic the “DNC’s Patrick Fitzgerald” on anyone who dares to disagree with the ONE. Right, SG?
August 28th, 2008 at 1:49 am
Why would they complain to the DOJ instead of the FEC? It seems to me that would be the appropriate body to lodge a complaint with in this situation.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:04 am
On this page is the mp3 of Milt Rosenberg’s interview with Stanley Kurtz of the National Review regarding the Annenberg papers.
http://tinyurl.com/6agm9f
Rosenberg, a sweet old guy who’s been on Chicago radio for years, remarks that in the 30 years of his show he’s never seen as much agitation regarding a subject on his show. Includes calls from Obamination supporters that have to be heard to be believed.
August 28th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Re: Bill Ayers - now that the Obamanation attempts to silence the Obama/Ayers ad via the DOJ and Stanley Kurtz via seminar callers - this am our morning talk radio guy and a caller brought out this: Ayers said in 1969- ‘Bring the war home. Kill your parents’ - wonder after being confronted by a peace activist that he (Ayers) came from wealth. . .I bring this up as I was young at the time - but I remember the chill (most especially so close on the heels of the Manson Family murders) that sent through my family.
He himself (redeemed, reformed or not) has climbed up the ladder to attain that vile and defiled wealth - so where is his repentance on this issue - does he advocate that his children rise up and kill him - for buying into the very system that he claims is so corrupt.
Or is it only rich Republicans and conservatives who are corrupt? And isn’t that another touch of irony that is completely overlooked by this dangerous, vile and possibly evil bunch of lying, cheating, two-faced socialists?
Even McAmnesty is better - far, far better than electing the empty suit with his Chicago Thug political machine and the dangerous people he ‘associates’ with.