Obama’s character assassins target another National Review journalist

[5711-Marine]

David Freddoso attempted to appear on Milt Rosenberg’s WGN radio show last night, and just as when Stanley Kurtz tried to talk on the same show, the Barack Obama campaign organized a disruption of the show. The campaign sent out an e-mail to supporters in the area sliming Freddoso as an “extreme” hate monger, a “smear merchant”, and attempted to silence him despite Rosenberg having an Obama surrogate on the show:

Chicago radio station WGN-AM is again coming under attack from the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama for offering airtime to a controversial author.

It is the second time in recent weeks the station has been the target of an “Obama Action Wire” alert to supporters of the Illinois Democrat. …

The Tribune-owned station was flooded with calls and e-mails about an hour before an Aug. 27 interview with Stanley Kurtz, a conservative writer who examined Obama’s ties to former 1960s radical William Ayers.

A WGN producer said Monday night’s response was about the same as when Kurtz was on the station.

Here’s the “Obama Action Wire” in its entirety, courtesy of Guy Benson:

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, even calling legislation to protect people from hate crimes the “Thought Police.”

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.

Freddoso will be on WGN tonight from 9:00 to 11:00 to promote his new attack book against Barack.

Tell WGN that by providing Freddoso with airtime, they are legitimizing baseless attacks from a smear merchant and lowering the standards of political discourse.

Call into the “Extension 720″ show with Milt Rosenberg at (312) 591-7200

(Show airs from 9:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. tonight)

Then report back on your call at http://my.barackobama.com/WGNstandards

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.

Calling will only take a minute, and it will make a huge difference if we show that our grassroots movement can go toe-to-toe with their media smear machine.

Confront Freddoso tonight before this goes any further:

http://my.barackobama.com/WGNstandards

Please forward this email to everyone you know who can make a call tonight.

Keep fighting the good fight,

Obama Action Wire

Who is Freddoso, anyway? David Freddoso had the temerity to commit actual journalism in investigating Barack Obama’s record in public life. That resulted in his book, The Case Against Barack Obama, which has apparently angered The One to the point where he believes Freddoso shouldn’t get a chance to speak in public. Like with Kurtz, who committed the sin of journalism in attempting to get the records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge released, Obama has spewed invective at Freddoso for daring to dissent in print.

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. This kind of insane, hysterical reaction to criticism is apparently what we can expect from an Obama administration, and the rest of the media seems content to allow it.

We worry about the Fairness Doctrine. It appears that an Obama administration would be more comfortable with encouraging mobs to intimidate critics into silence. Hope and change, indeed.

Guy will have more on this at The Media Blog later this morning. In the meantime, here’s the link to David’s book:

Here’s the show in which I interviewed Freddoso about his book. (I removed the embed on this post because of the auto-play feature.)

Update: Guy has his post up at Media Blog. It’s another eyewitness account of the mob swarm, only Guy gets extra points for mentioning Notre Dame (who beat Michigan on Saturday) and leprechauns.

Update II: Here’s a link to the podcast.

[adymond]

Ah the good old days when government employed gangs of street thugs to help intimidate laborers. When government controlled what was able to make it out on the PUBLIC airwaves. Comrades please join me in professing our love for the Mother Land. Hurry up about it too or they will see you hesitate.

And aren't we hearing those on the left call conservatives and Republicans facists?

[schr8er2000]

Kinda sounds like "THE TRUTH HURTS"....if he has nothing to worry about then why is his FOLLOWERS so upset..... Hmmmmmmmmm....

[adymond]

Check out what the did to Michelle Malkin. His campaign is trying to get the DOJ to investigate her, her staff, and contributors because of ads aimed at bringing the Ayers relationship to light. This is a sign of things to come people. They will silence dissent at any cost and using any means.