There’s an ugly truth (or four) in the deep recesses several layers beneath the Obama campaign’s ethereal platitudes of “Hope and Change.” One is the “Obama Action Wire,” an official arm of the Obama campaign with the specific purpose of unleashing the candidate’s disciples to stifle the free speech of anyone who dares question the supremecy of “The One.”
When the Obama campaign gets wind of an appearance by a conservative author or coverage of anti-Obama information on a media outlet that allows input from the public (usually talk radio), the “Obama Action Wire” posts incendiary information about the appearance including the assumed subject matter, contact information, and talking points to refute whatever information is being discussed. “Obama Action Wire” posts also contain “shoot the messenger” smears to be used against the guest who dares to have an opinion with which the Obama campaign disagrees.
The O-zombies then flood the telephone lines or email boxes of the “offending” media outlet in a move designed to keep legitimate inquiries from seeing the light of day, shout down opposing viewpoints, and intimidate media outlets into not bothering to book guests that express opinions not condoned by the Obama campaign. “Obama Action Wire” missives also target advertisers.
The Obamabots are invited to report their speech-stifling actions back to the Obama campaign for congratulations at their successful suppression of dissent.
Grumblings about the tactics employed by the “Obama Action Wire” have been bubbling underneath the surface of campaign coverage on conservative sites since it was used against Chicago’s talk radio station WGN-AM during an appearance by author Stanley Kurtz in late August. The tactic was used against WGN again during an appearance by author David Freddoso on Monday night.
Information about the “Obama Action Wire” is starting to make its way to the more mainstream press.
The latest incident, reported in the Chicago Tribune, “orchestrated a massive stream of complaints on the phone lines of Tribune Co.-owned WGN-AM in Chicago. “The offense: The station hosted National Review’s David Freddoso, author of ‘The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate,’ a fair and rigorous but adversarial examination of Mr. Obama’s record. Surely, we can’t have any of that.
“The Action Wire serves as a means of arming our supporters with the facts to take on those who spread lies about Barack Obama and respond forcefully with the truth, whether it’s an author passing off fiction as biography, a Web site spreading baseless conspiracy theories or a TV station airing an ad that makes demonstrably false claims,” Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt told the Tribune.
How Orwellian. Mr. LaBolt defends the very actions that prevent WGN-AM and others from airing the facts, as though obstructionism is an “airing of facts.”
Note to the Obama campaign: Informed observers don’t get “the facts” only from a political campaign. They read and listen to the independent media outlets – the same outlets the thin-skinned Mr. Obama is currently trying to quash.
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