Obama Campaign Pressures Television Stations to Stop Airing NRA Ads

Barack Obama’s attack on the freedom of the press and of free speech is in high gear now. Just yesterday I wrote about the truth squads that Obama has employed in Missouri to harass and intimidate people that they feel are producing negative ads. As if that wasn’t enough there is more. Now the Stalinists in Barack Obama’s campaign are trying to convince television stations in Ohio and Pennsylvania to stop airing ads that they don’t like.

This particular ad is by the NRA and it accuses Barack Obama of wanting to ban some guns and tax others. Barack Obama himself filled out a questionnaire in which he stated he was for the ban of all handguns, so he is on record with this position. His campaign still calls the ad misleading and sent a letter to the television station.

“The advertisement knowingly misleads your viewing audience about Senator Obama’s position on the Second Amendment,” wrote Robert Bauer, general counsel to the Obama campaign in a letter dated Sept. 23 to various TV stations in Pennsylvania and Ohio. (See letter) “For the sake of both FCC licensing requirements and the public interest, your station should refuse to continue to air this advertisement,”

That sure as hell sounds like a threat to me. It sounds like he is threatening to shut them down, which isn’t surprising considering we already know that is he becomes president he wants to re-institute the fairness doctrine.

To recap; Barack Obama is threatening television stations in Ohio and Pennsylvania with possible FCC sanctions, he has mobilized the Missouri police and attorneys to harass people who produce television ads that he doesn’t like, and he wants to silence conservative talk radio and blogs by re-instituting the fairness doctrine.

All of this before he becomes president. How far will he go after he becomes president? We are no longer able to criticize anything that Dear Leader says. He will come after us if we do.

Big Brother is watching.