Why would the Obama campaign choose to intimidate a radio station? Are they afraid of Kurtz's discoveries? ?

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Obama Supporters Target Radio Show for Examining Ties Between Obama and Bill Ayers

Supporters of Barack Obama made thousands of calls and sent thousands of e-mails Wednesday in an organized campaign to intimidate a Chicago radio station – WGN-AM – into canceling the appearance of a conservative writer on one of its long-time popular talk shows.

The campaign did not work, according to the talk-show’s producer.

The e-mails, which were prompted by an action alert called “The Obama Action Wave,” which The Chicago Tribune attributed to the Obama campaign, were all “very negative,” Christenson told CNSNews.com

“They were all using the same talking points that were sent out in the original Obama e-mail. They were all the same boilerplate e-mails,” Christenson said.

It was clearly an attempt to punish the show, which has been on the air for more than 30 years.

“I got the feeling they were trying to intimidate us,” Christenson said. “I definitely think that directing the phone calls and the e-mails of supporters was definitely an attempt, not to shut us down, but to intimidate us.”

The “call to action” read: “Tonight, WGN radio is giving right-wing hatchet man Stanley Kurtz a forum to air his baseless, fear-mongering terrorist smears. He's currently scheduled to spend a solid two-hour block from 9:00 to 11:00 p.m. pushing lies, distortions, and manipulations about Barack and University of Illinois professor William Ayers....

Kurtz was invited for the full two hours, which is customary for the show, and so was Obama’s campaign, he added.

“We do one topic for the entire two hours, and we offered the Obama campaign a chance to be on for the entire two hours as well, sort of a debate format, if you will,” Christenson said...

He continued: “The Obama campaign’s response was, ‘This guy is a liar. If you want to talk about the Annenberg Challenge, he’s not the guy you want. I can’t believe that you’re going to give this guy a forum."

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=34897

Answer 1

typical communist tactic, next will be the 'fairness doctrine' which is anything but fair, it is intended to completely stifle conservative talk radio

Answer 2

Obama WAS my MySpace "friend" until his sheeple read it!!!

Barack will be MORE COINTELPRO-inclined than Nixon & Hoover.

Answer 3

they're not trying to intimidate him. He's liar.  

Answer 4

One of the quickest and easiest ways to expose a lie is to confront it head on, something that Obama has not (cannot) done/do.

I believe that a lot of folks would be much more forgiving of BHO's relationship with "Illinois professor William Ayers"if Ayers had the least little bit of remorse for what he did and had not indicated that he might do it again.

But, hey it was a pretty smart tactic on the BHO campaign team, send messages to all the people that don't feel that being tied to a terrorist is a matter of importance and have them threaten and intimidate the radio station. Kind of like they aren't going to run a smear campaign but as soon as McCain announces Palin as his running mate a "Campaign worker" from the BHO camp lets fly with the first smear. Of course BHO and JB say that is not how they feel but you know, the smears have been made public, the smears have been blamed on someone else and BHO and JB can remain on their high horse.