Let's hear it for the First Amendment

[unixronin]

Well, unless you're on the Obama campaign, that is.  NewsMax reports that the Obama campaign has been sending "intimidating cease-and-desist letters" to radio and TV stations that air anti-Obama ads, including NRA ads, threatening them with loss of their FCC licenses, and is now urging Obama supporters to write letter campaigns to their local stations demanding that they not run the NRA's ads documenting his long-standing anti-gun record.

This is the second time the Obama campaign has been caught trying to suppress an opposing ad.  Remember when the PSA aired pointing out Obama's connection to a former Weather Underground leader, and Obama's campaign said the people running the independent nonprofit that put the ad together should go to jail for it?  Saying that criticism — even factual criticism — of even a Presidential candidate should be a crime punishable by jail is pretty scary, and not something I want to see in any Presidential candidate.  That's only about one long step away from declaring any criticism of the administration, justified or not, to be sedition.

It's been said that the Second Amendment is the most important in the Bill of Rights because it protects the First.  It looks like the Obama camp dislikes both, and is quite willing to attack the First Amendment to try to prevent the NRA from exposing Obama's dislike of the Second to voters, so that Obama can continue to stand up and say "I'm not anti-gun.  Really.  Would I lie to you?"

(And before any Obama apologists stand up and start accusing bias, yes, I already know the writing of the NewsMax article is hardly what could be called neutral.  I'm guessing it's an NRA-PVF press release published as-is.)

Comments

[mazianni.livejournal.com]

If the media in general really wanted "...to protect the public from false, misleading or deceptive advertising." they'd stop airing all campaign ads. They'd probably stop airing a lot of other stuff too.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, like about 90% of commercial advertising. :)



(Seriously, folks. Watch Crystal Drano clear a sample sink-clog three times faster than Liquid Plumr, then watch Liquid Plumr clear an apparently identical sample sink-clog three times faster than Crystal Drano, and tell me with a straight face that neither one of them is lying.)

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Crystal Drano doesn't get to throw me in prison, torture me, or take away all my stuff.

There are very good reasons why the political process SHOULD be held to a higher standard than commerce.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. Just sayin' ... advertisers are just about all a pack of liars, and if anything, political ads are worse.