[Rhodes22-list] I Hope These Bastards Get Violated In Prison

[Brad Haslett]

Rob,

So, is the Associated Press going to jail for obstruction of justice?
Is it OK to shout down your opposition via not yet regulated means
because it is your cause?  (see attached). John McCain is mocked for
not using e-mail and Palin is fair game because she does use e-mail?

Forchrissakehastheworldgonemad?

Brad

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Thursday, September 18, 2008
EDITORIAL: The new 'digital brownshirts'

Where is Al Gore when you need him? Three years ago, the former vice
president blasted "digital brownshirts" who "harass and hector any
journalist who is critical of the president." He meant the mortal
threat to the Republic of bloggers and angry Republican e-mailers. But
times change, and the digital legions are greater nowadays on Mr.
Gore's side. Thus we don't hear much fretting at all about the Obama
Action Wire, which, unlike the brownshirts of yore, is actually
managed by Barack Obama's campaign to muzzle critical media.

Here's how it works. A message goes out over Barack Obama's Web site
with the names, phone numbers and e-mails of editors and producers
foolish enough to host Obama critics. With Mr. Obama's extensive
digital following, and his extensive fund-raising and contact lists,
shutting up the Democratic nominee's critics with a fraction of Mr.
Obama's millions of supporters is relatively simple. The digital
legions plug phone lines, crash servers and intimidate the advertisers
of these media outlets. This must be another instance of the "new"
politics that Mr. Obama frequently talks about.

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.


On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Lowe, Rob <rlowe at vt.edu> wrote:
> Is anyone really surprised?  Is it despicable?  Sure.  Is it illegal?
> Probably depends on state laws.  Guess Palin missed the meeting where
> the IT guys tell you not to use one of your children's names as your
> password.  Nixon's aides went to prison for obstruction of justice,
> which strikes me as a much more serious crime.  Everyone, especially a
> high profile public servant, should expect their accounts to be hacked
> these days.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Brad Haslett
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:56 PM
> To: The Rhodes 22 Email List
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] I Hope These Bastards Get Violated In Prison
>
> Enough is enough!  Hire 400 bloggers on your campaign payroll and
> spread your hate via trolls. Have the Daily Kos and DU do your dirty
> work claim no responsibility. But, this is beyond anyone's tolerance.
> Nixon's people went to jail for less and he resigned. Enough Chicago
> style politics!  This is bullshit!  Reality- meet the modern
> Brownshirts.
>
> http://libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com/2008/09/liberal-hackers-break-
> into-sarah-palins.html
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