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

[Herb Parsons]

Rob, are you conceding that the AP is "one of the sides"?

Lowe, Rob wrote:
> Brad,
> I don't think there is any one side better than the other on this.  Both
> sides are going to take any shot that's available to them.  I believe
> you said before that politics is dirty.  No one is clean. - rob
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Brad Haslett
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 12:01 PM
> To: The Rhodes 22 Email List
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] I Hope These Bastards Get Violated In
> Prison
>
> 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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