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Next, the Obama thugs came for Stanley Kurtz

By Michelle Malkin • August 28, 2008 10:28 AM

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First, they came for TV stations daring to air an independent ad about Barack Obama and unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers.

Next, they came for GOP donors.

Now, they are shamelessly attacking National Review investigative journalist Stanley Kurtz — one of conservatism’s most thoughtful and penetrating writers on academic and educational affairs. Kurtz has been at the forefront probing Obama’s relationships with left-wing ideologues. It was his public information request and public call for help that led to the University of Illinois – Chicago finally releasing tons of files that shed light on the Obama/Ayers working relationship. The Obama camp is condemning Kurtz in harsher terms than it ever condemned the terrorist Ayers. Kurtz has been attacked now as a “right-wing hatchet man” and “slimy character assassin.”

Here are the Kurtz-smearing talking points the Obama campaign sent to its worshipers.

It was “non-stop.” And: “Surreal, amusing, and chilling.”

As I reported yesterday, Kurtz spent two hours on legendary radio talk show host Milt Rosenberg’s Chicago program on WGN last night detailing his initial findings. The Obama campaign went ballistic — and in typical Chicago mafia-style, smeared Kurtz and tried to shut down the show.

Milt Rosenberg’s producer, Zack Christenson, wrote early this morning:

Hello-
Thanks to everyone for the attention, the show lit up the phone lines and the blogs. Here’s a link to our podcast (the full 2 hour show) which you can download: Link

It’s interesting to see what lengths the Obama campaign is willing to reach to stifle dissenting voices. Kurtz said it best at the end of the show- If a respected conservative who writes for mainstream conservative publications like the Weekly Standard and National Review can’t speak his mind, then what dissenting opinion can be voiced? Did we see a preview of the fairness doctrine tonight?

Yes, indeed. Feel the chill?

Reader Jeff in Chicago e-mailed me while listening in:

I’m listening to Stanley Kurtz on the Milt Rosenberg Show. Milt announced that in his 30 yrs of doing his show, he’s never had “the firestorm” (as he puts it) on his switchboard as he’s having tonight. His call screener found the root of the flood: An pro-Obama website that claims that Kurtz is trying to smear Obama and that the campaign won’t allow the “swiftboating” that happened to Kerry, so they gave the show info (call-in number, time, etc) and suggested that people flood the switchboard with negative calls. The callers claimed that everything Kurtz is stating is fabricated, so Kurtz then read verbatim from the documents! He read one of the staff presentation agendas where the agenda stated that Obama would welcome the guests with Ayers then briefing them on the update so clearly they were together more than casually (and these docs are just the tip of the iceberg).

In addition, Stanley read an example of what organization received money and which one’s were turned down. In the case he mentioned, $200K was given to an African-American South Side School for a celebration of Juneteenth (see here for explanation, http://www.cinnamonhearts.com/junteenth.htm ) whereas a school program focusing in Algebra expertise was turned down.

As this exploration unfolds it should get very interesting indeed……..

Andy McCarthy also gave some play-by-play last night:

In the last few minutes, two called to scald Milt for having Stanley on without having an Obama rep on to give the counterpoint. Milt explains, repeatedly, that he contacted the Obama campaign (he gave the name of the campaign official his producer spoke with) and the campaign — the HQ of which is about a quarter mile from the studio where the show airs — declined to come on. They were offered the opportunity to have someone there with Stanley for the entire two hours, and they said no.

Another pro-Obama woman called and, after accusing Stanley of slander but of course not citing anything he said that was slanderous, stated, “We want it to stop.” Milt asked what she wanted stopped, and she replied, “It’s just not what we believe as Americans.” Milt tried again, asking what she didn’t believe. She responded that it was someone saying bad things about Barack Obama and, again, we just want it to stop.

Very compelling.

Earth to Obama supporters: no one is claiming guilt by association — though willful association with an admitted terrorist would be worthy of noting in a presidential candidate. Obama and Bill Ayers had a working relationship. Yet, Obama claimed Ayers was just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” and has otherwise minimized the relationship. Aside from the fact that Obama is not telling the truth, which itself is important, the details of the relationship are important. If the press was doing its job, we’d have those details already. Finally, the media’s job is being done … by Stanley. He should be saluted, not smeared.

Who’s next?

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NRO warns: The Kommisar’s in town. Uh-uh-oh.

Instapundit round-up here.

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#426129

On August 28th, 2008 at 9:19 pm, billcollier said:

we all need to rally around Kurtz, perhaps it’s time we started investigating these dems more heavily???
#426134

On August 28th, 2008 at 9:24 pm, Mojave Mark said:

I’m enjoying watching the Obama campaign die a slow death. Schadenfreudelicious.
#426141

On August 28th, 2008 at 9:27 pm, bear1909 said:

Flinchy is doing the country a favor as the face of his “party”. And he will crumble like a stale pie in the Presidential debates.

He’s no Jack Kennedy.

McCain wins it. This flake is a nothing and is proving it. We dont need the mainstream media to validate the wisdom of the people. THEY CREATED HIM.
#426143

On August 28th, 2008 at 9:28 pm, bear1909 said:

PS: He isnt AFRICAN AMERICAN either. What a disgrace to the intelligent Black Americans living in America.
#426170

On August 28th, 2008 at 9:56 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

On August 28th, 2008 at 9:28 pm, bear1909 said:

PS: He isnt AFRICAN AMERICAN either. What a disgrace to the intelligent Black Americans living in America.

He isn’t too much of an American at all, Mr. Citizen of the World Hussein Obama. ~~Bidet~~ Biden is on TV now running his mouth. As I have high blood pressure anyway I thought it best to leave the room.
But I have this to say for our Liberals–they give me a new reason to fear and loath them almost every day.

Obama’s Bitter Half:

“For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country, because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.”

“life for regular folks has gotten worse over the course of my lifetime”.
“Don’t go into corporate America,”

“Barack Obama will require you to work,” she says. “He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation…Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.”

“America is a downright mean country”

They are easy to hate.
—
Just another bitter American clinging to my God and guns (gas guzzling, global warming pick-up truck too!)
#426215

On August 28th, 2008 at 10:08 pm, txvet2 said:

On August 28th, 2008 at 8:57 pm, Trollman said:

txvet2 said:

This is Texas. We don’t elect RINOs.

Sigh, if only that were true. George W. Bush, from Texas. Rick Perry, governor of Texas. Need I say more?

Apparently so. Bush wasn’t as liberal when he was governor and we’re not to blame for what he did thereafter. And Perry isn’t a RINO. He’s wrong on toll roads, and illegal immigration and that’s enough to cost him the next election, I hope. He would have lost the last one if there had been anybody sane running against him.
#426479

On August 28th, 2008 at 10:50 pm, cactusjoe said:

Germany. 1933. Oh…so this is what it was like…
#426528

On August 28th, 2008 at 10:58 pm, sbw999 said:

Fascist, grotesque liberal scumbags at it again. Free speech? Yep…for liberals only. “Swiftboating”…a word that liberals, along with their willing little ass clowns in the mainstream press has been given a negative conotation for “smearing”. Of course, those with more than single digit IQ’s, know that it really means telling the truth about corrupt Democrats, as Ann Coulter has stated before. It’s amazing how utterly morally bankrupt and mind numbingly stupid democrats and their constituents are. Nothing these thugs do surprises me any longer.
#426754

On August 28th, 2008 at 11:49 pm, Republicanvet said:

The Obama camp is condemning Kurtz in harsher terms than it ever condemned the terrorist Ayers. Kurtz has been attacked now as a “right-wing hatchet man” and “slimy character assassin.”

This is exactly what I thought when I read the article. Oblahblah’s THUGS viciously smearing Kurtz, while a domestic bomber gets a free pass.

Common street thugs.
#426757

On August 28th, 2008 at 11:53 pm, Trollman said:

txvet2 said:

And Perry isn’t a RINO.

And MSNBC isn’t biased towards Obama.
#426767

On August 29th, 2008 at 12:00 am, Republicanvet said:

On August 28th, 2008 at 10:56 am, mchristian said:

Senator Obama could clear this up by giving a more detailed answer about his relationship with Ayers and Dohrn. I can only question why he does not do so. The “guy in my neighborhood” remark is so unsatisfying.

This just made me think that although I was aware of Dohrn, I keep forgetting she is tied into this mix as well.

Much of the reporting so far is focused on Ayers and his ties to Obama. Has anybody looked at Dohrn and her ties to him? Or what raving she has written or said in the recent past?
#426801

On August 29th, 2008 at 12:25 am, txvet2 said:

On August 28th, 2008 at 11:53 pm, Trollman said:

txvet2 said:

And Perry isn’t a RINO.

And MSNBC isn’t biased towards Obama.

Do you live in Texas?
#426803

On August 29th, 2008 at 12:27 am, Trollman said:

txvet2 said:

Do you live in Texas?

Not currently.
#426804

On August 29th, 2008 at 12:28 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

What A Country!
#426814

On August 29th, 2008 at 12:38 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

Investigate the role of this organization, and Michelle Obama’s role as part of it:

http://www.thechicagocouncil.org/chicago_council_board_directors.php

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, founded in 1922 as The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, has been the pre-eminent forum in Chicago and the Midwest for the discussion of world affairs and U.S. foreign policy since its inception.

In my opinion, it appears that “Council on Foreign Relations” organizations are Communist front groups.

Keep in mind that the Communist Party of the United States was founded in Chicago in 1919.
#426818

On August 29th, 2008 at 12:41 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

On August 28th, 2008 at 7:29 pm, oldcollegeguy1980 said:

Are we actually close to uncovering the wizard?

The wizard is Vladimir Putin.

But pay no attention to the Communists behind the curtain.
#426824

On August 29th, 2008 at 12:56 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

Investigate Communist influence in Campus Compact:

http://www.compact.org/about/presidents_principles

Our nation is a Constitutional Republic, not a “democratic civil society”.

Every time you hear a Democrat[ic Socialist] call our nation a “Democracy”, correct them.

We pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
#426829

On August 29th, 2008 at 1:04 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

Revolts across the world in the 1960s and 1970s, coupled with the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the establishment of the New Left together with the Civil Rights Movement, the militancy of the Black Panther Party and similar armed/insurrectionary “Liberation Front” groups around the globe, and even a bit of a resurgence in the labor movement for a time once again made it seem as though world revolution was not only possible, but actually imminent; thus, there was a common expression, “The East is Red, and the West is Ready”. However, this radical spirit soon ebbed in the 1980s and 1990s by a conservative backlash and free-market reforms in China.

That “conservative backlash” in the 80’s was President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

It’s time for another “conservative backlash”!
#426844

On August 29th, 2008 at 1:34 am, Misscheryl said:

txvet2 – I live next door – GO SOONERS!
#426852

On August 29th, 2008 at 2:13 am, npphotog said:

Mark Levin says you can’t silent us through intimidation. You push us and we push back!!!
#426862

On August 29th, 2008 at 2:56 am, exdeadhead said:

Lot’s of tears during the Dem cult fest. CAC was given a chance to make an educational difference, and embraced WTF efforts to indoctrinate instead. Now that is a REAL crying shame.

Stanley, please carry on and get to the bottom of this Obama/Ayers fraud.
#429422

On August 30th, 2008 at 11:13 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

With the announcement of Sarah Palin, there is much weeping and gnashing of teeth in the world of Demoncrats.

Thank God that John McCain chose to listen to the growing roar from conservatives.

Patriotic Americans who happen to be Republicans, Independents, or Democrats (but not Demoncratic Socialist Communists) will come out in large numbers to vote joyfully for the ticket with Sarah Palin on it.

To quote the third Indiana Jones movie (the last crusade), John McCain has “chosen wisely”.
#447892

On September 9th, 2008 at 7:25 pm, almiller said:

The name of the law firm is Perkins Coie. They have an extensive directory with e-mail addresses. Don’t hesitetae to find a lawyer and send him a firm (but decently worded) message.