Sen. Barack Obama's campaign organized its supporters Wednesday night to confront Tribune-owned WGN-AM in Chicago for having a critic of the Illinois Democrat on its air. (Listen to the interview.)
"WGN radio is giving right-wing hatchet man Stanley Kurtz a forum to air his baseless, fear-mongering terrorist smears," Obama's campaign wrote in an e-mail to supporters. "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, a conservative writer, recently wrote an article for the National Review that looked at Obama's ties to Ayers, a former 1960s radical who later emerged as a school reform advocate in Chicago.
The magazine had been blocked in its initial attempts to obtain records from the University of Illinois at Chicago regarding a school reform initiative called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which Obama chaired and Ayers co-founded.
Where's the problem? If it's a "swift boating" that's false, let it all come out, show them as "desperate Republicans" and laugh it off.
If you try to push it down and tell them they shouldn't air it, that's the "Gestapo tactics" that you decry the Bush administration for doing.
This isn't a "do as I say, not as I do" thing you should be doing. If you pull stunts like this, in the world of instant information as well as historical records at anyones fingertips, you run the risk of looking like someone you're trying beat in an election.
Travis
travis@rightwinglunatic.com
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