{"id":4612,"date":"2008-09-26T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4612"},"modified":"2017-11-04T11:17:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T16:17:22","slug":"obama-campaign-wants-radio-station-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/26\/obama-campaign-wants-radio-station-licenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Campaign Wants Radio Station Licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0908\/Obama_seeks_to_take_down_NRA_ad.html?showall\" target=\"_blank\">For airing anti-Obama advertisements<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama campaign has written radio stations in Pennsylvania and Ohio, pressing them to refuse to air an ad from the National Rifle Association.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This advertisement knowingly misleads your viewing audience about Senator Obama&#8217;s position on the Second Amendment,&#8221; says the letter from Obama general counsel Bob Bauer. &#8220;For the sake of both FCC licensing requirements and the public interest, your station should refuse to continue to air this advertisement.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowflakesinhell.com\/2008\/09\/25\/obama-silencing-voice-of-gun-owners\/\" target=\"_blank\">Snowflakes in Hell<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebitchgirls.us\/?p=9252\" target=\"_blank\">Bitch Girls<\/a>, and a roundup at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pajamasmedia.com\/instapundit\/archives2\/024910.php\" target=\"_blank\">Instapundit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First, the Obama campaign wanted Justice Department investigations and charges for an opposing political group.  Then, the Obama campaign warned broadcasters their licenses were in jeopardy for running anti-Obama ads.  Then Missouri prosecutors said opposing viewpoints would be prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>Is this 21st Century America?  Is this the Change Happens on November 4 we were waiting\/hoping for?<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you imagine the Bush administration&#8217;s civil liberties failings were, get ready to be prosecuted for your speech under the Obama administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For airing anti-Obama advertisements: The Obama campaign has written radio stations in Pennsylvania and Ohio, pressing them to refuse to air an ad from the National Rifle Association. &#8220;This advertisement knowingly misleads your viewing audience about Senator Obama&#8217;s position on the Second Amendment,&#8221; says the letter from Obama general counsel Bob Bauer. &#8220;For the sake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17296,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions\/17296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}