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CNN's Carol Costello admitted on Wednesday that
President Obama's staff "can be quite nasty" to deal with. Given
Costello's propensity to be a bleeding-heart liberal, her admission is
all the more striking.
"I felt it first hand when I was, you know, reporting on the
presidential race," Costello noted. "I mean President Obama's people
can be quite nasty. They don't like you to say anything bad about their
boss, and they're not afraid to use whatever means they have at hand to
stop you from doing that, including threatening your job." [Full]
Do
we have a Pastor Niemoller moment breaking out here? "I watched administration thugs persecute
conservatives, but I am not a teapartier, so I remained silent. ..."
No. She sounds matter of fact;
accepting of harsh behavior from this president. She violated the
code. Pleae sir, may I
have another?"
Carol Costello, new age reporter. News reporter. Didn't
know, or give credence to, if she did, of myriad
reports about Obama's propensity to dispatch street thugs to silence
critics during his 2008 presidential campaign. Like
these examples.
- The
Obama campaign's October 2008 order to blacklist the Orlando television
station whose reporter, Barbara West, dared ask Sen. Biden a hard
question about Barack Obama's tax policies
- August 27, 2008 . Sent out an Obama Action
Wire email
to "supporters" encouraging them to inundate a Chicago radio
station
with complaints and demands that a Stanley Kurtz interview about his
ties to Bill Ayers be axed.
- A
few weeks later,he again summoned his street army through another Obama
Action Wire, inciting them to once again inundate the same Chicago
radio show with calls to deny airtime for an interview with author
David Freddoso, author of the book The Case Against Barack Obama.
- A nonprofit called "Accountable America" that is
headed by a former operative of MoveOn.com (which
endorsed Obama, and later provided his "birth certificate")
has been going through campaign-finance databases and targeting
conservative donors with "warning" letters intended to depress
Republican fundraising.
- The
Obama campaign demanded that the U.S. Justice Department stop TV
stations from airing an independent ad focusing on Obama's relationship
with Bill Ayers. Again, Obama's followers were summoned to inundate
stations with tens of thousands of emails to kill the commercial.
- Obama
demanded that the Justice Department investigate and prosecute the
group that produced the Bill Ayers ad (the American Issues Project) and
the man who funded the group (Harold Simmons from Dallas, Texas).
- Through
the attorney for Obama for America, he asked
the U.S. Attorney General to investigate John McCain, Sarah Palin, and
Republican Senators Voinovich and Cornyn and Representatives Bachmann,
Blunt and Ryan because of the Republicans' attempts to draw attention
to ACORN's fraudulent voter registration activities.
- The persecution of Joe the Plumber for having
the gall to answer a televised Obama query negatively.
"I mean President Obama's people can
be quite nasty. They don't like you to say anything bad about their
boss,"
Look at Drudge's page right
now. Were these clarion calls, or what? And nobody heard
much about them..
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