The Obama campaign has sent letters to radio stations in Ohio and Pennsylvania discouraging them from running ads by the National Rifle Association critical of Barack Obama.
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The Volokh Conspiracy - Obama Campaign Challenges NRA Ad:

This is rather despicable. The Obama team acts in a very thuggish manner to suppress dissent. If you’re a liberal and you’re not troubled by this, you’re not actually a liberal.

For those who care, the ads are actually accurate. Factcheck.org usually does a good job, but not here. But regardless of Obama’s stance on the Second Amendment, we should be worried about his stance on the First. Threatening stations that run ads against him is worrisome, particularly since, if Obama wins, he could actually take retribution against media outlets. And don’t think he wouldn’t do it … he’s basically told us he would.

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Could someone please point to the portion of the letter where Obama “threatens” any entity that doesn’t stop running the ads? I can’t seem to find it.

As for “taking retribution against media outlets,” the link up above is to an blog post reporting (without citation to any sources, other than another one of the blog’s own posts) that Obama has said that he would use the government’s anti-trust power to break up media conglomorates. I wonder if someone could explain to me how doing so (if, indeed, that is what Obama has said) would be tantamount to “taking retribution against media outlets.” That phrase suggests that Obama would actually use government power to suppress content. Is that what you’re suggesting?

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