Posted by
Tzimisce on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 4:48:45 PM
You have to love the American left. The hypocrisy goes to the very roots of its foundations. Barack Obama (BO) has stupidly attached getting the truth out to his latest campaign. He’s even opened up his website: http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/fightthesmearshome.
The problem is his “truth” site is filled with misinformation and outright lies. I’ve already written about the supposed tape where Michelle Obama says “Whitey”. No such tape exists. The “Fight the Smears” site notes this, but the problem is that it credits Rush Limbaugh and other “right wing attack dogs” as the original spreader of the falsehood.
But Rush Limbaugh and his fellow right-wing attack-dogs have been spreading baseless rumors about a non-existent video tape showing Michelle Obama using a racial epithet. – Fight the Smears Website
The problem is this statement is an outright lie in and of itself. The original rumor of the “Whitey” tape was started by Democrat Bob Beckel on “Fox and Friends” on June 3, 2008: http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2008/06/bob_beckel_on_f.php. By the time Limbaugh reported it (and he stated at least six times while reporting it that it was a rumor) the story was old news. The fact that it was old news is exactly why Limbaugh brought it up.
But this isn’t even the most obnoxious outrage from the defend BO crowd. The latest form comes from their self righteous indignation over an ad linking the Messiah to homegrown terrorist Bill Ayres (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m89m0pC_bpY).
In light of this new, very effect ad the BO camp has accused John McCain of telling lies. The problem is that this ad was put out by John McCain but an independent group American Issues Project which by law can’t work with the McCain camp.
But getting things right isn’t a priority to BO and his supporters, stamping out people who dare question them is. There are still stories trickling out about how Hillary supporters are being chased out everywhere like on his website board. From what I hear, any statements supporting Mrs. Clinton or questioning BO are taken down immediately.
At the same time reports are coming in about anti-Semitic posts by self described Muslims are being left up (http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=16835). Aren’t BO and his supporters in favor of laws against “hate speech”?
And it only gets more pathetic. In the latest news the BO camp has issued a letter of complaint to the FEC that American Issues Project backer Harold Simmons is breaking the law. For the first time in American history our government is taking action against a private citizen for daring to talk about political issues in a political campaign. Even if he is found in violation of the law, this is outrageous. I thought the first amendment was meant to protect the rights of private citizens to say and print their thoughts in political campaigns.
When you begin considering some of the other things that the American left has in their hopper for near future (when hopefully a sympathetic President will be in the White House) the consequences of what’s going on becomes truly frightening. Nancy Pelosi is seriously considering reviving the so called “Fairness Doctrine” which unsurprisingly will be used almost exclusively against people she and her friends disagree with. Moreover there is a rumor that there will be an attempt to enforce it on the internet as well.
And guess who will be running/overseeing these new unaccountable, irresponsible, completely untouchable departments and agencies? The same people who (even as they’re trying to get the “truth” out) screw up the facts themselves. When you add in an out of control, unaccountable court system that is also stacked with liberals and you’re looking at a new North Korea in the making.
Free speech and press are rights that are endowed to us by our creator. These rights are protected in our Constitution. The founders knew this when they wrote the document. They also knew what happens when people in power begin making encroachments on the freedoms of the people (no matter how benign those encroachments may sound.)
The usurping of free speech and press has already begun. It started out as limits on so called “hate speech”. And now it’s moving in as “truth in advertising”. But as BO supporters are showing us, the truth can be highly subjective depending on how you define all your terms. Shouldn’t they at least get the little stuff right if they’re going to complain about everyone else getting it wrong?