Obama Uses Chicago Thug Politics to Intimidate, Shut Down Criticism

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FIRST in a SERIES of RUSH IS RIGHT Articles!

I want to describe for you exactly how it is that the Obama campaign operates behind the scenes, the brutal ruthlessness, the smear tactics of this campaign. This situation I'm going to tell you about, something the Drive-Bys will not tell you about, and it is an insight, it is a clear insight into how Obama would govern.

Before I get to the big story, you probably heard about the ABC reporter on their investigative unit that was arrested on a public sidewalk in Denver taking pictures of Democrat senators going into an exclusive posh hotel for a meeting with high-roll donors, the special interests that Obama says are not going to be part of any massive change that he brings to the party. Put the lie to that. Tonight an Invesco Field, they have club seats in that stadium. Charles Krauthammer had a great description of this. Charles Krauthammer said this is the Super Bowl halftime show without the game. They had these club suites, and guess who's going to be in 'em, for millions of dollars of donations? The big, fat cats, the special interests, the corporate interests that the Democrats profess to hate so that they can protect you from these evil, mean profiteers, and they're going to be in those club boxes and Obama is going to pal around with them afterwards, you know, hobnob with them up there, just like they were in the hotel.

"Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera crew were attempting to take pictures on a public sidewalk of Democratic senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the Brown Palace Hotel. ... A cigar-smoking Denver police sergeant, accompanied by a team of five other officers, first put his hands on Eslocker's neck, then twisted the producer's arm behind him to put on handcuffs. A police official later told lawyers for ABC News that Eslocker is being charged with trespass, interference, and failure to follow a lawful order. He also said the arrest followed a signed complaint from the Brown Palace Hotel. ... Eslocker and his ABC News colleagues are spending the week investigating the role of corporate lobbyists and wealthy donors at the convention for a series of Money Trail reports on ABC's 'World News with Charles Gibson.'" They're going to do this in Minnesota, too. But this is the Democrat Party in conjunction with this hotel wanting to keep all of this private, and so a reporter is arrested and carted off. This is the change. This is the Barack Obama of Chicago, as Bill Clinton called him, a typical Chicago thug. They don't play on a level playing field; you clear it, you clear the playing field.

Now they're trying to destroy Stanley Kurtz of National Review magazine because Stanley Kurtz has been researching the papers in the Richard J. Daley library in Chicago that detail the business dealings of Obama and William Ayers. The attempt to destroy not just the career and the reputation of Stanley Kurtz occurred on radio last night, a local Chicago host who himself I'm told is a pretty nonpartisan guy, was stunned at the effort made by the Obama campaign to clog up the phone lines and thousands of people just calling to complain about Stanley Kurtz, mass e-mails, not saying one thing specifically in defense of Obama but rather trashing Kurtz for engaging in this kind of politics. It's right out of the Saul Alinsky book. It's right out of this book for radicals, and this is Obama. He doesn't want whatever is known about Ayers to become widely known. There's something there, there has to be, for this campaign to be ginned up this way.

Now, imagine if they had the Fairness Doctrine. If they had the Fairness Doctrine they wouldn't have to mass e-mail, they wouldn't have to clog up phone lines. All they'd have to do is call the general manager of the radio station and complain and demand equal time and do this 20 times a day in response to programming at every radio station, and guess what, the programming's gone because the stations can't put up with that kind of hassle. They can't document it to the government in order to prove they've been fair and so forth. This is the Obama that nobody knows. This is the Obama that the Drive-Bys will not tell you about. This is the Obama who wants to clear the playing field. His accomplishments were not on display last night. Nobody at that convention could describe his accomplishments because there aren't any that they can talk about. His real accomplishment is learning the art of Chicago thug politics. Bill Clinton is exactly right, and that's what you need to be concerned about, in addition to what we know as his radical leftist policies would be, that's what you need to know about Obama.


BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: I'll tell you about what's going on in Chicago. Bill Ayers, Weather Underground terrorist and now an "educator" at the University of Chicago or somewhere, is a longtime friend of Obama.

Obama has described him as just somebody that lives in the neighborhood. It's a lie. I know it's a harsh word to use, but they're close friends. They are associates. Obama's career was launched in this guy's house! This guy was one of Obama's mentors, taught him the ins and outs of radicalism as authored by Saul Alinsky. "[T]he relationship between Ayers and Obama is much deeper and longer than Obama admits. They ... were partners in various entities and regularly exchanged ideas, including," according to Investor's Business Daily, "how to turn Chicago schools into re-education camps to create a generation of social revolutionaries." That's who Bill Ayers is, and he is unrepentant. And this is who Obama worked with on education.

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