Usually in cases like this, Obama has his cult followers inundate the offending station with irate, semi-coherent phone calls, like they did recently to try to knock hatemongering smear merchant David Freddoso off the air for the crime of committing journalism critical of The One. For whatever reason they've decided that won't work here, so they're opting for Plan B. Straight out of the Democratic handbook Harry Reid used to threaten ABC's broadcast license for showing the "Path to 9/11," here's Obama lawyer Robert Bauer warning station managers not to air the NRA's new anti-Obama "Hunter" ad if they want to stay in the FCC's good graces. Follow the link and read his letter and the NRA's rebuttal for point/counterpoint. Is the NRA attributing gun policy positions to Obama which he no longer holds? Hard to say. Is there such a thing as a consistent Obama gun position? He flip-flopped opportunistically on the D.C. gun ban and was caught lying a few months ago about whether he'd ever seen that 1996 questionnaire in which his campaign claimed he supported a total ban on guns. Read Dave Kopel's painstaking response to FactCheck's piece on the NRA ads for more cases of obfuscation, noting particularly Obama's habit of speaking of gun regulations not in terms of what he does or doesn't support but what is and isn't "politically practicable" at a given moment. No wonder Guy Benson's worried about him bringing back the Fairness Doctrine. What happens when a deep blue Congress make that "politically practicable" too?
Obama Campaign Cease and Desist Letter
"Barack Obama would be the most anti-gun president in our nation's history. That's the truth," concluded Cox. "NRA-PVF has the facts on our side. No amount of running from or lying about his record and then intimidating news outlets in the hope of deceiving American gun owners and hunters is going to work. Those strong arm tactics may work in Chicago, but not in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and not as long as NRA-PVF has anything to say about it."
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