{"id":4094,"date":"2009-01-27T13:03:27","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T18:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4094"},"modified":"2009-01-27T13:03:27","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T18:03:27","slug":"obamas-gathering-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4094","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Gathering Fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama&#8217;s wants to do to American conservatism with Rumsfeld tried to do to Iraqi Ba&#8217;athism; cut off its head using.<\/p>\n<p>After picking a public fight with Rush Limbaugh, the White House is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldnetdaily.com\/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&#038;pageId=87172\">begun to actively move to censor conservative talk radio<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The White House is promising new reviews of the &#8220;obligations&#8221; to the government by broadcasters who &#8220;occupy the nation&#8217;s spectrum&#8221; just as the president has targeted conservative talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh for a public attack, raising concerns over the possible restoration of the &#8220;Fairness Doctrine,&#8221; a policy that failed as unneeded and unconstitutional two decades ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northstarwriters.com\/pi150.htm\">Paul Ibrahim of NorthStarWriters.com<\/a> cited Obama&#8217;s warning to congressional Republicans that &#8220;you can&#8217;t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done&#8221; in suggesting the president has become the &#8220;driving force&#8221; because a new &#8220;systematic&#8221; plan to &#8220;intimidate and demonize Obama&#8217;s opponents.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Prediction:\u00a0 Obama will declare the nation &#8220;hopes&#8221; for censorship to &#8220;change&#8221; the political landscape.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That such a campaign was launched only days after Obama&#8217;s inauguration is &#8220;tremendously perturbing,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Welcome to the politics of hope &#8216;n&#8217; change. Obama&#8217;s startling attempt to hang Limbaugh&#8217;s scalp on the wall is a warning that the new ruler does not want unity \u2013 he demands it,&#8221; Ibrahim wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Question, all you lefties out there:\u00a0 feeling &#8220;chilled&#8221; yet?<\/p>\n<p>And when I asked you yesterday if &#8220;dissent was still patriotic&#8221; &#8211; how many of you and your friends have used the phrase &#8220;Rush Limbaugh is unamerican&#8221; in the past week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama&#8217;s wants to do to American conservatism with Rumsfeld tried to do to Iraqi Ba&#8217;athism; cut off its head using. After picking a public fight with Rush Limbaugh, the White House is now begun to actively move to censor conservative talk radio: The White House is promising new reviews of the &#8220;obligations&#8221; to the government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}