竞选早期就听说媒体为了能不被奥巴马阵营关在采访门外,不敢散布不利奥巴马的声音.这种做派很寒心,很恐怖. 许多如下面这条帖子所言,希望只是过去了的事情.
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A Tough Question, Will I Still Have Freedom of Speech?
Posted by Peppermint2 on Saturday, November 01, 2008 5:24:23 AM
This article was written by Dogged, Guest Writer
A tough question was asked of the Obama camp. Barbara West of WFTV 9 in Orlando Florida asked Joe Biden a question he didn’t like. Joe Biden answered with a question of his own: “Are you joking, is this a joke? Who is writing your questions?”
The Obama camp likes having tough questions aimed at John McCain. But God help the media maverick (or private citizen) that believes they have the right to present tough questions to the Obama camp.
A disturbing trend has emerged on how the Obama camp responds to those. Instead of answers to clarify, there are…consequences.
The Obama camp’s response to WFTV regarding Barbara West’s question:
WFTV won’t get any further interviews with them and, quite likely, will receive no further Obama information. The Obama camp also canceled WFTV’s scheduled interview with Jill Biden.
David Freddoso, the author of “The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate”, was scheduled to appear on a radio show. The Obama camp sent out an email requesting people start a nationwide email and phone campaign flooding the station with demands that he not be allowed on the air.
American Issues Project of Houston ran an ad about Obama’s connection with Bill Ayers. Obama’s response was to write a letter to the Justice Department asking that the American Issues Project, and their contributors, be investigated. As POTUS, Obama would not have to make such a request. He could simply order it to be done.
An average citizen, now known as Joe the Plumber, did what the American public has always assumed was their right. He met a candidate and asked a question. He just wanted to know how one of Obama’s plans would impact him if he bought a business. Unfortunately for Joe, he caught the Senator off guard (or just off teleprompter). The unscripted answer wasn’t perceived as favorable for Obama. Now Joe is feeling the impact of daring to ask. His entire life has been gone over with a fine tooth comb and, it appears, the combing was done through government computer systems.
On Friday four broadcast television stations in the key battleground states contacted The National Republican Trust Pac. They said the Obama camp is denying a key allegation in one of their hard-hitting TV ads.
The Obama camp demanded that the stations stop running the TV ad.
This is a strange time in our country’s history. As Americans, we have always questioned anything we deemed necessary about our elected officials either pre or post election. We assume we have the right to do so.
We do. An inalienable right. A constitutional right. Freedom of Speech.
However, Senator Obama is showing he has his own interpretation of Freedom of Speech.
Liberal Free Speech: Good.
Favorable Media Speech: Good.
Anything else: Be prepared for consequences.
This is a very disturbing trait in a Presidential candidate. It would be a terrifying one in someone with the full power of the POTUS.
If hard or unpleasant questions generate retaliation from Senator Obama now, what will happen if someone tries to ask them of President Obama later?
What happens then to the Freedom of Speech of both the American media and the American citizen? What consequences will there be for those who dare to ask? What consequences will there be for all of us if they don’t dare to ask?
Imagine living in a country where the only news that is broadcast is favorable to it’s’ leaders. Where the only questions allowed are the ones that show them in a positive light. Where anything you say or write must be pre-censored to avoid consequences. Today, countries like that exist. We are blessed not to be one of them. It’s a blessing that should not be taken lightly.
Somewhere, mixed in with his plans to tax and spend, Senator Obama may have some desire to do something that may benefit some of us. But those benefits may come with accepting his interpretation of Free Speech.
And that raises the really tough question that only we can answer.
Is there anything so valuable he can offer us that it’s worth the price of sacrificing our constitutional right to Free Speech?
I can think of countless Americans who would respond, if they could, with a resounding no. They believed that there was absolutely nothing, including their own lives, of greater value than our constitutional rights. They died to ensure those rights would survive.
As I wrote this, I asked myself the tough question. I know my answer. Having the freedom to write this is beyond price.
Now it’s your turn. As you sit there, deciding whether you want to post and what you might want to say, remember that you are making choices that exist only because you have the inalienable right to Free Speech.
Then ask yourself the tough question.
- Re: [ZT]A Tough Question, Will I Still Have Freedom of Speech?posted on 11/05/2008
帮帮忙,这种垃圾还端出来。麦坎阵营对媒体的抱怨还少?对佩林的封锁保护还少?前天CBS晚间新闻还给麦坎免费时间让他回答问题给麦坎阵营断然拒绝。抱怨言论无自由?笑话! - Re: [ZT]A Tough Question, Will I Still Have Freedom of Speech?posted on 11/05/2008
这touche好像最近是Changed了,立竿见影啊.您接着乐. - Re: [ZT]A Tough Question, Will I Still Have Freedom of Speech?posted on 11/05/2008
我几十年如一日,老友夙敌们一看就知道是谁,换马甲也没用。
rzp wrote:
这touche好像最近是Changed了,立竿见影啊.您接着乐. - Re: [ZT]A Tough Question, Will I Still Have Freedom of Speech?posted on 11/05/2008
Then it is the change from an angry gadfly to a happy one. A gadfly is a gadfly or touché, I guess there is no change from there? - posted on 11/05/2008
这种作法一点都不恐怖,而且合理合法。所谓“奥巴马阵营”或者“麦坎阵营”,其实是两家注册公司而已,而且是私人公司,当然是某种特别类型的,比如无营利性的,给它们捐款有规定等。
在竞选阶段,他们有自己的权利,与媒体可以达成成文不成文的协议。当然,这些协议,受法律限制自然不说,应有的道义是我们可以考虑的,更不用说,这些公司的这种行为,直接影响它们成立所要达到的目标了。这不是言论自由的问题。这是私有权问题。
至于“这种做派中国人很熟悉”,怎么说呢,中国的问题是什么,不必进行这样的对比才知道吧?
公民的言论自由,是公民公开地表达自己(包括办报,办电视台等)而不受国家机器治罪的权力(比如胡佳)。一个记者能进入哪个地方,得经那个地方主人同意,就这么简单。
rzp wrote:
竞选早期就听说媒体为了能不被奥巴马阵营关在采访门外,不敢散布不利奥巴马的声音.这种做派中国人很熟悉,很恐怖. 许多如下面这条帖子所言,希望只是过去了的事情.
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希望是这样.说这事不能提中国,改掉了.
MF wrote:
这种作法一点都不恐怖,而且合理合法。
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