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By Jeff Freeland Aug 28, 2008

Barack Obama doesn't want Stanley Kurtz to tell his story. Stanley Kurtz was scheduled and appeared on Milt Rosenberg's radio show on WGN on Wednesday night but it wasn't without a struggle. The Obama campaign sent out what they call an "action e-mail" to their supporters and asked them to call the station and rip into WGN for having on what Obama calls a "right-wing hatchet man" on the air. Kurtz is a conservative writer.

Stanley Kurtz Censor Attempt: WGN Radio Showdown with Obama Supporters (Image: Wenn)

Guy Benson, a reporter from National Review Online was in the studio and calls it a frightening look at what will happen if the poorly named "Fairness Doctrine" is re-enacted as so many democrats wish. The Fairness Doctrine was a one-time policy of the FCC that "required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance."

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Basically it hampers free speech and that appears to be the goal here from the Obama campaign. According to Zack Christenson, executive producer of "Extension 720 with Milt Rosenburg," the program offered a spot for an Obama official as they wanted their side of the story but the campaign didn't provide anyone to rebut the charges.

Stanley Kurtz links Barack Obama to University of Illinois professor William Ayers, a 60s radical. The e-mail is here from the Obama campaign as the Chicago Tribune has printed it in full.

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