Looks like this teacher has a bad case of Obamamania:
Last Monday, a high school student in North Carolina engaged his social studies teacher in a heated debate about politics and the two leading presidential candidates. During the exchange, the teacher (an obvious Obama supporter) got very angry with the student and accused him of disrespecting the president. She even went so far as to tell the boy that he could be jailed for speaking ill of Obama.
Hot on the heels of the earlier LA story (which I’ll be updating in a moment, because they passed the resolution) comes this one:
Rush Limbaugh’s opponents are starting a radio campaign against him Thursday, seizing upon the radio star’s attack of a Georgetown law student as a “slut” to make a long-term effort aimed at weakening his business.
The PJ Tatler does the simple research (i.e. Googling) the Dinosaur Media didn’t want to–for reasons that should be obvious soon–and finds an embarrassing connection in the background of Obama’s new Director of Progressive Media & Online Response, Jesse Lee:
Lee is married to Nita Chaudary. Here is a CSPAN transcript from Sep. 10, 2007, wherein Chaudary represents — and ardently defends — MoveOn.org for publishing the Petraeus smear ad prior to Petraeus speaking a word before Congress.
Says Chaudary:
We want to make sure the truth gets out there in advance of this testimony.
I found the following bio for Chaudary from 2008:
Nita Chaudhary, Campaign Director at MoveOn.org Political Action: Nita leads MoveOn’s campaigns on the Iraq War, Constitutional Liberties as well as running the fundraising program for MoveOn’s 2008 electoral effort. In the past she was the Director of Online organizing for the DNC. She’s also held several positions at People for the American Way, including Media Research Analyst, Web Editor, and Online Organizer.
I think it fairly safe to hypothesize that Chaudary may own that ad: as the leader of MoveOn’s campaigns regarding the Iraq war, the ad as conceived may be her work.
I think anyone familiar with media bias can understand why the Dinosaur Media didn’t bother to report on this part of Lee’s family.
Watch out, bloggers and commenters, here comes Obama’s Online Pushback Czar:
The White House has named Jesse Lee to a new position within its communications department titled Director of Progressive Media & Online Response. According to The Huffington Post, Lee will essentially be responsible for building up Obama’s online presence as he prepares for his reelection bid, and squashing any negative stories:
Squashing negative stories, hmmm? I guess the First Amendment no longer applies… but why bother with a 200+ year old document when you’re fundamentally transforming America?
One wonders why they just didn’t call it the George Orwell Memorial Ministry of Truth? That even has an easy acronym, GOMMOT. On second thought, that’s not quite as catchy as MiniTrue.
Apparently, for a short time, WikiLeaks was paying Amazon for the use of some of their web servers to host their site… but that has now come to an end, for Amazon has (rightfully) pulled da plug.
Amazon.com Inc. forced WikiLeaks to stop using the U.S. company’s computers to distribute embarrassing State Department communications and other documents, WikiLeaks said Wednesday.
The ouster came after congressional staff questioned Amazon about its relationship with WikiLeaks, said Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut.
WikiLeaks confirmed it hours after The Associated Press reported that Amazon’s servers had stopped hosting WikiLeaks’ site. The site was unavailable for several hours before it moved back to its previous Swedish host, Bahnhof AB.
WikiLeaks released a trove of sensitive diplomatic documents on Sunday. Just before the release, its website came under an Internet-based attack that made it unavailable for hours at a time.
WikiLeaks reacted by moving the website from computers in Sweden to those of Amazon Web Services. Amazon has vast banks of computers that can be rented on a self-service basis to meet surges in traffic.
WikiLeaks, predictably, reacted as most lefties do…
“WikiLeaks servers at Amazon ousted. Free speech the land of the free–fine our $ are now spent to employ people in Europe,” the organization said Wednesday in a posting on the Twitter messaging service.
“If Amazon are so uncomfortable with the first amendment, they should get out of the business of selling books,” WikiLeaks said in another tweet.
For the clueless folks over at WikiLeaks, here’s a quick primer on the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
The Bill of Rights applies to the government… in fact, it restricts what the government can do. The First Amendment, therefore, applies to government censorship of speech, not to private companies. A private company can decide to do business with whomever they wish, within certain legal limits, and they can also decide not to do business with someone. That’s how American bookstores can get away with not stocking certain books, either those that don’t sell or those that they have a moral or philosophical objection to. Thus, a Christian bookstore doesn’t have to stock Playboy.
Web hosting companies are the same way. They can–and do–pick and choose what types of content they will carry on their servers. Some companies won’t host adult websites. Some won’t host e-commerce sites. Some will handle either or both of those, but charge more for them. That’s all allowed under the First Amendment, because it’s not the government censoring the speech, it’s a private entity (company) exercising its private property rights on its own property (the web servers).
So, Amazon was perfectly within its rights to bump WikiLeaks off their servers. And, it was probably a good idea. Amazon, as a company that’s in the business of selling books to as many people as they can, doesn’t need the controversy of WikiLeaks being on their servers to drive away business.
Amazon 1, WikiLeaks 0.
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