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QotD, The True Meaning Of CarryingWaterGate* edition.

Kathleen Parker, of all people, on the True Meaning of Bob Woodward and CarryingWatergate*:

Drip by drip, the Obama administration has demonstrated its intolerance for dissent and its contempt for any who stray from the White House script. Yes, all administrations are sensitive to criticism, and all push back when such criticism is deemed unfair or inaccurate. But no president since Richard Nixon has demonstrated such overt contempt for the messenger.

I’ll merely add that the messengers have more or less earned that contempt.  Sorry, but it’s true.

(via Hot Air Headlines)

Moe Lane

*The circle closes.

Blast from the past: Michael Barone predicted the Obama Thugocracy in ’08.

The more things change…

‘I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors,” Barack Obama told a crowd in Elko, Nev. “I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.” Actually, Obama supporters are doing a lot more than getting into people’s faces. They seem determined to shut people up.

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Obama supporters who found the campuses congenial and Obama himself, who has chosen to live all his adult life in university communities, seem to find it entirely natural to suppress speech that they don’t like and seem utterly oblivious to claims that this violates the letter and spirit of the First Amendment. In this campaign, we have seen the coming of the Obama thugocracy, suppressing free speech, and we may see its flourishing in the four or eight years ahead.

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