Obama's 'authoritarian media practices' slammed

Joe Biden trips over another stumbling block

By Aaron Klein, WorldNetDaily's Jerusalem bureau chief All freedom-loving Americans and independent-minded journalists must be concerned about the authoritarian actions practiced in recent days by Sen. Barack Obama's campaign, which cut off future interviews to a local news network after its anchor dared to ask legitimate but pressing questions to Democrat vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden. The boycott move is a direct threat to what little is left of America's free press, highlighting to reporters the ramifications of questioning the Obama campaign on issues it doesn't want to talk about. As a Mideast reporter, I've seen this kind of action before. It's routinely practiced by Middle East dictators and has resulted in an intimidated press corps which toes the jihadist line, in part out of fear of having their contacts cut off.

During the exchange in question, labeled as "hostile" by the Obama campaign, WFTV Orlando's Barbara West started an interview by asking Biden whether he was embarrassed about the "blatant attempts to register phony voters by ACORN," stating Obama had been tied to the controversial organization which has been convicted in massive cases of voter registration fraud.

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