The Coming Counterrevolution To Hush The Alternative Media

"Signs of what the new environment will be like for the right are already evident:

"• When the National Rifle Association recently released television and radio ads in Pennsylvania targeting Obama's history of anti-gun votes, the Obama campaign's general counsel fired off bullying letters to stations that ran the spots, implying that they may have violated public-interest obligations.

"• When the 527 group, the American Issues Project, came out with a commercial linking Obama to former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, the campaign (unsuccessfully) complained to the Department of Justice that AIP had broken campaign finance laws, and managed to spook some stations away from the ad.

"• When two different conservative writers looking into Obama's background appeared on Chicago's WGN-AM Radio, the campaign's 'action wire' energized its activists to bombard the station with rage-filled phone calls and e-mails, making the program more difficult to conduct.

"(The show, hosted by the eminently reasonable Milt Rosenberg, had on both occasions invited the Obama campaign to send a representative to respond; the campaign preferred to answer with digital brownshirts.)

"These crude efforts are only a start."

I ain't shuttin' up.