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That’s the only way to explain this extreme response to shut down discussion of the subject.

Barack Obama’s campaign hasn’t advertised this a great deal this week, but the campaign’s “Action Wire” has been waging large-scale campaigns against critics. That includes tens of thousands of e-mails to television stations running Harold Simmons’ Bill Ayers ad, and to their advertisers — including a list of major automobile and telecommunications companies.

And tonight, the campaign launched a more specific campaign: an effort to disrupt the appearance by a writer for National Review, Stanley Kurtz, on a Chicago radio program. Kurtz has been writing about Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers, and has suggested that papers housed at the University of Illinois at Chicago would reveal new details of that relationship.

The campaign e-mailed Chicago supporters who had signed up for the Obama Action Wire with detailed instructions including the station’s telephone number and the show’s extension, as well as a research file on Kurtz, which seems to prove that he’s a conservative, which isn’t in dispute. The file cites a couple of his more controversial pieces, notably his much-maligned claim that same-sex unions have undermined marriage in Scandinavia.

First the Obama campaign tries to get the Department of Justice to block television and radio stations from airing the ad showing Barack Obama’s ties to unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers. And, now they’ve recruited supporters to call in to Milt Rosenberg’s radio show to denounce Stanley Kurtz. Of course, the appropriate response would have been to send somebody from the Obama campaign to debate Kurtz on the program. But, multiple phone calls to the Obama campaign by Rosenberg’s producer accomplished nothing, as the Obama campaign refused to send anyone.  Obviously, they were afraid that they wouldn’t be able to refute Kurtz, and instead chose a childish tactic that really makes it look they are scared and desperate.