With the country broadly rejecting President Obama’s agenda and grass-roots citizens across the nation uniting in search of fiscal responsibility and limited government, the president is on the offensive. He is leveling a series of false attacks in an attempt to undermine Americans for Prosperity (AFP). However, on this issue, our constitutional-lawyer-in-chief needs some correction.
In a series of fundraising speeches for Democratic candidates, Mr. Obama has stated repeatedly that because of Citizens United, “there are groups with harmless-sounding names like Americans for Prosperity who are running millions of dollars of ads against Democratic candidates, and they don’t have to say who exactly the Americans for Prosperity are. You don’t know if it’s a foreign-controlled corporation. You don’t know if it’s a big oil company or a big bank.” Unfortunately for him, the president’s attack gets both the facts and the law wrong.
The landmark decision in Citizens United v. FCC held that corporations and unions cannot be barred from using general treasury funds to advocate expressly for or against the election of a candidate. The case is a huge free-speech victory, and it explicitly rejects the idea that “in the context of political speech, the government may impose restrictions on certain disfavored speakers.” The decision frees for-profit corporations, nonprofits and labor unions to rejoin the rest of the country in expressing their views about candidates for office.
However, Mr. Obama habitually has misrepresented Citizens United. It started at the State of the Union address, when he oddly stated that the case would allow foreign corporations to influence American elections. This is false; foreign nationals and foreign corporations were not affected by Citizens United and are still banned from making independent political expenditures.
Read More: By Tim Phillips, The Washington Times
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The president, is constantly bashing Fox News for their reporting on his administration. Our Constitutional professor , Obama, seems to be unaware of the first amendment right to freedom of speech. OH! I almost forgot ,he he appointed Mark Lloyd to the FCC to try to curb freedom of speech for all media including radio and TV . Lloyd, commented on how much he admired Hugo Chavez for doing just that. There is just a little matter of a Constitution, but don't forget Obama called that great document outdated. Remember in November!!!
It seems to me there is an abundance of foreign influence in our politics and has been for a number of years. Just where does the UN get its authority to overrule our Constitution, yet we have example after example where the UN has been pushing Global Warming, Endangered species and many other agendas supposedly based on compassion without a shred of evidence to show the term is even in their vocabulary. Obama has been demonstrating far greater loyalty to the UN than to our Constitution. Natural born or otherwise I see no evidence that tells me Obama is American at heart.
The environment from which Obama came which is Muslim & Communist quite naturially would have a dramatic effect on his opinion about free speech. I am sure that Obama would like nothing more than to control the media in it's entireity.
Zeroboy is projecting the sins of the Left onto the Right. Nothing new from the Marxist bag of dirty tricks. He is spewing nothing but lies, disinformation and propaganda. A staple tool used by Marxist to demonize the opposition. I wish I could shove a bar of soap in his mouth for spewing such filth! Hey Zeroboy, you should follow what Sarah Palin siad to the media… "Stop makin' stuff up!"
I wonder if the MEDIA Outlets are Now Seeing WHY the Secong Amendment is SOOOO Important?