Is Obama Plotting To Shut Down the Internet?

The world is full of a lot of conservative anti-Obama craziness these days—Glenn Beck, the Birther movement, etc. But anti-immigration activist William Gheen might take the prize as this week's most paranoid Obama critic. On Tuesday, Gheen circulated an email claiming that the Obama administration may intend to use the swine flu epidemic as an excuse to shut down the web and thus silence his critics. Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
2.7
by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 28, 2009

The title is a bit alarmist. The content is an informational warning about a radical right publicity hound with a PAC that seems to be a self-licking ice cream cone.

Gheen’s PAC seems largely devoted to supporting himself rather than any particular candidates. In the 2008 election cycle, ALIPAC raised $229,720 but donated a mere $2,500 to federal candidates

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