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   From: leroysoetoro@americans-first.com   
      
   https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/09/21/barack-obama-is-the-last-   
   person-who-should-lecture-america-on-censorship-n4943950   
      
   When ABC chose to preempt Jimmy Kimmel indefinitely, everyone on the left   
   was rushing to chime in with their usual rhetoric, claiming censorship and   
   lobbing false accusations against President Trump. One person who thought   
   it would be a good idea to weigh in was probably the last person who   
   should have: Barack Obama.   
      
   ‘After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current   
   administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely   
   threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle   
   or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like,” Obama tweeted.   
      
   Barack Obama has long tried to present himself as a champion of press   
   freedom, but in reality, his administration carried out one of the most   
   aggressive crackdowns on journalists and whistleblowers in modern history.   
   He prosecuted more leakers than all previous presidents combined, often   
   throwing people in prison for disclosures that turned out to be trivial.   
      
   The Obama administration also targeted the press itself. Obama’s Justice   
   Department seized phone records from Associated Press reporters and   
   editors, spied on journalists like Fox News’s James Rosen and New York   
   Times reporter James Risen, and even labeled Rosen an “unindicted co-   
   conspirator” just for reporting the news. These actions occurred without   
   due process, often in secret, and caused outrage from dozens of major news   
   organizations that accused Obama of trampling the First Amendment. Obama   
   had one of the most anti-free speech administrations in history.   
      
   Obama also tried to weaponize the FCC with his push for so-called “net   
   neutrality,” dressing it up as fairness while in reality advancing a   
   regulatory scheme that would give Washington greater leverage over   
   internet providers and, by extension, online speech. For all the talk   
   about hope and change, Obama’s legacy is one of suppressing dissent,   
   intimidating the press, and laying the groundwork for the censorship   
   culture that dominates the left today.   
      
   And the Trump White House is calling him out.   
      
   On Fox News, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt quickly   
   dismissed Obama’s comments. “With all due respect to former President   
   Obama, he has no idea what he’s talking about,” she said. “The decision to   
   fire Jimmy Kimmel and to cancel his show came from executives at ABC. That   
   has now been reported. And I can assure you, it did not come from the   
   White House and there was no pressure given from the President of the   
   United States.”   
      
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   “And how do I know that,” she asked. “Because I was with the President of   
   the United States when this news broke in the United Kingdom. We were   
   enjoying the beautiful and spectacular state visit that was put forth by   
   the royal family and the Prime Minister of the UK, Keir Starmer, and I   
   actually brought this news to President Trump’s attention.”   
      
   According to Leavitt, Trump himself was surprised. “He had no idea this   
   was happening," she said. "It was a decision that was made by ABC because   
   Jimmy Kimmel chose to knowingly lie to his audience on his program about   
   the death of a highly respected man when our country is in a state of   
   mourning. That was a decision that he made and he is now facing a   
   consequence for that decision and for that lie.”   
      
   She added, “I can’t speak for [ABC]. I can speak on behalf of the   
   president of the United States. And while he’s pleased with this decision,   
   we had nothing to do with it. It was ABC’s decision and it was certainly   
   the right one by them.”   
      
   Barack Obama weighing in on Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension isn’t just   
   laughable—it’s pure hypocrisy. This is the same man who built one of the   
   most hostile administrations toward the free press in American history,   
   spying on reporters, seizing their phone records, and prosecuting   
   whistleblowers at record levels. He turned the Justice Department into a   
   weapon against journalists, even branding a Fox News reporter an   
   “unindicted co-conspirator” simply for doing his job. For Obama to now   
   lecture anyone about censorship is beyond shameless—it’s gaslighting.   
      
   See the hypocrisy for what it is—Obama, the same man who waged war on free   
   speech and the free press, dares to lecture us on censorship while the   
   media covers for him.   
      
      
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   November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump.  We look   
   forward to America being great again.   
      
   We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that   
   stupid people won't be offended.   
      
   Every day is an IQ test. Some pass, some, not so much.   
      
   Thank you for cleaning up the disasters of the 2008-2017, 2020-2024 Obama   
   / Biden / Harris fiascos, President Trump.   
      
   Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the   
   The World According To Garp.  Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood   
   queer liberal democrat donors.   
      
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