You wouldn’t expect the Obama lapdog media to get it, and chuckle away any notion that an Obama administration would threaten our right to free speech, and the media ought to know, they have done a job on Palin and McCain just for daring to speak out on Obama’s associations.

“ABC News’ Steven Portnoy reports: In a conservative radio interview that aired in Washington, D.C. Friday morning, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin said she fears her First Amendment rights may be threatened by “attacks” from reporters who suggest she is engaging in a negative campaign against Barack Obama.

Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama’s associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative attacks. Rather, for reporters or columnists to suggest that it is going negative may constitute an attack that threatens a candidate’s free speech rights under the Constitution, Palin said.

“If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations,” Palin told host Chris Plante, “then I don’t know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media.”

Of course we know this happened to Joe the Plumber, who was literally crucified for having the guts to call out Obama on his socialistic plans for America.

We also know that throughout this campaign the Obama campaign has used threats and intimidation to silence critics. Just last month it was t. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, Missouri Obama campaign Senator Claire McCaskill who threatened to throw those who ran TV commericals that they felt were “lies” into jail.

Just today the Obama campaign booted journalist from three newspapers who endorsed McCain from their airplane.

Palin is right, Obama is a danger to the freedom of the press which should make the press hang their head in shame.