Not only will running ads critical of the Democrat candidate get you persecuted in Barack Mugabe Obama's America, so will attempting to report inconvenient stories.

Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera crew were attempting to take pictures on a public sidewalk of Democratic Senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the Brown Palace Hotel.

Police on the scene refused to tell ABC lawyers the charges against the producer, Asa Eslocker, who works with the ABC News investigative unit.

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During the arrest, one of the officers can be heard saying to Eslocker, "You're lucky I didn't knock the f..k out of you."

Sounds rather like Beijing, doesn't it? Let's not forget -- Barack Mugabe Obama has said he wants the US to become more like Red China.

I wonder if this is the same event that resulted in this story that is sure to have embarrassed Obama and the Democrats.

Former Senator John Edwards has stayed away from the Democratic convention in Denver, but the close friend who helped hide his one-time mistress is receiving VIP treatment here.

Fred Baron, a wealthy Texas trial lawyer and former finance chairman for Edwards' presidential campaign, was seen Tuesday at a private luncheon for top party donors and key senators.

Baron, a longtime major contributor to Democratic candidates, would not answer questions from ABC News and walked away when he saw cameras.

You know, it certainly seems like there might be a connection -- after all, it highlights one more example of how dirty the Dems are.

And as for the Denver Police, these fascist tactics against a reporter seem quite at odds at how they dealt with a situation in which an assault was committed and repeated death threats were made against at conservative member of the press by liberal protesters.

Taking photos of Democrat fat cats? Arrest and threats of violence from the police.

Assault and threats of murder by liberal thugs? Nothing to see here, just move along.

UPDATE: Anyone hear me talking about this with Hugh Hewitt this evening?

UPDATE 2: Here's some of the video -- including the one cop's attempt to further suppress the press by ordering the cameras turned off. Seems to me that Denver cops do not know crap about the First Amendment.

Also, this report from Howard Kurtz.