Obama hates the first amendment almost as much as he hates the second.
At his inaugural parades the Secret Service has "free speech" zones set up as sanctioned locations of protest. The King must have his bubble.
When the press broadcasts his wrongdoings for all of America to see, he reflexively pushes back.
He is nothing more than a Chicago bully.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson