WBEZ Chicago Public Radio has apparently pulled offline all of their audio recordings, including the ones with Barack Obama talking about “redistribution of wealth” and comparing America to Nazi Germany.

I emailed the station yesterday morning to ask if they had removed the audio, or if they were having technical problems, and received no reply.

Are they deliberately hiding these recordings? It certainly looks that way. You can contact WBEZ and ask them yourself. Maybe you’ll have better luck getting an answer from them.

UPDATE at 10/29/08 9:15:20 am:

A reader emails to let me know that WBEZ has made their audio recordings of Barack Obama available at their blog; no word on why all of the RealAudio files elsewhere on the site are offline: Chicago Public Radio Blog » Barack Obama’s Radio Days.