When will they note that Ayers put Obama in charge of $50 million dollars of Annenberg Challenge money?
I’m not holding my breath...
WHo? WHo is the Ayers guy, and why is he important? Never heard of him..................
Why is anyone surprised? Now we’ll see the complete rehabilitation of Bill Ayers in the media. They’ll do expose and discuss how he’s reforming education. Setting us up for him being a part of the Obama Administration.
The Fourth Estate, the MSMS, is the FIFTH COLUMN!!!
I watched the first half of the interview and he is such a weasle. He said that his terrorist group, the Weather Underground should not be demonized.
Bill Ayers = Timothy McViegh
What do you expect? The election made him a celebrity
Enjoy the spotlight Ayers. You don't have much time left, you old washed up terrorist.
I thought it was the Prairie Fire book (written in the 60’s) that was dedicated to Sirhan Sirhan. That book was very hard to come by. Hannity got a copy of it about a week before the election.
Is his newest book dedicated to Sirhan as well?
Every Vietnam veteran who saw it must be having fits. He repeatedly said that our terrorist government was murdering 2,000 innocent people a week in Vietnam, and that’s why he set off his soft fluffy safe bombs.
Why is this communist terrorist still walking our streets?
Paging Caroline Kennedy, Ms. Caroline Kennedy-Schlossberg ... please report to Hyannisport for a reality check. Your dead uncle’s children want a word with you.
Me too.
I think we should let the folks who purchase ad time on GMA know this.
but you’re shy and retiring..... :D
is this the Ayers book that is dedicated to “political prisoners” including RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan?
Will OPRAH recommend this book to all her brainless followers????
I just posted another version of this story, I guess the mods might consider it to be a duplicate post????
That ABC deigned to interview him and discuss his book is questionable, I agree. The guy should be in prison, not on a morning talk show.
Aside from that I thought the TV interview was reasonably fair and direct and put Ayers on the hot seat several times.
His answers sounded untruthful, self-serving, and IMO demonstrated his total lack of remorse for anything that he did.
Any viewer could deduce that he’d advocate and do exactly the same thing today, that his violence was not merely youthful folly, and he has in no way repented for it.
For now the interview is online at:
You're not alone my FRiend.
Betcha he won't dare come on O'Reilly's show, the ch!ck$nsh!t!
Well, I just had a Sodom and Gomorrah moment. I turned to ABC just in time to see the story about the transgendered woman who claims to be a man although now on *her* second pregnancy.
Then I get to see the second half of the interview with the effeminate William Ayers. His mannerisms are more feminine than the pregnant person on the other interview!
We need to pray that the Lord will have mercy!
If ABC had any guts, they’d get Murtagh on with Ayers and have at it.
Just the MSM ‘pallin around with terrorists.
Tune out the nets! Tune out and drop IN, drop in to reality and sanity.
The man is reprehensible. He should be shunned and ostracized. So should Good Morning America for having him on.
More validation of the gut feeling, that we are living the real life version of, “The Invasion of the Bodysnatchers” : \
Out here in post election America, with the corporations in DC lining up for their share of the dole, people, and places may look the same, but it is hard to shake the feeling that I am waking up in a different country : /
We have a LOT of work to do.
C,mon now, what should we do?
Shunning people, ruining their career, making life a living hell for them-that’s for BAD people-
Y’know, like John Rocker.
/sarc
Is Camile Paglia having “buyers remorse” or doing a CYA, “just in case”?
SALON.com
Obama surfs through
http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/11/12/palin/print.html
The Obamas are a warm vision for the White House — but he should strive toward full transparency. Plus: Yes, I still like Sarah Palin!
By Camille Paglia
Nov. 12, 2008 | [excerpts]
..Eat dirt, you sour Clintons, who said Obama was “unelectable.” ..
Yes, it’s true we know relatively little about Barack Obama, and his triumph is a roll of the dice. ...In debate, McCain was always pugnacious but too often bland or rambling, and he often missed glaring opportunities to score off Obama’s vagueness or contradictions.
...No one knows whether Obama will move to the center .. . ...The big question will be how patient the Democratic left wing is in demanding drastic changes in social policy, particularly dicey with a teetering economy.
As I’ve watched Obama gracefully step up to podiums or move through crowds, I’ve been reminded not of basketball, with its feints and pivots, but of surfing, that art form of his native Hawaii. .. Obama’s ability to stay on his feet and outrun the most menacing waves that threaten to engulf him seems to embody the breezy, sunny spirit of the American surfer.
In the closing weeks of the election, however, I became increasingly disturbed by the mainstream media’s avoidance of forthright dealing with several controversies that had been dogging Obama — even as every flimsy rumor about Sarah Palin was being trumpeted as if it were engraved in stone on Mount Sinai. For example, I had thought for many months that the flap over Obama’s birth certificate was a tempest in a teapot. But simple questions about the certificate were never resolved to my satisfaction. Thanks to their own blathering, fanatical overkill, of course, the right-wing challenges to the birth certificate never gained traction.
But Obama could have ended the entire matter months ago by publicly requesting Hawaii to issue a fresh, long-form, stamped certificate and inviting a few high-profile reporters in to examine the document and photograph it. (The campaign did make the “short-form” certificate available to Factcheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.) And why has Obama not made his university records or thesis work widely available? The passivity of the press toward Bush administration propaganda about weapons of mass destruction led the nation into the costly blunder of the Iraq war. We don’t need another presidency that finds it all too easy to rely on evasion or stonewalling. I deeply admire Obama, but as a voter I don’t like feeling gamed or played.
Another issue that I initially dismissed was the flap over William Ayers, the Chicago-based former member of the violent Weather Underground. Conservative radio host Sean Hannity began the drumbeat about Ayers’ association with Obama a year ago — a theme that most of the mainstream media refused to investigate or even report until this summer. I had never heard of Ayers and couldn’t have cared less. I was irritated by Hillary Clinton’s aggressive flagging of Ayers in a debate, and I accepted Obama’s curt dismissal of the issue.
Hence my concern about Ayers has been very slow in developing. The mainstream media should have fully explored the subject early this year and not allowed it to simmer and boil until it flared up ferociously in the last month of the campaign. Obama may not in recent years have been “pallin’ around” with Ayers, in Sarah Palin’s memorable line, but his past connections with Ayers do seem to have been more frequent and substantive than he has claimed. ...
Pursuing the truth about Ayers, I recently rented the 2002 documentary “The Weather Underground,” from Netflix. It was riveting.
Although the film seems to waver between ominous exposé and blatant whitewash, the full extent of the group’s bombing campaign is dramatically demonstrated. It’s not for everyone: The film uses gratuitous cutaways of horrifying carnage, from the Vietnam War to the Manson murders (such as Sharon Tate’s smiling corpse, bathed in blood). But the news footage of the Greenwich Village townhouse destroyed in 1970 by bomb-making gone wrong in the basement still has enormous impact. Standing in the chaotic street, actor Dustin Hoffman, who lived next door, seems like Everyman at the apocalypse.
Ayers comes off in the film as a vapid, slightly dopey, chronic juvenile with stunted powers of ethical reasoning. The real revelation is his wife, Bernardine Dohrn (who evidently worked at the same large Chicago law firm as Michelle Obama in the mid-1990s). Of course I had heard of Dohrn — hers was one of the most notorious names of our baby-boom generation — and I knew her black-and-white police mug shot. But I had never seen footage of her speaking or interacting with others. Well, it’s pretty obvious who wears the pants in that family!
The mystery of Bernardine Dohrn: How could such a personable, attractive, well-educated young woman end up saying such things at a 1969 political rally as this (omitted in the film) about the Manson murders: “Dig it. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach. Wild!” And how could Dohrn have so ruthlessly pursued a decade-long crusade of hatred and terrorism against innocent American citizens and both private and public property?
“The Weather Underground” never searches for answers, but it does show Dohrn, then and now, as a poised, articulate woman of extremely high intelligence and surprising inwardness.
The audio extra of her reading the collective’s first public communiqué (”Revolutionary violence is the only way”) is chilling.
But the tumultuous footage of her 1980 surrender to federal authorities is a knockout. Mesmerized, I ran the clip six or seven times of her seated at a lawyer’s table while reading her still defiant statement. The sober scene — with Dohrn hyper-alert in a handsome turtleneck and tweedy jacket — was tailor-made for Jane Fonda in her “Klute” period, androgynous shag. Only illegalities by federal investigators prevented Dohrn from being put away on ice for a long, long time.
Given that Obama had served on a Chicago board with Ayers and approved funding of a leftist educational project sponsored by Ayers, one might think that the unrepentant Ayers-Dohrn couple might be of some interest to the national media. But no, reporters have been too busy playing mini-badminton with every random spitball about Sarah Palin, who has been subjected to an atrocious and at times delusional level of defamation merely because she has the temerity to hold pro-life views.
How dare Palin not embrace abortion as the ultimate civilized ideal of modern culture? How tacky that she speaks in a vivacious regional accent indistinguishable from that of Western Canada! How risible that she graduated from the State University of Idaho and not one of those plush, pampered commodes of received opinion whose graduates, in their rush to believe the worst about her, have demonstrated that, when it comes to sifting evidence, they don’t know their asses from their elbows.
Liberal Democrats are going to wake up from their sadomasochistic, anti-Palin orgy with a very big hangover.
The evil genie released during this sorry episode will not so easily go back into its bottle. A shocking level of irrational emotionalism and at times infantile rage was exposed at the heart of current Democratic ideology — contradicting Democratic core principles of compassion, tolerance and independent thought. One would have to look back to the Eisenhower 1950s for parallels to this grotesque lock-step parade of bourgeois provincialism, shallow groupthink and blind prejudice.
I like Sarah Palin, and I’ve heartily enjoyed her arrival on the national stage. As a career classroom teacher, I can see how smart she is — and quite frankly, I think the people who don’t see it are the stupid ones, wrapped in the fuzzy mummy-gauze of their own worn-out partisan dogma.
So she doesn’t speak the King’s English — big whoop! There is a powerful clarity of consciousness in her eyes.
She uses language with the jumps, breaks and rippling momentum of a be-bop saxophonist. I stand on what I said (as a staunch pro-choice advocate) in my last two columns — that Palin as a pro-life wife, mother and ambitious professional represents the next big shift in feminism. Pro-life women will save feminism by expanding it, particularly into the more traditional Third World.
As for the Democrats who sneered and howled that Palin was unprepared to be a vice-presidential nominee — what navel-gazing hypocrisy!
What protests were raised in the party or mainstream media when John Edwards, with vastly less political experience than Palin, got John Kerry’s nod for veep four years ago?
And Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, for whom I lobbied to be Obama’s pick and who was on everyone’s short list for months, has a record indistinguishable from Palin’s.
Whatever knowledge deficit Palin has about the federal bureaucracy or international affairs (outside the normal purview of governors) will hopefully be remedied during the next eight years of the Obama presidencies.
The U.S. Senate as a career option? What a claustrophobic, nitpicking comedown for an energetic Alaskan — nothing but droning committees and incestuous back-scratching.
No, Sarah Palin should stick to her governorship and just hit the rubber-chicken circuit,.. Step by step, the mainstream media will come around, wipe its own mud out of its eyes, and see Palin for the populist phenomenon that she is. ...
— By Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia’s column appears on the second Wednesday of each month. Every third column is devoted to reader letters. Please send questions for her next letters column to this mailbox. Your name and town will be published unless you request anonymity.
Ping to ruin your day.
It should be a book on his prison experience...
Ayers expressed love for the pipe bomb rivals anything anyone has ever said about a dildo. Yes, it is that obscene.
The bomb intended to be set off at the military dance was packed with nails -- that's not "making a statement, that's serial killing and maiming -- crippling innocent people for life if they were not "lucky" enough to be blown to bits.
Serial killers can never be rehabilitated.