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Here is video of longtime Obama friend William Ayers hammering Obama on his decision to send more troops to Afghanistan, saying it is an "absolute tragedy." Ayers does not believe there is any way Obama will begin pulling troops out of Afghanistan in July 2011, despite having said he would. Ayers said he is "appalled and alarmed" at Obama's decision. Ayers made the remarks yesterday in Chicago where he joined demonstrators against the war. . . . (VIDEO)

Barack Obama's longtime association with unrepentant Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn has caused the presidential candidate some serious political problems. In spite of efforts by Obama's friends in the media to suppress, contain, or explain away the issue, more information about the Ayers-Obama ties has continued to come out. In recent weeks, a number of websites have posted text, audio, or video of an interview with Larry Grathwohl from the 1982 video documentary No Place to Hide: The Strategy and Tactics of Terrorism by the Western Goals Foundation. I worked on that video as a researcher and...

Officials: Anita Dunn may be leaving with her little red book, but her husband enters as the next White House counsel, bringing experience in suppressing dissent, assaulting the First Amendment and limiting speech. Dunn, whose favorite philosophers include mass murderer Mao Zedong, was expected to leave after a short stint. She rose to fame as chief strategist for former Senate majority leader, now national health care guru, Tom Daschle. While serving as White House communications director, she was the commanding general of the administration "war" on Fox News. Like her philosophical mentor, Mao, and her colleague, FCC diversity czar Mark...

The White House on Friday released a small list of visitors to the White House since President Barack Obama took office in January, including lobbyists, business executives, activists and celebrities. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33556933/ns/politics-white_house/

For more than a year I have been making the case that Bill Ayers played a major role in the authorship of Barack Obama's acclaimed 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father. And for more than a year the hundreds of literary and political critics in the major media have refused to even glance at what is arguably the most consequential literary fraud of our time. Astonishingly, not one of the myriad reviewers of Christopher Andersen's bestseller Barack and Michelle even commented on the six pages he dedicates to confirming my thesis. If analyzing the several Ayers and Obama books in...

There I was, sitting in Reagan National Monday morning, sipping a Starbucks by the United counter before going through security. I had a little time, so I was browsing through the news. That's when I saw Bill Ayers, an instant blight. Scruffy, thinning beard, dippy earring, and the wirerims, heading to order. I gathered my things, got my camera ready, and snapped a shot right when he got his coffee. He gave me an uneasy cheesy smile when he realized I was taking his picture. I asked--what are you doing in D.C. Mr. Ayers? [He said] he was giving a...

"Hear our cry, Obama." "Deliver us, Obama." Video at link.

The radical-turned-scholar, disinvited by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln last fall following a public outcry over his planned visit, is scheduled to speak Nov. 14 at the annual meeting of the Academic Freedom Coalition of Nebraska. Members of the public are invited to the event, to be held at the Holiday Inn at 72nd and Grover streets in Omaha. The event is not associated with the University of Nebraska. "Not a cent" of public money will be used to bring Ayers here, said Dwayne Ball, president of the Academic Freedom Coalition of Nebraska, a statewide group whose members include the American...

In his new book, "Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage," Best-selling celebrity journalist, Christopher Andersen, has blown a huge hole in the Obama genius myth without intending to do so. Relying on inside sources, quite possibly Michelle Obama herself, Andersen describes how Dreams came to be published -- just as I had envisioned it in my articles on the authorship of Dreams. With the deadline pressing, Michelle recommended that Barack seek advice from "his friend and Hyde Park neighbor Bill Ayers." To flesh out his family history, Obama had taped interviews with various family members. Andersen writes, "These...

For some people in this country, Obama will always be an angel.

A collage depicting some of the new czars, such as Al Franken, Minister of Voter Creationism; William Ayers, Minister of Presidential Autobiographies; and Jack Kevorkian, Minister of Senior Health Counseling.

*snip* Bill Ayers is now a distinguished professor of education and a senior university scholar at the University of Illinois, Chicago. *snip* Bernardine Dohrn is an associate professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law and the director of Northwestern’s Children and Family Justice Center. Well, Democracy Now!’s Juan Gonzalez ((an ADMITTED fellow SDS terrorist)) and I spoke with both of them from a studio in their hometown of Chicago. In a wide-ranging conversation, we discussed the McCain campaign attacks, President-elect Obama, the Weather Underground, their plans for the future and much more. I began by asking Bill Ayers...

Former radical William Ayers will get a chance to speak on a Massachusetts college campus after all. Two months after Boston College canceled a scheduled appearance by Ayers, the onetime member of the 1960s militant antiwar organization the Weather Underground will be at Brandeis University next Thursday and will be welcomed by students and school administrators. "This is about freedom of educational opportunity," said Brandeis spokesman Dennis Nealon. "The university has made it clear that it is not going to bar the talk despite the controversial nature of the speaker." Ayers will speak about "lessons learned from the antiwar movement,"...

Last week, Barack Obama’s message to the world was: “the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam.” This week, Barack Obama’s Department of Homeland Security’s message to conservatives was: the United States may soon be at war with you. According to a new report emanating from DHS, it’s no longer Islamic terrorism -- or “man-caused terrorism” in the new DHS parlance -- that we have to fear most, but small government, anti-tax, pro-life, pro-gun, anti-illegal immigration, pro-military conservatives. In other words, most of the country. The DHS report’s title is, “Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and...

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said she was briefed before the release of a controversial intelligence assessment and that she stands by the report sent to law enforcement that lists veterans as a terrorist risk to the U.S. and defines "rightwing extremism" as including groups opposed to abortion and immigration. The outcry resulted in a demand from the head of the American Legion to meet with Ms. Napolitano, a request the DHS chief said she would honor next week when she returns to Washington from her current tour of the U.S.-Mexican border. "The document on right-wing extremism sent last week...

A San Francisco police union has accused former domestic terrorist William Ayers, co-founder of the Weather Underground, and his wife in a 1970 bombing that killed one sergeant, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The union, in a letter to a conservative organization lobbying for arrests in the case, accused Ayers and wife Bernardine Dohrn of bombing a city police station. On Feb. 16, 1970, a bomb placed on a window ledge of Park Station killed Sgt. Brian McDonnell and injured eight other officers, the Chronicle reported. The union said it had not been in contact with investigators nor did it...

A San Francisco police union has accused former domestic terrorist William Ayers, co-founder of the Weather Underground, and his wife in a 1970 bombing that killed one sergeant, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The union, in a letter to a conservative organization lobbying for arrests in the case, accused Ayers and wife Bernardine Dohrn of bombing a city police station.

EXCERPT: More bad news for unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers and his equally-unrepentant wife Bernadette Dorhn. Larry Grathwohl was an FBI informant who infiltrated Ayer’s Weather Underground terrorist group in the 1970s. He’s holding a press conference in San Francisco today to talk about things Ayers and Dohrn would rather keep buried in the past. Here’s part of Grathwohl’s pre-released opening statement: “The San Francisco Police Department Park Station bombing occurred on February 16, 1970, when a pipe bomb filled with shrapnel detonated on the ledge of a window at the San Francisco Police Department’s Golden Gate Park station. According to...

Dear Illinois,   Thanks for Paying me to talk to your kids.   Love, Bill Ayres,   writer, teacher, terrorist Illinois you have the honor of seeing your tax dollars go to pay terrorist William Ayers to "lecture" students at the University of Illinois. Not only will he be "lecturing" your students for a week at the Urbana campus, but your tax dollars at work will afford him free room and board at Allen Hall, as well. Isn't it heart warming that this killer and hater of America is being paid state dollars to help teach your college kids? Doesn't...

An attorney is threatening legal action if the University of Colorado doesn't waive a $3,000 fee for student groups hosting an appearance by former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers and fired CU professor Ward Churchill. CU spokesman Bronson Hilliard said it's standard to charge student groups fees to recoup security costs for large events. He said the $3,000 charge is toward the lower end of what the school charges.

During the presidential campaign, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin highlighted Barack Obama's connection to former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers – charging that the candidate was "palling around with terrorists." Now Ayers wants to bury the hatchet with a joint talk show. "Pallin' Around with Sarah and Bill," is the name Ayers has come up with, according to a report by CNN. Though Ayers sent her a note after the election touting the virtues of such a show, he concedes, "I haven't heard back." The revelation will be featured in the next New York Times magazine. Not surprisingly, Ayers was not...

It's not quite clear what Barack Obama's terrorist pal has against Robert Byrd, but one thing is certain: The New York Times can't get enough of this crackpot. First there was his impeccably timed September 11, 2001 column where he said he didn't regret being a terrorist. Then the Times so graciously gave him op-ed space again this past December where he played the victim for being called a terrorist. Now he'll be getting the full NY Times Magazine treatment this Sunday. Who said crime doesn't pay? Sarah Palin once accused Barack Obama of “palling around with terrorists,” a catchphrase...

"[T]he answer I gave the young radicals seemed to me the only realistic one: 'Do one of three things. One, go find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing—but this will only swing people to the right. Three, learn a lesson. Go home., organize, build power and at the next convention, you be the delegates.'" - William Ayers, Rules For Radicals. I can't believe I'm quoting the man whose ideas about what the United States of America should be are as diametrically opposed to my own as it is possible to be. Here's...

The ANDREA SHEA KING SHOWWEEKNIGHTS at 9 ET on BLOG TALK RADIOPROGRAM SCHEDULE THURSDAY, JAN. 22 at 9 pm ET. CLICK HERE!TONIGHT'S GUESTS: MELANIE MORGAN, Former KSFO morning drive radio host KRISTINN TAYLOR, political activist and FREE REPUBLIC media spokesman. St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California has invited the sixties radical and unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist WILLIAM AYERS to speak in a lecture series titled “Against the Grain.” The college says Ayers will “discuss his life and work and their inevitable intersection in the pursuit of social justice.” MELANIE MORGAN of Move America Forward says that's unacceptable and is planning...

Looking for something to watch other than the inauguration? Here is a new YouTube video from 1970 about the Weather Underground. Actually, it is my video. Recently I became annoyed when William Ayers started blogging for the Huffington Post. Later I read a comment on a conservative web site from a troll who said William Ayers was no more controversial than say G. Gordon Liddy or Oliver North. So, I thought it was time for a trip down memory lane because I don't want this guy to be considered mainstream. I've got another video that I will upload later but...

Bill Ayers, a Chicago resident and one of the founders of the Weather Underground, was turned back at the Canadian border Sunday night.

Evidence continues to mount that Barack Obama had substantial help from Bill Ayers in the creation of his 1995 book, Dreams From My Father, a book that Time Magazine has called "the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician." The evidence falls into five general categories, here summarized. * The discovery of new matching nautical metaphors from both Ayers and Obama that almost assuredly came from the same source: Ayers, a former merchant seaman. * The discovery of a Bill Ayers' essay on memoir writing, whose postmodern themes and phrases are echoed throughout Dreams. * A newly discovered book...

“I picture the street coming alive, awakening from the fury of winter, stirred from the chilly spring night by cold glimmers of sunlight angling through the city.” Bill Ayers, Fugitive Days. “Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds.” Barack Obama, Dreams From My Father. Prior to 1990, when Barack Obama contracted to write Dreams From My Father, he had written very close to nothing. As an undergraduate, Obama had written what he justifiably calls some “very bad poetry.”...

By Katie O'MalleyThe College of DuPage (COD) in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, has announced the February speaker for their Living Leadership Program. Based on the desired goals of the series, COD students, parents and the taxpayers of DuPage County should have much to be excited about. The program, according to their website, is based on the following philosophies: “Leadership is a skill, therefore anyone can learn it, practice it, and become better at it. Leadership is not tied to position, title or authority. Leaders use 1) Conscious Decision-Making 2) Active Participation, and 3) Understanding of Multiple Perspectives to impact their...

I predicted it days after it happened: That the beloved and woefully incompetent terrorist Bill Ayers would join his fellow travelers at the Huffington Post blog. And so, this week, he's written some hilarious nonsense about education, using a kind of mental terrorism meant to blow your mind, but instead only blows. But what a great idea for the frustrated bomber inside all of us! I mean, let's say you're in a hurry and you need some nutty Marxist rhetoric to impress a co-ed from Brown, as well as advice on how to make a bomb! Wouldn't it be great...

All in all, I like Politico's list of the top ten media blunders of 2008, by staff writer Michael Calderone, appearing on the website this evening. How can you not like a list that includes, among other faux pas: * MSNBC's use of Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as election night and convention co-anchors; * The New York Times's suggestive but unsubstantiated story about John McCain and lobbyist Vikki Iseman; and * The MSM's lack of curiosity despite the National Enquirer's solid reporting on the John Edwards affair? But no story about a list would be complete without some beefing...

It couldn't have been easy for Bill Ayers to keep quiet while the McCain campaign tarred him as the Obama's best friend, the terrorist. Unfortunately, the silence was too good to last. On Saturday's New York Times op-ed page, he announced that "it's finally time to tell my true story." Like his memoir, Fugitive Days , "The Real Bill Ayers" is a sentimentalized, self-justifying whitewash of his role in the weirdo violent fringe of the 1960s-70s antiwar left. "I never killed or injured anyone, "Ayers writes. "In 1970, I co-founded the Weather Underground, an organization that was created after an...

I wanted to post this all day but life got in the way. I know others have posted on this topic, but hopefully this will include new info that the other posts do not: The New York Times allowed G-d knows how many innocent trees to die so that it could publish a self-serving, deeply disingenuous op-ed by terrorist-cum-educator William Ayers – who actually expects us to feel sorry for his being pilloried during the presidential campaign. ... Let’s deconstruct “the facts” that Ayers and The Times present.

This graphic has been around for a while but Bill Ayers chose to post it on his website today. Is Bill Ayers thankful that he's "Guilty as Hell, Free as a Bird..."

William Ayers reminisces about the 1960s and the Students for a Democratic Society. During his speech he talks about the "spirit of insurgency" and how the world was in flames. The term insurgency is typically used by terrorists as they try to shield themselves from the murder and violence that they promote. Ayers also talks about the world in flames but omits the part that he participated in making those flames through his organization's terroristic actions. In the second video he talks about having a "moral vision", another tactic used by terrorists to try and excuse their behavior by claiming...

Re-emerging from his self-imposed silence, Ayers is trying to escape the negative stigma of his violent past by arguing that he was much less violent than the U.S. government. Here he again attacks the government (in the form of the prison system) for what it does to people that implicitly match his view of himself: folks who have good excuses for violence, crime and anti-social behavior. In Ayers' view, these people don't belong in prison any more than he does.

In the re-release of William Ayers’ book, Fugitive Days, the unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist revealed that he and President-elect Barack Obama are “family friends.” Last Friday Ayers appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America reinventing himself as a peaceful anti-war activist. “We tried to end [the Vietnam] war,” Ayers said, “but we never committed terror. It’s not terrorism because it doesn’t target people,” referring to his 1970’s bombing sprees. Next, he tapped into the current anti-war sentiment using his Vietnam War resistance as a non-threatening illustration to compare with the wars in Iraq

“Billie” (as in a man that has no manly traits) had to sneak into his book signing event at the All Souls Unitarian Church, even with 3 police officers standing by the main entrance. He was a wussy when he sent out his sheeple to bomb and kill Americans, and he still is a wussy. Kristinn put up a thread alerting him to our protest and that could have been one reason that he moved his event to the church. When the manager of Busboys and Poets Terrorists establishment saw us on the sidewalk, he quickly showed us a flyer...

"It was a manifesto to all prisoners, and if I were writing a book like that today, I would dedicate it to 2.1 million people in prison. I think it was a stupid thing to single him out but, I also think that we have created a monster in the prison system."

Via Breitbart, a paean to Hopenchange from two cretins well known for their activities in Chicago’s parks. At long last, we get to hear the dulcet tone in which the words “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!� were so famously uttered. It’s everything I dreamed it would be.

Friday, November 14: • We'll have reaction and analysis of Bill Ayers' interview with 'Good Morning America'

In a television interview on ABC's Good Morning America, the college professor disputed the contention that in the new afterword of a paperback edition of his 2001 memoir Fugitive Days, he described himself and Mr Obama as "family friends". "I'm describing there how the blogosphere characterised the relationship," Mr Ayers said. "I would really say that we knew each other in a professional way, again on the same level as say thousands of other people." Mr Ayers, an education professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago, helped found the radical group the Weathermen that carried out bombings at the Pentagon and...

William Ayres emerged from his pre-election seclusion to appear on Good Morning in America today. Strangely enough the producers of the show felt that all of the controversy surrounding the relationship between Obama and Ayres didn’t warrant any investigation or interview, but the release of a new collection of lies and anti-American propaganda penned by Ayres did. Is there any thinking American left who cannot see the insidious nature of the press and their sycophantic coverage of their chosen candidate? Make no mistake; the media hoisted this character on the nation through their lies, omissions, and distortions and they should...

AOL / Wire Services posted: 1 HOUR 57 MINUTES CHICAGO (Nov. 13) - Vietnam-era radical Bill Ayers says he knows President-elect Barack Obama no better than thousands of other people in Chicago. In an interview Friday morning on ABC's "Good Morning America," Ayers distanced himself from Obama. Ayers said — for example — the two didn't even meet before Ayers hosted an event at his home for Obama. POLL: Do you think Bill Ayers is a terrorist? Yes 47% No 41% Not sure 12% Total Votes: 217,734

November 14, 2008 Honesty not an Obama policy Paul Miller Senator, President-elect or President, regardless of his Honorable title, I am not going to sugar-coat the anger I feel toward Barack Obama at this moment. The irony of the situation is that my feelings are based on something that I already knew was true. Sometimes when reality is so disturbing, even the brightest minds will hold out for any indication that they may be wrong. When their beliefs are confirmed, it just makes everything that much worse. My soon to be President looked America in the eye and lied about...

Video - William Ayers, family friend, on Good Morning America 11-14-08 ~~~ Obama associate and family friend Bill Ayers is still unapologetic for his domestic acts of terrorism. ABC reported: Breaking his silence, Ayers told Chris Cuomo on "Good Morning America" today that the GOP attack was a "dishonest narrative...to demonize me." He added, "I don't buy the idea that guilt by association should have any part of our politics," he said. Ayers scoffed at the Republican effort to make his ties to Obama appear suspicious. "This idea that we need to know more, like there's some dark, hidden secret,...

Via Ace. The bad news? Obama was lying to us when he dismissed Ayers at the debate as merely “a guy who lives in my neighborhood.” The good news? We already knew that, thanks to Axelrod and Mayor Daley. Anyway, belated confirmation.

Now that Barack Obama is safely elected, people like Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers no longer have to remain silent, and the media are suddenly interested in them. Former Weather Underground terrorist Ayers will appear tomorrow [FRIDAY, 11/14/08] on Good Morning America.

The D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com invites all Freepers and lurkers in good standing to join us this Monday evening, November 17, as we freep unrepentent Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers at his book promotion appearance at Busboys and Poets, aka, Busboys and Terrorists, in Washington, D.C.When: 4 P.M. Monday, November 17, 2008. We'll stay into the evening as the Ayers event is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m.Where: Outside Busboys and Poets, aka Busboys and Terrorists, 14th St. and V St., NW, Washington, D.C.Nearest Metro: U St./African-American Civil War Memorial/Cardozo Station, 13th St. exit, Yellow and Green Lines.Bring: American flags...

In a new afterword to his memoir, 1960s radical William Ayers describes himself as a "family friend" of President-elect Barack Obama and writes that the campaign controversy over their relationship was an effort by Obama's political enemies to "deepen a dishonest narrative" about the candidate. Ayers describes phone threats and hate e-mail he received during the campaign, and he bemoans Obama's guilt by association. During the campaign, Ayers' friendship with Obama was a favorite subject of conservative bloggers and talk show hosts who insisted the two were closer than the candidate was admitting. Ayers' new description of the relationship seems...