What Lurks in the Ayers-Annenberg Files? ( The panicked reaction of the Obama campaign suggests - )

Pajamas Media ^ | August 29, 2008 | Clarice Feldman

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Do Democratic presidential campaign committees think we are all stupid or do they suffer from some sort of group delusion? In 2004 they tried to peddle a man who made claims about his military career that were easily proven to be lies (Christmas in Cambodia, outrageous charges about war crimes by his fellow soldiers) as a war hero “reporting for duty.”

This time around they are trying to take a man whose entire career has linked him with far-left anti-American characters, political agendas focused on redistribution of wealth, and racial spoils and pawn him off on us as a man who transcends race and partisanship.

As the façade’s cracks begin to show through — largely outside the focus of the major media — the Obama camp is behaving badly and thereby telegraphing that the charges involving Obama’s role in the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) are not only true, but both unanswerable and exceedingly damaging to the campaign’s make-believe narrative about their candidate.

First, someone — still unknown but undoubtedly linked to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge as an executive or board member during the time Obama was its chairman — tried to prevent the University of Illinois’ Richard J. Daley library from making available to writer Stanley Kurtz the organization’s records.

Then the campaign falsely asserted that ads respecting the CAC and Obama’s links to Ayers through it had been made by McCain, sent threatening letters to stations brave enough to carry the ad, and topped it off with two letters to the Department of Justice laughably demanding a full investigation into the organization which sponsored the ads, a 501(c)(4) organization legally permitted to engage in such activities.

[Joan Kerrey]

I listened to it this morning, pretty tame actually, Kurtz had some great questions and info, but no smoking gun
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There is one somewhere. Obama’s camp is in panic mode to have taken the action they did. There is more to this than association questions about Obama. Follow the money. Follow the grants. Question the failures and who benefited. Where did the money go and who got richer in the process? I think we’ll find Obama firmly entrenched in typically corrupt Chicago politics and that’s where the fear is.

[ETL]

For much more on the ObamaRats and the strong communist angle in all this (the one being largely ignored by both the left AND most of the right-wing media, particularly the more popular personalities like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingram, Bill O'Reilly, etc), please check out my FR Profile/Home page. Everything there is well documented and linked directly to its source. Thanks.

Sample...

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
"FBI files from 1976, recently made public under the Freedom of Information Act, confirm the connections between Weatherman, Havana, and Moscow. Weatherman leaders like Mark Rudd traveled illegally to Havana in 1968 to engage in terrorist training. There, camps set up by Soviet KGB Colonel Vadim Kotchergine were educating Westerners both in Marxist philosophy and urban warfare."

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"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements [1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..." -Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, pg 95.

ETL's FR Home/Profile page:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl

[Marine_Uncle]

I doubt anything will come of this. The L/MSM will do it's best to keep a lid on things if it possibly can. Look at how the Harmony Database went. For literally months it was open to the world. Same goes with the Able Danger affair.
However of the Swift Boaters or a like organization can get their hands on the stuff and have the money to broadcast... perhaps, just perhaps.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[dr_lew]

... pushing lies, distortions, and manipulations ...

It's almost as though he had on an otologist claiming that Obama has big ears.

[Joe Boucher]

Or perhaps groups with financial ties to Ayers or Obamma lamma ding dong?

[potlatch]

Thanks much for the ping Ernest!