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More Barbara West: Recent Interviews With Obama, McCain and Biden
WFTV ^ | Saturday, October 25, 2008 | Kristinn

Posted on 10/25/2008 7:40:10 PM PDT by kristinn

Orlando, Florida WFTV news anchor Barbara West has made a splash in the blogospshere with her tough interview of Joe Biden a few days ago. The Obama campaign threw a fit, calling her unprofessional, canceling a scheduled interview with Biden's wife, Jill and announcing the campaign would be blackballing WFTV in the future.

West is a known quantity to both campaigns. In the past month she has interviewed Barack Obama, John McCain and did a previous interview with Biden.

The Biden interview was on the day of the first presidential debate, September 26. The questions were on McCain's initial call to postpone the debate, the economy (the collapse of WaMu), taxes and a surprise question at the end on the hot political rumor at the time that Biden might drop out of the campaign due to 'health reasons' and be replaced by Hillary Clinton.

The interview with John McCain took place October 14. West asked McCain about ACORN, the race-baiting statement by Rep. John Lewis, the Democrats tactics, McCain being behind in the polls and whether McCain will "cut and run" or "stand and fight" in Florida.

The September 12 interview with Barack Obama covered a 'national catastrophe fund,' the fairness of such a fund, taxpayer funded bailouts of financial institutions, how Sarah Palin did with her Charles Gibson interview the night before (the Bush doctrine question), McCain being ahead in the polls, how Obama will pay for his plans without raising taxes on the middle class, whether Palin is qualified to be president.

The questions West asks are based on the topics of the period, just as the questions were that she asked of Biden a few days ago that has aroused such fury.

Link to the WFTV page with all three interviews. The Biden interview from October 23 has apparently been pulled by WFTV.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: barbarawest; joebiden; mccain; obama; unamericanactivities; wftv
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1 posted on 10/25/2008 7:40:11 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

Obama and Biden are such babies. They don’t get their way and they throw tantrums.

Sure, that’s what we need a bunch of babies running our country. NOT


2 posted on 10/25/2008 7:42:29 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: kristinn

I sent Barbara West a thank you note...I’m sure she would appreciate the support if you’re so inclined:

http://www.wftv.com/contact/index.html


3 posted on 10/25/2008 7:43:40 PM PDT by waus
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To: waus

I did this last night.
I sent one to the station as well.


4 posted on 10/25/2008 7:47:07 PM PDT by kimchi lover (Joe the Plumber is my Homeboy!)
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To: kristinn

Looks like the real story (duh) will be the act of blackballing the station by Obama and co. That is actually a little frightening but I’m glad they did it because we need any boosts we can get and this is a gift. Such an arrogant campaign.


5 posted on 10/25/2008 7:48:11 PM PDT by toddausauras
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To: waus
I sent her a BIGTIME Thank you this morning when I first saw the video.

I have also sent an email to WFTV asking why they have removed the video from politics and news in general since this video has gone viral and is also on YouTube! & Drudge.

6 posted on 10/25/2008 7:48:24 PM PDT by Rapunzel (Never forget Fallujah..S. Helvenston RIP.....Sarah...Sarah...Sarah loves America)
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To: All

If the MSM had done its job and asked some hard questions of the Obama camp as Ms West did with Biden, then we might not have a Marxist/Muslim steamrolling himself into the White House and this country on the verge of a Communist coup.

Write her and thank her:
http://www.wftv.com/station/1874549/detail.html

I did- as well as send her two pages of additional expose on Obama.


7 posted on 10/25/2008 7:48:56 PM PDT by patriot08
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To: kristinn

Biden can’t take the heat. He should drop out of the race altogether and Obama can select a credible running mate. Biden is as thin-skinned as Obama’s friend/Mentor Bill Ayers, who yesterday called the police when a journalist asked him a few mild questions.


8 posted on 10/25/2008 7:49:27 PM PDT by purplelobster
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To: kristinn

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Statement from Communist Party USA (CPUSA):

"The Communist Party USA views the 2008 elections as a tremendous opportunity to defeat the policies of the right-wing Republicans and to move our country in a new progressive direction.

The record turnout in the Democratic Presidential primary races shows that millions of voters, including millions of new voters, are using this election to bring about real change. We wholeheartedly agree with them."

http://cpusa.org/article/articleview/907/1/4/

9 posted on 10/25/2008 7:50:55 PM PDT by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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To: kristinn
Team Obummer throws a ..

Youtube link of Biden interview with Barbara West
10 posted on 10/25/2008 7:53:22 PM PDT by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nihilism)
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To: kristinn

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YouTube Video:
The O'Reilly Factor confronts Bill Ayers:
October 24, 2008:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP3uvK9gTIY

11 posted on 10/25/2008 7:53:23 PM PDT by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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To: kristinn
A journalist who doesn't ask a dem what part of the butt they want kissed? Stunning. Who wants to bet she gets fired soon...
13 posted on 10/25/2008 7:55:19 PM PDT by GOPJ (Journalists = Baghdad Bob (without the boot on the neck). Voluntary one sided DNC shills....)
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To: ETL

Ayers called the cops, the same ones he would have liked to have killed.


14 posted on 10/25/2008 7:57:17 PM PDT by toddausauras
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To: ETL
What is with the red star on Ayers shirt?? He is so childish.



He reminds me of high school kids that think they are idealistic commies. When they are really just shallow ego-centric rubes.
15 posted on 10/25/2008 8:02:46 PM PDT by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nihilism)
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To: toddausauras
Ayers called the cops, the same ones he would have liked to have killed.

"liked to"?


Sgt. Brian V. McDonnell

"In a bombing that took place on February 16, 1970, and that was credited to the Weathermen at the time,[19][20] a pipe bomb filled with heavy metal staples and lead bullet projectiles was set off on the ledge of a window at the Park Station of the San Francisco Police Department. In the blast, Brian V. McDonnell, a police sergeant, was fatally wounded while Robert Fogarty, another police officer, received severe wounds to his face and legs and was partially blinded.[21]

Weatherman leader Bernardine Dohrn has been suspected of involvement in the February 16, 1970, bombing of the Park Police Station in San Francisco. At the time, Dohrn was said to be living with a Weatherman cell in a houseboat in Sausalito, California, unnamed law enforcement sources later told KRON-TV.[22]

An investigation into the case was reopened in 1999,[23] and a San Francisco grand jury looked into the incident, but no indictments followed,[22] and no one was ever arrested for the bombing.[23]

An FBI informant, Larry Grathwohl, who successfully penetrated the organization from the late summer of 1969 until April 1970, later testified to a U.S. Senate subcommittee that Bill Ayers, then a high-ranking member of the organization and a member of its Central Committee (but not then Dohrn's husband), had said Dohrn constructed and planted the bomb. Grathwohl testified that Ayers had told him specifically where the bomb was placed (on a window ledge) and what kind of shrapnel was put in it. Grathwohl said Ayers was emphatic, leading Grathwohl to believe Ayers either was present at some point during the operation or had heard about it from someone who was there.[24]

In a book about his experiences published in 1976, Grathwohl wrote that Ayers, who had recently attended a meeting of the group's Central Committee, said Dohrn had planned the operation, made the bomb and placed it herself.[25] In 2008, author David Freddoso commented that "Ayers and Dohrn escaped prosecution only because of government misconduct in collecting evidence against them", Freddoso wrote.[24][26]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)#Anti-personnel_bomb_set_on_window-ledge_in_San_Francisco

SOURCES:

[19] http://www.lapismagazine.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=110&Itemid=59

[20] Former Weatherman Larry Grathwohl's October 18, 1974 testimony to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee

[21] http://www.sfpoa.org/journal/journals/20070201.pdf
(SAN FRANCISCO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION)

[22] http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1519460

[23] http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/17/BAGPRO6J7J1.DTL&type=printable

[24] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Barack_Obama

[25] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0870003350

[26] http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ODVlZTZlM2M5NTMxMzllMjJkODVkNzQ3YTFjMTY0NzE=

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30-Y.O. Unsolved SF Murders Reopen [part 1 of 3]
http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1519460

Patriot Act Used to Reopen Murder Case? [part 2 of 3]
http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1521312

Survivor of Old Murder Case Speaks Out [part 3 of 3]
http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1523015&nav=5D7lJ5fb

16 posted on 10/25/2008 8:03:35 PM PDT by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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To: ETL

More Than 5 Million Dollars for Obama’s Greek Temple

The Obama campaign, in conjunction with the entire mainstream media, has been attacking Sarah Palin for letting the RNC spend $150,000 on her wardrobe, as she runs for Vice President of the United States.

But the Obama campaign spent 5.3 million dollars for that phony Greek temple in Denver’s Invesco Field.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31687_More_Than_5_Million_Dollars_for_Obamas_Greek_Temple

Here is the article:
http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2008/10/13/daily43.html


17 posted on 10/25/2008 8:06:39 PM PDT by forYourChildrenVote4Bush (Today, July 16th I no longer donate money for Israel)
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To: Fred

That big red star on the zerO banners for the Democrat Convention have creeped me out since I first saw them.

Ayers is just displaying his radical chic. He knows what it stood for, but the image means nothing to anyone born in the last 25 years.


18 posted on 10/25/2008 8:10:58 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: purplelobster

Bill Ayers calling the police. Welcome to the Twilight Zone.


19 posted on 10/25/2008 8:16:48 PM PDT by nobama08
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To: Fred
What is with the red star on Ayers shirt?? He is so childish.

He's also very serious about it...

Bill Ayers TODAY (April 6, 2008), from his own red communist star-headed website, begging to debate communism vs capitalism with Sean Hannity and STILL calling for revolution!


"Imperialism. I’m against it, and if Sean Hannity and others were honest, this is the ground they would fight me on. Capitalism played its role historically and is exhausted as a force for progress: built on exploitation, theft, conquest, war, and racism, capitalism and imperialism must be defeated and a world revolution—a revolution against war and racism and materialism, a revolution based on human solidarity and love, cooperation and the common good —must win.

We begin by releasing our most hopeful dreams and our most radical imaginations: a better world is both possible and necessary.

Source: Bill Ayers' own website:
http://billayers.wordpress.com/2008/04/page/2/

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"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
-Bill Ayers, New York Times, September 11, 2001:

Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

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Source: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31617_Obama_Gave_Bill_Ayers_Book_a_Rave_Review/comments/#ctop

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From The Weekly Standard, 'Barack Obama's Lost Years', 08/11/2008:

"Ayers opposes trying even the most vicious juvenile murderers as adults. Beyond that, he'd like to see the prison system itself essentially abolished. Unsatisfied with mere reform, Ayers wants to address the deeper 'structural problems of the system.' Drawing explicitly on Michel Foucault, a French philosopher beloved of radical academics, Ayers argues that prisons artificially impose obedience and conformity on society, thereby creating a questionable distinction between the 'normal' and the 'deviant.' The unfortunate result, says Ayers, is to leave the bulk of us feeling smugly superior to society's prisoners. Home detention, Ayers believes, might someday be able to replace the prison. Ayers also makes a point of comparing America's prison system to the mass-detention of a generation of young blacks under South African Apartheid. Ayers's tone may be different, but the echoes of Jeremiah Wright's anti-prison rants are plain."

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/386abhgm.asp?pg=2

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"This is a guy [Bill Ayers] who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis."

Source: ABC News - Transcript: Obama and Clinton Debate, April 16, 2008
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/DemocraticDebate/Story?id=4670271&page=2

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[Obama] is named Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge founded by Bill Ayers
(article typo has Ayers instead of Obama)

In late 1993, Bill Ayers, now an associate professor of education at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus, organized a team to put together a grant proposal to secure nearly $50 million from the Annenberg Challenge. The money was to be used by Ayers and co. to bolster the radical Local School Councils reform project that Ayers and Obama had championed back in 1988 through the ABCs.

The grant application was successful and in early 1995 Barack Obama was named chairman of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Ayers was named co-chair of the Challenge’s operative and strategic body, the Chicago School Reform Collaborative. Ayers and Obama work together for the next five years on raising an additional $60 million in matching money from local foundations and corporations and using the money to intervene in the governance of the Chicago public schools.

The Challenge through a multi-million dollar Leadership Development Initiative intervened in the School Council elections in the middle of what was known as the Chicago School Wars. At the same time Chicago Mayor Richard Daley was pushing, successfully, to gut the power of the Councils.

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/08/12/the-obama-ayers-top-ten-highlights-of-the-20-year-obama-ayers-connection/

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"The Small Schools Workshop was founded in 1991 at the University of Illinois at Chicago to provide support for teachers who were trying to create new smaller learning environments. Its director is Michael Klonsky, a former professor of education at UIC."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Schools_Workshop

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Some background on Bill Ayers' SDS comrade, Michael Klonsky
(Chicago Annenberg Challenge-related)

"One of Bill Ayers’ and Bernardine Dohrn’s comrades in the late 60s Students for a Democratic Society was Mike Klonsky. When Dohrn and Ayers moved in one direction toward the violent tactics of the Weather Underground, Klonsky, in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, dropped the pro-Russian communist politics of his parents and became a committed Maoist. As leader of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) in 1977 [not to be confused with Communist Party USA. CPML no longer exists, CPUSA formed decades earlier and is still around-ETL], he travelled to Beijing and was toasted by the senior Beijing leadership.

When the crazy left of the 70s died in the 80s, Klonsky went to graduate school in education in Florida and then moved to Chicago.

While driving a cab there he [Michael Klonsky] was recruited by his old friend Bill Ayers to head up a new project called the Small Schools Workshop in 1991. It’s offices were in the Department of Education building at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus where Ayers taught.

In 1995 the newly formed Chicago Annenberg Challenge headed by Ayers and Obama gave the Workshop a grant of $175,000.

The Annenberg Challenge also had its office space in the same building as Ayers Department and the Workshop, rent free courtesy of the University.

In 2008 Klonsky ran a blog on the official Obama campaign website on education policy and “social justice” teaching. When discussion of the Klonsky blog emerged in the blogosphere, it was promptly shut down by the campaign and all of the posts made by Klonsky were removed from the site."

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/08/12/the-obama-ayers-top-ten-highlights-of-the-20-year-obama-ayers-connection/

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In 1977, the October League was reorganized as the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) [again, not Communist Party USA (CPUSA) -ETL] and former SDS activist Michael Klonsky became party chairman. Also in 1977, Klonsky traveled to China and the CPML was recognized by the Chinese Communist Party as its official sister party in America.

(snip)

In January 1981, Michael Klonsky resigned as party chairman, and the CPML disbanded that same year.

The previous Red Encyclopedia description of the CPML was incorrectly combined with that of the Communist Party USA (Marxist-Leninist).

http://reds.linefeed.org/past.html

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From Investor's Business Daily (IBD), August 27, 2008:

"Ayers, now a tenured distinguished professor of education at UIC, works to educate teachers in socialist revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable students.

One of Ayer's descriptions for a course called 'Improving Learning Environments' says prospective K-12 teachers need to 'be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and ... be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, teaching for social justice and liberation.

The Annenberg papers are quite extensive — 132 boxes containing 947 file folders with 70 linear feet of material. They undoubtedly contain more surprises regarding Obama's relationship with Ayers, one of many relationships Obama has sought to hide.'..."

Article: Annenberg Papers: Putting On Ayers?
http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=304729375940845

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Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
Revolution #63, October 1, 2006

Interview with Bill Ayers:
"On Progressive Education, Critical Thinking and the Cowardice of Some in Dangerous Times"

http://rwor.org/a/063/ayers-en.html

20 posted on 10/25/2008 8:18:21 PM PDT by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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