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Did Bill Ayers call in to Obama's 9/6/2001 WBEZ interview?
YouTube ^ | 10/27/2008 | couragetostand

Posted on 10/27/2008 11:16:57 PM PDT by MPB

Besides the (now famous) WBEZ interview where Obama specifically refers to "redistrubution of wealth", Obama also appeared on WBEZ on Sept. 6, 2001 talking about slavery issues.

A caller named "Bill" called in and asked Obama a softball question, and it's been noted that "Bill" (who also was often interviewed on the same station, so we can feel confident he was a regular listener as well) sounds an awful lot like Bill Ayers.

Ayers calls Obama on air?


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: ayers; interview; liberaltalkradio; npr; obama; wbez
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I listened and admit it's similar enough to make me think it's plausible... I wonder if the vast army of Freepers might have more opinion to throw weight one way or another on the theory...

By the way, you can listen to all of the WBEZ interviews in either RA or MP3 format, in their entirety... after the publicity, they pulled all the Obama interviews and are making them easier to access for the curious. I do find it odd that he only seemed to be on the air in 2001, but no mention of any earlier or later radio interviews...

Find those audio files here, and feel free to join in the debate with the Obamidiots who think we took poor old socialist Barack out of context...

Barack Obama's Radio Days

1 posted on 10/27/2008 11:16:58 PM PDT by MPB
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To: MPB
I don't think it's Ayers.

Ayers has a more weaselly, whiney, plaintive voice.

2 posted on 10/27/2008 11:24:30 PM PDT by afortiori
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To: MPB

Wow...that really sounds like him...wow.


3 posted on 10/27/2008 11:25:31 PM PDT by xjcsa (McWhatshisname-Palin 2008)
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To: MPB

Did Ayers learn bomb-making from Obama?


4 posted on 10/27/2008 11:25:45 PM PDT by Rudder (The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
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To: MPB

NO THE CALLER TO THE OBAMA PROGRAM IS NOT AYERS


5 posted on 10/27/2008 11:27:10 PM PDT by midway
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To: afortiori

I don’t know, the voices on the YouTube sound an awful lot alike to me.


6 posted on 10/27/2008 11:29:03 PM PDT by xjcsa (McWhatshisname-Palin 2008)
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To: midway
NO THE CALLER TO THE OBAMA PROGRAM IS NOT AYERS

How do you know?

7 posted on 10/27/2008 11:30:04 PM PDT by xjcsa (McWhatshisname-Palin 2008)
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To: MPB
If this interview was on September 6, 2001, he was in the midst of the rollout of his memoir Fugitive Days. The PR campaign for it was the reason he was being interviewed for the September 11, 2001 edition of the New York Times in which he and Dohrn reiterated their total lack of remorse.
8 posted on 10/27/2008 11:36:10 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee (I live in San Francisco. Socialists run my city. Believe me, you DON'T want them running the USA!)
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To: Rudder
Did Ayers learn bomb-making from Obama?

Are you a moron? And my question is not rhetorical. Let me ask a nicer question... why are you here?

9 posted on 10/27/2008 11:48:00 PM PDT by MPB
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To: MPB
please check this out before it gets yanked by youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXtaUULrRF8

Obama’s shout out to rev wright.

10 posted on 10/27/2008 11:54:18 PM PDT by General Mosby (get this to everyone....drudge, fox hannity ...thundercats ho (oops sorry carried away))
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To: L.N. Smithee
If this interview was on September 6, 2001, he was in the midst of the rollout of his memoir Fugitive Days

True... he may well have been too busy dissing America to bother listening to a public radio station. However, he may well have tuned in to hear his BFF do some dissing of his own.

Odds are it's probably some other Bill who listens to radical people talking about radical things who just sounds a bit like another radical dude from the 60's.

Honestly, despite sounding like him, I did think that if it was Ayers that he might have had more to say rather than just asking a pointed question, unless it really was just a slow pitch to give Obama a chance to use a prepared answer and sound all "senatorial".

11 posted on 10/27/2008 11:58:23 PM PDT by MPB
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To: MPB

Spell it out-—what is your problem?


12 posted on 10/28/2008 12:07:31 AM PDT by Rudder (The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
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To: xjcsa

How do I know?

Just from listening. They don’t sound the same.

Different pitch, cadence, volume, style.


13 posted on 10/28/2008 12:24:01 AM PDT by midway
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To: midway

I don’t think you’re the same person I posted to...he used all capital letters...


14 posted on 10/28/2008 12:46:45 AM PDT by xjcsa (McWhatshisname-Palin 2008)
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To: MPB
You lost me, bud. Let me see if we can achieve a mutual understanding, about what--I have no idea. But here it goes.

This post, Did Ayers learn bomb-making from Obama?

is a bit of a joke or sarcasm based upon 2-3 three other threads running tonight. e.g., Query to Ayers at a recent lecture he gave, "Did you teach bomb-making to Churchill?" Ayers (and his wife) said, "not sure or don't know." (not,"No!") and another thread--essay-- about that Ayers may have learned more radicalism from Obama than vice-versa.

If this unhinges you, as it has appeared to do, I'm lost trying to understand your point.

Your turn.

15 posted on 10/28/2008 12:47:02 AM PDT by Rudder (The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
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Ayer’s learned bomb making from his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, Domestic Bin Laden

From;

http://www.sodahead.com/question/155269/

Dohrn became a key planner in the founding of the Venceremos Brigades. Ostensibly a “solidarity” program for US leftists to visit and support Castro’s Cuba, the group was actually organized by Cuban intelligence as a covert attack on US security.

Cuban secret police offered the “brigadistas” money, advice and logistical support. Some Americans were also given guerrilla warfare training and

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instructed in the use of weapons and explosives.

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16 posted on 10/28/2008 1:15:01 AM PDT by Son House (McCain Can Win Without The Media's Help, Øbama can't)
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To: Son House
Dohrn became a key planner in the founding of the Venceremos Brigades.

Just like old times. I remember them from when I lived in Berkeley.

17 posted on 10/28/2008 2:00:06 AM PDT by Rudder (The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
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To: midway

“NO THE CALLER TO THE OBAMA PROGRAM IS NOT AYERS”

I had the same immediate impression. Doesn’t have the same hippy, cheese-eating sound or the same accent.


18 posted on 10/28/2008 3:14:15 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (A liberal can never stand up like a man and admit his true beliefs.)
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To: midway

I agree with you. It’s not Ayers. The “Bill” calling in has a more gritty and less clear voice than Ayers’ whiny weasley hippie-speak.


19 posted on 10/28/2008 4:04:44 AM PDT by FarRightFanatic (Sarah Palin to Sen. Biden: "Your plan is a white flag of surrender.")
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To: MPB

This should be easy. Someone out there-—maybe even someone with access to highly trained broadcast specialists-—has the software to compare Ayers voice samples.

Even a simple program such as the free Audacity could possibly (depending on the recording circumstances), when you put the sample in digital form, give you a non-forensic-level idea of whether the two audio samples are in the same ballpark.


20 posted on 10/28/2008 4:42:36 AM PDT by fightinJAG (Rush was right: You never win by losing!)
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