Posted on 09/24/2008 9:53:54 AM PDT by pissant
Stanley Kurtz has been investigating the Chicago Annenberg Challenge files in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois-Chicago Circle, and he has reported on his results in the Wall Street Journal. I have written before on Ayers, the unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist bomber, who claims to have set bombs at the U.S. Capitol, and Kurtz notes that Obama has tried to play down his long and close association with Ayers. Ayers was the cofounder of the CAC, and Obama was chairman of the board; Kurtz makes it clear that Obama worked more closely with Ayers than previously suggested. But mostly Kurtz concentrates on what the CAC actually did. There are two serious issues here: Mainstream media have shown an almost complete lack of interest in both of them.
One is the closeness of Obama's relationship with an unrepentant terrorist bomber. The second is Obama's own record at the CAC. This was one of the few executive positions Obama has held, and his record on education is undoubtedly a legitimate political issue. From what Kurtz has unearthed, the "reforms" Obama sought to advance were misguided and the CAC largely unsuccessful. I'm open to evidence that the CAC was more successful, and Obama could quite reasonably claim that he has changed the views on education he apparently held when he headed the CAC board. People can learn from experience, and we want a president willing to make changes when policies fail.
But it's interesting that Obama, in his two autobiographies and in his campaign, has said almost nothing
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Investigative Reporting has also been “wiped clean” from the MSM!
NEWS FLASH!!!!
Joe Biden just now shoot a moose.
Full story at 6:00pm NBC news.
I hope they have a good back up system here.
No big deal for BO to lie about Ayers...everybody lies, even CNN and the rest of the MSM lie. No big deal...besides it was a personal matter and has nothing to do with a Marxist Muslim running for President.
All of the investigating on Obama was done by talk radio and bloggers, and to an extent Fox News Channel. I’ve never seen anything like this, the media completely being in the tank for a presidential candidate with no background checks or investigative reporting. Not even during Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign.
I like that lady.
It really is pathetic isn’t it? The only way to get this information to the public is through paid ads.
She’s a PUMA who loves Sarah Palin.
Rule #1. Back up your system before making any changes.
I put up the Blankley article as its own thread:
Yeah, sure Big Media should be paying attention to this just like they should be paying attention to Dem ties to the sub-prime and FM scandal. But they don’t, and they won’t. We are long past the time when the media did its job responsibly. The nation can count on the fact that Big Media is deep in the tank for Obama, and any damaging information about him, and there’s no end of it, will have to come from conservative sources.
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