Ayers, Wm

=wow not much here; boggie man along w/ rev wright [press dinner I'm not the strapping young socialist i once was...]bossie & brown:He is also the author of a spate of books attacking Democrats including "Prince Albert: The Life and Lies of <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Al Gore" data-termid="8051" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/al-gore/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Al Gore</a> (2000), "Intelligence Failure: How Clinton's National Security Policy Set the Stage for 9/11" (2004), and "The Many Faces of John Kerry: Why This Massachusetts Liberal Is Wrong For America" (2004).Ramping up the rage and ranting up the rhetoric about Obama's relationship with <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Bill Ayers" data-termid="16591" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/bill-ayers/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Bill Ayers</a>According to Newsweek, David Bossie has placed Obama in his sights. The magazine reported that Bossie maintained that he was "assembling material for TV spots about Obama's ties with [Bill] Ayers, a Chicago professor and unrepentant former member of the Weather Underground, a group that bombed several government buildings to protest the Vietnam War."Shortly after Obama's victory in the Wisconsin primary, longtime conservative columnist Cliff Kincaid, accused the Illinois Senator of having "controversial socialist connections." Kincaid, the editor of Accuracy in Media, a right wing media watchdog group, and a contributing editor to FamilySecurityMatters.org, charged Obama with being "an associate of a Chicago-based Marxist group with access to millions of labor union dollars and connections to expert political consultants, including a convicted swindler."Questions about Obama's relationship with Ayers were subsequently raised by conservative radio and Fox News Channel talk show host <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Sean Hannity" data-termid="10899" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/sean-hannity/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Sean Hannity</a>. <a data-taxonomy="post_tag" title="ABC" data-termid="265" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/tag/abc/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">ABC</a> News' <a data-taxonomy="person" title="George Stephanopoulos" data-termid="16250" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/george-stephanopoulos/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">George Stephanopoulos</a> asked Obama about Ayers during the Obama-Clinton debate prior to the Pennsylvania primary.Recent columns by <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Charles Krauthammer" data-termid="9593" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/charles-krauthammer/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Charles Krauthammer</a> and Ann Coulter also raised the specter of Ayers.According to Krauthammer, Ayers, along with <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Tony Rezko" data-termid="12532" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/tony-rezko/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Tony Rezko</a>, "the indicted fixer," and <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Jeremiah Wright" data-termid="15738" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/jeremiah-wright/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Jeremiah Wright</a>, "the racist reverend," make up Obama's "Three Amigos":<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; border-color: rgb(61, 209, 236) rgb(61, 209, 236) rgb(61, 209, 236) rgb(221, 221, 221); margin: 60px 0px 60px 20px; padding: 20px 0px 40px 60px; border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Obama makes it sound as if the relationship consists of having run into each other at the DMV. In fact, Obama's political career was launched in a 1995 meeting at Ayers' home. Obama's own campaign says that they maintain 'friendly' relations.</blockquote>Obama's defense is that he was 8 when Ayers and his Weather Underground comrades were planting bombs at the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol and other buildings. True. But Obama was 40 when Ayers said publicly that he doesn't regret setting bombs. Indeed, he said, 'I feel we didn't do enough.'Would you maintain friendly relations with an unrepentant terrorist? Would you even shake his hand? To ask why Obama does is perfectly legitimate and perfectly relevant to understanding what manner of man he is.Newsweek reported that "Obama, who lives near Ayers in Chicago's Hyde Park, attended an event at Ayers's house when Obama ran for the state Senate in 1995 -- and served on the board of a nonprofit with him for several years. Obama is aware of the acts Ayers committed when he was 8 years old and has called them 'detestable,'" says spokesman Ben LaBolt, adding that Obama occasionally bumps into Ayers in his neighborhood 'but has not seen him for months.' At a recent dinner party, according to one guest who asked not to be identified discussing a private gathering, Ayers 'ridiculed' the notion that Obama shared his left-wing views: 'He thought the idea that there was a political connection between them was absurd.'"In early March, John Ponder of the Pensito Review wrote that Obama biographer, John K. Wilson, author of "Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest," who said that Ayers was "not affiliated with the Obama campaign," described the Ayers relationship: "In 1995, State Sen. Alice Palmer held an event for supporters at the home of Ayers, where she announced her plans to run for Congress and introduced Obama as her chosen successor. Obama also served on the board of directors for a progressive foundation, the Woods Fund, from 1999-2001, when Ayers was also on the board. In 2001, Ayers gave $200 to Obama's state senate campaign fund. And Obama and Ayers appeared together on a 1997 panel at the University of Chicago dealing with juvenile justice (Obama also praised Ayers' approach on the subject in an op-ed he wrote that year), and on a 2002 panel on public intellectuals at the University of Illinois at Chicago.Just as Obama's explanations about his relationship with the Rev. <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Jeremiah Wright" data-termid="15738" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/jeremiah-wright/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Jeremiah Wright</a> -- and Wright's increased public presence -- has not put that saga to rest, there is no doubt that right wing columnists, talk show hosts, partisan advertising and public relations specialists, pundits and two longtime practitioners of negative campaigning, Floyd Brown and David Bossie, will squeeze every last drop out of the Ayers controversy.http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=236=<div><div>MRC's Tim Graham Suggests New MSNBC Host Not Dark Enough To Be Considered Black</div><div>04/02/13 4:43 PM EDT</div><div>Tim Graham Demonstrates The Absurdity Of Conservative Media Criticism</div><div>02/08/11 </div><div>
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</div><div>Proving once again that the NewsBusters brand of media criticism requires neither a media angle nor intelligence, Tim Graham has a <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2010/05/27/michelle-obama-really-endorsing-radical-bill-ayers-hosting-restaurant" title="blocked::http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2010/05/27/michelle-obama-really-endorsing-radical-bill-ayers-hosting-restaurant" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">post</a> up titled: “Is Michelle Obama Really Endorsing the Radical Bill Ayers-Hosting Restaurant?”Graham's complaint is that the latest issue of Condé Nast Traveler boasts an article that lists “the best” Washington DC institutions as recommended by Michelle Obama, and included on that list is the restaurant <a href="http://www.busboysandpoets.com/" title="blocked::http://www.busboysandpoets.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Busboys & Poets</a>. Graham writes: “Is that really the kind of signal Mrs. Obama wants to send? After all, Busboys and Poets enthusiastically hosted the post-election Washington welcome for Obama supporter and Weather Underground bomber Bill Ayers and his 'inspiring resources.' ”Seriously. That's what he wrote. Go ahead and check for yourselves, it's right there on the NewsBusters website in all its non-ironic glory. Because the restaurant once hosted Bill Ayers, Michelle Obama is sending a bad “signal” by recommending it. Forget the food, the service, the atmosphere -- it's a bad place because they opened their doors to Bill Ayers that one time.I've learned not to expect much from NewsBusters, but I never dreamed they could succeed in pushing those expectations even lower.</div></div><div>=</div>=William C. Ayers is Distinguished Professor of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago. During the 2008 presidential race he was repeatedly attacked by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sarah_Palin" title="Sarah Palin">Sarah Palin</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_McCain" title="John McCain">John McCain</a>'s vice-presidential pick, as a "domestic terrorist" because of Ayers leadership in the militant <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Weather_Underground" title="Weather Underground">Weather Underground</a>, a student-led anti-Vietnam War organization. Palin's attack on Ayers was primarily an attack on <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> for "palling around with known terrorists" because both served at the same time on the board of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Woods_Fund_of_Chicago" title="Woods Fund of Chicago">Woods Fund of Chicago</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bill_Ayers#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a>

In January 2009, the Republican lobby group <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Move_America_Forward" title="Move America Forward">Move America Forward</a> protested speaking appearances by Ayers. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bill_Ayers#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a> The organization supports the political ambitions of Palin and organizes for Bush policies in the so-called <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=War_on_terror" title="War on terror" class="mw-redirect">war on terror</a>.

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<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bill_Ayers#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/10/05/palin-obama-palling-around-with-terrorists/" class="external text" title="http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/10/05/palin-obama-palling-around-with-terrorists/" rel="nofollow">"Palin: Obama “palling around with terrorists,”</a> Christian Science Monitor, October 5, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bill_Ayers#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.moveamericaforward.org/index.php/DailyFile/terrorist_bill_ayers_faces_fate_tonight/" class="external text" title="http://www.moveamericaforward.org/index.php/DailyFile/terrorist_bill_ayers_faces_fate_tonight/" rel="nofollow">"Terrorist Bill Ayers Faces Fate Tonight,"</a> Move America Forward blog, January 28, 2009.</li>

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<li>Scott Shane, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/politics/04ayers.html" class="external text" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/politics/04ayers.html" rel="nofollow">"Obama and ’60s Bomber: A Look Into Crossed Paths,"</a> New York Times, October 4, 2008.</li>

<li>Carla Marinucci, "<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/29/MN3T15IQ3I.DTL&type=politics" class="external text" title="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/29/MN3T15IQ3I.DTL&type=politics" rel="nofollow">'60s radical Ayers cheered, booed at St. Mary's</a>," San Francisco Chronicle, January 29, 2009.</li>

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