CNN: Obama’s lying about William Ayers
posted at 7:38 am on October 7, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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You’ll want to double-check the logo at the bottom left corner during this report. It really is CNN and Anderson Cooper fact-checking Barack Obama’s claims to have barely known William Ayers — and calling it dishonest. Stanley Kurtz even gets to make an appearance on a network other than Fox for this report (via Dirty Harry’s Place):
Drew Griffin runs down most of the salient points raised by people like Kurtz, David Freddoso, Jerome Corsi, and others. Obama’s admission in a debate that he briefly served on “a board” with Ayers with little contact gets shot down. CNN followed up on Kurtz’ work with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and debunks that notion. They also — amazingly — report on the nature of the grants made by the CAC while Obama ran it to Ayers’ favored schools with radical agendas.
Griffin also tells a somewhat nonplussed Cooper that Obama has lied about his “coming out party” at the home of William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn in 1995. Obama has said that Alice Palmer arranged the fundraiser and the venue, but Griffin spoke to two people who attended the event, who claim Obama lied. Palmer had nothing to do with that event outside of being invited to it. Obama and Ayers planned the event themselves.
Obama has lied repeatedly about his relationship with the unrepentant domestic terrorist. He spent years working for Ayers, promoting Ayers’ causes. Even CNN won’t buy the Obama line any longer. Expect John McCain to raise this point tonight in the debate.
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Maybe CNN did their research and decided they had better jump into the last credibility life raft before the ship goes down.
forest on October 7, 2008 at 9:17 AM
The way this Ayers thing has been presented is all wrong and it won’t work, especially with people’s 401ks going in the crapper. Frankly an 800 point dow slide on the week that McCain unveiled the Ayers offensive is just bad luck too. But if they wanted it to stick they needed to create a dialogue, I see no dialogue coming any time soon.
Frankly the way I see the Obama dialogue is you have a Harvard grad who wanted to advance in politics, so he carpetbags to Chicago with the Socialist elites whose power structure control the activist wing of the city. So he becomes a community organizer, community organizers are consistent at keeping people poor with a few government crumbs, he joins the radical pastor because he wants to play on class and racial tensions like most elitist city overseers do, meets up with the slum lords who are the real beneficiaries of the “community organizer’s” work, and get involved with commie folk heroes like Ayers and his circles. Then voila, he gives a good speech and he is thrust on the national scene, inherits a Senate seat and the media treats continues to treat him with kid gloves despite the facts. He was going to manipulate the poor in Chicago but now he can do that on a massive scale. He didn’t make the decisions he did because that is who he is, but that is what you do if you want the job he was going for, inner city overseer. People are fearful of city politicians, turn Obama into a city politician.
The McCain campaign needs to set about a clear dialogue like this and connect the dots for people, obviously not using some of the words and phrases I used but create a similar dialogue, throwing it against the wall and waiting for it to stick makes me wonders if there is nothing but dummies left, even in the Republican campaign staffs. Have the necons let their “Dark Ages” politics creep that high up the food chain, because I am seeing gross incompetence?
LevStrauss on October 7, 2008 at 9:18 AM
’bout #(*$&ing time.
This is reason numero uno I don’t want to see Obama anywhere near the oval office: he’s the kind of man whom William Ayers would like to see in power, and worse, Obama will lie about it.
Dude, come out and say it: “Yes, I’m in bed with a domestic terrorist.” You’ll still get the votes, but at least you’ll do it honestly.
saint kansas on October 7, 2008 at 9:20 AM
Breaking News:
WND Exclusive DISPATCH FROM KENYA
Kenya detains Corsi during Obama probe
Officials scuttle WND reporter’s news conference on investigation
Posted: October 07, 2008
7:26 am Eastern
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
WND senior staff writer Jerry Corsi
NAIROBI, Kenya – The government of Kenya is holding WND senior staff reporter Jerome Corsi in custody at immigration headquarters after police picked him up at his hotel just prior to a scheduled news conference in which he planned to announce the findings of his investigation into Barack Obama’s connections in the country.
Corsi, the author of the No. 1 best-selling book “The Obama Nation,” was picked up by authorities at his hotel at 9:45 a.m. and is being detained at Nyayo House, the provincial headquarters for Nairobi.
“Just as we were about to start the 10 a.m. press conference at the Grand Regency Hotel in Nairobi, Kenyan immigration approached us and detained us. Tim Bueler, my publicist, and I are now in the immigration offices, with our passports taken. The immigration officer told the press, ‘There is no problem, and Dr. Corsi is a friend of Kenya.’”
Corsi had extensive meetings with top Kenyan officials upon his arrival. His visit and his activities during his stay have been well-known to authorities at the highest levels.
Read the hole thing:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=77268
Keemo on October 7, 2008 at 9:22 AM
See I don’t see the “domestic terrorist” angle working. I don’t see the Ayers thing as being successful as a stand alone attack. Bush won in 2004 because he had a strong dialogue, there is no “there” there with McCain. Its a schizophrenic campaign, jumping all around the place.
LevStrauss on October 7, 2008 at 9:24 AM
LevStrauss on October 7, 2008 at 9:24 AM
You forgot to include Axelrod’s word of the week…erratic. Nice job getting the meaning in there though.
funky chicken on October 7, 2008 at 9:29 AM
Notice that they omit the fact that the Annenberg Challenge failed to do anything to improve schools.
And that Ayers is yet unrepentant.
drjohn on October 7, 2008 at 9:30 AM
This is CNN?!?
gridlock2 on October 7, 2008 at 9:31 AM
Yes, I couldn’t believe the way he tried to end that. It even took Griffen (?) off guard. You could just see him thinking, “well duh, of course Obama said he disagrees with the violence, but wtf do you expect him to say? He’s just been caught in deep association with a terrorist!”
Sadly, I think there are a lot of voters who think like Cooper. I was out for my walk yesterday morning, and I saw at least a third more Obama signs in my neighborhood than McCain. I couldn’t believe it. This is the heart of Conservative land, Middle Tennessee. It is disturbing. This is the worst candidate EVER and people don’t seem to care. They don’t care about his lack of experience, associations with terrorists and convicted felons, his far left voting record and connections to known marxists, the fact that he calls mentor the worst racist I have ever seen, etc., etc…. They don’t even care that he would not defend babies against infanticide. My God, what would it take? This man/monster is leading in the polls and in yard signs in my own neighborhood. Are you kidding me?
*revisits notion that he is the anti-Christ* /barely kidding]
pannw on October 7, 2008 at 9:32 AM
Did you even bother reading my post two spots above it?
LevStrauss on October 7, 2008 at 9:33 AM
If there’s any Republican in office in this country who understands the national news media, it’s John McCain.
Of course CNN is just trying to cover this topic completely, in order to then sweep it under the “Old News” rug.
But they’ve fallen for his trap. This story will keep having new twists — and now that they’re talking about it, they’ll keep having to report the new twists, in order to sweep them under the “Old News” rug as well.
But the McCain camp can keep this story going for weeks by bringing up a newer, crazier radical every couple of days. The narrative then spins itself automatically, even if the MSM is only talking about the individual points and won’t draw the lines for the viewers.
We’re going to hear about each and every radical in Obama’s odd career now. Odinga will make a nice capstone (campaigning for a Marxist radical in Africa as a sitting U.S. Senator… the family relationship just sweetens it.) but we’ll hear about Khalid Al-Masour, we’ll hear about some of the stranger recipients of Annenberg money under Obama’s leadership, we’ll hear about all of Obama’s advisers who call for radical policies like invading Israel or working to raise gas prices.
And look for questions of who would serve in Obama’s cabinet to start being raised as well — to remind people why “association” is important in assessing a President.
This is going to be a fun month.
ClintACK on October 7, 2008 at 9:35 AM
WOW! There must be something going on here if Clinton News Network is all over it! Or…this is a Clinton October Surprise!!! Buwhahahahahah!
sabbott on October 7, 2008 at 9:38 AM
DOJ investigation requested by Teh One is 5….4….3….2….
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 7, 2008 at 9:38 AM
Fox & Friends had Gulliani on this am, he was blasting Obama. They then had on Gibbs(Obama spokesman), who rambled, I didn’t understand a word he said.
reshas1 on October 7, 2008 at 9:38 AM
CNN finally realizing the impending disaster of an Obama presidency?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 7, 2008 at 9:40 AM
So, let me see if I understand this: CNN (and other ‘liberal media’ networks) are only good for you if they support your ideology.
Okay. I think I get it.
http://thepajamapundit.com/
thePajamaPundit on October 7, 2008 at 9:41 AM
Steve Diamond’s blog has readily been all over Ayers since April 2008.
http://globallabor.blogspot.com/
http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/10/ayersobama-update-david-blaine-award.html
This story seems CNN’s second acquiescence to “truth” in as many weeks.
maverick muse on October 7, 2008 at 9:43 AM
Lev Strauss, yes, I did. You said:
Um, dummies? neocons? Oy
funky chicken on October 7, 2008 at 9:44 AM
If you criticize the central committee then you are working for Axelrod? If you think that McCain’s current strategy is working you need to have your head examined. Do you really want to lose?
LevStrauss on October 7, 2008 at 9:46 AM
McCain may raise it, but I doubt it. He’s too slow and beginning to look too dumb to me. Now Palin she WOULD raise it. Pity she’s not going against Obama.
Where can I get Palin for Pres. bumber stickers?
doufree on October 7, 2008 at 9:46 AM
I think the last point is a good start for a cohesive narrative….Ayers, Rezko, Wright. You hang out with sh*tbirds like that for 20 years but have no idea what they are? Dangerously stupid, or dangerously criminal and anti-American.
funky chicken on October 7, 2008 at 9:48 AM
pannw,
if you are in Davidson county, that is not conservative land. I you were in Rutherford, I would be worried.
East Nashville
ConstantSorrow on October 7, 2008 at 9:48 AM
Yes it has to do with the Kristols and the “National Greatness” types, but it goes back to the times of Plato. It gets kinda complicated and not everyone can digest it, ironically these commies got their start in Chicago as well.
LevStrauss on October 7, 2008 at 9:48 AM
CNN let Stanley Kurtz on their show? The same Stanley Kurtz that Obama supporters tried to silence on Chicago talk radio by bombarding the station with hostile phone calls? Maybe there’s some “hope” for “change” on the Clinton News Network!
Maybe CNN is beginning to see the light. A few weeks ago, they started to do a hatchet job on Sarah Palin by inviting Trooper Wooten, accused of threatening Palin’s sister and father, for an interview. At first, they let him bash Palin, but then one of the CNN guys brought up the fact that since 2005 Wooten had divorced Palin’s sister, then remarried and divorced another woman, who was his fourth wife. After this, one of the CNN guys asked Wooten if he had trouble with relationships with women. The crickets are still chirping, and the Palin-bash had clearly backfired.
Steve Z on October 7, 2008 at 9:53 AM
But sometimes you have to watch, because sometimes people just pretend to be dummies and throw out irrational arguments to take a side to conform with common beliefs about ethics. Makes for fun reading.
LevStrauss on October 7, 2008 at 9:56 AM
I do, for two reasons. First, it may be naive of me, but I think a slim majority still at least oppose bombing civilians. I think we have the numbers, but it’s close.
Two, it’s a great lead in to what Fred! Thompson suggested: Who is this man? What else don’t we know about Barack Obama? Even if you don’t like McCain, at least he has a public past.
sing
We’re gonna build nail bombs,
We’re gonna spread shrapnel…
We’re gonna kill The Man
saint kansas on October 7, 2008 at 9:58 AM
Pointing out facts is hardly support of an ideology, its called reporting and is something that has been missing since Obama started his run for the Oval Office.
smfoushee on October 7, 2008 at 10:03 AM
If McCain doesn’t he has no testicles and does not belong on the top of a Palin ticket!
Vntnrse holds his breath anticipating…..
Vntnrse on October 7, 2008 at 10:03 AM
ConstantSorrow on October 7, 2008 at 9:48 AM
Nope, Williamson. Marsha Blackburn territory. I thought I was safe here.
pannw on October 7, 2008 at 10:04 AM
LOL.
a capella on October 7, 2008 at 10:05 AM
I don’t know how Gibbs looks at himself in the morning after serving as Obama’s shill every day of Obama’s campaign. I remember when they herded the press on to a place to Chicago to follow Obama, but Obama stayed behind for the famous meeting with Hillary at Pelosi’s home. Gibbs was filmed saying, “We didn’t intentionally intend to deceive any one.”
And the press swoons at these guys.
National Review gets grief from Hot Air folks, but you really should read three articles they have there today:
Thomas Sowell on the difference between associations and alliances:
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ZmM1NzBkNGI4MGRkZjFmOTg4ZjU3ODVjNmE5ZGM0OGI=
Douglas Johnson–legislative director for NRLC (on Obama and abortion)
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=OGM5YzIzYTExNjIyZmExODY0MzQyZDUxNmRmNmU1NmM=
Stanley Kurtz (on Obama and Acorn)
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=OGM5YzIzYTExNjIyZmExODY0MzQyZDUxNmRmNmU1NmM=
BuckeyeSam on October 7, 2008 at 10:07 AM
Whether he brings it up (other than working it in as an aside) depends on the questions asked, doesn’t it?
rightwingprof on October 7, 2008 at 10:08 AM
CNN Giving The Spurs To Barack About Bill Ayers?
Well this is a nice change.
Mr. Joe on October 7, 2008 at 10:13 AM
Well, at least AC stammmered about “Well, Obama said he disagreed with him… right?”
CNN HAD to cover this in a perfunctorily manner, at least. We now return you to your previously scheduled Obama adoration and condemnation of the White Devil, McCain.
Damiano on October 7, 2008 at 10:13 AM
It’s not too late to get this out, no matter WHAT the market is doing!
A few quotes to start:
“You will never get real freedom and recognition between black and white people in this country without destroying the country, without destroying the present political system, without destroying the present economic system, without rewriting the entire constitution. It will be a complete destruction of everything that America supposedly stands for.”
– El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
(born Malcolm Little, most commonly known as Malcolm X)
“Only Malcolm X’s autobiography seemed to offer something different. His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me. The blunt poetry of his words. His unadorned insistence on respect. He promised a new and uncompromising order, marshal in its discipline.”
–Barack Hussein Obama
“But my journey is part of a larger journey - one shared by all who’ve ever sought to apply the values of their faith to our society. It’s a journey that takes us back to our nation’s founding, when none other than a UCC church inspired the Boston Tea Party and helped bring an Empire to its knees.”
–Barack Hussein Obama
Orchestrated Chaos is what this is all about folks:
Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
Kevin in Washington State on October 7, 2008 at 10:16 AM
It’s not enough to merely say Obama was friends with an unrepentant terrorist, and this “shows bad judgment.” What ALSO has to be drilled into the America people from now until election day is the fact for 5 years Obama served as CEO of Wm Ayers’ Annenberg Challenge which was formed to ‘improve the Chicago public schools’.
Over this 5 year period, the two of them spend $115 million, at the end of which, the University of Illinois at Chicago reported the Annenberg Challenge project had made no discernible difference to the school system
Q.# 1 - Where did the $115 million go????
A. The vast majority went for salaries/expenses of the “Community Activist” groups which were given “grant monies” by the Annenberg Challenge to ‘radicalize’ the Chicago school system, including ‘radicalizing teachers’.
Q. #2 – Since this is the only real ‘executive experience’ Obama has had in his entire life, (after all managing a $115 million budget is pretty significant) why hasn’t his Chairmanship of the Annenberg Challenge appeared on his resume thus far??
alwyr on October 7, 2008 at 10:16 AM
So their kids went to different terrorist training camps together. Big deal.
Akzed on October 7, 2008 at 10:20 AM
The point is not Obama’s “bad judgment;” the point is:
Barack Obama is one of them.
- communist father
- socialist mother
- communist youth mentor: Frank Marshall Davis
- socialist grandparents
- other radical mentors: Rev. Wright, Khalid Al-mansour, Ayers, Dohrn, et al.
Again: Barack Obama IS ONE OF THEM. An anti-American radical.
Let’s roll.
ex-Democrat on October 7, 2008 at 10:20 AM
“random act of journalism” HA! Good line.
Gaunilon on October 7, 2008 at 10:21 AM
Bill Ayers wants to improve schools like Hitler wanted to improve society.
VolMagic on October 7, 2008 at 10:27 AM
He better if he knows whats good for him!
upinak on October 7, 2008 at 10:28 AM
The Democrats’ approach indeed seems to be “that was all so long ago,” and I agree that it is KEY to the matter to hold Obama accountable today for his current and recent year-long work/involvement with this circle of slime (please see SOWELL article at Townhall on this).
That is the serious aspect of this. As humor CAN be an effective weapon, I found these 2 videos worth their weight in laughing gas in the fight against Obama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxhYampIl7A&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imQSuJVFUSU&feature=related
Lockstein13 on October 7, 2008 at 10:29 AM
I don’t think it will get any traction.
I agree with others. If the general economic climate was better, then perhaps. To those who study politics it stinks to high heaven, reveals a radical political bent, and the most damning - you can do anything regarding educational reform and for 5-7 years do this with a radical nut???
Stay on Fannie, stay on economic issues, and affix the responsibility for the meltdown. a 4 point swing on the economic issue can tighten the race dramatically…….otherwise they have already spent 2 months pinning the blame and Bush and McCain.
The country is worried about the economy. Expose Dodd, Waters, Franks, Raines, Fannie and Freddie. It happened yesterday, …..keep it up!
Starlink on October 7, 2008 at 10:29 AM
Fact is CNN has been covering for St. Barak for so long, that any truth that seeps out of their pursed lips now will never catch up their long held silence in time for the election.
CNN you are in the tank. Win or lose, Obama is YOURS. You cannot rescue your reputation.
Angry Dumbo on October 7, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Even after listening to his cohorts report on the Ayers connection Cooper has trouble grasping what Obama and Ayers were up to, which was creating little radicals and future Pentagon bombers in K-6 classrooms.
Don’t worry, CNN still has the “I don’t get it” blinders on.
fogw on October 7, 2008 at 10:33 AM
I don’t see why they can’t all be tied together with a nice pretty bow…
You think the economy sucks now? And so you want to put an inexperienced tool of ’60s commie radicals in charge?
Dude.
saint kansas on October 7, 2008 at 10:35 AM
NRO strikes me as fair-weather at times …. now that McCain/Palin is showing some more cojones, here they come back.
Let’s roll.
ex-Democrat on October 7, 2008 at 10:38 AM
Jerome Corsi has been detained in Kenya by the immigration people. Obama’s relation is the Prime Minister.
davod on October 7, 2008 at 10:40 AM
Ignorance of Ayers? Obama advisors now claim he did not know….right!
Connie on October 7, 2008 at 10:41 AM
Would have been nice if they had actually mentioned Ayers comments after 9/11 which would have proven he carried his terrorist mindset from when Obama was a child through Obama’s start in politics to present day. No timeline was established. They left it as can Obama be responsible for Ayers “o so many years ago” and that Obama didn’t know what Ayers represented during his “coming out.” The devil is in the details. The bias is still there; it’s just nuanced.
Mr_Magoo on October 7, 2008 at 10:42 AM
People going to Palin and McCain rallies really ought to posterize that picture of Ayers dancing on the American flag. It’s the only way the public will see this picture.
In fact they ought to put a side by side with, say, Bud Day, with the caption, “Who do you want sleeping in the Lincoln Bedroom?”
Dusty on October 7, 2008 at 10:52 AM
This is not the CNN I thought I knew. No really! It’s not!
Tom Blogical on October 7, 2008 at 10:53 AM
if the obama wins, there will be terrorists sleeep there
ConservativePartyNow on October 7, 2008 at 10:56 AM
Good for CNN, but the last sentence in the report is the most telling one: “I haven’t been able to ask Obama about his relationship with Ayers”.
Why not? Why hasn’t he been required to answer this question?
I suspect that he will have to answer it tonight, and I hope that McCain is loaded for bear in his retort.
lionheart on October 7, 2008 at 11:01 AM
pannw, I saw VERY funny sight on my way to work the other day; within 10 feet of each other on the street I work on in Davidson Co TN, there is a McCain/Palin sign, then Obama, then another McCain/Palin. The two McCain signs are positioned so that you can’t see the Obama sign from either direction til you’re right on it. Love it.
grasshopper68 on October 7, 2008 at 11:02 AM
The key is that Ayres selected Hussein. He selected him to run CAC. He allowed him to use his home and “good name” (*barfs*) to advance his career. They were not merely associates, but Hussein is Ayres’ man.
Akzed on October 7, 2008 at 11:11 AM
so what do we do if Obama wins? What does this make Biden to be, if all this stuff is true? an idiot or an accomplice?
Please Bill Clinton, come out in support of McCain publicly.
jp on October 7, 2008 at 11:11 AM
CNN is hiding this ONE story amidst the financial meltdown - so they can claim they aren’t in the tank for Obama. ONE negative story hidden within a day when stocks were down as much as 800 pts, isn’t sh*t. Just camouflage.
The “God Damn America” ads will resonate. It’s gonna get good.
marklmail on October 7, 2008 at 11:11 AM
This sort of investigation should have happened in the spring.
WisCon on October 7, 2008 at 11:13 AM
Bingo.
Let’s roll.
ex-Democrat on October 7, 2008 at 11:15 AM
This can only mean that the probama pollsa re fake and they need to find a way out. Don’t give the media too much credit
clnurnberg on October 7, 2008 at 11:18 AM
Maybe CNN had a tip that FOX was going to run it first and they wanted to beast them to a story or at least get better
Theworldisnotenough on October 7, 2008 at 11:18 AM
Wait a second. Obama wrote a review of Ayers’ book yet claims–with a straight face–that Ayers is “just come guy in the neighborhood; not someone I exchange ideas with on a regular basis?”
Let’s roll!!!!
ex-Democrat on October 7, 2008 at 11:19 AM
What is missing and most important is that Barack Obama was selected by Ayers (and others in Ayers circle)and groomed to be their inside man in politic office.
If it was not for terrorist, radical Bill Ayers there would be no Obama in politics.
- It was Ayers that had the meeting in his house to introduce Obama as the new person running for office in Chicago politics.
- Prior to that it was Ayers who personally selected Obama to be the chairman of a $100,000,000 Annenberg foundation (Ayers was also on the board of directors) plus the Woods group.
Ayers put Obama on those boards so Obama could use the money and power to purchase influence, be very visible and make a name for himself in Chicago.
Again, without Ayers there would be no Obama.
———-
The question is how early did Obama know Ayers?
They were both in New York in the mid-1980s. Ayers lived not far from Obama. Both were going to school and/or working in NY.
When Obama leaves NY where does he go? Chicago. Ayer’s home town. Obama had never been to or had any connections in Chicago. Of all the cities in America to live Obama chooses the home town of Bill Ayers?
As part of the Ayer’s grooming process did he arrange for Obama to get into Harvard?
(Obama was in Chicago, out of college for nearly 5 years and suddenly he is going to Harvard.) There is zero information from Obama about Obama’s university grades or how he got into Harvard or how he paid for it.
Just prior to going to Harvard, Obama takes a 2-week trip to Europe and then a 5-week trip to Africa. How did he pay for all that travel, plus tuition and living expenses at Harvard???
While in Chicago, after graduating from Harvard, Obama was lecturer at the University of Chicago law school. The same University that was employing Bill Ayers.
How early did Bill Ayers and Barack Obama know each other?
albill on October 7, 2008 at 11:19 AM
surely there is clips of Odinga saying something to the effect of “Death to America”.
a nice ad would be Obama campaigning for him followed by video footage of Odinga saying something like then the clip of Rev. Wright saying it on sunday after 9/11
jp on October 7, 2008 at 11:24 AM
There is so much dirt on Obama, that its impossible to tell it all. McCain needs a website dedicated to it, and in the hard hitting ads reference it for ‘more info’
jp on October 7, 2008 at 11:24 AM
Where did Ayers get his money? is he trust fund baby or Soviet funded?
jp on October 7, 2008 at 11:25 AM
Well pigs are flying somewhere! I stand amazed. Perhaps there is some hope yet.
I just wish the average American understood how important this stuff is. Too often we are only focusing on what can the govt do for us or what mess we are in ourselves.
We ought to focus on what IS the govt doing & set about curbing it.
Badger40 on October 7, 2008 at 11:26 AM
Ayers daddy was pres, I believe, of Consolidated Edison He and many of the weather typpes were very affluent
clnurnberg on October 7, 2008 at 11:28 AM
The Weathermenchurian Candidate™
saint kansas on October 7, 2008 at 11:29 AM
I haven’t watched the clip yet, but I saw a pig fly past my window. Did CNN actually do some hard reporting about Barry?
Mallard T. Drake on October 7, 2008 at 11:29 AM
Not bad. Still, the terrorist problem is really just a part of it. More disturbing to me is what the CAC actually did with its money. CNN could find a lot of material there if they were interested.
John on October 7, 2008 at 11:31 AM
A quotable quote:
heroyalwhyness on October 7, 2008 at 11:33 AM
The big problem, which the media and the McCain campaign fail to trumpet, or even identify, is not that Ayers was a terrorist. It is this:
Ayers is a Maoist Communist, a supporter of Chavez in Venezuela, and pursues an aggressive Marxist agenda in all of his activities. Obamba worked with, and cooperated with Ayers in furthering this agenda.
If Obama is not a Communist, he is clearly sympathetic to Ayers’s ideology, or he would have had nothing to do with him.
This is what John McCain has to point out, over and over.
MrLynn on October 7, 2008 at 11:35 AM
Cooper gives us the left’s take on this, which will neutralize it in the minds of the undecided middle: “What’s wrong with working to improve education?”
The missing detail is that they were not working to improve education, but to radicalize it. There was no measurable improvement in student performance as a result of the Annenberg money, and in fact, Ayers and Obama oppose the use of such measures of performance anyhow. The goal was to allow radical community groups to indoctrinate students into leftist politics and worldview. See here for more detail.
The Ayers connection works a little as a judgment issue, but works very well as part of campaign to expose Obama’s radicalism. I don’t think the McCain campaign has the stomach to go after that one. We’ll have to do it for them.
philwynk on October 7, 2008 at 11:37 AM
Ayers is at the University of Illiniois at Chicago, not the University of Chicago. They are miles apart — literally and figuratively. But they do both live in Hyde Park.
Still, it’s great to see CNN do some legitimate investigative reporting on Obama for a change.
Y-not on October 7, 2008 at 11:40 AM
trust fund baby.
see http://www.globallabor.blogspot.com
go through the archives on his right sidebar for lots of info about Bill Ayers’s father Tom and how Tom got Bernardine Dohrn both of the jobs she’s held in Chicago, for example.
funky chicken on October 7, 2008 at 11:48 AM
Ayers is a lot like the left and the Democrats in Congress that got us into the financial mess. He’s a scumbag who thinks he is a hero. He blames the U.S. and everybody who works and pays their bills, as the bad guys. He did terrible things to our country, but got off free and clear.
Under Obama, I could see him becoming our “Sec. of Education.”
Star20 on October 7, 2008 at 11:52 AM
John, you’ll like this little article then:
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/35772?cp=3
funky chicken on October 7, 2008 at 11:53 AM
This just in.. Drew Griffin is now off the no fly list but, he is unemployed from CNN
tjexcite on October 7, 2008 at 11:56 AM
Okay, maybe this is good reporting by CNN standards, but I’m not all that impressed with this. It disputes one false claim, namely that Alice Palmer organized Barry’s coming out party at the Dohrn/Ayers residence. Great.
However, it fails to mention that while chairing the CAC, Obama funneled money to Mike Klonsky’s “Small Schools Workshop”. This directly ties Obama’s ideology with that of Bill Ayers. Who is Mike Klonsky?:
And, as you may have guessed, he’s also a professor of education at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Most idiot CNN viewers will see that Barry gave money to “Peace Projects” and will cheer, as it will not occur to them that most peace projects are fronts from neo-stalinist organizations. Or maybe they won’t care because they are little Stalinists themselves.
Indeed, Anderson Cooper just can’t understand what is wrong with giving millions of dollars to “education”.
Buy Danish on October 7, 2008 at 12:01 PM
Nice report Drew. Put your resume together and ship it over to Rupert’s people at Fox News. CNN will have to fire you now.
You were far too honest.
Oh, and by the way. Anyone who sees this video and still votes for Obama/Biden really don’t care too much for the future of the USA.
FireBlogger on October 7, 2008 at 12:07 PM
Too little, too late… The damage has been done and this is the same as call watching the crime, cheering the criminal and then calling the police. Shame, thy name is CNN.
Claypigeon on October 7, 2008 at 12:14 PM
I hope somebody asks Anderson WHAT TOOK HIM SO LONG to look into this?
Elizabetty on October 7, 2008 at 12:19 PM
Keemo on October 7, 2008 at 9:22 AM: WOW. This should blow BO’s connection with communist thug, Odinga, (sp?) wide open. ‘Should’ is the operative word. He was supporting Odinga as late as last year. Bang this drum McCain/Palin!!!
Christine on October 7, 2008 at 12:36 PM
The following was posted on Lucianne today and I think it is worth looking at more carefully. I have a used copy of the book via Amazon as it is out of print.
‘Please, on bended knee, go to Amazon.com and locate “The Big Dance: The Untold Story of Kathy Boudin and The Terrorist Family That Committed The Brinks Robbery Murers”, by John Castellucci (Dodd Mead, 1988). Also, if you Google “Brinks Robbery & Murder, Nanuet NY”, you will hit a review of the book in the 7/13/88 issue of “The New York Times.”
If anyone reading this has the juice and access, please get to Rick Davis, McCain campaign chairman, and demand that he get his hands on this book. It appears to be “the smoking gun” (thematic re book topics) between Barack Obama, William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn and the Black Liberation Army, incl. Ms. Boudin and fugitive murderer Joanne Chesimard (given asylum in Cuba by Castro).’
FunnyGirl on October 7, 2008 at 12:52 PM
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