The Blurb That Never Was
posted at 6:09 pm on October 20, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up. In the midst of Barack Obama’s continuing insistence that William Ayers was just some guy in the neighborhood (and just some guy on two non-profit boards with whom Obama worked for almost a decade), people asked why Obama then gave Ayers a promotional blurb for his book, A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court. Team Obama spokesmen Bill Burton and Robert Gibbs categorically denied it.
Oops:
Maybe it’s another State Senator Barack Obama. You know, another one who would have worked closely enough with an unrepentant terrorist to get an advance look at his new book, and to write promotional material for its sales. One who partnered with Ayers on a multimillion-dollar school reform project that ended up a failure. One who owed Ayers after the unrepentant terrorist help launch his career in a fundraiser in the Ayers/Dohrn household. You know, there has to be at least a dozen Barack Obamas who fit that description!
On a more serious note, this wouldn’t be an issue if the Obama campaign would stop lying about the nature of his relationship with Ayers. They’ve continually fibbed about it when the public record is pretty clear that they formed a political alliance meant to boost Obama’s electoral career. Their inability to be honest about this relationship is what makes these lesser revelations more significant than they should be. A modest blurb on an obscure book would have no meaning at all absent the fact that Team Obama lied about it on two separate occasions.
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Stop the cover up.
Abby Adams on October 20, 2008 at 6:10 PM
Blurbs are racist.
Abby Adams on October 20, 2008 at 6:11 PM
Geez – makes you wonder if they’ve lied about anything else? Wouldn’t that be something?
tru2tx on October 20, 2008 at 6:11 PM
Bill Burton is one of the creepiest thugs who’s mug has ever been on television. And I mean thug. No. Doubt. About it.
Editor on October 20, 2008 at 6:11 PM
Ed, wondered when you were going to “post” this. ;)
upinak on October 20, 2008 at 6:11 PM
Nothing’s gonna matter. This guy could hang and burn puppies alive in Time Square and no one would care. They are already voting out there before the campaign is even over.
johnnyU on October 20, 2008 at 6:11 PM
So everyone named “barack obama” looks like senator government to you all?
Racists!
lorien1973 on October 20, 2008 at 6:12 PM
When
ClintonObama lied, nobodydiedcared… except for us.SkinnerVic on October 20, 2008 at 6:12 PM
SURPRISE!!
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 20, 2008 at 6:13 PM
The BHO campaign lies about nearly everything.
And this wasn’t just a blurb, as if someone just asked BHO to write a little something about this book. It was a column for people to blurb their FAVORITE books.
BHO is an outright fraud. Period.
progressoverpeace on October 20, 2008 at 6:13 PM
Or the Ayers that ghostwrote Dreams of my (Kenyan) Fathers.
Or the Ayers that shared an office building with bHo.
mattshu on October 20, 2008 at 6:13 PM
Burton and Gibbs spinning already, I am sure:
“It’s a destraction. Bush’s fault.”
tru2tx on October 20, 2008 at 6:14 PM
That would be the case if it was reported in other outlets beside Fox and conservative publications. There was one good CNN piece, but everything else is spun to make McCain look desperate.
CanadianGuy on October 20, 2008 at 6:14 PM
What networks will air this story ? None. The media decided BHO will be the president months ago and there is nothing Hillary or McCain can do to stop them.
All we have left is the voice of the American people. We need it to speak loudly on Nov 4th.
If we elect O’Commie we deserve everything we will get.
DeweyWins on October 20, 2008 at 6:15 PM
Heh…Bambi is toast. ‘Nuff said.
ManlyRash on October 20, 2008 at 6:15 PM
What COURAGEOUS Main-Stream-Media person will be the first to stand up and say – ENOUGH of this SHAM! The public deserves to know all of the facts to make their decision, not just what the left wants them to hear. Once one MSM person decides to ADMIT the TRUTH, maybe others will follow, and more and more…until they will all scream “THE KING HAS NO CLOTHES!!!”
sigh – just a fantasy? sigh
moonlighter on October 20, 2008 at 6:15 PM
I’m sure it’s just another Right Wing Conspiracy.
rightwingmom on October 20, 2008 at 6:15 PM
fixed
Les in NC on October 20, 2008 at 6:16 PM
Americans are a talkative bunch, my canuck friend. Word travels – in spite of the Drive-By media. You will see on November 4.
Keep the faith and God bless you.
ManlyRash on October 20, 2008 at 6:16 PM
“Fox makes me look like an effeminate, latte-sipping liberal snob! Who would vote for that??” – Obama
If only they’d follow through.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 20, 2008 at 6:17 PM
They fibbed because of their promise…”We will not be swiftboated” was their battle cry. Any attempt to paint Obama in a bad light will be met with force. They relinquish nothing, and they take no prisoners.
right2bright on October 20, 2008 at 6:18 PM
After November 4 they will turn on him…viciously.
ManlyRash on October 20, 2008 at 6:18 PM
It’s on the fox homepage
lodge on October 20, 2008 at 6:18 PM
Unless he loses. Then they will rake the rest of us for months.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 20, 2008 at 6:19 PM
Sent my absentee ballot in last week. Plan to check its receipt, too.
Caststeel on October 20, 2008 at 6:20 PM
SkinnerVic
Vince Foster
rightwingmom on October 20, 2008 at 6:20 PM
Should be able to contrast a Burton/Gibbs video with this scan, I think.
lodge on October 20, 2008 at 6:20 PM
I just want some honest person at CNN, ABC, NBS to admit they were all WRONG and we can’t elect this Chicago Thug!
Do it for the good of all Americans -
moonlighter on October 20, 2008 at 6:20 PM
While I fully agree that BO’s realtionship(s) are very shady indeed and are a major cause for concern, I think its clear that this is not the issue for McCain to focus on.
Go after BO on the tax issue and start by telling Americans that the only thing between them and the most liberal and radical administration evah is John McCain.
Barring an October surprise, This is Mac’s only path.
joepub on October 20, 2008 at 6:21 PM
I can’t wait to see the WaPoo and NYT with this headline:
TERRORST AYERS WROTE OBAMA’S BOOK!
Candidate’s Lies Disqualify Him from Presidency
Yeah, right.
LET’S FREAKIN’ ROLL!!!
ex-Democrat on October 20, 2008 at 6:22 PM
Yeah it won’t just be Joe the Plumber.. it will be:
Christine the Dentist, Jack the Mechanic, Sue the Nurse, Ralph the sales guy, Linda the Receptionist, John the Soldier, etc.
You really think B.O. is going to stop on his stinky agenda when he is in?
Nope.
upinak on October 20, 2008 at 6:22 PM
DUH! Palin has a tanning Bed!!!!!!!
SDarchitect on October 20, 2008 at 6:22 PM
I would be interested to know if anyone thinks that this is for real? It supposedly the radio station that has inked an agreement to air the tape of Michelle saying Obama is an Indonesian citizen and not an American citizen… I don’t know what to make of it.
http://www.plainsradio.com/api.html“>http://www.plainsradio.com/api.html
petunia on October 20, 2008 at 6:23 PM
I just figured out who Gibbs reminds me of:
The guy who is “PC” to Justin Long’s Mac.
drjohn on October 20, 2008 at 6:23 PM
Start the “GOD DAMN AMERICA” ADS NOWWWWWW!!! Fools.
marklmail on October 20, 2008 at 6:23 PM
Didn’t I just read about this book blurb in The New York Times?
Or was it the L.A. Times?
I’ve been seeing so many MSNBC pieces about this issue that it’s hard to keep it straight.
JudetheFossil on October 20, 2008 at 6:24 PM
There is so much the american people don,t know about this man.If he is elected (God Forbide)and these things come later someone is going have alot to anser for like Nbc Cbs Abc Cnn Msnbc and last but not least Bill Oreily.
thmcbb on October 20, 2008 at 6:24 PM
Precisely why Bill Clinton hates him so much, right after having stepped ahead of his wife.
Entelechy on October 20, 2008 at 6:25 PM
I had a PLUMBER here today and we were talking about the campaign (another regular Joe). He said he’s surprised that an MSM person hasn’t thrown in the towel and done exactly what you are talking about…. with some real reporting and peeling back the layers of the onion, a person could really make a name for themself by exposing the truth. Dare I say Pulitzer?
Worked for Woodward and Bernstein.
tru2tx on October 20, 2008 at 6:27 PM
It’s not at all surprising to see the One telling people in FL. to go out and vote early and get all their friends to vote early as well.
He knows better than anyone how much truth could come out before election day.
ChrisM on October 20, 2008 at 6:27 PM
Obarfy was like, what, forty when this book was written?
Pfffft! Distractions.
Bishop on October 20, 2008 at 6:28 PM
Democrats ~ Nothing to see here. Continue to the polls like lemmings. Don’t question The One!
rightwingmom on October 20, 2008 at 6:28 PM
Racist Right Wing Demagogues playing the Book Blurb Card now. Sheesh!
hburns on October 20, 2008 at 6:28 PM
Piltdown Man?
JiangxiDad on October 20, 2008 at 6:29 PM
Not in today’s media, that would get you skinned alive. The layers would be peeled back, but they wouldn’t be from Obama’s onion.
In hindsight, that’s probably worded very badly.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 20, 2008 at 6:29 PM
You all can’t question or say anything derogatory about Barry O.
mountainmanbob on October 20, 2008 at 6:29 PM
Put glasses on him and he looks like Roger from “What’s Happening.”
Hey hey hey!
grdred944 on October 20, 2008 at 6:29 PM
Will you send in another one signed Mickey Mouse? /sarc
Steve Z on October 20, 2008 at 6:30 PM
The New York Times would have printed this but it didn’t have any space available. This week’s entire output is dedicated to getting to the bottom of whether someone didn’t like Cindy McCain in high school.
Cicero43 on October 20, 2008 at 6:30 PM
Another blatant distortion by the right. BHO was no more than 36 at the time … still a youngin’, not even responsible for his signature. :)
progressoverpeace on October 20, 2008 at 6:31 PM
“It’s not the crime, it’s the coverup.”“It’s not a crime, if it’s covered-up.” Fixed that to apply to Obama.
drunyan8315 on October 20, 2008 at 6:32 PM
if I may complete my statement; to question or say anything derogatory about Barry O, YOU DA RACIST!
mountainmanbob on October 20, 2008 at 6:32 PM
The saga continues.
API is now calling Ed Hale a crook.
http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/red-alert-on-forgery-of-emails-ed-hale-forges-document-emails-between-us-and-himself-om-obama-saga/
JiangxiDad on October 20, 2008 at 6:33 PM
hehehe – maybe, but funny!
tru2tx on October 20, 2008 at 6:34 PM
“A searing and timely account of the juvenile court system”
seared into his memory like Christmas in Cambodia, to be forgotten when convenient. Just some guy in his neighborhood.
Steve Z on October 20, 2008 at 6:34 PM
All the great reporters are busy trolling Facebook for leads on what kind of candy Cindy McCain hands out for trick or treat.
Western_Civ on October 20, 2008 at 6:35 PM
Who is Raila Odinga and why should you care? Guilt by association.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/kenya-smoking-g.html
Angry Dumbo on October 20, 2008 at 6:35 PM
If Ayers babysitted Obama’s kids, would it make any difference in the election outcome?
JiangxiDad on October 20, 2008 at 6:36 PM
It’s not lying or a coverup, it’s just that Dear Leader Obamassiah doesn’t have time to answer to us serfs.
rbj on October 20, 2008 at 6:36 PM
OT;
I heard (this afternoon) Colin Powell say, and I paraphrase,
“there is no place in this campaign for talk of Socialism”. I guess Powell is a proponent of celebrating diversity.
mountainmanbob on October 20, 2008 at 6:36 PM
Obama spokesperson Bill Burton says that Barack Obama “did not write a blurb” about the book
That’s could be true. Bill Ayers probably wrote the blurb copy, and, with Barack’s permission, attached his name to it.
Buy Danish on October 20, 2008 at 6:36 PM
You know what else is searing? Weather Underground bombs.
Dash on October 20, 2008 at 6:37 PM
Obama’s radical ties have been reverse-seared out of his memory.
econavenger on October 20, 2008 at 6:40 PM
Guilt by association ~
I’m sure B. Hussein didn’t even read the book…
He barely knew the fellow…
He was soooo young when the book was written…
This is a smear by the RWC crowd…
Trust the Messiah!
rightwingmom on October 20, 2008 at 6:41 PM
Let’s see…
BHO and Ayers years in NYC and at Columbia overlapped. During that time the WU carrying out an attack in NYC.
The terrorist wife, Dohrn, worked at the same law firm as Michelle Obama in Chicago.
Michelle was assigned as BHO’s mentor when he came to work for the same Chicago firm.
Ayers and BHO shared office space in Chicago.
BHO was the chair of a board that gave out vast sums of money. Ayers was the guy who wrote the checks.
Ayers held a meet and greet for BHO in his house when he first ran for the state senate in 1995
Really, they’re just 2 guys that live in the same neighborhood and have kids that go to the same school (20 yrs apart).
Gohawgs on October 20, 2008 at 6:42 PM
Potentially, there are so many of these “October Surprises” out there. Like Obama’s drug use, his smoking, etc., not many people know about these things. McCain needs to get this out. I would love to see an early November ad where McCain talks about these things. The media looks like idiots and couldn’t cover it up, at least not as well as they would want.
llano on October 20, 2008 at 6:43 PM
“When I say ‘Obama,’ you say ‘Ayers!’”
baldilocks on October 20, 2008 at 6:43 PM
This is important
crr6 on October 20, 2008 at 6:47 PM
From that link we have a new McCain campaign narrative about Obama’s priorities in life.
“UPDATE: Carl queries Obama can’t give a dollar a month to his brother to double his brother’s monthly income but he can give millions to a Muslim gangster?”
What a commercial that would make if McCain wanted to tell Americans more about the strange priorities of his mystery opponent.
econavenger on October 20, 2008 at 6:48 PM
Its never the lie, its the cover up that gets em.
Heck Team McCain doesn’t even want to go after the lies. : ((
Makes us who want McCain to win feel like chumps. I think the guys over at the Daily Kos must be running McCain’s campaign because I don’t think McCain could do anything that would get me any more dispirited.
Angry Dumbo on October 20, 2008 at 6:48 PM
Stop the MSM cover-up! The deciders don’t think you need to know this. It’d be nice to get this on Oreilly or Hannity, or Greta!
Annoy the media: Vote Palin! Watch their heads explode!
Iblis on October 20, 2008 at 6:49 PM
At least we have Biden trying to help us out. :)
progressoverpeace on October 20, 2008 at 6:50 PM
To be technical, Obama and crew are right. He did not write a blurb for the book based on an advanced copy. The photo you are showing is from a news paper box section entitle “Here’s What People Are Reading?” It neither supports the contention that Obama had an advance copy of the book nor that his quote was used by the publisher to promote the book. He was merely asked by a reporter what he was reading and gave a quote about Ayer’s book. The quote is damning in and of itself, and anyone who knows anything about PR knows that there is a lot more there than meets the eye. However, Obama and crew are technically correct. No blurb, no advance copy, just a prominently placed product endorsement for an unrepentant domestic terrorist. Is that not enough?
tommylotto on October 20, 2008 at 6:51 PM
I thought you won already. Why are you still monitoring the right wing blogs? Trying to get two more weeks of pay? What job do you get in the new world order?
LMAO.
JiangxiDad on October 20, 2008 at 6:51 PM
And notice his other neighbors…Jackson, Farrakahn, Rezko, I am sure a few other “regular” neighbors…
right2bright on October 20, 2008 at 6:52 PM
I call Shenanigans. (Not whether Powell said it, but whether it’s true.)
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 20, 2008 at 6:55 PM
As The Chosen One would say, this is all a ‘distraction’….from the fact that my campaign has been built on lies.
GarandFan on October 20, 2008 at 6:58 PM
Ed, what about the story that ran in Headlines Sunday about the office space BO & Ayers shared? Please give us your input about that.
jgapinoy on October 20, 2008 at 6:59 PM
Does Obama’s campaign get to parse words because Obama’s “blurb” wasn’t on the book’s dust jacket, but rather in a “my favorite book” feature in a newspaper??
We must very carefully frame our questions with these weasels.
fred5678 on October 20, 2008 at 7:01 PM
http://www.nakedemperornews.com
I have found dome of the most damning videos here. Some contain The One’s very own voice. All of them are wel sourced. What I cant figure out is why they are not resonating? The “views” on You Tube are quite low?? Some however have been viewed often. Spread them around if you haven’t already. Some are quite powerful.
OSUBuciz1 on October 20, 2008 at 7:02 PM
Yeah, and it’s too bad that BHO wouldn’t let his brother move into the shed out back of his million dollar home in Chicago…then he could have a change in seasons, running water (from the hose), and protection from Farrahkahn’s “fruit of islam” bodyguards as he rode his bicycle to the neighborhood grocery store. Better than he has now, living in Kenya on $12/yr.
How come BHO didn’t ‘help a brother out’ when he was in Kenya in 2006 campaigning for his cousin Odinga?
Gohawgs on October 20, 2008 at 7:04 PM
If, heaven forbid, Obama wins, I wonder how many reporters will start winning Pulitzer Prizes for investigative journalism by merely skimming through 2007 and 2008 right leaning blogs??
fred5678 on October 20, 2008 at 7:04 PM
Based on my research this video (ht Atlas) is factually accurate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfF15cUc9AM
Ayers’ girlfriend was blown up when the bomb she and
two other weathermen were making for the Fort Dix
dance accidentally blew up
and leveled their Greenwich village townhouse.
The Lord protected our service men then
and now He’s giving us a hint to save us, too.
Please spread it around to anyone whose brain is not
total mush yet and who will vote Nov 4.
And Colin Powell thinks referring to Bill Ayers and Obama is ‘inappropriate’. Sheeesh!
rishika on October 20, 2008 at 7:08 PM
Bill Burton is one of the creepiest thugs who’s mug has ever been on television. And I mean thug. No. Doubt. About it.
Editor on October 20, 2008 at 6:11 PM
OMG- I will have nightmares about Bill Burton until I’m 80! The guy is a freak- I always think the Obama campaign sends their biggest buffoon to the network they hate the most- don’t watch any of the others so I don’t know if he really is “special” for FOX. SO SO SO glad he’s been caught lying. Again.
anniekc on October 20, 2008 at 7:09 PM
All the great reporters are busy trolling Facebook for leads on what kind of candy Cindy McCain hands out for trick or treat.
Western_Civ on October 20, 2008 at 6:35 PM
“She’s got ALL that beer money and all she’s giving out are dum-dums?! I’m voting Obama!”
anniekc on October 20, 2008 at 7:13 PM
Obama’s blurb for Ayers’s A Kind and Just Parent is all of a piece with Obama’s sense of justice (???) and lawmaking that he promoted while in the Illinois legislature.
Not only does the blurb show the extensive relation that Obama had with Ayers, it is but a glimpse of their shared philosophies.
Andy McCarthy had more to say about these questionable connections: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=Mg==
onlineanalyst on October 20, 2008 at 7:18 PM
Yep, that is indeed Young Mr B.O. from his glory days in the less than respected Illinois State Senate, where he learned everything there is to being a Chicago Democratic Machine Politician from his beloved mentor, Emil “GIMME MY RAISE OR I’LL SCREAM!” Jones.
Oh, Jones never got his raise and is supposed to be quitting the Senate soon. But he wants to turn over his office to his son, Emil Jones Jr.
Just like any Chicago Democratic Machine Politician would.
pilamaye on October 20, 2008 at 7:23 PM
I just want some honest person at CNN, ABC, NBS to admit they were all WRONG and we can’t elect this Chicago Thug!
Do it for the good of all Americans -
moonlighter on October 20, 2008 at 6:20 PM
CapedConservative on October 20, 2008 at 7:23 PM
Yea.
They must have cloned him a long time ago!!!!!
No wonder he keeps coming back after he gets hit by the
truthtrain!! Different guy!!!:)
/sarc.
Mcguyver on October 20, 2008 at 7:24 PM
Exactly.
Side note: I got a real kick out of the idea of Ayres writing about the justice system. Talk about ‘audacity’.
progressoverpeace on October 20, 2008 at 7:24 PM
They can’t, because they weren’t “wrong” but taking part in the perpetration of the worst fraud against American citizens, ever.
progressoverpeace on October 20, 2008 at 7:26 PM
Yes, but if you remember, Rog’s big dream was to be a writer. Ironic now that we know that Bill Ayers wrote his ‘father’ book.
Sapwolf on October 20, 2008 at 7:26 PM
Indeed. General Powell, how many of the men who served under you would have been at the Officers’ Club at Dix when the bomb was supposed to go off?
The Monster on October 20, 2008 at 7:27 PM
whoever took that picture of Barry is a racist, he looks like a goof ball.
custer on October 20, 2008 at 7:38 PM
This one sentence blurb book review truly is “haunting.” In fact, one might call it the most haunting thing in the history of America.
Could this swing the election to a 20 point McCain blowout? Probably.
e-pirate on October 20, 2008 at 7:49 PM
The amazing thing is Barack wrote this when he was 8 years old!
profitsbeard on October 20, 2008 at 7:54 PM
zzing!
JiangxiDad on October 20, 2008 at 7:59 PM
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