Video: Ayers calls the cops on O’Reilly’s producer
posted at 12:05 pm on October 25, 2008 by Allahpundit
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I hate when they send producers out to bug people at home, but I’ll make an exception just this once for an unrepentant terrorist. Question: What’s more ironic than a guy who allegedly conspired to kill cops calling for police back-up to shoo away a reporter? Answer: A guy in a red-star t-shirt, who helped write “Prairie Fire,” warning that reporter to respect his property rights and stay out of his front yard.
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thanks.. It did look like a circle on the trunk.. I couldn’t make out anything else though..
I wonder if he thanked the pig for escorting him afterwards..
DaveC on October 25, 2008 at 1:09 PM
“Get off my private property” – ???
How imperialist of you, Ayers!
sloopy on October 25, 2008 at 1:09 PM
I will be happy to serve that misdemeanor..
DaveC on October 25, 2008 at 1:11 PM
Call a friend, call a cop.
Queen0fCups on October 25, 2008 at 1:18 PM
Most of the time, I like O’Reilly a lot because he has a pair.
When someone mentions Ayers, I think of the police mug shot of him as a young, arrogant looking pussy.
Now he’s got the red star t-shirt and the little earring, the cool college prof who never takes any shit from The man.
Somewhere out there, there’s a can of whoopass just waiting…
PC14 on October 25, 2008 at 1:20 PM
I hope his students see this and laugh him out of the classroom on Monday. The brave marxist anarchist can’t even stand up to a young man with a microphone!
I wonder how those
pigspolicemen felt escorting the weenie to his car?ctmom on October 25, 2008 at 1:20 PM
I also do not like ambush interviews but there are always exceptions, this was one. As Rush pointed out a few days ago, the spoiled, rich Mr. Ayers is simply a version of Timothy McVey who happened to get away with his crimes.
Zorro on October 25, 2008 at 1:26 PM
I would love to give this POS another Tattoo.
try again later on October 25, 2008 at 1:29 PM
That’s because deep down, every socialist wants to be a capitalist.
Grafted on October 25, 2008 at 1:38 PM
Sounds good at first blush, but if these individuals forfeit their claim to protection BY the state, they likewise forfeit their claim to protection FROM the state.
And if the State happens to be a fascist dictatorship and you a Jeffersonian who refuses to support and defend it, then I suppose that means the State or any one of its citizens has a right to snuff you. Does it not?
ManlyRash on October 25, 2008 at 1:39 PM
In a sane word we would be discussing about the serious issues facing America. Ayers does not qualify.
mycowardice on October 25, 2008 at 1:39 PM
These idiots need protection so we all may be free.
It’s similar to “I don’t agree with what you say, but I’ll defend your freedom to say it”…
Entelechy on October 25, 2008 at 1:41 PM
Oh sure.. you show up and ruin all the fun we were having :)
(that means: dammit, yes, you’re right)
DaveC on October 25, 2008 at 1:45 PM
That’s probably true. But that is because in a sane world the democrats would have put up a better candidate. Obama’s work with Ayers is informative on his view of education and economics. Yes, in a sane world we wouldn’t have to worry about ’share the wealth’ socialist doctrine and ‘revolution by education’, but here we are.
Spirit of 1776 on October 25, 2008 at 1:48 PM
The character of presidential candidates – who they are, what they think, who they worked and associated with – plays a key role in how they will eventually govern.
History shows this.
We can – as we have – discuss both public policy and the character and makeup of the people who will carry out those policies.
Besides, anyone who thinks that the Ayers question has prevented us from discussing public policy has been watching a different election than I have.
SteveMG on October 25, 2008 at 1:48 PM
Looks like a Buick Logo upon ( quick)further inspection.Look at the logo on Buick’s website. Also the rear lights look like those of the Buick LaCrosse.
pritzcovan on October 25, 2008 at 1:48 PM
No, because the state only exists by consent.
Spirit of 1776 on October 25, 2008 at 1:49 PM
Bravo to that reporter. He reminded me of Harry Potter in the Deathly Hallows, when Harry asked Voldemort, in the Great Hall,
“Try for a little remorse”. Riddle gave basically the same response that Ayers did.
Waiting for the Nobel Committee to award Ayers the Peace Prize next year.
eaglewingz08 on October 25, 2008 at 1:50 PM
Certainly has prevent me from seeing a real issue debates. Between Paris Hilton, JTP, Wright, Ayers and Resko, a lot of time was seriously wasted.
mycowardice on October 25, 2008 at 1:50 PM
Why doesn’t half of America get it when it comes to Ayers?
Having people like Ayers populate Obama’s cabinet and Executive branch positions is EXACTLY the kind of serious issue that faces America. What else you wanna talk about? The slaughter of 40 million American babies or the self genocide of Black Americans?
Mojave Mark on October 25, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Ayers only likes the rules when he can use them to his advantage – “guilty as hell, free as a bird, stay off of my property you neo conservative press corp turd”.
EyesOpen on October 25, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Maybe Ayers will open up when he gets on with Larry King?
jay12 on October 25, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Aren’t paying for the protection through taxes?
mycowardice on October 25, 2008 at 1:52 PM
Explain that to the Cubans.
ManlyRash on October 25, 2008 at 1:53 PM
Obama’s willingness to work with an Ayers and a Wright (and other leftist groups and individuals) indicates to me that he is possibly willing to set aside his principles to advance his career. Ayers and Wright offered him something. He took it.
Might he not do this as President?
It’s a fair and legitimate question and the people who don’t want to ask it are, it seems to me, afraid of the answer.
SteveMG on October 25, 2008 at 1:54 PM
Every academic leftist I know enjoys living in a free country with all the economic perks…they are the most hypocritical bunch of low lives who would gladly take away our rights to free speech while freely exercising theirs.
Edward Said, for example, who whined about American imperialism, lived in New York, dressed stylishly, all the while lamenting the poverty of the Palestinians from the comfort of his Manhattan apt. Think he’s resting well in the after life? What’s the opposite of yes?
Richard Romano on October 25, 2008 at 1:55 PM
If Chicago had any men with balls, they would have strung up this pansy when he got off on a technicality 30 years ago.
Speedwagon82 on October 25, 2008 at 1:55 PM
We pay, indeed, but we pay for his freedom too. If he’s not protected/free, we aren’t either.
Believe me, I hate his every fiber, but I’ll gladly pay to protect his security. Otherwise we’re in Cuba, Burma, Venezuela…and later here…sadly.
DaveC on October 25, 2008 at 1:45 PM
Hugs
Entelechy on October 25, 2008 at 1:56 PM
The ones that leave or fight, don’t consent. Those that don’t see it as the lesser of two evils and consent.
Spirit of 1776 on October 25, 2008 at 1:56 PM
Please, did you watch the debates?
Have you watched/read the press?
Every campaign in my memory has sometimes been sidetracked by silly or extraneous issues. Some candidate says some stupid joke that offense some constituency or eats the wrong food or something similarly silly.
This campaign has nowhere been as sidetracked as any other.
SteveMG on October 25, 2008 at 1:56 PM
Offends.
SteveMG on October 25, 2008 at 1:57 PM
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yeah… a terrorist teaching our children is a non-issue… and him being best buddies with what is probably the next president of the United States of America that’s a non-issue… and you sir, are a twit. why don’t you go sign the petition.
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this is the issue… America is the last bastion of true freedom in the world and it is about to be lost because of individuals like this man… Great Britain, Australia, Canada all lost to socialism… that’s an issue!
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personally I’m thinking of moving to Iraq, I hear they are quite free… gun rights, property rights, capitalism… sounds like a great place.
Kaptain Amerika on October 25, 2008 at 1:57 PM
No time like the present. Except, it’s going to have to come from outside of Chicago. He is a “hero” there for all that are in power. I wish he would get a taste of his own medicine. That P*SSY wouldn’t last two minutes.
HornetSting on October 25, 2008 at 1:58 PM
Not to mention the fact that there appears to be no other way to obtain information about Obama’s past, which has more holes than the backs of all the pants in Greg Gutfeld’s closet.
RightWinged on October 25, 2008 at 1:59 PM
Solzhenitsyn’s failure to die trying to escape the Gulag implies his consent of the Soviet government?
ManlyRash on October 25, 2008 at 2:00 PM
I am not familar enough with Solzhenitsyn to comment on him personally.
Spirit of 1776 on October 25, 2008 at 2:03 PM
Obama is one of them … a marxist p*ssy; so it’s the most serious issue of this election.
Bill Ayers grew up in a gated community and attended private school, with a wealthy family.
He is a narcissistic coward just like Obama: finds his “power” in lording over young college students and the disadvantaged.
They can’t stand up to a guy like Joe the plumber because, at their core, they are spineless freaks.
We have let these 60s re-treads get away with hurting our country for too long. Wait ’til they feel the wrath of American patriots. These tories will be scurrying to Canaduh. They can hang out with Drywall in his state-funded flat.
Let’s roll.
ex-Democrat on October 25, 2008 at 2:03 PM
Look, Ayers believes in using education as an instrument to enact radical political change in America. He wants to educate children in to replacing the existing system.
Obama worked with Ayers on education reform in Chicago.
How much of Ayer’s educational views does Obama share?
If he doesn’t share any, why did he work with Ayers?
Yes, we can still discuss the economy and foreign policy too.
Most of us can walk and chew gum at the same time.
SteveMG on October 25, 2008 at 2:04 PM
You’re joking, right?
ManlyRash on October 25, 2008 at 2:05 PM
The sad thing is that the people who will vote for Obama/Biden think that life will be more “fair” but they haven’t given any consideration to what that means. Will their standard of living go up just through the election? No. Will those that they think have to much have less? Maybe. But people like Mr. Ayers will either retain or improve on his status because he will be within the inner circle. And the people who work hard and that are admired within their communities will struggle and will no longer have the time or resources to do more in their sphere because they will be just trying to survive.
Cindy Munford on October 25, 2008 at 2:07 PM
Yes, I am so glad the Obama campaign has stuck to the issues, like how many houses John McCain owns, and whether McCain can use a computer keyboard, and how many times McCain has had cancer, and who paid for Sarah Palin’s clothes, and “lipstick on a pig”, and what percent of the time McCain voted with President Bush, and how many lobbyists have jobs on McCain’s campaign. Those are all SO important in deciding who should lead this country in the next 4 years.
rockmom on October 25, 2008 at 2:08 PM
I repeat myself ad nauseam when I say that every populace deserves its leaders. We deserved our Nicolae Ceauşescu, in Romania.
In that sense Manly is absolutely right. We’ll deserve Obama, or McCain, and we better know what we’re choosing. Socialism/Communism are horrific.
However, it is much easier to fight the state as a still free populace. I can’t totally blame the Cubans for not having themselves killed. We didn’t either in Romania.
Entelechy on October 25, 2008 at 2:08 PM
that explained that warm feeling I got :)
DaveC on October 25, 2008 at 2:09 PM
Somewhere Karl Marx is laughing his bloody a$$ off and yelling, “This is not the student of Marxism I am proud of”. Instead of t-shirts with “Palin is a @unt”, there should be “Ayers is a” you know what – with a small letter c. Since that happens to be how he describes himself – I am a communist with a small letter “c”.
Sergei on October 25, 2008 at 2:09 PM
MDE, I cast no blame. Not now, not ever. Men will often suffer oppression, or as Jefferson said – all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, the to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed – because of one of the greatest human attributes is hope. If you hope tomorrow might be better, then today isn’t so bad. Additionally, everyone has a different set of values. And yes, a free populace has a freer hand. Hence the value of the free and independent press!
Spirit of 1776 on October 25, 2008 at 2:15 PM
MDS, promise to get familiar with Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, the great, and the not-so-perfect.
Sergei, whenever you comment I feel brotherly love, not in the Mrxian sense :) Love your comments! I have a hunch we both suffered the same fate in earlier years.
Entelechy on October 25, 2008 at 2:15 PM
Correction – s/b Marxian sense – may he and Engels, and Lenin, die again, and again, in cruel fashion.
Entelechy on October 25, 2008 at 2:16 PM
Lets get this right.
A simply plumber asks the ONE a question and gets the 5th degree from the press.
A terrorist and his terrorist wife who sought to murder civilians and police officers is indoctrinating our young in Marxism and Socialism doesn’t get a passing glance by the press.
CrazyFool on October 25, 2008 at 2:16 PM
Thus my point: the logical implication of spirit’s statement is that the reluctance to risk certain death by fighting or almost certain death by attempting escape can be equated with consent as if those individuals approved of and voted for the very government that has enslaved them. This, of course, is nonsense and only reinforces my earlier analysis of Heinlein’s statement. If I forfeit protection by the state I likewise forfeit protection FROM the state.
ManlyRash on October 25, 2008 at 2:17 PM
They’re not “cops” they’re “pigs.”
At least that’s what he always used to call them.
29Victor on October 25, 2008 at 2:17 PM
Commie wimp.
Return to your socialist masters back at the commune!
Black Adam on October 25, 2008 at 2:19 PM
The most disgusting attribute is when free people, volens, give up their freedoms, as is the case now in our once great land. We’ll see soon what we are made of.
Hope is no remedy by itself. A populace is in charge of freeing itself, and of keeping itself free. Much sacrifice is needed, and much involvement. Alas, most Americans are out shopping.
Also, our press is no longer “independent”. They are whores, in the crotch of Obama/Socialism, at the risk of having us, and them destroyed.
Entelechy on October 25, 2008 at 2:20 PM
can I steal that?
DaveC on October 25, 2008 at 2:22 PM
Indeed
Entelechy on October 25, 2008 at 2:22 PM
DaveC, the great, of course, gratis :)
Entelechy on October 25, 2008 at 2:23 PM
Yes, they got married (after they had two of their own kids) when Dohrn got out of jail in ‘84. My guess is that had to marry to legally adopt their WU murdering pals’ kid, Chesa Boudin. They probably kept “smashing monogamy” anyhow…it’s the communist-approved way of undermining societal morality.
Speaking of Dohrn, is that her ahead of Ayers in the video? It’s hard to make out, but whoever it is, he or she is skilled in dodging the camera.
Nichevo on October 25, 2008 at 2:24 PM
Does it make any of you wonder what Ayers said when he made the call to the police? What claims did he make? Why did the police respond as they did; ie., coming in person? Why did they feel the need to accompany Ayers to his car? Did Ayers imply that he was being threatened?
When a member of the media insists on probing with questions, do we all have the expectation that a call to the police should eliminate the nuisance?
Just asking…
onlineanalyst on October 25, 2008 at 2:26 PM
Ayer’s agenda has remained unaltered. It’s just being pursued sans explosives.
irongrampa on October 25, 2008 at 2:27 PM
In a totalitarian system Ayers w/b dead.
“A state which will give you everything, will also take everything away from you”, or similar. I’m unusually disinclined to look up who said it, but it’s powerful and true.
Entelechy on October 25, 2008 at 2:28 PM
It is not nonsense. First of all consent is not mean approve of or voting for. Let’s not confuse the issue. As to consent and it’s withdraw, every criminal that runs from the police refuses consent. But to follow your lead, lets take the hyperbole to the full extent, the principle is still true. You are really just saying that for most people the urge for self-preservation is stronger then the urge for freedom. Okay, no argument there. They consent to live. The principle remains.
All government exists by the consent of the governed.
Spirit of 1776 on October 25, 2008 at 2:33 PM
Well, I’m sure that Ayers has received death threats in the past year (or so).
In their defense, of course, the police are obligated to check out such things. So, when Ayers said that there was a “disturbance” (or whatever) outside his home, they’re obligated to respond.
SteveMG on October 25, 2008 at 2:34 PM
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. – Mr. G. Ford
Re: 2:20 – No hope is not a remedy. I don’t offer that it is, I merely not it is a contributing factor toward inertia.
Re: 2:15 – I make no promises, but I’ll take a suggestion if you have a particular specific reference/book.
Spirit of 1776 on October 25, 2008 at 2:38 PM
If we let them, then we deserve them.
Entelechy on October 25, 2008 at 2:40 PM
Spirit, start with this – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
I don’t approve of his last years, but he had value in dark times.
Entelechy on October 25, 2008 at 2:44 PM
Sorry for the confusion.
Spirit of 1776 on October 25, 2008 at 2:45 PM
Thanks, I’ll look into it. If I may, one quick question, what is the relevance to me? Political theory? American ideology? And is this the man that recently passed? Okay, that was 3 questions :)
Spirit of 1776 on October 25, 2008 at 2:47 PM
Spirit, I can’t know how you will find it relevant to you.
However, he had steely ones, writing about the gulag life, during a time when he could have been shot in the back of the head for it. Then he came here because they could no longer suffer/afford him. He then returned and morphed into mush.
Yes, he recently passed.
Entelechy on October 25, 2008 at 2:51 PM
Yeah, instead of slogging through the Gulag (I made it through all of volume I and half of volume II), read this.
It’s one day in the life of Solzhenistyn/Denisovich in the Gulag. How he survived. How he lived.
SteveMG on October 25, 2008 at 2:55 PM
Okay, I thought I recognized the name. I read a pair of articles on him then.
Well, I’ll look into it. It (obviously) hasn’t been in my field of study. Before 9/11 my focus was always internal politics, and my work was, shall we say, more academic.
Spirit of 1776 on October 25, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Aaah.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Irony so rich and thick it softens your skin while you read the comments. You’re soaking in it.
Jaibones on October 25, 2008 at 3:00 PM
Spirit, it’s ok. None of us have read all we should, or wanted to. Life is simply too short for that.
Academia needs more like you.
Entelechy on October 25, 2008 at 3:00 PM
In a government which values truth over money, he’d be dead, too. Another luxuriously rich irony.
Jaibones on October 25, 2008 at 3:01 PM
When someone mentions Ayers, I think of the police mug shot of him as a young, arrogant looking pussy.
Now he’s got the red star t-shirt and the little earring, the cool college prof who never takes any shit from The man.
Somewhere out there, there’s a can of whoopass just waiting…
PC14 on October 25, 2008 at 1:20 PM
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HA! You read my mind.
marklmail on October 25, 2008 at 3:07 PM
Jaibones, the Ellsworth Tooheys will ‘lead’ us soon. We are to blame, if that will happen.
Ayn Rand weeps inconsolably from her grave. How I miss her.
Entelechy on October 25, 2008 at 3:09 PM
As far as I’m aware this is the FIRST time ANY network tried to interview this guy.
Curioser and curioser.
kurtzz3 on October 25, 2008 at 3:15 PM
Well, the press is having a tough time finding that second grade report card for Joe the Plumber.
Once they dig that up, they’ll divert their resources to Ayers.
SteveMG on October 25, 2008 at 3:21 PM
Haha!
He drives a Buick.
An old man’s car.
LOL!
MT
Mistahtibbs on October 25, 2008 at 3:22 PM
I don’t. She was a sportsmodel b!tch and her godless brand of libertarianism was nothing more than the antithesis of godless collectivism.
ManlyRash on October 25, 2008 at 3:24 PM
Whittaker Chamber’s takedown was a classic.
It’s “self interest rightly understood” that is the key. Rand apparently forgot the “rightly understood” part.
Self-government is about governing the self. Not completely unleashing it.
SteveMG on October 25, 2008 at 3:28 PM
There are no in-betweens with Rand. We politely agree to disagree. However, really, really fear the Ellsworth Tooheys. If Obama wins you will know, sadly, exactly who they are, and what they will do to our land, not to recover from, ever.
Entelechy on October 25, 2008 at 3:33 PM
Somebody needs to corner the guy and ask him why a Marxist like he and his wife live like rich capitalists.
Guess he likes to be a comfortable and rich Marxist.
13Girl on October 25, 2008 at 3:36 PM
From cop-killer to cop-caller.
Jim Treacher on October 25, 2008 at 4:06 PM
Clearly shows Fox News is in the tank for Obama. Why haven’t they interviewed Ayers?
mycowardice on October 25, 2008 at 4:13 PM
It all depends on what hole he’s in, or what kind of one he is.
Entelechy on October 25, 2008 at 4:15 PM
She suffered enough. Don’t wish this on her.
Tanya on October 25, 2008 at 4:29 PM
This was delicious. You could sense the nervousness bordering on fear. All that was lacking was the reporter spitting in his face.
Having creatures like Ayers able to walk about in daylight unspat upon by the citizens diminishes respect and self respect in a nation. Get out there and spit in this mans face when he walks the public sidewalk. Drive him back underground where he belongs. Give him fodder for Fugitive Days II, on the run for being a P.O.S.
BL@KBIRD on October 25, 2008 at 4:33 PM
I guess, once again, you’re not up on matters. They’ve tried (O’Reilly has stated this on his radio show). Ayers won’t answer/take their calls.
So, O’Reilly took it up on his own and sent his producer out.
And, surprise, Ayers still won’t talk.
No pasaran, I guess.
SteveMG on October 25, 2008 at 4:39 PM
But he won’t win and McCain will have purchased a little more time for the republic to reverse its present course twoard self-destruction.
ManlyRash on October 25, 2008 at 4:44 PM
SteveMG,
Today is October 25. Fox News is more than Bill O’Reilly. They had months to harass the guy if they wanted to. They could have also sent (or encouraged) local fox affiliates to hunt down Ayers (assuming it is legal). Ayers won’t take up call isn’t a reason to not pursue a story.
mycowardice on October 25, 2008 at 4:46 PM
W. Ayers
Chicago’s leading proponent of trickle-up poverty…
phreshone on October 25, 2008 at 4:47 PM
Again, O’Reilly stated that Ayers won’t take calls from Fox News, not just his show.
That is why he sent out his producer to ambush interview him (and ambush interviews are cheap tactics).
As to your first point, I’m agnostic as to whether they’ve contacted their affiliates.
As to your second, surely you must know that they’ve reported on the Ayers/Obama matter?
If Ayers is refusing to talk to reporters, then the pursuit has it limits.
SteveMG on October 25, 2008 at 4:54 PM
Given the strategy and tactics pushed by racial socialism:
Get people in key positions – educators, politicians, etc.
Indoctrinate students
Radicalize students
Ever harsher confrontations until government must react
Over anything… environment, peace, immigration, etc
Continue confrontations to get harsher responses until the general population perceives the government as facist
Then either violent overthrow or overthrow via election of the radicals apparently being supressed.
Prepare for counter-attack by putting immediate strong controls in place to suppress all opposition
Re-educate or eliminate opposition
Appears to me the only effective way to stop this process is to have an active “counter-radical” group before the actual loss of governing power.
CC – BHO: “my Muslim faith”
CapedConservative on October 25, 2008 at 5:01 PM
Oh but I thought Ayers had around the clock body guards. Where were the fruits of islam when all this was taking place?
sonnyspats1 on October 25, 2008 at 5:06 PM
He did not “morph into mush”. It was his critics and former admirers who did that, starting in 1978 when he gave his brilliant and courageous speech at Harvard University. If more people had listened to it instead of being offended and ignoring Solzhenitsyn the West would be in better shape today.
aengus on October 25, 2008 at 5:08 PM
How dare Ayers have a door on his house!
“Property is theft!”
Steal Ayer’s stuff… he’s now Da Man!
profitsbeard on October 25, 2008 at 5:21 PM
Indeed. It’s not a wish. We agree on so much. Best always,
Entelechy on October 25, 2008 at 5:26 PM
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