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National Review ^ | October 14, 2008 | Stanley Kurtz

Posted on 10/14/2008 5:05:05 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

It looks like Jeremiah Wright was just the tip of the iceberg. Not only did Barack Obama savor Wright’s sermons, Obama gave legitimacy — and a whole lot of money — to education programs built around the same extremist anti-American ideology preached by Reverend Wright. And guess what? Bill Ayers is still palling around with the same bitterly anti-American Afrocentric ideologues that he and Obama were promoting a decade ago. All this is revealed by a bit of digging, combined with a careful study of documents from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the education foundation Obama and Ayers jointly led in the late 1990s.

John McCain, take note. Obama’s tie to Wright is no longer a purely personal question (if it ever was one) about one man’s choice of his pastor. The fact that Obama funded extremist Afrocentrists who shared Wright’s anti-Americanism means that this is now a matter of public policy, and therefore an entirely legitimate issue in this campaign.

African Village
In the winter of 1996, the Coalition for Improved Education in [Chicago’s] South Shore (CIESS) announced that it had received a $200,000 grant from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. That made CIESS an “external partner,” i.e. a community organization linked to a network of schools within the Chicago public system. This network, named the “South Shore African Village Collaborative” was thoroughly “Afrocentric” in orientation. CIESS’s job was to use a combination of teacher-training, curriculum advice, and community involvement to improve academic performance in the schools it worked with. CIESS would continue to receive large Annenberg grants throughout the 1990s.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antichrist; ayers; elections; itstheeconomystupid; kurtz; obama; obamabiden; obamatruthfile; stanleykurtz; wright

1 posted on 10/14/2008 5:05:05 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

McCain doesn’t want to do what it takes to Win.


2 posted on 10/14/2008 5:06:21 AM PDT by scooby321 (Cai)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
“ ...African Village Collaborative”


3 posted on 10/14/2008 5:18:10 AM PDT by johnny7 ("Duck I says... ")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
this is the Ayers book Dr. Kurtz mentions
4 posted on 10/14/2008 5:22:48 AM PDT by igoramus08
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
The last paragraph

"However he may seek to deny it, all evidence points to the fact that, from his position as board chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Barack Obama knowingly and persistently funded an educational project that shared the extremist and anti-American philosophy of Jeremiah Wright. The Wright affair was no fluke. It’s time for McCain to say so."
5 posted on 10/14/2008 5:41:02 AM PDT by igoramus08
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To: scooby321
Actually “ACE” thinks that he doesn’t have to do what it takes to WIN!
6 posted on 10/14/2008 5:42:47 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological Narcissist as president.")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Kurtz Bump


7 posted on 10/14/2008 5:43:04 AM PDT by downwdims
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
All the pieces are now coming together. It's up to McC to spell them out for 30m viewers at the next debate: Ayers, the American hating terrorist, is the mastermind & engineer, while Obama is merely the friendly face and vehicle to power.

Anything short of this is simply conceding the race to our leftist enemies.

8 posted on 10/14/2008 5:50:00 AM PDT by semantic
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To: igoramus08

Some racists are more equal than others.

/Orwell.


9 posted on 10/14/2008 5:54:31 AM PDT by Leisler (Each generation, selling the next further into slavery)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia; Travis McGee; Freee-dame

Must read and tell every acquaintance:

And as noted, Wright had invited Carruthers, Hilliard, and like-minded thinkers to address his Trinity congregants. Wright likes to tick off his connections to these prominent Afrocentrists in sermons, and Obama would surely have heard of them. Reading over SSAVC’s Annenberg proposals, Obama could hardly be ignorant of what they were about. And if by some chance Obama overlooked Hilliard’s or Carruthers’s names, SSAVC’s proposals are filled with references to “rites of passage” and “Ptahhotep,” dead giveaways for the anti-American and separatist ideological concoction favored by SSAVC.

We know that Obama did read the proposals. Annenberg documents show him commenting on proposal quality. And especially after 1995, when concerns over self-dealing and conflicts of interest forced the Ayers-headed “Collaborative” to distance itself from monetary issues, all funding decisions fell to Obama and the board. Significantly, there was dissent within the board. One business leader and experienced grant-smith characterized the quality of most Annenberg proposals as “awful.” (See “The Chicago Annenberg Challenge: The First Three Years,” p. 19.) Yet Obama and his very small and divided board kept the money flowing to ideologically extremist groups like the South Shore African Village Collaborative, instead of organizations focused on traditional educational achievement.


10 posted on 10/14/2008 5:58:18 AM PDT by maica (Barack Obama is a Weathermen Project.)
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To: igoramus08

Editorial Reviews
Product Description

White supremacy and its troubling endurance in American life is debated in these personal essays by two veteran political activists. Arguing that white supremacy has been the dominant political system in the United States since its earliest days—and that it is still very much with us—the discussion points to unexamined bigotry in the criminal justice system, election processes, war policy, and education. The book draws upon the authors’ own confrontations with authorities during the Vietnam era, reasserts their belief that racism and war are interwoven issues, and offers personal stories about their lives today as parents, teachers, and reformers.


11 posted on 10/14/2008 5:59:39 AM PDT by Leisler (Each generation, selling the next further into slavery)
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To: igoramus08

Check out the tags that ‘customers’ have given this book on Amazon, if you want to get a smile out of this stinking mess.


12 posted on 10/14/2008 6:02:05 AM PDT by maica (Barack Obama is a Weathermen Project.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia; All
The McCain camp needs to make the critical connection between Bill Ayers' Weather Underground and Wright's "Black Liberation Theology"!

"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."
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New York Times, August 24, 2003
"they [the Weather Underground] employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle and black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."

Lots more on the connection here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103946/posts

13 posted on 10/14/2008 6:05:16 AM PDT by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia; SE Mom; STARWISE; maggief; Miss Didi

Thanks for the post rwi! Obama giving money to Wright’s racist school PING!!


14 posted on 10/14/2008 6:12:48 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: Miss Didi; AliVeritas; Dog; pissant; STARWISE; holdonnow; Bahbah; Ernest_at_the_Beach; LucyT; ...

Shocking- but not surprising- ping


15 posted on 10/14/2008 6:15:18 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: SE Mom

If they hate America so much and want to embrace a marxist/totaliterian anti-american afrocentric regime.....why don’t they just move to Africa and help Obama in his efforts to get Odinga elected? /sarcasm


16 posted on 10/14/2008 6:31:14 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: penelopesire

More over here-
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/10/14/ipso-facto-barack-obama-michelle-obama-bill-ayers/#comments

But this is all very complicated and someone needs to distil all this into a talking point narrative.


17 posted on 10/14/2008 6:51:58 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: SE Mom

“But this is all very complicated and someone needs to distil all this into a talking point narrative.”

How bout...’The Democrat Culture Of Corruption, Graft, Greed,Fraud, Racism and Socialism’? That pretty much sums it all up.


18 posted on 10/14/2008 7:02:26 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Diverse Obama Logos: To Each According To His Hyphen

It is a matter of common knowledge that the old-fashioned idea of One Nation Undivided is incompatible with diversity and multiculturalism. For the same reason, the concept of One Obama Logo For All has been recently found at conflict with the presidential hopeful's philosophy of catering to each minority group with a different set of words and images. As a result, his campaign has unveiled a new collection of ethnically-specific Obama logos to match each minority's pre-approved role, legend, and grievances, in full compliance with the divide-and-conquer revolutionary doctrine developed by Antonio Gramsci and perfected by Saul Alinsky.

Every progressive knows that minorities can not be self-reliant and must be treated condescendingly. It is for their own good, therefore, that the vanguard of the progressive movement defines their identities for them and tells them how they ought to feel, think, act, and vote. And, of course, what kind of blue Obama-branded T- shirts to wear. Blue is the new red.

The official Obama-Biden website provides the following alphabetical list of Party- approved minority groups who must live and act within the boundaries assigned to them by their progressive betters, as indicated in their group-specific Obama logo:

African-Americans, Arab-Americans, Asian-Americans, Disabled-Americans, Environmental-Americans, Euro-Americans, Faith-Americans, First-Americans, Foreign- Americans, Generation-Obama-Americans, Jewish-Americans, Kids-Americans, Labor- Americans, Latino-Americans, LGBT-Americans, Mediterranean-Americans, Military- Americans, Pacific-Americans, Republican-Americans, Rural-Americans, Senior- Americans, Small-Business-Americans, Sportsmen-Americans, Student-Americans, Veteran -Americans, and Women-Americans.



Good satire is based in truth.

The People's Cube

Obama's Website

Divide and Conquer! That is the unity Obama brings to America. Destroying 40 years of racial healing and pitting various groups at odds with one another.

NO THANKS! Keep your Change!

You will not learn anything about he real Obama from these lap dogs.


19 posted on 10/14/2008 7:06:30 AM PDT by Islander7 (This Atlas is shrugging!)
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To: scooby321
McCain doesn’t want to do what it takes to Win.

That's a moronic statement on its own, but it's especially moronic when levied against a former POW whose campaign was declared politically dead last year.

And no, I don't like McCain. But the garbage being spewed by "conservatives" upset that, in their view, McCain isn't winning this race by ten or more points -- it's just mind numbing.

20 posted on 10/14/2008 8:27:39 AM PDT by impeachedrapist (Bill Clinton, as Arkansas Attorney General did you make Juanita Broaddrick pay for her rape kit?)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Excellent work by Kurtz that will be left unused by the McCain camp.


21 posted on 10/14/2008 8:30:09 AM PDT by indylindy (Is there any good idea out there that Obama doesn't lay claim to anymore?)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

One of the alleged US abuses Wright was ranting about was Sharpsville.

I realize I don’t know all that much history so I looked it up. The event he was talking about happened in SOUTH AFRICA!

So if that happened there and Americans are supposedly complicit in some way - - exactly where was he and all the other millions of AMERICAN black liberationists when it happened?


22 posted on 10/14/2008 9:16:22 AM PDT by finnsheep
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

bttt


23 posted on 10/14/2008 9:22:08 AM PDT by neverdem (I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia; SE Mom; Calpernia; Kevmo; Fred Nerks; null and void; pissant; george76; ...

Thank you, SE Mom.

Ping to the article.

Photos @ #3, #4

Check out comments #13, #17


24 posted on 10/14/2008 9:38:45 AM PDT by LucyT
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To: LucyT

Bump


25 posted on 10/14/2008 9:42:39 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Friends & Associates of Barack Hussein Obama


26 posted on 10/14/2008 10:29:18 AM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: Islander7

27 posted on 10/14/2008 11:00:11 AM PDT by petercooper (I am a bitter clinger!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Y'all want to see and hear hate speech, well, I got your hate speech right here

The Ultimate Hate Speech from an Obama Supporter

America's Chickens are Coming Home to Roost!!!
28 posted on 10/14/2008 11:26:32 AM PDT by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nihilism)
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To: Coleus; nickcarraway; narses; Mr. Silverback; Canticle_of_Deborah; TenthAmendmentChampion; ...

Pro-Life PING

Please FreepMail me if you want on or off my Pro-Life Ping List.

29 posted on 10/14/2008 12:47:21 PM PDT by cpforlife.org (A Catholic Respect Life Curriculum is available FREE at KnightsForLife.org)
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To: Brown Deer

30 posted on 10/14/2008 2:02:24 PM PDT by jan in Colorado (For Barack Hussein Obama TRUTH FILE see my homepage!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
McCain needs to say “enough” at the debate tomorrow. We can no longer ignore Senator Obama’s mentors, friends and supporters. Remember. Obama said in his book that, he “chose his friends carefully”. Carefully. These are the people he has chosen to associate with. People who share his view of America. People who support his view of America. These are the ties that bind. The ties that can no longer be ignored.

*Ayers & Dorn*. Two domestic terrorists who said recently that they wish they would have bombed America more, killed more people. It is inconceivable that Senator Obama, a constitutional lawyer at the time, did not know who they were. He chose to kick off his political career in their living room. Obama recently defended Ayers and his association with him by saying that Ayers was “well respected”.

*Tony Rezko*. A convicted slum lord who cut Obama a sweet deal on his home and supported him financially.
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Rev. Jeremiah Wright.* The man Obama said was his mentor. Obama sat in his church for 20 years, listened to him spew hatred for this country and never once got up and left. And it wasn't because he didn't hear the sermon. It was because he agreed with it. He supports what Wright advocates. Black Liberation Theology. A theology that promotes racial tension, victimology, a Marxist wealth “re-distribution” plan and a “blame America first” mantra. We have already seen Obama’s belief in wealth re-distribution in the tax plan Obama proposes.

*ACORN.* Obama’s idea of “community organizing”. He trained ACORN workers, he was their lawyer. This year he gave them over $800 thousand dollars to “get out the vote”. An effort that has turned out to be rife with fraudulent voter registrations which equal fraudulent votes, attempting to destroy one of the cornerstones of our democracy. One man, one vote.

*/Raila /Odinga.* Obama campaigned for this man in Kenya. He actively supports him. Odinga signed a pact with Muslims to enact Islamic Law if won the presidential election. He also promised that he would not support the efforts of the United States to extradite terrorists if he was president. When Odinga lost the election, he fomented a rampage of ethnic murder. Odinga vows that this violence will continue.

These are not just people who “live in Obama’s neighborhood”. They are domestic terrorists who are his friends. They are people who share Obama’s radical world view. They are friends who give him jobs and money. They are criminals who cut him a sweet deal. They are far left organizations who think its O.K. to engage in massive voter fraud in order to “gin up votes” for Obama. They are radicals who hate America, who plug Obama’s books (probably wrote them) and he plugs their books, radicals who want us to wave the white flag of surrender on the War on Terror.

These are the people that Obama has promised would be at the table with him in the White House so they can help him set his new agenda of change for America.

These are the ties that bind. The ties that can no longer be ignored.

31 posted on 10/14/2008 4:17:05 PM PDT by ethical
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To: SE Mom; penelopesire
Steve Doocy was shocked when Stanley was telling him about this today.
32 posted on 10/14/2008 5:10:20 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

If they do not want to be Americans and only African lets take up a collection as a nation of Americans and send them back to Africa. Do you think any one of them would agree to this?


33 posted on 10/14/2008 8:59:45 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (Psalm 83:1-8 is on the horizon.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
The Annenberg records show somewhere between $665,000 and $1,000,000 was provided to the South Shore African Village Collaborative between 1996 and 2001.
34 posted on 10/14/2008 11:35:07 PM PDT by GOP Lawyer
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

bookmark


35 posted on 10/15/2008 12:11:17 AM PDT by Tom_Busch (The big media IS the enemy)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

This article ties Obama, Wright, Ayers, Dohrn together so well. To bad it will never be heard by swing voters.


36 posted on 10/15/2008 4:27:45 AM PDT by XHogPilot
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To: ethical

Ayers’ wife spells her name Dohrn not Dorn.


37 posted on 10/15/2008 4:32:12 AM PDT by XHogPilot
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To: ethical

Some more ties that bind. Who’s Who of The Associates of Barack Obama http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/the-lineup-a-whos-who-of-the-associates-of-barack-obama/ http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/part-2-the-lineup-a-whos-who-of-the-associates-of-barack-obama/


38 posted on 10/15/2008 4:57:52 AM PDT by anglian
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Has any other major news organization reported this?


39 posted on 10/15/2008 8:30:31 AM PDT by AJFavish (www.allanfavish.com)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Re-forming Chicago schools into communist re-education facilities.

Ayers Is No Education 'Reformer'

40 posted on 10/15/2008 10:08:16 PM PDT by XHogPilot
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To: LucyT; DAVEY CROCKETT

Thanks for the ping.


41 posted on 10/18/2008 1:32:58 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1990507/posts?page=451 SURVIVAL, RECIPES, GARDENS, & INFO)
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