More Than 3,000 Academics Sign Pro-Ayers Petition

Fox News ^ | October 22, 2008

[Zakeet]

More than 3,200 supporters -- most of them educators -- have signed a petition protesting what they say is the "demonization of Professor William Ayers," asserting that his violent actions as the co-founder of the Weather Underground were just "history."

Barack Obama's ties to Ayers have been questioned during the presidential campaign by critics who call the professor a "domestic terrorist."

Among the people who signed the petition are No. 5, Columbia University professor of Arab studies Rashid Khalidi, and No. 814, former University of Colorado at Boulder professor Ward Churchill.

Click here to see the petition.

Churchill made headlines when he called the victims of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center "little Eichmanns" and compared them to Nazis in an essay. He was fired from his job in Boulder for plagiarism.

Khalidi, a Palestinian activist, was a director of the Palestinian Liberation Organization's press agency in 1982, according to The New York Times, when the PLO was still designated by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization.

Obama spent time with Khalidi when the two were professors in Chicago, and paid him a special tribute during a farewell dinner for the firebrand professor in 2003, reminiscing about meals prepared by Khalidi's wife, according to the LA Times.

[Zakeet]

Barry's buddy may have been Wild Bill then, but he's Sweet William now!.

[ConservativeMind]

Every last one is of questionable character to have done so.

[olezip]

More than 3,200 supporters -- most of them educators -- have signed a petition protesting what they say is the "demonization of Professor William Ayers," asserting that his violent actions as the co-founder of the Weather Underground were just "history."

More evidence that we have a lot of vermin in our educational systems.

[Don Corleone]

It goes to show just how far the left has infiltrated our education system. Disgraceful!

[george76]

Churchill was found guilty of deliberate false assertions, misrepresentation of sources, and plagiarism.

[indianyogi]

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[coalman]

wow,we need to keep that list,and keep our kids from them,I guess its like global warming,a socialist consensus makes it OK

[Williams]

Been thinking, we are lost unless we take back the universities. Time for protests and sit ins by the parents.

Media after that.

[livius]

I have to go see if Angela Davis is on the list...

Actually, what you are really seeing with Obama is the ultimate dream of the left-wing academy: they get to take over the country. They’re so excited they can barely sleep at night. And it all happened so fast, too.

Actually, they’ve been waiting and working for it for 40 years, since the 60s, but the endgame has been pretty fast.

[Question_Assumptions]

Academics just love psychopaths.

[SierraWasp]

He’s their Tim McVeigh!!!

[olezip]

More than 3,200 supporters -- most of them educators -- have signed a petition protesting what they say is the "demonization of Professor William Ayers," asserting that his violent actions as the co-founder of the Weather Underground were just "history."

More evidence that we have a lot of vermin in our educational systems.

[libsrscum]

"asserting that his violent actions as the co-founder of the Weather Underground were just "history."

It's says here on your application Mr. Hitler, that you led the extermination of 7 million Jews in WWII. Is that correct?"

"Uh, yes. Is that a problem?"

"No, not at all."

[A_perfect_lady]

God, how I hate them.

[Poincare]

More evidence that we have a lot of vermin in our educational systems.

Yep. And for many in our "institutions of higher learning" Ayers is not radical enough.

[Harry Wurzbach]

I’m glad they’ve listed themselves so we know who exactly to mock.

What stupid !@#$ing dumb!@#$s. Seriously. Oh, he’s just been “demonized”, eh? I wonder why.

Let us not forget, those who can, do. Those who can’t, go to grad school and never leave.

[Doogle]

Academics = Socialists

[word_warrior_bob]

Nice of them to provide us with an “enemies list”, let’s make that list public and have the college students bring tape recorders to their lectures and expose all the communists teaching our kids.