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NY Times Says Bill Ayers an 'Ex-Radical' Who 'Hardly Resembled' an 'Unrepentant Terrorist'
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2008/10/27/ny-times-says-bill-ayers-ex-radical-who-hardly-resembled-unrepentant-te#comment-760279 ^

Posted on 10/27/2008 4:22:16 PM PDT by chessplayer

Bill Ayers made a visit to the Chelsea neighborhood of NYC to talk about radical education reform, and New York Times Metro reporter Colin Moynihan portrayed the domestic terrorist as a mild-mannered liberal in the misleadingly headlined Monday story "Ex-Radical Talks of Education and Justice, Not Obama."


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1 posted on 10/27/2008 4:22:17 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

What the hell does it matter what he resembles. He’s told us what he was/is. That’s good enough for me.


2 posted on 10/27/2008 4:24:46 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Is Obamanation what our founding fathers, our fallen men in combat, and Ronald Reagan had in mind?)
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To: chessplayer

Did Tomothy McVeigh ‘look like’ a terrorist?

What idiocy, but then it is the Slimes.


3 posted on 10/27/2008 4:24:51 PM PDT by Carley (The media understands credentials but does NOT understand principles.)
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To: chessplayer

Remember this so called “reporter” was taught in college by Ayers or someone like him.


4 posted on 10/27/2008 4:26:54 PM PDT by Terry Mross
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To: chessplayer
Yeah, and these guy's were just students...don't piss on my leg and try to convince me it's raining outside...
5 posted on 10/27/2008 4:27:19 PM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.)
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To: chessplayer
Really? I wonder if the Skinhead domestic terrorists will be deemed mild-mannered a few years from now? I mean, really, they only plotted. They didn't actually bomb buildings or kill anybody...
6 posted on 10/27/2008 4:27:36 PM PDT by sageb1 (Feminism is dead. Long live Palinism!)
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To: Carley

It’s got excuses for every POS around. I gave up some time ago in applying any ounce of credibility or objectivity to the NYT.


7 posted on 10/27/2008 4:27:58 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (u)
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To: areukiddingme1

Oh yeah, and the 9/11 high jackers also had New York State Drivers licence’s...something else B.H.O supports...


8 posted on 10/27/2008 4:29:59 PM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.)
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To: chessplayer

At the same time:

NY Times claims: White folk who don’t vote for Obama are believed to be racist.

Geesh. The Obama campaign would probably be more impartial than the NY Times. Have them run it.


9 posted on 10/27/2008 4:30:09 PM PDT by rom (Keep Senator Government from Spreading YOUR Wealth! McCain/Palin '08!)
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To: chessplayer

....And I have a bridge in Broklyin to sell to you.


10 posted on 10/27/2008 4:32:16 PM PDT by Biggirl (Throw The Bums OUT!=^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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To: chessplayer

I guess they forget the Slimes was on his target list....


11 posted on 10/27/2008 4:34:07 PM PDT by xcamel (Conservatives start smart, and get rich, liberals start rich, and get stupid.)
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To: chessplayer
"All the news that's fit to print into oblivion."


12 posted on 10/27/2008 4:34:18 PM PDT by COUNTrecount (de Tocqueville ..."In a democracy the people get the government they deserve". ...)
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To: chessplayer
Anyone recall Speaker James Claude Wright? He had a hired thug on his staff. Guy had "convictions". Any Democrat who started to get out of line regarding one of the Speaker's pet bills would be paid a visit.

No doubt William Ayers, as an unrepentant MAD BOMBER, may have no more interest to Obama than his skills in wiring up a boxload of explosives and nails.

13 posted on 10/27/2008 4:35:33 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Biggirl

Evil personified — like Ayers, it often looks both nonthreatening and physically incapable of violence. Ayers’ wife, Bernadine Dohrn, at one time on the FBI Ten Most Wanted List, was a public admirer of Charles Manson for murdering eight innocent people in LA - the hand sign her and her fellow Weatherjerks adopted was reportedly a three fingered salute in the shape of a fork — the fork that the Manson Gang stuck in Leno LaBianca’s stomach when they murdered him. Ayers himself built bombs, though not to kill people, of course — you just stuff them with nails and where the nails land when they’re propelled by dynamite, its not his department. The NY Times writers are a bunch of fools and a prime reason why their newspaper’s bonds are now at “JUNK” status. “The newspaper of record” fooled by terrorists who have a record.


14 posted on 10/27/2008 4:40:14 PM PDT by laconic
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To: chessplayer

The NYT always had a soft spot for Josef Stalin, as well.


15 posted on 10/27/2008 4:42:25 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Nepolean fries the idea powder)
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To: chessplayer

They blew up buildings and peopled died. They were targeting to kill numerous politicians. How on earth is that just a radical?????? The NYT is in full BJ mode.


16 posted on 10/27/2008 4:45:05 PM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: chessplayer
New York Times [employee] Colin Moynihan portrayed the domestic terrorist as a mild-mannered liberal . . . .

.. or NY Times employee calls employer liar! No Regrets . . . Life With the Weathermen "'I don't regret setting bombs,' Bill Ayers said. 'I feel we didn't do enough.'"

17 posted on 10/27/2008 4:47:33 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Given the Slimes favored the nazi’s this is to be expected.


18 posted on 10/27/2008 4:48:42 PM PDT by Carley (The media understands credentials but does NOT understand principles.)
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To: chessplayer

Colin Moynihan, a New York Times reporter, being arrested by Tompkins Sq. Park while covering last Friday evening’s Critical Mass ride.

19 posted on 10/27/2008 4:51:59 PM PDT by maggief ("Europeans call it socialism, Americans call it welfare, and Barack Obama calls it change.")
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To: chessplayer; All
Bill Ayers TODAY (April 6, 2008), from his own red communist star-headed website, begging to debate communism vs capitalism with Sean Hannity and STILL calling for revolution!


"Imperialism. I’m against it, and if Sean Hannity and others were honest, this is the ground they would fight me on. Capitalism played its role historically and is exhausted as a force for progress: built on exploitation, theft, conquest, war, and racism, capitalism and imperialism must be defeated and a world revolution—a revolution against war and racism and materialism, a revolution based on human solidarity and love, cooperation and the common good —must win.

We begin by releasing our most hopeful dreams and our most radical imaginations: a better world is both possible and necessary.

Source: Bill Ayers' own website:
http://billayers.wordpress.com/2008/04/page/2/

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"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
-Bill Ayers, New York Times, September 11, 2001:

Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

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Source: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31617_Obama_Gave_Bill_Ayers_Book_a_Rave_Review/comments/#ctop

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From The Weekly Standard, 'Barack Obama's Lost Years', 08/11/2008:

"Ayers opposes trying even the most vicious juvenile murderers as adults. Beyond that, he'd like to see the prison system itself essentially abolished. Unsatisfied with mere reform, Ayers wants to address the deeper 'structural problems of the system.' Drawing explicitly on Michel Foucault, a French philosopher beloved of radical academics, Ayers argues that prisons artificially impose obedience and conformity on society, thereby creating a questionable distinction between the 'normal' and the 'deviant.' The unfortunate result, says Ayers, is to leave the bulk of us feeling smugly superior to society's prisoners. Home detention, Ayers believes, might someday be able to replace the prison. Ayers also makes a point of comparing America's prison system to the mass-detention of a generation of young blacks under South African Apartheid. Ayers's tone may be different, but the echoes of Jeremiah Wright's anti-prison rants are plain."

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/386abhgm.asp?pg=2

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"This is a guy [Bill Ayers] who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis."

Source: ABC News - Transcript: Obama and Clinton Debate, April 16, 2008
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/DemocraticDebate/Story?id=4670271&page=2

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[Obama] is named Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge founded by Bill Ayers
(article typo has Ayers instead of Obama)

In late 1993, Bill Ayers, now an associate professor of education at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus, organized a team to put together a grant proposal to secure nearly $50 million from the Annenberg Challenge. The money was to be used by Ayers and co. to bolster the radical Local School Councils reform project that Ayers and Obama had championed back in 1988 through the ABCs.

The grant application was successful and in early 1995 Barack Obama was named chairman of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Ayers was named co-chair of the Challenge’s operative and strategic body, the Chicago School Reform Collaborative. Ayers and Obama work together for the next five years on raising an additional $60 million in matching money from local foundations and corporations and using the money to intervene in the governance of the Chicago public schools.

The Challenge through a multi-million dollar Leadership Development Initiative intervened in the School Council elections in the middle of what was known as the Chicago School Wars. At the same time Chicago Mayor Richard Daley was pushing, successfully, to gut the power of the Councils.

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/08/12/the-obama-ayers-top-ten-highlights-of-the-20-year-obama-ayers-connection/

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"The Small Schools Workshop was founded in 1991 at the University of Illinois at Chicago to provide support for teachers who were trying to create new smaller learning environments. Its director is Michael Klonsky, a former professor of education at UIC."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Schools_Workshop

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Some background on Bill Ayers' SDS comrade, Michael Klonsky
(Chicago Annenberg Challenge-related)

"One of Bill Ayers’ and Bernardine Dohrn’s comrades in the late 60s Students for a Democratic Society was Mike Klonsky. When Dohrn and Ayers moved in one direction toward the violent tactics of the Weather Underground, Klonsky, in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, dropped the pro-Russian communist politics of his parents and became a committed Maoist. As leader of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) in 1977 [not to be confused with Communist Party USA. CPML no longer exists, CPUSA formed decades earlier and is still around-ETL], he travelled to Beijing and was toasted by the senior Beijing leadership.

When the crazy left of the 70s died in the 80s, Klonsky went to graduate school in education in Florida and then moved to Chicago.

While driving a cab there he [Michael Klonsky] was recruited by his old friend Bill Ayers to head up a new project called the Small Schools Workshop in 1991. It’s offices were in the Department of Education building at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus where Ayers taught.

In 1995 the newly formed Chicago Annenberg Challenge headed by Ayers and Obama gave the Workshop a grant of $175,000.

The Annenberg Challenge also had its office space in the same building as Ayers Department and the Workshop, rent free courtesy of the University.

In 2008 Klonsky ran a blog on the official Obama campaign website on education policy and “social justice” teaching. When discussion of the Klonsky blog emerged in the blogosphere, it was promptly shut down by the campaign and all of the posts made by Klonsky were removed from the site."

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/08/12/the-obama-ayers-top-ten-highlights-of-the-20-year-obama-ayers-connection/

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In 1977, the October League was reorganized as the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) [again, not Communist Party USA (CPUSA) -ETL] and former SDS activist Michael Klonsky became party chairman. Also in 1977, Klonsky traveled to China and the CPML was recognized by the Chinese Communist Party as its official sister party in America.

(snip)

In January 1981, Michael Klonsky resigned as party chairman, and the CPML disbanded that same year.

The previous Red Encyclopedia description of the CPML was incorrectly combined with that of the Communist Party USA (Marxist-Leninist).

http://reds.linefeed.org/past.html

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From Investor's Business Daily (IBD), August 27, 2008:

"Ayers, now a tenured distinguished professor of education at UIC, works to educate teachers in socialist revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable students.

One of Ayer's descriptions for a course called 'Improving Learning Environments' says prospective K-12 teachers need to 'be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and ... be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, teaching for social justice and liberation.

The Annenberg papers are quite extensive — 132 boxes containing 947 file folders with 70 linear feet of material. They undoubtedly contain more surprises regarding Obama's relationship with Ayers, one of many relationships Obama has sought to hide.'..."

Article: Annenberg Papers: Putting On Ayers?
http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=304729375940845

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Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
Revolution #63, October 1, 2006

Interview with Bill Ayers:
"On Progressive Education, Critical Thinking and the Cowardice of Some in Dangerous Times"

http://rwor.org/a/063/ayers-en.html

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From American Thinker, September 16, 2008
Article: Obama's Foul Weather Friends
By Scott Swett and Roger Canfield

"As a gesture of solidarity, the Vietnamese who [Bernardine] Dohrn met in Budapest presented her with a ring made from an American aircraft shot down over North Vietnam. Bill Ayers would receive a similar ring while meeting with Vietnamese communists in Toronto. He later recalled being so moved by the gesture that he 'left the room to cry.' He said, 'I realized...America was an evil... and that I was... living inside the belly of the beast...' "

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/obamas_foul_weather_friends.html

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"Undercover agent Larry Grathwohl discusses the Weather Underground's post-revolution governing plans for the United States:

Here's the informant, Larry Grathwohl:

"I asked, 'well what is going to happen to those people we can't reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?' and the reply was that they'd have to be eliminated. And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers. And when I say 'eliminate,' I mean 'kill.' Twenty-five million people. I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people. And they were dead serious."

From the 1982 documentary 'No Place to Hide'
(available in its entirety as a playlist on my [wptg's] homepage -- youtube.com/wptg. Video courtesy of user: Seahorse1776)"

Must see video:
Ayers' Weathermen planned "re-education", genocide
(25 million American Capitalists would be 'eliminated'):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJn5b8_weUY

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"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."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410

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From the 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."

Article: Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DE1539F937A1575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2

20 posted on 10/27/2008 4:52:14 PM PDT by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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