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Posted on 09/25/2010 5:59:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
Zombietime post about Ayers’ book Prairie Fire leads to his denial of Emeritus status
During Barack Obama’s 2008 run for the presidency, I dug up an extremely rare original edition of Prairie Fire, the forgotten communist manifesto co-written by Obama’s friend and colleague William Ayers, and I published excerpts of the book at zombietime.
As I wrote at the time, “This essay only exists to correct and unequivocally debunk claims routinely made by the mainstream media over the last few weeks … that William Ayers wasn’t such a bad guy after all, and that it is no shame to be associated with him.” Read the full essay to see the full extent of the devastating evidence against Ayers.
In my exposé, I highlighted what I thought were the most noteworthy aspects of Prairie Fire, including the part where Ayers brags about and then lists in detail the numerous terrorist bombings he carried out in the 1970s; where he describes himself as a communist, and cites his desire for a communist revolution to overthrow the United States; where he cites the many motivations driving the Weather Underground’s terror campaign, most of which had nothing whatsoever to do with the Vietnam War (as the media endlessly claims to this day); and so on. I also listed the many close links between Ayers and Obama.
Almost as an aside, I pointed out halfway through the report an absurd detail that I noticed by accident when scanning one of the book’s pages — that Ayers and his co-authors had dedicated Prairie Fire to (among dozens of lesser known criminals and radicals) Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin who killed Robert F. Kennedy.
If this had been an isolated fact, it would have been outrageous enough, but compared to the numerous other outrages in the book, it practically didn’t even seem worth mentioning — at least to my mind.
Boy, was I wrong.
As I had hoped, the report did ignite a massive amount of publicity and coverage. But most of that coverage barely mentioned most of the damning facts which I had highlighted; instead, to my astonishment, the blog posts and TV reports and newspaper articles focused almost entirely on the Sirhan Sirhan dedication, which somehow struck a nerve in the national consciousness.
Unfortunately, my Prairie Fire essay failed to derail Obama’s run for the White House, but now two years later it has had an unexpected side effect — a fitting and ironic postscript to the whole affair:
Bill Ayers denied emeritus status at UIC
Son of RFK — now U. of I. board chair — rips prof for dedicating book to his father’s assassin
When retiring University of Illinois at Chicago professor Bill Ayers co-wrote a book in 1973 [sic], it was dedicated in part to Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Robert F. Kennedy.
That came back to haunt Ayers when the U. of I. board, now chaired by Kennedy’s son, considered his request for emeritus status Thursday. It was denied in a unanimous vote.
Before the vote, an emotional Chris Kennedy spoke out against granting the status to Ayers.
“I intend to vote against conferring the honorific title of our university to a man whose body of work includes a book dedicated in part to the man who murdered my father, Robert F. Kennedy,” he said.
“There is nothing more antithetical to the hopes for a university that is lively and yet civil, or to the hopes of our founding fathers for their great experiment of a self-governing people, than to permanently seal off debate with one’s opponents by killing them.”
Take that, Bill Ayers!
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See also Michelle Malkin: Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers denied emeritus status
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That came back to haunt Ayers when the U. of I. board, now chaired by
Kennedy’s son, considered his request for emeritus status Thursday.
It was denied in a unanimous vote.
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I don’t know that much of academic protocol.
I suppose this means the UIC won’t give Ayers an office, desk and phone
on campus and maybe not give him a lifetime pass to the faculty club/lounge.
A unanimous vote...makes me wonder if Ayers developed a lifetime
of bad blood with the school’s administrators/faculty.
Maybe they treated him well in the spirit of congeniality and waited
for the right moment to tell Ayers what they really think of his terrorist @$$.
I still won't give any member of that clan (except the one that married a Protestant and was disowned, then died in a plane crash or the one the old man had lobotomized) any credit for anything remotely positive.
Between JFK letting the federal workers unionize and Ted's Immigration Reform Act of 1965, it's pretty clear the whole clan HATES the concept of America.
Love how Rose the mother's will was written as if she was a Florida resident, thus saving millions of dollars in taxes. She never left MA for the last 10+ years of her life. How the Hell was she a FL resident? One line the junkie JFK said does not excuse the suffering this clan of criminals unleashed on this country.
The whole clan should be tried, convicted and punished under RICO statutes.
OTOH, no statute of limitations on murder.
Here’s a link to a FR discussion of the online petition calling for college profs to declare their support for Bill Ayers. The petition itself at www.supportbillayers.org has long since been replaced with something German (why is anyone’s guess). However, I managed to nab about 80 pages of signatures of professors from around the country. I keep it as a reference to check my kids’ profs and I refuse to financially support these haters.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098286/posts
Kos speaks up for terrorist.
FINALLY...a LITTLE Karma!!
You know, they never mention Sirhan Sirhan. Why isn’t he considered a terrorist?
When your daddy has money and pull you never fear long term jail time.
The serpent.
Clearly not underground enough.
” However, I managed to nab about 80 pages of signatures of professors from around the country. I keep it as a reference to check my kids’ profs and I refuse to financially support these haters.”
do you by chance still have a copy of that document? If so, I’d like to have a copy for my own use.
OS
” However, I managed to nab about 80 pages of signatures of professors from around the country. I keep it as a reference to check my kids’ profs and I refuse to financially support these haters.”
do you by chance still have a copy of that document? If so, I’d like to have a copy for my own use.
OS
Of course. Check your mail in a few minutes.
If anyone else wants it, just let me know. FYI, as with many sites related to Hussein, it disappeared before I got all of it.
He should have been fired long ago.
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