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To: Son House
You have offered no proof the quote is wrong,

Feel free to cite the entire quote and make your argument.

and even had you, the picture of Ayers standing on a flag says it all

My point exactly.

Why distort and present misleading info, when there are quite real examples of his actual disgusting beliefs?

9 posted on 11/09/2008 1:05:11 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Gondring

You could be right about the exact quote, I apologize for doubting your word, but would require accurate account, as Gretta also had trouble getting a full copy from Ayer’s friend;

Why Support a Domestic Terrorist? Ayers Friend Goes ‘On the Record’

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,443713,00.html

VAN SUSTEREN: You say that he is a responsible citizen of the year. A lot of people cringe to hear you say that, because as recently as 2001, he said, “I do not regret setting bombs. I feel we did not do enough.”

So it is hard for me to think—if he had said at that time, “I was so young and it was so wrong and I am so sorry.” But he is not saying that. So it is hard for me to think of him as citizen of the year.

SINGER: Greta, two different ideas are collapsed in that quote, and they are collapsed incorrectly. He did say he didn’t regret setting the bombs. I disagreed with him and the Weather Underground 40 years ago. I was an antiwar activist. I did not participate. I thought they were wrong. I disagree with that now.

But when he says we did not do enough, many activists who opposed the war felt we did not do enough to stop the war. It went on for over 10 years. And American foreign policy today has engaged us in two wars that have been responsible for the death of over 4,000 American soldiers and over 100,000 Iraqis. So a lot of us feel that we haven’t done enough.

VAN SUSTEREN: Are you saying you agree with this. “I feel we did not do enough.” You agree with that?

SINGER: We did not do enough to change American foreign policy.

VAN SUSTEREN: Where do you get to the rest of that quote, because I don’t have that in the quote? Is that what you are reading into it, because that’s not what I have? Maybe I have an incomplete one.

SINGER: Yes.

VAN SUSTEREN: And I have gone after CNN for getting it wrong. So tell me, do you have more of a quote? Did I copy that wrong?

SINGER: The quote was from “The New York Times.” Bill Ayers had published a book. He was promoting the book.

Again, he said some things I don’t agree with, but the thrust of his idea was that activists were unsuccessful in ending the war and changing American foreign policy.

VAN SUSTEREN: You agree that is not what it said.

SINGER: That is not what it says in “The Times,” but that’s not what he said as far as I can tell.


11 posted on 11/09/2008 1:30:55 PM PST by Son House (Democrats Now Get Their Chance To Prove They Are "Good For The Economy")
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