Comments on: “Who, Me?”

By: Lana

Lana — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:42:50 +0000

Coincidentally his book Fugitive Days went out of print during the election and just so happened to be re-released on Amazon November 5th. Coincidence? I think not.

By: melba peachtoast

melba peachtoast — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:39:52 +0000

Oh, thank goodness! Before I read your comment I was noticing that Ayers was Jewish. But since you bring up the mutilated genitals of Rivka Holzberg, I see now that Jews are always the victims and never the perpetrators: to be precise, that a perpetrator who happens to be Jewish is never acting as a Jew and a sufferer who happens to be Jewish always suffers as a Jew. Thanks!

By: mkm125

mkm125 — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:50:27 +0000

Wisewoman: thanks for your comments on the Chicago public schools. As a somewhat academic (I’m finishing my PhD and deciding if I am going to stay in academics…) it just burns me to think of all those professors who recently signed a petition supporting Ayers and his work in Education. It is one of the reasons I am contemplating leaving…the egos alone are draining! “Professor” Ayers is a shining example of what I want to flee from.

By: Magic Puzzle Box

Magic Puzzle Box — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:05:42 +0000

Didn’t he also write a book about how we should get rid of prisons that Obama gave rave reviews to? A Kind and Just Parent? More like “An Overindulgent Parent” after his dad, but then all of his brothers ended up the same way he did, WUO sympathizers and education people. Makes you wonder. But even more interesting from the MSM perspective is when I pulled up some old reviews when his Fugitive Days came out and no one seemed squeamish back then about openly calling him a terrorist. So what’s up with that? In just a matter of a few years, that is now taboo? Better still, why did that Sean Penn Castro/Chavez article/video sound like it could have been straight from Ayers? Any influence there? I understand that in Venezuela, Ayers is on some think tank committee and is considered a hero, too.

By: Wisewoman

Wisewoman — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:12:46 +0000

mkm25: His “work” in education in Chicago is another big lie. I am an AA who taught in the public schools in the ghetto in Chicago for 2 years before returning to the south. At that time the desease of something for nothing and “welfare on the brain” had not taken root as deeply as they have now. Gang banging, lack of parental involvement, lack of interest was on the rise. However, there were many students (the overwhelming majority) who tried to study, pass and graduate. I taught 8th and 9th grade math. Although everyone thought I had lost my mind, I took my students from the ghetto on a 5 day spring break trip to the nation’s capital. I challenged them to “have fun but behave” and have no incidences that would reflect badly on them, me or the school. Although I became sick and could not watch them, they were so grateful and did just as they were told. they behaved beautifully. I loved those kids and worked hard to help them succeed in the old-fashioned way.
My sister taught in the public schools in Chicago for over 30 years and recently retired. We always talk about the difference in teaching 20 years ago vs now. She will tell you that the so called “education reforms” that have been advocated mainly came out of the U of Chicago. She was devistated when she found out that most of those came from Ayers and people of his type. She always says that these so-called unsuccessful reform ideas are “practiced” on poor children in the public schools while upper middle class people send their own kids to “charter” or private schools. Many of these ignorant reforms came from Ayers. What a shame and a sham that 99.999% of Americans don’t know that Ayers and Obama are lying, flim flam artists.

By: Ginger

Ginger — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:12:13 +0000

Exactly my thoughts……and this line alone lends all his other to lies “The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them.”
So does this line mean the building is a bastard, or does it mean his claim of vandalism is a lie as he calls the people inside the building “bastards about to get theirs?”
Ayers is a self-serving bastard as none I have seen in ages….denial of his own motives while still calling his victims bastards. The mind boggles at his bullcrap and justifications.
And just when I thought he couldn’t stoop lower….

By: Judy L. NC

Judy L. NC — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:53:00 +0000

I’m waiting for Ayers to admit he did it for the drugs and sex.

By: cathnealon

cathnealon — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:24:45 +0000

Joe the Plumber asked one question of BO and was investigated by the state of Ohio for any past wrongdoing. Ayers blows people up and should have been in jail along with his wife and he writes op eds for the NYT and is a professor of education. This is scary. This is the essence of the ‘elitism’ that BO represents. The average Joe is denigrated and the real crooks and murderers are elevated. God help us.

By: workingclass artist

workingclass artist — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:43:16 +0000

lol…

By: mkm125

mkm125 — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:37:15 +0000

I find the most disturbing aspect of this whole Ayers fiasco is the comments I read at the end of the articles (whether pro or anti Ayers). So many individuals who are now in their 50s/60s and remember the anti-war movement of late 60s/ early 70s call him a “hero.” It just makes me ill……Ayers and Dohrn (who lauded Charles Manson!) are exactly what was stated, “….. personification of the spoiled brat as ideologue.” If they both went to jail and served time for their deeds and were actually “repentant”…I might feel otherwise.

Ayers work in education is hardly enough to “atone for his sins” and what he did to the American public in terms of (mental) terrorism. I have to wonder–since his supporters like to applaud his contributions to education as a Professor of Education at the University of Illinois–why are Chicago public school still such a mess?

By: oowawa

oowawa — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:36:46 +0000

Who is Donna Ron, and what does she have to do with Bill Ayers? If you don’t know (and this link has been posted before), you should find out:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=9E8CD8A7-E90B-4311-8AA9-AEFD014A14B2

Note that this very readable and horrifying little memoir was published about 3 years ago, before Barack Obama was a factor, and other info on the net indicates Donna Ron later supported O’s candidacy.

Maybe it’s all a big lie. You be the judge.

By: Strawberrybitch

Strawberrybitch — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:22:35 +0000

Yup, at least Tim McViegh had the balls to live and die by his twisted ideals. Ayers was just a candy ass rich kid who didn’t get enough attention from daddy.

By: Dormaphaea

Dormaphaea — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:15:33 +0000

“He’s the personification of the spoiled brat as ideologue.”

Precisely.

Thank you Rev. Amy.

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:15:22 +0000

Agree completely, Mary Anne.

As a college student against the war at the time—but peaceful protests—-I can attest to the fact that Ayers and his rich kid antics literally HANDED the election to Richard Nixon.

He sure ran back to his rich Daddy’s “capitalistic profits” to keep his nappy little ass out of prison, didn’t he?

And here he is, again, writing books that twist and distort what he did as “vandalism,” and all that, to make $$$ off the sale of that book.

Disgusting man. Truly amoral.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:57:14 +0000

Thank you, Rev. Amy! Your vigilance is appreciated.
I was a young public school music teacher back when terroist Bill was active. And let me tell you, I had to BEHAVE like a good citizen or I could be FIRED from my teaching job.. That’s the main reason I didn’t even smoke marijuana, or allow people to smoke it in my apartment, because you could go to PRISON back then, for such an offense. My daddy and mama taught me to obey the law, or suffer the consequences, i.e. be a grown-up! Ayers has behaved like a spoiled teenager, and worse, has been rewarded for that behavior!