Despite the NYT’s “whitewash,” Sarah Palin Hits Obama on Bill Ayers Relationship
By SusanUnPC on October 4, 2008 at 8:19 PM in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Weather Underground, William Ayers
Remember this? Do you remember Barack’s snide line about Hillary Clinton?
Well, Barack. Here’s another tough woman comin’ at you. This Annie Oakley is sharp too, and she’s taken aim at your long, close relationship with terrorist William Ayers that you’ve tried to conceal because, among many terrorist acts, he helped bomb the Pentagon. Sarah’s job has become more difficult since the New York Times abetted your concealment with what Stanley Kurtz calls its “irresponsible journalism” in today’s “whitewash” story. (Kurtz also refers to the exceptional research by Steve Diamond whose investigative stories are published here regularly.)
Of course, at No Quarter, our readers already KNOW a great deal about Barack Obama’s extensive ties to Bill Ayers. Now here’s Sarah today at a rally:
Governor Palin spoke this morning at a finance breakfast in Englewood, Colorado. [Warning: The end of the video contains an anti-Palin comment. THAT VIDEO is replaced; thanks to all who sent me the link.] Here is the text of her remarks, via The Page blog:
“There’s been a lot of interest in what I read lately. Well, I was reading my copy of today’s New York Times and I was really interested to read about Barack’s friends from Chicago.
Turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man who, according to The New York Times was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, ‘launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol.’ These are the same guys who think patriotism is paying higher taxes.
This is not a man who sees America as you and I do – as the greatest force for good in the world. This is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country.
This, ladies and gentlemen, has nothing to do with the kind of change anyone can believe in – not my kids and not your kids. The only man who can take on Washington is John McCain.”
Earlier today, Larry Johnson and Steve Diamond wrote here about the deep flaws in the New York Times account of the Obama/Ayers relationship. Both Larry and Steve are experts on all that can be found out about the history of Obama’s extensive ties to Bill Ayers — no matter how much the New York Times is abetting Obama’s obfuscation about those ties and that close relationship.
What the New York Times did today was abet the cover-up of Obama’s cover-up. I can’t believe I once subscribed to that newspaper.
Additionally, Stanley Kurtz, an expert on the history of the Obama and Ayers professional, political and personal relationships for over two decades, wrote today:
As others have noted, today’s New York Times carries a story on the relationship between Barack Obama and unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist, Bill Ayers. The piece serves as a platform for the Obama campaign and Obama’s friends and allies. Obama’s spokesman and supporters’ names are named and their versions of events are presented in detail, with quotes. Yet the article makes no serious attempt to present the views of Obama critics who have worked to uncover the true nature of the relationship. That makes this piece irresponsible journalism, and an obvious effort by the former paper of record to protect Obama from the coming McCain onslaught.
The title of the article when it first appeared on the web last night was, "Obama Had Met Ayers, but the Two Are Not Close." That was quickly changed to, "Obama and the ‘60's Bomber: A Look Into Crossed Paths." Perhaps the first headline made the paper’s agenda a bit too obvious. Even so, the new title simply parrots the line of Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt that the two first met through an early "education project" and since have simply "encountered each other occasionally in public life or in the neighborhood." Or, as New York Times reporter Scott Shane puts it at the head of his article, since an initial lunchtime meeting in 1995, "their paths have crossed sporadically…at a coffee Mr. Ayers hosted for Mr. Obama’s first run for office, on the schools project (i.e. the Chicago Annenberg Challenge) and a charitable board, and in casual encounters as Hyde Park neighbors."
There is nothing "sporadic" about Barack Obama delivering hundreds of thousands of dollars over a period of many years to fund Bill Ayers’ radical education projects, not to mention many millions more to benefit Ayers’ radical education allies. We are talking about a substantial and lengthy working relationship here, one that does not depend on the quality of personal friendship or number of hours spent in the same room together (although the article greatly underestimates that as well).
Shane’s article buys the spin on Ayers’ supposed rehabilitation offered by the Obama campaign and Ayers’ supporters in Chicago. In this view, whatever Ayers did in the 1960's has somehow been redeemed by Ayers’ later turn to education work. As the Times quotes Mayor Daley saying, "People make mistakes. You judge a person by his whole life." The trouble with this is that Ayers doesn’t view his terrorism as a mistake. How can he be forgiven when he’s not repentant? Nor does Ayers see his education work as a repudiation of his early radicalism. On the contrary, Ayers sees his education work as carrying on his radicalism in a new guise. …
Do read all of Stanley Kurtz’s story today, “NYT’s Ayers-Obama Whitewash.”
And Sarah, you’re great. Keep going after Obama and all of those “lost” years.
by Ronald Scott
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