RNC Comes Out Blazing: “Guilt By Participation”
By SusanUnPC on October 13, 2008 at 4:00 AM in Advertising, Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Weather Underground, William Ayers, Woods Fund
Writes Politico about this ad:
The Republican Party on Monday morning will make a new push to convince voters that distant ties between Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and former radical William Ayers are somehow disqualifying for the presidency.
The Republican National Committee plans to e-mail “an audience of tens of millions” the link to a new video on the subject called “Guilt by Participation” and encourage recipients to forward it to friends and family, aides said. …
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The title comes from a Wall Street Journal opinion piece by conservative scholar Stanley Kurtz, who wrote on Sept. 23: “The Obama campaign has cried foul when Bill Ayers comes up, claiming ‘guilt by association.’ Yet the issue here isn’t guilt by association; it’s guilt by participation.”
Here is the title and link to Stanley Kurtz’s September 23rd WSJ story:
“Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools”
Newsbusters.org’s Rich Noyes noted on September 23rd that Kurtz had two stories published that day:
Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal and National Review Online, Ethics and Public Policy Center senior fellow Stanley Kurtz traces Barack Obama’s partnership with former domestic terrorist William Ayers when the two collaborated at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a charity established to help Chicago’s public schools that was commandeered by Ayers to promote his radical agenda.
The association between Obama and Ayers has received virtually no attention from the three broadcast networks, with the conspicuous exception of a primary-season debate sponsored by ABC when George Stephanopoulos asked Obama about his relationship with Ayers. Out of 1,365 broadcast evening news stories about Obama prior to the end of the primaries, only two mentioned Ayers — one a brief mention of the debate question on the April 17 Nightly News, and the other a World News Sunday story about McCain raising the Ayers issue on This Week.
With just 42 days left until Election Day, the broadcast networks have not presented a single in-depth report on Obama’s relationship with Ayers. But Kurtz’s review of the documents at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) shows the two “worked as a team to advance the CAC agenda,” which “flowed from Mr. Ayers’s educational philosophy, which called for infusing students and their parents with a radical political commitment, and which downplayed achievement tests in favor of activism.” …
Of course, here at NoQuarter, we know that our own Larry Johnson and Steve Diamond have been on this story, in-depth, for months. Both Steve and Larry have written innumerable articles about the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) — and that Bill Ayers HIRED Barack Obama as CHAIRMAN of the CAC.
“Would Bill Ayers have hired Barack Obama as chair of the CAC if Ayers were not sure that Obama would implement Ayers’ radical ideas about public education?,” I always ask those who don’t seem to get the connection, or why it is important.
But this isn’t about getting credit. This is about getting the story out. And this new RNC ad is going to help make voters stop and think.
Here is the link to the YouTube. Send it to your own e-mail list.
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