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Celebrating killers is dejour for media apologists. Obama obfuscated, told half truths and outright lies like he did with Ayers. Anyone desiring to learn the truth about Obama or any background information is just "Obama Bashers". The media is really, really creepy. Maybe using catchy slogan might shame them into reporting facts instead of myths. How about using the left's clarion call to describe Obama now that the election is over: Obama lied, the market dived. At least Page is not a reporter or a journalist and writes only opinion pieces. Maybe he could explain reporting to his buddies at the bar.

I doubt that Ayers was tear-gassed by Mayor Daley. If gassed at all it was by police trying to control the animals. Can't anyone in the media actually write the facts?

Yawn. The election is over Clarence...no need at this point for any additional excusing of Obama's associations and history. You're a tad late with this.

PAGE: Bomb Thrower vs. Obama Bashers 11/22/08 The New Left took that name to distinguish it from the "Old Left", the Communist Party USA, which it viewed as incompetent. The New Left vowed to destroy the existing U.S. society and government within a decade. The SDS--Students for a Democratic Society--became the focal point of the New Left. Organized by Tom Hayden, Todd Gitlin, and others, the SDS used popular discontent with the Vietnam War as its lever to radicalize college students across the nation, who would then riot in the streets over any issue that the SDS could heat up sufficiently. James A. Mitchener describes the process unforgettably in his book, "Kent State." The SDS had hoped that its tens of thousands of radicalized college-students would then inflame working-class America to join them in the streets and bring down the government; but those upper-middle-class students had not learned to speak the language of blue-collar America. To some in the increasingly-frustrated SDS, it appeared that if the U.S. government were to be brought down, the SDS would have to do that by itself. And so, in the late 1960s, a faction--of which Bill Ayers was one of the leaders--broke away, called itself "Weatherman," and started planting bombs in government facilities. In his memoir, Mr. Ayers admits to having helped plant some of those bombs. Then the whole New Left fragmented into insignificance. Most of the administrations of America's colleges and universities refused to stand up to the SDS and its street riots; and the result is a highly-politicized (to the left, of course) and second-rate college-education system in the U.S.--as described by Allan Bloom in "The Closing of the American Mind," Robert Bork in "Slouching Towards Gomorrah," Jacques Barzun in "Begin Here," etc. The SDS also radicalized tens of thousands of college students, many of whom then became individualist Gramsci Marxists (although of course they would never admit to that), who then climbed the various chains of command and now run much of academia, and are prominent in the media and in government. Some of the leaders of the SDS later became successful politicians or were welcomed into the ranks of college professors--wherein they now indoctrinate the nation's youths. As Bill Ayers famously remarked in summing up the role of the New Left in damaging the existing society, and the retribution which the society then visited upon it: "Guilty as sin; free as a bird." As President-elect Obama stated in his memoir, that is the type of person whom Mr. Obama sought out to associate with as a young man; and in fact, he has been associating with Mr. Ayers as a mature adult. Yet the American public (with the almost-unanimous support of the U.S. print-and-television news media) saw fit to elect Mr. Obama as our next president. What kind of president will he be? Where I come from, they have a saying: "If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas."

I guess if Eric Rudolf's bombs had gone off without killing anyone we should be OK with that.

Imagine - the war in Iraq suddenly escalates to a Vietnam type war, and hundreds of Americans are dying every week, and the pictures of how they died were on TV and in the newspaper. The level of resistance and outrage would be astronomic - there would be a hundred new Williams Ayers on the streets bringing attention to what almost everyone on the street sees as government stupidity. It might be difficult to forgive William Ayers, it is easy to understand why he did what he did.

How long will the apologists for the antisocial morons of the 60's continue to babel on and on? It is outrageous that this type of garbage continues while in the name of "tolerance" folks like Gov. Palin, Joe the Plumber and a host of others are derided because of their views. There is no moral equivalence to bombing police stations and other public institutions. Just because no one was injured that time can you now yell "Fire" in a movie theater?

How does Ayers feel about 911?