Oh, He Didn't Know? [Ed Whelan]
There will, I bet, be a flood of evidence indicating that Barack Obama and his wife Michele must have known of Bill Ayers's history as an unrepentant domestic terrorist when Ayers and his wife (and fellow unrepentant domestic terrorist) Bernardine Dohrn hosted that political coming-out party for Obama in 1995. The RNC provides a first wave here, including a lengthy article in the Chicago Tribune on July 8, 1993, headlined "Weathering change: '60s revolutionary Bill Ayers says he has always been a teacher, but he no longer uses bombs as study aids".
10/07 11:25 AM
Was Barack Obama [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
the most clueless man in Chicago?
This Is What You Call a "Drive-By" [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Last night I gave a talk in Manhattan about Obama and Catholics. Afterward, a number of people came up to me and told me that they can't believe how much they are just learning about Obama. I had talked in detail about his abortion record, which they found helpful. And many — to the point you would have thought he had been the opening act (as if) — mentioned that they found Sean Hannity's show over the weekend on Obama's ties to radicalism revealing.
This morning, the New York Times tries to discredit Sean's show:
During a weekend of Republican attacks on Senator Barack Obama's personal associations, Fox News Channel ran a program Sunday that made provocative assertions about similar connections, called "Obama & Friends: The History of Radicalism."
Sean Hannity, the conservative radio and television host, was the host of the hourlong program, which raised, among other things, unsubstantiated accusations that Mr. Obama's work as a community organizer in Chicago was "training for a radical overthrow of the government."
The statement came from Andy Martin, a conservative writer and frequent political candidate who is credited as being among the first — if not the first — to assert in a chain e-mail message that Mr. Obama was secretly a Muslim.
Mr. Obama is a Christian; his campaign says he "is not, was not and has never been" a Muslim.
Peppering his statements with phrases like "in my opinion" and "my view is," Mr. Martin said Mr. Obama's political career had been engineered by Bill Ayers, a founder and former member of the radical Weather Underground and now an education professor in Chicago.
Well, the Gray Lady doesn't have to take that source's word for it. Stanley Kurtz can tell you plenty about Bill Ayers. He's done the legwork. (And continues to.) And I'm pretty certain he's never sent a chain e-mail.
Sean's been doing the work the mainstream media won't do on Obama for long over a year now — highlighting how radical like Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers have played a formative role in his life. Now that it's a close election, that makes Sean a threat to the favored one. And so they try to discredit his work. Fortunately for America, Hannity's voice carries.
CNN Ayers Revelation [Stanley Kurtz]
I'm delighted to see that the team of CNN reporters I worked with on the Obama-Ayers connection has gone ahead with their report. You can see the video over at Hot Air. My hat's off to CNN for being willing to air this. Also, while I knew about the Annenberg phase of this report, I had not known about the extraordinary revelation on the 1995 political coming-out party at Ayers' and Dohrn's home. Previously we'd thought that Alice Palmer, who introduced Obama as her chosen successor at that event, was the moving force behind the party. Now it seems that Ayers and Dohrn were actually the folks who arranged the event and apparently planned it with Obama. That is a very important revelation. Congratulations to Drew Griffin and his crew at CNN.
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