Bill Ayers at University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Canceled
Continuing coverage of the developing controversy over the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s decision to reward Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers with a prestigious speaking gig during the school’s 100th anniversary…
Jim in Omaha emails:
Michelle,
Great post on the Bill Ayers situation in Nebraska. Without your post yesterday, this would have gone unnoticed. As you can see from the following Omaha World Herald story, this situation has erupted into a major political issue, with the governor calling on the university to cancel the invitation. The World Herald story also points out that this issue may cost the university a substantial amount of financial support (see the highlighted portions of the story below). Finally, this situation has become an issue in a current race for University of Nebraska regent. ([I]ncidentally, the regent candidate who sent the press release, Tim Clare, is a rock solid conservative who could use some support).
Keep up the good work.
Here’s the lowdown on the governor’s call to cancel Ayers’ invitation and Democrat Sen. Ben Nelson’s statement of disappointment over the speaking gig:
Just 11 days after next month’s election, the University of Illinois-Chicago professor, William Ayers, is scheduled to speak at a student research conference held by the UNL College of Education and Human Science.
Gov. Dave Heineman released a statement saying that UNL leaders should not allow Ayers, a 1960s radical-turned-professor at the University of Illinois, to talk during a campus event on Nov. 15.
“Chairman of the Board of Regents Chuck Hassebrook and President of the University J.B. Milliken should immediately rescind the invitation extended to Bill Ayers to speak at the University,” the governor said. “This is an embarrassment to the University of Nebraska and the State of Nebraska. Bill Ayers is a well known radical who should never have been invited to the University of Nebraska.”
Meanwhile, Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Nebraska, today said in a statement that he is disappointed that UNL invited William Ayers to speak on campus Nov. 15.
“His past involvement in a violent protest group and incendiary comments are not consistent with the agenda of unity that we need in America today,” Nelson said. “I encourage the university to reconsider this decision.”
And just in from the Omaha World-Herald, Ayers has been canceled.
University officials said in a news release Friday evening that “the university’s threat assessment group monitored e-mails and other information UNL received regarding Ayers’ scheduled Nov. 15 visit and identified safety concerns which resulted in the university canceling the event.”
“Safety concerns.”
Whose safety?
Waiting for someone to scream “RAAAAACIST” or something.
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Good for Nebraska.
Told you they would Ayers on the side of caution. Good for them.
This is very good news. There has been a lot of pooh-poohing of late (and not all from that the MSM) that Ayers is so last century and only the troglodyte right still has any interest in the man and his crimes. Well, it is a tactical issue in this campaign as to how much to focus on the ex-Stalinist, given the economic concerns that dominate the electorate, but his crimes and career still matter very much indeed.
Let me put it thusly: since the Left never wants to forget the ’60s let us take them for their word: never forget or give respectability to Ayers and his friends, relatives, and associates however high they may rise.
Finally a shinning bit of good news breaking through the clouds of a very bad news Friday!
Ayers will be portrayed as a ‘victim of vicious, toothless, beer drinking, wife-beating conservatives’ in 3, 2, …
University of Illinois-Chicago you’re next. Fire the terrorist and be done with the thug.
Maybe they thought he might bring a “souvenir” from his terrorist days-an explosive one
I raise my glass and clink it’s rim against many other glasses raised in freedom loving cyberspace to give thanks to Nebraska – CLINK!
What a cop out. They had the chance to stand up for rightousness and failed.
Are they blaming it on right wing extremists who threatened violence?
I doubt there are left wing comments that would threaten that guy. He is a hero to them.
I doubt there was any real threat either. They just don’t want to admit Bill Ayers is a bad bad man and NU made a horrific decision to bring him there. So they blame others. What a bunch of losers. I feel for their alumni today. What a shame.
CLink right back at yah, heroyalwhyness
Good for the University of Nebraska.
People should boycott or write letters to David Letterman.While interviewing Senator McCain, Letterman mocked Sarah Palin’s comment that Obama “palled around with terrorists” and kept repeating the “he was only 8 years old” mantra. I don’t know why Senator McCain showed up to that biased jerk’s show.
I hope for this country’s sake that McCain/Palin win in November. I hope for conservative’s sakes we can watch the MSM and their hacks flip out and wonder why again (as they did in 2000 and 2004). Come on, America, vote McCain/Palin!!!
Does this mean no honorarium?
Why is Ayers even allowed to teach? Anywhere?
He is unpunished and unrepentant. He is STILL a Marxist radical.
He isn’t respectable nor is he mainstream. He should be in jail or in Hell.
What, was Bill Ayers planning to go back to his bombing ways?
O/T Lindsay, you mention Letterman. I was reading about evil kineval and he said that the only gap he wouldn’t attempt jumping was the gap between Letterman’s teeth. (well he really didn’t but I thought I read it)
This ‘man’ should never benefit from the freedoms America provides.
Another words, he would be and is still welcome but because of ultra-right-wing-radical-conservative-christian-redneck-bigots who are threatening his life, we had to cancel. NOT because he is a scumbag or homeland terrorist. UNL are still cowards and should STILL hang their head’s low. They had an opportunity to step up and say, “We made a big mistake”. DO NOT LET THEM OFF THIS EASY PEOPLE. Keep up the pressure.
Cowards!!! No wonder Ayers was invited. He is the ultra-coward. And Obama will NOT disassociate himself from Ayers.
Hey, UNL, live broadcast it from an undisclosed location – problem solved. Cowards!!!
/rant NOT off, I may still keep going
Dirty stinking cowards! GRRRRRRRRRR
Are you attempting to “otherise” Letterman or people with tooth gaps?
Safety concerns, my a$$.
The administration at UNL were told by the governor that if Ayers spoke, he’d do to them what JJ threatened to do to BO.
That and the threat of thousands of alumni letting the word out that the school would see a significant decrease in alumni donations. I doubt the average UNL grad and Ayers see eye to eye on very much. College administrators are all about the bucks.
Here’s a shout-out to Ben Nelson for getting one right. Democrats don’t do that very often and we need to highlight it when they do.
So, go ahead, adminstration, make up some phony claim of “safety concerns”. Whatever it takes to see that Crapweasel Ayers doesn’t collect a speaking fee for spewing his communist garbage.
Considering Ayers’ propensity for blowing up people he actually -likes-, I’d be concerned about safety near him too.
Qwinn
The safety of your over-inflated budget you mean?
This guy should be ostracized from any mainstream event. Who would want to associate with this guy…oops…I thought he had been rehabilitated. Sorry.
Don’t forget this feeling that “justice has prevailed”
They can make (most likely false) claims of safety issues, but it was the flood of indignant (yet polite) emails and phone calls that really did it. We know that.
Unfortunately, there may be many, many more events of this type coming.
Think about making this practice of free speech a daily part of your life – we don’t need a president to defend us if we can join together to do something as simple as making our feelings known. We can vote every day like this, and win!
Hey, UNL, I will come and speak and even challenge Ayers and Obama to a debate with both hands tied behind my back.
Come back here you coward, I’ll kick you in the shin.
U.N.B.E.L.I.E.V.A.B.L.E
You know, this very tactic worked for the Left.
I think it can work for us too.
Hey, UNL. Did you see the picture of Ayers standing on the flag and wishing he could have “done more”? I do not think he was talking about higher education. COWARDS!
Eff Ayers. If there was any justice in this world the washed up terrorist and his terrorist wife would be getting 1 hour a day in the exercise yard and 23 hours in solitary.
For.The.Rest.Of.Their.Natural.Miserable.Selfish.Lives.
Awwww comon. We let all the other members of the academic brain trust work in our universities….why pick on this leftist marxist liberal?
Higher education as practiced by our major universities – words fail me – words just fail me.
The libs on campus will spin this as conservatives preventing free speech.
Ayers is a terrorist.
Ayers continues to act to undermine.
He acted against what our society permits as acceptable behavior. He acted with malice against our country and expressed his desire to have done more.
Instead of the pariah status he has definitely earned, he has been elevated to a person with unwarranted prestige by an academia who share his socialists views.
Ayers still believes America is wrong and he is right. Ayers is teaching this to our youth, and Ayers has been instrumental in aiding Obama on his quest for power.
The “change” promised by Obama is in exact alignment with the Marxist and anti-white power revolutionary ideals shared by Ayers. Saying so is not racist.
An institution that is celebrating progress and success in recognizing their historic anniversary should only schedule a speaker which reflects the best of its nature.
Never the worst.
There must be safety concerns that Ayers might throw a nail bomb or something.
Gov. Dave Heineman’s website
Send him a thank you. I did.
Thank you sir for being a stand up guy and letting your feelings over the Ayers issue be heard. Thank you further for letting UNL know you would take some action over this issue.
I know living in Florida may make my voice very faint but, I believe, you have set in motion a trend that may reverberate throughout this country. Evil prevails when good men do nothing and this time, evil did not prevail – thank you.
I question UNL’s response. I hope you will meet their cowardice with equal enthusiasm. To suggest Ayers invitation was canceled due to threats is beyond disgusting. It suggests he is still welcome. I pray you will take another opportunity to show your feelings about their reasoning and continue to set an example we can all be proud of.
Bless you sir.
Sincerely,
Michelle to let you know I will be calling Marist on Monday to find out more about who’s using Ayer’s book.
One more thing, and it’s kind of a jab at conservatives. We complain about liberals teaching in the classroom, liberals on school boards, and liberals in administrative positions. There is something we could do, and that’s get our asses in those positions. The liberals and socialists had a plan in the 1960′s that included taking over education. Their education counterinsurgency has been very successful. There is no reason we can’t do the same.
And yes, I am preparing to leave a good paying job to teach science. I will have my license later this year.
Ayers gets invited to speak at Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, et al in 5,4,3…
Safety concerns when a terrorist is involved? I thought only plumbers were dangerous.
America has been taking it up the plumbing from Ayers for decades. UNL just wanted to make sure we all get our plumbing polished.
Yes, I’m pissed. (no pun intended)
Good for Nebraska. They may not be able to do anything about the Marxists in academia but they certainly don’t have to tolerate the likes of that scum bag terrorist Ayers. If the students at UNL want to see or hear him, tell them to go to Chicago.
Note to Ayers, Soap is a formidable match….and one heck of a shin kicker
Glad Ayers has one less pulpit from which to spew his gross hatred and contempt for his county. Just waiting for the invite from Columbia to come any day now(sigh).
I do believe the world has gone mad.
Well done Michelle and thank you.
I still can’t believe he was invited in the first place.
What were they thinking?
so why isn’t a cnn truck parked in front of Ayers house like plummer Joe??
ooops…answer is the left wing media doesn’t cover left wingers….
Here’s to many more!!!
#42 They werent.
Anyone here the news that the Ohio liberal supreme court overruled the ACORN lawsuit. greeeaaat. Sorry forthe thread jack/
I am happy that my states university has cancelled, but I am still going to call on every one of the alums and non alums that threatened to withdraw financial support to stick with it until the people that are saying that the cancellation was due to “safety” show some proof that there were real threats to Ayers safety. If they are not willing to do that, then they are cowards and caved due to monetary concers, IE the Gov saying this is not good.
My checkbook is still closed and will stay that way until I see proof.
Now, when will the UI-Chicago get smart and fire his ass so this piece of crap doesn’t get to spew his hate speach to students?
On October 17th, 2008 at 8:11 pm, RogerCfromSD said:
1) The case against Ayers was “botched” by the same disgruntled FBI agent who led to Nixon’s resignation…the infamous “Deep Throat”…W. Mark Felt. If it hadn’t been for Mark Felt, President Nixon might have finished his second term, and William Ayers might have gone to jail.
2) I hold out hope that Ayers, like O.J. Simpson, can still be sent to prison for another crfime.
Da beast done blinked.
As a Nebraskan, Sen. Nelson is going to hear from me regarding his comments, in a favorable light.
Although he is a democrat, I applaud his stance on this.
And I am supporting Tim Clare for Regent!
I too, was only 8 when AYERS was trying to kill Americans.
You know how they say it is the ultimate insult to a Muslim, to bury them with a pig? Altho it is the waste of a good hot dog.
Wouldn’t it be a great insult to Ayers,to let him know that I’ll be around to put an American flag on his can’t-happen-soon-enough-gravesite?
My only hesitation is the honor that the flag implies, and the dishonor to our brave military.
Maybe just long enough for a photo.
Coward will have an unmarked grave, I’m sure-
The safety concerns excuse is just an excuse. There is no reason to assume that parents and students would somehow riot. The most probable action by parents, students and alumni is to withhold money and demand the resignation of the current college leadership
As far as Senator Nelson (D) being offended. The only reason he was offended is political — the fear that any Ayers visibility would be a detriment to the “one”.
Until recently, Ayers had been forgotten by many, and unknown to those too young to be around at the time. The very scrutiny being paid because of Obama’s association with him must be extremely irritating to Ayers. Not exactly the same as a jail sentence, but from this point on, plenty of people will be following his every move.
Chances are he cancelled the event when he learned that one could easily die from lead poisoning in places like Nebraska (or any other popular hunting flyover state).
Do we really need to answer that?
B. Hussein probably told him to shut his pie-hole until after the election.
jangar said:
“lead poisoning”
wink wink, good one!
Free as a bird, maybe not for much longer?
Go mingle among the Americans you despise, turd!
I would like to give Tony Soprano the order to cancel that slug.
Yesss! Power to the REAL people!
Exactly right. I think this is an issue that people are FINALLY paying attention to…the Obama friends are caustic.
The only way Ayers’ safety would be an issue on a pro socialist/liberal college campus would be to put a McCain/Palin bumper sticker on his car.
Truth is, UNL is not the socialist-liberal campus the cloistered university elite would like to believe it is. Much of the faculty and most of the students are quietly trying to teach, learn and increase useful knowledge. The ‘town and gown’ crowd, the tweedy leftists and the dour campus organizers are a minority in Lincoln. Same goes for the red of this fine state.
Here’s his “BarackBook” profile
Hey! I’m a sixties troglodyte. The difference between Ayers and my world view is that I grew out of the sixties and he still there forty years ago. I met Ayers at Berkeley in 1968. I’m amazed he never emotionally matured.
Now his homeboy Brobama is in charge of the armed forces.
Wishful thinking, did you miss your meds John?
I thought Nebraska was putting on Ayers, but they seem really down to earth, so thats good.
One more thing on cancelling because of “safety”.
Bill Callahan was allowed to live in the state until fired and allowed to leave untouched. This was the coach that took the vaunted BIG RED and proceeded to drive them into the ground. If he was unharmed, I am fairly certain that a piece of trash terrorist would have been physically safe. His little ego may have been hurt, but he would have been fine.
Ayers is a feckless whore that has taken over our country with Brobama.
Bud, yeah he is, but Obama hasn’t won yet.
The sad thing is that these are the type of people that are running this country. They are running it straight into the ground and loving it.
Let me give you a first hand observation of these sixties radicals. People like Ayers and others on the extreme left had or have a major problem with parental bonding. The metaphor of the socialist suckling on the giant sows teat of government is probably an accurate image of their needs for mommy and daddy. Does Obama have a parental bonding problem?
HHHMMMMMMM!!
Vicious attacks on Bill Nelson to begin at dawn.
If you are talking about the Senator from NE, it is Ben Nelson.
By the way, he is a dem and more conservative the the R-Hagel. I am so happy to be getting rid of Sen Hagel due to ret. it is unbelievable.
Woops, I meant Ben Nelson. Too much Bill Ayers on the brain.
Some good news. Now he just needs to loose his current job.
Just emailed a note to MM/Allah about an recent AP article trying to show Ayers is just an educational scholar.
The article says ObamAcorn has repeatedly denounced Ayers…he has not.
The article repeats that Ayers launched ObamAcorns political career in his living room. AP must have missed the last debate since ObamAcorn denied this, and I’m sure it’s racist to suggest he’s a liar.
The article talks about what is on Ayers office door, but somehow overlook Mumia the Cop Killer and Che the Executioner.
Rush is right, APObama.
So. Here it is:
– Bill Ayres was rejected by UN-L
– Tommy Lee left a frat house as his legacy from his school daze at UN-L
This looks like a major burn on Ayres.
http://education.uic.edu/contact/
University of IL Chicago
Contact info.
I’m so delighted to see this news!
I called the Chancellor’s office earlier today and was able to state my opinion and concerns quite clearly about this matter. I think it’s possible that the “safety concerns” may have more to do with perceived loss of funding and revenue.
According to a relative who lives in Lincoln, a local firestorm about this issue was already occurring, and locals/alums were outraged.
Still, it seems that when Michelle wrote about it (Thank YOU!) is when it went national, and the appropriate action was taken.
It’s encouraging to see at least one positive, right-thinking thing has happened today!
Glad to see UNL came to their senses.
Thank you Michelle for your diligent efforts to keep us informed.
Keep up the excellent work!
At least they are responsive. Some time ago when the leftist nuts at a University here in Wisconsin invited Ward Churchill to speak, any calls/emails, etc., to the Chancellor was a canned message. Emails received a canned response months after Churchill came and went.
Your next task should be to spread this far and wide:
http://www.palestra.net/blogs/read/17321
Let’s give credit where it’s due: In my OPINION this would never have hit the “big time” Unless Michelle had mentioned it.
Thank you, Michelle.
“Cancelled.”
WA-HOOOOOO!!
Zing!
NU’s only “safety concern” was “loss prevention”; that is, the prevention of the potential loss of an enormous amount of alumni contributions once word got out that Ayers was going to speak at NU’s 100th anniversary event. Even with Ayers now dumped by the roadside, I wonder if a lot of NU alums will be closing their checkbooks to NU when it comes time to consider a yearend donation to NU in December. I’m guessing the NU planned giving department is screaming at whoever invited Ayers. Too bad Ayers can’t make up any shortfall from any leftover dough from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge that he and Obama ran together. There’s nothing left of the $161 million that they blew on community-organizing nonsense that didn’t improve Chicago public schools a lick.
For NU, what a PR debacle. When I read about decisions such as inviting Ayers to speak, I think, “Which idiot made that decision?” Seriously, try to picture the thought process that arrived at the conclusion that Ayers should be invited to speak at such an important event. I shouldn’t be too critical, because that decisionmaker will probably receive an important appointment within an Obama administration.
Thanks to MM, Ayers has been scotched. Now, as I suggested above, the question becomes, “Who was responsible for inviting Ayers?” That’s what inquiring minds want to know. I’m dying to know which NU idiot thinks Ayers rates a speaking gig anywhere other than a federal prison yard or a Siberian gulag.
This is some wonderful news, Mrs. Malkin. Thank you so much for the update!
Now, if only our elected officials would respond so well to the will of their constituents…
Thank you, Mrs. Malkin for posting about that scumbag that resulted in his invitation being revoked. Keep up the good work and maybe, just maybe, you can convince enough dingbats to vote against Barack HUSSEIN Obama. Thank you again.
Never gonna’ happen in Liberal America Hating UI-C, they love to employ people who spew hate speech to indoctrinate the students. See below:
Posted on the UI-C website:
http://education.uic.edu/forfaculty/.
He teaches in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, which means he’s responsible for deciding what get’s taught to the students.
Here’s his UI-C Bio:
William Ayers, Professor
Bill Ayers interests include teaching for social justice, urban education reform, narrative and interpretive research, children in trouble with the law, and related issues. See http://www.billayers.org
Let me break his interest’s down for ya’.
Teaching for social justice - ie. anything Bill Ayers agrees with is justice and everything else is the evil government.
Urban education reform - teach the poor how to hate America and all things conservative.
Narrative and interpretive research - How to make the truth seem like lies and lies seem like the truth.
Children in trouble with the law - Near and dear to his own heart, the perfect recruiting ground for his anarchist philosophies.
I was thinking a well aimed stream of urine.
Based on the pro Obama articles I read on Drudgereport this morning and what I see in the MSM, I want to share my firm assessment with all my fellow posters.
Obama is going to lose the election.
Call me insane, but every indication is there. Obama is blowing it.
Bill Ayers has nothing to worry about. Columbia University president Lee Bollinger will invite Ayers to speak at Columbia under the guise of “academic freedom” and then Bollinger will gently and sweetly question Ayers, just as Bollinger did with Ahmedinejad. As sweet and gentle as Bollinger was with Ahmedinejad, he will be with Ayers. Bollinger made an enormous issue over the fact that he had the Columbia insignia removed from the lecturn where Ahmedinejad spoke. Bollinger insisted that it was a brave gesture on his part.
@92
I don’t know if he will lose the election, but latest polls show that he leads by 6% or something like that.
He’s competing against a man who doesn’t fight back, after 2 terms with a very unpopular president, with the media cheering him on at every opportunity while sliming his opponents, and all he can manage is 6%?!
What up with that?
Memo to Mr. Ayers: Nyah nyah!
If Obama loses the election, he’ll get a nyah nyah in 10,000 point type.
I am just wondering::::as they say “once a pedophile, always a pedophile” that they can’t be rehabilitated, does the same pertain to an alledged domestic terrorist?
Thank you Lee Harvey C.!!!
How pathetic that Ayres is considered an authority on education. No wonder the pubic schools are in the dumper. Chicago thinkers like Ayres have pushed their warped agendas all across the country. It’s time to take the country back from all the wackos. Get them all out of the university/college systems and let the future students actually learn material other than “community organizing”.
BILL AYERS needs to be treated exactly like OJ SIMPSON was, as a MAGGOT to society in general, to be shunned by the population…
OJ Who? oh, bubbas new gf. lmao
better send oj some soap on a rope.