Unrepentant, anti-capitalist terrorist cashes in
Weather Underground bomber Bill Ayers is a busy bee.
The violence-embracing Marxist is on the lecture and media circuit, hawking his repackaged memoir, promoting a new book on race, and basking in all the post-Obama victory attention.
He’ll be at Georgetown Law School on Monday and at a book-signing at Busboys & Poets at 14th and V St in Washington DC on Monday night at 6:30PM.
God damn America, eh, Billy boy?
Ron Radosh at PJM gives Ayers a proper roasting:
Today is the publication date of the new edition of his book Fugitive Days, and now that the election is over, Ayers has chosen to speak out in his own defense in the pages of a democratic socialist newsweekly, In These Times.
By choosing this vehicle, Ayers is skillfully engaging in his own sanitized rewriting of history. His effort is to paint himself as just another honest dissenter, a man whose valiant socialist principles have caused the media to unfairly demonize him as a terrorist. All he did in his memoir, he writes, is to go back to those “exhilarating and difficult years of resistance against the American war in Vietnam.”
I have already on this site linked to my review of Ayers memoir. But anyone who actually reads it knows immediately that what he is defending is not opposition to the Vietnam War, but his own and his comrade’s record of terrorism. There were thousands of patriotic Americans who opposed that war — a miniscule minority supported or endorsed the actions of the Weatherman faction of SDS and the bombing campaign they undertook when they went underground. Indeed, most of the mainstream cadre of the organization viewed Ayers and his group as a force that undermined their own credibility and helped to isolate what they hoped was a genuine peace movement.
Ayers’ new apologia is, as one reads it, completely amazing in his disingenuous argument. He was active, he writes, at “a time when the world was in flames, revolution was in the air, and the serial assassinations of black leaders disrupted our utopian dreams.” Let us look at the last claim. Was he eluding to Martin Luther King, Jr. as one of those black leaders? If so, all one has to do is recall that Ayers and company, who supported “black power” and not non-violent resistance to segregation, considered King an Uncle Tom, and regularly blasted him as a sell-out. As for the assassination of blacks, one of the offshoots of his own group killed a black policeman in the Brinks robbery, and another killed a black school superintendent in Oakland, California. And of course, the Weather Underground saw Huey Newton’s gang of thugs, The Black Panther Party, as the vanguard of the revolution, and declared their own support for their activities. Newton killed plenty of blacks who opposed him, as well as others in gang wars over drugs.
Now, as a would-be good plain democrat, he has the chutzpah to complain of how the media has unfairly tried to paint him as “un-American, alien, linked to radical ideas, a closet terrorist….”
You get the idea. Perhaps it had something to do with the photo he posed for tramping an American flag underfoot, his open espousal of the glories of bombing in his memoir, and his espousing revolutionary socialism as his goal in his two year old interview. The late Irving Howe once said that Tom Hayden “gave opportunism a bad name.” I would revise that estimate, and give that award to Ayers.
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Funny how all of Obama’s questionable relationships laid low for the election and now are coming out like the rats they are. What were they afraid of? According to liberals on this site, they are fine people. If so, why would they hide?
This is America, where the information is suppressed until an outcome is decided, then we get to hear the truth?
That sniveling puke Ayers deserves what McVeigh got. What a country indeed….
Ayers: dirty, greedy, capitalist. Shame on him.
Did you have to use the phrase “His old seat now belongs to Barney Frank?” Eeeks.
They’ll be using Macs and iPhones, but will be easily distracted with new facebook entries…
You think they’ll cancel because of “security concerns,” like they did at Nebraska University?
Oh, and apparently he’ll be on Good Morning America tomorrow.
Yeah, the Charlie Gibson network. No surprise there…
He should send you and Hannity royalty checks. If it weren’t for you guys he would just be another irrelevant, washed up hippy. And now this anti-capitalist Marxist stands to make millions off a book no one would have cared about before. Funny how that works, huh?
On November 13th, 2008 at 12:57 pm, huggybear said:
Would you care to clarify that comment? If not, I believe I found a picture of you.
And if it weren’t for a few clumsy government officials like Mark Felt, this
irrelevant, washed-up hippyvicious Commie ba$tard would be unrepentantly rotting in a Federal prison or worse.Funny how that works.
Is there a bigger dirtbag in the country than this guy?
Easy fix. Just don’t buy it or give him any publicity.
“There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.”
Vladimir Lenin
President Lincoln would throw people in jail or out of the country for the crime of taking the side of the enemy while the US was at war.
Too bad we’re so intolerant today.
Let the “people” see the real Obama that they elected. I hope that this jerk does the whole circuit so that the level of “dispicable” of this creep damages the Obamessiah and the “general public” can realize just what the “reneck right wing bible clingers” saw right from the start.
Any chance this man’s non-conviction can be overturned and he can be retried for his unrepentent crimes??
Oh, the glorification of Ayers starts… BLAHHHHHH He needs to be in jail.
The dean of Georgetown Law is my old Con Law professor. I should let the people on this board take a shot at writing a letter for me to submit as an alumnus, expressing my displeasure, and refusing to give any more money to the school unless they call it off.
Oh wait…I already don’t give any money to them.
On a funny note did you see how Shepard Smith at Fox was saying how preposterous it was to say that the media was in the tank for Obama.
Shepard Smith has become increasingly out of place on Fox.
Write your local ABC affiliate and tell them you are not watching their station on Friday in protest.
I am.
Dear Prof,
Why not simply display the thumb of Ayers’ old girlfriend who blew herself up? I believe that’s what they found. It would be as interesting from an intellectual point of view as listening to the designer of the bomb that killed her - as well as providing a visceral counterpoint to the “just a guy in the neighborhood” mantra.
As an Alum, I keep telling myself, “This isn’t the Georgetown I knew.” Not the law school - the basketball program. Let’s face it - the law school was never Harvard, and now that you are Dean, well, you get my point. I am withholding the donations I never give you until such time as Jane Fonda gets to share her feelings of America with our student body.
Yours,
Chap (PS - thanks for the “gentleman’s ‘C’”.)
My letter to my local station:
Dear Mr. yyyyyy:
Since the ABC Network could care less about me or my opinion,. I am sending you this correspondence. Every morning and evening we watch the XXXX News as well as other programming. Beginning tomorrow morning through Monday, our household will not view any programming of any kind on XXXX or any ABC affiliate.
Good Morning America is interviewing William Ayers. As a Vietnam era veteran I can state without equivocation that William Ayers and his wife are traitors to this nation. GMA has every right to interview him. The First Amendment guarantees that. If ABC chooses to interview such a seditious person they can.
However, I also have the right to view what I wish to view and for a 72 hour period it will not be your station. You can pass this on to the people at ABC, but based on their conduct the past four years, I doubt they will care. They are no longer journalists. They are promoters. They do not dispense news, but rather propaganda. I have no further time for them as they have lost my trust.
It is unfortunate that your fine station has to be associated with ABC.
Respectfully,
Hah. At Georgetown it was more like the “Gentleman’s B plus.”
But I got an A minus in that one thank you very much.
I wonder if/when the general public will notice these things that we have all along and all of sudden become really concerned?
So the Chicago Tribune says that in a new afterword to his book, Ayers says he is a “family friend” of Obama’s. There’s only that quote in the article; it would be interesting to see it in full context. What does that mean?? Doesn’t sound like a guy in the neighborhood…my next door neighbors wouldn’t describe me as a family friend. Gonna ask anyone in the media?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-bill-ayers-barack-obama-book,0,1806710.story
I never watch ABC
http://www.victoryplate.com
I may puke.
I read USA today (free copy at Ramada) and saw all the hoopla associated with sight-seeing in the obummer neighborhood. There is a map showing the obummer home and places they visit, like the bookstore, hair salon, and the University.
Conveniently ommitted is the terrorist’s home just down the block…
He may be the first president to have his own Presidential Library completed before his term ends. Donations now being, or should I say, continue to be accepted.
Aloha - as ghostwriter for chap you are much wittier than chap himself. Can you write all his stuff from now on?
Certainly.
“You’re wrong, you’re wrong, you’re wrong too - oh, BTW, did I mention I’m a lawyer? That’ll be $400.”
Remember Ayers represents the mainstream thinking of the elitist that just gained power, look at all the professors who signed on in his defense.
Our voices of dissent are hanging on by two thin threads right now and if either break we are in very real trouble as a country with the likes of Ayers setting our country’s future course.
‘End-of-the-Empire’ tone
You cut me deep Aloha. You cut me deep.
That will be $400, please.
I have seen that picture before (of Ayers standing on the US flag). I am not a veteran myself, but like most, I have had family members and friends serve and die in the military. He might as well be desecrating the graves of KIA’s; the very people that fought for his right to pose for a picture like that. If it were up to me, Id make this type of flag desecration illegal. But the sight of this lowlife standing on the flag raises my blood pressure. I shouldnt get in the gutter with him, but I would love to see someone standing on him that way.
Ok, we’re even.
So the Chicago Tribune today reports that in July 2008, Bill Ayers updated his book. In it, Bill Ayers admits that Obama LIED, JUST AS WE ALL KNEW!
Here’s the money quote from Bill Ayers (emphasis mine)
“He’ll (Ayers) appear Friday on “Good Morning America” to promote the re-issue of his book this week. The Tribune obtained a copy of the updated material.
In it, Ayers — who did not respond to requests for comment — summarized his relationship with Obama: “[W]e had served together on the board of a foundation, knew one another as neighbors and family friends, held an initial fund-raiser at my house, where I’d made a small donation to his earliest political campaign.”
So we now know that Obama clearly lied (in the last debate, he clearly denied being in Ayers living room), the MSM backed him up as well as his campaign spokespeople like Bill Burton and the Obamatons believed him….
Click Here for the link.
guilty as hell
free as a bird
in charge of the country…wtf?
America’s chickens have come home to roost…in the white house
Bill Ayers: Obama a ‘family friend’
I think it’s pretty self-explanatory. Ayers was, in McCain’s own words, a “washed up old hippy,” until the far-right demagogues decided to turn him into The Single Most Important Issue Evar!!!111 I certainly hadn’t heard of him before, and now here he is on Good Morning America pimping his lame new book, which will probably sell exponentially more copies than it would have had the far-right demagogues not decided to make Ayers The Single Most Important Issue Evar!!!111 Calling me a troll doesn’t change that fact, but I’ll bet it makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, don’t it?
Has anyone heard about the White House job questionnaire? Obama never would have been able to pass it nor would Ayres. Unprecedented hypocrisy: