Ayers on GMA: Putting the “unrepentant” in “unrepentant terrorist”

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 14, 2008 10:38 AM

Didn’t sleep much last night, so I was already feeling queasy when I tuned in to watch a bit of the Good Morning America interview with Barack Obama’s good family friend, Bill Ayers. Now, I’m really feeling sick in my stomach. The interviewer actually did an adequate job of trying to press Ayers on his terrorist past. But in the end, he acquiesced and let Ayers have the last, morally equivalent word. (Allah’s got the vid clips and more deconstruction.)

Ayers refused to say that the violent crimes of the Weather Underground were wrong. He talked about domestic terrorism as if it were akin to toilet-papering a neighbor’s tree. He magnanimously acknowledged that the Pentagon bombings “crossed lines of propriety, legality, and perhaps common sense.” Perhaps?

Confronted with the Prairie Fire manifesto’s dedication to Sirhan Sirhan, he waved it off with a quick “I reject that.” Asked about his 9/11 quote in the NYTimes lamenting that his terrorist outfit “should have done more,” Ayers whinnied that the quote was taken out of the context of the number of people killed in Vietnam.

Huh?

More:

“What you call the violent past, that was a time when thousands of people were being murdered every month by our own government. … We were on the right side,” he told “GMA.”

The co-founder of the Weather Underground was, as McCain has claimed, unrepentant about the the bombings his group committed during the 1960s.

“The content of the Vietnam protest is that there were despicable acts going on, but the despicable acts were being done by our government. … I never hurt or killed anyone,” Ayers said.

“Frankly, I don’t think we did enough, just as today I don’t think we’ve done enough to stop these wars,” he said.

Ayers adamantly denied that the Weather Underground engaged in terrorism because it didn’t “target people to kill and injure them.” Oh, yeah? Tell it to the families of Waverly Brown, Edward O’Grady, and Peter Paige.

I suggested yesterday on Fox that those families should be offered equal time to rebut Ayers’ self-whitewashing.

Here is equal time:

Sergeant Edward J. O’Grady Jr.
Nyack Police Department
New York
End of Watch: Tuesday, October 20, 1981

Incident Details
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: Tuesday, October 20, 1981
Weapon Used: Rifle; Automatic
Suspect Info: Paroled in 2003

Police Officer Waverly L. Brown
Nyack Police Department
New York
End of Watch: Tuesday, October 20, 1981

Biographical Info
Age: 45
Tour of Duty: 15 years
Badge Number: 19

Incident Details
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: Tuesday, October 20, 1981
Weapon Used: Rifle; Automatic
Suspect Info: Paroled in 2003

Peter Paige, Brinks security guard, killed October 20, 1981

Sergeant Edward O’Grady and Officer Waverly Brown were shot and killed by heavily armed members of a domestic terrorist group, the Weather Underground, who had just robbed a bank and were attempting to escape. The suspects had just murdered an armored car guard and wounded two other guards before loading themselves into the back of a rental truck to be driven away by accomplices. The truck was stopped at a roadblock manned by several Nyack officers.

One of the female occupants in the cab of the truck told the officers their guns were making her nervous. Thinking they had stopped the wrong truck, the officers began to holster their weapons. Almost immediately afterwards several of the heavily armed men exited the back of the truck and opened fire with automatic weapons, fatally wounding Officer Brown and Sergeant O’Grady. The suspects fled the scene in different directions but were all eventually apprehended and sentenced to lengthy prison terms. One of the suspects was paroled in August 2003.

A suspect convicted of killing Police Officer John G. Scarangella of the New York City Police Department, was a prime suspect in the murders of Sergeant O’Grady and Officer Brown. When he was arrested for the murder of Officer Scarangella, he was in possession of a gun linked to the murders of Sergeant O’Grady and Officer Brown. That suspect was never charged in these murders.

Sergeant O’Grady was a Vietnam War veteran. He was survived by his wife and three children.

The Weather Underground was also connected to the Black Liberation Army, which was responsible for the murders of at least one dozen other police officers throughout the country. The Weather Underground is believed responsible for the unsolved bombing murder of San Francisco, California, Police Department Sergeant Brian McDonnell on February 16, 1970.

The Black Liberation Army was a violent, radical group that attempted to fight for independence from the United States government in the late 1960′s and early 1970′s. The BLA was responsible for the murders of more than 10 police officers around the country. They were also responsible for violent attacks around the country that left many police officers wounded.

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  1. #1
    On November 14th, 2008 at 10:48 am, nlebou said:

    UGH…now I am sick to my stomach.

  2. #2
    On November 14th, 2008 at 10:50 am, El_Guapo said:

    Amazing….uhh, well, not really. Now they can safely release the skeletons from their collective closets.

    Imagine for one second how this would have been handled by the MSM if these were friends of any republican conservative.

  3. #3
    On November 14th, 2008 at 10:51 am, nlebou said:

    I was in high school in the 70′s and I remember all of this. The man should be rotting in prison with his despicable wife.

  4. #4
    On November 14th, 2008 at 10:56 am, Thunderbird 1 said:

    Unbelievable.

    Our president-elect chooses his friends wisely, doesn’t he?

  5. #5
    On November 14th, 2008 at 10:56 am, sandyb said:

    Saw the clip. I thought he said he never killed anyone and I screamed “Whoa!” at the TV. This needs to get big-time exposure w/counterpoint of family members of those who died by his hand.

    And what about the dead girlfriend whose thumb was all that remained when one of the bombs backfired? Where are that girl’s relatives?

    A couple weeks ago, BOR (!) had on an older guy who infiltrated Weather Underground (for the FBI) in its Ayres’ heyday. The man reported that when he informed Ayres that the bomb that was planned to go off for the police station was going to kill more people in an adjacent restaurant, Ayres casually remarked, “There are always innocent casualties in a war.”
    How ’bout getting the ‘nads to run that quote, MSM?

  6. #6
    On November 14th, 2008 at 10:57 am, NJ-Aviator said:

    Ayers adamantly denied that the Weather Underground engaged in terrorism because it didn’t “target people to kill and injure them.”

    Even if that wasn’t complete bulls- – -, lobbing grenades into a field you think is empty, then realizing you just killed a dog-walker, still means you’re a murderer.

    So let me see… If someone drives around his block, incessantly, at 90mph in protest of his past, then accidentally runs him over, that’s cool with him?

    What the hell is the Justice Department doing to get this guy? There must be something he said that could put him away. The entire country knows what he did. What’s keeping them off his back??????

  7. #7
    On November 14th, 2008 at 10:59 am, tre said:

    He deserves the place in Hell right between Tim McVeigh and the 9/11 hijackers.

  8. #8
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:01 am, BlameAmericaLast said:

    Well, I thought Obama said he was just a guy in the neighborhood. Now he’s a family friend? If only the media had actually done their job before the election.

    Sigh.

  9. #9
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:01 am, Craig said:

    Oh what a tangled web you weave…

  10. #10
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:03 am, pianoman said:

    Why is this POS even allowed on television? I won’t be watching anything on ABC for a long while, maybe ever.

  11. #11
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:06 am, Flyoverman said:

    I wrote my local ABC affiliate yeaterday and told them I would not be watching their station for 72 hours since GMA was interviewing Ayers.

    That was not a threat. This morning my wife was watching local news on that station and I changed the channel.

  12. #12
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:06 am, southsideironworks said:

    “Live by the sword, Die by the sword.”

  13. #13
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:06 am, Jvette said:

    This cowardly pissant should have been put away for life, in the same way Charlie Manson was. Instead, the corrupt machine in Chicago has given him a position of enormous influence.

    And all the idiots who voted for BO don’t understand the enormous hypocrisy of a man who wanted and still wants to destroy America and remake it his way, has lived the good life, at their expense for years instead of rotting away in jail.

    Keep at him, don’t let him rest, expose him for what he is, pond scum.

  14. #14
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:07 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Confronted with the Prairie Fire manifesto’s dedication to Sirhan Sirhan, he waved it off with a quick “I reject that.” Asked about his 9/11 quote in the NYTimes lamenting that his terrorist outfit “should have done more,” Ayers whinnied that the quote was taken out of the context of the number of people killed in Vietnam.

    Ayers gave his kids Islamic names.

    Ayers has pictures of Malcolm X on his office door.

    Malcolm X said:

    You will never get real freedom and recognition between black and white people in this country without destroying the country, without destroying the present political system, without destroying the present economic system, without rewriting the entire constitution. It will be a complete destruction of everything that America supposedly stands for.

    Ayers is a self-professed Communist, who on the eve of the seventh anniversary of 9/11 posted the following quote to his blog:

    “The end of an empire is messy at best….

    and this one is ending like all the rest.” Randy Newman

    If you “connect the dots”, there are a number of dots that suggest that Ayers may have had foreknowledge of, or even involvement in planning, the 9/11 attacks. Maybe that’s what he meant when he said that they “didn’t do enough” before.

    Now his protégé, who is “inspired” to “bring an Empire to its knees” is ready to assume the Presidency of the United States unless we support and defend the Constitution of the United States and require Obama to prove that he was born, and remained throughout his life, a Natural Born Citizen of the United States.

  15. #15
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:13 am, Paul Revere said:

    Just wait until JWright or the new pastor gives the invocation at the inauguration.

  16. #16
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:16 am, hatfield said:

    Why is this guy given a voice? How come he is not rotting in prison?

  17. #17
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:18 am, bradley said:

    Maybe I’m jumping the gun a bit, but the news that The One is considering Hillary for Sec of State is amazing. You’d think she was afraid of all the snipers that would be waiting for her on foreign visits. Maybe she could take Chelsea to stand between her and the riflemen. Hmm.
    Ayers is a dork, first class, just like Obama. Birds of a feather?

  18. #18
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:21 am, iamsaved said:

    William Ayers, Jane Fonda, John Kerry – they’re all traitors to this country who are at best parasites living off the benevolence of the country they so hate.

  19. #19
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:22 am, expat said:

    Look, the cockroaches are allowed to come back out! What cabinet position is the unrepentant terrorist going to get? Unfreaking believable!

  20. #20
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:23 am, RabbidSquirrel said:

    If my kids went to Ayers house tonight and toilet-papered his house/yard, what do you think would happen to them?

  21. #21
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:24 am, jencab said:

    The MSM is garbage. Now they are interested in this thug and his association with Obama.
    The MSM must have tingly feelings up their legs when listening to this communist.

  22. #22
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:25 am, 24Klady said:

    And, his book will no doubt be given an upfront display table at your local B&N, Borders, etc.. We have so many radicals floating about why on earth would they need to recycle this guy? Yes, I’m betting the invited guest list for the inauguration will prove to be a head spinner.

  23. #23
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:27 am, cicerokid said:

    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:24 am, jencab said:
    The MSM is garbage. Now they are interested in this thug and his association with Obama.

    My thoughts exactly. Why the media involvement now?

    Half of this country did not vote for obummer. He need not flatter himself.

  24. #24
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:29 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Celebrate Diversity:
    Carry a Revolver and an auto loader-you too ladies.

    It was an insane time in America and it continues. For forty years I have waited for my chance to get back at them MY way and BroBama and friends just might give it to me. I wait for Mr. Ayers and Whore to test “There are always innocent casualties in a war”

    Hate is a powerful motivator-revenge can be sweet. I wait.

  25. #25
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:30 am, MrScribbler said:

    Isn’t it wonderful to see kindly old Billy Ayers being rehabilitated as a “1960s radical” so Osama Obama can clasp him to his Marxist bosom?

    We could see this coming a mile away. Unfortunately, the general public — and the MDS-riddled “conservative” pundits — didn’t care enough about their country to deviate from their let’s-all-hate-McCain mantra long enough to help stop the ascension of our new President-for-Life.

  26. #26
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:32 am, Viper1 said:

    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:23 am, RabbidSquirrel said:

    If my kids went to Ayers house tonight and toilet-papered his house/yard, what do you think would happen to them?

    Could the toilet paper be soaked in an accelerant so when my kids come by and toss a flare we can meet out some measure of justice…

  27. #27
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:34 am, Viper1 said:

    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:30 am, MrScribbler said:

    Isn’t it wonderful to see kindly old Billy Ayers being rehabilitated as a “1960s radical” so Osama Obama can clasp him to his Marxist bosom?

    We could see this coming a mile away. Unfortunately, the general public — and the MDS-riddled “conservative” pundits — didn’t care enough about their country to deviate from their let’s-all-hate-McCain mantra long enough to help stop the ascension of our new President-for-Life.
    That last bit will only happen after the blood of every patriot has been spilled in its entirety, then and only then, so help me god.

  28. #28
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:36 am, teachem2 said:

    Things like this make my head hurt. I suppose since I don’t think like a liberal that I can’t fathom why in the world Bill Ayers would be given a pass. The only publicity he should get is when he does a perp walk. I understand the gov’t screwed up when they tried to hold him accountable, but to give him the time of day now for anything other than to denounce him is a travesty.

  29. #29
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:36 am, oldbuckaroo said:

    Ayers,
    A sniveling coward puke like you will never be half the man that the 2.5 million of us that served in Vietnam are. Cowards like you who used terrorist bombing tactics to kill innocent civilians to protest the Vietnam war disgust REAL MEN who were brave enough to wear our country’s uniform and engage our nation’s enemies face to face in armed combat. You are a pathetic nothing. You deserve exactly what McVeigh got.

  30. #30
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:36 am, kcnut said:

    The same deep throat that did nixon is the same guy who gave ayers the legal teq. To get him off cause of illeagal break in by the fbi. This guy need to be arrested for treason and hung.

  31. #31
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:37 am, kcnut said:

    The same deep throat that did nixon is the same guy who gave ayers the legal teq. To get him off cause of illeagal break in by the fbi. Ayers need to be arrested for treason and hung.

  32. #32
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:41 am, docflash said:

    Having him on officially puts the MSM in the toilet for me.The only thing they are good for is the sports scores.The one thing they can’t lie about or change.They can change the way it happened but not the score.

  33. #33
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:41 am, kcnut said:

    Sorry about the double post also michelle get better cause you and sarah palin are my new superheroines.

  34. #34
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:41 am, wighttrasch said:

    I’d love to beat his head into a plowshare.

  35. #35
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:49 am, HotWeaver said:

    denied that the Weather Underground engaged in terrorism because it didn’t “target people to kill and injure them.”

    Yes they did. The bomb that blew up in their faces was covered with nails because it was targeted at soldiers and guests at a military dance. Sounds like targeting to kill and injure to me.

  36. #36
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:53 am, 30 pcs of silver said:

    Suddenly Ayers is newsworthy to the talking heads. There’s no media-bias. Move along… I said move along.

  37. #37
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:54 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    I live for the day when the “Finger Of God” reaches down and pings this putrescent pissant off the face of the earth! Other than that, I have no strong feelings on the matter.

  38. #38
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:54 am, Old Scout said:

    Bill Ayers’s point is that in the early 70′s, over 50,000 American soldiers had died in Viet Nam, hundreds of thousands had been wounded, the US government seemed corrupt and unresponsive, and the Weathermen acted in desperation.

    However, they blindly believed in Soviet propaganda, without even questioning the atrocities and mass murders or Stalin.

    They didn’t end the waste of American soldiers and the deaths of Viet Namese innocents. That was done by people like us, who made our feelings known to Congress.

    If Bill Ayers was still true to his beliefs, he’d be living in a housing project in Chicago, instead of townhouse. So he’s devolved from revolutionary to “armchair” socialist.

    If you never had a draft card or watched the draft lottery numbers being drawn, you don’t know the fear many young men had in the 1960′s and early 70′s.

    Here’s a fact for you all – at the same time the US soldiers were fighting a client of the Soviet Union, the US Government was negotiating a wheat deal to feed the Soviet Union, who then had money free to send arms to North Viet Nam.

  39. #39
    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:57 am, happy2behere said:

    Ayers is the living example of a self-absorbed spoiled rich kid who thinks he knows everything and thumbs his nose at convention. He never matured beyond his own world of self. If he did, he would go live in a country run by communists and try to make it the utopia he holds in his mind, which we all know, is really a pit of oppression and human suffering.

  40. #40
    On November 14th, 2008 at 12:00 pm, tuffy said:

    Great. Now he gets a new round of media stroking. Well done, GMA.

    What an ego! Why would anyone be attracted to that? He makes Ted Bundy seem humble in comparison.

    How many people would like to see a new round of domestic terrorism in protest of our current wars?

    “Frankly, I don’t think we did enough, just as today I don’t think we’ve done enough to stop these wars,” he said.

  41. #41
    On November 14th, 2008 at 12:04 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Obama-McCain: New meeting set to bury campaign ax
    Is there nothing that man will not do to humiliate himself, the Party and America? Here is Obama’s friend, neighbor, collaborator and mentor going high profile yet McCain wishes to meet with BroBama.

    Note to Senator and Failed Presidential Candidate McCain: It was NOT the Conservatives chanting “Ho Ho Ho, Ho Che Min is Going To Win”. It was NOT the Conservatives who called for War Crimes Trials for the returning POWs in 1973–that would be President Elect Obama’s friend Bill Ayres Senator.

    Good riddance John McCain, perhaps you can get a government job entailing stabbing Viet Nam Vet in the back; no sense doing it for free-you bastard. Give William Ayres a hug.

    That every man be armed-you too ladies.
    America First
    America Alone
    Americans Come Home

  42. #42
    On November 14th, 2008 at 12:04 pm, rocketman said:

    Bill Ayers and his lovely wife Bernadette Dohrn have escaped legal justice here. God’s final justice may be the only payback they will receive. Unless some patriotic VIGILANTE JUSTICE occurs–what goes around should come around to them.

    John Bibb

  43. #43
    On November 14th, 2008 at 12:06 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    his terrorist outfit “should have done more,”

    I agree – Ayers and “Bernie” should have died in the blast that killed his stupid girlfriend…

  44. #44
    On November 14th, 2008 at 12:07 pm, greenfairie said:

    Did anybody ask him about his plans to build concentration camps and kill 25 million people?

    *Crickets.*

  45. #45
    On November 14th, 2008 at 12:18 pm, Storm Chaser said:

    Yes, Old Scout, I was drafted, escaped on a technicality to enlist and served four years. When I returned to the US and grad school, people like me were horribly mistreated.

    I earned a MA with thesis and hours toward a PHD in four semesters while still suffering from nightmares and a bad temper. When a job counselor told me and a Navy friend to hide our military pasts if we expected to find employment as college instructors, I finished the semester, left to farm and never returned.

    Vermin like Ayres were just beginning to infest academia, and I knew it held no future for me.

    Ironically the anti- war movement made the war last longer and millions more died. A North Vietnamese official said they won the war on America’s college campuses. Ayers was one of their boys.

  46. #46
    On November 14th, 2008 at 12:18 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    On November 14th, 2008 at 12:07 pm, greenfairie #44 said:

    Did anybody ask him about his plans to build concentration camps and kill 25 million people?

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  47. #47
    On November 14th, 2008 at 12:19 pm, Conservatives R Us said:

    I think it’s pretty despicable that this creep is even given air time.

    He will get his just rewards, just maybe not on this earth.

    The media should be all over Barack HUSSEIN Obama for Ayers admitting this. This makes Obama a liar and isn’t anyone wondering how many other lies he has told and will tell?
    I still can’t believe he will be President and to think half of the votes came from people voting like he was a good choice, the other half was pure racial. Can’t anyone admit this will be the worst President ever who voted for him? Little by little I hope all his lies and who he really is comes out. I have people still thinking he was a good choice. It has made me sick.

  48. #48
    On November 14th, 2008 at 12:24 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    I think it’s pretty despicable that this creep is even given air time.

    It’s part of the Charlie Gibson Network’s rehab of Obama’s Past.

  49. #49
    On November 14th, 2008 at 12:27 pm, walterc said:

    greenfairie said:

    Did anybody ask him about his plans to build concentration camps and kill 25 million people?

    *Crickets.*

    I’m thinking that one can be asked when he goes on Hannity’s America. Yeah, like that would ever happen. Chicken Sh#t B%^tard.

  50. #50
    On November 14th, 2008 at 12:28 pm, bear1909 said:

    boycott the networks. boycott their advertisers. bring them to their knees. treason has a price.

  51. #51
    On November 14th, 2008 at 12:35 pm, Dave Turson said:

    Confronted with the Prairie Fire manifesto’s dedication to Sirhan Sirhan, he waved it off with a quick “I reject that.”

    Here’s a link about the Prairie Fire manifesto. I knew this interview would not hold Ayers’ feet to the fire with Chris Cuomo in charge. He is a chip off the old block–his father Mario worked for and promoted Michael Moore’s 9/11 fakumentary. Mario Cuomo said he watched Fahrenheit 9/11 three times just to be sure he could support all that was in it.

  52. #52
    On November 14th, 2008 at 12:54 pm, BobonStatenIsland said:

    I repeat myself, but this slimebag will, sooner or later, walk into the wrong bar/restaurant and end up eating the curb upon leaving.
    My mom often told me, if you want justice, don’t go to the justice system.

  53. #53
    On November 14th, 2008 at 1:03 pm, Dimsdale said:

    Where was this interest BEFORE the election?

    GMA and the rest of the media are accessories after the fact.

  54. #54
    On November 14th, 2008 at 1:03 pm, Dimsdale said:

    Or, as Howie Carr puts it: “in the halls of justice, all the justice occurs in the halls.”

  55. #55
    On November 14th, 2008 at 1:15 pm, FamilyMan said:

    When you die Ayers NO ONE WILL CARE and you will be all alone.
    SO ALL ALONE!.

  56. #56
    On November 14th, 2008 at 1:52 pm, chapoutier said:

    When you die Ayers NO ONE WILL CARE and you will be all alone.
    SO ALL ALONE!.

    Really?

    According to many here, I would have thought President Elect Obama to be at his side, holding Ayers hand, trying to stifle the tears.

  57. #57
    On November 14th, 2008 at 2:26 pm, flaming_o said:

    Of course Ayers is on GMA. He’s a cel-ehhh-brity.

  58. #58
    On November 14th, 2008 at 2:27 pm, rambler said:

    With Ayres at the helm, Chicago schools have set new educational standards; All the indoctrination those little minds can absorb. Ayres is free because he just wasn’t effective enough as a terrorist, which doesn’t mean that he wasn’t a terrorist. How can any education facility hire cr@p like this?

  59. #59
    On November 14th, 2008 at 2:27 pm, Bogtrotter said:

    “If you “connect the dots”, there are a number of dots that suggest that Ayers may have had foreknowledge of, or even involvement in planning, the 9/11 attacks”

    If I connect enough dots I can connect my cat to 9/11 as well. Ayers is a massive POS for what he is known to have done. All your comment does is let me know your tin-foil hat is on WAY too tight.

  60. #60
    On November 14th, 2008 at 2:31 pm, BlameAmericaLast said:

    OK, so when the next 9/11 hits us as Joe Biden basically inferred, is Bill Ayers going to come out say…

    “Now I know we definitely didn’t do enough”?

  61. #61
    On November 14th, 2008 at 2:35 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    Similar scenario:

    Obama has promised to step up efforts to find Osama Bin Laden- he is captured.

    During his criminal trial, his lawyer argues that all evidence was obtained illegally through Bush-approved wiretaps. The Obama-appointed judge agrees and all charges are dropped.

    Bin Laden succeeds Rashid Khalidi as the Chair of the Middle Eastern Studies department at Columbia University, makes a bundle on the lecture circuit explaining how Al Quaeda didn’t do enough against the “Great Satan”, and is the toast of the Liberal Elite.

  62. #62
    On November 14th, 2008 at 2:38 pm, ThunderHawkk said:

    I just have to say I think that is the best picture of Michelle Obama I have ever seen. I wish I could find a large file of image and plaster it all over the place. I’m trying to lose weight and putting that photo near my refrigerator would stop me from eating.

  63. #63
    On November 14th, 2008 at 2:44 pm, sandyb said:

    southsideironworks said:
    “Live by the sword, Die by the sword.”

    We can only hope.

    Considering all the types who voted for Capt. Big Ears were flat-out morons from the get-go, I thought the “survival of the fittest” rule would have to kick in somewhere. I’m still waiting…

  64. #64
    On November 14th, 2008 at 2:45 pm, BlameAmericaLast said:

    On November 14th, 2008 at 2:38 pm, ThunderHawkk said:

    I just have to say I think that is the best picture of Michelle Obama I have ever seen. I wish I could find a large file of image and plaster it all over the place. I’m trying to lose weight and putting that photo near my refrigerator would stop me from eating.

    Well, Thunderhawkk, you obviously don’t agree with the MSM’s depiction of Michelle Obama being another Jackie O, do you!

    (inserting finger in throat now)

    How someone can compare the elegant, classy, sophisticated and beautiful Jackie O and Michelle Obama is beyond me.

  65. #65
    On November 14th, 2008 at 2:51 pm, sandyb said:

    ArizonaNeanderthal said:
    Celebrate Diversity:
    Carry a Revolver and an auto loader-you too ladies.

    Going shopping this weekend.

    It was an insane time in America and it continues. For forty years I have waited for my chance to get back at them MY way and BroBama and friends just might give it to me. I wait for Mr. Ayers and Whore to test “There are always innocent casualties in a war”

    Hmm, methinks our new mantra should be “Obama lies, America dies.”

    Now, that has a ring to it, eh?

  66. #66
    On November 14th, 2008 at 2:51 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    I think Michelle O is Hillary^2.
    Mark my words (as JoeB would say), with all the ‘executive experience’ she will gain from being the First ‘Lady’, she’ll be making her own run for the whitehouse in the not-too-distant future. THAT’S even scarier than Obummer being there!

  67. #67
    On November 14th, 2008 at 3:06 pm, sandyb said:

    chapoutier said:
    When you die Ayers NO ONE WILL CARE and you will be all alone.
    SO ALL ALONE!.
    Really?

    According to many here, I would have thought President Elect Obama to be at his side, holding Ayers hand, trying to stifle the tears.

    Chap, you forget about The One’s narcissist complex. The One only cares about The One. Once he gets what he wants, you’ve outlived your usefulness. You know, the same way The One views the Constitution.

  68. #68
    On November 14th, 2008 at 3:10 pm, sandyb said:

    Of course The Ears will tell the Secret Service to screw that clearance formality so Bill Scayres can visit the WH. I can see it now:

    WH staffer: Welcome to the White House, Mr. Ayres. Tonight you’ll be sleeping in the Lincoln Bedroom.

    (five minutes later) Kaboom. (WH front doors swinging on hinges as he and the missus make for the street)

  69. #69
    On November 14th, 2008 at 3:24 pm, Bill Stout said:

    If these guys renounced their citizenship and declared war on the U.S., then why the hell are they still here? Why have they not been sent to Cuba or Red China where they would supposedly be happy and we would be thankfully free of the maggots?

  70. #70
    On November 14th, 2008 at 3:32 pm, RabbidSquirrel said:

    I like his supposition that the Weather Underground didnt kill anyone, but rather that it was actually our own government during the time of the VietName war that was killing THOUSANDS of people.

    But he neglects to balance that with the fact that we were fighting Communist aggression in that war. (albeit by proxy or whatever).

    Now take ALL of the people that have EVER been killed by Americans (internal/external) in ALL wars/conflicts and then juxtapose that total death count with the death count of all Communist governments killing ONLY their own people.

    Then we can get to the number of other people killed by Communist governments. And then we can count the number of American deaths by communist governments.

    So, who is leading in the death count so far? Because I am only counting communists, not socialists or other forms of governments.

    If Ayers and his ilk (lol) had done the same BS in a communist country, Im pretty sure they would have been executed in the street as an enemy of the state without benefit a trial.

  71. #71
    On November 14th, 2008 at 3:37 pm, Southpaw said:

    As a student at UC Berkeley, I had many lively debates in Sociology and Political Science classes with people with quite radical ideas. Watching the interview and what I’ve seen of Bill Ayers: His arguments are circular and evasive. His ideas are weak and iconsequential.

  72. #72
    On November 14th, 2008 at 3:41 pm, iowavette said:

    Ayers said in an opinion piece to the Omaha World Herald that he was not a terrorist. I lived in San Francisco during the ’70s. Even the local news media called them terrorists then.

  73. #73
    On November 14th, 2008 at 3:41 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    How does Ayers reconcile his statement that the American government was ‘murdering’ thousands of people during war, with his statement that “There are always innocent casualties in a war”?

    Oh, yeah. His ‘war’ was a righteous one.

  74. #74
    On November 14th, 2008 at 3:52 pm, Craig said:

    Published in 1944, from F.A. Hayek’s ‘The Road to Serfdom’:

    There are many features which were then regarded as ‘typically
    German’ which are now equally familiar in America and England,
    and many symptoms that point to a further development in the
    same direction: the increasing veneration for the state, the fatalistic
    acceptance of ‘inevitable trends’, the enthusiasm for ‘organization’ of everything (we now call it ‘planning’)

    hmmmm….prescient?

  75. #75
    On November 14th, 2008 at 4:18 pm, Dave Turson said:

    at 3:06 pm, sandyb said: Chap, you forget about The One’s narcissist complex. The One only cares about The One. Once he gets what he wants, you’ve outlived your usefulness. You know, the same way The One views the Constitution.

    Krauthammer’s column about The One’s self-love might help some of his followers counteract his hypnotic power, even at this late date.

  76. #76
    On November 14th, 2008 at 4:41 pm, RabbidSquirrel said:

    Im guessing that Ayers was a wussie weenie back in the day who really wanted his daddy’s attention but could never get the recognition he strove for. He tried to play in the big leagues – but it was more than he really was brave enough to walk point with.

    But he had the gift of writing, so he played ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’.

    Now all these years later, he may can really deny it all, be relatively truthful and still be considered ‘the hero’ as a “former domestic terrosrist”.

    Any shrinks out there that can refute/refine/discount/advance my ignorant psychobabble?

  77. #77
    On November 14th, 2008 at 4:56 pm, huggybear said:

    You hear that? It’s the sound of 67 million American voters not caring about Bill Ayers. The election is over, you lost, move on, etc.

  78. #78
    On November 14th, 2008 at 5:03 pm, sandyb said:

    Every senator looks in the mirror and sees a president. Nonetheless, has there ever been a presidential nominee with a wider gap between his estimation of himself and the sum total of his lifetime achievements? — Charles Krauthammer

  79. #79
    On November 14th, 2008 at 5:39 pm, MacEamonn said:

    Welcome to a “Brave New World”!

  80. #80
    On November 14th, 2008 at 6:11 pm, DBNinKY said:

    On November 14th, 2008 at 4:56 pm, huggybear said:

    You hear that? It’s the sound of 67 million American voters not caring about Bill Ayers. The election is over, you lost, move on, etc.

    It’s not conservatives dredging up Ayers again, it’s the MSM and Ayers himself!

    The MSM-ABC are doing it to gin up post election ratings and attempt a recovery of their forfeited objectivity; while Ayers is putting himself out there for a quick buck.

    BTW, this is only the beginning: the MSM has the next four years to devote to the Obama-Ayers connection, rehashing every minute of their joint past – so get used to it!

  81. #81
    On November 14th, 2008 at 6:33 pm, sbw999 said:

    On November 14th, 2008 at 4:56 pm, huggybear said:
    You hear that? It’s the sound of 67 million American voters not caring about Bill Ayers. The election is over, you lost, move on, etc.

    Actually it was the sound of people caring about Bill Ayers, but caring more about their wallet. Wake up moron. Bill Ayers is a scumbag, as is anybody that thinks this guy’s association is irrelevant to the type of person Obama is.

  82. #82
    On November 14th, 2008 at 6:40 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    The Obama-appointed judge agrees and all charges are dropped.

    Bin Laden succeeds Rashid Khalidi as the Chair of the Middle Eastern Studies department at Columbia University, makes a bundle on the lecture circuit explaining how Al Quaeda didn’t do enough against the “Great Satan”, and is the toast of the Liberal Elite.

    After the fusilade on the courthouse steps, the police find a gun, but no sign of the goat-cheese canoli bin Laden had been eating on the way out of court. In NY tradition, no one saw or heard anything, and the video from the scene was turned over to the same people investigating the Columbia noose incident. 137 years later, the NYPD admitted they hadn’t looked at the video, but had been watching the “evidence” in the Client Number 9 case from the 21st century instead.

  83. #83
    On November 14th, 2008 at 6:44 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    If these guys renounced their citizenship

    Yeah, reminds me of Kerry throwing his medals over the White House fence. Every reporter in DC knew they were displayed in his office, but being the total liars they are, kept repeating that story. Same here, these pieces of trash talk but have no action.

  84. #84
    On November 14th, 2008 at 6:48 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    You hear that? It’s the sound of 67 million American voters not caring about Bill Ayers. The election is over, you lost, move on, etc.

    Move on from a domestic terrorist? Not if I’m the last guy left who cares.

  85. #85
    On November 14th, 2008 at 7:08 pm, Freddy said:

    I guess that being an expert in education, Professor Ayers can appreciate these equally non-fatal educators.

  86. #86
    On November 14th, 2008 at 7:09 pm, Southpaw said:

    You hear that? It’s the sound of 67 million American voters ignorant fools not caring about Bill Ayers

    fixed it.
    An unrepentant terrorist. I care about things like that.

  87. #87
    On November 14th, 2008 at 7:09 pm, purealchemy said:

    Has anyone heard about the 63 questions on the new White House job application?
    Neither Obama nor Ayers would be able to work in the White House based on this. The hypocrisy is unprecedented, absolutely glaring.
    Obama and his campaign kept saying associations aren’t relevant and that he didn’t think his church was so “controversial”.
    Something is seriously wrong with this whole scenario.
    It’s like the applicants are supposed to vet(t?) themselves on the app.
    Is this like a Gestapo approach?
    This link has a PDF file to the written questionnaire:

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/13/transition.questionnaire/index.html?section=cnn_latest

  88. #88
    On November 14th, 2008 at 8:11 pm, vsatt said:

    Let him enjoy his earthly wealth, his influence and the smug thought that he outsmarted the legal system. When he breathes his last, unless he’s blessed with a divine intervention, he will burn in hell. And what good will it all be to him then?

  89. #89
    On November 14th, 2008 at 8:14 pm, vsatt said:

    And maybe in his hell, Palin will be president, his wife will be perpetually pregnant with Bush’s baby and she’ll be unable to abort! hahahahahaha

  90. #90
    On November 14th, 2008 at 9:46 pm, SMUDGE said:

    Please tell me that these two monsters did not procreate.

  91. #91
    On November 14th, 2008 at 10:09 pm, FamilyMan said:

    It’s hard to believe that their is anyone on this thread that still defends that pile of cow diarrhea. You know you really need the help of a mental health professional.

  92. #92
    On November 15th, 2008 at 12:11 pm, DBNinKY said:

    Here’s the kicker: While Ayers is free to make a mint repackaging his violent hate for America to the masses, rub elbows with media elites and impart his radical views to unsuspecting students in a cushy college teaching position, agents Ramos and Compean sit in prison for doing their best to protect our southern border. Ironic -

  93. #93
    On November 15th, 2008 at 1:02 pm, yohannbiimu said:

    In all due time…Billy Ayers has a nice, dark place in Hell waiting for him.

  94. #94
    On November 15th, 2008 at 1:07 pm, yohannbiimu said:

    I’m just hoping that the media carried Obama’s water for the past year for the expressed purpose of having juicy, career-building material that they can write and report about. Imagine if they genuinely want to destroy Obama in four years, simply because he’s so DESTROYABLE.

    Perhaps that isn’t the purpose, but they won’t be able to HELP THEMSELVES.

  95. #95
    On November 15th, 2008 at 6:07 pm, purealchemy said:

    On November 14th, 2008 at 11:54 am, Old Scout said:

    If Bill Ayers was still true to his beliefs, he’d be living in a housing project in Chicago, instead of townhouse. So he’s devolved from revolutionary to “armchair” socialist.

    Fox News’s Griff Jenkins tried to question Ayers on the street in front of his house and followed his to his front door. First Ayers told him to leave his property (I thought Communists didn’t believe in property) then Ayers called the police to escort him back out to his car. Is that rich or what???

  96. #96
    On November 17th, 2008 at 7:51 am, kurthanson said:

    When I was a kid growing up in the 60s the Weather Underground was the Al Qaeda of its day. Obama MUST have know about these terrorists at the time.

  97. #97
    On November 17th, 2008 at 7:54 am, kurthanson said:

    Why, or why does Obama choose to surround himself with America haters and terrorists? A U.S. president is supposed to have a love and reverence for this country despite all its faults. I feel Obama does not love this country. Never have I heard him say, “God Bless America.”

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