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The Chicago Annenberg Challenge - The Fog Thickens
JustOneMinute — ... Library of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Although initially assured that the documents were available to the public, Mr. Kurtz has since been given shifting stories the gist of which seems to be that the documents are off limits. And who is making this determination? The library won't say, although it is entirely possible that Bill Ayers is the guiding force behind this delay. So let's see - Obama has been misrepresenting his relationship with Ayers to the press (this misdirection of Ben Smith of The Politico from last February is a comedy classic) and now ...

Almost Like Reporting
JustOneMinute — ... " on the Obama/Ayers relationship that made no mention of this failed collaboration on education reform. Yost made no mention of the fact that the Obama campaign was telling reporters that (a) Obama and Ayers met through kids who went to the same school, or ...

The Annenberg Records Will Show Obama's Connection With Bill Ayers Was Direct and Substantive
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Thus far the media has been totally comfortable downplaying the fact that Barack Obama got his political start in the living room of Bill Ayers' house at a fundraiser for Obama. Should the Annenberg records be released, the media would be hard pressed to avoid a story they had previously covered from the angle that Obama had no substantial relations with Bill Ayers. More here. Remember also David Axelrod's statement to Ben Smith found here: "Bill Ayers lives in his neighborhood. Their kids attend the ...

Obama, Ayers and the Annenberg Challenge Cover-Up
Pajamas Media — ... ” purporting to explain the relationship. Other reporters had been told that “Bill Ayers lives in his neighborhood. Their kids attend the same school.” They were left with the impression that Ayers and Obama had first met at the ...

Obama Responds On Ayers
JustOneMinute — ... before now? Obama's campaign manager David Axelrod told The Politico in February that "Bill Ayers lives in his neighborhood. Their kids attend the same school," he said. "They're certainly friendly, they know each other, as anyone whose kids go to school together."Obama told George Stepanopolous during the ...

The Times Discovers The Chicago Annenberg Challenge
JustOneMinute — ... to get the Chicago Anenberg Challenge archives locked down. The Times won't attempt to follw the trail back to 1988 or ask the Obama campaign to explain their misrememberings and deceptions, but perhaps real reporters will. MISREMEMBERING: I love this candid disclosure from Team Obama last February to Ben Smith of The Politico: I didn't get to ask Obama about his relationship with ...

Barack Obama, Bill Ayers and Ben Smith
Patterico's Pontifications — ... In February, Smith asked Obama’s chief strategist (and reigning expert on Chicago’s political tribes), David Axelrod, about the Obama-Ayers relationship and got this answer: ...

Obama And Ayers - What's The Story?
JustOneMinute — ... of his once-close relationship with an unrepentant domestic terrorist. Isn't the cover-up worse than the crime? Obama and his campaign (including David Axelrod ) have been providing false and misleading answers to questions about the Obama-Ayers relationship since February. And this cover-up is continuing - there is an ...

Palin Keeps Up Attack On Ayers, Obama's Patriotism
TPM Election Central — ... home. And they've worked together on various projects in Chicago. These are the same guys who think "patriotism" is paying higher taxes. (Remember what his running mate Joe Biden said!) This is not a man who sees America as you and I do -- as the greatest force for good in the world. This is someone who sees America as "imperfect enough" to work with a former domestic terrorist who targeted his own country. The "certainly friendly" line is a reference to this interview with top Obama strategist David Axelrod. In it, he said: "Bill ...

Ayers-Dohrn-Obama Tie Shouldn’t Be Dismissed
Pajamas Media — ... in the New York Times , Obama has tried to minimize his relationship with Ayers, dismissing him as “a guy who lives in my neighborhood” and “somebody who worked on education issues in Chicago that I know.” Axelrod also tried to excuse the extent of Obama’s involvement with Ayers, stating , “Bill Ayers lives in his neighborhood. Their kids attend the same school. … They’re certainly friendly, they know each other, as anyone whose kids go to school together.” It’s an obvious fiction pitched by Axelrod, since the Obama children are presently in elementary school, while Ayers’ ...

The Obama-Ayers Connection
Stones Cry Out — ... by none other than J. Edgar Hoover, was also well known as the inspiration for the 1988 movie Running on Empty. Subtle terrorists they were not. As noted in the New York Times, Obama has tried to minimize his relationship with Ayers, dismissing him as “a guy who lives in my neighborhood” and “somebody who worked on education issues in Chicago that I know.” Axelrod also tried to excuse the extent of Obama’s involvement with Ayers, stating, “Bill Ayers lives in his neighborhood. Their kids attend the same school. … They’re ...

Bam's bombin' buddy: Whodat???
Power Line — When John Updike's literary alter ego Henry Bech wins the Nobel Prize for Literature in the story "Bech and the Bounty of Sweden," Updike posits the headline reporting the news in the New York Daily News: "BECH? WHODAT???" By the same token, Barack Obama's description of his relationship with his Chicago associate Bill Ayers has evolved from "certainly friendly" to "WHODAT???" Once upon a time, Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod acknowledged that Ayers and Obama were "certainly friendly[.]" As the ...

The Obama-Ayers Connection - Follow The Bouncing Ball
JustOneMinute — ... Ayers and Barack Obama? Good question, and one that has stumped the Obama campaign since they delivered their first misinformation about it last February. In a different political environment this level of deceit and evasiveness would spark press coverage of an obvious cover-up, but you go to elections with the media you have. As part of the prep for tonight's debate let's reprise their shifting evasions explanations: In February of 2008 the theme was "nothing to see". Here is Ben Smith of The Politico : I didn't get to ask Obama about his relationship with ...

Covering The Story While Burying It
JustOneMinute — ... (lots, actually) to "suggest" (try "prove") that Obama knows Ayers "a little better" (i.e., a lot better) than he admitted. Next NPR provides an explanation from the campaign that dates the relationship to the inception of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge in 1995. So what is missing? The reader is given no hint that the explanations from the Obama campaign have been changing and evolving since February . Briefly: February - their kids went to the same school (Axelrod to Ben Smith, Politico ) April - some guy in the neighborhood ( Obama, debate ). April Fact ...

Just Like With Ayers... Obama Is Distorting His Relationship With Former PLO Operative Rashid Khalidi
Gateway Pundit — ... How eerily similar that response is to the one given by Obama strategist David Axelrod to Politico's Ben Smith about Bill Ayers: ...

The obligatory “Obama’s aunt is an illegal alien” post
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... . Fourth and most important scrap: Any political fallout from this? The AP, at least, probably doesn’t think so or else it wouldn’t be dropping a hot potato in his lap 72 hours before the polls open. In better economic circumstances, with an anti-amnesty GOP nominee, this might have driven a little extra turnout. As it is, we’re poised to elect a guy who’s “certainly friendly” with a domestic terrorist. America’s willing to forgive him that, but it’s going to pitch a fit over a lost aunt no one’s heard of? If anything, this might earn The One a little vicarious sympathy: It ...

Ayers: Oh, by the way, Obama and I actually are “family friends”
Hot Air » Top Picks — Ayers: Oh, by the way, Obama and I actually are “family friends” posted at 9:05 pm on November 13, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly Via Ace . The bad news? Obama was lying to us when he dismissed Ayers at the debate as merely “a guy who lives in my neighborhood.” The good news? We already knew that, thanks to Axelrod and Mayor Daley . Anyway, belated confirmation . “We had served together on the board of a foundation, knew one another as neighbors and family friends, held an initial fund-raiser at my ...