salon.com - 11/17/2008
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Sarah Palin called him a terrorist, Barack Obama called him an acquaintance. A Salon editor who knew Ayers back when talks to the ex-Weather Underground member turned Republican talking point.
chicagotribune.com - 11/13/2008
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Bill Ayers at Northwestern Bill Ayers, former 1960s
radical activist turned college professor, listens to Rev. Jeremiah...
Wright Jr. speak at Northwestern University during an event hosted by Northwestern's Black Student Alliance. Ayers' name gained ...
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BILL AYERS: Bill Ayers calls Barack Obama 'family ...
abcnews.go.com - 11/14/2008
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William Ayers, the 1960s radical whose violent history
became a focal point in the 2008 presidential election,...
said today that the Republicans unfairly "demonized" him in an attempt to damage the campaign of President-elect Barack Obama. Ayers ...
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Campaign Bogeyman William Ayers Talks to 'GMA'
npr.org - 11/18/2008
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Fresh Air from WHYY , November 18, 2008
The name of former anti-war activist William Ayers was...
brought up twice in an attempt to discredit Barack Obama during the recent presidential campaign first by Hillary Clinton, and then by the McCain ...
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Which Way The Wind Blows: Bill Ayers On Obama
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William Ayers On George Orwell and John McCain
Swampland —
... Walter Shapiro, my former boss and continuing mentor, has a fascinating interview up at Salon with former "domestic terrorist" William Ayers, formerly of the Weather Underground. It's notable because Shapiro and Ayers go way back, as "guys in the neighborhood" in 1968 at the University of Michigan, but also because it gives one of the clearest pictures yet of Ayers' view of the 2008 campaign and the legacy of his violent activism. Some highlights: ...
Hyde Park, kind of like Wasilla
Ben Smith's Blog —
From Walter Shapiro's entertaining interview with Bill Ayers:
Q: Do you feel diminished by Obama repeatedly referring to you throughout the campaign as just some "guy from the neighborhood"?
A: Not in the least; I am a guy from the neighborhood. And I'm proud of it ... And the neighborhood being Hyde Park, which is a very close-knit, very friendly, very politically diverse, very racially diverse. You have all kinds of poles there. You have [conservative] Judge Richard Posner on one pole and Louis Farrakhan on the other. And everything in between. ...
Ayers: Our Neighborhood "Kind Of Like Wasilla"
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Salon's Walter Shapiro talked to Bill Ayers about the election in which he played a surprisingly big part:
Do you feel diminished by Obama repeatedly referring to you throughout the campaign as just some "guy from the neighborhood"?
Not in the least; I am a guy from the neighborhood. And I'm proud of it ... And the neighborhood being Hyde Park, which is a very close-knit, very friendly, very politically diverse, very racially diverse. You have all kinds of poles there. You have [conservative] Judge Richard Posner on one pole and Louis ...
Ayers: Our Neighborhood "Kind Of Like Wasilla"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Salon's Walter Shapiro talked to Bill Ayers about the election in which he played a surprisingly big part:
Do you feel diminished by Obama repeatedly referring to you throughout the campaign as just some "guy from the neighborhood"?
Not in the least; I am a guy from the neighborhood. And I'm proud of it ... And the neighborhood being Hyde Park, which is a very close-knit, very friendly, very politically diverse, very racially diverse. You have all kinds of poles there. You have [conservative] Judge Richard Posner on one pole and Louis ...
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salon.com 11/17/2008 — Nov. 17, 2008 | NEW YORK -- Proving yet again that there are indeed second and even third acts in American lives, Bill Ayers had transformed himself over a quarter of a century from an on-the-run-from-the-law member of the Weather Underground to a ...
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minx.cc 10/24/2008 — Since a leftie demanded that Iowahawk defend the Terrorist Ayers with the zeal he defended the noncriminal plumber Joe Wurzelbacher, he's obliged. I don't think this is what they had in mind, though....
Bill Ayers talks: No 'cartoon character'
swamppolitics.com 11/5/2008 — by Mark Silva
After months of self-imposed silence, the "washed up terrorist'' of the 2008 presidential campaign - John McCain's name for Chicago's Bill Ayers - has spoken out. He did so with our friend, Peter Slevin, Chicago-based correspondent ...
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classicalvalues.com 10/24/2008 — I've written a number of posts about Bill Ayers, and I was especially horrified by his organization's plot to blow up American soldiers at the Fort Dix NCO club. And while I know that terrorists are generally unconcerned with civilian...
In Support of Bill Ayers
corner.nationalreview.com 10/14/2008 — There's a petition making he rounds that has academics purportedly defending Ayers against unrepentant terrorist and other (factual) labels. It also has my name on it. It has Jonah's name is on it. And it includes others who you know obviously didn't ...
Bill Ayers Speaks
voices.washingtonpost.com 11/4/2008 — By Peter Slevin CHICAGO -- In his first interview since he became an issue in the 2008 presidential campaign, Bill Ayers, the former Weather Underground leader, said today that he had a distant relationship with Barack Obama and that Obama's opponents ...
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Bill Ayers Going On "Good Morning America" Friday
tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2008: 11/13/2008 — In his first first television interview since he became the center of controversy in the Presidential race, Chicago activist Williams Ayers breaks his silence in an exclusive interview with Chris Cuomo on Friday's "Good Morning America."
Ayers, a leader of 60s radical group the Weathermen, ...
How the right helped Bill Ayers -
chicagotribune.com 11/19/2008 — "You hear that, Clarence?" Bill Ayers said. "I just apologized." Indeed, he did. But it was a joke. In his first public event since the Nov. 4 elections, Ayers, an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and co-founder of the ...
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CNN Political Ticker 11/17/2008
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