• writeruthgelmaan

  +1

  During 1992-1994 Ayers and Obama together raised anther 110 $milions to add to Chicago Annenberg Challenhe foundation funds of 50$millons.  This attests to the long working collaboration of Ayers and Obama, really starting immediately after Obama returned from Harvard Law.

   Te total came to 160$millions. Its failure should now speak to the next Obama initiative to nationalize local-conrolled schools.

  Posted 7/7/2009 respond (flag)

Obama and Ayers
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] If you haven t yet, read Stanley Kurtz s piece on his travails pursuing Barack Obama s relationship with the Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers. Like the Born-Alive controversy, where the Obama campaign now appears to be ...

Chicago Cover-up?
The Corner on National Review Online — ... to gain access to this critically important repository of information. Frankly, since the dispute over access, which played out late last week, I have grown concerned about the security of the documents. Public awareness is probably the best way to reduce the likelihood of documents being damaged or spirited away before I have a chance to break the embargo and gain access to the Collection. You can read more about the battle over the Chicago Annenberg Collection records in my new NRO ...

Remember Jack Ryan?
The Corner on National Review Online — ... Ryan's embarrassing divorce papers public. I met the Los Angeles lawyer a few months ago who made that happen. She argued to me that the public has the right to have access to public documents. She was of course an Obama supporter who also hoped at the time that the records would help defeat the Republican candidate and elect Obama. So, will the media apply the same standard to the library records? Turn about is only fair play. And in this case, a review of Obama's time at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge is far more politically salient than Jack Ryan's messy (but ...

The Library of Babel
Belmont Club — Stanley Kurtz at the National Review Online describes how he was first granted and then denied access to the records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge , a fund worth $50 million led by Bill Ayers and chaired at one point by Barack Obama.  Kurtz’s research purpose was to discover the extent of Barack Obama’s relatinship with Ayers, and the part the Candidate played in Chicago educational politics. The Wikipedia entry notes that the Challenge suggests that its story and the role it played in the politics of education in Chicago promised to be an interesting one. The ...

The Obama Ayers Cover Up
The Discerning Texan — All is not as it seems at the University of Illinois at Chicago. It seems that some strings are being pulled to prevent certain information about Barack Obama and convicted terrorist (and avowed Marxist) William Ayers. Read the whole thing.

What Are They Hiding?
Rhymes With Right — About Obama and Ayers? What we do know is that high-ranking public employees at the University of Illinois -- Chicago are restricting access to document in their library that will likely shed light on that relationship -- but only after a conservative journalist/commentator attempted to gain access to the materials. The Special Collections section of the Richard J. Daley Library agreed to let me read them, but just before I boarded my flight to Chicago, the top library officials mysteriously intervened to bar access. Circumstances strongly suggest the likelihood that Bill Ayers ...

Reveal the Donor
The Corner on National Review Online — ... over at Tom Maguire s JustOneMinute. I think we need to keep up the pressure on the University of Illinois. For anyone interested in helping with this battle, you can read more about it in my piece , "Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown?" If you d like to contact President White, you ll find an email link ...

Help unlock the Obama/Ayers papers
Michelle Malkin — ... : “It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up.” During his in-depth investigation and travels to Chicago to dig deeper, Kurtz has run into unexpected (or perhaps, quite expected) roadblocks : Although the press has been notably lax about pursuing the matter, the full story of the Obama-Ayers relationship calls the truth of Obama’s account seriously into question. When Obama made his first run for political office, articles in both the Chicago Defender and the Hyde Park Herald featured among his qualifications his position as chairman of the board of the Chicago Annenberg ...

Stonewalling Stanley Kurtz
Power Line — ... Annenberg Challenge are on deposit with the Richard J. Daley Library of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Kurtz contacted the library, was provided an index of the Anneberg Challenge documemnts collection and was advised by the library that it would would accommodate his review of the documents. Then something happened. Just before Kurtz boarded his flight to Chicago to review the documents, top library officials mysteriously intervened to bar access. Kurtz tells the story in "Chicago Annenberg Challenge shutdown?" noting that the explanations offered by library ...

Endangered Documents Act
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] There are new developments in my quest to gain access to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge records, to prevent them from being returned to their original donor, and to preserve them from tampering. (For background, see my piece , "Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown?") The Associate Press has ...

McCain Campaign: Obama’s Questionable Associations
Patterico's Pontifications — [Guest post by DRJ] Following up on Stanley Kurtz’s article on William Ayers and the Annenberg Challenge records, this Rich Lowry post at National Review Online suggests the McCain campaign believes now is a good time to discuss Obama’s questionable associations: “… if Barack Obama wants to have a discussion about truly questionable associations, let’s start with his relationship with the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers, at whose home Obama’s political career was reportedly launched. Mr. Ayers was a leader of the ...

Busted! Barack Obama and Bill Ayers exposed
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... There are new developments in my quest to gain access to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge records, to prevent them from being returned to their original donor, and to preserve them from tampering. (For background, see my piece , "Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown?") The Associate Press has ...

The Gloves Are Off
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler — ... who only wishes that he could have bombed some more of his countrymen, Bill Ayers, exist. For once, the McVain campaign fired back: Er… Ouch??? Combine this with the fact that the papers covering the Dalai Bama’s collaboration with Ayers as chairman (and a remarkably incompetent and inept chairman at that) of the latter’s “Chicago Annenberg Challenge” that only accomplished burning through tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer monies in return for — nothing now turn out to be buried underneath mountains of red tape , right after the library sitting on them assured NRO’s ...

Obama's Friend Bill Ayers On Education
Hyscience — ... Here's Bill Ayers (friend of Barack Obama whose terrorist group bombed more buildings than McCain has houses) describing his educational philosophy to Luis Bonilla-Molina, President of the Centro Internacional Miranda, a foundation created by Venezuelan decree Nº 3.818 (HT - ...

Democrats Really Wanted To Go There?
A Blog For All — ... . Seems that papers relating to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which Ayers and Obama were both key particpants, are being held up at the University of Illinois at Chicago so that researchers and journalists can't see what kind of juicy connections Obama has to Ayers. A final ...

Barack Obama: International Man Of Mystery
Wizbang — ... into his first term as a United States Senator when he started his run for the presidency, and has no real accomplishments there to talk about. He spent seven years on the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, four as chairman, and those records are only now coming to light. On those last records, I don't expect any real surprises there. They have had two good opportunities to clean them up and purge anything embarrassing.-- first, when the Challenge shut down; and second, when people started looking for them -- and I doubt anything really juicy will survive. The ...

Barack Obama’s Terrorist Connection
Brain-Terminal.com — ... The relationship between Ayers and Obama is extensive: for years, they worked together on a project called the Annenberg Challenge. ...

The Annenberg challenge
Ben Smith's Blog — ... But as an Illinois archive moves tomorrow to release papers from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a grant-making group Obama chaired, and that gave Ayers a grant, a little perspective seemed in order. The document dump may, as National Review's Stanley Kurtz, who's been after the documents, speculates, cast light on Obama's relationship with Ayers. But Kurtz and various bloggers have also cast the Annenberg Challenge  itself as a radical group, which seems a bit out of context. Indeed, the grant says more about how mainstream Ayers has become than about how radical ...

The latest on the Annenberg Obama/Ayers paper caper
Michelle Malkin — ... his Kossack/MoveOn/ACORN thugs next on bloggers who continue to probe his Ayers connections? He has them bullying TV stations. Can’t be long before he starts in on his Internet adversaries. Steve Diamond at Global Labor and Politics brings you up to date on the latest decision by the University of Illinois at Chicago to make the Annenberg Obama/Ayers papers available to the public again — and many unresolved questions about the reversal. Watch your back, Mr. Diamond. You too, Stanley Kurtz.

White Whale Hunting
ArchPundit — Stanley Kurtz is sure that he can land Moby Dick if THE MAN would just let him. This is one of his great lines Even so, Stanley Kurtz, a contributing editor for the conservative magazine National Review, thinks Obama’s association with Ayers should raise questions in the minds of voters who wonder of Obama is as mainstream as he claims to be. “The fact that Obama and Ayers were working together stems from the pretty sharp left-leaning ideology that both of them shared to some extent,” Kurtz said. : What a moron.  The only good thing ...

Obama, Ayers and the Media
QandO — ... in the email, nor in his article for the National Review. He has suggested that Obama’s recruitment by Ayers was likely given the extent of their relationship, but he hasn’t explicitly claimed that Obama was definitely recruited. This is why Smith hasn’t seen any "hard evidence" backing up such a claim: Kurtz didn’t make it. ...

Obama camp blasts National Review writer as "slimy character assassin"
Ben Smith's Blog — ... And tonight, the campaign launched a more specific campaign: An effort to disrupt the appearance by a writer for National Review, Stanley Kurtz, on a Chicago radio program. Kurtz has been writing about Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers, and has suggested that papers housed at the University of Illinois at Chicago would reveal new details of that relationship. ...

The Obama Campaign
The Corner on National Review Online — ... "an effort to disrupt the appearance by a writer for National Review, Stanley Kurtz , on a Chicago radio program." Ben Smith writes, "The campaign e-mailed Chicago supporters who had signed up for the Obama Action Wire with detailed instructions including the station's telephone number and the show's extension, as well as a research file on Kurtz, which seems to prove that he's a conservative, which isn't in dispute." ...

Obama vs. Kurtz
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — ... exaggerated Barack's connection with Ayers by claiming Ayers had recruited Barack to the board of the Annenberg Challenge. That is completely false and has been disproved in numerous press accounts. It is absolutely unacceptable that WGN would give a slimy character assassin like Kurtz time for his divisive, destructive ranting on our public airwaves. At the very least, they should offer sane, honest rebuttal to every one of Kurtz's lies. Kurtz writes about his research here , but we can surely expect more to come.

I Am Sort Of Taking This Personally
JustOneMinute — ... " because he has been poking at the Obama/Ayers/Chicago Annenberg Challenge story? Geez, that is a bizarre over-reaction from Team Obama. What's next, the Kewl Kids will mock his wheels at the Prom? Here we go: And tonight, the campaign launched a more specific campaign: an effort to disrupt the appearance by a writer for National Review, Stanley Kurtz , on a Chicago radio program. Kurtz has been writing about Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers, and has suggested that papers housed at the University of Illinois at Chicago would reveal new details of that relationship. The ...

Obama campaign slams Stanley Kurtz as a “slimy character assassin”
Sister Toldjah — ... And tonight, the campaign launched a more specific campaign: an effort to disrupt the appearance by a writer for National Review, Stanley Kurtz, on a Chicago radio program. Kurtz has been writing about Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers, and has suggested that papers housed at the University of Illinois at Chicago would reveal new details of that relationship. ...

Obama Unleashes Hope And Change His Brownshirts
Ace of Spades HQ — Obama Unleashes Hope And Change His Brownshirts Stanley Kurtz has been the driving force examining the links between Barack Obama and domestic terrorist William Ayers. You can read about his efforts to here . Last night Kurtz went on WGN radio to discuss his efforts to get the University of Illinois at Chicago to release documents from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, of which Ayers was a founder and Obama a onetime board chair. It was at that point that The Chosen One issued a vicious rant and important action alert to ...

Obama wants to silence his critics
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... And tonight, the campaign launched a more specific campaign: an effort to disrupt the appearance by a writer for National Review, Stanley Kurtz, on a Chicago radio program. Kurtz has been writing about Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers, and has suggested that papers housed at the University of Illinois at Chicago would reveal new details of that relationship. ...

The New Juice
Whiskey Fire — ... And tonight, the campaign launched a more specific campaign: an effort to disrupt the appearance by a writer for National Review, Stanley Kurtz, on a Chicago radio program. Kurtz has been writing about Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers, and has suggested that papers housed at the University of Illinois at Chicago would reveal new details of that relationship. ...

When conventions were fun…
The Anchoress — ... wind” that was blowing throughout the nation, stifling free speech. He preached it, he wrote a play about it…and ironically, no one ever shut him up or shut him down for it. Because it was a false claim. Now, we’re seeing real efforts to shut down the free speech of real people daring to dissent, or daring to ask uncomfortable questions . Al Gore wants no questions about Global Warming; he told the press to stop reporting dissenting views . Obama wants no questions about his past associations with domestic terrorists. His wife quotes Saul ...

Obama’s “Brain”
Chicago Boyz — ... , has been digging into the UIC archives on Senator Obama’s extensive political relationship with Dr. ...

Stanley K-Y
The Poor Man Institute — ... And tonight, the campaign launched a more specific campaign: an effort to disrupt the appearance by a writer for National Review, Stanley Kurtz, on a Chicago radio program. Kurtz has been writing about Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers, and has suggested that papers housed at the University of Illinois at Chicago would reveal new details of that relationship. ...

Walter Who?
Sadly, No! — ... Before getting into the meat of this post about the batshittery from Stanley Kurtz on the Obama-Ayers connection, I can’t resist commenting that Kurtz sounds exactly like Big Gay Al, which may explain much more than we want to know about his ...

Obama-Ayers: Failed Chicago Schools Under Ethnic Identity Agenda
Stop The ACLU — ... Please forward this email to everyone you know who can make a call tonight. Keep fighting the good fight, Obama Action Wire Disclaimer: This is my view and my word-processed interpretation of portions of the interview, although I have diligently attempted to represent the conversation closely, if not exactly, as I heard it. Related: Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown (Kurtz) ...

Hugh Hewitt: Obama's Ayers' Gambit and The Questions It Should Raise
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... statements? Because I certainly don't agree with those, either. So this kind of game in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, that somehow their ideas could be attributed to me, I think the American people are smarter than that. They're not going to suggest somehow that that is reflective of my views, because it obviously isn't. Called on this by Hillary, Obama acknowledged that he served on a board with Ayers, then the subject was dropped. Through the work of Stanley Kurtz , whom Obama's Chicago gang has unsuccessfully tried to intimidate, ...

Hugh Hewitt: Obama's Ayers' Gambit and The Questions It Should Raise
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — ... statements? Because I certainly don't agree with those, either. So this kind of game in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, that somehow their ideas could be attributed to me, I think the American people are smarter than that. They're not going to suggest somehow that that is reflective of my views, because it obviously isn't. Called on this by Hillary, Obama acknowledged that he served on a board with Ayers, then the subject was dropped. Through the work of Stanley Kurtz , whom Obama's Chicago gang has unsuccessfully tried to intimidate, ...

Diamond, Mining
JustOneMinute — ... of the University of Illinois, Thomas Bearrows, contacted Kenneth C. Rolling, the former Executive Director of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) and a professional colleague of Barack Obama for many years, prior to the release of CAC records to the public late last month and offered Rolling an opportunity to recommend to the University which records of the CAC held at the University's Chicago campus (UIC) should be restricted from public access. And for a refresher, here is Stanley Kurtz's account at the outset of the possible cover-up of these archives, which is part of ...

Steve Diamond Makes News
JustOneMinute — ... said Monday that it had never had any discussions with university officials about the Annenberg collection. I love that "denial" from the Obama campaign - they "never had any discussions with university officials about the Annenberg collection". Fine, but did anyone from the campaign talk to Ken Rolling or (LOL) Bill Ayers? Seems like an obvious follow-up, so let's fault the Trib for not asking (or for not printing the response). And let's toss in a timeline question - Kurtz went public with the library's evasions on August 18. By his account Mr. Kurtz had been in ...

Pig Fun Facts
iowahawk — ... , most gluttonous pigs made their way Chicago, the famed "Hog Butcher to the World." Though the noisy Chicago stockyards of yesteryear are long gone, Chicago can still brag of some of the finest ...

More Heavy Handed Assaults On Free Speech From Obama Brigades
Nice Deb — ... In August, The Obama campaign sent out a “call-to-action email” to Obama’s minions in order to shut down Stanley Kurtz’s appearance on Milt Rosenberg’s radio program in Chicago, about the work he was doing on the Annenberg Challenge story. ...

Coaching from the bleachers: Go after Ayers instead of Wright
TigerHawk — ... is more troubling, and a more legitimate basis for attacking Obama. The background of this couple and their politics were well-known in Chicago. That background either disqualified them as friends and associates, or it did not. In Barack Obama's case, it did not. Not surprisingly, the campaign has been going to great lengths to ...

Deep secrets of campaign 2008
Power Line — ... and Stanley Kurtz among others, followers of the campaign on the Internet have discovered that Obama had a close working relationship with Ayers. Apparently thanks to Ayers, Obama was named the chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the foundation of which Ayers was a founder and guiding force. Their working relationship gave rise to what Kurtz describes as close and ongoing political partnership. Obama's devout belief in abortion : Obama holds himself out as ...

Bill O'Reilly Reveals Stunning Truth: Barack Obama Helped Poor Chicago Kids
News Hounds — ... . Kurtz wrote an article claiming that certain documents would prove extensive involvement between Obama and Ayres but he was unable to obtain the documents. ...

Kurtz: Obamas Challenge
Articles on National Review Online — ... in the Wall Street Journal entitled, Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools, I offer a report on my research into the archives of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), an education foundation once headed by Barack Obama. As I explained in Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown? the Richard J. Daley Library of the University of Illinois at Chicago first agreed to grant, then abruptly denied me, access to the files of this foundation. Subsequently, the Daley Library again reversed their decision and made the CAC files available. [image] [image] [image] [image] ...

The Truth Finally Begins To Emerge On Obama And Ayers
Hyscience — ... clear that Obama's and Ayer's brand of community organizing had very little to do with academics (this point made clear by they're turning down math and science curriculums and gave the money instead to far-left community organizers) and everything to do with furthering their agenda promoting a 1960s-bred agenda of anti-capitalism, central planning, victimology, and government handouts to the poor (hence their focus on ACORN). What is also crystal clear is that Obama has not been truthful about the closeness of his relationship with Ayers ...

Obama's Challenge: 'The campaign speaks to "Radicalism' and in turn has their spin eviscerated
Hyscience — ... entitled, "Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools," Kurtz offered a report on his research into the archives of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), an education foundation once headed by Barack Obama. As he explained in "Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown?" the Richard J. Daley Library of the University of Illinois at Chicago first agreed to grant, then abruptly denied him, access to the files of the foundation. Subsequently, the Daley Library again reversed their decision and made the CAC files available. As he noted in today's Journal piece, he ...

“Hey, Look Over Here” Politics
Comments from Left Field — ... I almost feel sorry for Stanley Kurtz. Last month the conservative writer was making a big stink that, in the course of researaching Barack Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers, the University of Illinois at Chicago library had denied him access to “the internal files” of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which was a nonprofit educational group both men were affiliated with in the 1990s. Kurtz protested: ...

The CNN attempts to slip something by the National Review:
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... on Palin's bringing up the perfectly accurate observation that Obama's been palling about with domestic terrorists by suggesting that National Review - an organization that's actually been involved in documenting said palling about - had debunked the story. Stanley Kurtz - ...

Brutes For Barack
Wizbang — ... Bill Ayers -- to funnel a lot of money into improving Chicago's public schools. Ayers arranged for an up-and-coming lawyer and community organizer named Barack Obama to head up the board, where he spent seven years on the board. The Challenge was shut down in 2002, and its records were given to the University of Illinois at Chicago. Kurtz was given permission to examine the records, but that was revoked once he arrived -- and only re-granted after considerable publicity. Kurtz got a pretty decent article out of research, but got his biggest surprise when he was invited to go ...

Townhall: McCain’s gotta speak to & for America
The Anchoress — ... to the other candidate’s charges, in order to put forward their golden One - you should be ashamed of yourselves for your complicity. You know better, you really do. You fool yourselves that these “little political lies” will somehow bring about an administration and an era “of truth.” But deep down, you know that lies never give birth to the truth. You know that a press willing to smother a dialogue, unwilling to look at questionable associations, questionable ...

ISN'T IT MAGICAL...
Dr. Sanity — ... that expose Barack Obama's past associations seem to just disappear (just ask Stanley Kurtz) ? The power of "hope and change" I assume (in the old, pre-Obama days it used to be called censorship and oppression). ...

With allies at every layer of society who are willing to change rules, break laws, and flout procedures in order to bring Obama to power…
¡No Pasarán! — ... " and with "allies at every layer of society who are willing to change rules, break laws, and flout procedures in order to bring him to power", Christopher Cook worries about ...

The Obama-Ayers Connection - Follow The Bouncing Ball
JustOneMinute — ... that the 1995 meet-and-greet was in the second half of 1995. So let's see - as of May David Axelrod had lied to or misled Ben Smith of the Politico, "aides" had misled the NY Times, Obama had misled the nation and the Obama "Fact Check" was fact-free. Credibility, where art thou? Recently we have had a min-breakthrough. Following Stanley Kurtz' well-publicized attempt to ...

Senator Stealth
Power Line — ... have taken refuge in near-total denial of his unsavory associations, from the question of his New Party membership, to the relationship to Bill Ayers, to the links to ACORN. Obama has downplayed or denied these many ties to an extent that is shockingly at odds with the public record, while the press has played along. Stanley Kurtz has distinguished himself with his investigations into Barack Obama's background. Consider Kurtz's "Inside Obama's ACORN," "Chicago Annenberg Challenge shutdown?," "O's dangerous pals," "Wright 101" and ...

Washington Post Does a Fluff Piece on Ayers
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... of their book, or perhaps the two of you serving together on the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, or maybe even inviting Obama over to your home to help launch his political career.  Hell, who's to say Bernardine Dohrn wasn't serving up milkshakes in your living room at the time?  But maybe we're just splitting hairs on defining the term ‘pal.' ...

Who says conservative bloggers don’t do reporting?
Michelle Malkin — ... ) followed up with more original reporting on the issue. NRO’s Stanley Kurtz was a one-man reporting machine on all things Obama, Ayers, ACORN, and Annenberg. Just a small sample: here , ...

Obama: “Now, I’m Not Naive” [Dan Collins]
protein wisdom — ... , just as he wasn’t responsible for the hand up he received from radical liars Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn . He won’t be responsible for his campaign promises that no one making under $250k per annum would see a dime’s worth of increase in their tax burden. He certainly isn’t responsible for not having read line-by-line the Porkulus Bill, as he’d promised, and excised all of the pork. He was somehow appointed to ...

Could Obama Have Survived Appointment In Another Administration?
Discriminations — ... his attempt to lie his way out of that vote would have have been less successful than it was during his actual presidential campaign. In short, if anyone in the mainstream media had bothered to read the revelations about the young man named to be the new Sec. of Education or head of the Civil Rights Division aired by Sean Hannity or compiled, chapter and verse, by the diligent research of Stanley Kurtz, the fate of this radical, mysterious, bright, articulate (even ...