CAC, Obama and the Ayers Connection
QandO — Stanley Kurtz digs into one of the more interesting and yet mostly unanswered questions of Obama’s past: ...

Obama was a radical “community organizer”
Israpundit — ... Today the WSJ carries an article by Stanly Kurtz entitled Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools . Evidently Kurtz gained access to the Daley Library which shed light on Chicago Annenberg Challenge and the Obama/Ayers relationship. ...

Barack Obama's work with William Ayers
Betsy's Page — Tuesday, September 23, 2008 Barack Obama's work with William Ayers Stanley Kurtz who has done more to explore Barack Obama's radical ties from Chicago reports today on the ties between William Ayers and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) where Obama served as its first chairman, a job for which, as Kurtz shows, Ayers helped choose Obama. In works like "City Kids, City Teachers" and "Teaching the Personal and the Political," Mr. Ayers wrote that teachers should be community organizers dedicated to provoking resistance to American racism and oppression. His preferred ...

Finally the Truth... Obama & Ayers Pushed Radicalism on Schools
Gateway Pundit — ... Today, Kurtz finally gets the story out on Obama's relationship with terrorist Bill Ayers in an article for The Wall Street Journal. ...

Kurtz on Ayers and Obama
TigerHawk — Stanley Kurtz, who has been digging through the papers of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, reports his findings . Newshounds know that the CAC is the political/educational organization founded by Bill Ayers and on the board of which Barack Obama served. Its papers give one of the few documented glimpses into Obama's relationship with the radical left, the extent and breadth of which his campaign has assiduously de-emphasized, perhaps to the point of being misleading. Kurtz has not yet uncovered anything really hideous, so I do not think this will hurt Obama much, even at the ...

Kurtz: Obamas Challenge
Articles on National Review Online — T oday, in a piece 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 ...

Stanley Kurtz’s new article in WSJ on Obama-Ayers connection
Southern Appeal — This was published this morning . Here’s how it begins: Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists. The CAC was the brainchild of Bill Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground in the 1960s. Among other feats, Mr. Ayers and his cohorts bombed the Pentagon, ...

The Obama-Ayers connection: Chicago Annenberg Challenge
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... by Barack Obama and his campaign.  They didn’t want reporters snooping through the records of the Chicago Annenberg Project, Obama’s one claim to executive experience — and the years that belie Obama’s characterization of former domestic terrorist William Ayers as nothing more than a neighbor and an acquaintance.  Kurtz discovers a long working relationship between the two on a project designed to spread radical political thought by essentially feeding it to schoolchildren under the guise of educational reform: CAC translated Mr. Ayers’s radicalism into practice. Instead of ...

WSJ Mainlines Ayers
Taylor Marsh — BY TAYLOR MARSH We knew it was coming. So, here we go, as the Wall Street Journal mainstreams the association card. ...

Obama & Ayers
Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator — Obama & Ayers Weather-Underground-21jul03e.jpg The MSM and the lefty blogs and media just want to ignore this guy and the ties to the chosen one. But as we know, the radical left would spread its butt cheeks for anyone, no matter how vile, so long as they have a "D" next to their name. This article will give you shivers up your leg. From today's WSJ: Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools By STANLEY KURTZ Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education ...

Obama and Ayers
The Corner on National Review Online — ... his relationship with unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers by describing Ayers as just a guy who lives in my neighborhood. That was clear enough from the fact that Ayers and his wife (and fellow terrorist) Bernardine Dohrn hosted the party that launched Obama s political career. But it s even more clear from the pair of articles that NRO and Corner contributor (and my Ethics and Public Policy Center colleague) Stanley Kurtz has published today, in the Wall Street Journal and on National Review Online , on the Obama-Ayers partnership to ...

Obama, Ayers, and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge
Sister Toldjah — The so-evil-he’s-been-targeted-by-the-Obama-campaign Stanley Kurtz has continued digging into Barack Obama’s relationship with unrepentant domestic terrorist and “neighbor” to Obama Bill Ayers and reports to you the information that the mainstream media aren’t interested in investigating. They’re too involved in interviewing disgruntled librarians in Wasilla in an attempt to get dirt on Gov. Palin to care about ...

Obama and Bill Ayers Worked to Get ACORN Teaching Schoolchildren in Chicago
Weekly Standard Blog — ... How's that for a red-meat headline? It has the virtue of being true, according to the research of Stanley Kurtz into Ayers' foundation, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, chaired by Barack Obama: ...

The Terrorist's Partner
Confederate Yankee — The Terrorist's Partner Stanley Kurtz has published his long-awaited research into the archives of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and the conclusions he draws are not surprising Barack Obama blatantly lied earlier year when he tried to dismiss his relationship with terrorist Bill Ayers. As Kurtz shows in his Wall Street Journal article Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools , Obama and Ayers were partners in a radical program that was focused more on indoctrinating children and their parents than education. Working together, Obama and Ayers funneled $160 ...

Hugh Hewitt: Obama-Ayers
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — Writing in the Wall Street Journal , Stanley Kurtz details the close working relationship between Barack Obama and the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers: "Obama ...

Hugh Hewitt: Obama-Ayers
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — Writing in the Wall Street Journal , Stanley Kurtz details the close working relationship between Barack Obama and the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers: "Obama ...

The Truth Finally Begins To Emerge On Obama And Ayers
Hyscience — ... Emphasizing "beginning" with a clarification - ever so slowly and bit by bit, today Kurtz finally gets at least some of the story out on Obama's relationship with terrorist Bill Ayers in an article for The Wall Street Journal, and as Gateway Pundit ...

Obama - Ayers Ties Went Further than Obama Admits
PoliGazette — ... Howard Kurtz wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal’s Tuesday edition in which he spent some time diving into the relationship between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers. When asked about the relationship in past months, Obama responded that Ayers - one a domestic, far-left terrorist, today a domestic, far-left educator and propagandist - was just “a guy living in my neighborhood.” The connection did not go any further, he said. ...

Guilt by participation
Power Line — In a post below, Scott links to Stanley Kurtz's piece, "Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism on Schools." This is a link worth following. For Kurtz demonstrates (1) the dishonesty of Obama on the subject of his association with Ayers and (2) the underlying radicalism of the Ayers-Obama joint project. Last April, Obama dismissed the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers as just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood," and "not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis." But in fact, Ayers and Obama were partners in the Chicago Annenburg Challenge (CAC), an organization ...

Experience
Silent Running — Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists. Read the whole thing . This article is the result of the investigative journalism done by Stanley Kurtz, despite attempts to ...

Ayers And Obama, Back In The News
JustOneMinute — Stanley Kurtz has a piece in the WSJ detailing the association of Bill Ayers and Barack Obama at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. He also offers insights into Bill Ayers' radical education agenda - ...

Obama's Statement on Ayers
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] Today, I begin to publish a series of pieces on my research into Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. The two pieces out today are, first , "Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism on Schools," and ...

Required Reading
Vodkapundit — ... seminars with Acorn, and Acorn members also served as volunteers in Mr. Obama’s early campaigns. External partners like the South Shore African Village Collaborative and the Dual Language Exchange focused more on political consciousness, Afrocentricity and bilingualism than traditional education. CAC’s in-house evaluators comprehensively studied the effects of its grants on the test scores of Chicago public-school students. They found no evidence of educational improvement. There’s much more , all of it ignored by the mainstream media. Tagged as: ...

Oh, so that’s what a community organizer does
Neptunus Lex — ... Former ’60s domestic terrorist Bill Ayers had some truly radical ideas about reforming the Chicago public school system: ...

Obama And Ayres
The Atlantic Politics Channel — Associations can be fair game, but here's my question about Barack Obama and William Ayres: What "radical" ideas did Obama and Bill Ayres come up with to foist on the Chicago school system? What specific projects -- "radical" projects -- did Obama work on with Ayres?  Is there evidence that they collaborated and schemed to  ... do anything "radical" together?   Ever? Or just that they served on a board of a fairly well-respected liberal charity at the same time? And that left-leaning charities tend to give money to left-leaning ...

"Obama dismissed Mr. Ayers as just 'a guy who lives in my neighborhood,' and 'not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis.'"
Althouse — Stanley Kurtz has the story: "Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools." blog advertising blog advertising

Stanley Kurtz On The Obama/Ayers Partnership
Nice Deb — ... His final report on  Obama and Ayers’ work together on The Annenberg project is in, and it’s a devastating indictment of Obama’s radical leftism, and poor judgment. ...

Murdoch drops the Ayers bomb
Corrente — On the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal [DCOW].

Obama’s legacy
Commonsense & Wonder — Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools By STANLEY KURTZArticle Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists. The CAC was the brainchild of Bill Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground in the 1960s. Among other ...

The Obama-Ayers Education Story: Funding Left-Wing Radicalism In Education
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... by the Obama camp, Stanley Kurtz finally has the story, in today's Wall Street Journal, of Barack Obama's involvement in unrepentant former terrorist Bill Ayers' project to spread left-wing politics under the guise of 'education' in Chicago schools. Here's a flavor of Ayers' project: ...

Two guys walk into a board meeting
Nitpicker — Stanley Kurtz wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal today called "Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools." Now, I don't usually blame writers for headlines, because they don't usually write them, but Stan seems ...

POLITICS: The Obama-Ayers Education Story
Baseball Crank — ... by the Obama camp, Stanley Kurtz finally has the story, in today's Wall Street Journal, of Barack Obama's involvement in unrepentant former terrorist Bill Ayers' project to spread left-wing politics under the guise of 'education' in Chicago schools. Here's a flavor of Ayers' project: ...

Barack Obama’s and William Ayers’ Radical Agenda for the Schools
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... A lunchtime or afternoon read from the Wall Street Journal: Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools Read it all. Key graph: The Obama campaign has cried foul when Bill Ayers comes up, claiming “guilt by association.” Yet the issue here isn’t guilt by association; it’s guilt by participation. As CAC chairman, Mr. Obama was lending moral and financial support to Mr. Ayers and his radical circle. That is a story even if Mr. Ayers had never planted a single bomb 40 years ago. ...

Helping to bring about "change"?
Classical Values — Helping to bring about "change"? Is education still an issue? Anyone who thinks it is, or who wants to learn more about Barack Obama's background in the field should read " Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools ": Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education ...

The difference between Glenn Reynolds and Marc Ambinder.
INSTAPUTZ — Putz on Obama/Ayers: "What does that say about Obama’s idea of mainstream, as he has repeatedly described Ayers and Dohrn?" And what does it say about the mainstream media, whose organs have quite consciously and deliberately ignored and minimized this subject?Ambinder on Obama/Ayers: What "radical" ideas did Obama and Bill Ayres come up with to foist on the Chicago school system? What specific projects -- "radical" projects -- did Obama work on with Ayres? Is there evidence that they ...

It Depends on What the Meaning of the Word "Exchange" is
The Jawa Report — September 23, 2008 It Depends on What the Meaning of the Word "Exchange" is Barack Obama has stated that the Bill Ayers, "not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis. Ayerssucks.jpg But according to the Daley Library records of of the CAC its clear that statement is somewhat less than accurate. Via Stanley Kurtz at WSJ: The Daley documents show that Mr. Ayers sat as an ex-officio member of the board Mr. Obama chaired through CAC's first year. He also served on the board's governance committee with Mr. Obama, and worked with him to craft CAC bylaws. Mr. Ayers made ...

Barack Obama and Bill Ayers: Stanley Kurtz Makes the Connection
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal and National Review Online, Ethics and Public Policy Center senior fellow Stanley Kurtz traces Barack Obama’s partnership with former domestic terrorist William Ayers when the two collaborated at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a charity established to help Chicago’s public schools that was commandeered by Ayers to promote his radical agenda. The association between Obama and Ayers has received virtually no attention from the three broadcast networks, with the conspicuous exception of a primary-season ...

The Race
Maggie's Farm — ... posting on a New York-based Web site for women, Jezebel.com, spoke of unbridled anger. "What I feel for her privately could be described as violent, nay, murderous, rage," an associate editor at Jezebel, Jessica Grose, wrote just after the Republican convention wrapped up. "When Palin spoke on Wednesday night, my head almost exploded from the incandescent anger boiling in my skull." What did Obama and Ayers do for the Chicago schools? ...

Barack Obama, Bill Ayers and Ben Smith
Patterico's Pontifications — ... Stanley Kurtz has an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal, detailing Barack Obama’s stint as chairman of an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), an experience that Obama usuall avoids putting on his resume, most likely because CAC was the brainchild of unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers: ...

The Executive Experience Barack Obama Doesn’t Want You To Know About
Say Anything — ... The Wall Street Journal has a killer piece on Barack Obama’s ties to Weather Underground bomb-setter William Ayers, and his efforts on behalf of Ayers and his group (the Chicago Annenberg Challenge) to radicalize public education in the Chicago area. ...

O!bama Doodles!
protein wisdom — Like radicalism, only with a pleasing candy coating! Me, I’d call them “Alinsky Wafers,” but then, I’m all about giving credit where it’s due. And let’s face it, this Messiah business is starting to look like a real pressure filled job. From Stanley Kurtz : From 1995 to 1999, [Barack Obama] led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists. The CAC was the brainchild of Bill Ayers, a founder of the Weather ...

A perfectly good fishing expedition gone to waste
Political Animal — ... " than we've been led to believe. They didn't have any evidence, but like their boss, they insisted they are right, whether the facts support it or not. This morning, picking up where the campaign left off, the Wall Street Journal editorial page ran a 1,100-word piece from conservative writer Stanley Kurtz about Obama's past with Ayers. The Journal gave it a provocative headline -- "Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism on Schools" -- and far-right blogs ...

HAIRSTYLES AND TANNING BEDS
Dr. Sanity — ... briefly summarizes the thorough Stanley Kurtz article (which should be read in total) on Barack Obama's radical ties to unrepentant terrorist, William Ayers and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC): ...

And Then There Is Jeremiah….
Daily Pundit — Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools - WSJ.com Mr. Ayers is the founder of the “small schools” movement (heavily funded by CAC), in which individual schools built around specific political themes push students to “confront issues of inequity, war, and violence.” He believes teacher education programs should serve as “sites of resistance” to an oppressive system. (His teacher-training programs were also CAC funded.) The point, says Mr. Ayers in his “Teaching Toward Freedom,” is to ...

Obama And Ayers - What's The Story?
JustOneMinute — ... wonders, what is the point of the Obama-Ayers connection? What "radical" ideas did Obama and Bill Ayres come up with to foist on the Chicago school system? What specific projects -- "radical" projects -- did Obama work on with Ayres? Is there evidence that they collaborated and schemed to ... do anything "radical" together? Ever? ... Is the real story here that Obama once served on the board of a liberal education charity? ...

“Hey, Look Over Here” Politics
Comments from Left Field — ... with Stanley Kurtz’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about Barack Obama’s supposed scary and sinister connections to former Weatherman Underground leader Bill Ayers: ...

A Tale of Two Vettings
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... In response to Stanley Kurtz's detailed story on Barack Obama's role in working with unrepentant terrorist and left-wing radical Bill Ayers to arrange the financing for a project that "poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists" under Ayers' dubious theory of treating left-wing political activism as "education" ( ...

Around the Sphere
Stop The ACLU — ... ACLU Beating Them With Their Own Sickle And Hammer Home About Us Petitions Email Store Log in Register Waaa! Credentialed Media Shut Out Of Palin Camp. Wonder Why Around the Sphere Posted on September 23, 2008 Doug Ross: Follow the Money: Barack Obama Edition Patterico: Unmitigated Garbage from FactCheck.org on Obama’s Second Amendment Record Tom McGuire rips Marc Ambinder up over Obama and Ayers Connection. Gribbit Online: McCain Supporter Takes MSM to Woodshed ...

Thought Experiment o' the Day
Doug Ross @ Journal — Did you catch Sarah Palin's latest gaffe ? Check out the screen-cap I grabbed from Faux News, knowing full well the Rethuglicans would pull it down! [image] Gawd, how embarrassing! She has, like, no experience! Versus Obama, who has, like, way more executive experience ! Way more! What? Dude! No Way! You say it was Biden, and not Palin who screwed up? And Biden just contradicted Obama on whether they support clean coal? And Biden just contradicted Obama on whether they support the AIG bailout? And Biden just did his best impression of ...

New Levels of Chutzpah: Obama 'Condemns' Little Hitler, Accuses McCain of Playing Politics With Israel
JammieWearingFool — ... in Venezuela under the leadership of President Chavez . We share the belief that education is the motor-force of revolution , and I’ve come to appreciate Luis as a major asset in both the Venezuelan and the international struggle—I look forward to seeing how he and all of you continue to overcome the failings of capitalist education as you seek to create something truly new and deeply humane. Thank you, Luis, for everything you’ve done. Must have been some fine education at that Annenberg Challenge . Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never ...

POLITICS: A Tale of Two Vettings
Baseball Crank — ... In response to Stanley Kurtz's detailed story on Barack Obama's role in working with unrepentant terrorist and left-wing radical Bill Ayers to arrange the financing for a project that "poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists" under Ayers' dubious theory of treating left-wing political activism as "education" ( ...

Obama and Unrepentant Terrorist Pushed and Plotted Radical Liberal Brainwashing on Schools
Stop The ACLU — Stanley Kurtz shows us how important being a community organizer is to Obama. One unsettled question is how Mr. Obama, a former community organizer fresh out of law school, could vault to the top of a new foundation? In response to my questions, the Obama campaign issued a statement saying that Mr. Ayers had nothing to do with Obama’s “recruitment” to the board. The statement says Deborah Leff and Patricia Albjerg Graham (presidents of other foundations) recruited him. Yet the archives show that, along with Ms. Leff and Ms. Graham, Mr. Ayers was one of a working group of five ...

Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools
The New Editor — Stanley Kurtz: Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists. The CAC was the brainchild of Bill Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground in the 1960s. Among other feats, Mr. Ayers and his cohorts bombed the Pentagon, and he has never ...

links for 2008-09-24
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... The press is bitchin' and moaning again. (tags: media sarah_palin) Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools - WSJ.com Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most ...

FOX News Overlooks Revelations About McCain Aide’s Ties To Freddie Mac In Favor Of Rehashing Obama “Ties” To Ayers
News Hounds — ... It seems that the “news” here was that a Wall Street Journal (now a sister company to FOX News) article indicates that Obama and Ayers worked more closely together on an educational initiative “to promote the group’s leftist agenda” than has been previously revealed. ...

I Always Knew He Was A Commie
TheOtherSideofKim Front Page — ... If I’ve come late to this party, please forgive me, but this WSJ article is dynamite, exposing as it does the close ties between Urkel and a former terrorist: ...

Why Won’t MSM Explore Obama’s Lies about Ayers?
GayPatriot — ... But, did Obama work with “thousands of” people on certain projects over an extended period of time.  The archives on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge at the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago reveal that “Mr. Obama and Mr. Ayers worked as a team:” ...

"The biggest story of the campaign"
Classical Values — ... " defense will work is questionable.) But (IMO) nothing could top a candidate himself working with an unrepetentant terrorist to push radicalism on school kids . Obama can't say everybody else did that, can he?

Palin, Rape Kits, High-School, & More
The Anchoress — ... …possibly because this story finally made it to the mainstream media, but only as far as the Wall Street Journal. ...

The Obama and Ayers connection
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE — I have never written much about this because although Ayers did introduce Obama into Chicago politics at his home, it wasn't a solid connection to Obama. The WSJ points to a more solid connection though: ...

the coverup of the coverup of the coverup
Classical Values — the coverup of the coverup of the coverup The biggest story of the campaign is that a man running for president was not only a close associate, but was quite possibly even a protege of an unrepentant terrorist. It's huge, rapidly unfolding news, but aside from yesterday's WSJ article , it's still not news to most voters, and I think it's obvious that the MSM want to keep it that way. They're more concerned with investigating the intricacies of an obscure Alaska bridge that wasn't built. The Corner's ...

Obama-Ayers: Partners in Revolution
Pajamas Media — ... on August 18:“Four folders, containing auditor’s reports, where clearly marked, in bold type, “THESE FOLDERS ARE RESTRICTED VIA ANNENBERG CHALLENGE until further notice.” After some interference and delay, he was allowed to view other documents, including the file containing “records of eight CAC Board of Directors meetings in 1995, when CAC was first set up.” What the files disclose is more details of the Ayers-Obama educational agenda, something I doubt would be embraced by the general public (if only the media informed them of it): The CAC’s agenda flowed from Mr. Ayers’s ...

Quote of the day
SCSUScholars — ... you and organized labor. That's it. That is it. So, mark my words, mark my words, if we lose this election, you are going to continue to see a continuation of the onslaught on everything we care about. For real. For real. So, I'm not only thanking you for your help. I would think you're all absolutely brain-dead if you didn't help. And I mean it.Joe Biden, speaking to The Artists Formerly Known as The American Trial Lawyers Association. How could he forget community organizers? Hillary'd've never made THAT mistake!

Global Poverty Act: The Revenge of the Community Organizers
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... to improve education under the aegis of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). The results were disastrous: "CAC's in-house evaluators comprehensively studied the effects of its grants on the test scores of Chicago public-school students. They found no evidence of educational improvement ." ...

"Old" news about to re-break?
Classical Values — ... is this: Senator Obama said that William Ayers is a guy he lives in his neighborhood. We know that that is a disingenuous and untruthful answer. ... There is a greater relationship than that of a guy who lives in my neighborhood between the two of them," he said. Boy, is that the understatement of the campaign. There's now a lot more than the fundraiser at the home of Mr. Ayers and their service together on the board of the Woods Foundation. Surely, the Sun reads the Wall Street Journal . By now, they must have heard that a young lawyer somehow landed the top job handing ...

Obama And Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — Previous Post And don’t forget this one. By STANLEY KURTZ - (WSJ) Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists. The CAC was the brainchild of Bill Ayers, a founder of the ...

Subversives For Obama - With Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — ... In the Wall Street Journal, Kurtz writes that documents in the CAC archives make it clear that William Ayers and Barack Obama were partners in the CAC. ...

Obama and some guy he barely knows
Political Animal — OBAMA AND SOME GUY HE BARELY KNOWS.... About a week or so ago, the Wall Street Journal editorial page ran an 1,100-word piece from conservative writer Stanley Kurtz about Barack Obama's past with 1960's-era radical William Ayers. The Journal gave it a provocative headline -- "Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism on Schools" -- and far-right blogs ...

NYT's Disgusting And Disgraceful Ayers-Obama Whitewash
Hyscience — ... Related: Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools ("Terrorist Bill Ayers and Obama did work closely together on the Anneberg project (CAC), sought to circumvent local schools to apply leftist teachings and did funnel CAC money to organizations fronting for ACORN") ...

The CNN attempts to slip something by the National Review:
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... A little point, but then this is a post about inaccuracy in reporting. As above, so below - if you'll forgive me for going all Hermetic over it. Anyway, CNN flubbed an article 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 - the guy doing said documentation - blasted them for it. CNN has now corrected the record, thus ...

Obama 'palling around' with terrorists
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... In a recent article entitled, "Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism," Stanley Kurtz reveals the connections between Obama, Ayers, radical community organizers and education activists and the education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC).Obama led the CAC from 1995 to 1999 and remained on the board until 2001. ...

Bill Dyer: Brokaw claims Ayers is now a mere "school reformer"
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — ... just in the last couple of days about [Obama's] association with William Ayers, who'd been a member of the Weathermen, who were a radical group from the 1970s, and who's now a school reformer in Illinois. "School reformer"? I suppose that's literally true, if shamefully misleading. Bill Ayers wants to "reform" American education in the same way that he wants to "reform" America — as in, literally "re-forming" it after he's blown it all to pieces. From Stanley Kurtz' reporting in the Wall Stree Journal : The [Chicago Annenberg Challenge's] agenda flowed from Mr. Ayers's ...

Palin's Remarks Put Ayers in the News
Politics Daily — ... journalists access to records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which was founded by Ayers and which Obama chaired. That journalist, Stanley Kurtz, has since gained access to the files and has written about Obama's working relationship with Ayers, which turns out to be more substantial than the Obama campaign has been willing to admit to date. ...

McCain & Keating, Obama & Ayers
Patterico's Pontifications — ... which funded “awful” projects and “had little impact on student outcomes.”  Given that Obama’s work on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) was Obama’s biggest executive experience and biggest attempt at reform, the releationship — and the failure of the project — should be newsworthy even if Ayers had not been involved in bombing the Pentagon.  That Ayers would like to transform the public schools into revolutionary indoctrination centers and used the CAC to advance that agenda also seems newsworthy.  Indeed, Obama touted the effort as a ...

AP: Criticizing Obama is Racist
Brain-Terminal.com — ... In addition to kicking off his political career at Ayers’s house, Obama was also tapped to lead an organization set up by Ayers to bring his goals for radicalizing education to Chicago public schools. Ayers, you see, is one of those folks who believes that, in order to be effective, indoctrination must start a lot sooner than college. And Obama worked to further the Ayers agenda for years. ...

In 1996, Media Coverage of Bill Ayers Was Too Extensive to Believe Obama Did Not Know Who Ayers Was
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Barack Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, claims Obama did not know that Bill Ayers was a domestic terrorist. You can see the claim here. I think that is fatuous nonsense. Why? Let me lay it out to you: Barack Obama, at Bill Ayers' behest, began work in 1995 at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. In 1994, the Democrats decided 1996 would be an appropriate time to go back to Chicago for a convention. The whole world of Democratic politics was paying attention in 1994 after that was announced. In 1994, Obama was paying attention. ...

Obama Didn’t Know About Racist Church For 20 Years, Now He Didn’t Know About Ayers Past
Flopping Aces — ... A year later Ayers asked Obama to help him with the Annenberg Challenge and made this community organizer the HEAD of the foundation. Pretty giant leap wouldn’t you say? ...

Fineman Justifies Link Between Obama and Lincoln, Disproves It, Restates It
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... of her own country?  Did the Lincoln vision include a future President who launched his Senate career from the home of an unrepentant terrorist? ...

Obama lying about Ayers
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... think we can definitively put the "he was just some guy in my neighborhood explanation" behind us. Noted racist right wing organization CNN has a report on the relationship between Obama and William Ayers and they found "the relationship between Obama and Ayers went much deeper, ran much longer, and was much more political than Obama said." Here is the video: For the details on Ayers and Obama see the indispensable Stanley Kurtz here and here and here. ...

MRC’s Worst of the Week: Bashing Palin for Daring to Mention Terrorist Ayers
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... National Review Online contributing editor Stanley Kurtz fought an attempt by Obama allies to block his access and actually looked at the relationship between Obama and Ayers during the four years that Obama served as board chairman of a foundation Ayers helped found, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). "The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists," Kurtz exposed in a September 23 Wall Street Journal op-ed. "Documents in the CAC archives make clear that Mr. Ayers and Mr. Obama ...

Editors: Alls Fair
Articles on National Review Online — ... He spent 11 years as a fugitive from justice. Obama and Ayers first met in 1995. In an interview for a book published that year, Ayers described his political views: I am a radical, Leftist, small c communist. Ayers s defenders say he has redeemed himself through his work in the field of education, and Obama worked with Ayers on an educational project called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. But Ayers is not interested in teaching kids to read or write. Again, Stanley Kurtz has done the legwork and shown that Ayers s work in education is merely an extension of his ...

Obama's Constitutional Subversion
Confederate Yankee — ... scholarship. In short, constitutional scholar Obama attempted to undermine the interpretation of the Constitution. The Hardy report is just the latest in a disturbing trend of information trickling out about Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama that suggests he is not only radically aligned, but that he is comfortable with using subterfuge to undermine both the Judicial and Executive in the pursuit of political power and influence. Stanley Kurtz has done and continues to do yeoman's work in sifting through the available archives trying to uncover exactly what ...

Obama’s Links To Group That Tried To Subvert The 2nd Amendment
Flopping Aces — ... and Obama’s work with Ayers in which they funneled millions to radical left wing organizations to indoctrinate students into the, as Ayers would say, Communism with a little “c”. ...

Carol Platt Liebau: Not a Pretty Picture
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... . Perhaps one of the more interesting predictions is made by Mark Siegel, a former Democratic National Committee executive director. He says President Obama would create a brand-new Volunteer Youth Network. It's not clear what that is, but given Obama's ties to ACORN -- and his work with Bill Ayres to radicalize schoolchildren in Chicago -- it's hardly reassuring. What, exactly, would Obama's network be "volunteering" to do?

What an Obama Administration Might Look Like
American Thinker — Obama co-chaired co-chaired the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, or CAC, with the unrepentant terrorist, who also hosted Obama's political kickoff at a function in Ayres' home. According to Stanley Kurtz , writing in the Wall Street Journal, Ayres, "founded CAC and was its guiding spirit. No one would have been appointed the CAC chairman without his approval."And, "Ayers is the founder of the 'small schools' movement (heavily funded by CAC), in which individual schools built around specific political themes push students to 'confront issues of inequity, war, and violence.' He ...

Obama and the Integrity Gap: The Extremists
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... ). Leaving aside for now the debate on exactly when and where Obama and his wife first met Ayers and Dohrn - among the evidence that he'd known him since the 1980s is the relationship I mentioned above between the organizations Obama and Ayers were running at the time - the short summary, from Stanley Kurtz: ...

"ex" bombers and double standards
Classical Values — ... to roost." Guilt by association? Not when the associations have such deep roots or raise such troubling questions about Obama's character and judgment. It was only in the heat of a presidential campaign that Obama finally repudiated his alliances with Ayers, Wright, and Rezko. It isn't irresponsible to ask what those associations tell us about a man poised to be the next president of the United States. It would be irresponsible not to. With Ayers, it's more than an association. It's collaboration . And repeated attempts at ...

Mitchell: Nobody Claims Obama Worked Closely With Ayers
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... As per Kurtz's article in the Wall Street Journal of September 23, 2008, Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools, [emphasis added]: "documents in the CAC archives make clear that Mr. Ayers and Mr. Obama were partners in the CAC," and Ayers approved the appointment of Obama as CAC chairman. Moreover, "documents show that Mr. Ayers sat as an ex-officio member of the board Mr. Obama chaired through CAC's first year. He also served on the board's governance committee with Mr. Obama, and worked with him to craft CAC bylaws. Mr. Ayers made presentations to ...

Talk About Guilt by Association: Wall Street Journal Profiles McCain Family’s Slaves
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Barack Obama’s supporters are whining about any attempt to link their candidate with former Weather Underground bomber William Ayers as “guilt by association” — even though, as National Review contributor Stanley Kurtz points out, the working relationship between Obama and Ayers can more correctly be described as “guilt by participation.” ...

The story hasn't changed; we're just too dumb to get it straight
Jim Treacher's Blog That Is on the Internet — ... and I knew about the bombings and stuff all along, but I thought he had been rehabilitated. This was some time after we met, which we have yet to do." "Sure, we served on some boards together and spent tens of millions of dollars on an 'education foundation' that would frighten any reasonable person who learned about it, which they won't because I have no knowledge of it. As I have maintained all along, Ayers and I were colleagues. But I never knew about those despicable acts he acted upon despicably, which I condemned then and still do." "Did you know I was never actually a ...

Obama-Ayers "Fact Check"
The Corner on National Review Online — ... on the Obama-Ayers connection why isn t the media pressing Obama associate Ken Rolling on his exceedingly un-credible claims about his role in blocking my access to documents about Obama s past, or on his apparent determination not to tell the full story of Ayers role in Obama s elevation to board chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge? For articles the Minnesota press can refer to if it wants to develop a more genuine "fact-check" on the Obama-Ayers relationship, see here , ...

Stanley Kurtz fact checks the Star Tribune
Power Line — ... For articles the Minnesota press can refer to if it wants to develop a more genuine "fact-check" on the Obama-Ayers relationship, see here, ...

The comprehensive argument against Barack Obama
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... together on two boards—The Woods Fund and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, where together they funneled huge sums of money to a who’s-who leftwing causes. Obama’s 1995 political coming-out party took place in the home of Ayers and his wife, a fellow unrepentant terrorist. Obama now denies this, but it’s a matter of record, confirmed by individuals who attended the party. Investigative journalist and Ethics and Public Policy Center Fellow, Stanley Kurtz, has written many thorough and indispensable ...

Does Obama Share The Educational Philosophy of Ayers And Klonsky?
Nice Deb — ... Why doesn’t someone in the media ask him that question? It’s an important one, and Americans deserve to know the answer to it. According to Stanley Kurtz: The CAC’s agenda flowed from Mr. Ayers’s educational philosophy, which called for infusing students and their parents with a radical political commitment, and which downplayed achievement tests in favor of activism. In the mid-1960s, Mr. Ayers taught at a radical alternative school, and served as a community organizer in Cleveland’s ghetto. ...

Taking a step back one more time: Ayers, Obama, and what a vote for Obama does to America
Hyscience — ... with William Ayers tells us about what Obama as president would do to the America our founding fathers intended. This is why readers should make sure that they email to everyone they know that is not voting for McCain, the following articles: > Video: Stanley Kurtz on Obama, ACORN, and the CRA - with commentary, at Hot Air. The Ayers agenda by Boston Herald Editorial Staff Obama-Ayers: Partners in Revolution by Clarice Feldman Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools by Stanley Kurtz Obama's ...

Ideological heirs
Classical Values — ... matter or people are afraid to use the word. What concerns me is that the focus on Ayers the terrorist turns inevitably turns into a debate over how old Obama was at the time of the bombings, how close his relationship was with Ayers, whether G. Gordon Liddy is comparable to Ayers, etc. and avoids any mention of communism, much less a serious discussion of whether it is appropriate for a president who (unless I am mistaken) sees nothing wrong with working with communists, and dispensing money to communists . One of the lesser known communists who managed to receive nearly ...

In Search of … Obama, the Radical Lefty
The Moderate Voice — ... In turn, I read both Russo’s evaluation and Kurtz’s summary of his evaluation. I even went a step further and reviewed multiple pages from another evaluation by the Consortium on Chicago School Research, published in 2003 and posted ( ...

Getting the 'Ayers Issue' Straight
American Thinker — ... that it "clearly involves significant consultation between the board, headed by Obama, and the Collaborative, co-chaired by Ayers." The materials "show that Mr. Obama and Mr. Ayers worked as a team to advance the CAC agenda."CAC received a $50 million matched grant which the two used to advance radical alternative education. Funding, however, did not go directly to schools but rather to "external partners" with whom the schools were required to affiliate, writes Stanley Kurtz.. Many of the partners were radical community organization groups, ACORN among them. Another such ...

ABC's Chris Cuomo Has Few Follow-ups for 'Campaign Boogeyman' Ayers
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... As noted earlier, Cuomo did not ask Ayers about the extent of his relationship with Obama in regards to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. In a September 23, 2008 piece for the Wall Street Journal, writer Stanley Kurtz explained both the radical nature of the CAC and Obama's connection to it: ...

Obama’s New Edu-Sec Duncan Gives New Meaning To “Special Education”
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — ... “While there are no simple answers, I know from experience that when you focus on basics like reading and math, when you embrace innovative new approaches to learning, and when you create a professional climate that attracts great teachers — you can make a difference for children,” he said. (AFP) Now, here’s the thing … or three about Duncan: 1. Chicago Annenberg Challenge and Arne Duncan: Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools By STANLEY KURTZ - (WSJ) [ ...

Liberal Charlotte Observer baps Obama over the head
Sister Toldjah — ... been elected, doesn’t change the fact that they - along with other liberal news outlets across the country - chose to look the other way while time after time Obama revealed himself to be duplicitous on issue after issue, while at the same time they devoted more resources to investigating Gov. Sarah Palin’s record as mayor of the little town of Wasilla than Barack Obama’s long history of ties to left wing radicals like Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers, and his entrenchment in the Chicago ...

Thursday links
Maggie's Farm — Beowoulf, and when poetry mattered Of course it does. Global warming causes swine flu. Yes, the earth has a fever - and it's contagious.  Admission: We do want to re-program your kids. Related, from 2008: Obama and Ayers pushed radicalism on schools. Norway's socialist/totalitarian system The peasants like it. Megan: Medicare is going to bankrupt us...which is why we need universal health care? Insty: MICHAEL BARONE: ...

"Neither man has any substantial ties to President Obama"
Hyscience — From Guy Benson at NRO's Media Blog: Two noted lovers of all things peaceful took part in a Middle East peace demonstration over the weekend. Obligatory Mainstream Media reminder: Neither man has any substantial ties to President Obama. Ties to Ayers and Wright? Of course not ...

Obama’s classroom campaign: No junior lobbyist left behind
Michelle Malkin — ... — a group which includes several activist educators as you’ll see below. Downplaying academic achievement in favor of left-wing radical activism in the public schools is rooted in old neighborhood pal and Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers’ pedagogical philosophy. It was the Chicago Annenberg Challenge way when the two served as board members of the educational foundation — and it is the Washington Obama way now. *** Obama’s classroom campaign: No junior lobbyist left behind by Michelle Malkin ...

Video: Michelle Malkin Discusses Obama’s School Speech On Hannity
Nice Deb — ... I think she’s absolutely right that the speech itself will be innocuous, although I suspect that there will be parts that rub me the wrong way – for instance any mention of “community service” because of the connotations and connections that come to mind. The main concern here, is of course,  that many liberal activist teachers will look at ...

Why parents don’t trust the Educator-in-Chief and his comrades
Michelle Malkin — ... of left-wing radical activism in the public schools is rooted in Bill Ayers’ pedagogical philosophy. Obama served as the program’s first chairman of the board, while Ayers steered its curricular policy. The two oversaw grants to welfare rights enterprise ACORN and to avowed communist Michael Klonsky – a close pal of Ayers and member of the militant Students for a Democratic Society. SDS served as a precursor to the violent Weather Underground organization. As investigative journalist Stanley Kurtz reported, Klonsky and Ayers teamed up on the so-called “small schools movement” ...

OBAMA'S INNER CIRCLE IS A GALLERY OF ROGUES, REDS AND RADICALS
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — ... BILL AYTERS: TERRORIST; MURDERER; LIAR; LAUNCHED OBAMA'S CAREER - PERHAPS EVEN GHOST-WROTE OBAMA'S "MEMOIRS" ...

The Death of the Soviet Union Was Not the Death of Communism -- By: Andy McCarthy
The Corner on National Review Online — ... It should be apparent by now that communism never died. The Soviet Union died. Being a communist, or a neocommunist, is not an intellectual anachronism at all -- it is quite the fashion in the academy and our other institutions. Does Charles not realize, for example, that Obama's friend Bill Ayers -- who proudly calls himself "a small 'c' communist" -- was in 2008 elected vice president for curriculum of the American Education Research Association, the nation's largest organization of education professors and researchers? (See Sol Stern's ...

I repeat: It’s not the speech, it’s the subtext
Michelle Malkin — ... It’s the influence of the left-wing social justice crusaders of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge on Team Obama. It’s the Left’s embrace of Obama Chicago pal Bill Ayers’ pedagogical philosophy of ...

Could Obama Have Survived Appointment In Another Administration?
Discriminations — ... accusations. I’m assuming here that 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 ...

Dog the Wags
American Thinker — ... Jeremiah Wright, an anti-Semitic conspiracy kook that preached Black Liberation Theology for 20 years to Mr. Obama and his family ACORN leaders -- especially those that worked with Mr. Obama in Chicago Labor union leaders -- especially at the UAW and SEIU US, Pakistan, or Indonesian government passport administrators Admissions and records administrators at Occidental, Columbia, or Harvard George Soros and the Annenberg administrators -- They might have some incriminating follow-the-money secrets to reveal ...