N.Y. Times Publishes Bill Ayers Attack on Conservatives
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... The New York Times published an op-ed Saturday from William Ayers decrying how Barack Obama was smeared by conservatives through guilt by association. This is not surprising when a liberal writes it. It is, however, a little hard to take from someone who bombed public buildings without a care about hurting or killing innocent people who aren’t "war criminals." Once you plot to bomb the Pentagon or the Capitol or an officers’ dance, the charisma of that guilt-by-association complaint seems to vanish. ...

Unrepentant Ayers: 'Hey, We Only Blew Up Small Bombs, So Everything's Cool, Right?'
JammieWearingFool — Unrepentant terrorist and full time scumbag William Ayers returns to grace the pages of the New York Times, home of his notorious September 11, 2001 column. This guy just doesn't get it, never will, and lies through his teeth . Unable to challenge the content of Barack Obama’s campaign, his opponents invented a narrative about a young politician who emerged from nowhere, a man of charm, intelligence and skill, but with an exotic background and a strange name. The refrain was a question: “What do we really know about this man?” Secondary characters in the narrative included an ...

Bill Ayers on the Real Bill Ayers
The Latest on Air America — The following was published today in the New York Times : In the recently concluded presidential race, I was unwillingly thrust upon the stage and asked to play a role in a profoundly dishonest drama. I refused, and here’s why. Unable to challenge the content of Barack Obama’s campaign, his opponents invented a narrative about a young politician who emerged from nowhere, a man of charm, intelligence and skill, but with an exotic background and a strange name. The refrain was a question: “What do we really know about this man?” Secondary characters in the narrative ...

This isn't Right...
Lawyers, Guns and Money — This op-ed lists William Ayers as the author of "Fugitive Days" and "Race Course", but not of "Dreams of My Father"; that can't be right...

The Saturday Word: Roads and Cars
The Caucus — ... that Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign spent more than $165,000 over nine weeks on three stylists for Gov. Sarah Palin, “equivalent to what a Hollywood studio might invest in preparing an A-list actress for a movie premiere or publicity campaign, other stylists said.” William Ayers, the former Weatherman whose ties to Mr. Obama dogged the candidate throughout the election, speaks for himself in a New York Times op-ed about why he didn’t speak out earlier.

William Ayers Whitewashes History and the Blood on His Hands
The Sundries Shack — When I heard that Bill Ayers had an op-ed in today’s New York Times , I thought I’d have some fun with the soggy little simp. After all, it’s not every day you get a living, breathing, whining 60’s leftover coming out into the light reeking of fake humility and patchouli-stank for us to point and laugh at. But, after reading what he wrote, I revised my plan. Yes, Ayers is still a whining little tool, but he’s also pernicious fantasist who bends history to his benefit. His op-ed should be taken seriously because it is history and we need to be careful to get it right. Ayers’ ...

Was Bill Ayers a Terrorist?
The Volokh Conspiracy — He says no : I never killed or injured anyone.... In 1970, I co-founded the Weather Underground, an organization that was created after an accidental explosion that claimed the lives of three of our comrades in Greenwich Village. The Weather Underground went on to take responsibility for placing several small bombs in empty offices — the ones at the Pentagon and the United States Capitol were the most notorious — as an illegal and unpopular war consumed the nation. The Weather Underground crossed lines of legality, of propriety and perhaps even of common sense. Our ...

New York Times Hits Bottom, Digs
Little Green Footballs — ... The New York Times continues demonstrating why their circulation is dropping like a rock, by giving space to an unrepentant anti-American terrorist, for a dishonest, whiny, self-indulgent op-ed about being a victim: The Real Bill Ayers. ...

Prediction: The Ayers Haters Still Won’t be Satisfied
The Moderate Voice — ... During the run up to the election, I wrote a series of posts challenging those who challenged Obama on the basis of his “association” with Bill Ayers. Today, in the print edition of the New York Times, Ayers takes his own shot at setting the record straight and offering the repentance for past deeds that so many of his newfound critics demanded he offer: ...

Pustule speaks
Cold Fury — What a filthy, sleazy, lying son of a bitch Pee-resident Obama’s pal and sometime babysitter Bill Ayers remains: I was cast in the “unrepentant terrorist” role; I felt at times like the enemy projected onto a large screen in the “Two Minutes Hate” scene from George Orwell’s “1984,” when the faithful gathered in a frenzy of fear and loathing. So sayeth the shitbag who not so long ago was gloating about being “guilty as hell, free as a bird.” Poor, poor baby. With the mainstream news media and the blogosphere caught in the pre-election excitement, I saw no viable path to a ...

Bill Ayers: We were not terrorists
The Swamp — ... Today, it's on the op-ed page of the New York Times. The Chicago educator, whose acquaintance with President-elect Barack Obama became a major issue, wrote: ...

Ayers: It wasn’t terrorism, it was more like “extreme vandalism”
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... , although it may be the first time he’s done it in the pages of a paper whose own reporting contradicts him. Terrorists, it seems, kill people indiscriminately whereas the Weathermen never tried to kill anyone. Except ...

Bill Ayers: Please Go Away
Political Animal — Bill Ayers: Please Go Away For reasons best known to themselves, the NYT has published an op-ed by William Ayers: "In the recently concluded presidential race, I was unwillingly thrust upon the stage and asked to play a role in a profoundly dishonest drama. (...) "Now that the election is over, I want to say as plainly as I can that the character invented to serve this drama wasn't me, not even close. Here are the facts: I never killed or injured anyone. I did join the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s, and later resisted the draft and was arrested in nonviolent ...

Bill Ayers: Please Go Away
Obsidian Wings — ... by hilzoy For reasons best known to themselves, the NYT has published an op-ed by William Ayers: "In the recently concluded presidential race, I was unwillingly thrust upon the stage and asked to play a role in a profoundly dishonest drama. (...) "Now that the election is over, I want to say as plainly as I can that the character invented to serve this drama wasn't me, not even close. Here are the facts: I never killed or injured anyone. I did join the civil rights ...

Incompetence Is No Defense
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... Ayers may think that there's still a debate about the Weather Underground's effectiveness. And he might also think that he "acted appropriately in the context of those times." To me, though, he's just a shallow rich kid who took himself and his revolutionary rhetoric much too seriously, helped inspire people to do things that got them killed, and helped to discredit the anti-war movement and the left as a whole. ...

Bill Ayers’ War On “Amerikkka”
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Revisionist Bill Ayers: I Was Just A “Virtuous Protestor”
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — Obama’s Stealth Socialism here and here. By WILLIAM AYERS - (NYTimes) IN the recently concluded presidential race, I was unwillingly thrust upon the stage and asked to play a role in a profoundly dishonest drama. I refused, and here’s why. Unable to challenge the content of Barack Obama’s campaign, his opponents invented a narrative about a young politician who emerged from nowhere, a man of charm, intelligence and skill, but with an exotic background and a strange name. The refrain was a question: “What do we really know ...

News and stuff
The Sideshow — ... only a 50% majority to get what people say they want, but a 2/3rds majority to get what people just might need. Barack Obama will put forward retired Gen. Eric Shinseki as Secretary of Veterans Affairs in his cabinet - which is good, because if they'd listened to Shinseki, there wouldn't be so many vets desperately needing help in the first place. What happened when Obama phoned a Republican. Bush administration to eliminate Congressional authority. The Real Bill Ayers by William Ayers in The New York Times. Looks like the Bushistas ...

The Real Bill Ayers Kind Of Sucks
Matthew Yglesias — ... But being the target of unfair criticism does not, on its own, exonerate a person. And Ayers’ odd little New York Times op-ed only re-enforces one’s sense that unfair criticism can certainly be directed at a guy who very much deserves to be the ...

Today in The Nation: Whitewashing History
The Nation: Top Stories — It couldn't have been easy for Bill Ayers to keep quiet while the McCain campaign tarred him as the Obama's best friend, the terrorist. Unfortunately, the silence was too good to last. On Saturday's New York Times op-ed page, he announced that "it's finally time to tell my true story." Like his memoir, Fugitive Days , "The Real Bill Ayers" is a sentimentalized, self-justifying whitewash of his role in the weirdo violent fringe of the 1960s-70s antiwar left. "I never killed or injured anyone, "Ayers writes. "In 1970, I co-founded the Weather Underground, an organization ...

Nordlinger: Not a fan, c.
Articles on National Review Online — ... t other bombers thought of such language? Ayers made no mention of the plot against young men and women as they danced at Fort Dix, and no mention of the Brinks murders. (Three men died, including the first black policeman on his local force.) Ayers contended that Republicans, having nothing else to say, tried to injure Barack Obama through guilt by association — association with him. But, thank the Lord, the politics of fear did not triumph, not this time. The entire piece ( here ) was absolutely nauseating. And some people pointed out that the Times refused to publish ...

Re: The Fort Dix Verdict is Racist, Anti-Immigrant & Anti-Muslim!
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] Jonah, I assume the difference is that Bill &the Weather gang weren't terrorists they were, quoth the professor , merely engaged "in extreme vandalism directed at monuments to war and racism, and the attacks on property, never on people, were meant to respect human life" ... except, y'know, for that ...

Great News: Preening, Overexposed World Savior to Pen NY Times Column
JammieWearingFool — No, not Obama. His buddies are already doing that for him. No, folks, this is someone even larger than life than The Messiah. U2 frontman, Elevation Partners partner and anti-bad things in the world activist Bono will be the New York Times's newest Op-Ed contribuor. His first column will appear on this Sunday's Op-Ed page and it'll be at nytimes.com/opinion too. "I've never been great with the full stops or commas," the musician said in a release. "Let's see how far we can take this." I'll give him this much. He could take a dump on newsprint and still be more ...

Ayers: Obama Election 'A Strike Against White Supremacy'
JammieWearingFool — ... where he said he didn't regret being a terrorist. The the Times so graciously gave him op-ed space again this past December where he played the victim for being called a terrorist. Now he'll be getting the full NY Times Magazine treatment ...

Statement Published
Jules Crittenden — ... ,” shoved back in “Media and Advertising.” The Gray Lady’s disdainful treatment almost makes that Post non-apology for the faux scandal over the chimp thing look gracious. Not fair! Bill Ayers got to call his NYT anti-media screed “ The Real Bill Ayers .” Then again, he and NYT didn’t exactly have an adversarial relationship.*  Iseman’s guy from Washington and Lee University School of Law and the other guy from Allen, Allen, Allen and Allen apparently forgot to negotiate a headline. Something like “The Real Vicki Iseman” or “The real NYT” or, I dunno, ”The Malaise of American ...