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nytimes.com - 12/5/2008
Op-Ed Contributor - The Real Bill Ayers
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Chicago 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 ...
nytimes.com - 12/6/2008
Op-Ed Contributor: The Real Bill Ayers
— nytimes.com — Now that the election is over, a secondary character in a narrative about Barack Obama separates his... fictional identity from his actual one. > (more) Op-Ed Contributor: The Real Bill Ayers

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Op-Ed Contributor: Abortion Politics Didn’t Doom the G.O.P.
nytimes.com - 12/7/2008
Op-Ed Contributor: Abortion Politics Didn’t Doom the G.O.P.
— nytimes.com — Pro-lifers want to compromise, but so long as the Supreme Court remains closely divided on Roe vs.... Wade, the movement won’t give up its political goal to have the decision overturned. > (more) Op-Ed Contributor: Abortion Politics Didn’t Doom the G.O.P.

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obsidianwings.blogs.com - 12/6/2008
Bill Ayers: Please Go Away
— obsidianwings.blogs.com — 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. ... (more) Bill Ayers: Please Go Away

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The Page by Mark Halperin:  Ayers on Obama: "We Didn't Pal Around"

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:  Ayers Speaks Out

Patterico's Pontifications:  The Real Charles Manson

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Ayers on Obama: "We Didn't Pal Around"
The Page by Mark Halperin — The former radical leader continues to speak out, this time in a NY Times op-ed. Defends his militant past and says Obama bears no responsibility for his views or his actions.       

Ayers Speaks Out
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — William Ayers, writing in the New York Times: "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... President-elect Obama and I sat on a board together; we lived in the same diverse and yet close-knit community; we sometimes passed in the bookstore. We didn't pal around, and I had nothing to do with his positions. I knew him as well as thousands of others did, and like millions of others, I wish I knew him better."

The Real Charles Manson
Patterico's Pontifications — In the wake of Bill Ayers’s op-ed in the New York Times today, titled The Real Bill Ayers, I have obtained Charles Manson’s submission to Times editors, titled “The Real Charlie Manson.” Some excerpts: Over the years, I have been cast in the role of “1960s-era mass murderer.” 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 became a big fan of the Beatles. I was a songwriter and admittedly a bit of a drifter. In ...

The real Charles Manson
Power Line — ... Readers with a high threshold for nausea may have taken in Bill Ayers's New York Times op-ed column "The real Bill Ayers" yesterday. Ayers describes himself as a former civil rights activist, draft resister and nonviolent demonstrator. He admits to "symbolic acts of extreme vandalism directed at monuments to war and racism[.]" (Discover the Networks has a slightly more illuminating post on the real Bill Ayers ...

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