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The Chicago Annenberg Challenge - The Fog Thickens
JustOneMinute —
... of 1988. The group led by Obama, Developing Communities Project , was part of the ABCs Coalition led by Thomas Ayers (Bill's dad) and coordinated by Bill Ayers himself. The odds are pretty good that this is when Bill Ayers and Barack Obama first met. I wonder whether the Times knew that, too. CREDIT WHERE DUE: Mr. Kurtz is kind enough to note my digging and ranting on this topic but correctly gives the Gold to Steve Diamond of Global Labor . THE FOG AT FOX: Obama was asked about Bill Ayers a few days after the ...
Obama wants a return to ‘open’ and ‘transparent’ government
Sister Toldjah —
... Now the University of Illinois at Chicago is denying Stanley Kurtz access to documents relating to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a small foundation, founded and inspired by Bill Ayers, for which Obama served as board chairman.
Tom Maguire’s all over the Chicago Annenberg Challenge mystery and writes about it at length here. Steve Diamond has a detailed background on this story here in a June post .
I should remind everyone that Obama is the same ...
Shielding The Facts About Obama’s Relationship With Terrorists
Flopping Aces —
... .) But the key reporting on the Obama-Ayers connection via the Chicago Annenberg Challenge has been done by Steve Diamond, at Global Labor and Politics. (See especially this important post of June 18, 2008.) Sad to say, the mainstream media has almost entirely ignored the issues so powerfully raised by Diamond, and discussed at length by various bloggers, even though Obama’s service at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge raises serious questions about the veracity of his account of his relationship with Ayers. Access to the CAC records promises to provide a treasure trove ...
Reveal the Donor
The Corner on National Review Online —
... with public figures, certainly including board chair, Barack Obama. I cannot imagine that any person, persons, or body able to donate these records to UIC would have any legitimate reason to shield their identity from the public. From the start, everything about the Chicago Annenberg Challenge has been a matter of direct public interest. Given this, what possible grounds could UIC s Richard J. Daley library have for shielding the name of the donor? For further background, see this important post , especially the last half, from Steve Diamond, who has been the key blogger on ...
Bill Ayers Continues To Be The Political IED In Hussein’s Road To The White House - With Audio
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
... Annenberg Challenge. That information paints a disturbing picture, and one sharply at odds with Obama’s claim that Bill Ayers was just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood.” A number of bloggers, including, for example, Tom Maguire, at Just One Minute, have done excellent work on the CAC issue. … But the key reporting on the Obama-Ayers connection via the Chicago Annenberg Challenge has been done by Steve Diamond, at Global Labor and Politics. (See especially this important post of June 18, 2008.) Sad to say, the mainstream media has almost entirely ignored the issues so ...
More than an "association"
Classical Values —
... the coverup is worse than the crime. But if Diamond is right, what's being covered up might be pretty bad. Unfortunately for Senator Obama, what might only stink in Chicago - a relationship with an ex-terrorist who had an authoritarian agenda in mind for Chicago school kids - is far more damaging on the national political scene. I don't how most voters will take this, but for me the idea of a guy like Bill Ayers taking over Chicago's public schools (the goal being a transformation " similar to efforts by regimes like those in Nicaragua under the Sandinistas and Venezuela under ...
Update: Still No Movement on Ayers-Obama Annenberg Papers
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
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Several months ago I was able to obtain certain key records of the Challenge - including board minutes, annual and semi-annual reports and financial records - from Brown University's Annenberg Institute. Brown housed the national Annenberg Challenge program that was set up in 1993 by a gift of $500 million from Walter Annenberg.
Diamond's entire blog merits attention, but look specifically at his listing of the key documents, his original examination of the Ayers-Obama relationship, and an in depth look ...
Bill & Barack's Excellent Adventure
American Thinker —
... headed by Obama and effectively run by Ayers, held by the library of the University of Illinois Chicago. Researchers who have gained ...
Obama, Ayers and the Annenberg Challenge Cover-Up
Pajamas Media —
... disbursements made by the group, so if Chairman Barack was funneling money to absurd left wing projects the public would soon find out. But what if Ayers advocated some now-embarrassing left-wing proposal supported by Obama but rejected by the full board? Since it was never funded, that moment of awkwardness would show up in the currently-concealed board minutes but not the tax returns. Steve Diamond noted that an early disbursement of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge was to a group led by former student radical Mike Klonsky . Is No Radical Left Behind the sort of Hope and ...
Can Obama Survive the Annenberg Cover-up?
Pajamas Media —
... launched . Mr. Ayers was a leader of the Weather Underground, a terrorist group responsible for countless bombings against targets including the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon and numerous police stations, courthouses and banks. In recent years Mr. Ayers has stated , ‘I don’t regret setting bombs. … I feel we didn’t do enough.’” The background of this matter has been hashed out for some months online at Slate, The American Thinker , Just One Minute and Global Labor. National Review Online joined in more recently. But if you missed the story ...
Obama, Ayers and the Media
QandO —
... . Steve Diamond has reviewed the Annenberg Challenge collection and arrives at much the same conclusion. Apparently, Smith hasn’t seen any of this evidence either. ...
The Chicago Annenberg Challenge Story Wont Die
A Blog For All —
... . What Stanley Kurtz is doing is simply bringing to light a chapter in Obama's background that he and his campaign would love never to see the light of day. Obama worked closely with Ayers for years and there's no getting around that simple inalienable fact. You do not work on a board with other board members, to say nothing of the board interacting with the chairman of that board, without constant interaction. Ayers simply was not some guy who lived in Obama's neighborhood . He was a close associate and Ayers saw something in Obama that led Ayers to elevate Obama to the ...
Radio Killed The Media Star
JustOneMinute —
... August 28, 2008 Radio Killed The Media Star Steve Diamond, who has led the way on untangling the Obama/Ayers/Annenberg Challenge connection, ...
Steve Diamond Makes News
JustOneMinute —
We noted yesterday that Steve Diamond, who has been leading the charge on the Obama/Ayers/Chicago Annenberg Challenge story, had received documents indicating that Ken Rolling, an Obama associate and former Executive Director of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, had attempted to prevent disclosure of some of the files. Today the Chicago Tribune picks up the story, assuring us that Ken Rolling's requests were denied: The Chicago Annenberg Challenge turned over all of its documents to be archived in the Richard J. Daley Library at the ...
Subversives For Obama - With Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
... Small wonder Camp Obama is sensitive to the association. Klonsky, a professor of education and leader of the New Communist movement, was national secretary of the radical group Students for a Democratic Society. In 1969, he was one of five SDS members arrested at the organization’s Chicago national headquarters for assaulting a police officer, interfering with a firefighter, and inciting mob action. As Global Labor and Politics has reported, Klonsky went on to form ...
Obama and Ayers Shared an Office for Three Years
Moonbattery —
... Who is this Mike Klonsky who worked with Ayers on the Small Schools project? Via Gateway Pundit:
Mike Klonsky, the Maoist Hardliner, Obama supporter and former best friend of the Weatherman terrorist group founders William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, received a $175,000 grant from the William Ayers/Barack Obama-led Annenberg Challenge to run the Small Schools Workshop.
Klonsky belonged to the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and was ...
Re: Anita Dunn and Mao Zedong -- By: Andy McCarthy
The Corner on National Review Online —
... took a different path, albeit one that led inexorably to a new partnership with Ayers, which Obama mightily helped underwrite. Upon splitting off from the SDS, Klonsky formed a Maoist organization, first known as the “October League,” which ultimately became the “Communist Party (Marxist Leninist).” Klonsky was CP(ML)’s chairman. He was so highly thought of by Mao’s regime that he was among the first Americans invited to visit Communist China. When he was feted there in 1977, a year after Mao’s death, the ...
