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Helping out Leno and Letterman
QandO — ... major presidential candidates. Comedy Central is the equal-opportunity choice, making fun of all sides about equally. That increases my respect for Jon Stewart another notch. Leno and Letterman don’t seem to have found their mojo on going after Obama. Perhaps it’s because the guy comes across as pretty humorless, so he’s just not that easy to make fun of. On an apparently unrelated note, Insty’s link just above that one says the Obama-Ayers connection is finally breaking into the mainstream media. That ...

Annenberg Challengers
Gateway Pundit — ... at American Thinker has a good overview of the story thus far. Howard Kurtz at National Review Online was investigating the story this past month until he ran into some roadblocks. The Chicago Richard J. Daley Library will not allow him to review the records. A suspicious donor locked him out. The McCain Campaign pressed the issue yesterday. Tom Maguire is following the developments and includes a list of grant ...

Obama hiding behind Daley’s skirts?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... a case of both being hired by a corporate manager and forced to work together.  In fact, Obama chose to work for Ayers at the CAC. Kass notes that a release now will prove rather pointless.  Daley’s people will have sanitized the records sufficiently by now that when Obama eventually demands their release, the only connection between him and Ayers will be the letterhead.  The Daley machine understands its role in protecting Obama, and they’re going to make sure it gets done right. Tom Maguire has outstanding coverage of this story, and both ...

The Wallace & Grommit Life
pandagon.net - we are the public option — by Jesse Taylor How fucking complicated does every theory about Barack Obama have to be?  The newest one is that he’s hiding documents in a library about all the time he and Bill Ayers spent plotting to blow up churches and daycares by combining the powers of the Annenberg Foundation, Richard Daley and Mrs. O’Leary’s cow to hide the magic plans and blueprints from prying eyes.  Or, more likely, the files are tied up in some bureaucratic technicality (like the shredder!) and will be released as soon as it’s ...

Some things can't be vacuumed
Classical Values — Some things can't be vacuumed The Chicago Annenberg Challenge Ayer/Obama affair (discussed infra ) is finally receiving national attention . More here and here . (Via Glenn Reynolds .) While Glenn thinks the files have probably been "vacuumed of any seriously embarrassing matter," I think it's an embarrassment that a candidate for national office worked closely for years with an unrepentant terrorist. Let me admit my bias here. Contemplating Bill Ayers and his evil wife makes me sick, and regular readers know that I don't say this about ...

Fallout from Retreat
The Anchoress — ... John McCain may have overstated things a bit when, shortly after the war started, he said, “We are all Georgians now.” But apparently even rank-and-file Russian soldiers view the Georgians and Americans as allies. 8) How not interesting or surprising is this ? And another super duper non-surprise . Yawn. Illusionists are so predictable, sometimes. 9) Scott at Election Projection finds that predictable ain’t running away with the election . Or maybe it’s just the Chicago Way that’s not thrilling folks. Or the company that Sen Obama has kept and ...

Respectable Terrorism
Classical Values — Respectable Terrorism Tom Maguire at Just One Minute has lots more on the Obama/Ayres relationship here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here . Whew. And that is just in the last week.

How To Tell If You Are A Racist
QandO — ... record sums, and inspired millions with his eloquence and vision. McCain has struggled with a fractious campaign team, lacks clarity and discipline, and remains a stranger to charisma. Yet at the moment, the two of them appear to be tied. What gives?In Weisberg’s opinion, it can’t possibly be that Obama is the most liberal member of the Senate. Nope. It’s because you’re a racist. Nor can it be Obama’s unfortunate and ill-explained associations. Nope. It’s because you’re a racist. ...