Bernardine Dohrn Knows I'm Racist And Armed

Hat Tip: The Daily Caller

Oh: It's Not Wrong if The NYT Doesn't Do It

"My name is Larry Grathwohl and I infiltrated the Weather Underground for the FBI. I had no idea when my journey began in August 1969 that I would see and experience the degree of violence and hatred of our democracy that existed in the Weather Underground. Bernardine Dorhn, Bill Ayers, and the other people I would meet had as their sole purpose the destruction of the United States. The fact that I ultimately became the only source of information regarding the activities of the Weather Underground and the fact that Bill Ayers now claims their goal was only to bring about the end of the war in Vietnam requires me to respond.

At least Bill admits the Weather Underground 'crossed' the line of legality but mitigates this admission by stating that the effectiveness of the 'symbolic acts of extreme vandalism' is still being debated. He further states that the selected targets were 'property, never people' and that their only purpose was to end the war in Vietnam. Bill is simply not being truthful and is rewriting history to reflect a completely different role for himself and the Weather Underground from what actually took place. 'Bring the war home, kill your parents' was the mantra being chanted when the group decided to go underground in December 1969 and there certainly isn’t anything anti-war in that statement. I’m also curious as to who is debating their status. When I think about the Weather Underground my immediate thought is 'terrorism and death.'"

-- Larry Grathwohl, with a “Response to ‘The Real Bill Ayers'" that The New York Times refused to run, but which easily found a home on Pajamas Media.

Our Race To The Bottom

"Just when you had wished you had indeed heard the last of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, it turns out they are publishing a new manifesto described in brief on Amazon.com.

What makes the book blurb - this one apparently not written by their long time, umm, colleague, co-education policy wonk, fellow intellectual and, yes, neighbor Barack Obama - worrisome is that it links what Ayers and Dohrn says is America's continuing sin, racism, with their views on war.

In other words just as Barack Obama moves to the White House, these two destructive figures out of the past are about to advocate an entire new world view for America built around their curious race-centric obsession."

— Steve Diamond, keeping us "in the know" on people we wish we never heard of, but that's Global Labor and Politics.

Ayers, Dohrn, and this book are shit. You'd do better with:

Don't Paint The White House Black Just Yet

I've wondered why the media hasn't followed up on this since it happened:

Above is a video of the 3rd debate. Advance it to 3:30 and you hear John McCain accuse Barack Obama of launching his political campaign in Bill Ayers's living room, and Obama clearly saying, "that's not true."

But is it true? Of course it is - but, just like with the John Edwards Scandal, everything that bloggers have been discovering about Ayers and Obama is something somebody doesn't want the voters to know. Several mainstream media outlets and major newspapers - like the New York Times and the L.A. Times - have claimed that there is “no recorded basis” for John McCain’s statement that Obama launched his political career in Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn’s living room.

O.K., check this out:

Click on the image above and you'll see a recently-removed, full-sized, screen shot from a January 27, 2005 blog post that was on Maria Warren's liberal blog "Musings And Migraines". It was saved by Patterico, a blogger at "Patterico's Pontifications" and Warren's post clearly says:

"When I first met Barack Obama, he was giving a standard, innocuous little talk in the livingroom of those two legends-in-their-own-minds, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. They were launching him–introducing him to the Hyde Park community as the best thing since sliced bread." [Underlined emphasis TMR's]

So what do we have here? We have Obama telling a bald-faced lie to the American people in the third debate. We now know he also told a bald-faced lie to the American people in his debate with Hillary Clinton when he claimed Ayers was just a guy in his neighborhood. We also now know Obama, Ayers, and Dohrn had to have had a much deeper relationship than Obama has claimed if Ayers and Dohrn were selling Obama as "the best thing since sliced bread." (Why would anybody say that if they didn't know a person well? TMR has traced them all the way back to 1987.) And now we know that all the other stories about Obama, Ayers, and Dohrn should be given much more weight - and journalistic study - than they have been so far.

TMR will be more than happy to answer any questions regarding Barack Obama's many lies, but, right now, I'm happy to finally be able to settle this one, and end a solid post with the time-honored street phrase:

Gotcha, bitch.

Obama's NewAge Radicals: Here We Go Again

[Michael Klonsky], whose disgust for mainstream politics led him to launch a new, Maoist Communist Party in the 1970s, today supports Barack Obama so enthusiastically that until recently he was blogging on the Illinois senator’s campaign website. And boycotting this November’s election, Klonsky maintains, would be a “tragic mistake.” He notes that Barack Obama isn’t Hubert Humphrey, 2008 isn’t 1968, and the strong movement he served back then is “relatively weak” now. “My own support for Obama is not a reflection of a radically changed attitude toward the Democratic Party,” Klonsky recently explained to me. “Rather, it’s a recognition that the Obama campaign has become a rallying point for young activists and offers hope for rebuilding the civil rights and antiwar coalitions that have potential to become a real critical force in society.”

Michael Klonsky is hardly the only ’68 radical supporting Obama this year. In 1968, when Mark Rudd organized the student strike that shut down Columbia University, the SDS chapter that he chaired ridiculed Kennedy and McCarthy as “McKennedy,” claimed that “neither peace candidate offers an alternative to the war policies of Lyndon Johnson,” and suggested “sabotage” as an alternative to voting. Rudd succeeded Klonsky as national SDS leader, presiding over the organization’s metamorphosis into Weatherman and performing “a liaison function” for the plot to bomb a Fort Dix soldiers’ dance that instead killed three Weathermen, including two of Rudd’s Columbia SDS colleagues. Today, Rudd renounces bombs, embraces ballots—and supports Obama. “Probably the biggest difference between Columbia SDS people in 1968 and in 2008 is forty years,” Rudd explained in an e-mail. “Most of us have lived with compromise our whole lives. As kids we were raving idealists who thought that ‘The elections don’t mean shit’ was a slogan that meant something to somebody. It didn’t.”

Then there’s Carl Davidson, who was one of SDS’s three elected national officers in 1968, when the organization first urged young people to refrain from voting. His disillusionment with traditional politics became so pronounced that, in the post-sixties hangover that followed, Davidson joined Klonsky in rejecting traditional politics for fringe Marxist movements. More recently, he helped organize the 2002 rally in which Obama first spoke out against the Iraq War and now serves as the webmaster of Progressives for Obama. “The last thing we need is a simple repeat of 1968, which saw Nixon and the new Right as an outcome, as well as the defeat of [Humphrey],” Davidson contends. “One thing I’ve learned. Social change is not made by elections, but it certainly proceeds through them, not by ignoring them or chasing the illusion of end runs around them.”

Former SDS president Tom Hayden is also in the Obama camp. Hayden organized the made-for-TV protest outside the 1968 Chicago convention. But the catharsis of throwing debris at the Chicago police, the purer-than-thou sanctimony that tolerated no distinction between Lyndon Johnson and Eugene McCarthy, and the exhilaration of “voting in the streets” instead of in election booths combined to ensure liberal defeats. Hayden’s orchestrated anarchy proved more damaging to Humphrey’s presidential aspirations than any dirty trick Nixon’s henchmen could have dreamed up. Klonsky remembers Hayden plotting to spread nails on a highway; another SDS leader recalls Hayden encouraging activists to firebomb police cars. If the Democrats couldn’t run a convention, many Americans wondered, how could they run the country? “Did the radicalism of Chicago elect Richard Nixon?” Hayden asked, clearly pained, in his 1988 memoir. “Having struggled with that question for twenty years, I find there is no ‘neat’ answer.”

Now Hayden is one of the organizers of Progressives for Obama.

...Progressives for Obama resembles a Who’s Who of SDS luminaries. In addition to Hayden, Rudd, and Davidson, the group includes Bob Pardun, SDS’s education secretary during the 1966–67 school year; Paul Buhle, a radical professor who has recently attempted to revive SDS; Mickey and Dick Flacks, red-diaper babies who helped craft 1962’s Port Huron Statement, a seminal New Left document; and SDS’s third president, Todd Gitlin. Age and experience have mellowed some of the SDSers in Obama’s camp. Gitlin, for instance, has evolved into a respected Ivy League professor and milquetoast liberal. But others still glory in a past that can only damage Obama’s future. The aging New Left still practices a therapeutic politics that places a higher value on feelings of personal liberation than on restrained pursuit of political aims. ["Feelings of personal liberation"? That would be NewAge - TMR]

Obama has already taken political hits for his connection to Weathermen Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. In the sixties, Ayers advocated that young people kill their parents, and Dohrn praised the Charles Manson murders. Alongside their Weather Underground cohorts, the pair declared war on the United States and participated in a bombing campaign that hit the Capitol, the Pentagon, and numerous law enforcement agencies. The couple eventually reinvented themselves—first as academics, then as players in Chicago-area Democratic politics. Obama praised Ayers’s book in the Chicago Tribune, sat with him on a foundation’s board, and benefited from a fundraiser held at the couple’s home. Ayers spoke at events organized by Michelle Obama; Barack Obama spoke at events organized by Ayers.

With the public revelation of this unseemly relationship—between unrepentant terrorists and the man who now seeks to oversee America’s war on terror—and the impact it’s already had on voter attitudes, one would think that other sixties extremists might be more reserved in proclaiming their support for Obama, knowing the damage such associations can do to his candidacy. As for Obama, he’ll need to do some distancing of his own. He protested that he was only eight when Ayers, Dohrn, Rudd, and company embarked on their bombing campaign, and that’s reasonable enough. But he’ll need to go further.

— Daniel J. Flynn, on why the connection between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers is important, if only to TMR and New York's City Journal

You Have GOT To Be Fucking Kidding!!!

Oh man, oh man, oh man!!! AMERICA: TURN BACK NOW!!! Forget what the newspapers say; forget what the "journalists" say; forget that shit about being concerned for whatever happened when Barack "was 8 years old" - just count up all the red flags, so far, and TURN BACK NOW!!!

Extra Special Hat Tip: Watchmen For America

How To Win Friends (And Influence Elections)

"Ayers and Dohrn invited Windy City liberals into their living room to meet Obama when he first ran for Illinois state senate in 1995. 'They were launching him' — as Chicago’s Maria Warren recalled in her Internet diary, 'Musings and Migraines' — 'introducing him to the Hyde Park Community as the best thing since sliced bread.'

...While Obama today calls Ayers’ behavior 'detestable acts,' the question nevertheless occurs: What did Ayers and Dohrn see in Barack Obama? What inspired these unrepentant, hard-Left, former domestic terrorists to hand the chairmanship of Ayers’ foundation and share their home and friends with the charismatic then-35-year-old whose current 95.5 percent Left-wing vote record made him The National Journal’s 'Most Liberal Senator In 2007?'"

— Deroy Murdock, asking the most important question of this election, for the National Review Online

Tell Me: Why Do We Have A Press Again?

"Many reporters are well aware, even though Mr. Obama has described his connection to Ayers and Dohrn as 'flimsy,' that the senator's relationship with his radical Hyde Park neighbors is actually quite warm, even close."

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, surprising no one, at the Wall Street Journal

Cynacism Should Not Be A Campaign Tactic

When John Murtagh was 9 years old, Bill Ayers' friends tried to kill him.

"I remember my mother's pulling me from the tangle of sheets and running to the kitchen where my father stood. Through the large windows overlooking the yard, all we could see was the bright glow of flames below. We didn't leave our burning house for fear of who might be waiting outside," wrote Mr. Murtagh in the April 2008 issue of the City Journal.

It wasn't personal. John's dad was a judge presiding over a trial of the Black Panthers. The next morning, after the bombs exploded, John still remembers the red graffiti on the sidewalk: "FREE THE PANTHER 21; THE VIET CONG HAVE WON; KILL THE PIGS."

To the best of John's recollection, Bernardine Dohrn, who is now Bill Ayers' wife, first claimed credit for bombing John's home - along with other targets - in November 1970.

Today John Murtagh is a lawyer and Yonkers' city councilman who is running for the New York state Senate on the Republican ticket this November. I reached him this week through his state Senate campaign. It wasn't hard. Has Barack Obama ever tried?

Barack Obama was only 8 years old when Mr. Murtagh's house was bombed. Mr. Obama has nothing to do with the terror and the trauma John Murtagh and his family went through.

"It's a sensitive issue for us. My mom is still alive - she's 83. She literally had to snatch her children out of the house in the middle of the night because her house was on fire," John told me.

But Barack Obama was not a child - he was a grown man - when he decided his personal path to power and influence lay through Bill Ayers' connections.

In the Chicago establishment, which unfortunately embraced former domestic terrorists like Bill Ayers and his wife, Barack Obama was encouraged to look beyond the obvious - John Murtagh, his family, their terror, the lawlessness, the attacks on policemen, judges, Army outposts - to embrace larger goals.

What were these goals? How does Barack Obama come to continue to associate with a man who cannot bring himself to say to John Murtagh or to John's mother or any other kin of the attacked: "I'm sorry. I was wrong. It was a terrible thing to do."

Mr. Obama's campaign is busy fudging. That's a polite word for "lying." Barack Obama's top political adviser claims he simply didn't know Mr. Ayers' history when they first met. Bomber? What bomber?

Right.

"If that's true, Obama has to be the dumbest man who ever graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School," snorts Mr. Murtagh. "I don't buy that at all."

Mr. Murtagh believes the relationships between Barack, his wife, Michelle, Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine, go back 20 years, to Michelle's time at Sidley Austin, the famous Washington, D.C., law firm that also employed Bernardine Dohrn.

Mr. Murtagh doesn't blame Mr. Obama for what Bill Ayers and his friends did and supported. He blames Mr. Obama for picking a man like Mr. Ayers as a friend and mentor - and then covering up the friendship.

In politics things get complicated. Truth becomes hard to find. But when you are about to elect someone commander in chief, it would be good to know he can lay his hands on some of the stuff, in case he ever needs it.

"The night they attacked our home, they also firebombed an army recruiting station out in Brooklyn and police patrol cars outside of Greenwich Village," notes Mr. Murtagh. "Three weeks later they accidentally blew themselves up. They intended to attack the officer's club at Fort Dix."

Lay your cards on the table, Mr. Murtagh wants to tell the man who would be president. "Obama's free to associate with Dohrn and Ayers; that's his right," he tells me. "But don't hide the relationship, and be forthcoming and let people decide the significance of it for themselves."

-- Maggie Gallagher, giving voice to someone the "compassionate" and "fair" folks want to remain voiceless, in the Washington Times.

Netflix

The Teachers, The Teachings, And The Tedium

These are three deleted scenes from the film "Indoctrinate U" that should get everyone to thinking about the Obama campaign's reliance on young people to get him elected: who have they been learning from? What have they been learning? And what happens if anyone questions what they've been learning? Watch and find out:

The New Game: Pin The Tail On The Donkey

"Allies are not just people who happen to be where you are or who happen to be doing the same things you do. You choose allies deliberately for a reason. The kind of allies you choose says something about you.

Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleger, William Ayers and Antoin Rezko are not just people who happened to be at the same place at the same time as Barack Obama. They are people with whom he chose to ally himself for years, and with some of whom some serious money changed hands.

Some gave political support, and some gave financial support, to Obama’s election campaigns, and Obama in turn contributed either his own money or the taxpayers’ money to some of them. That is a familiar political alliance–but an alliance is not just an “association” from being at the same place at the same time.

Obama could have allied himself with all sorts of other people. But, time and again, he allied himself with people who openly expressed their hatred of America. No amount of flags on his campaign platforms this election year can change that."

-- Thomas Sowell, shooting a big-assed hole in the Democrat's "guilt by association" meme - since he's a patriotic black American known for peddling "code words" and "veiled racism" - as well as Real Clear Politics.



He only put it on because pressure was added. Pressure coming from:

The Fact Of The Matter: Obama's Lying (Again)

Don't buy into what liars say, buy into:

This Ain't No Game

The game mainstream media is playing while covering Barack Obama's campaign is just stunning. Is it that they don't want to do their job? Or they no longer know what their job is? Are they part of the "Obama Cult"? Being a news junkie, those are but a few of the many questions I'm left to wrestle with these days.

Take the language "journalist" Ron Claiborne (above) used in this ABC News article on the McCain campaign's decision to go forward with attacking the connections between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers:

"There is scant evidence that the two men were much more than acquaintances who happened to serve together on two not-for-profit boards several years ago."

Really? From what I've heard, their families have a relationship that goes all the way back to 1987 when Michelle Obama and Ayers's wife, the terrorist Bernadine Dorne, worked together in a Chicago law firm. Funny that the "girls" of The View never brought that up. But since it's out there, and documented as fact, do you think it's fair or accurate for Claiborne to report "there is scant evidence that the two men were much more than acquaintances"?

And why are reporters taking the word of Obama's supporters and ignoring his many critics, when his supporters have, repeatedly, been doing nasty things to keep the story quiet? Their ugly attempts to censor others, alone, should be a huge story considering the supposed intent and image of the campaign Obama claimed to be leading. But, for some reason, the MSM hears and sees no evil.

Barack Obama headed Bill Ayers's multi-million dollar pet project, The Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and it was a complete and utter failure. Hardly the relationship of just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood" that Obama described to George Stephanopoulos. Where are the TV news stories and newspaper articles holding up The Chicago Annenberg Challenge, or The Woods Foundation, or the results of his housing policy, as proof Obama doesn't know how to run anything? Isn't that the media's job?

And why can I find all these articles but Ron Claiborne and George Stephanopoulos of ABC News can't? What are they doing with their time this election season? Apparently coming up with clever ways to say nothing so, if there's an Obama presidency, they're insured to have access so they can spew more blow-dried nonsense to the citizens of the country.

Check out the lawyer-speak Obama used when talking about Ayers:

"He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis."

So Obama admits he does "exchange ideas" with the commie terrorist; it just doesn't happen "on a regular basis", right? Maybe we've got some kind of "Manchurian Candidate" thing going on here?

Maybe not. But wouldn't you think a real "journalist" would want to know what ideas a potential president of the United States is exchanging with an unrepentant terrorist who has said he's determined to bring down America and our capitalist system? Sounds like a front page headline for whoever gets to the bottom of all this stuff but, for some reason - after 19 months on the campaign trail - no journalist has seen fit to find out. Bizarre, isn't it? I mean, it's bad enough that Obama said it during a televised debate and neither George Stephanopoulos, most other journalists, or the general public cared enough to bat an eyelash, but considering that charges of cultism have been leveled at the Obama campaign for some time now, I ask you: what else could be going on here? Or am I to believe, when it comes to the highest office in the land and the most powerful position in the world, all these supposedly smart people just got struck with a bad case of stupid?

Ron Claiborne continues:

"What was known about Obama and Ayers' relationship was that Obama attended a political function at Ayers' home in Chicago in 1995. They served together on a couple of non-profit community service boards. Ayers contributed $200 to Obama's state Senate campaign in 2001."

This is just a bunch of easily disproven lies. That "political function at Ayers' home" was actually the coming out party for Obama's Senate campaign. Those "non-profit community service boards" were actually Left-wing organizations with a mandate to indoctrinate our youth with Ayers's ideology. And why would Ayers give any money to a guy he hardly knows, or thinks rejects his ideology? This story - and the reporting that's offered as "coverage" - stinks like a pastor smoking in church. What gives?

Claiborne again:

"The McCain campaign kept suggesting there was more to it. Whenever McCain officials were asked what more they knew, they would say only that they were certain the relationship was closer than Obama described it."

Wouldn't anybody think reporters would try to see if they're right? Get a little "Watergate" action going? What are they waiting for? Like Steven Colbert is going to get to work? Ayers is a terrorist, y'know? Why wait for the McCain campaign to sort it out? Is it just me or isn't running for office what political campaigns are supposed to do and investigations of terrorists what reporters are supposed to do? Could I be confused about that? All Ron Claiborne seems to want to know is what he ends his article with:

"Obama was at Ayers's house once 13 years ago. They served together on two boards. Their children went to the same school."

Sorry, bub, but, amongst those of us who still have working brains, that simplistic assessment of this particularly complex relationship just won't do:

This ain't no game.

This Is A Secret

"The Obamas and the Ayers/Dorn go back to 1987 when Michelle Obama and Bernadette Dorn worked at the same law firm in Chicago,..."

-- Rick Moran, on a podcast discussing Barack Obama and "some guy" Barack knew "in the neighborhood", with Fausta's Blog.

Hungry? Good - Because You're Gonna Eat It

Here: have a nice hefty serving of Dead Cops, Dead Marines... and Their Killers.

And don't forget to clean your plate!