Clearing the Ayers
On the plus side (and I’m a plus kind of guy), Billl Ayres is telling the truth now:
“We had served together on the board of a foundation, knew one another as neighbors and family friends, held an initial fund-raiser at my house, where I’d made a small donation to his earliest political campaign.”
On the negative side (hey even a plus guy has to keep it real), he’s still lying:
“We never committed terror,” he assures us, noting that (a) the Weathermen didn’t kill anyone, which is true if you exclude the occasional cop or two (a point Chris Cuomo doesn’t raise) and (b) even though what they did “was definitely over lots of lines,” it doesn’t really qualify as terror because the war simply had to be stopped and they were acting to that end.
But at least he’s on board with capitalism now:
Weather Underground bomber Bill Ayers is a busy bee.
The violence-embracing Marxist is on the lecture and media circuit, hawking his repackaged memoir, promoting a new book on race, and basking in all the post-Obama victory attention.
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“The late Irving Howe once said that Tom Hayden ‘gave opportunism a bad name’ I would revise that estimate, and give that award to Ayers.”
Forget the Molotov cocktail, lovey, make mine an Absolut martini, bone dry, with two olives.
Carol said,
November 14, 2008 @ 3:35 pm
“The Weather Underground,” a documentary referred to by Camille Paglia in a recent column, is available for on-line viewing at Netflix. I’ll be watching this weekend.