Fox News? Oh my. They are up to their dirty hounding tricks again. O’Reilly as usual is scratching the bottom of the barrel looking for a ratings boost. Pathetic.
How pathetic of Fox and O’Reilly. Why O’Reilly pretends to be a “journalist” I do not know. He is an antagonist – I would rather Fox harass unrepetentant Loofa wielding sexual harassers like O’Reilly than someone who did some terrible things 40 years ago and is now a respected, law abiding professor and citizen, no matter his views.
Posted by: Mr. M | October 25, 2008, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm
Just 10 more days. I can’t wait until the Republicanas are DEFEATED!
With all the radials surrounding Obama, my question is where is the other news media, ABC, NBC, CNN covering Obama’s friends.
Guess Palin’s clothes are more important.
Voters have every right to know Obama’s associations. Obama’s character is part of his judgement. Apparently, it’s off limits to main media. They were in the tank for Obama from the start; obviously; the media would rather send thousands to Alaska with their “smear” machine for Palin.
If the media just would do their jobs and cover every candidate fairly, the voters would know what kind of character each one has. ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN = bias to the max.
Independents for McCain
The poor terrorist being terrorized by a harmless reporter.
The guy that hates America, hates our gov’t and tried to kill cops needs cops to protect him.
I thought Farraakhan and the Nation of Islam protected Obama’s neighborhood?
Posted by: sam | October 25, 2008, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm
Fox News is the worst station out there, along with its journalists, especially O’Reilly… It should be “OH REALLY – not O’Reilly!” LOL
Posted by: Richard | October 25, 2008, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm
Just how bad has the presidential campaign coverage been this year?
So bad that popular online columnist Michael S. Malone, aka ABC’s “Silicon Insider,” wrote Friday, “I’m deeply ashamed right now to be called a ‘journalist.’
Posted by: Obama ONE SCAREY DUDE | October 25, 2008, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm
Ayers is a coward and a creep.
Obama is a coward for lying to America about their relationship–and a creep for using a domestic terrorist to launch his career.
All of Obama’s longtime friends are radicals that hate our country.
Now that it’s likely Obama will win the presidency FOXNEWS has ramped up its attacks on Obama in hopes for a final McCain comeback. To late. McCain had a chance in the last debate and missed it by a mile.
This is a guy who had no problem blowing up stuff in this country but now he’s running like a baby from Bill O’Reilly and calling on law enforcement officials to help him out … the same guys he targeted in his heyday.
Where’s poetic justice when you need it?
sam: “I thought Farraakhan and the Nation of Islam protected Obama’s neighborhood?”
I think after Farrahkan said Obama was the Messiah a few days ago, he had Obama wave his hand over the neighborhood.
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It appears that the FOX producer broke the law by trespassing on Ayers’ property and refused to leave when asked. I wonder if he broke the law on orders from O’Reilly or decided to do it on his own?
someone wrote : “Just a few years ago, Ayers was” ..etc
that statement is typical patently misleading hyperbole. a “few years” isnt 40 or 35 or 25 or even 20.
5 or 6 years would be a few years to most people .maybe 10 or 15 but not more for sure. 15 years is a long time ,for the average human being.
the ayers/weathermen episode happened HALF A LIFETIME AGO!! you probably werent even alive then ,but i was.
i remember why it was happening too ,more republican warmongering for profit /overt lies and deceit ,and blatantly criminal behavior. same thing they are doing today…
“I AM NOT A CRIMINAL!!!”
yeah ,right…
PEOPLE OF THIS GREAT NATION!!!…WAKE UP!!! EDUCATE YOURSELVES!!! BE OBJECTIVE ,LOOK FOR THE TRUTH AND YOU WILL FIND IT!!!…THE REPUBLICANS ARE CAREER LIARS AND USER AND CONNIVERS 100% FOR THEIR OWN SELFISH WHIMS/SWISS BANK ACCOUNTS AND THEIR FAT CAT CORPORATE BUDDIES. THEY WILL NEVER CHANGE!!! VOTE THEM OUT FOREVER!!
NEVER AGAIN!!!
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I love FOX News. They are the only real news anyone can find. All the other liberal left-wind media is in the tank for THe One.
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REAL NEWS = FOX NEWS
smashing pumpkins lead singer wore a red star for an album cover
i mean what is bill saying hes a commy?
anyone who has a red star is a commy
my teacher gave me a red star on my paper, now im a terrorist
I would suggest people would go back and THINK; instead of blindly being used by the media. It already happened with Bush; when the so-called media gave Bush the biggest pass of all-the Iraq War. The media just refused to ask the “hard” questions.
Obama is getting a major “pass” on his radial friends. Isn’t it more important to get it right than to blindly follow Obama’s empty “words” and “promises”. Obama went back on word many times. Are voters that gullible???
Why should anyone believe the media or Obama. Obama is not tested, no one really knows what this guy is about; and yet the media overlook the obvious. This election should be a no brainer. Yet, Obama without experience, without being tested, without judgement just seems fine to some voters. Strange.
Independents for McCain
I think it’s ironic that Bill Ayers, the guy who wanted to bomb, maim and kill Americans is turning to the police for protection. Bill Ayers was (and is) a narcissistic, self-indulgent rich kid who enjoyed terrorizing others for his own kicks. Guess it’s just pay back now that he is having to turn to the police for help.
Mc Cain started this and they say oh no We never.Now Palin curbed bids for the gas line and made sure her friends got it.She quoted 40 Mil and the company bid 26 Mil geeeeeeeeeeeee where is the other 14 mil going?????She is more of a crook then anyone on these tickets,,,,
Fox news is also covering the Obama compaign workers in Ohio that have been caught in voter fraud. Seems he didn’t limit his training only to Acorn but his own staff. Their votes have been recinded and all 700 workers have been put on notice.
Quit being brainwashed and educate yourselves, get off these biased news media sites.
Posted by: HH | October 25, 2008, 3:04 pm 3:04 pm
think it’s ironic that Bill Ayers, the guy who wanted to bomb, maim and kill Americans is turning to the police for protection. Bill Ayers was (and is) a narcissistic, self-indulgent rich kid who enjoyed terrorizing others for his own kicks. Guess it’s just pay back now that he is having to turn to the police for help.
Posted by: aviewerofabc | Oct 25, 2008 3:00:11 PM
Please read up on G. Gordon Liddy if we are back to silly season on associations.
Keep listening to trash like Bill or Palin. Keep it up, and keep spending your time hating liberals. You have been the best thing the Democrats have had in years.
People are tired of your kind of dirt FOXNEWS. You are the minority and you don’t realize it. People are rejecting your kind of hate, even common sense republicans. More republicnas have flocked to Obama than Democrats during the Reagan years.
O’Reilly is as self serving as Rush is, and both of them don’t give a rats behind about the truth.
Posted by: The Unshrub | October 25, 2008, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm
…Ayers was (and is) a narcissistic, self-indulgent rich kid who enjoyed terrorizing others for his own kicks.
And Bill O’rielly differs from this how?
Posted by: Jeremy | October 25, 2008, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm
Billw
People are answering your question about trusting Obama and the vast majority do trust him. They trust him over O’Reilly, McCain and Palin. They don’t trust people like you who spread lies about Obama.
Posted by: The Unshrub | October 25, 2008, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm
…Ayers was (and is) a narcissistic, self-indulgent rich kid who enjoyed terrorizing others for his own kicks.
And Bill O’rielly differs from this how?
Talk about Obama supporters being gross. . . . .
Fixed news is just trying to take the focus off of their shady connections. Why dont they ever talk about McMoron’s best friend, G. Gordon Liddy who drew up plans to bomb several buildings and called Hitler an inspiration to him, to say the least. Or why doesnt fixed news focus on William Timmons…a lobbyist for Saddam Hussein and currently hired as cabinet transition manager of McMorons (McMoron will lose anyway, so I guess his services wont be needed). Why doesnt fixed news talk about Al Qaeda’s strong endorsement of McMoron. Why doesnt Fixed news talk about Sean Hannity’s best friend? We can go on and on.
Posted by: ed | October 25, 2008, 3:11 pm 3:11 pm
Ayers still a rich kid spoiled brat. And he calls the cops to help him. We still he is still writing the same crap.
The rumor on the Internet is that Ayers ghost wrote Obama’s first book. The seconds book was written by some one else.
aussie dont worry much about people like hal turner.
most of those people are already being watched and they are so stupid they cant help but end up in jail ,watch and see.
with all the snooping the gov. is allowed to do now (courtesy of bush/the republicans) we liberals will do some big time snooping of our own pretty soon…got that??
folks like hal turner better find a rock to crawl back under ,thats the truth!
Foxnews, the fear and unbalanced network, owned by the some person who owns the National Enquiry. In otherwords, they will print anything for a buck.
Posted by: The Unshrub | October 25, 2008, 3:14 pm 3:14 pm
Wow, this really got the Obama crowd up and out of their seats.
We know Obama has won the election – his “95% get a tax refund check” pander was the mother of all panders. And people sold their votes for $500.
Ayers is just a comedy event until Obama gets in office. OK, we do worry who will get the education cabinet post if Obama thinks of Ayers as being the great educator.
Billw
“Quit being brainwashed and educate yourselves, get off these biased news media sites.”
Since you made the above statement, back it up. (with real facts)
Posted by: The Unshrub | October 25, 2008, 3:18 pm 3:18 pm
Q: What do Obama and Osama have in common?
A: They both have friends who bombed the Pentagon. Killed Americans
Posted by: Dean | October 25, 2008, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm
Posted by: Billw | Oct 25, 2008 3:04:07 PM
Ok I will give you it basically says the same thing. My apologies. What I posted goes a bit more in depth as to where it started at and who continues to spread this kind of BS.
“including a post by Confederate Yankee who wrote:
Barack Obama isn’t anti-American, but he is un-American. Our cultural memory and experiences are something he read about in books, but never lived, and something he cannot feel.
He is not one of us.”
Just because one does not wear a flag pin does not mean that they cannot be trusted.Just because you wave a flag, does not make you patriotic.
The Ayers thing hasn’t gotten anywhere, Rezko has proved to be nothing. As far as standing up for America, he is patriotic and American as you are I.
Fae
ANyone can file a lawsuit and the nuts do it right before the election, that way fools like you beleive it’s for real.
Posted by: The Unshrub | October 25, 2008, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm
Obama’s grandmother’s birthday is Sunday. Odd that he did not stay until her birthday. He could have put the grandmother’s brother from Chicago on the big empty jet. Worse yet, he left her in her 150 square foot apartment while he is making $4 million a year.
Interesting contrast with McCain who has houses for all of his relatives.
Dean
Ayers has never been accussed of killing anyone. I am not definding Ayers, only correcting a lie you are using against Obama.
Posted by: The Unshrub | October 25, 2008, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm
The only people that watch fox news and belive in their Journalisim is the people like The Girl in Pa ASHLEY THE NUTCASE those are the kind of people that listen to Fox News!
The Unshrub says “Ayers has never been accussed of killing anyone. I am not definding Ayers, only correcting a lie you are using against Obama.”
Ayers has been accused by a lot of people of being involved – at least as an accomplice. He has not been charged or convicted. The FBI wired tapped his phone – illegally – and because of that they had to drop all of the charges.
Please read up on G. Gordon Liddy if we are back to silly season on associations.”
Apparently Sarah Palin’s clothes is of utmost importance, but investigating the ties of Senator Government to a terrorist is “silly season”.
Gotcha.
Posted by: Concerned in OH | Oct 25, 2008 3:09:16 PM
G. Gordon Liddy and William Timmons. If you want to be fair which I seriously doubt why won’t any of you talk about these associations of McCain’s? The Ayers thing has gone NOWHERE. You would think that the Clinton’s would have dug up dirt on that one with their connections. How can Obama be responsible for something that happened 40 years ago?
I don’t give a rat’s behind how much they spent on the Pooch Palin, I also don’t care abot Joe the liar plumber either.
Bill Ayers did some very stupid things when he was young. But if stupidity was againist the law, our prisons could never begin to fill the lawbreakers.
I saw most of the attempted Ayers footage. The “reporter” intruded into some private gatherings and tried to waylay Ayers on his own property thereby breaking the law.
The “reporter” deserves jail time.
All you O’Reilly fans should go to Google and print …
The Smoking Gun/ Bill O’Reilly and really see you’re listening to … G Keith!
Posted by: John Peter Zenger | October 25, 2008, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm
Billw
Where is your documentation?
Posted by: The Unshrub | October 25, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm
I hope this election is a wipeout for the Dems. I do believe in a two-party system — just not for this election. Let the conservatives go form their own party with Palin.
Posted by: ohio folk | October 25, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm
Ayers doesn’t have the guts to say to apologize when given the chance and all of you Obamb followers are OK with that. You REALLY gotta love Obama to side with someone that CLEARLY was friends with an unrepentant terrorist.
Why nothing on ABC’s site about the illegal voting in Ohio by Obama’s OWN campaign? See FOX for the REAL TRUTH.
Ayers weather underground tried to burn to death a judge, his wife, and their children. The weather underground set fire to the front and back doors to keep the kids trapped in doors. The bomb that ended the weather underground went off in of the snot rich kids weather underground house and killed three of them. That bomb was full of nails and screws – intended to do a lot of collateral damage.
Some people are saying that those offenses are no worse than trespassing. Wow, that is further than I have ever heard a democrat go.
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Unshrub:
“Where is your documentation?”
Go back to the post at 3:04:02 PM, and you will find HH made that statement, not me. Here it is:
Quit being brainwashed and educate yourselves, get off these biased news media sites.
Posted by: HH | Oct 25, 2008 3:04:02 PM
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This whole business with Ayers is so ridiculous.
Ayers actions with terrorists was 40 years ago. Forty years. Think about it.
Now he is a college professor. He is looked at as safe enough to teach our young people. He devotes spare time to serve on boards and other ways of helping the community.
Evidently the idea of forgiving someone, especially when they have been on good behavior for decades, doesn’t impress some people. But isn’t that what Jesus asked us to do? Isn’t that what was done with Bush, who was frequently cited as having a drinking and drug problem?
If Ayers has been a responsible citizen for the past decades, surely there isn’t any reason to be invading his privacy or making unwarranted insinuations about him today.
It was forty years ago. Judge not lest thee be judged.
“If Ayers has been a responsible citizen for the past decades, surely there isn’t any reason to be invading his privacy or making unwarranted insinuations about him today.”
Yes there is, he never paid the price for attempted murder. He got off due to illegal wiretapping.
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People say that Ayers has changed and is now just a charming guy. He is still trying to over throw the government – ask him. His view is entirely consistent with Rev Wright.
How do people reconcile that Rev Wright and Ayers both have the same notions about hating America. Seems like just a coincidence that Obama is pals with both of them. OK, you at least agree he was pals with Wright – or are we in denial about that, too?
It does not matter as the vote is in the bag. 30% of the vote is in and it is all Obama. Where does the contry go from here?
The whole point of this incident by O’reilly and Fix News was to try and get Bill to do something to keep him in the news. I wish I could switch place with him when that jerk was asking him questionings- he would have been eating that microphone. Rather than report the news, they are trying to make the news. Shame on them and all of these idiots who get their news from them.
The whole point of this incident by O’reilly and Fix News was to try and get Bill to do something to keep him in the news. I wish I could switch place with him when that jerk was asking him questionings- he would have been eating that microphone. Rather than report the news, they are trying to make the news. Shame on them and all of these idiots who get their news from them.
Gosh I guess the FACT that Mr. Ayers has sat on charities for children for 30 years, donated thousands of dollars to them and was named “Chicago’s Citizen of the Year” still dosen’t mean anything unless Billo gets to hear him say he is sorry even though Mr. Ayers was never one of the people involved with making the bombs……and the people that were? blew themselves up…and no one else was ever killed by them. When Billo says they killed Americans..they never point out that it their own members who died only.
Billo Billo Billo…Much ADO about nothing! LOL MANY people had strong feelings regarding the Goverment and Vietnam…thousands went to Canada and Millions protested and were violent…perhaps thats why all polls say this line of attack? when Obama was 8? has had no affect other than with the people who are not voting for Obama anyway.
I remember Vietnam. Millions do. Lots of anger and our Goverment allowed THOUSANDS of people to die needlessly.
I think the question is does Ayers still hate America? And are those charities designed to radicalize neighborhoods?
How does Ayers fit in with Rev. Wright?
O’Reilly -
I hope you have a church you are associated with as the good Lord needs a lot of prayers from you for forgiveness. I don’t know what has happened to you in the past year as I use to watch you, but MSNBC so out distances your show anymore that I hardly stand it to surf the channels and happen to go by yours while you are on.
A 70 year old Grandma
Ayers has spent the last 40 years living in realitive obscurity except for those that attend his classes and work with him. Ayers has given back to society ten fold and now his life has been put into turmiol so Bill O can make himself feel important.Ayers has accomplished more in the last 40 years than BO has accomplished, or will accomplish, his whole life. He’s too self absorbed.Fox is just worried their man is losing the election. Society has evolved. Move forward and stop trying to make something out of nothing.
Today…I don’t know where you are getting your information, but you’re wrong. You are misguided at best.
Posted by: BA | October 25, 2008, 4:16 pm 4:16 pm
Why can’t the guy just say he was young and stupid? Why can’t he just apologize rather than say “I wish I had done more.” I don’t care how long ago it was and if he is the holy savior now. He should be deported. If people want to protest, fine but don’t result to violence. He did it to get attention and now he doesn’t want the attention. And I don’t care if he has ties to Obama or not he just needs to be booted out of this country. If you don’t love it get the h— out.
How ironic: An unrepentant terrorist being “terrorized” by the media.
Ayers should call his buddy Hugo Chavez for advice.
Posted by: Captain America | October 25, 2008, 4:20 pm 4:20 pm
hope those Republicans with a conscience will leave this party that has been so tainted by all sorts of hypocrites and form their own.
Posted by: teddymaniac | Oct 25, 2008 4:15:19 PM
Some of them already have which is a good thing.
First: This was over forty years ago Mr. O’Reilly. You remind me of the medival Christians who were always condeming people for their sins and forgetting about their own sins. Leave that man along. I do not feel sorry for Mr. Ayres. I feel sorry for you. Remember: He that is without sin cast the first stone. Your sin may not be his, sin but in the eyes of God your sin is still a stench in his nostrils. As a Christian I am sometimes so ashamed of you and other so called christian leaders. You remind me of the religious leaders during the time of Christ. Self-righteous and pompous. Be careful sir. For with the same judgment you judge, you will be judged.
Posted by: A christian conservative | October 25, 2008, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm
today.You obviously don’t have an ederly Grandma. Most older people are content and happy to stay in their homes. And why on earth would she want to leave Hawaii for Chicago? She’s lived there her whole adult life. Obama was raised in that apartment. Most people her age and in her conditon would be in a nursing home. Obama has made sure she is where she wants to be and I’m sure she is getting around the clock care.
The terrorist that tried to kill the police calls the police for protection…oh the irony.
And Mr. Bill “communist” Ayers whining to the reporter – “you are on private property”. Comrade Ayers, in the communist state you want there is no private property.
Ayers is nothing but a scared old man driving a Buick.
Watch Fox News. Watch Fox News. They are the only ones that tell it like it is. Colin Powell would not endorse on Fox – because he knew he would be asked questions that he could ot answer – Watch Fox News
I want to ask Mr. O’Reilly is he going to follow around G. Gordon Liddy and all the members from the Ketting 5. He thinks that Barack should apologize for something he had no control over, then so should McCain.
That Jeremiah Wright thing is an old issue just like Bill Ayers. It is not like Barack went home with these men, we don’t know what or have control over what preachers or anyone else talk about behind closed doors.
We can only control ourselves and our actions. Barack didn’t follow in either one’s directions, he followed his own path. I am so sick of people like Bill O’Reilly because he is just like Elizabeth (from the view), they always feel the need to stay in the past and stick up for their party.
All I hope people will do now is look to the future and what kind of direction we want to take America in.
Posted by: Shut Up Fox!!!!!!!!! | October 25, 2008, 4:40 pm 4:40 pm
billo is like a raving nut case if he came to my door i would sick the dogs on him—-some kind of extremest nut case.known as the fox freak show.ayers was not alone in protesting the nam war—thousands were on the streets–some got a little carried away.but it was nothing compared to the thousands of women and children that were indiscrimately killed—AND FOR WHAT–EVEN MCCAIN WHEN A PRISONER DENOUNCED THE USA FOR WHAT WAS HAPPENING.—
DONT BE TOO HARD ON AYERS–AS THE NAM WAR WAS THE –MOST PRIME EXAMPLE OF MANS INHUMANITY TO HIS FELLOW MAN–when polititions simply want to go to war –send them in first–the front line.
we dont have or have not seen yet the amount of civilians killed in iraq—and once again for what—lies. or just tiny little people trying to look big –at the price of others.sometines necessary but diplomacy first always.
So it is OK for MSNBC and the other Obama networks to try and smear Joe the plumber, but we can’t get answers from an terriost who is proud of what he did and said the didn’t do enough.
answering to peacefull protests —IS THAT WHY COLLEDGE STUDENTS WERE SHOT—-AYERS BY NO MEANS IS A HERO–BUT HE WAS FAR FROM ALONE AT THE TIME—–AS I STATED MCCAIN WHEN A PRISONER DENOUNCED THE USA FOR ALL THE KILLING OF INNOCENTS.—–OR I FORGOT THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN WERE CONSIDERED THE ENEMY.
well, any right thinking person, should know this is dangerous.
there are to many kooks out there that would get it into their heads to do harm to someone, and why, for bill o. to up his ratings.
if you mccain supporters think this is alright, then god help you, and i hope if mccain gets into office, on something like this, in the middle of a night one of these days you may get a knock on your door, it will be someone from the federal govt. saying you did this or that, and your family may not see you again.
i hope this country does not continue down the road bush has put us on the last eight years.
“I want to ask Mr. O’Reilly is he going to follow around G. Gordon Liddy and all the members from the Ketting 5. He thinks that Barack should apologize for something he had no control over, then so should McCain”
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Liddy and Keating were not terrorists.
Nor were their associations with McCain ever hidden under the blankets by him.
He hsa talked about them countless times, even though he was found guiltless in both cases.
You had to practically pull teeth to have Obama’s associations with Ayers and Dohrn, and Rezko and Raila Odinga and Rashid Khalidi and Nachmi Auchi and Reverend Meeks and Farrakhan and his strange ties to hamas… acknowledged.
Why the secrecy?
Unless there IS guilt…..
And there is!
So it is OK for MSNBC and the other Obama networks to try and smear Joe the plumber, but we can’t get answers from an terriost who is proud of what he did and said the didn’t do enough.
Posted by: susie | Oct 25, 2008 5:13:33 PM
IF you would research and look at what he said, he said they didn’t do enough to stop the war. It had no reference to bombings, etc.
Here is part of a letter he wrote back in 2001 to the Editor:
“I said I had a thousand regrets, but no regrets for opposing the war with every ounce of my strength. I told her that in light of the indiscriminate murder of millions of Vietnamese, we showed remarkable restraint, and that while we tried to sound a piercing alarm in those years, in fact we didn’t do enough to stop the war.”
OMG look at that radical taking groceries into his house. He is so evil. LMAO
Posted by: MM | October 25, 2008, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm
Liddy and Ketting may not have been a terrorists like Bill Ayers, but they were terrorists to the American people and Congress.
All I have to say is why was it okay for McCain to put distance between him-self and those men, but not for Barack?
Posted by: Shut up Fox!!!!!!!!!! | October 25, 2008, 5:33 pm 5:33 pm
wench:
“…….. he said, he said they didn’t do enough to stop the war. It had no reference to bombings, etc. ”
That’s what he SAID!
He can say whatever the heck he wants.
BUT he CAN”T undo the killing of his friends and the injuries of his enemies because he and a belligerant group of protesters took that extra step and decided to become terrorists!
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Be that as it may,
Obama and Ayers go back a ways….. as grownups, sitting on the same boards sharing favors.
Jump back to 2000…
‘In addition to his professorship, Ayers is The Woods Fund board chairman, and a young state senator, who like Ayers is living in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood, is a fellow board member–that person of course is Barack Obama.
Why any organization would have Ayers serving on their board (he’s not chairman any more, but Ayers is still on The Woods Fund board), is astonishing to me and any other person with common sense. And who’d want to serve with him?
That year, Ayers and Obama (who should’ve abstained) voted to invest $1 million in Woods Fund money into a firm run by a former boss of the then-state senator, Allison Davis.
In a different business venture, Davis partnered with Tony Rezko.”
“From 1999 to 2002, Ayers and Obama served on the board of the Woods Fund of Chicago, a not-for-profit group. In 2000, Obama, rather than abstaining, voted to invest $1 million in Neighborhood Rejuvenation Partners L.P., a firm run by Obama’s former law firm boss, as well as an early contributor to his campaign, Allison S. Davis.
In a different venture, Davis was in business with Tony Rezko.
Posted by: HMMMMM… | Oct 25, 2008 5:49:43 PM
Guess what, I don’t care. Rant all you want.
How come none of you McCainBots will say anything about McCain’s less than desirable associations?
Susie writes, “So it is OK for MSNBC and the other Obama networks to try and smear Joe the plumber, but we can’t get answers from an terriost who is proud of what he did and said the didn’t do enough.”
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Sorry Susie but when ASK someone a question and LIE about your TRUE circumstances you deserve to be called out on it.
The fact is Joe the Plumber told Obama he was in the process of purchasing a company when he WAS NOT. He earned a whopping $40,000 per year according to divorce records in 2006.
Is this common amongst McCain supporters? Do you lie to yourself to magically make his “policies” fit into your socioeconomic life? This is what Joe did and frankly it’s embarrassing.
Isn’t it ironic that Joe would fair better under Obama’s tax plan? Yet Joe the “I lie about the money I earn and don’t even have a plumbers license” is voting Republican. You know what? You can have that vote. Heaven knows I don’t want someone like that voting the same way I do. You feel free to let that liar represent you if you like.
Wow, I bet Abe Lincoln, JFK, MLK, and Bobby would be proud of their fellow Americans defending a domestic terrorist while attacking a middle class plumber… they’d be prouder yet of the leader who inspired such blind devotion.
Todd and Sarah Palin had membership in AIP.
OOOOOH,
Almost every state at one time or another has tried to secede from the Union.
Heck… there was even a “Civil War” over it!
Even “Long Island”… tried t secede from the Union!
Alaska achieved statehood relatively recently,, so it would stand to figure that she would want to try her cold little toes in the secessionary waters also.
B I G bloody deal!
But definitely
NOT AS BIG A STORY AS ACORN
Posted by: b o for worst case scenario | October 25, 2008, 6:25 pm 6:25 pm
“No innocent people died in any of those bombings.”
If “No innocent people died in any of those bombings”, the Ayers is GUILTY!
His FRIENDS and fellow terrorists were killed in those bombings, and if THEY were guilty then SO WAS AYERS!
Posted by: b o for worst case scenario | October 25, 2008, 6:29 pm 6:29 pm
Yet another example of Faux News journalism at its best. I suppose next week they’ll resusitate their fake ‘madrassa terrorist elementary school’ story.
Let’s see…John Gibson (The Big Story), Gretchen Carlson and Steve Doocy (Fox & Friends), and Sean Hannity (Hannity & Colmes) were all involved in those lies. Did they learn anything? No. Andy Martin was behind those lies, and now they’re repeating his current set of lies, identifying him an internet journalist. (I’d link to that, but ABC won’t post links so just google for fox news andy martin)
Email Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes if you’re fed up and not going to take it any more.
Posted by: Tom J | October 25, 2008, 6:45 pm 6:45 pm
The only radical person on that clip was Bill O’Riley.
Why isn’t he harrassing McCain’s buddy G. Gordon Libby?
Posted by: Lori | October 25, 2008, 7:09 pm 7:09 pm
Didn’t Keating and Liddy go to prison? Or were they pardoned. Does any one know?
Palin will be next. I heard her deposition last week she incriminated herself.
Won’t be long before she is out as governor.
Posted by: Rev. Ike | October 25, 2008, 9:00 pm 9:00 pm
G. Gordon Liddy was pardoned after serving a short time in jail. Just google for Steve Chapman’s latest column about him and McCain.
Posted by: Tom J | October 25, 2008, 9:34 pm 9:34 pm
The difference between the partys.
Democrats: Republicans it is ok to vote for us, even if we disagree on a lot of issues.
Republicans: Liberals and democrats are anti- American terrorist.
Who would you vote for?
Obama/Biden 08
Posted by: MM | October 25, 2008, 9:53 pm 9:53 pm
I don’t ever listen to Fox News, better named Faux News, but watching this clip was even more shocking than I could have imagined. the Fox reporter was totally out of line — with his vicious invasive baiting. and then to hear O’Reilly!! it makes me fear for all of us. sickening. thanks to all the previous comments, which is at least a bright spot in the midst of all this swampy putrefying slime.
Posted by: Sarah | October 25, 2008, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm
I don’t care about Ayers. He’s a college professor. let Faux News go after his employer- a university.
I really really don’t care about Joe the (almost)Plumber.
Please please please -write about issues.
foxnews!! is a network owned by an Australian whose only way is to pitch real Americans against each other.
A sad way to make money dividing america
Posted by: Disgruntled And Mentally Recessioned Republican | October 25, 2008, 11:34 pm 11:34 pm
Why didn’t he get arrested for trespassing on private property?
Posted by: gr8bigguy | October 26, 2008, 1:22 am 1:22 am
Now he wants the ‘establishment’ to protect him. That’s rich.
Posted by: marythedesigner | October 26, 2008, 1:26 am 1:26 am
Let’s talk about one of John McCain’s close friends, G. Gordon Liddy.
In 1998 Liddy hosted a fundraiser at his house for John McCain’s re-election campaign at which guests could have their pictures taken with McCain and Liddy. Over the years, Liddy, who has referred to McCain as “an old friend,” has made at least four contributions totaling $5,000 to the senator’s campaigns — including $1,000 in 2008. When David Letterman asked McCain about his relationship with Liddy, McCain said, “Who?” Then, following a commercial break, McCain said “I know Gordon Liddy. He paid his debt. He went to prison and paid his debt, as people do. I’m not in any way embarrassed to know Gordon Liddy.”
In 1971, after serving in several positions in the Nixon administration, Liddy was moved to Nixon’s 1972 campaign, the Committee to Re-elect the President (officially known as “CRP” but to opponents known as CREEP), in order to extend the scope and reach of the White House “Plumbers” unit, which had been created in response to various damaging leaks of information to the press. At CRP, Liddy concocted several plots, some far-fetched, intended to embarrass the Democratic opposition. These included firebombing the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. (where classified documents leaked by Daniel Ellsberg were being stored), kidnapping anti-war protest organizers and transporting them to Mexico during the Republican National Convention (which at the time was planned for San Diego), and luring mid-level Democratic campaign officials to a house boat in Baltimore where they would be secretly photographed in compromising positions with call girls. Most of Liddy’s ideas were rejected, but a few were given the go ahead by Nixon Administration officials, including the break-in at Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office. Ellsberg had leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times. At some point, Liddy was instructed to break into the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate Hotel
How is this not so much worse than Obama’s aquaintance with Bill Ayers?
Posted by: Lucy | October 26, 2008, 3:57 am 3:57 am
Who was Bill Ayers when Obama was loosely acquainted with him?
William Ayers, associate professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago; co-director of the Small Schools Workshop; co-director of the Chicago Forum for School Change—an affiliate of the Coalition of Essential Schools;[20] chairman of the Alliance for Better Chicago Schools (ABCs) coalition;[21][22] former Chicago assistant deputy mayor for education (1989–1990
I thought all you so called Christians were for redemption and forgiveness?Read on….
Much of the controversy about Ayers during the decade since 2000 stems from an interview he gave to The New York Times on the occasion of his memoir’s publication. The reporter quoted him as saying “I don’t regret setting bombs” and “I feel we didn’t do enough”, and, when asked if he would “do it all again,” as saying “I don’t want to discount the possibility.” Ayers has not denied the quotes, but he protested the interviewer’s characterizations in a Letter to the Editor published September 15, 2001: “This is not a question of being misunderstood or ‘taken out of context’, but of deliberate distortion”.
Ayers has repeatedly avowed that when he said he had “no regrets” and that “we didn’t do enough” he was speaking only in reference to his efforts to stop the United States from waging the Vietnam War, efforts which he has described as “. . . inadequate [as] the war dragged on for a decade. Ayers has maintained that the two statements were not intended to imply a wish they had set more bombs.
What Bill Ayers actually did in the 70s.
Ayers participated in planting a bomb at a statue dedicated to riot police casualties in the 1886 Haymarket Riot confrontation between labor supporters and the police. The blast broke almost 100 windows and blew pieces of the statue onto the nearby Kennedy Expressway. (The statue was rebuilt and unveiled on May 4, 1970, and blown up again by other Weathermen on October 6, 1970. Rebuilding it yet again, the city posted a 24-hour police guard to prevent another blast
Posted by: Lucy | October 26, 2008, 4:14 am 4:14 am
The reason I posted the previous posts is there is a lot of misinformation and exaggeration concerning what Bill Ayers actually did, and was responsible for, and a lot of understating in what G Gordon Liddy was all about. The two posts are the truth, and if you really care about the truth and not propaganda fed to you, you will read them.
Doesn’t anyone care about the truth anymore????
Posted by: Lucy | October 26, 2008, 4:33 am 4:33 am
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William Ayers is a PATRIOT along the lines of Patrick Henry and the original Sons of Liberty.
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Posted by: Kirth | October 26, 2008, 5:01 am 5:01 am
What is the significance of a red star on his shirt? It kind of looked like my Reage Against The Machine Shirt that has a red star on it.
Posted by: Josh | October 26, 2008, 5:17 am 5:17 am
Thanks Kirth …Yeah, now that I think about it, there are several Revolutionary war heros that bombed government buildings in our quest for freedom from Britain. Does that mean they were terrorists?
I was an older teenager during the Vietnam war, and I watched male classmates of mine get their DRAFT notices and then were swept off to fight a disgusting and pointless war, the Vietnam War. A couple came back missing limbs, one didn’t come back. These were friends.
Peaceful protesters of the war at Kent State were mowed down by the National Guard shooting into the crowd and several students were killed. People were in huge crowds on the streets protesting and throwing molotov cocktails at police cars in Washington DC. It was a (kind of) different time. To judge Bill Ayers as a terrorist is wrong and inaccurate, though his methods were extreme, and not approved of by the peaceful protestors, we could see how some of the people felt they had to resort to that. The Vietnam War lasted at least 17 years and anyone who goes and visits the Vietnam War Memeorial is struck by all the names of soldiers who wasted their lives and limbs in that stupid war.
You people who are judging Bill Ayers have no idea what it was like back then.
In the meantime, evil people like G Gordon Liddy and Nixon were perverting our government with burglary and evil plots against Democrats just trying to have an election (see below)
Be careful you guys what you believe and who you listen to. Fox News and the Republicans do NOT have your best interests at heart and they are probably laughing at you gullibility. Those who don’t remeber history are doomed to repeat it.
Posted by: Lucy | October 26, 2008, 5:23 am 5:23 am
Do you folks remember what happened in Oklahoma? What if obama had been friends with that guy? Guess you would be defending him too…that seems to be the democratic way. This guy is as bad if not worse along with obama’s other friends. Moms (if you have one) usually teach us that we are judged by the company we keep. Hum…
Stupid is not a handicap. Park somewhere else.
Posted by: Molly | October 26, 2008, 10:36 am 10:36 am
No Molly, I am not excusing Bill Ayers for what he did 40 years ago, I was explaining it in the context of the time. And no, I think what Timothy McVeigh did with the Oklahoma city bombing was a horrible and terrorist action. So are bombing abortion clinics.
But what Bill Ayers actually did, as opposed to what the Weather Underground did as different members in their group, was not that extreme.Ayers participated in planting a bomb at a statue dedicated to riot police casualties in the 1886 Haymarket Riot confrontation between labor supporters and the police. The blast broke almost 100 windows and blew pieces of the statue onto the nearby Kennedy Expressway. Now is Bill Ayers resp-onsible for the other acts done by the rest of the Weather Underground? Probably. But it was 40 years ago and he is just a “washed up hippie” now as McCain put it. It is a nonissue, and a diversion from the issues.I think he should be left alone.
Fox News is an embarrassment to Rupert Murdoch now, or so he says, while he had been laughing all the way to the banks, which are now falling apart right and left. Nice going.
Posted by: Cybercitizen | December 3, 2008, 11:21 am 11:21 am
Can we “ordinary people” get the same protection from Fox “News?” I’d sure like to have it!
Posted by: chuck | October 25, 2008, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm
Fox News? Oh my. They are up to their dirty hounding tricks again. O’Reilly as usual is scratching the bottom of the barrel looking for a ratings boost. Pathetic.
Posted by: diana | October 25, 2008, 2:27 pm 2:27 pm
Come folks lets start a petition to STOP FOX NEWS AND THEIR LYING!
Posted by: Angie | October 25, 2008, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm
I am surprised that FOX news isn’t in front of Reverend Wright’s house.
Posted by: Sandy | October 25, 2008, 2:32 pm 2:32 pm
Fox News is a terrorist organization.
Posted by: Jeremy | October 25, 2008, 2:32 pm 2:32 pm
And we wonder where all the hate and fear mongering is coming from. Which one was causing the terror in this story?
Posted by: Bill | October 25, 2008, 2:33 pm 2:33 pm
Bill Ayers appears to be the one being terrorized in this video.
Posted by: Mikey | October 25, 2008, 2:34 pm 2:34 pm
How pathetic of Fox and O’Reilly. Why O’Reilly pretends to be a “journalist” I do not know. He is an antagonist – I would rather Fox harass unrepetentant Loofa wielding sexual harassers like O’Reilly than someone who did some terrible things 40 years ago and is now a respected, law abiding professor and citizen, no matter his views.
Posted by: Mr. M | October 25, 2008, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm
Just 10 more days. I can’t wait until the Republicanas are DEFEATED!
Posted by: Carrie | October 25, 2008, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm
Bill ORiley has done America far more harm than Wm Ayers
What is this – the Howard Stern Show?
Posted by: alison | October 25, 2008, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm
Atleast Fox is trying to vet Obama and not turn a blind eye like other news shows have.
Posted by: Shelley | October 25, 2008, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm
Sounds like a great idea. I’m going to call the cops to protect myself from Fixed news also.
Posted by: Tungsten | October 25, 2008, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm
I love FOX News. They are the only real news anyone can find. All the other liberal left-wind media is in the tank for THe One.
Posted by: justme | October 25, 2008, 2:38 pm 2:38 pm
With all the radials surrounding Obama, my question is where is the other news media, ABC, NBC, CNN covering Obama’s friends.
Guess Palin’s clothes are more important.
Voters have every right to know Obama’s associations. Obama’s character is part of his judgement. Apparently, it’s off limits to main media. They were in the tank for Obama from the start; obviously; the media would rather send thousands to Alaska with their “smear” machine for Palin.
If the media just would do their jobs and cover every candidate fairly, the voters would know what kind of character each one has. ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN = bias to the max.
Independents for McCain
Posted by: NielPA | October 25, 2008, 2:38 pm 2:38 pm
The poor terrorist being terrorized by a harmless reporter.
The guy that hates America, hates our gov’t and tried to kill cops needs cops to protect him.
I thought Farraakhan and the Nation of Islam protected Obama’s neighborhood?
Posted by: sam | October 25, 2008, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm
Fox News is the worst station out there, along with its journalists, especially O’Reilly… It should be “OH REALLY – not O’Reilly!” LOL
Posted by: Richard | October 25, 2008, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm
Just how bad has the presidential campaign coverage been this year?
So bad that popular online columnist Michael S. Malone, aka ABC’s “Silicon Insider,” wrote Friday, “I’m deeply ashamed right now to be called a ‘journalist.’
Posted by: Obama ONE SCAREY DUDE | October 25, 2008, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm
Ayers is a coward and a creep.
Obama is a coward for lying to America about their relationship–and a creep for using a domestic terrorist to launch his career.
All of Obama’s longtime friends are radicals that hate our country.
Posted by: bailey | October 25, 2008, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm
I love FOX News. They are the only real news anyone can find. All the other liberal left-wind media is in the tank for THe One.
Posted by: Justme | October 25, 2008, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm
Don’t like the system unless you need to use it.
Posted by: samhiguchi | October 25, 2008, 2:45 pm 2:45 pm
Now that it’s likely Obama will win the presidency FOXNEWS has ramped up its attacks on Obama in hopes for a final McCain comeback. To late. McCain had a chance in the last debate and missed it by a mile.
Posted by: Vanessa | October 25, 2008, 2:46 pm 2:46 pm
This is a guy who had no problem blowing up stuff in this country but now he’s running like a baby from Bill O’Reilly and calling on law enforcement officials to help him out … the same guys he targeted in his heyday.
Where’s poetic justice when you need it?
Posted by: mak | October 25, 2008, 2:46 pm 2:46 pm
You ever see a FOX camera near you, just repeat “Andrea Mackris” over and over again. That is the only appropriate comment to them.
Posted by: Flash Override | October 25, 2008, 2:46 pm 2:46 pm
sam: “I thought Farraakhan and the Nation of Islam protected Obama’s neighborhood?”
I think after Farrahkan said Obama was the Messiah a few days ago, he had Obama wave his hand over the neighborhood.
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Posted by: Billw | October 25, 2008, 2:46 pm 2:46 pm
Good for Fox.
The only network that has the guts to tell the truth about Obama.
Posted by: riley | October 25, 2008, 2:48 pm 2:48 pm
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Obama has proved he is not trustworthy time and again, but the creeps supporting him are birds of a feather who flock together.
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Posted by: Billw | October 25, 2008, 2:49 pm 2:49 pm
Aussie – You forgot Gordon Liddy.
Posted by: Paige | October 25, 2008, 2:49 pm 2:49 pm
McCain’s Terror Connection: G. Gordon Liddy
Phil Gramm: McCain’s Terrorist In Pinstripes
Posted by: Aussie | October 25, 2008, 2:50 pm 2:50 pm
It appears that the FOX producer broke the law by trespassing on Ayers’ property and refused to leave when asked. I wonder if he broke the law on orders from O’Reilly or decided to do it on his own?
Posted by: Flash Override | October 25, 2008, 2:51 pm 2:51 pm
“When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real.”
Posted by: Steave Cuozzo | October 25, 2008, 2:53 pm 2:53 pm
someone wrote : “Just a few years ago, Ayers was” ..etc
that statement is typical patently misleading hyperbole. a “few years” isnt 40 or 35 or 25 or even 20.
5 or 6 years would be a few years to most people .maybe 10 or 15 but not more for sure. 15 years is a long time ,for the average human being.
the ayers/weathermen episode happened HALF A LIFETIME AGO!! you probably werent even alive then ,but i was.
i remember why it was happening too ,more republican warmongering for profit /overt lies and deceit ,and blatantly criminal behavior. same thing they are doing today…
“I AM NOT A CRIMINAL!!!”
yeah ,right…
PEOPLE OF THIS GREAT NATION!!!…WAKE UP!!! EDUCATE YOURSELVES!!! BE OBJECTIVE ,LOOK FOR THE TRUTH AND YOU WILL FIND IT!!!…THE REPUBLICANS ARE CAREER LIARS AND USER AND CONNIVERS 100% FOR THEIR OWN SELFISH WHIMS/SWISS BANK ACCOUNTS AND THEIR FAT CAT CORPORATE BUDDIES. THEY WILL NEVER CHANGE!!! VOTE THEM OUT FOREVER!!
NEVER AGAIN!!!
Posted by: bah | October 25, 2008, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm
isnt the red star a skateboard thing?
Posted by: Bhrandon | October 25, 2008, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm
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I love FOX News. They are the only real news anyone can find. All the other liberal left-wind media is in the tank for THe One.
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REAL NEWS = FOX NEWS
Posted by: justme | October 25, 2008, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm
smashing pumpkins lead singer wore a red star for an album cover
i mean what is bill saying hes a commy?
anyone who has a red star is a commy
my teacher gave me a red star on my paper, now im a terrorist
Posted by: Bhrandon | October 25, 2008, 2:59 pm 2:59 pm
I would suggest people would go back and THINK; instead of blindly being used by the media. It already happened with Bush; when the so-called media gave Bush the biggest pass of all-the Iraq War. The media just refused to ask the “hard” questions.
Obama is getting a major “pass” on his radial friends. Isn’t it more important to get it right than to blindly follow Obama’s empty “words” and “promises”. Obama went back on word many times. Are voters that gullible???
Why should anyone believe the media or Obama. Obama is not tested, no one really knows what this guy is about; and yet the media overlook the obvious. This election should be a no brainer. Yet, Obama without experience, without being tested, without judgement just seems fine to some voters. Strange.
Independents for McCain
Posted by: NielPA | October 25, 2008, 2:59 pm 2:59 pm
I think it’s ironic that Bill Ayers, the guy who wanted to bomb, maim and kill Americans is turning to the police for protection. Bill Ayers was (and is) a narcissistic, self-indulgent rich kid who enjoyed terrorizing others for his own kicks. Guess it’s just pay back now that he is having to turn to the police for help.
Posted by: aviewerofabc | October 25, 2008, 3:00 pm 3:00 pm
Mc Cain started this and they say oh no We never.Now Palin curbed bids for the gas line and made sure her friends got it.She quoted 40 Mil and the company bid 26 Mil geeeeeeeeeeeee where is the other 14 mil going?????She is more of a crook then anyone on these tickets,,,,
Posted by: NH voter | October 25, 2008, 3:00 pm 3:00 pm
Fox News, days left until election day are too short for you. And they are too long for Dems.
Posted by: FM | October 25, 2008, 3:01 pm 3:01 pm
Rising star of the College Republicans Ashley Todd is an avid fan of Bill-O’s.
Posted by: Clint | October 25, 2008, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm
Fox news is also covering the Obama compaign workers in Ohio that have been caught in voter fraud. Seems he didn’t limit his training only to Acorn but his own staff. Their votes have been recinded and all 700 workers have been put on notice.
Quit being brainwashed and educate yourselves, get off these biased news media sites.
Posted by: HH | October 25, 2008, 3:04 pm 3:04 pm
think it’s ironic that Bill Ayers, the guy who wanted to bomb, maim and kill Americans is turning to the police for protection. Bill Ayers was (and is) a narcissistic, self-indulgent rich kid who enjoyed terrorizing others for his own kicks. Guess it’s just pay back now that he is having to turn to the police for help.
Posted by: aviewerofabc | Oct 25, 2008 3:00:11 PM
Please read up on G. Gordon Liddy if we are back to silly season on associations.
Posted by: Jwench | October 25, 2008, 3:07 pm 3:07 pm
Keep listening to trash like Bill or Palin. Keep it up, and keep spending your time hating liberals. You have been the best thing the Democrats have had in years.
People are tired of your kind of dirt FOXNEWS. You are the minority and you don’t realize it. People are rejecting your kind of hate, even common sense republicans. More republicnas have flocked to Obama than Democrats during the Reagan years.
O’Reilly is as self serving as Rush is, and both of them don’t give a rats behind about the truth.
Posted by: The Unshrub | October 25, 2008, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm
…Ayers was (and is) a narcissistic, self-indulgent rich kid who enjoyed terrorizing others for his own kicks.
And Bill O’rielly differs from this how?
Posted by: Jeremy | October 25, 2008, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm
Billw
People are answering your question about trusting Obama and the vast majority do trust him. They trust him over O’Reilly, McCain and Palin. They don’t trust people like you who spread lies about Obama.
Posted by: The Unshrub | October 25, 2008, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm
…Ayers was (and is) a narcissistic, self-indulgent rich kid who enjoyed terrorizing others for his own kicks.
And Bill O’rielly differs from this how?
Talk about Obama supporters being gross. . . . .
Posted by: Billw | October 25, 2008, 3:11 pm 3:11 pm
Wonder if Fox will now stake out Gordon Liddy and ask the same questions. That would be “Fair and Balanced” wouldn’t it?
Posted by: AnAmericanPerson | October 25, 2008, 3:11 pm 3:11 pm
Fixed news is just trying to take the focus off of their shady connections. Why dont they ever talk about McMoron’s best friend, G. Gordon Liddy who drew up plans to bomb several buildings and called Hitler an inspiration to him, to say the least. Or why doesnt fixed news focus on William Timmons…a lobbyist for Saddam Hussein and currently hired as cabinet transition manager of McMorons (McMoron will lose anyway, so I guess his services wont be needed). Why doesnt fixed news talk about Al Qaeda’s strong endorsement of McMoron. Why doesnt Fixed news talk about Sean Hannity’s best friend? We can go on and on.
Posted by: ed | October 25, 2008, 3:11 pm 3:11 pm
Ayers still a rich kid spoiled brat. And he calls the cops to help him. We still he is still writing the same crap.
The rumor on the Internet is that Ayers ghost wrote Obama’s first book. The seconds book was written by some one else.
Posted by: today | October 25, 2008, 3:13 pm 3:13 pm
Unshrub:
“They don’t trust people like you who spread lies about Obama.”
OK cowboy, state where I lied, otherwise you just labeled your own self.
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Posted by: Billw | October 25, 2008, 3:13 pm 3:13 pm
aussie dont worry much about people like hal turner.
most of those people are already being watched and they are so stupid they cant help but end up in jail ,watch and see.
with all the snooping the gov. is allowed to do now (courtesy of bush/the republicans) we liberals will do some big time snooping of our own pretty soon…got that??
folks like hal turner better find a rock to crawl back under ,thats the truth!
Posted by: bah | October 25, 2008, 3:14 pm 3:14 pm
Foxnews, the fear and unbalanced network, owned by the some person who owns the National Enquiry. In otherwords, they will print anything for a buck.
Posted by: The Unshrub | October 25, 2008, 3:14 pm 3:14 pm
Wow, this really got the Obama crowd up and out of their seats.
We know Obama has won the election – his “95% get a tax refund check” pander was the mother of all panders. And people sold their votes for $500.
Ayers is just a comedy event until Obama gets in office. OK, we do worry who will get the education cabinet post if Obama thinks of Ayers as being the great educator.
Posted by: today | October 25, 2008, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm
Billw
“Quit being brainwashed and educate yourselves, get off these biased news media sites.”
Since you made the above statement, back it up. (with real facts)
Posted by: The Unshrub | October 25, 2008, 3:18 pm 3:18 pm
Q: What do Obama and Osama have in common?
A: They both have friends who bombed the Pentagon. Killed Americans
Posted by: Dean | October 25, 2008, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm
Posted by: Billw | Oct 25, 2008 3:04:07 PM
Ok I will give you it basically says the same thing. My apologies. What I posted goes a bit more in depth as to where it started at and who continues to spread this kind of BS.
“including a post by Confederate Yankee who wrote:
Barack Obama isn’t anti-American, but he is un-American. Our cultural memory and experiences are something he read about in books, but never lived, and something he cannot feel.
He is not one of us.”
Just because one does not wear a flag pin does not mean that they cannot be trusted.Just because you wave a flag, does not make you patriotic.
The Ayers thing hasn’t gotten anywhere, Rezko has proved to be nothing. As far as standing up for America, he is patriotic and American as you are I.
Posted by: Jwench | October 25, 2008, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm
Fae
ANyone can file a lawsuit and the nuts do it right before the election, that way fools like you beleive it’s for real.
Posted by: The Unshrub | October 25, 2008, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm
Obama’s grandmother’s birthday is Sunday. Odd that he did not stay until her birthday. He could have put the grandmother’s brother from Chicago on the big empty jet. Worse yet, he left her in her 150 square foot apartment while he is making $4 million a year.
Interesting contrast with McCain who has houses for all of his relatives.
Posted by: today | October 25, 2008, 3:21 pm 3:21 pm
Dean
Ayers has never been accussed of killing anyone. I am not definding Ayers, only correcting a lie you are using against Obama.
Posted by: The Unshrub | October 25, 2008, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm
The only people that watch fox news and belive in their Journalisim is the people like The Girl in Pa ASHLEY THE NUTCASE those are the kind of people that listen to Fox News!
Posted by: Angie | October 25, 2008, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm
The Unshrub says “Ayers has never been accussed of killing anyone. I am not definding Ayers, only correcting a lie you are using against Obama.”
Ayers has been accused by a lot of people of being involved – at least as an accomplice. He has not been charged or convicted. The FBI wired tapped his phone – illegally – and because of that they had to drop all of the charges.
Posted by: today | October 25, 2008, 3:25 pm 3:25 pm
Please read up on G. Gordon Liddy if we are back to silly season on associations.”
Apparently Sarah Palin’s clothes is of utmost importance, but investigating the ties of Senator Government to a terrorist is “silly season”.
Gotcha.
Posted by: Concerned in OH | Oct 25, 2008 3:09:16 PM
G. Gordon Liddy and William Timmons. If you want to be fair which I seriously doubt why won’t any of you talk about these associations of McCain’s? The Ayers thing has gone NOWHERE. You would think that the Clinton’s would have dug up dirt on that one with their connections. How can Obama be responsible for something that happened 40 years ago?
I don’t give a rat’s behind how much they spent on the Pooch Palin, I also don’t care abot Joe the liar plumber either.
Posted by: Jwench | October 25, 2008, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm
Jwench:
Thank you. My problem with trusting his word re patriotism is that he broke it on major issues. McCain has proven his patriotism.
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Posted by: Billw | October 25, 2008, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm
Bill Ayers did some very stupid things when he was young. But if stupidity was againist the law, our prisons could never begin to fill the lawbreakers.
I saw most of the attempted Ayers footage. The “reporter” intruded into some private gatherings and tried to waylay Ayers on his own property thereby breaking the law.
The “reporter” deserves jail time.
Posted by: Beto | October 25, 2008, 3:28 pm 3:28 pm
All you O’Reilly fans should go to Google and print …
The Smoking Gun/ Bill O’Reilly and really see you’re listening to … G Keith!
Posted by: John Peter Zenger | October 25, 2008, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm
Billw
Where is your documentation?
Posted by: The Unshrub | October 25, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm
I hope this election is a wipeout for the Dems. I do believe in a two-party system — just not for this election. Let the conservatives go form their own party with Palin.
Posted by: ohio folk | October 25, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm
Ayers doesn’t have the guts to say to apologize when given the chance and all of you Obamb followers are OK with that. You REALLY gotta love Obama to side with someone that CLEARLY was friends with an unrepentant terrorist.
Why nothing on ABC’s site about the illegal voting in Ohio by Obama’s OWN campaign? See FOX for the REAL TRUTH.
Posted by: FrankW | October 25, 2008, 3:34 pm 3:34 pm
Ayers weather underground tried to burn to death a judge, his wife, and their children. The weather underground set fire to the front and back doors to keep the kids trapped in doors. The bomb that ended the weather underground went off in of the snot rich kids weather underground house and killed three of them. That bomb was full of nails and screws – intended to do a lot of collateral damage.
Some people are saying that those offenses are no worse than trespassing. Wow, that is further than I have ever heard a democrat go.
Posted by: today | October 25, 2008, 3:37 pm 3:37 pm
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Unshrub:
“Where is your documentation?”
Go back to the post at 3:04:02 PM, and you will find HH made that statement, not me. Here it is:
Quit being brainwashed and educate yourselves, get off these biased news media sites.
Posted by: HH | Oct 25, 2008 3:04:02 PM
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Posted by: Billw | October 25, 2008, 3:37 pm 3:37 pm
This whole business with Ayers is so ridiculous.
Ayers actions with terrorists was 40 years ago. Forty years. Think about it.
Now he is a college professor. He is looked at as safe enough to teach our young people. He devotes spare time to serve on boards and other ways of helping the community.
Evidently the idea of forgiving someone, especially when they have been on good behavior for decades, doesn’t impress some people. But isn’t that what Jesus asked us to do? Isn’t that what was done with Bush, who was frequently cited as having a drinking and drug problem?
If Ayers has been a responsible citizen for the past decades, surely there isn’t any reason to be invading his privacy or making unwarranted insinuations about him today.
It was forty years ago. Judge not lest thee be judged.
Posted by: Lydia | October 25, 2008, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm
“If Ayers has been a responsible citizen for the past decades, surely there isn’t any reason to be invading his privacy or making unwarranted insinuations about him today.”
Yes there is, he never paid the price for attempted murder. He got off due to illegal wiretapping.
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Posted by: Billw | October 25, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm
People say that Ayers has changed and is now just a charming guy. He is still trying to over throw the government – ask him. His view is entirely consistent with Rev Wright.
How do people reconcile that Rev Wright and Ayers both have the same notions about hating America. Seems like just a coincidence that Obama is pals with both of them. OK, you at least agree he was pals with Wright – or are we in denial about that, too?
It does not matter as the vote is in the bag. 30% of the vote is in and it is all Obama. Where does the contry go from here?
Posted by: today | October 25, 2008, 3:43 pm 3:43 pm
Interesting that Billo has never apologized to his listeners for his drug bust that wound him up in rehab…….
Posted by: Grissom | October 25, 2008, 3:50 pm 3:50 pm
The whole point of this incident by O’reilly and Fix News was to try and get Bill to do something to keep him in the news. I wish I could switch place with him when that jerk was asking him questionings- he would have been eating that microphone. Rather than report the news, they are trying to make the news. Shame on them and all of these idiots who get their news from them.
Posted by: Otimus | October 25, 2008, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm
I thought Marxists didn’t believe in “private property”….
Posted by: michelle | October 25, 2008, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm
The whole point of this incident by O’reilly and Fix News was to try and get Bill to do something to keep him in the news. I wish I could switch place with him when that jerk was asking him questionings- he would have been eating that microphone. Rather than report the news, they are trying to make the news. Shame on them and all of these idiots who get their news from them.
Posted by: Otimus | October 25, 2008, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm
Gosh I guess the FACT that Mr. Ayers has sat on charities for children for 30 years, donated thousands of dollars to them and was named “Chicago’s Citizen of the Year” still dosen’t mean anything unless Billo gets to hear him say he is sorry even though Mr. Ayers was never one of the people involved with making the bombs……and the people that were? blew themselves up…and no one else was ever killed by them. When Billo says they killed Americans..they never point out that it their own members who died only.
Posted by: Grissom | October 25, 2008, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm
O’Reilly is just looking out for the folks.
Posted by: Shelley | October 25, 2008, 3:55 pm 3:55 pm
Billo Billo Billo…Much ADO about nothing! LOL MANY people had strong feelings regarding the Goverment and Vietnam…thousands went to Canada and Millions protested and were violent…perhaps thats why all polls say this line of attack? when Obama was 8? has had no affect other than with the people who are not voting for Obama anyway.
I remember Vietnam. Millions do. Lots of anger and our Goverment allowed THOUSANDS of people to die needlessly.
Posted by: Grissom | October 25, 2008, 3:56 pm 3:56 pm
I think the question is does Ayers still hate America? And are those charities designed to radicalize neighborhoods?
How does Ayers fit in with Rev. Wright?
Posted by: today | October 25, 2008, 3:59 pm 3:59 pm
O’Reilly -
I hope you have a church you are associated with as the good Lord needs a lot of prayers from you for forgiveness. I don’t know what has happened to you in the past year as I use to watch you, but MSNBC so out distances your show anymore that I hardly stand it to surf the channels and happen to go by yours while you are on.
A 70 year old Grandma
Posted by: Grandma | October 25, 2008, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm
Ayers has spent the last 40 years living in realitive obscurity except for those that attend his classes and work with him. Ayers has given back to society ten fold and now his life has been put into turmiol so Bill O can make himself feel important.Ayers has accomplished more in the last 40 years than BO has accomplished, or will accomplish, his whole life. He’s too self absorbed.Fox is just worried their man is losing the election. Society has evolved. Move forward and stop trying to make something out of nothing.
Posted by: Bea | October 25, 2008, 4:09 pm 4:09 pm
I hope those Republicans with a conscience will leave this party that has been so tainted by all sorts of hypocrites and form their own.
Posted by: teddymaniac | October 25, 2008, 4:15 pm 4:15 pm
Today…I don’t know where you are getting your information, but you’re wrong. You are misguided at best.
Posted by: BA | October 25, 2008, 4:16 pm 4:16 pm
Why can’t the guy just say he was young and stupid? Why can’t he just apologize rather than say “I wish I had done more.” I don’t care how long ago it was and if he is the holy savior now. He should be deported. If people want to protest, fine but don’t result to violence. He did it to get attention and now he doesn’t want the attention. And I don’t care if he has ties to Obama or not he just needs to be booted out of this country. If you don’t love it get the h— out.
Posted by: jody | October 25, 2008, 4:19 pm 4:19 pm
How ironic: An unrepentant terrorist being “terrorized” by the media.
Ayers should call his buddy Hugo Chavez for advice.
Posted by: Captain America | October 25, 2008, 4:20 pm 4:20 pm
hope those Republicans with a conscience will leave this party that has been so tainted by all sorts of hypocrites and form their own.
Posted by: teddymaniac | Oct 25, 2008 4:15:19 PM
Some of them already have which is a good thing.
Posted by: Jwench | October 25, 2008, 4:21 pm 4:21 pm
First: This was over forty years ago Mr. O’Reilly. You remind me of the medival Christians who were always condeming people for their sins and forgetting about their own sins. Leave that man along. I do not feel sorry for Mr. Ayres. I feel sorry for you. Remember: He that is without sin cast the first stone. Your sin may not be his, sin but in the eyes of God your sin is still a stench in his nostrils. As a Christian I am sometimes so ashamed of you and other so called christian leaders. You remind me of the religious leaders during the time of Christ. Self-righteous and pompous. Be careful sir. For with the same judgment you judge, you will be judged.
Posted by: A christian conservative | October 25, 2008, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm
today.You obviously don’t have an ederly Grandma. Most older people are content and happy to stay in their homes. And why on earth would she want to leave Hawaii for Chicago? She’s lived there her whole adult life. Obama was raised in that apartment. Most people her age and in her conditon would be in a nursing home. Obama has made sure she is where she wants to be and I’m sure she is getting around the clock care.
Posted by: Miki | October 25, 2008, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm
The terrorist that tried to kill the police calls the police for protection…oh the irony.
And Mr. Bill “communist” Ayers whining to the reporter – “you are on private property”. Comrade Ayers, in the communist state you want there is no private property.
Ayers is nothing but a scared old man driving a Buick.
Posted by: Thelma | October 25, 2008, 4:30 pm 4:30 pm
Watch Fox News. Watch Fox News. They are the only ones that tell it like it is. Colin Powell would not endorse on Fox – because he knew he would be asked questions that he could ot answer – Watch Fox News
Posted by: Janice | October 25, 2008, 4:39 pm 4:39 pm
I want to ask Mr. O’Reilly is he going to follow around G. Gordon Liddy and all the members from the Ketting 5. He thinks that Barack should apologize for something he had no control over, then so should McCain.
That Jeremiah Wright thing is an old issue just like Bill Ayers. It is not like Barack went home with these men, we don’t know what or have control over what preachers or anyone else talk about behind closed doors.
We can only control ourselves and our actions. Barack didn’t follow in either one’s directions, he followed his own path. I am so sick of people like Bill O’Reilly because he is just like Elizabeth (from the view), they always feel the need to stay in the past and stick up for their party.
All I hope people will do now is look to the future and what kind of direction we want to take America in.
Posted by: Shut Up Fox!!!!!!!!! | October 25, 2008, 4:40 pm 4:40 pm
billo is like a raving nut case if he came to my door i would sick the dogs on him—-some kind of extremest nut case.known as the fox freak show.ayers was not alone in protesting the nam war—thousands were on the streets–some got a little carried away.but it was nothing compared to the thousands of women and children that were indiscrimately killed—AND FOR WHAT–EVEN MCCAIN WHEN A PRISONER DENOUNCED THE USA FOR WHAT WAS HAPPENING.—
Posted by: rodney | October 25, 2008, 4:55 pm 4:55 pm
DONT BE TOO HARD ON AYERS–AS THE NAM WAR WAS THE –MOST PRIME EXAMPLE OF MANS INHUMANITY TO HIS FELLOW MAN–when polititions simply want to go to war –send them in first–the front line.
we dont have or have not seen yet the amount of civilians killed in iraq—and once again for what—lies. or just tiny little people trying to look big –at the price of others.sometines necessary but diplomacy first always.
Posted by: rodney | October 25, 2008, 5:07 pm 5:07 pm
So it is OK for MSNBC and the other Obama networks to try and smear Joe the plumber, but we can’t get answers from an terriost who is proud of what he did and said the didn’t do enough.
Posted by: susie | October 25, 2008, 5:13 pm 5:13 pm
answering to peacefull protests —IS THAT WHY COLLEDGE STUDENTS WERE SHOT—-AYERS BY NO MEANS IS A HERO–BUT HE WAS FAR FROM ALONE AT THE TIME—–AS I STATED MCCAIN WHEN A PRISONER DENOUNCED THE USA FOR ALL THE KILLING OF INNOCENTS.—–OR I FORGOT THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN WERE CONSIDERED THE ENEMY.
Posted by: rodney | October 25, 2008, 5:18 pm 5:18 pm
well, any right thinking person, should know this is dangerous.
there are to many kooks out there that would get it into their heads to do harm to someone, and why, for bill o. to up his ratings.
if you mccain supporters think this is alright, then god help you, and i hope if mccain gets into office, on something like this, in the middle of a night one of these days you may get a knock on your door, it will be someone from the federal govt. saying you did this or that, and your family may not see you again.
i hope this country does not continue down the road bush has put us on the last eight years.
Posted by: cheer up,smile,nertz | October 25, 2008, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm
“I want to ask Mr. O’Reilly is he going to follow around G. Gordon Liddy and all the members from the Ketting 5. He thinks that Barack should apologize for something he had no control over, then so should McCain”
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Liddy and Keating were not terrorists.
Nor were their associations with McCain ever hidden under the blankets by him.
He hsa talked about them countless times, even though he was found guiltless in both cases.
You had to practically pull teeth to have Obama’s associations with Ayers and Dohrn, and Rezko and Raila Odinga and Rashid Khalidi and Nachmi Auchi and Reverend Meeks and Farrakhan and his strange ties to hamas… acknowledged.
Why the secrecy?
Unless there IS guilt…..
And there is!
Posted by: HMMMMM... | October 25, 2008, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm
So it is OK for MSNBC and the other Obama networks to try and smear Joe the plumber, but we can’t get answers from an terriost who is proud of what he did and said the didn’t do enough.
Posted by: susie | Oct 25, 2008 5:13:33 PM
IF you would research and look at what he said, he said they didn’t do enough to stop the war. It had no reference to bombings, etc.
Here is part of a letter he wrote back in 2001 to the Editor:
“I said I had a thousand regrets, but no regrets for opposing the war with every ounce of my strength. I told her that in light of the indiscriminate murder of millions of Vietnamese, we showed remarkable restraint, and that while we tried to sound a piercing alarm in those years, in fact we didn’t do enough to stop the war.”
Posted by: Jwench | October 25, 2008, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm
OMG look at that radical taking groceries into his house. He is so evil. LMAO
Posted by: MM | October 25, 2008, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm
Liddy and Ketting may not have been a terrorists like Bill Ayers, but they were terrorists to the American people and Congress.
All I have to say is why was it okay for McCain to put distance between him-self and those men, but not for Barack?
Posted by: Shut up Fox!!!!!!!!!! | October 25, 2008, 5:33 pm 5:33 pm
wench:
“…….. he said, he said they didn’t do enough to stop the war. It had no reference to bombings, etc. ”
That’s what he SAID!
He can say whatever the heck he wants.
BUT he CAN”T undo the killing of his friends and the injuries of his enemies because he and a belligerant group of protesters took that extra step and decided to become terrorists!
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Be that as it may,
Obama and Ayers go back a ways….. as grownups, sitting on the same boards sharing favors.
Jump back to 2000…
‘In addition to his professorship, Ayers is The Woods Fund board chairman, and a young state senator, who like Ayers is living in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood, is a fellow board member–that person of course is Barack Obama.
Why any organization would have Ayers serving on their board (he’s not chairman any more, but Ayers is still on The Woods Fund board), is astonishing to me and any other person with common sense. And who’d want to serve with him?
That year, Ayers and Obama (who should’ve abstained) voted to invest $1 million in Woods Fund money into a firm run by a former boss of the then-state senator, Allison Davis.
In a different business venture, Davis partnered with Tony Rezko.”
“From 1999 to 2002, Ayers and Obama served on the board of the Woods Fund of Chicago, a not-for-profit group. In 2000, Obama, rather than abstaining, voted to invest $1 million in Neighborhood Rejuvenation Partners L.P., a firm run by Obama’s former law firm boss, as well as an early contributor to his campaign, Allison S. Davis.
In a different venture, Davis was in business with Tony Rezko.
Posted by: HMMMMM... | October 25, 2008, 5:49 pm 5:49 pm
Posted by: HMMMMM… | Oct 25, 2008 5:49:43 PM
Guess what, I don’t care. Rant all you want.
How come none of you McCainBots will say anything about McCain’s less than desirable associations?
Posted by: Jwench | October 25, 2008, 5:55 pm 5:55 pm
Susie writes, “So it is OK for MSNBC and the other Obama networks to try and smear Joe the plumber, but we can’t get answers from an terriost who is proud of what he did and said the didn’t do enough.”
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Sorry Susie but when ASK someone a question and LIE about your TRUE circumstances you deserve to be called out on it.
The fact is Joe the Plumber told Obama he was in the process of purchasing a company when he WAS NOT. He earned a whopping $40,000 per year according to divorce records in 2006.
Is this common amongst McCain supporters? Do you lie to yourself to magically make his “policies” fit into your socioeconomic life? This is what Joe did and frankly it’s embarrassing.
Isn’t it ironic that Joe would fair better under Obama’s tax plan? Yet Joe the “I lie about the money I earn and don’t even have a plumbers license” is voting Republican. You know what? You can have that vote. Heaven knows I don’t want someone like that voting the same way I do. You feel free to let that liar represent you if you like.
Posted by: Dems | October 25, 2008, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm
Wow, I bet Abe Lincoln, JFK, MLK, and Bobby would be proud of their fellow Americans defending a domestic terrorist while attacking a middle class plumber… they’d be prouder yet of the leader who inspired such blind devotion.
Posted by: marylou | October 25, 2008, 6:24 pm 6:24 pm
Todd and Sarah Palin had membership in AIP.
OOOOOH,
Almost every state at one time or another has tried to secede from the Union.
Heck… there was even a “Civil War” over it!
Even “Long Island”… tried t secede from the Union!
Alaska achieved statehood relatively recently,, so it would stand to figure that she would want to try her cold little toes in the secessionary waters also.
B I G bloody deal!
But definitely
NOT AS BIG A STORY AS ACORN
Posted by: b o for worst case scenario | October 25, 2008, 6:25 pm 6:25 pm
“No innocent people died in any of those bombings.”
If “No innocent people died in any of those bombings”, the Ayers is GUILTY!
His FRIENDS and fellow terrorists were killed in those bombings, and if THEY were guilty then SO WAS AYERS!
Posted by: b o for worst case scenario | October 25, 2008, 6:29 pm 6:29 pm
Yet another example of Faux News journalism at its best. I suppose next week they’ll resusitate their fake ‘madrassa terrorist elementary school’ story.
Let’s see…John Gibson (The Big Story), Gretchen Carlson and Steve Doocy (Fox & Friends), and Sean Hannity (Hannity & Colmes) were all involved in those lies. Did they learn anything? No. Andy Martin was behind those lies, and now they’re repeating his current set of lies, identifying him an internet journalist. (I’d link to that, but ABC won’t post links so just google for fox news andy martin)
Email Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes if you’re fed up and not going to take it any more.
Posted by: Tom J | October 25, 2008, 6:45 pm 6:45 pm
The only radical person on that clip was Bill O’Riley.
Why isn’t he harrassing McCain’s buddy G. Gordon Libby?
Posted by: Lori | October 25, 2008, 7:09 pm 7:09 pm
Didn’t Keating and Liddy go to prison? Or were they pardoned. Does any one know?
Palin will be next. I heard her deposition last week she incriminated herself.
Won’t be long before she is out as governor.
Posted by: Rev. Ike | October 25, 2008, 9:00 pm 9:00 pm
G. Gordon Liddy was pardoned after serving a short time in jail. Just google for Steve Chapman’s latest column about him and McCain.
Posted by: Tom J | October 25, 2008, 9:34 pm 9:34 pm
The difference between the partys.
Democrats: Republicans it is ok to vote for us, even if we disagree on a lot of issues.
Republicans: Liberals and democrats are anti- American terrorist.
Who would you vote for?
Obama/Biden 08
Posted by: MM | October 25, 2008, 9:53 pm 9:53 pm
I don’t ever listen to Fox News, better named Faux News, but watching this clip was even more shocking than I could have imagined. the Fox reporter was totally out of line — with his vicious invasive baiting. and then to hear O’Reilly!! it makes me fear for all of us. sickening. thanks to all the previous comments, which is at least a bright spot in the midst of all this swampy putrefying slime.
Posted by: leucippe | October 25, 2008, 10:26 pm 10:26 pm
Leave obamas Pal alone!
Posted by: Sarah | October 25, 2008, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm
I don’t care about Ayers. He’s a college professor. let Faux News go after his employer- a university.
I really really don’t care about Joe the (almost)Plumber.
Please please please -write about issues.
Posted by: Diane | October 25, 2008, 11:02 pm 11:02 pm
foxnews!! is a network owned by an Australian whose only way is to pitch real Americans against each other.
A sad way to make money dividing america
Posted by: Disgruntled And Mentally Recessioned Republican | October 25, 2008, 11:34 pm 11:34 pm
Why didn’t he get arrested for trespassing on private property?
Posted by: gr8bigguy | October 26, 2008, 1:22 am 1:22 am
Now he wants the ‘establishment’ to protect him. That’s rich.
Posted by: marythedesigner | October 26, 2008, 1:26 am 1:26 am
Let’s talk about one of John McCain’s close friends, G. Gordon Liddy.
In 1998 Liddy hosted a fundraiser at his house for John McCain’s re-election campaign at which guests could have their pictures taken with McCain and Liddy. Over the years, Liddy, who has referred to McCain as “an old friend,” has made at least four contributions totaling $5,000 to the senator’s campaigns — including $1,000 in 2008. When David Letterman asked McCain about his relationship with Liddy, McCain said, “Who?” Then, following a commercial break, McCain said “I know Gordon Liddy. He paid his debt. He went to prison and paid his debt, as people do. I’m not in any way embarrassed to know Gordon Liddy.”
In 1971, after serving in several positions in the Nixon administration, Liddy was moved to Nixon’s 1972 campaign, the Committee to Re-elect the President (officially known as “CRP” but to opponents known as CREEP), in order to extend the scope and reach of the White House “Plumbers” unit, which had been created in response to various damaging leaks of information to the press. At CRP, Liddy concocted several plots, some far-fetched, intended to embarrass the Democratic opposition. These included firebombing the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. (where classified documents leaked by Daniel Ellsberg were being stored), kidnapping anti-war protest organizers and transporting them to Mexico during the Republican National Convention (which at the time was planned for San Diego), and luring mid-level Democratic campaign officials to a house boat in Baltimore where they would be secretly photographed in compromising positions with call girls. Most of Liddy’s ideas were rejected, but a few were given the go ahead by Nixon Administration officials, including the break-in at Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office. Ellsberg had leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times. At some point, Liddy was instructed to break into the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate Hotel
How is this not so much worse than Obama’s aquaintance with Bill Ayers?
Posted by: Lucy | October 26, 2008, 3:57 am 3:57 am
Who was Bill Ayers when Obama was loosely acquainted with him?
William Ayers, associate professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago; co-director of the Small Schools Workshop; co-director of the Chicago Forum for School Change—an affiliate of the Coalition of Essential Schools;[20] chairman of the Alliance for Better Chicago Schools (ABCs) coalition;[21][22] former Chicago assistant deputy mayor for education (1989–1990
I thought all you so called Christians were for redemption and forgiveness?Read on….
Much of the controversy about Ayers during the decade since 2000 stems from an interview he gave to The New York Times on the occasion of his memoir’s publication. The reporter quoted him as saying “I don’t regret setting bombs” and “I feel we didn’t do enough”, and, when asked if he would “do it all again,” as saying “I don’t want to discount the possibility.” Ayers has not denied the quotes, but he protested the interviewer’s characterizations in a Letter to the Editor published September 15, 2001: “This is not a question of being misunderstood or ‘taken out of context’, but of deliberate distortion”.
Ayers has repeatedly avowed that when he said he had “no regrets” and that “we didn’t do enough” he was speaking only in reference to his efforts to stop the United States from waging the Vietnam War, efforts which he has described as “. . . inadequate [as] the war dragged on for a decade. Ayers has maintained that the two statements were not intended to imply a wish they had set more bombs.
What Bill Ayers actually did in the 70s.
Ayers participated in planting a bomb at a statue dedicated to riot police casualties in the 1886 Haymarket Riot confrontation between labor supporters and the police. The blast broke almost 100 windows and blew pieces of the statue onto the nearby Kennedy Expressway. (The statue was rebuilt and unveiled on May 4, 1970, and blown up again by other Weathermen on October 6, 1970. Rebuilding it yet again, the city posted a 24-hour police guard to prevent another blast
Posted by: Lucy | October 26, 2008, 4:14 am 4:14 am
The reason I posted the previous posts is there is a lot of misinformation and exaggeration concerning what Bill Ayers actually did, and was responsible for, and a lot of understating in what G Gordon Liddy was all about. The two posts are the truth, and if you really care about the truth and not propaganda fed to you, you will read them.
Doesn’t anyone care about the truth anymore????
Posted by: Lucy | October 26, 2008, 4:33 am 4:33 am
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William Ayers is a PATRIOT along the lines of Patrick Henry and the original Sons of Liberty.
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Posted by: Kirth | October 26, 2008, 5:01 am 5:01 am
What is the significance of a red star on his shirt? It kind of looked like my Reage Against The Machine Shirt that has a red star on it.
Posted by: Josh | October 26, 2008, 5:17 am 5:17 am
Thanks Kirth …Yeah, now that I think about it, there are several Revolutionary war heros that bombed government buildings in our quest for freedom from Britain. Does that mean they were terrorists?
I was an older teenager during the Vietnam war, and I watched male classmates of mine get their DRAFT notices and then were swept off to fight a disgusting and pointless war, the Vietnam War. A couple came back missing limbs, one didn’t come back. These were friends.
Peaceful protesters of the war at Kent State were mowed down by the National Guard shooting into the crowd and several students were killed. People were in huge crowds on the streets protesting and throwing molotov cocktails at police cars in Washington DC. It was a (kind of) different time. To judge Bill Ayers as a terrorist is wrong and inaccurate, though his methods were extreme, and not approved of by the peaceful protestors, we could see how some of the people felt they had to resort to that. The Vietnam War lasted at least 17 years and anyone who goes and visits the Vietnam War Memeorial is struck by all the names of soldiers who wasted their lives and limbs in that stupid war.
You people who are judging Bill Ayers have no idea what it was like back then.
In the meantime, evil people like G Gordon Liddy and Nixon were perverting our government with burglary and evil plots against Democrats just trying to have an election (see below)
Be careful you guys what you believe and who you listen to. Fox News and the Republicans do NOT have your best interests at heart and they are probably laughing at you gullibility. Those who don’t remeber history are doomed to repeat it.
Posted by: Lucy | October 26, 2008, 5:23 am 5:23 am
Do you folks remember what happened in Oklahoma? What if obama had been friends with that guy? Guess you would be defending him too…that seems to be the democratic way. This guy is as bad if not worse along with obama’s other friends. Moms (if you have one) usually teach us that we are judged by the company we keep. Hum…
Stupid is not a handicap. Park somewhere else.
Posted by: Molly | October 26, 2008, 10:36 am 10:36 am
No Molly, I am not excusing Bill Ayers for what he did 40 years ago, I was explaining it in the context of the time. And no, I think what Timothy McVeigh did with the Oklahoma city bombing was a horrible and terrorist action. So are bombing abortion clinics.
But what Bill Ayers actually did, as opposed to what the Weather Underground did as different members in their group, was not that extreme.Ayers participated in planting a bomb at a statue dedicated to riot police casualties in the 1886 Haymarket Riot confrontation between labor supporters and the police. The blast broke almost 100 windows and blew pieces of the statue onto the nearby Kennedy Expressway. Now is Bill Ayers resp-onsible for the other acts done by the rest of the Weather Underground? Probably. But it was 40 years ago and he is just a “washed up hippie” now as McCain put it. It is a nonissue, and a diversion from the issues.I think he should be left alone.
Posted by: Lucy | October 26, 2008, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm
Fox News is an embarrassment to Rupert Murdoch now, or so he says, while he had been laughing all the way to the banks, which are now falling apart right and left. Nice going.
Posted by: Cybercitizen | December 3, 2008, 11:21 am 11:21 am