Bill Ayers

A Superficial Take on Politically Historical Events as Perceived While Watching CNN and MSNBC

Jann Karam | Posted 01.06.2009 | Entertainment

I'm not saying that getting laid is the agenda at every political event. But when everybody's drunk on America, there's a good chance to engage salaciously with legislators or the fit security staff.

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Lifetime Poll Pinpoints Negative Media Coverage of Clinton & Palin

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 12.10.2008 | Politics

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Regardless of party affiliation, women saw the coverage of both Clinton and Palin as "too negative" and without adequate substance.

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Bill Ayers On Hardball: Calls Accusations "Profoundly Dishonest" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.10.2008 | Media

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"I don't tend to watch television news...I have three grown sons who kind of filter those things and they sent it to me." That's Bill Ayers, making a...

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Bill Ayers NY Times Op-Ed: I Was "Asked To Play A Role In A Profoundly Dishonest Drama"

New York Times | Bill Ayers | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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In the recently concluded presidential race, I was unwillingly thrust upon the stage and asked to play a role in a profoundly dishonest drama. I refus...

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He's the President, Stupid

Beau Friedlander | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

Obama's peace train is on tracks that have led to the same place since Eisenhower first told America to beware the military-industrial complex.

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Ayers Says Connection To Obama 'Exaggerated'

Associated Press | Posted 11.20.2008 | Chicago

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Former 1960s radical William Ayers says his past relationship with President-elect Barack Obama was often exaggerated during Obama's bid for the Whit...

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How The Right Wing Helped Bill Ayers

Posted 11.19.2008 | Chicago

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After staying silent during an election that made him into one of its central bogeymen, Bill Ayers has been making the rounds, appearing on "Good Mor...

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Ayers To Speak At Northwestern Thursday

Posted 11.17.2008 | Chicago

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UPDATE 11/18 6:10 P.M. Bill Ayers' Northwestern speech has been postponed, a university spokesman told the Tribune. A new date has not yet been se...

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The Strange Return of the Sixties Radicals

Johann Hari | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

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There is still a distortion in our memories of the violence of the '60's. After condemning Obama for vaguely knowing Ayers, McCain boasted about his "close friendship" with Henry Kissinger -- and nobody noticed the dissonance.

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Terrorism: Some Definitions

Rick Ayers | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

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With the election over, I wonder if we can draw down the rhetoric a bit. Let's begin with a definition of terrorism.

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Ayers: Our Neighborhood "Kind Of Like Wasilla"

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

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Salon's Walter Shapiro talked to Bill Ayers about the election in which he played a surprisingly big part: Do you feel diminished by Obama repeatedl...

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Ayers On GMA: GOP Used "Dishonest Narrative ... To Demonize Me"

ABC News | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics

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ABC News' "Good Morning America" featured an interview with "campaign boogeyman" William Ayers Friday, his first since the election: Ayers remained ...

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Bill Ayers Calls Obama A 'Family Friend' In Updated Book

Posted 11.13.2008 | Chicago

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In a new afterword to his 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days, Bill Ayers refers to himself as a "family friend" of President-elect Barack Obama, according to...

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Bill Ayers Going On "Good Morning America" Friday

ABC News | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

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In his first first television interview since he became the center of controversy in the Presidential race, Chicago activist Williams Ayers breaks his...

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Bill Ayers Tells His Side: 'A Bit Surreal'

The Huffington Post | Ben Goldberger | Posted 11.07.2008 | Chicago

Bill Ayers, who stayed quiet throughout the presidential campaign even as he became its central lightning rod, finally broke his silence on Election D...

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Yes We Did! But There Is a Lot More to Do

Mitchell Bard | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics

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Obama has not hit a home run; he has merely earned the right to step into the batter's box.

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Ayers Finally Speaks: I Barely Knew Obama, "They Made Me Into A Cartoon Character"

New Yorker | David Remnick | Posted 11.04.2008 | Politics

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Early this morning, the Obama family voted at the Beulah Shoesmith Elementary School, in Hyde Park. Long after they had gone, the lawn in front of the...

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For GOP, Scary is as Scary Does

Monroe Anderson | Posted 11.04.2008 | Politics

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Pity the poor right. The party faithful's fear and smear machine that has worked in the past--quicker than you could say Swift boating or Willie Horton--just doesn't possess that same old white magic.

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The TV Ad Wars Conclude

William Bradley | Posted 11.03.2008 | Media

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Despite John McCain's pledge this spring not to make Rev. Jeremiah Wright an issue in the campaign, at least one official organ of the party he now heads is running a hit spot on Wright.

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McCain Camp Pushes New ACORN Outrage

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

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McCain campaign manager Rick Davis held a conference call on Thursday to dish out some more press criticism and fan the flames of a new alleged ACORN-...

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But What About Jeremiah Wright?

Etan Bednarsh | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics

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Or William Ayers. Or ACORN. Or Karl Marx. Or whoever is the next person introduced on this Obama themed episode of This is Your Life.

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Palin's Pal: A Feminist of Her Own

Adele Stan | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics

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As a former Ms. staffer myself, I feel betrayed by Elaine Lafferty's stumping for Palin, who, taking advantage of an opening won by the efforts of feminists, would set back women's rights by decades.

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TV Ad Wars: McCain Takes His Last Shot(s)

William Bradley | Posted 10.28.2008 | Media

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For all the rumor-mongering about Obama as a "Manchurian candidate," there is no silver bullet to defeat the vampire that haunts the nightmares of the far right. Reality is dawning.

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Looking Backward-McCain Style

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

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By alluding to incidents that happened almost 40 years ago and making charges that would have made Joe McCarthy proud, McCain supporters are, almost literally, fighting the last (Cold) war.

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The Fringe Right Bubble is Bursting

Caroline Presno | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

Now we have Republicans, Democrats, and Independents walking away from and speaking out against extreme rhetoric and deeds. The country is ready for an Obama administration.

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