Ayers Calls Cops for Protection from Fox News

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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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????

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

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?

Now he wants the 'establishment' to protect him. That's rich.

Why didn't he get arrested for trespassing on private property?

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

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.

Leave obamas Pal alone!

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.

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

G. Gordon Liddy was pardoned after serving a short time in jail. Just google for Steve Chapman's latest column about him and McCain.

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.

The only radical person on that clip was Bill O'Riley.

Why isn't he harrassing McCain's buddy G. Gordon Libby?

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.