William Ayers interviewed today.

[rcrush]

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/tny/2008/11/mr-ayerss-neighborhood.html


“It’s all guilt by association,” Ayers said. “They made me into a cartoon character—they threw me up onstage just to pummel me. I felt from the beginning that the Obama campaign had to run the Obama campaign and I have to run my life.” Ayers said that once his name became part of the campaign maelstrom he never had any contact with the Obama circle. “That’s not my world,” he said.

Ayers said he felt “a lot of sympathy” for the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, “who was treated grotesquely and unfairly” by the media. He said that Martin Luther King Jr. was, in his time, far more radical than Wright: “Wright’s a wimp compared to Martin Luther King—he had a fiercer tone.” Ayers was referring to the speeches King gave late in his life in opposition to the Vietnam War and on the subject of economic equality. “Martin Luther King was not a saint,” Ayers said. “He was an angry pilgrim.” Ayers said that he had commiserated recently with yet another former Hyde Park neighbor (and fellow Little League coach), the Palestinian-American scholar Rashid Khalidi, now at Columbia University, who has also been a punching bag of the right wing in recent weeks.

[Oregone]

1. Brilliant interview

[ColbertWatcher]

2. He's right about MLK.

Stephen Colbert called it the "Santa Clausification" of Martin Luther King (http://www.wikiality.com/Santa_Clausification)

[Wabbajack_]

3. I didn't believe the BS

that they buddies or whatever but we don't like Ayres do we? He was a bomber wasn't he?

[fla nocount]

6. He was a "surgical" bomber, no collateral damge. n/t

[many a good man]

7. What did Ayers do? Flush a cherry bomb down a toilet in the Capitol?

That's a silly high school prank. What else did he do?

Not that it really matters.

[Wabbajack_]

9. Actually I don't even know exactly what he did.

[superduperfarleft]

8. I do. But I'm probably the minority. n/t

[OlderButWiser]

4. My hunch was that he

was announcing that he would be the next Secretary of Eduacation.
Hee-hee.

[BR_Parkway]

5. Ayers to head up Dept of Education, Wright Dept of Faith Based

Initiatives - man, we'd be cleaning up freeper brain matter for weeks.

Well, whatever it is that would spew out when their skulls exploded....

[warpigs]

10. Never said he wanted to bomb more

From the article:


Ayers said that he had never meant to imply, in an interview with the Times, published coincidentally on 9/11, that he somehow wished he and the Weathermen had committed further acts of violence in the old days. Instead, he said, “I wish I had done more, but it doesn’t mean I wish we’d bombed more shit.” Ayers said that he had never been responsible for violence against other people and was acting to end a war in Vietnam in which “thousands of people were being killed every week.”