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‘Good Morning America’ Lands Ayers Interview

Nov 13, 2008  •  Post A Comment

“Good Morning America’s” Chris Cuomo has landed the first exclusive TV interview since the election with William Ayers, the 1960s radical-turned-Chicago-activist whose association with President-Elect Barack Obama became a campaign controversy.
Mr. Ayers will appear live in the studio Friday, the network said.
Mr. Ayres, who was a member of the violent Weathermen group, is expected to talk about his dealings with the president-elect, and the re-issue of his 2001 memoir, “Fugitive Days.”
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  1. Michele,
    Ayers was a terrorist-turned-Chicago-radical!

  2. I knew there was a reason i watch Fox news. I don’t think Ayers should be given the time of day, let a lone an interview.

  3. Barack Obama pal is an enemy, too
    BY JOHN M. MURTAGH
    Wednesday, April 30th 2008, 4:00 AM
    During the April 16 debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, moderator George Stephanopoulos brought up “a gentleman named William Ayers,” who “was part of the Weather Underground in the 1970s. They bombed the Pentagon, the Capitol and other buildings. He’s never apologized for that.” Stephanopoulos then asked Obama to explain his relationship with Ayers. Obama’s answer: “The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn’t make much sense, George.” Obama was indeed only 8 in early 1970. I was only 9 then, the year Ayers’ Weathermen tried to murder me.
    In February 1970, my father, a New York State Supreme Court justice, was presiding over the trial of the so-called “Panther 21,” members of the Black Panther Party indicted in a plot to bomb New York landmarks and department stores. Early on the morning of Feb. 21, as my family slept, three gasoline-filled firebombs exploded at our home on the northern tip of Manhattan, two at the front door and the third tucked neatly under the gas tank of the family car.
    I still recall, as though it were a dream, thinking that someone was lifting and dropping my bed as the explosions jolted me awake, and I remember my mother pulling me from the tangle of sheets and running to the kitchen where my father stood. Through the large windows overlooking the yard, all we could see was the bright glow of flames below. We didn’t leave our burning house for fear of who might be waiting outside. The same night, bombs were thrown at a police car in Manhattan and two military recruiting stations in Brooklyn. Sunlight, the next morning, revealed three sentences of blood-red graffiti on our sidewalk: Free the Panther 21; The Viet Cong have won; Kill the pigs.
    For the next 18 months, I went to school in an unmarked police car. My mother, a schoolteacher, had plainclothes detectives waiting in the faculty lounge all day. My brother saved a few bucks because he didn’t have to rent a limo for the senior prom: The NYPD did the driving.
    In many ways, the enormity of the attempt to kill my entire family didn’t fully hit me until years later, when, a father myself, I was tucking my own 9-year-old John Murtagh into bed.
    Though no one was ever caught or tried for the attempt on my family’s life, there was never any doubt who was behind it.Only a few weeks after the attack, the New York contingent of the Weathermen blew themselves up making more bombs in a Greenwich Village townhouse.
    As the association between Obama and Ayers came to light, it would have helped the senator a little if his friend had at least shown some remorse.
    Nobody should hold the junior senator from Illinois responsible for his friends’ and supporters’ violent terrorist acts. But it is fair to hold him responsible for a startling lack of judgment in his choice of mentors, associates and friends, and for showing a callous disregard for the lives they damaged and the hatred they have demonstrated for this country.
    It is fair, too, to ask what those choices say about Obama’s own beliefs, his philosophy and the direction he would take our nation.
    At the conclusion of his 2001 Times interview, Ayers said of hisupbringing and subsequent radicalization: “I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.”
    Funny thing, Bill: One night, so did I.
    John M. Murtagh is an attorney, an adjunct professor of public policy at the Fordham University College of Liberal Studies and a member of the city council in Yonkers. A longer version of this appears on http://www.city-journal.org .

  4. They all seem to be coming out of the woodwork, now, don’t they?

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  6. If you would refer to the New York Times article in which Bill Ayers said he regretted not setting more bombs…that article (not coincidentally) was published in the NYT on guess what date? None other than Sept. 11, 2001 9/11
    Gosh guess that gets overlooked because so many other terrorist attacks happened that day. Oh don’t forget that most of the hijackers were registered to vote through ACORN.

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