The mainstream media are currently excusing Barack Obama's friendship with unrepentant terrorist

It is important that voters keep themselves informed by reading and researching both the mainstream media and alternative media. We will probably find the closest thing to the truth somewhere in the middle. This election year the MSM (CNN, MS-NBC, ABC, NBC) are clearing manipulating the presentation of the news in order to support Sen. Obama. Polls show that most voters recognize this but it is imperative that voters remind themselves that watch they are watching does not present all the information.

The MSM are not investigating stories that could have a negative effect on Sen. Obama's chances. If the Ayers story involved Sen. McCain, MSM would not leave any stone unturned. If Larry Sinclair's allegations that he and Sen. Obama did cocaine and engaged in consensual sex in 1999 involved Sen. McCain, the media would have a lead story about it everyday. Remember in 2006, how the media reported the Foley story. They covered it 24 hours a day for at least six weeks. If it had involved Obama, it would have been swept under the rug. Anyway, I found the following story at Newbusters for your consideration.


Weather Underground Documentary Counters MSM Claim That Ayers Merely a Benign '60s Radical'
By P.J. Gladnick
October 7, 2008


The mainstream media are currently excusing Barack Obama's friendship with unrepentant terrorist, Bill Ayers, in a couple of ways. They either claim that Ayers was just a "neighborhood friend" of Obama and/or that Ayers was merely some benign 60s radical while conveniently avoiding mention of his terrorist activities in the Weather Underground. The first point that Ayers was just some neighborhood friend of Obama is undercut by the working relationship between the two as we saw in yesterday's NewsBusters blog by Clay Waters quoting Ed Morrissey of Hot Air:

...Obama worked as CEO of the project that Ayers helped found, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, for several years. Ayers served on the board at the same time. In an overlapping period, both men served for a few years on the Woods Fund, which notably granted $75,000 to Yasser Arafat's associate, Rashid Khalidi, during that time.

Their paths didn't cross "sporadically." They worked on two projects together, political projects, for almost a decade in Chicago. That's hardly "sporadic"; that's a well-established working relationship, and certainly much more substantial than Obama's description of Ayers as just another familiar face in the neighborhood.

As to the equally laughable notion that Ayers was just some 60s radical who dabbled in the counterculture and nothing more, that assumption is completely undercut by a fascinating documentary produced in 2002, "The Weather Underground." You can see a video of this documentary, starting with Part 1 of a nine part series on YouTube. Here is a 2003 review of "The Weather Underground" written in 2003 by James Miller for the Boston Globe (emphasis mine):

THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO this fall, a small band of well-educated young Americans hell-bent on storming heaven steeled themselves to commit an act of spectacularly gratuitous violence. A militant breakaway faction of Students for a Democratic Society, they called themselves the Weathermen. Their strategy, such as it was, blended theatrical bravado with puritanical zeal -- Bonnie and Clyde meet John Brown. Wearing crash helmets and wielding baseball bats, ululating like the revolutionaries they had studied on screen in "The Battle of Algiers," they would run wild in the streets of Chicago, lashing out at any available symbol of privilege and power: police, parked cars, affluent bystanders.

Now, more than a generation later, the Weathermen are back in the news. This summer, a new documentary, "The Weather Underground," directed by Sam Green and Bill Siegel, brought the group's story into movie theaters...

...The Weathermen's 1969 melee in Chicago, billed "The Days of Rage," was meant to inspire working-class youth to commit similarly gratuitous acts, and to prove the group's revolutionary macho to the Black Panthers. But the Panthers spurned them, and there was no evidence that working-class youth were ready to run wild in the streets. So the group changed its tactics, with deadly results. Early in 1970, a group of Weathermen inadvertently blew up three of their members along with a townhouse on Eleventh Street in New York's Greenwich Village. The group was trying to build an anti-personnel bomb, in order to give Americans a taste of the kind of cruel weaponry their government was using in Vietnam. ...
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