Clarence Page: Obama-Ayers Squabble is Proof of Something
The Chicago con.
Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune uses a Politburo squabble in an attempt to re-write history. Its not very clever, but it is disingenuous.
FROM Bill Ayers dumps Obama:
To hear the right-wing crowd, you would think Bill Ayers and President Barack Obama were joined at the hip.
Who could forget Sarah Palin’s charge that Obama was “palin’ around with terrorists”?
Well, goodbye to all that. The 1960s Weather Underground radical-turned-University-of-Illinois professor sounds as steamed up against Obama as he used to feel about President Richard Nixon.
The reason, once again, is a presidential escalation of a faraway war.
What a tool.
When the Right disagrees about something, it’s a “civil war”.
When the Left disagrees, it’s evidence that “Obama and Bill Ayers were never, ever close; it never happened”?
This is no proof of anything other than Clarence Page’s blatant dishonesty. The writer wants us to “Look over here, Obama and Ayers disagree!” while whisking away their past?
Give me a break.
Page is too used to that small and getting smaller by the minute group of readers who will swallow this swill as gospel.
The demise of Big Media can’t get here fast enough. Page better hope that his buddy Obama will bail out the newspapers that no one reads anymore–including his own Tribune.
image: Gerry Riskin
UPDATE: Due to a comment on this post by DogStar7 Videos, who shot the Bill Ayers video in question, we’ll post the actual video referred to in this post–so readers can hear what Bill Ayers had to say himself.
It get’s funnier by the hour. I shot that video last night. I looked Mr. Page up on Facebook and sent it to him. Between his spin and your deconstruction, it doesn’t really matter what Prof. Ayers had to say. Ho ho!
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Mondo Reply:
December 3rd, 2009 at 21:52
Thanks for the heads-up!
I’ll update with your vid….thanks again!
And good catch!
[And to the substance of your comment...you're correct. I did not concentrate on what Ayers said. I was so struck by Page's reaction, it sort of overshadowed what was said by Ayers.]
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dogstar7 Reply:
December 3rd, 2009 at 22:13
Thanks for the consideration, for the video, that is. The views those my camera and I encounter are entirely their own. ds7
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