| Subject: Lesson for today: Left wing terrorists who bomb buildings become college professors. Right wing terrorists who bomb buildings get the electric chair |
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Zombie Reagan
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Date Posted: Sat, April 19, 2008 5:38:07
The LA Times is doing its best to help Barack Obama sweep Bill Ayers under the rug. And now Bill Ayers’ brother has entered the fray, accusing Hillary Clinton of McCarthyism. Excellent.
See, this ain’t going away. My memos from Zombie Reagan at the VRWC-HQ tell me that we’re going to be hitting Obama on Ayers and Dohrn every single day until the election, with breaks for crazy preachers on weekends and the occasional Rezko story thrown in on just to keep things interesting.
Speaking of interesting: most accounts of the relationship between Obama and Ayers I’ve seen recently–even that five-minute video about their ties that’s making the rounds–act like the relationship between Obama and the Weather Underground petered out in 2002. In this recent revival of interest in Ayres, no one I saw brought up the occasion in 2005 when Ayers, his terrorist wife Bernadette Dohrn, and Obama all spoke at the farewell dinner for Rashid Khalidi. Were we supposed to be saving that for an October surprise? Will video surface? I didn’t get that memo yet…
So, if Obama is going to try to break this tackle, he’ll have to do a little better than defending Ayers and smearing Tom Coburn by comparing him to that loathsome terrorist. Apples and oranges? More like apples and poisonous, slime-spawning toadstools.
Does Obama really believe that Tom Coburn is the moral equivalent of Ayers, or was he just caught unprepared and crammed his foot into his mouth? I hope it’s the latter, because this man might end up as our President and I’d like to think he knows the difference between a bomb-throwing, America-hating terrorist and a pork-slashing Senator from Tulsa.*
So let me clear things up for the Obamessiah: there are actual evil terrorists on the radical Right. Terry Nichols comes to mind; he, like Ayers, attacked a government building with explosives, although his scale was much broader than the Weather Underground’s bombings. Perhaps a more suitable analogy for Ayers would be Eric Robert Rudolph. Like Ayers, Rudolph is a cold, unrepentant SOB, who set off bombs at the 1996 Olympics, at an abortion clinic, and at a lesbian nightclub. Like Ayers, Rudolph lived as a fugitive for a long time before his capture.
Now, it starts to break down a little bit when you consider that Rudolph is rotting in Supermax, while Ayers and his co-terrorist wife are tenured faculty living comfortable and respected lives in Hyde Park, but ignore that little quirk of the system for a second. And let’s ignore the fact that, instead of holding him up as a radical-chic hero, no one on the Right likes Eric Rudolph and many of us would like to see him get a dose of that capital punishment we bloodthirsty reactionaries are always slavering for. Overlook that, too.
Rudolph and Ayers are unrepentant domestic terrorists. They are evil. Decent people detest them. And if someone were to take money from Eric Rudolph, or get a start in politics from an endorsement in Eric Rudolph’s home, if someone were chummy with Eric Rudolph and kept moving in the same circles with him, that person would rightly be detested as well.
Why doesn’t the same logic apply to Bill Ayers, and to his friend Barack Obama?
Here’s a partial answer: this is bigger than Obama. Much of the radical-left community of Chicago have thrown in their lot with Ayers and Dohrn and given them esteem and comfort. A lot of Chicago society is complicit in insulating Ayers and Dohrn from their execrable pasts. To admit the truth about what Ayers and Dohrn’s status means involves admitting much more about the historical relationship between the Left and radical violence than America is ready to acknowledge.
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