You mean the Weather Underground? Are there any editors at the BH or is it just a bunch of monkeys with typewriters?

oooooops. i was a mccain palin supporter but the static on my answering machine gave me the impression that mccain wanted to bomb the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, a judge’s home and kill Americans so i cast my vote early for bob barr.

Don’t get me wrong here, I’m 110% behind obama, but throught the entire election there has been 0 investigations done on the character of these candidates by the media. Whether its true or not everything needs to be out there from both candidates for the public to make their best decisions. I commend the gop for taking a risk of looking like the bad guy (or maybe just perpetuating the already established image) and putting this info out there. Now, come on Obama McCain can’t be a perfect angel either and we need to know!

This is totally embarrassing. Kirsten Kukowski should be ashamed of herself.

“The message raises a valid question about who Obama associates himself with, and I don’t think there is anything inaccurate about the call,” said Kirsten Kukowski.

I’M SORRY MS. KUKOWSKI, YOU’LL HAVE TO SPEAK UP! I CAN’T HEAR OVER THE DEAFENING ROAR OF THE ROFLCOPTER!

Whitney Trotta’s article reminds the reader, if he or she possesses any sense of political reality or even history, that there is an enormous double standard at work in today’s mainstream media. That mainstream includes the Badger Herald, at least when it comes to unilaterally classifying a given person as a “domestic terrorist,” or indeed a terrorist of any kind. For example, John McCain flew bombing runs over Vietnam in 1967, missions which almost certainly had the effect of killing many non-combatant Vietnamese, very probably women and children among them. Of course, the established orthodoxy that prevails within the American press absolutely forbids labeling McCain a terrorist! Yet McCain would justifiably be labelled as such, if the unfortunate truth were allowed to be expressed. Ayers himself, in a September 11, 2001 New York Times review of his memoir “Fugitive Days,” expressed that sort of truth quite articulately: “Mr. Ayers pointed to Bob Kerrey, former Democratic Senator from Nebraska, who has admitted leading a raid in 1969 in which Vietnamese women and children were killed. ‘He committed an act of terrorism,’ Mr. Ayers said. ‘I didn’t kill innocent people.”’

Still, I suppose Trotta could have accurately called Ayers a “former terrorist,” which would at least have indicated an awareness of the fact that he has led the rather sedate life of an educator for almost thirty years. The cause of journalistic integrity was much better served when Bill Ayers was described as “distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago,” which the New York Times did in its 2001 book review. Bill Ayers has recently been characterized by Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley in these terms: “He’s done a lot of good in this city and nationally… This is 2008. People make mistakes. You judge a person by his whole life.” The quote is from the October 3, 2008 New York Times. Is Mayor Daley guily of praising domestic terrorists?

Obviously I think it’s an absurd act of hyperbolic mis-statement for Sarah Palin to claim that William Ayers “pals around with domestic terrorists.” As Obama has said in his own defense, “This is a guy who engaged in some despicable acts 40 years ago when I was eight years old.” But I want to challenge the “assumed ideology” Trotta has engaged in, perhaps subconsciously. If Bill Ayers is a terrorist, so is George W. Bush, only on an infinitely more massive scale. Some credible estimates of the number of Iraqis killed in Bush’s illegal aggression during the last five years range from 500,000 to one million. As far as I’ve been able to determine, the only people killed in the Weather Underground’s bombing campaign were the three weatherpeople who died accidentally in a Greenwich Village Townhouse when a bomb they were constructing exploded prematurely.

One last complaint. Trotta writes: “Ayers was associated with bombings of public buildings in the 1960s, but he was never actually convicted.” Why no conviction? Turns out, according to FactCheck.org: “Because of illegal federal wiretaps, pending charges against Ayers for allegedly inciting a riot and conspiring to bomb government sites had been dropped.” Just food for thought!

sounds to me like middle school mudslinging…