Runnin’ ’round the ‘net, found these William Ayers tidbits. Seems Biily Sunshine was ready to hand out “get out of jail free” cards when he gave a “talk” (that’s ’60’s-speak for “informal speech,” like “had a coffee” is similar hippie jargon for “hosted a coming out party in my home for a good friend of mine”) somewhere in Washington D.C. tonight; the details are rather sketchy. The Washington Post says he will be at “Busboys and Poets” Tuesday to talk about his two books on education, but that the event has already occurred. Neato – time travel, far out.
This Ain’t Hell says they and a bunch of FReepers protested Ayers at a Washington event that was originally scheduled to be held in a bookstore, but was moved to a church to accommodate all 100 people who showed up.
William Ayers came to DC today to pimp his new book about race as only a pale white guy can pimp a book about race to a roomful of other pale white people. Some of my Free Republic friends were there to inform the public about William Ayers including This Ain’t Hell’s own Encyclopedia Raoul who ended up being the spokesman for the group.
Kerry Pickett, of Eyeblast TV, on their Video Done Right website, (Newsbusters also carried the story) says she was at a D.C. event where Ayers was supposed to be dicussing American education, but was really slamming Fox News and Sarah Palin. Pickett says the audience was a bunch of Ayers lovers and that pissed her off (I’m paraphrasing, here) so she busted up the lovefest with a little major-league hardball. (Not the Chris Mathtews, “oooh, my pants are wet, leg-tingling” kind of Hardball, the “you better have on a cup and a helmet” kind.)
PICKET: Professor Ayers you had an unusual dedication to Sirhan Sirhan in your previous book. Do you regret that?
AYERS: Absolutely, but that wasn’t a dedication…show me. You heard it somewhere. The dedication in Prairie Fire in 1974…It was a manifesto was to all prisoners, and if I were writing a book like that today, I would dedicate it to 2.1 million people in prison. I think it was a stupid thing to single him out, but I also think that we have created a monster in the prison system. We ought to abolish the prison system. That’s what I think.
Abolish the prison system, huh? Wonder what motivated that little philosophical development? Maybe years underground as a roadie for the Partridge Family while running from prosecution will make you disdain legal authority. And anyway, what does he mean, if it wasn’t a dedication, why was it stupid to single him out? What Pickett was referring to was this “Prairie Fire” dedication page listing a whole bunch of political prisoners Ayers obviously hearts, one of whom is indeed RFK assassin, Sirhan Sirhan:
The Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire says Ayers spoke to about 250 people at a Universalist church:
In his first public event since the election, William Ayers, an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and co-founder of the Weather Underground, spoke to more than 250 people in Washington’s Universalist All Souls Church Monday night as part of his book tour. The Weather Underground claimed responsibility for bombing government buildings in the early 1970s and the McCain campaign used Ayers’s early associations with Barack Obama to accuse the president-elect of “palling around with terrorists.”
“I’m a little overwhelmed,” began the soft-spoken Ayers, squinting into the light of several television cameras and speaking over the chatter of camera shutters. “When I set this up six months ago, I pictured ten people sitting around a circle.”
Awww, the bomber guy is shy, isn’t that sweet? And he said he all those people who act like he killed people, or he’s a violent person are just mean, ‘cuz he’s not. Him’s a puddy tat, yes he is, who just wishes he knew Barack Obama better, like everybody else. Humph. So, there. (Yep, paraphrasing.)
But, I digress. Anyway, Three Dollar Bill also came under scrutiny by somebody named Doug Ross (sorry if I’m supposed to know who you are, Dougie, I’m not really as up on my Ayers chroniclers as I should be, my bad) says Ayers is not just a master Fractured Fairy Tale teller, he’s an outright liar. Ross takes exception to Ayers recent Good Morning America assertion that he first met Obama at the “coffee” he and his wife Bernadine/dette Dohrn held to launch the political career of some guy they didn’t know in their home:
I was asked by the state senator to have a coffee for Barack Obama when he first ran for office and we had him in our home and I think he was probably in 20 homes that day, as far as I know, but that was the first time I really met him.
Ross seems to think that since Cannonfire ran a piece showing that event to have been held in November of 1995, the photo above showing Obama on the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge in May of that same year, means either Ayers is in the habit of putting total strangers in charge of dispersing large sums of money, or he’s a bald faced liar. (Paraphrasing, again)
He is the one who said he was “guilty as hell and free as a bird,” though.
