CNN: But Obama Ain’t Palling Around With Terrorists Now!
Via CNN which does a ‘fact check‘ of the Obama - Ayers connection: Verdict, the two men do not have a close relationship now, and there is no proof that they were working together closely at any point “in the last three years.”
And what sources does CNN quote to determine that Palin et al. are lying completely about the Ayers - Obama connection?
The New York Times article cited by Palin concluded that “the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers.” Other publications, including the Washington Post, Time magazine, the Chicago Sun-Times, The New Yorker and The New Republic, have said that their reporting doesn’t support the idea that Obama and Ayers had a close relationship.
And again others did, right? Like the Wall Street Journal and National Review Online. I’m guessing that when you’re fact checking you take those reports into considerations right? Especially because they actually uncovered quite some evidence indicating that the relationship between Obama and Ayers was closer than Obama is willing to admit.
Right?
Nope. That was it. That was CNN’s ‘fact check.’ It simply repeated the conclusions of pro-Obama publications, and then concluded that the accusation is false.
Another point of significance: no one’s saying the two are close now. That’s not the point. It’s nice of CNN to try to spin this thing for all it’s worth, but the accusation is that the two had a professional relationship in the 1990s. That Obama served on the board of an education organization founded by Ayers, that the two attended meetings together, that Obama endorsed a book Ayers wrote about education, and that Ayers held a private fundraiser for Obama when the latter launched his political career.
It’s nice of CNN to swiftboat the matter, though.
Is there actually anyone falling for this ‘reporting’ and ‘fact checking’ or are the only ones accepting CNN’s words as ‘true’ those already in the tank for Obama?
Answer: nope, only those already in the tank for him, and actively campaigning on his behalf.
Wow. CNN will stop at nothing to get the man behind the mask into the White House. He hasn’t associated with Ayers in 3 years. At the age of 44. He hasn’t associated with him PUBLICALLY after the inner circle decided they wanted to PROP him up to run for President.
Start connecting the DOTS.
Hillary Clinton supporter for McCain.
Fight back. Point the liberal MSM to McCain’s abridged biography at Rolling Stone magazine. A war hero. Truly an eye opener.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain
Swiftboat?
Funny you should mention that.
In 2004, Harold Simmons was the biggest funder of the manipulative smear group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. In 2008, Simmons is the sole donor funding a vicious attack ad in some battleground states that uses tortured logic and clumsy innuendo to invent a tie between Barack Obama and terrorism.
Fact is, if there were any meat to this smear, Hillary would have destroyed Obama with it. He never would have won his Senate seat. There simply is nothing to the story.
Obama is wisely swinging back.
Keating 5.
McCain saving the economy is like OJ finding the real killer.