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Monday, November 17, 2008 12:00 AM

Bill Ayers talks back

Sarah Palin called him a terrorist, Barack Obama called him an acquaintance. A Salon editor who knew Ayers back when talks to the ex-Weather Underground member turned Republican talking point.

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  • Sunday, November 16, 2008 08:43 PM

    Gross

    It's just grotesque that you give this scumbag a forum. His wife is a murderer who got off on a technicality, and he wishes he had been a more competent terrorist. His Weather Underground killed cops, and also killed each other trying to build a giant pipe bomb meant for murdering soldiers at Ft. Dix.

    The guy dedicates his books to cop killers and other criminal sleaze like Sirhan Sirhan. Ayers toasts the man that murdered Robert Kennedy.

    He's not a good guy, he's human trash who just happens to be a genuine communist with an advanced degree--credentials that make him forgivable for any sin in his circle of Marxists in the education establishment. Well, any sin? Would they forgive him if he'd been trying to kill abortion doctors instead of policemen?

    Spit.

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