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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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  • Monday, November 17, 2008 08:41 AM

    Shapiro ignored the real questions

    A single coffee? Too bad Shapiro didn't ask Ayers about their work together on the Woods Foundation and Annenberg Challenge, where Ayers wrote the radical educational agenda, and brought in Obama as chairman of the board to approve the funding.

    Also the simple, direct question that cries to be answered: "What were you teaching American children while working with Obamna, and what are you teaching them now?" Nobody has the integrity to ask that. Equally fascinating would be how a past and current Marxist terrorist got to be a "Distinguished Professor of Education" at the University of Illinois?

    Finally, in terms of "current," why is Ayers a prominent

    on-site protagonist in Venezuela of the "anti-American

    revolution" directd by Dictator Hugo Chavez?

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