Rick Ayers writes on Huff Post today, defending his brother William, the “so-called” Weather Underground terrorist,
Clinton’s McCarthyism (and my Brother Bill Ayers)
The fact that she would drag up this pathetic red herring about Obama’s alleged ties to so-called terrorist Bill Ayers (my brother!) brings her right down to the level of Fox News and the National Enquirer (which also suggested that Obama had murdered his gay lover). Obama needed to call this tactic for what it is: McCarthyism.
This is a howler, even for the Huffingon Post. In the world of the far left, truth has become McCarthyism. Sorry Rick, but your brother IS a terrorist
–noun
1. a person, usually a member of a group, who uses or advocates terrorism. Check.
2. a person who terrorizes or frightens others. Check
William Ayers is proud of being a terrorist, and somewhat disappointed in himself that he wasn’t a better one. Why would his brother deny something that William Ayers is obviously so proud of? Here is William Ayers, infamously, quoted in the Paper of Record, on September 11, 2001,
”I don’t regret setting bombs,” Bill Ayers said. ”I feel we didn’t do enough.”
…Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,” he writes. But then comes a disclaimer: ”Even though I didn’t actually bomb the Pentagon — we bombed it, in the sense that Weathermen organized it and claimed it.” He goes on to provide details about the manufacture of the bomb and how a woman he calls Anna placed the bomb in a restroom. No one was killed or injured, though damage was extensive.
Between 1970 and 1974 the Weathermen took responsibility for 12 bombings, Mr. Ayers writes, and also helped spring Timothy Leary (sentenced on marijuana charges) from jail.
Those Rick, are the actions of a terrorist. Maybe you’re too embarrassed to admit it to yourself, I don’t know (who could blame you). But to insist that it is McCarthyism to accurately portray what your brother was, and perhaps will be again,
So, would Mr. Ayers do it all again, he is asked? ”I don’t want to discount the possibility,” he said.
is simply dishonest, ignorant of history and frankly pathetic.