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Megyn Kelly Uses Bill Ayers Interview To Smear Obama

Posted by Ellen -7841.60pc on July 01, 2014 · Flag

Megyn Kelly was so excited about her “world exclusive” interview with Obama’s terrorist pal “unrepentant terrorist” Bill Ayers that she made it the top two segments of her show last night. She even put off discussing yesterday’s Supreme Court Hobby Lobby ruling, which she excitedly described as capping off “the worst ten days of any modern presidency.” So, not surprisingly, she set up the interview with a six-minute video designed to overstate the tenuous ties between Obama and Ayers.

In February, 2008, Politico investigated the relationship between Obama and Ayers. In an article called, “Obama once visited ‘60s radicals,” Politico reported, “(T)here’s no evidence their relationship is more than the casual friendship of two men who occupy overlapping Chicago political circles and who served together on the board of a Chicago foundation.”

In October, 2008, The New York Times reported:

A review of records of the schools project (Ayers and Obama worked on) and interviews with a dozen people who know both men, suggest that Mr. Obama, 47, has played down his contacts with Mr. Ayers, 63. But 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, whom he has called “somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.”

It speaks volumes that Kelly made innuendoes and aired a lot of sensational footage suggesting a close connection but she never provided any actual evidence of anything more than a casual relationship between the two.

For example, in her introduction, Kelly said:

Professor Bill Ayers admits to terrorizing this country… and he got away scot free. Because this is America, he wound up as a college professor who even helped a president launch his political career.

Though you might have thought from Kelly’s description that Ayers was some kind of major benefactor or advisor, the truth is he played a rather minimal role. From Politico:

In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

...Now, as Obama runs for president, what two guests recall as an unremarkable gathering on the road to a minor elected office stands as a symbol of how swiftly he has risen from a man in the Hyde Park left to one closing in fast on the Democratic nomination for president.

But Kelly deliberately hyped the connection by moving on to air a 2008 campaign ad from then-candidate Obama’s opponent, John McCain:

Barack Obama and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, friends. They’ve worked together for years. But Obama tries to hide it.  Why?

As if in answer, we next heard Kelly saying, “He was one of the most controversial figures in Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.” Then came a clip of Sarah Palin saying Obama is “someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country.”

Kelly did play a clip of Obama saying that it “doesn’t make much sense” to say that what Ayers did when Obama was 8 years old reflects his current values. But that was one brief soundbite in a much longer string of insinuations and accusations otherwise.

In fact, Kelly specifically echoed (and gave validity to) Palin by saying:

Bill Ayers: friend of the man who would be president and an unrepentant terrorist whose group bombed America over and over again.

But the only tie she specifically mentioned was “hosting a fundraiser for the then-Illinois senate candidate.” In other words, she had no more information than Politico on this supposed “friendship.”

But Kelly saw no reason not to suggest something sinister about their “friendship” has been hidden from America. She added, “When their friend becomes a presidential candidate, Ayers stays mostly quiet but emerges soon after the election, sounding far from remorseful.”

Part 2 is tonight. Kelly promised to further use Ayers to smear Obama discuss Ayers’ relationship with Obama.

Watch below how Kelly uses implication, rather than information, to leave the impression of a real connection between Ayers and Obama.


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mj - the same one commented 2014-07-03 15:40:02 -0400 · Flag
“History tells a different story. Bush’s presidency was leaps and bounds better than Obama’s because he repeatedly reacted to some of the toughest challenges ever, from the war front to national disasters on the home front and abroad.”

OK — this is proof that this sockpuppet (whichever one he is) is not to be taken seriously.

If you think (1) shutting down the CIA unit that was tasked with finding ObL, and (2) playing air guitar in LA while New Orleans drowns, constitutes “react(ing) to some of the toughest challenges ever . . . on the home front and abroad”, you were either asleep or brain-dead from 2001-2009.

(But thanks for the quote, Paul — this is one for the "wingnut HOF quote thread, if its still available in the forum)

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Jane S commented 2014-07-03 02:25:53 -0400 · Flag
mj— pathetic, isn’t it? Bush had only one good moment in the aftermath of 9/11, the “I can hear you” moment standing on the pile at ground zero. Everything before and after that was a national embarrassment.
mj - the same one commented 2014-07-03 02:21:08 -0400 · Flag
@ Paul Ayala: *"@mj: She is absolutely correct. As horrible a day as 9/11/2001 was, it revealed then President Bush’s resolve and conviction on confronting our latest enemy, and his willingness to commit to the effort."

“Resolve and conviction”?? ROFLMAO — Dumbya’s “resolve and conviction” consisted of continuing to read “The Pet Goat” to schoolkids with his usual dumb look on his face while an aide tells him the nation’s capital and largest city are under attack . . . and his “willingness to commit to the effort” consisted of the following words just six months after 9/11:

“We haven’t heard much from him (bin Laden). And I wouldn’t necessarily say he’s at the center of any command structure. And, again, I don’t know where he is. I’ll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him. I know he is on the run.”

As for the rest of your screed: TL/DR

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mj - the same one commented 2014-07-02 19:11:37 -0400 · Flag
She even put off discussing yesterday’s Supreme Court Hobby Lobby ruling, which she excitedly described as capping off “the worst ten days of any modern presidency.”

Really, Meg?

Even worse than September 11-21, 2001?

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Ellen commented 2014-07-02 14:20:19 -0400 · Flag
This is a discussion about Megyn Kelly’s interview with Bill Ayers and related subjects. Please either get back to topic or take the discussion to our off topic forum.

http://www.newshounds.us/forum
Roger W commented 2014-07-02 09:39:52 -0400 · Flag
@ David Lari Seriously? Paul Alaya writes a well-defended post, and your response is to go after the phrase ’kool-aid drinkers?" LMAO…. That is PRICELESS…. Thanks for the post, Flanders.
Joseph West commented 2014-07-02 01:49:51 -0400 · Flag
Well, Mr Ayala—first off, let me welcome you to the site, you obnoxious troll.

As to your comment, then please explain why the FoxNoise folks have spent the last FIVE years (he only took office in Jan 2009—I know you teabagger-types have trouble with difficult subjects, like simple math but really, there is help if only you’ll seek it) smearing Obama if what you wrote was true. Of course, Obama hasn’t “tanked” his presidency (compare Obama’s time in office to Dubya’s—now THERE was a guy who knew how to tank his own presidency).

You are certainly entitled to your own opinion, but you’re NOT entitled to your own facts. (For that, you have to wait until you form a corporation—thanks to the right-wing morons at SCOTUS.)
Jane S commented 2014-07-02 00:56:45 -0400 · Flag
Ayers, IMO, is scum. I was in the left movement back in the day, and even the strongest anti-war lefties shuddered in horror of the Weather Underground. Obama was only a child in those days, so I guess I have to give him the benefit of the doubt that he didn’t know who he was. Still, I would refuse to this day to have anything to do with the guy, and I’d like to think I’d refuse his help in saving my life. There is, to me, shame on Obama for having even a faint relationship with this man, and I don’t care how much he’d weaseled his way into polite society in Chicago. He should be shunned by every person of conscience. Let him live his life unmolested, but he should stay the hell out of society.

Sorry, but just the man’s name makes my hair stand on end/

His badly distorted judgment, btw, is exemplified by the fact that he consented to go on Kelly’s show.
Harpo Bat commented 2014-07-01 21:39:30 -0400 · Flag
Ayers is no different than the punk Kenyan.
Joe Marsh commented 2014-07-01 17:46:24 -0400 · Flag
Truman, you obviously don’t waste your time listening to Slanthead on the radio. He’ surely didn’t stop “regurgitating:” about Ayers, Dohrn, Rev Wright, et. al. after 2008.

Almost every single day this scumbag is on the air, he brings them up.

Kelly obviously got her talking points from Hannocchio!
truman commented 2014-07-01 17:35:20 -0400 · Flag
Skanky Megyn is plowing barren ground here. During the 2008 Presidential campaign, KKKlannity regurgitated nightly about Bill Ayers and/or the Reverend Wright. Didn’t work then. Won’t work now.
NewsHounds posted about Megyn Kelly Uses Bill Ayers Interview To Smear Obama on NewsHounds' Facebook page 2014-07-01 15:38:49 -0400
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