Faux News is in a kerfluffle tonight over Senator Obama's past association with former Weatherman Bill Ayers. I searched the site for any diaries on this but found nothing, so here's the alert.
I just caught the tail end of a Hannity & Colmes broadcast (at least I think it was their show) and the "shocked, shocked, I say!" tone of voice over an association between Senator Obama and someone named Bill Ayers.
"Who's Bill Ayers?" I asked myself, then found close to a million google hits on "Obama AND Bill Ayers." It was pretty much freeper sites a-go-go and it looks like this broke for them around February 28.
Turns out Bill Ayers is a former Weatherman, is married to Bernadine Dohrn, and the two are now well respected lefties in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. Fox has a video, released on February 27th, in which a radio host named John Batchelor outlines Senator Obama's ties to Ayers, claims that Ayers donated to Obama's Chicago campaigns, that they've been friends for years, served on the board of a philanthropic foundation togeher - and that in fact, Bill Ayers is one of Senator Obama's mentors. Evidently, from this video flow close to a million sites, inevitably including Free Republic.
Link to video: http://bravenewfilms.org/...
Or, maybe the chatter started with Ben Smith's column at politico.com on February 22nd. In any event, I heard a new litany being sung tonight on Fox with lyrics along these lines:
"Pastor Wright, Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers - Obama is on the fringe far left and these associations are beyond the pale."
I expect I'll be hearing a lot more about radical/terrorist/anti-American Bill Ayers and Senator Obama - because, hey! - nothing works better than guilt by association.