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Ayers Remains Unrepentant

By Robert Stacy McCain on 12.6.08 @ 1:42PM

Bill Ayers' defense of his Weather Underground career is the most dishonest thing the New York Times has published since they got rid of Jayson Blair. The blogosphere reacts.

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Jeremiah| 12.6.08 @ 5:42PM

I don't see what's so dishonest about it.

ruth| 12.6.08 @ 8:20PM

Obama will probably give him a medal.

Thomas| 12.6.08 @ 9:33PM

Dishonest? Time will tell. Truth has a way of making itself known, sooner or later.

WendyG| 12.7.08 @ 12:11PM

The NYT is a disgrace, as is Ayers.

Jeremiah| 12.7.08 @ 4:55PM

Wendy et al --

I was grateful the Times published the Ayers piece. (Did any of you actually read it?)

Ayers is wrong to refuse to renounce the violence used by the Weathermen, although I think it is hysteria to call him a terrorist. His group was rash and criminal. (Only the criminality of the Attorney General under Nixon prevented Ayers from being imprisoned.)

The problem with being reactionaries, as you people are, is you're stuck with a weirdly childish reverence for authority. It hardly is surprising that no human authority -- governmental or otherwise -- can live up to such childish idealizing expectations, and soon if not immediately you are disappointed and lash out against those same institutions you fantasized were all-powerful protectors of your security. Like teenagers you simultaneously long from firm authority and make heroes of those you see as more powerful than yourselves, but in the open you practice a shallow rebellion, claiming to dislike government, education, "the media," etc.

In my opinion, you people need to grow up. Obama's giving no one a medal. The Times gave Ayers space for one brief essay, which actually provides anyone who is interested ample opportunity to critique him rationally rather than simply calling him an "unrepentant terrorist," as Sean Hannity does every third minute of his sub-mental radio program.

Grow up and act like adults, people. It says it right there in Genesis: you have to leave father and mother and go out into the world.

Jeremiah| 12.7.08 @ 7:59PM

Even for you, Ruth, that's an assinine and shallow thing to say.

You know, the republican governor of S. Carolina now "sits on a board" with Ayers. Is he a terrorist like bin Laden too?

ruth| 12.8.08 @ 12:22AM

Jeremiah, I thought we were friends! The last eight years have been one big continuous hissy-fit from you liberals. Can't you have a sense of humor now that your guy has won? So touchy. Why did you call your Obamassiah a terroist? I didn't.

WendyG| 12.8.08 @ 10:38AM

>>>Ayers is wrong to refuse to renounce the violence used by the Weathermen...

Gee Jeremiah, if you'd stopped right there, you would been correct about something.

And up until recently I actually subscribed to the NYT. I did so for years, then stopped due to their relentless liberal bias. But because I need to know what's going on in the world of arts, I decided about six months ago to subscribe to the Sunday Times (good crossword puzzle if nothing else.) But six months was enough. Frank Rich (who I respect greatly as a theater critic) and his Bush bashing, and the general anti-GOP bias was just too much to take, so I cancelled again. Now I see in today's news that the NYT needs to leverage their real estate to keep the cash flowing. Serves them right!!