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Bill Ayers’ Documentarian Speaks

Karina Longworth
By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago
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Striking while the “Bill Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist” iron is hot, AJ Schnack has published a post on his blog by Sam Green, the co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary The Weather Underground. Green, who says Ayers has “become a good friend” of he and his co-director Bill Siegel, talks about the frustrations of watching his subject become a Republican talking point. As Green points out, the McCain/Palin argument connecting Obama to Ayers compltely omits any explanation for how a “terrorist” can become a “Distinguished Professor” thanks to thirty years of cultural evolution. “To have all of his work, and what he’s about, so publicly misrepresented must be extremely painful,” Green writes. “There really is nothing, or at least nothing significant, at the heart of the Ayers-Obama connection.” More here.

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  • Paul Ochoa said

    This was obviously written previous to the 2008 election. There are so many similarities between the documentary Green and Siegel made and what changes the Obama Administration is making in the world. It’s as though The Weather Underground has banded together with The Black Panther Party and pushed one of the younger, lesser known members to the front to run for President of The United States to make a new, smarter, more subtle second attempt at completely altering our government. Thus, bringing the U.S. to it’s knees.