Putting on Ayers

Reason links this very amusing YouTube video showing Bill Ayers calling the cops on reporters and Bill O'Reilly advising Obama to throw Ayers under the bus:

(Via Glenn Reynolds who's having fun with O'Reilly putting on Ayers.)

While I also love the delicious irony of seeing a man with a notoriously murderous attitude towards police go crying to the the brutal fascists about a reporter, an irony I find more delicious is to see culture warrior Bill O'Reilly (a guy I don't especially like) catching up with Classical Values.

Here's O'Reilly:

...I actually think Barack Obama should apologize for hanging with the guy. He should throw him under the bus like he did with Reverend Wright. Everybody makes mistakes. You made one. This a bad guy. Just say you made a mistake in judgement.
And here was Classical Values, on October 15:
Mainstreaming Bill Ayers went too far, and for the good of the country, it should be stopped right now by Barack Obama. He should admit his mistake, and while I know it will sound hypocritical, I think that for the good of the country, he should throw Ayers under the proverbial bus.
I'm sure it's pure coincidence (and I'm sure I'm not the first to advocate throwing Ayers under the bus), but I'm delighted to see Bill O'Reilly getting on the under-the-bus bandwagon!

A more serious issue, of course, is why won't Obama throw Ayers under the bus?

Considering that the people who he has thrown under the bus are tame by comparison, it seems like a no-brainer.

No downside that I can see.

(I for one would respect him a lot more if he did.)

MORE: Another delicious irony, noted by Victor Davis Hanson:

...there was a strange scene when the Fox reporter caught up to Bill Ayers and stuck a microphone in his face as he went up the sidewalk of his rather impressive home: Ayers, with a bright red star on his T-shirt, shoos away the reporter with the apparent mumble "this is private property" before the police arrive. How strange that an advocate for communalism and an erstwhile attacker of police stations reverts to the notion of property rights and police to protect him from an intrusive reporter. Right out of Thucydides Book III and the strife on Corfu, when the historian warns that those who destroy the protocols of civilization may well one day wish to rely on them.
(Via Glenn Reynolds.)

I'm sure Ayers feels entitled to an impressive home, just as he would after the revolution.

Stalin and his henchman also felt quite entitled to live in the rather impressive homes they had confiscated from the people they had murdered. True, they were now owned "in the name of the people."

But imagine what would have happened to one of "the people" who ventured too close to what was now being held in his name....

posted by Eric on 10.25.08 at 04:24 PM





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I guess Mr. Ayers didn't get the "next time you need a cop, call a hippie" memo.

11B40   ·  October 25, 2008 06:57 PM

I guess he didn't throw him under the bus because, as someone remarked after he did that to Rev. Wright, it's starting to get awfully crowded under there!

Kurt   ·  October 25, 2008 06:59 PM

I agree that Obama should 'throw Ayers under the bus' but that act cannot fix Obama's demonstrated lack of judgement for associating with Ayers at all.

Bob Thompson   ·  October 25, 2008 08:59 PM

Obama owes Bill Ayers politically and that's why he can't throw him under like he did with the others, including his own Grandmother.
Bill Ayers is a big part of the Chicago machine and throwing him under the bus would mean bye bye for the Dear Leader.

Alex   ·  October 25, 2008 11:57 PM

I doubt he called the cops, Ayers most likely called his buddy Mayor Daley. And when do the cops provide private security for people who are being questioned by reporters?

And way to go Chicago Police, Chicago leading the nation in murders but the boys in blue have time to provide protection for a guy who founded an organization that has murdered police officers. I guess the thin blue line has some breaks in it.

JKB   ·  October 26, 2008 01:02 AM

Obama's buss probably doesn't have anymore room under it. Also if Obama tries to throw Ayers under the buss Obama may find himself being thrown under it by Ayers good buddies.

toad   ·  October 26, 2008 02:55 AM

Y'all get the bastard, I'll get the bus. Y'all throw him, I'll drive like a blind drunk. I heard there's still some mint condition school buses with slight water damage from Nawlins that can be used.

Sean the Maggot   ·  October 26, 2008 07:47 AM

Gack! I just had this vision of chopped, chaneled, and pimped school bus going down the road with a pair of legs sticking out the back leaving a trail of sparks and blood.

toad   ·  October 26, 2008 09:05 AM

Some of the comments here regarding the relationship between Obama and Ayers amuse me.

I'm a citizen of Chicago and offer these facts:

1. Ayers is NOT a big part of the Chicago Dem Machine. He is not any part of the local machine.He holds no elected office and is not likely ever to do so. He is shunned by most politicians in this city. He has no influence at all outside his own neighborhood. Most citizens of this city despise him, and he is not active in city politics.

2. However, he is active in his neighborhood, Hyde Park-Woodlawn, as is another resident of it, Obama. They do NOT 'hang out' together, but do sit on the same neighborhood boards and attend a lot of the same meetings, and have to deal amicably with each other. Obama is not, however, a great friend of Ayers and has never been.

3. Obama was an 8-year-old kid in a western state when Ayers was active in the Weather Underground. By the time Obama arrived in Chicago, still an extremely young man, Ayers was an old has-been teaching in the public schools.

Laura Louzader   ·  October 26, 2008 09:03 PM

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