More focus on the Obama-Ayers connection

In what Hot Air tagged as a "random act of journalism," CNN ran a fairly detailed segment on the relationship between Barack Obama and the unrepentant former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers. The segment does imply that the Obama campaign is misleading the public as to the depth of the relationship.



See also the transcript of Stanley Kurtz's appearance on the Hugh Hewitt radio program, where Kurtz offers some new details regarding Obama's associations.

An excerpt:

HH: Tell us about Khalidi. Tell us who he is and his role in Obama’s life.

SK: Rashid Khalidi is really, in a sense, the American successor of Edward Said, a very strong advocate for the Palestinians, extremely radical in his views and his opposition to American foreign policy. He was a friend and colleague of Obama. Apparently they used to get together and discuss world affairs. And he’s practically the best friend of Bill Ayers. Bill Ayers features Khalidi in some of his books about how to politicize the teaching for students. So actually, the more you look into it, the more you see that this is not just people running into each other. And again, I object to the idea of just simply counting the times people were together in a room. When you fund Bill Ayers education projects, with hundreds of thousands of dollars, when you as Bill Ayers publish Rashid Khalidi’s essay in your book of collected essays, they might have gone on. That’s a lot without meeting once.

Find a bit more on Khalidi at TalkLeft, where "Jeralyn" expresses concern over that relationship while saying she think Ayers and Dohrn are no big deal.