Annenberg-Gate Resource List

^{Bill Ayers, Barack Obama}

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Perspective: Ed Morrissey at Hot Air writes August 21, 2008, of Obama and Ayers:

They’re friends. So what? Well, most Americans don’t have friends who plotted to bomb the Pentagon, or assisted radicals in robberies that resulted in murder. Not only did Barack Obama make these people his friends, he worked closely with them on two separate projects, the Woods Foundation — and that pesky Chicago Annenberg Challenge that UIC, a public institution, ran. These were voluntary associations, not a case of both being hired by a corporate manager and forced to work together. In fact, Obama chose to work for Ayers at the CAC.

[John Kass of the Chicago Tribune] notes that a release now will prove rather pointless. Daley’s people will have sanitized the records sufficiently by now that when Obama eventually demands their release, the only connection between him and Ayers will be the letterhead. The Daley machine understands its role in protecting Obama, and they’re going to make sure it gets done right.

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By Steve Diamond: Global Labor and Politics Blog

By Stanley Kurtz

• Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown? A cover-up in the making?, NRO, August 18, 2008.
• Annenberg Interview Transcript, NRO, August 19, 2008.
• Annenberg Records in Grave Danger, NRO, August 19, 2008.

By Sol Stern

• “Social Justice” and Other High School Indoctrinations, FrontPageMagazine, April 13, 2006.
• The Ed Schools’ Latest — and Worst — Humbug, City Journal, Summer 2006 edition.
• The Ghosts of Bill Ayers, FrontPageMagazine, October 17, 2006.
• Obama’s Real Bill Ayers Problem. The ex-Weatherman is now a radical educator with influence, City Journal, April 23, 2008.

Others

• Rick Moran, Obama-Ayers records blocked at U of I Chicago, American Thinker, August 18, 2008.
• Tom Maguire, The Chicago Annenberg Challenge – The Fog Thickens, JustOneMinute, August 18, 2008.
• Pete Yost, University won’t open Obama-related records now, Associated Press, August 19, 2008.
• Tom Maguire, Annenberg-Gate, JustOneMinute, August 19, 2008.
• Mark Silva, Barack Obama records sealed at Illinois, Chicago Tribune’s The Swamp, August 20, 2008.
• Jacob S. Lybbert, University Denies Access to Obama-Ayers Documents, NewsBusters, August 20, 2008.
• Tom Maguire, Wow–Indeed, JustOneMinute, August 20, 2008: Includes press release from the McCain campaign in which spokesman Brian Rogers says “The question now is, will Barack Obama immediately call on the University of Illinois to release all of the records they are currently withholding to shed further light on Senator Obama’s relationship with this unrepentant terrorist?
• Dan Mihalopoulos, Daley won’t say whether UIC should release Obama-Ayers records, Chicago Tribune, August 20, 2008.
• Thomas Lifson, Obama’s Lost Annenberg Years Coming to Light, American Thinker, August 21, 2008.
• Andrew Malcolm, School seals records on Obama’s service with radical Ayers, LAT, August 21, 2008.
• John Kass, When Daley says shhh, library is quiet on Obama, Chicago Tribune, August 21, 2008.
• Ed Morrissey, Obama hiding behind Daley’s skirts?, Hot Air, August 21, 2008.
• Amy Ridenour, The Chicago Annenberg Challenge’s Mysterious Files, National Center for Public Policy Research Blog, August 21, 2008.
• Ed Lasky, More on the Annenberg Challenge, American Thinker, August 21, 2008.
• Jim Geraghty, Daley on Obama and Ayers: ‘They’re friends. So what?’, NRO’s The Corner, August 21, 2008.
• Susan Davis, Obama’s Ties to Ayers Come Up Again, WSJ’s Washington Wire, August 21, 2008.
• Dan Riehl, CAC Doc Drop: Obama Has More Than Ayers To Worry About Now, Riehl World View, August 21, 2008.
• Engram, Hillary Clinton and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Back Talk, August 21, 2008.
• Thomas Lifson, Bill & Barack’s Excellent Adventure, American Thinker, August 22, 2008.
• Ed Lasky, Will Ayers and Obama radicalize our schools?, American Thinker, August 22, 2008.
• Ed Lasky, Obama’s education track record in Chicago, American Thinker, August 22, 2008.

At RW/RBO

• Ayers-Dohrn Resource List.
• Obama’s Weathermen Ayers and Dohrn, originally published February 11, 2008 (reposted August 14, 2008).