The short version: there's a man named William Ayers. He's an unrepentant left-wing radical who back around 1970 tried to bomb the Pentagon and other targets. He got lucky, escaped the long arm of the law, and wound up a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has associated in a number of different ways with...Barack Obama. It goes back years and several different projects.
There are records at the UIC which help detail Ayers and Obama's collaboration on a specific project. Stanley Kurtz of National Review has been researching Obama's life. He wanted access to these papers. At first, for no good reason, he was denied. Finally he was given permission; and, yesterday, he went on WGN radio to talk about his findings. The Obama campaign thus mounted a huge effort to have its supporters send a blizzard of e-mails and telephone calls to the show, demanding that Kurtz not be allowed on the show, though they gave no good reason as to why--they simply kept saying that he's a "smear artist."
Kurtz has obviously hit a raw nerve. And it's disturbing how the Obama campaign sought to silence criticism, for no good reason.
The entire episdoe is detailed here. Read the whole thing.
I invite any Obama supporter to e-mail me and explain EXACTLY why Mr. Kurtz is a "smear" artist and EXACTLY, with specifics, why he should not have been allowed on the radio.
