{"id":8883,"date":"2009-10-07T14:37:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T21:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8883"},"modified":"2009-10-07T14:37:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T21:37:24","slug":"punkd-by-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8883","title":{"rendered":"Punk'd by Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like most Americans, I don’t have much time for Bill Ayers. Yes, I know he’s central to the vast left-wing conspiracy to elect Muslim Black Socialist Black Communist Black Muslim Blackity Black Black Black President Barack Hussein Super-Allah Obama, but he’s also a former terrorist — and no mincing words, that’s what he was<\/a>. If you use violence against civilian targets to further political aims, you’re a terrorist, and while Ayers was ultimately not convicted of any crime, that doesn’t make him innocent. I have little time for the man.<\/p>\n

That said, because Ayers and Obama — both professors at the University of Chicago — crossed paths a few times, Bill Ayers has become a Svengali figure in the right-wing mythology of Barack Obama, secret Kenyan. For bizarre, half-assed reasons, conservatives have convinced themselves that Ayers secretly wrote Barack Obama’s first book, Dreams from My Father<\/em>, because everyone knows African-Americans can’t write — I mean, Barack Obama just isn’t that good a writer. No, really<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is, of course, incandescently offensive, but pretty much par for the course from the right, so one tends to ignore it, because the alternative is caring whether Bill Ayers lives or dies, and I don’t.<\/p>\n

That said, my disdain for Ayers does not inculcate me from the ability to be amused by massive conservative fail, and that’s when one has to note that something wonderful has happened<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Anne Leary creates traffic and attention<\/a> to her previously obscure blog with a picture of Bill Ayers and a “conversation<\/a>” that sounds like suspiciously like a letter to WorldNetDaily’s forum:<\/p>\n

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Dear WND – I am a blogger from the midwest and\u00a0 I never thought this would happen to me…<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Leary (and you should be) claims that she said “Hey you’re Bill Ayers…” and a guilt-ridden Ayers immediately broke down and admitted that he wrote Barack Obama’s book.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yep. A conservative blogger sits down next to Bill Ayers, and tell him that she’s a conservative blogger, and Ayers immediately tells her that he wrote Dreams from My Father<\/em>, and she reported that as fact<\/em>. Was Ayers serious? Of course not<\/a>. Criminy, even Jonah Frickin’ Goldberg<\/a> can see through this. But that didn’t stop much of the wingnutosphere from jumping<\/a> on this<\/a> as proof<\/a> — proof! — that Bill Ayers is actually president.<\/p>\n

You don’t have to like Bill Ayers to find that highly amusing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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