Comments on: The Ayers File http://lonelyconservative.com/2008/10/the-ayers-file/ Observations from a conservative in a blue state. With a little help from my friends! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:35:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: andrew brownhttp://lonelyconservative.com/2008/10/the-ayers-file/comment-page-1/#comment-1686 andrew brown Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:44:07 +0000 http://www.lonelyconservative.com/?p=1115#comment-1686 People USUALLY write blurbs for books without ever meeting the author. People sit on boards of directors without coming closer to each other than their computer screens. It's been a good twenty years and probably more since the expression to sit on a board of directors has meant sitting together in one room. I've been writing and publishing for over twenty years (never on politics except on forums like this where you can have fun because everyone hates you to begin with), and have seen many boards and known many authors and helped snag many reviews and blurbs. The NYTimes is a newspaper, but it's read internationally and if any heartland American reads it they're bound to be alarmed at its differences from the Dacron Weekend Bugle and Yard Sale Courier Herald Journal. Their coverage of Clinton and many other crooked dems before and since, makes that obvious. Of course it depends on whether you check out different things, as I do, or just want to sing along with the choir. Never saw the point of that myself. People USUALLY write blurbs for books without ever meeting the author. People sit on boards of directors without coming closer to each other than their computer screens. It’s been a good twenty years and probably more since the expression to sit on a board of directors has meant sitting together in one room. I’ve been writing and publishing for over twenty years (never on politics except on forums like this where you can have fun because everyone hates you to begin with), and have seen many boards and known many authors and helped snag many reviews and blurbs. The NYTimes is a newspaper, but it’s read internationally and if any heartland American reads it they’re bound to be alarmed at its differences from the Dacron Weekend Bugle and Yard Sale Courier Herald Journal. Their coverage of Clinton and many other crooked dems before and since, makes that obvious. Of course it depends on whether you check out different things, as I do, or just want to sing along with the choir. Never saw the point of that myself.

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]]> By: ZORROhttp://lonelyconservative.com/2008/10/the-ayers-file/comment-page-1/#comment-1662 ZORRO Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:57:20 +0000 http://www.lonelyconservative.com/?p=1115#comment-1662 DO PEOPLE OFTEN WRITE BLURBS FOR BOOKS WHEN THEY HARDLY KNOW THE AUTHOR? DO THEY SIT ON THE SAME BOARDS OF DIRECTORS, MAKING DECISIONS TOGETHER,DIRECT MONEY INTO EACH OTHERS PROGRAMS? KIND OF HARD TO BELIEVE THAT IT WAS ONLY A PASSING ACQUAINTANCE. DOES ANYONE BELIEVE THAT THE NEW YORK TIMES IS ANYTHING BUT AN ARM OF THE DNC? DO PEOPLE OFTEN WRITE BLURBS FOR BOOKS WHEN THEY HARDLY KNOW THE AUTHOR? DO THEY SIT ON THE SAME BOARDS OF DIRECTORS, MAKING DECISIONS TOGETHER,DIRECT MONEY INTO EACH OTHERS PROGRAMS? KIND OF HARD TO BELIEVE THAT IT WAS ONLY A PASSING ACQUAINTANCE. DOES ANYONE BELIEVE THAT THE NEW YORK TIMES IS ANYTHING BUT AN ARM OF THE DNC?

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]]> By: andrew brownhttp://lonelyconservative.com/2008/10/the-ayers-file/comment-page-1/#comment-1656 andrew brown Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:23:05 +0000 http://www.lonelyconservative.com/?p=1115#comment-1656 Both from The New York Times. Both from The New York Times.

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]]> By: andrew brownhttp://lonelyconservative.com/2008/10/the-ayers-file/comment-page-1/#comment-1655 andrew brown Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:21:46 +0000 http://www.lonelyconservative.com/?p=1115#comment-1655 "Hari Sevugan, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, fired back almost immediately in a statement: “Governor Palin’s comments, while offensive, are not surprising, given the McCain campaign’s statement this morning that they would be launching Swiftboat-like attacks in hopes of deflecting attention from the nation’s economic ills. In fact, the very newspaper story Governor Palin cited in hurling her shameless attack made clear that Senator Obama is not close to Bill Ayers, much less ‘pals,’ and that he has strongly condemned the despicable acts Ayers committed 40 years ago, when Obama was eight. What’s clear is that John McCain and Sarah Palin would rather spend their time tearing down Barack Obama than laying out a plan to build up our economy.”" “Hari Sevugan, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, fired back almost immediately in a statement: “Governor Palin’s comments, while offensive, are not surprising, given the McCain campaign’s statement this morning that they would be launching Swiftboat-like attacks in hopes of deflecting attention from the nation’s economic ills. In fact, the very newspaper story Governor Palin cited in hurling her shameless attack made clear that Senator Obama is not close to Bill Ayers, much less ‘pals,’ and that he has strongly condemned the despicable acts Ayers committed 40 years ago, when Obama was eight. What’s clear is that John McCain and Sarah Palin would rather spend their time tearing down Barack Obama than laying out a plan to build up our economy.””

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]]> By: andrew brownhttp://lonelyconservative.com/2008/10/the-ayers-file/comment-page-1/#comment-1654 andrew brown Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:18:54 +0000 http://www.lonelyconservative.com/?p=1115#comment-1654 "A review of records of the schools project and interviews with a dozen people who know both men, suggest that Mr. Obama, 47, has played down his contacts with Mr. Ayers, 63. But the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called “somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.” “A review of records of the schools project and interviews with a dozen people who know both men, suggest that Mr. Obama, 47, has played down his contacts with Mr. Ayers, 63. But the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called “somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.”

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