While the networks and much of the mainstream media channeled their outrage at Sarah Palin for daring to mention Barack Obama’s ties to terrorist Bill Ayers, the October 9 "Fox and Friends" featured a victim of Mr. Ayers, John Murtagh, whose home was bombed at the age of nine. Murtagh explained that the Obama-Ayers relationship goes back to the 1980's, when they met at a law firm.
Further elaborating on the activities of a Weather Underground splinter group when Obama was attending college in New York City, Murtagh editorialized "for Barack Obama to attend Columbia shortly after these events, being in New York at that time and not know who the Weather Underground was, frankly, makes him the dumbest man that ever graduated from Columbia and Harvard Law School." When Brian Kilmeade replied "we know he’s not," Murtagh agreed.
The transcript follows.
STEVE DOOCY: This headline from 1970 says it all, four bombs at Murtagh home. The notorious terror group the Weather Underground claiming responsibility for an attack on the family of a New York state Supreme Court justice. The bombing was lead by radical Bill Ayers, the same guy screen right who eventually formed a relationship of some sort with Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama.
BRIAN KILMEADE: Yonkers city councilman John Murtagh was just nine years old when the blast went off inside his house. John this is a personal story for you.
JOHN MURTAGH: Clearly it is. I was nine years old at the time. My father was the judge presiding over what was called the Panther 21 trial, members of Panther party who were charged with attempting to bomb landmarks in New York. On a February night in 1970, while my parents, my brother, sister and I were asleep in our house, the Weather Underground launched the attack on our family and set off at least three, possibly four bombs, one of them under the gas tank of the family car.
DOOCY: Car bomb.
MURTAGH: Looking to kill us.
DOOCY: So when I read one of the things you wrote earlier in the spring, the headline was that Bill Ayers tried to kill my family.
MURTAGH: Well, Bill Ayers, the founder of the Weather Underground, Kathy Wilkerson, who is a former member of the Weather Underground, still lives here in New York, she wrote a memoir two years ago in which she acknowledged that it was the New York cell of the Weather Underground that launched the attack on my family. Three weeks later, at Bill Ayers direction, they were assembling bombs at Greenwich Village in order to attack the officers’ club at Fort Dix, New Jersey and they blew themselves up.
DOOCY: Right, they blew the nail.
MURTAGH: Exactly.
KILMEADE: So what do you think when you hear about this Bill Ayers back in the news and his links or lack thereof with Barack Obama?
MURTAGH: Well, you know, Barack Obama constantly says "I was only eight years old when this happened." That’s kind of his throw away line. I’m not questioning what Barack Obama was doing when he was eight years old. I’m questioning his behavior as an adult to choose his friend, mentor, and long time personal and professional colleague, a gentleman who engaged in acts of terror against families, against government buildings and whose organization crossed the lines of at least three if not more police officers.
DOOCY: Now, we’ve had the Obama camp on a number of times and they dispute the relationship and everything else. They say it goes back to when they simply served on boards and they only met at a couple of board meetings plus that get together at that guy’s, Bill Ayers’ house. But why is it you think- because this is something that happened- why is it that you think the relationship between Bill Ayers and Barack Obama goes back 20 years?
MURTAGH: Bill Ayers’ wife, Bernadine Dorn, also one of the original leaders of the Weather Underground. And the woman who took credit for the bombing at our home and other New York targets. Bernadine Dorn was an attorney by training. She couldn’t get admitted to the Bar because of her crimes. Bill Ayers’ family got a job at a large Chicago law firm from Sydney Austin in the 1980's. She was a contemporary at the law firm in the 80's with Michelle Obama. It was the firm where a year later-
DOOCY: They had known each other around the water cooler?
MURTAGH: Sure, and a year later it’s where Michelle and Barack Obama met. So I believe if the senator where to come clean and tell his full story, we’d find this relationship well predates the fundraiser in Ayers’ home and goes back to the 80's.
DOOCY: I have never heard that connection before.
KILMEADE: I just can’t believe that a university would hire this guy with this type of background.
MURTAGH: You’d have to ask the University of Illinois to explain that.
DOOCY: Let, let me ask you one more question. You know, the Obama camp called me up and said "look they lived in the same neighborhood, but Barack Obama did not know Bill Ayers’ history at the time of that meet and greet where they launched his career in his living room."
MURTAGH: You know, Barack Obama was a student at Columbia in the early 1980's. He lived in New York at Columbia at a time that a splinter group of the Weather Underground murdered two police officers here in New York as part of a failed banking heist. Frankly, for Barack Obama to attend Columbia shortly after these events, being in New York at that time and not know who the Weather Underground was, frankly, makes him the dumbest man that ever graduated from Columbia and Harvard Law School.
KILMEADE: Which we know he’s not.
MURTAGH: Absolutely not.
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Needs to be pushed more!
October 9, 2008 - 10:52 ET by MeanderingIts one of the other and neither is good for Obama. Either he knew about Ayers or he didn't. If he did, then why is a potential Presidential Candidate chumming around with a terrorist? If he didn't know, then his intelligence needs to be in question. Why would we want a potential presidential candidate who can't figure out that Ayers is a really, REALLY bad guy? Do we want this guy as our President? Either his cohorts are terrorists or he's too dumb to realize his friends are terrorists. Either one is bad!
GAME CHANGER !
October 9, 2008 - 10:58 ET by Mgarnett25MY FELLOW AMERICANS! WE HAVE THE SMOKING GUN, THE GAME CHANGER, THE OCTOBER SURPRISE!
IF we can get this into the MSM Sen. McCain WILL WIN the Election, PERIOD!
Sen. Obama, from HIS office in the US Senate sent E-MAILS to a RADICAL Kenyan Presidential candidate ODINGA suggesting campaign strategies, advice and support. Sen. Obama has made SEVERAL phone calls also to Odinga along with several e-mails. Odinga of Kenya HAD SIGNED a document promising to IMPOSE STRICT SHRIA MUSLIM LAW in Kenya if the Muslims would vote for and help him gets elected. ODINGA did NOT win the election, but he and his Muslim supporters have instigated RADICAL VIOLENCE in Kenya, including burning of 100’s of Christian churches. SEATOR OBAMA SUPPORTED THIS RADICAL, HE SUPPORTED THIS ODINGA AND WE HAVE THE ACTUAL E-MAILS, WE HAVE THE PROOF THAT A SITTING SENATOR, OBAMA, FROM HIS SENATE OFFICE HAS PHONED ENCOURAGMENT AND ADVICE! We have an active Senator, from his TAXPAYER PAID OFFICE ON OUR DIME CALLING AND E-MAILING A RADICAL IN KENYA DURING THE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARIES! THIS IS NOT OLD NEWS, THIS IS THE FINAL STRAW, THE MSM WILL HAVE TO COVER THIS STORY AND COMBINED WITH WILLIAM AYERS AND REV. WRIGHT A STRONG PATTERN IS FINALY EMERGING!!! PLEASE, PLEASE E-MAIL, CALL, WRITE, DO ALL YOU CAN AS US CITIZENS TO GET THE WORD SPREAD! THE PROFF, THE E-MAILS WILL BE PRESENTED ON HANNITY & COMBS ON MONDAY NIGHT 10/13/2008 AT 9pm EST! WE MUST GET THIS INTO THE PUBLIC FORUMS! THIS IS THE OCTOBER SURPRISE, THE FINAL NAIL, THE SMOKING GUN!
Mark Garnett
Obama and his associates
October 9, 2008 - 11:02 ET by east tennessee johnIf you haven't figured it out by now, Obama, if not the stealth candidate, is the MSM's cocoon candidate,wrapped in the protections of the MSM. They hate Bush so much that Obama can shoot his white grandmother,on air, and they would call it racially justified homocide and marvel at his marksmanship. They don't yet know, or refuse to accept, what happens to "journalists" when the bad guys run the show.
Where are the 527s?
October 9, 2008 - 11:10 ET by retroconThe Obamas, Ayers, and Dorns were all "birds of a feather." They only met because of where they worked and hung-out. Places where common idiologies prevailed.
My question is simple, since the MSM are not going to report any of this, since McCain has less than 1/3 of the campaign funds of Obama (some illegally gathered), where are the 527s?
Another article says 74% of CEOs say Obama will be disasterous to the nation, where's their money?
Face it, the libs all hang out at Kos and HuffPo and the MSM sites. Conservatives hang out here and few other places. Not changing any of our minds here.
The moderates and undecideds are watching TV (most of them, NOT watching Fox) and searching for Angelina Jolie on google. That means getting ads and info on TV if you want to change minds.
Where are the 527s?
I saw this piece...
October 9, 2008 - 11:21 ET by PrairieSkyand it was very interesting. I had never heard much about the people that were directly affected by the Ayers' bombings before this piece on Fox. I'm betting that you won't see anything like this on any other MSM outlet. Fox appears to be the only major organization that is all over this story.
"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever." President Ronald Reagan, January 20, 1981
I agree - We need this on TV
October 9, 2008 - 11:30 ET by ForbesaniaOf course Media bias is real. This website allows user generated videos a chance to get on the cable networks nationally:
http://www.clicktobr...
Somebody needs to put together a video about Ayers bombing victims.
allow me to love
October 9, 2008 - 11:36 ET by JIMMY1660allow me to love America
my only question: can BHO pass a security check, after these associations with Ayers and Dorn?? I'm sure those folks who associated with David Duke will never see a high security job!!
if he can not, why is he in a position to be our next President.
Obama Lies about never being Muslim
October 9, 2008 - 11:47 ET by MaximusBraveheartFirst, Obama's REAL name is Barry Soetoro. Then Obama Lies about never being Muslim! How can he be trusted!? An OUTRIGHT LIE! NEVER disclosing his REAL NAME to the public. When was it legally changed? WHAT does his NEW name signify? It must MEAN something to change your name! ASK him in the debate McCain!!!! WHEN did he become an American citizen? Shown to live and be an Indonesian citizen when young. An absolute must watch!
Proof Obama was a Muslim
http://www.youtube.c...
Brother Confirms Obama Was Muslim, and Has Photo to Prove It
http://www.youtube.c...
Obama's Muslim call to prayer
http://www.youtube.c...
Following snip from: http://answers.yahoo...
The "An American Expat in Southeast Asia" blog reports that Obama's Indonesian schooling began when he was entered into the Roman Catholic, Franciscus Assisi Primary School on January 1, 1968 and sat in class 1B. He was registered under the name Barry Soetoro, serial number 203. School documents listed Barry Soetoro as an Indonesian citizen and his religion was listed as Islam. He will spend three years at Franciscus.
Catholic schools accept non-Catholics worldwide. Non-Catholic students are typically excused from religious instruction and ceremony.
1971
Obama's family moves from H Ramir Street to Dempo Street and Obama enters the 4th grade at the Besuki Primary School, a government school. He was enrolled as Barry Soetoro, Muslim.
1971
All Indonesian students are required to study religion at school and a young Barry Soetoro, being a Muslim, would have been required to study Islam daily in school.
He would have been taught to read and write Arabic, to recite his prayers properly, to read and recite from the Quran and to study the laws of Islam.
In his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," Obama mentions studying the Quran and describes the public school as "a Muslim school."
According to Tine Hahiyary, one of Obama's teachers and the principal from 1971 through 1989, Barry actively took part in the Islamic religious lessons during his time at the school. His teacher was named Maimunah and she lived in the Puncak area, the Cianjur Regency. "I remembered that he had studied "mengaji" (recitation of the Quran)" Tine said.
Obama himself recalls, "In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell mother I made faces during Koranic studies."
Our guy in Jakarta writes: "The actual usage of the word 'mengaji' in Indonesian and Malaysian societies means the study of learning to recite the Quran in the Arabic language rather than the native tongue. "Mengagi" is a word and a term that is accorded the highest value and status in the mindset of fundamentalist societies here in Southeast Asia. To put it quite simply, 'mengaji classes' are not something that a non practicing or so-called moderate Muslim family would ever send their child to. To put this in a Christian context, this is something above and beyond simply enrolling your child in Sunday school classes."
"The fact that Obama had attended mengaji classes is well known in Indonesia and has left many there wondering just when Obama is going to come out of the closet."
"As I've stated before, the evidence seems to quite clearly show that both Ann Dunham and her husband Lolo Soetoro Mangunharjo were in fact devout Muslims themselves and they raised their son as such."
M-B