In fact, the mainstream media did no vetting. They seem to have
all agreed, "OK, none of us will get into this business with Jeremiah
Wright, 'Tony' Rezko, Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers and everyone's
impression of an angry Michelle Obama on 'The Jerry Springer Show.'"

During one of the Democratic primary debates, Hillary Clinton was
hissed for mentioning Syrian national Rezko, and during another, ABC
moderator George Stephanopoulos nearly lost his career for asking Obama
one question about William Ayers.

In the past week, TV anchors have taken to claiming that Obama
"refuted" John McCain's statement that Obama launched his political
career at the home of former Weather Underground leader Ayers.

No, Obama "denied" it; he didn't "refute" it. If "denying"
something is the same as "refuting" it, then maybe the establishment
media can quit harping on Palin's qualifications to be president, since
she too "refuted" that by denying it.

Back before the media realized it needed to lie about Obama
launching his political career at Ayers' house, the Los Angeles Times
provided an eyewitness account from a liberal who attended the event.

"When I first met Barack Obama, he was giving a standard,
innocuous little talk in the living room of those two
legends-in-their-own-minds, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. They were
launching him -- introducing him to the Hyde Park community as the best
thing since sliced bread."

The Times has now stripped this item from its Web page, but the great blogger Patterico has preserved it for posterity on his Web page.

Obama's glib remark that "Bill Ayers is a professor of education
in Chicago; 40 years ago when I was 8 years old he engaged in
despicable acts with a domestic group. I have roundly denounced those
attacks" -- doesn't answer anything.

First of all, the fact that Ayers is a professor of education
proves only one thing: He is dumber than any person without an
education degree.

Ayers is such an imbecile, we ought to be amazed that he's
teaching at a university -- even when you consider that it's an ed
school -- except all former violent radicals end up teaching. Roughly
80 percent of former Weathermen are full college professors -- 99
percent if you don't include the ones killed in shoot-outs with the
police or in prison -- i.e., not yet pardoned by a Democratic
president.

Any other profession would have banned a person like Ayers.
Universities not only accept former domestic terrorists, but also move
them to the front of the line. In addition to Ayers, among those once
on the FBI's most-wanted list who ended up in cushy college teaching
positions are Bernardine Dohrn (Northwestern University), Mark Rudd (a
junior college in New Mexico) and Angela Davis (History of
Consciousness Department, University of California at Santa Cruz).

While others were hard at work on Ph.D.s, Susan Rosenberg was
conspiring to kill cops and blow up buildings, and was assembling
massive caches of explosives. This put her on the fast track for a
teaching position at Hamilton College!

Despite having absolutely no qualifications to teach, having
earned only a master's degree in "writing" through a correspondence
course, Rosenberg was offered a position at Hamilton within a few years
of President Clinton pardoning her in 2001, releasing her from a
58-year prison sentence for participating in the murder of cops and
possessing more than 700 pounds of explosives.

But Obama thinks it's a selling point to say that Ayers is a college professor.

Hundreds of college professors have signed a letter vouching for
Ayers, which would be like Lester Maddox producing a letter from George
Wallace assuring us that Maddox is a respected member of the community.
No, really, I've got the letter right here!

The media keep citing the fact that the money Obama and Ayers
distributed to idiotic left-wing causes came -- as The New York Times
put it -- "from Walter H. Annenberg, the billionaire publisher and
philanthropist and President Richard M. Nixon's ambassador to the
United Kingdom."

Great Republican though he was, Walter Annenberg died in 2002. The
money came from the Annenberg Foundation, which, like all foundations,
distributes money to projects that its founder would despise. John
Kerry ran for president on the late John Heinz's money. That didn't
mean Republican Heinz was endorsing Kerry.

As John O'Sullivan says, any foundation that is not explicitly
right-wing will become a radical left-wing organization within a few
years. It could be the Association of University Women, the American
Association of Retired People, the American Rose Growers, the
Foundation for the Study of Railroad Engineers or the Choral Society of
Newport Beach.

Left-wing radicals swarm to free foundation money, where they can
give gigantic grants to one another and they will never have to do a
day's work. That's exactly what Obama and Ayers did with Annenberg's
money.

None of the Annenberg money went to schoolchildren. It went to
Ayers' left-wing crank friends to write moronic papers that we hope no
one ever reads.

Instead of teaching students reading and writing, Ayers thinks
they should be taught to rebel against America's "imperialist" social
structure. In 2006, Ayers was in Venezuela praising communist dictator
Hugo Chavez, saying, "We share the belief that education is the
motor-force of revolution."

He has backed a line of schoolbooks such as one titled "Teaching Science for Social Justice."

Forget about Ayers' domestic terrorism when Obama "was 8 years old." Does he agree with Ayers' idiot ideas right now?