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"Striking while the “Bill Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist” iron is hot, AJ Schnack has published a post on his blog by Sam Green, the co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary The Weather Underground. Green, who says Ayers has “become a good friend” of he and his co-director Bill Siegel, talks about the frustrations of watching his subject become a Republican talking point. As Green points out, the McCain/Palin argument connecting Obama to Ayers compltely omits any explanation for how a “terrorist” can become a “Distinguished Professor” thanks to thirty years of cultural evolution. “To have all of his work, and what he’s about, so publicly misrepresented must be extremely painful,” Green writes. “There really is nothing, or at least nothing significant, at the heart of the Ayers-Obama connection.” More here. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth "
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"Striking while the “Bill Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist” iron is hot, AJ Schnack has published a post on his blog by Sam Green, the co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary The Weather Underground. Green, who says Ayers has “become a good friend” of he and his co-director Bill Siegel, talks about the frustrations of watching his subject become a Republican talking point. As Green points out, the McCain/Palin argument connecting Obama to Ayers compltely omits any explanation for how a “terrorist” can become a “Distinguished Professor” thanks to thirty years of cultural evolution. “To have all of his work, and what he’s about, so publicly misrepresented must be extremely painful,” Green writes. “There really is nothing, or at least nothing significant, at the heart of the Ayers-Obama connection.” More here. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog "
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"The Weather Underground is a documentary about the small group of radicals who split off from the Students for a Democratic Society and turned to violent protest from 1969 until the end of the Viet Nam war in 1975. The two film makers, aged 37 and 41, wanted to understand what they had only heard bits about, and they wanted to present an objective view to a younger audience. In this regard, interviews with Underground members David Gilbert (in prison), Bernadine Dohrn (a professor), Bill Ayers (a professor), Mark Rudd (a math instructor at a community college), Naomi Jaffe (a woman’s activist), Laura Whitehorn (a woman’s activist), and Mr. Flanagan (a bar owner) are intercut with interviews with Don Strickland, one of the FBI agents who tried unsuccessfully to track and catch members of the Underground, Todd Gitlin, a left-wing activist still angry at the Underground’s hijacking of the student left, and other people such as Walter Mondale, saying that, instead of ... "
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