09.24.08
CAC
The indispensable Stanley Kurtz writes in today’s National Review Online:
New evidence strongly suggests that Barack Obama has been less than forthcoming about the role that unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers may have played in choosing him to lead the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). Through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, I have obtained an e-mail message from former CAC executive director, Ken Rolling, to Warren Chapman and Anne Hallett, two of CAC’s three co-founders. Bill Ayers was the third founder. In Rolling’s message, sent the morning after I first requested access to CAC records housed at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), he admits to avoiding a reporter’s inquiries about who picked Obama to head CAC. Rolling also appears to prime Chapman and Hallett to avoid telling the press the whole story of how Obama was chosen, and provides them with an apparently incomplete story to use instead.
Obama’s time with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge is relevant for a number of reasons: it is the only executive experience the man can really claim and it is an experience involving public education, radical politics, and huge money. The CAC story is also inextricably bound up in the story of Obama’s entry into politics. Don’t his idolatrous kool-aid drinkers want to know more about his life’s story?
Big Media is as silent as the grave about this period in Obama’s life —but wide awake and curious about every little detail of Sarah Palin and her family’s life. One cannot deny the incredible double standard ruling the coverage of this campaign. It is —as a matter of both intellectual intergrity and civic morality— appalling.
