ABC, Clinton play 9/11 card against Obama
Nick Juliano
Published: Thursday April 17, 2008
"And if I'm not mistaken, that relationship with Mr. Ayers on this board continued after 9/11 and after his reported comments, which were deeply hurtful to people in New York, and I would hope to every American, because they were published on 9/11 and he said that he was just sorry they hadn't done more. And what they did was set bombs and in some instances people died," Clinton said.
If those remarks were that hurtful, then one would expect some media coverage. Using Lexis-Nexis, I searched in "US Newspapers and Wires" for Williams Ayers from 9/10/01 to 9/30/01. I found only 3 mentions and only one of them was negative:
The Washington Times
September 12, 2001, Wednesday, Final Edition
BYLINE: Greg Pierce; THE WASHINGTON TIMES
SECTION: PART A; NATION; INSIDE POLITICS; Pg. A4
LENGTH: 1319 words
'POETIC' BOMBER?
"I don't regret setting bombs. . . . I feel we didn't do enough."
So says Bill Ayers, former leader of the Weather Underground, a terrorist group formed within the student protest movement in the late 1960s. In his new memoir, Mr. Ayers claims responsibility for bombing the Pentagon in 1972.
Now 56, Mr. Ayers - who once urged students to "kill your parents" - says he still finds "a certain eloquence to bombs, a poetry and a pattern from a safe distance."
All those quotes, by the way, are from a cheery feature article about Mr. Ayers that appeared yesterday - on the front page of the "Arts" section of the New York Times.
Searching ALL TRANSCRIPTS for the same terms and dates, there wasn't a single entry!
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