"I was cast in the unrepentant terrorist role; I felt at times like the enemy projected onto a large screen in the 'Two Minutes Hate' scene from George Orwell's '1984,' when the faithful gathered in a frenzy of fear and loathing. With the mainstream news media and the blogosphere caught in the pre-election excitement, I saw no viable path to a rational discussion. Rather than step clumsily into the sound-bite culture, I turned away whenever the microphones were thrust into my face. I sat it out."
Mr. Ayer's complaint that he was "cast" in the role of an "unrepentant terrorist" by the media and the conservative right during the election is a blatant distortion of the facts and a clear example of Mr. Ayer's propensity for revsionist history. In an interview with the New York Times, which was published (ironically) on September 11, 2001, Mr. Ayers stated...''I don't regret setting bombs...I feel we didn't do enough."
Prior to the election, Mr. Ayers, a widley published Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, encountered no dificulties in promoting his radical activist liberal agendas with the various mainstream media. It was only when the conservative right began questioning his relationship with Senator Obama that he decided to remain mute. The only Orwellian "frenzy of fear and loathing" was that of Mr. Ayers, his wife Bernadette Dohrn and other Weather Underground members when they began their terrorist acts of placing and detonating explsoive devices at various buildings across this country.
As Mr. Ayers is obviously a fan of George Orwell's "1984", you might say his self imposed silence during the election was an attempt to place his relationship with the Senator from Illinois and his past radical and terrorist activities with the Weather Underground down Big Brother's "memory hole!"
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