http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/16569/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/media-drink-obamas-8-years-old-kool-aid <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/brian-fitzpatrick">Brian Fitzpatrick</a> </div> </div> </div> <p >Barack Obama's relationship with Weathermen founder William Ayers would reveal a great deal about the candidate's character and values, if establishment journalists chose to tell the tale.  </p> <br /> <p >But rather than investigate and expose the truth, many news organizations are merely parroting the Obama campaign's main talking point, an obvious effort to defuse a political time bomb: the observation that the Democratic presidential nominee was 8 years old when the Weathermen were bombing the U.S. Capitol and Pentagon and killing police officers. </p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/media-drink-obamas-8-years-old-kool-aid" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Business Education Media 8yearsold character obama values Weathermen WilliamAyers Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0000 admin 28038 at http://archive2.mrc.org