Bill Ayers On Good Morning America 11/14 - Setting The Record Straight Pt.1

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

Run time: 09:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1jguB42QPo   Posted on YouTube: November 14, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: November 14, 2008 By DU Member: OmmmSweetOmmm Views on DU: 3172

 
The interviewer for GMA is an incredible tool.

Excellent interview in that Ayers holds his own against the misinformation that became the meme during the campaign.

Here is the link to Part 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK0OqBeXvbI

[underpants]

1. That is Chris Cuomo- Mario's son

and wannabe JohnJohn

Watching it now.

[ladywnch]

5. yeah, he's a tool.....with the intellectual depth of a teaspoon. n/t

[YOY]

11. Complete tool trying to wheedle out a verbal mistep.

There is no verbal mistep to understand. Just a history book. Something the right never reads unless they wish to rewrite it.

[orleans]

29. omg--what a dick that cuomo is! i'm watching & i could slap that

fucker.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

31. I am still having a hard time believing this person is Mario's kid.

He must be some sort of throwback or something.....

[ProfessorPlum]

2. I agree, the interviewer played stupid

Ayers presented his position well.

[prostock69]

6. Agree, the interviewer had to be aggressive and come from

the viewpoint of let's say, McCain/Palin. The problem with the media is they want to "create" stories where there aren't any because they have nothing else better to do. Everyone loves them a scandal.

[Number9Dream]

3. Ayers does a great job refuting talking points

Mr. Ayers does a great job refuting the repuke talking points regurgitated by the interviewer. Twice the interviewer said, "...launched Obama's political career...". Mr. Ayers said he hosted a coffee meet / greet, along with others who did the same thing.

When will Good Morning America be doing a segment about the anti-American, Alaskan Independence Party, and ask Todd Palin why he's a member? Never, that's when!

Librul Media.

[underpants]

8. I disagree-Ayers doesn't understand the media game

He doesn't offer a sharp end or an angry response to the question, juxtaposed to Cuomo's constant reasking redamneding of an answer and the apology he( along with the rest of the media) see as the only logical next step, Ayers comes off as not finishing the story for the braindead viewer. I mean this with all due respect-the viewers (the consumers of news) don't see this often enough to understand what is going on.

I am not saying that Ayers didn't make his point. He just didn't make it within one of the templates of the modern news product.

[bertman]

14. underpants, if Ayers had offered the sharp end or angry response to the question it would

be trumpeted by the media as yet another ANGRY, RADICAL professor aggressively confronting the innocent interviewer.

Don't get me wrong, I wish he could have said just for starters, "Chris, why do you keep trying to say that Barack Obama sought me out? That is patently false. It is a lie. Yet you keep parroting it. Why are you spreading a lie about our President-elect, Chris? Are you a traitor to America, Chris?"

Unfortunately, Ayers' past has become a media talking point because the corporate media will always do whatever it takes to stir up controversy and get more imbeciles to watch TV. The more they can undermine a Democratic President, the better they feel.

[GarbagemanLB]

15. Bingo.

[underpants]

23. That is a much point

Yes he could have handled it that way and that would have been the soundbite that got replayed...and respun as anger. Maybe Ayers knew what he was doing and wanted to avoid giving a soundbite :shrug:

[Turborama]

27. Or, "Chris, are you insinuating that Barack Obama is a one man terrorist cell and ...

... was trying to get tips and advice on how to blow America up from me...? After all, this is what McCain/Palin's "guilt by association" agenda was implying, wasn't it?"

[orleans]

30. really good point. he was driving me crazy--he belongs on fox news

Chris Cuomo=dickhead.

[Karenina]

10. "He was probably in TWENTY HOMES that same day."

[jimmil]

4. The Interviewer just won't accept Ayers' answers.

What a shitty interview. Just because Ayers won't answer the questions the way the interviewer wants he just keeps asking the same question over and over. He needs to get over it, Ayers never had a close relationship with Obama. It was just professional and that is the end of the story.

[underpants]

9. Cuomo knew what he wanted to hear

what all the failed actors turned newscasters only understand as the next step

see post #8

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

26. I can't recall if it was in the first or second part of the interview, but Cuomo

(Mario's black sheep)tried to peg Obama and Ayers to discussing radical ideas, as if it was a certifiable fact. I loved it when Ayers said all we ever discussed was education and housing for poor people. I still cannot believe that Cuomo said that.

:banghead:

[shadowknows69]

7. Now they want to talk to Ayers to clear things up?

Fucking media whores.

[lame54]

12. The ultimate irony...

Good Morning America is now promoting the book of "a known terrorist"

[beac]

16. Wouldn't it be fun to confront that asshat Chris Cuomo with that and then INSIST there was

"something" there when he tried to deny it! What are you HIDING, Chris Cuomo??????

[Veronica.Franco]

13. Well done, Bill ...

He remains even and reasonable ... Bravo! ...

[personman]

17. Ayers and his wife were on Democracy Now! today too:

You can see the videos here:

http://anarchismtoday.org/DF_Multimedia/page=watch/id=39.html

Or at Democracy Now!'s website, http://democracynow.org/

[RufusTFirefly]

18. Heard the DN interview. Definitely recommended. n/t

[sunnybrook]

19. regardless of the higher principle Ayers is aspiring to

I am glad as hell he did not come out for interviews during the campaign. He has a right to "set the record straight," but those who are against him will take away nothing from this and it will not be helpful to Obama for him to remain in the "spotlight," (like someone else we know!)

[progressoid]

20. Yawn. More media masturbation.

[democracy1st]

21. Sorry A.. BS media I guess Bush is connected to the Bin Laden's

[Grinchie]

22. I now realize why they are pushing Ayers

The consensus by the Media is that Americans are shallow, uneducated slobs that retain their unpleasant memories of High School, where they were forced to conform to the environment in order to survive. The generalized, snd somewhat true portrayal of High School politics is presented through the comedic lense of Mean Girls, and through horror such as The Faculty, or Christine. We get to see the oppresion submitted upon the different castes present in a typical High School.

These experiences tend to shape the worldview of the individual, who is doing nothing more than trying to conform to an unreasonable system which tries to categorizes and pigeonhole a young adult into whatever workmanlike drone the Corporation of the day needs. Education today is nothing more that memorization and Rote learning. There is little effort placed upon independant thinking or Liberal Arts, like Liberal Arts somehow denotes a left leaning political push, instead of its true meaning of teaching the breadth of the worlds accumulated knowledge and philosophies.

By teaching generations of Drones to be specialists in whatever their chosen field, the educational system today creates more dependance than ever. The Electrical Engineer can dance around with Albregra and Calculus, but lacks the fundamental knowledge of how to manage money and wealth or relationship and nature. He is dependant on Joe the Plumber to unclog his pipes, because he is "Above That" -- It's not my job he will proclaim. God forbid if the Plumbers would disappear. Or perhaps the wiring in his house is damaged -- He is most likely unable to grasp the details living within the Electrical Code to make a competent repair. Fix his car? No Way, That requires specialized tools and access to the voluminous tomes of repair manuals, computer diagnostic and other equipment to deal with anything other than the most trivial maintenance.

He is told what to think and what to buy. He has the cash to do so, and thus, is a member of the Rat Race. He has most likely been sold on the Credit Card society along with his wife, and are inexorably selling their soul into debt in order to live like he is told to do via the media. He doesn't have time to step back in time to the 70's and the Vietnam War, when the corrupt Nixon was assailing the public with Draconian Drug laws, HMO's, Covert Operations on political enemies, and the pursuit of a "Sustainable War" economy that is paid for with our taxes. That stuff is history, and they don't teach that to people anymore.

The interviewer in this interview is ferocious in his atteampt to paint the topic in a narrow, unquestioning context which if maintained would genuinely raise questions about Ayers relationship if the broad scope were ignored, but Ayers rightfully puts the conversation in context, and disarms this "High School Musical" bully completely.

Make no mistake that Disney and Eisner wnt to bed with Bush early in 2002 after 9/11. Disney was more than happy to place bag searches in all the theme parks, which enabled them to decline in quality and value with the excuse of "Security", while all the while introducing Children and families to the idea of random searches is normal in the "Happiast Place of Earth". Not to mention Clear Channel, the voice of the rightwing media megaphone, and ABC, the bastion of Dumbing Down America.

The Republicans are seizing upon the current crop of shallow minded consumers that are either too young or ignorant to do their own research on the matter. Thats the reason we see and influx of these fascists every 20 or so years, because it takes that long for the new crop of sheep to show up in the electorate.

[happydreams]

24. What Ayers should have said to that fuckhead.....

"Look, let's be honest, you have to have a controversy to keep "Good Morning America" watchable. You can't handle, if you ever wanted to handle, discussions about more important issues, so you have to pry into this character thing and create a good guy bad guy dichotomy." Then I would pause as the stupid motherfucker turned every shade of red and ask: "Correct?"

Who knows what would happen next, commercial break, power outage, or maybe an anger response from the fucking idiot host.

"Don't you find it singular that the Weather underground are singled out as terrorists but the CIA Cointelpro and the gutter politics of the Repukes are ignored.....Why don't we look at what I did after this time, look at what I have accomplished, the kids I have taught, etc. I know, I know, that is not what you want, you gotta have that good guy--bad guy thingy. But why don't you, you blowed dryed shit-for-brains asswipe, do something worthwhile in your life and tell the truth!

[Dollface]

25. It is about time that the historical context of his actions was mentioned. Too bad the interviewer

was so stupid. I have doubts that he had any idea about the reasons for the WU activities. Desperate times...

[Zombie2]

28. BEFORE the election....

Wonder why they didn't bother setting the record straight BEFORE the election... instead of 2 weeks after. Whatever happened to investigative reporting?

BTW, the guy doing the interview seems to be an assbag!

K & R