Friday, October 03, 2008

Obama Hiding Annenberg Challenge Records and Ties to Terrorist Ayers

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/08/20/update-on-the-obamaayers-paper-caper/

-the leading role that Bill Ayers played in the Annenberg Challenge;
-the equally important role played by Barack Obama; and
-the intensely political nature of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.

http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2008/08/whats-obama-hid.html

What's Obama Hiding In Annenberg Challenge Records?
Update: See more info and developments on this via NRO and also Michelle Malkin.

This is troubling - link via a post at Powerline - short audio from WLS's Jerry Agar available here.

A spokesperson for the U of Illinois at Chicago Library doesn't rule out that the now missing Chicago Annenberg Challenge records will be turned back to the donor without ever being released. He also refuses to disclose the donor.

What's up with that?

Barack Obama was quite likely closely involved with an unrepentant domestic terrorist for years. He's on record as playing that relationship down to an unbelievable degree. And now records that would speak to it might just be disappeared?

Does that sound like change, ... like hope to you? This guy wants to walk into the White House by taking a short cut, perhaps walking across the water to get there, but Americans aren't entitled to know the reality of his not that distant past?

I don't think so. Not a bit. this issue has to be pushed and the mainstream media had better get on board. According to the searching I've done, the library had these records as far back as 2006. Now they may disappear? Outrageous.

See Michelle's post here for contact information. Let's keep the pressure on.

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/08/20/update-on-the-obamaayers-paper-caper/

Update on the Obama/Ayers paper caper
By Michelle Malkin • August 20, 2008 02:48 PM

Thanks to all of you who responded to my post on Stanley Kurtz’s call for help pressing the University of Illinois at Chicago to free the Obama/Ayers papers.

Kurtz has an update and is still quite worried about the endangered documents, so don’t let this one go:

I remain unsatisfied with mainstream media reporting on this issue, and continue to be extremely concerned for the safety and fate of the documents. We need more public pressure, and better reporting. I plan to say more down the road about Obama’s role at Annenberg, even without access to the records at UIC. I also plan to say more about the detailed finding aid now in my possession, and about the contents of the single file folder I was permitted to examine.
Here are those contact links again:

Email here.

Phone/Fax here.

Meantime Steve Diamond has compiled a must-read post, “Behind the Annenberg Gate” on his efforts to obtain key information about Obama/Ayers:

As Global Labor readers are now aware, the University of Illinois is blocking access to the records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, an Illinois non profit corporation, established in 1995.

However, several months ago I was able to obtain key records of the Challenge - including board minutes, annual and semi-annual reports and financial records - from Brown University’s Annenberg Institute, which housed the national Annenberg Challenge program that was set up in 1993 by a gift of $500 million from Walter Annenberg.

Below is an analysis of what I found in those documents. They evidence

-the leading role that Bill Ayers played in the Annenberg Challenge;
-the equally important role played by Barack Obama; and
-the intensely political nature of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.

posted by Fred Martinez @ 9:23 AM