NEW YORK TIMES TAKES PREEMPTIVE ACTION TO PROTECT OBAMA

This article is issued in light of today's comments by Sarah Palin and the planned special to be run by Sean Hannity on Fox News. It was run on the front page no less.

Today the NYT carries a report by Scott Shane which purports to demonstrate that contrary to the work of unnamed bloggers (ahem), the Ayers/Obama contact was minimal.

This front page account represents the Times' acknowledgement that there has been some significant story that they've been sitting on, but the report so completely fiddles with the truth that it would made a first rate case study in a class on propaganda.

Both Steve Diamond and Tom Maguire bloggers who've been studying the relationship of the Democrat's presidential nominee and the unrepentant domestic terrorists weigh in.

Steve notes, among other things:

...the nation's leading paper of record is basing its story on Ayers role in Obama's selection on unnamed sources when the three named sources -- who were involved personally in the discussions about Obama's appointment -- do not confirm that Ayers was not involved. And as I told the Times there is written evidence that, in fact, Ayers was involved in the selection of Board members, and, in fact, that he would have had to have been involved given his formal role in applying for and winning the grant from the national Annenberg Challenge.

The Challenge Board was chaired by Barack Obama and Obama also served as President of the Challenge. (I will explore the role of Obama in those two executive positions in a later post here.) The Obama campaign and Obama himself have attempted to minimize the candidate's longstanding and close professional and political relationship with Ayers because of Ayers' authoritarian politics and past record of terrorist activities.

Tom adds evidence that Obama repeatedly falsely minimized his relationship with Obama, making us question why he did so and why the NYT somehow overlooked that in weighing the credibility of its sources for this piece.

I cannot imagine another race in American history where the media has done so much to hide from the voters a critical and damaging piece of information about one of the candidates: His apparent 13 year association with a man who worked to bomb domestic targets and kill his fellow citizens.

Read the rest of the story at American Thinker.