In an Oct. 4 WorldNetDaily article, Aaron Klein tries to spin away a New York Times article that contradicts accusations by Klein and other Obama-haters of close, intimate ties between Barack Obama and William Ayers. Klein asserted that the Times “key documentation showing Ayers was directly involved in the formation of the board of an education organization on which Obama served as chairman.”
In fact, the documentation in question proved nothing.
Klein cited “Steve Diamond, a political science and law professor and a blogger who has posted on Obama” — Klein buddy and fellow Obama-hater John Batchelor has accused Diamond of dealing with him in a dishonest manner over a baseless allegation made by Diamond that Ayers is heading an Obama “plumbers” operation — as claiming that a letter signed by Ayers and another person proves that “Ayers, who conceived and led the organization, submission and implementation of the [Chicago Annenberg Challenge] grant application, was viewed as responsible for composing the board on which Obama served.” But the document in question does not mention Obama; it states only guidelines for the CAC board that states that “We are working … on issues of management and governance to ensure that Chicago’s Annenberg Challenge initiative is successful.” It’s circumstantial at best, despite Klein’s and Diamond’s assertion that it “proves Ayers was directly involved in forming the board and leadership of the CAC.”
Klein goes on to assert that “Many argue it would have been unusual for Ayers not to have been involved in the selection of the chairman of the group he himself founded,” but he doesn’t name any of these “many” who “argue” this, or offer evidence that any of them are not Obama-haters like Klein himself.