On Saturday, William “I don’t regret setting bombs” Ayers took to the op-ed page of in the New York Times to inform the world that the Weather Underground wasn’t a terrorist organization:
Remember when the Times spiked John McCain’s op-ed on Iraq because it didn’t “mirror” Obama’s op-ed and include the Republican’s take on “timetables“? Would it have killed Ayers’s editor to ask the former “extreme vandalizer of racist national symbols” to explain why, precisely, the Weather Underground’s murdering police officers and plotting to murder hundreds of soldiers and their dates didn’t qualify as terrorism? I suppose Ayers would answer that the U.S. troops had it coming because they were the real terrorists, as he wrote earlier this year. At least one person at the Times would definitely understand why Ayers preferred that U.S. troops were killed instead of North Vietnamese soldiers, but that doesn’t explain why Ayers was allowed to white-wash history.
