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Fox News Falsely Claims That Weatherman Bill Ayers Was Obama's "Mentor"

[Fox News radio host John Batchelor has reported that] Bill Ayers, a former member of the Weather Underground who has been unrepentant about the bombs set by the group, [was Obama's mentor.] The germ of the story -- that Obama has some sort of relationship with him -- is true. But look at how creatively Batchelor embellishes the whole tale...

You see, in Fox's telling, now Ayers is Obama's "mentor" and he and fellow Weather Underground member Bernadine Dohrn were "principals" on his first campaign for state senate. Also note how Batchelor slyly slips in the reference to September 11th, an obvious effort to connect the bombing by Obama's "mentor" to the terrorism that brought down the towers....

This has been looked into pretty exhaustively, and what's been reported thus far is that Obama met with Ayers and Dohrn in 1995; Obama served with Ayers on the board of an anti-poverty group; Ayers donated $200 to Obama's 2001 state senate campaign; and the two men are " friendly."
Read entire article at The Horse's Mouth (blog)