WLS has a nice post about how the New York Times came to write such a Obama-friendly piece regarding The One's tenure at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. It all comes out in the e-mails. Here's the e-mail:
Anne and Warren:
I gave your contact info to Sam Dillon, Education Reporter for the NYTimes who is doing a story on McCain vs. Obama’s education platform (McCain has a one-pager; Obama has a 17 page, 10-point platform). Dillon was sent to me from the Obama campaign to discuss Barack’s role in the Annenberg Challenge. – I have spent at least 4 hours in interviews with Sam Dillon who is trying to understand everything he can about the Challenge to see where Barack’s experience with it influenced his education reform views or where Barack had influence on education policy and/or practice during those years. Sam is pretty thorough in his questions and one question or response leads to many other things he is interested in learning about the Challenge. – The Challenge is just one phase of Barack’s ‘education interests’ that Dillon is exploring. He’s also trying to learn about Barack’s community organizing days and how education reform was part of them.
Sam would like to talk with either or both of your to understand how the “ad hoc group” you two and Bill Ayers lead [sic], aarived [sic] at the structure of the founding board and the Collaborative. He is trying to understand how Barack got “picked” for the CAC board, by whom, why, etc. – I have avoided that question head-on though I believe Barack was Debbie Leff’s/Joyce nomination.
I think the article will be friendly and is truly looking to see the influences on or by Barack re: education/school reform in Chicago, ete. [sic]
Let me know if you talk to Dillon? All the best.
Ken
Emphasis WLS's.
For the record, William Ayers, whose relationship with Obama was suspiciously buried in the NYT story, believes in teaching social justice, which essential teaches our kids that America is an evil society because there has been discrimination in the past. As WLS put it:
”Social Justice” is nothing more than a value system that believes in the inherent racist and imperialist nature of the United States from the time of its founding as a nation where slavery was legal, right up to today. Ayers is a self-professed little-”c” communist, who only disassociates himself from the failed Soviet state, and not the political theory behind communism itself. Basically, he wants to begin indoctrinating grade schoolers in his extreme left-wing ideology, so they will all grow up believing capitalism is evil — which makes turning them into communists in college that much easier.
As the conversation with my son that I reproduced in the previous post indicates, this indoctrination is well underway. Teachers don't have to come out and tell their students that America is evil and unfair. If they spend enough time emphasizing the "history-making" nature of the current election--without pointing out all the things about it that are making history--then they convince our kids that we don't allow brown people to be president...because we're racists.
This sort of history spends little time teaching children what makes America both unique and great. It teaches children the Preamble to the Constitution, for instance, without giving them any perspective whatsoever as to why the American experiment was so ground-breaking and why it continues to be the destination of choice for the world's down-trodden.
But I digress. The point here, of course, is that the Left has sneered at the McCain campaign for pointing out the unhidden bias in reporting during this election cycle, yet here we have an e-mail that explains "the article will be friendly" and that the "Obama campaign recommended him."
Reporters should be ashamed at the patsies for the Left they have become. When the history of this election cycle is written, they will not come out as heroes.
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