Tribune Covers For Obama's Terrorist Friends
By Cliff Kincaid
May 8, 2008
The Chicago Tribune, which once employed Barack Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod, is refusing to publish the truth about a Weather Underground terrorist bombing that killed a policeman. The paper apparently does not want to tarnish the image of Obama friends Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who were allegedly part of or had direct knowledge of the bombing plot that also injured several other police officers. The Tribune considers Ayers an education expert and has published various articles by him.
Please help Accuracy in Media expose the Tribune's cover-up.
I sent a copy of the following email message to Tribune reporter Liam Ford on April 27. He was the co-author of an article that consisted of a series of questions and answers about Ayers, the communist terrorist who became a friend of Obama's and helped launch Obama's political career. My message said:
"Liam Ford and Mark Jacob:
"You state in your 'Questions and Answers About Bill Ayers,' April 24, page 4, that 'The only people known to be killed or hurt by Weather Underground bombs were bombers themselves.'
"We ask for a correction of this false statement.
"The FBI report on the Weather Underground states, under the title of 'WUO Bombings and Attempted Bombings,' that on February 16, 1970, 'A bomb detonated at the Golden Gate Park Branch of the San Francisco Police Department killing one officer and injuring a number of other policemen.'
"The Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation authored a 1979 pamphlet on the WUO that reported, 'On October 18, 1974, Larry Grathwohl, a former member of the WUO, testified before a US Senate Subcommittee that Bill Ayers, a WUO leader, had told him that Bernardine Dohrn, another WUO leader, had to plan, develop and carry out the bombing of the police station in San Francisco. Ayers told Grathwohl the bomb was placed on the window ledge and he described the bomb that was used to the extent of saying what kind of shrapnel was used in it.'
"Please tell us when and how you intend to correct the record so that we can inform our readers and members.
"Cliff Kincaid, editor, Accuracy in Media."
Reporter Ford told me that he would look into the matter but later said that he didn't think the material I provided to him would be considered important enough. This struck me as strange. The paper was taking the word of the terrorists themselves that their bombings had never killed anybody else. The WUO had not publicly claimed responsibility for the bombing of the police station in San Francisco.
So the standard seems to be that if the terrorists themselves take "credit" for a bombing, it will be assigned to them. But if they refuse to publicly take credit, because they don't want to be implicated in a murder, they will be absolved of responsibility, no matter what the evidence shows. This is partisan political journalism designed to benefit Obama.
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