let's face it, if bill ayers was a neighborhood electrician and president obama needed his house rewired, he would have called bill ayerss. obama needs his book rewired, he calls bill ayers. >> you're in my world, i'm an electrical engineer. now i understand. [laughter] [applause] >> yeah, i thought i'd bring it@ home to you. i spent five years at purr dew. -- purdue. yes, sir. >> did bill ayers comment or say anything -- did you ask him? >> yes, i e-mailed him a couple of times without response. here's what he did, though, when christopher anderson's book came out in 2009, on two occasions -- unprompted -- he told people that he did write dreams for my father. however, he did it with a wink in his eye. and the mainstream media interpret that to be he was just teasing the writer. i think he was, yes, it was -- i thought it was a double tease. i think he was telling the truth and subverting it by making believe he's not telling the truth. i think the ultimate message went to the white house saying, be good. i got your number. because he's got a lot of power at this point. thanks a lot. go

the first one is from bill ayers's book fugitive days.the confrontation flows like a swollen river into the future carrying me along and a cascading waters from room to room from whole to call bouncing off of boulders. here's one from barack obama's dreams from my father. i heard our voices began to come together the sound of the generation stumbling over each other like a slow-moving stream. my questions like rocks in the water, the bricks and memory separating the courage. not only the imagery the same, the flowing water broken by the boulders would also with each sentence begins with a standard phrase and a list by a series of participles embroiling, separating, carrying, bouncing in the other. i'm reading this and said there is something going on here, right? and when i finished reading through the book, when i finished reading fugitive days by that time i realized he had written his own book and the good voice comes and goes and in the book the voice is consistent from beginning to end then i went on line and found this other stuff a

barack obama needed his house rewired he would have called bill ayers. obama needs his book rewired he calls bill ayers. >> i'm electrical engineer and now i understand. [laughter] [applause]@ >> i thought it would bring him to you. i spent five years at purdue and i talk like an engine in person. yes, sir. >> did they say anything about -- in "dreams from my father"'s? >> i e-mailed him a couple of times without response. here's what he did though. when christopher anderson's book came out in november 2009 on 2 occasions unprompted he told people that he did write "dreams from my father," however he did it with a wink in his eye, and the mainstream media interpret that to mean that he was just teasing the right. i think he was, yes i think he was telling the truth, and subverting it by making believe he is not telling the truth. think the of ultimate message went to the white house saying be good. i have got your number. says it has got a lot of power this point. thanks a lot. good question and thank you all for coming. appreciate it. [applause] we will

it's fascinating to me to see bill ayers in the news every day, so i think the 60s still loom large in the politics. >> i was wondering if there were any papers now that you are, you know, think sort of live up to, you know, the underground ideal. i know i have friends in berkley working on slingshot and independent presses, and i think there's a lot of different papers of political stances that maybe people within the group read it. >> right. >> i'm curious on your thoughts on the current press. >> yeah, there's more diversity now with the internet. cliche says everybody with the laptop an a connection has their own press in a sense. it's easy for people to put across, you know, dissenting view points nowadays. you know, ironically, as, you know, i'm critical of the "new york times" in the 60s tended to put across mainstream or establishment values and sort of failed to acknowledge their own bias, their own mainstream bias. i still think there's a place for, you know, professionally staffed daily newspapers today, perhaps today more than ever. a paper like the "new york times" has a p

cashill argues obama was assisted in the writing of his 1995 memoir by bill ayers and contends the president pfister is different than the one presented in his biography. this program is just over an hour. >> and i want to start by telling you, some of you may not believe this, but this whole journey started so innocently. in july 2008, a correspondent sent me a list of excerpts from the acclaimed 1995 memoir of iraq obama called "dreams from my father." i have not read it from that point. i have not been paying that much attention to the campaign. i found myself stuck in the detroit airport awaiting and with very little of do as i can obama rama. there was "dreams from my father." there were obama coloring books, obama coffee table books. it was like the obama story. and so i thought it a copy -- took the copy of terms for my father and i can add a lesson. the national review and commentary, but anyhow, as i started reading the book, first of all, i discovered that the excerpts and questions are taken out of context. the book is not as radical as it sounds at all. as i would learn later on

in the 2008 election, you know, it was fascinating to me to see bill ayers in the news every day. so i think, i think the '60s still looms large in our politics. >> i was wondering if there were any papers now that you are, you know, think sort of live up to, you know, the underground isle. i have friends at berkeley that are working on slingshot. i think a lot of different papers of political stances that maybe people within that group read it -- >> right. >> so i'm just curious on your thoughts about the current press. >> i mean, there's a lot more diversity now with the internet. the old cliche that everyone with a laptop and an internet connection has their own paper. ironically, you know, even though i'm very critical of the way "the new york times" in the '60s tended to, you know, put across kind of mainstream establish withment values and sort of failed to acknowledge their own bias, their mainstream bias, i still think there's a place for, you know, daily -- professionally-staffed daily newspapers today, you know, maybe even more than ever. so, you know, a paper like "the

minimizing his relationship to the former weather terrorist -- former member of the weatherman, bill ayers. david axlerod said he was somebody he knew from the neighborhood. in fact they had a relationship over ten years in several different venues and a couple foundations. they were closer. i would like to switch now to immigration and just look at just how much immigration has been seen as a fait accompli. there's -- nathan in the new republican in 1993 says when you look at mass immigration, we have been reverted to a policy of mass immigration without making a does do that. i wrote a piece about the reform acts which lifted the quotas at the time of the democratic party, which backed it, and "times," said it would not swell the roles of immigrants with -- wouldn't change the demographic character of the country, nor would there by millions of people lining up. in fact both have happened. whether the demographic change is good or bad makes no difference to me. what is important is that this was a huge pivot, a pivotal period, a pivotal moment in immigration history and the "times" was c

eastern, jack cashill argues that barack obama was assisted in the writing of his 1995 memoir by bill ayers and contends that the president's life story is different than the one presented in his biography. ..