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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
West Philly firm represents thorn in Obama's side Bill Ayers

Evil Twin Booking, a West Philly-based talent agency, has been inundated with e-mails and phone calls related to its representation of former Weather Underground radical Bill Ayers. Gov. Sarah Palin has recently ramped up criticism of Sen. Barack Obama's ties to Ayers, who, along with his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, and other members of the radical group bombed various government buildings in the '70s. Obama and Ayers, now a University of Illinois professor, served on a nonprofit foundation's board together and Ayers once hosted a party for Obama. We're told that Evil Twin Booking/Lost Film Fest partners Scott Beibin and Liz Cole have received more than 1,000 e-mails and tons of calls in recent days with everything from interview requests to attack letters accusing the pair of aiding and abetting terrorists. Evil Twin books speaking engagements with Ayers, his wife and several other Weather Underground members and others including actor Ed Begley Jr., authors and filmmakers. Beibin and Cole declined comment yesterday.

Posted by Dan Gross @ 8:31 AM  Permalink | 48 comments
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Posted 08:47 AM, 10/08/2008
dan19148
Well at least he's no Rev. Wright can you imagine if Obama had a mentor/pastor like that for 20 years, crazy!
Posted 08:50 AM, 10/08/2008
G
If they are really terrorists, why aren't they arrested? This is crap. And I hope people don't fall for it again. Let's do background checks on every person you've ever dealt with in your life, and see if you're guilty by association. Ed Begley Jr., TERRORIST!!!! Come on, we have to be better than this.
Posted 08:55 AM, 10/08/2008
twpguy45
To call nitwit Palin's attacks mere "criticism" is ridiculous. She's using slander and hate-filled innuendo, and she will ultimately pay dearly in her own political career for being a mouthpiece for the hate-mongering morons running McCain's tired and desperate campaign. Palin’s new stump speech twists Obama’s ill-advised but fleeting and long-past association with William Ayers, founder of the Weather Underground and confessed, repentent bomber. By the time she’s done, she implies that Obama is RIGHT NOW a close friend of Ayers — and sympathetic to the violent overthrow of the government. Obama, she says, “sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.” This kind of hateful innuendo has resulted in some totally unacceptable responses from her audiences: A recent Washington Post report said at a rally in Florida this week a man yelled “kill him!” as Ms. Palin delivered that line and others shouted epithets at an African-American member of a TV crew. So, we've gone from "bomb bomb Iran" to "drill baby drill" to "kill him [Obama]," all with the open approval and encouragement of McCain and his bubbleheaded beauty queen running mate. Real class act, these slimebags.
Posted 08:56 AM, 10/08/2008
twpguy45
To call nitwit Palin's attacks mere "criticism" is ridiculous. She's using slander and hate-filled innuendo, and she will ultimately pay dearly in her own political career for being a mouthpiece for the hate-mongering morons running McCain's tired and desperate campaign. Palin’s new stump speech twists Obama’s ill-advised but fleeting and long-past association with William Ayers, founder of the Weather Underground and confessed, repentent bomber. By the time she’s done, she implies that Obama is RIGHT NOW a close friend of Ayers — and sympathetic to the violent overthrow of the government. Obama, she says, “sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.” This kind of hateful innuendo has resulted in some totally unacceptable responses from her audiences: A recent Washington Post report said at a rally in Florida this week a man yelled “kill him!” as Ms. Palin delivered that line and others shouted epithets at an African-American member of a TV crew. So, we've gone from "bomb bomb Iran" to "drill baby drill" to "kill him [Obama]," all with the open approval and encouragement of McCain and his bubbleheaded beauty queen running mate. Real class act, these slimebags.
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Posted 09:23 AM, 10/08/2008
america
twpguy...no mean-spirited attacks coming from the left, huh? Stop it. The crazy left and the crazy right are just too out-there to be trusted. Somewhere in the middle is where we all need to meet. Palin is NOT a 'slimebag', neither is Obama. Stop buying into this craziness. How can we ever ask for or even hope for world peace when we can't even get along here in the USA? God, I can't wait until this election is over.
Posted 09:29 AM, 10/08/2008
Citizen Rorshach
Will Bill Ayers be at GLounge this weekend?
Posted 09:40 AM, 10/08/2008
Paul B
I agree with america, but to correct one point, that Ayers is a "repentent bomber". he has never apologized. Never. He is as evil and despicable as right-wing nutjob Eric Rudolph, or the Unabomber. Anyone who carries out acts of violence like this should be locked up for a long time. That's why aging fugitive German Nazis from the WWII era still need to be hunted down, twpguy. Because violence is wrong. We forget history at our own peril.
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Posted 09:49 AM, 10/08/2008
remucho
More idiotic liberal drivel! If the "bomber" has been a friend of OBoma's .....obama might be a little susceptable to critism after all we can call respected people ,bimbo's Who propped up this"candidate" anyway....where did his money come from......not the non-working people of America!
Posted 10:20 AM, 10/08/2008
rbpeeple
What's the big deal? So the guy who bombed the Pentagon hosted Obama's coming out party in his own home! So what if they served on multiple boards together. BIG DEAL! As my mom says: you are the company you keep.
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Posted 11:43 AM, 10/08/2008
bpphilly
twpguy: You're not serious with the "fleeting relationship" comment, are you?? Try reading up on your boy...or you can keep listening to know-nothing a**holes like Keith Olbermann and Will Bunch.
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