By Jennifer Rubin

The MSM is puzzled: what did Barack Obama know about Bill Ayers and when did he know it? By hedging and perhaps downright lying — claiming that Ayers improbably held a political coming out party for Obama in his home in 1995 when Obama had little idea who Ayers was — the Obama camp has sent the media scurrying for answer. One answer is that, as in the Murder on the Orient Express, the “crime” (i.e. knowledge that Ayers was a Weather Underground terrorist) came much earlier than Obama has ever let on. Logically the two could well have known one another while Obama was at Columbia in the early 19080’s and Ayers really was a “guy in the neighborhood” attending Bank Street College.

But whatever the circumstances, the press clearly believes they are being played, that is lied to in ordinary language, and they are, in the delicate words of veteran Chicago Sun-Times reporter Lynn Sweet, “curious.” Perhaps Americans care little that a potential president thought nothing of taking a job from a former terrorist, reviewing his book, serving on two boards with him and accepting his political introduction. But they might care if they are being lied to and might wonder why, if this matters so little, a seemingly foolhardy lie about the timeline of their relationship was needed at this late date. And while they are mulling that over, they might wonder why he is now lying and covering up the extent of his relationship with the corrupt and fraud-ridden ACORN, another far left group which claimed his attention, services, and financial support in the 1990’s.

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