You want to explain why the Anneberg Foundation, which was started with money from one of the most conservative men in the US would put Bill Ayres on the board of directors if it’s so obvious?
Do you bother to look beyond the McCain press releases? Doesn’t bother you the the Anneberg foundation let a terrorist on their board? why would Walter Annegerg (friend of Nixon and Reagan), who ran the foundation until he died in 2002 put a terrorist on his board? Maybe people, including Republican Millionaires didn’t know who the hell he was.
Walter H. Annenberg enjoyed a distinguished career as a publisher, broadcaster, diplomat, and philanthropist and served as Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s, Great Britain, from 1969 to 1974. Having sold all of his publishing and broadcast enterprises, Ambassador Walter H. Annenberg established the Annenberg Foundation in 1989 as the successor corporation to the Annenberg School at Radnor, Pennsylvania. The Foundation’s Board of Trustees is comprised of Annenberg family members.
Well ’52, any reason you can think of why a former US ambassador, appointed by Nixon, would pal around with terrorists? Does the john McCain press release have any answer to this? The foundation didn’t control the organization but they do audit the programs they fund.
I won’t rail on you supporting McCain, but if you want to get us all scared about how evil obama was, i would think you’d check out this one glaring problem with the story.
here is the page at the Annenberg Foundation addressing this bill ayers story
http://www.annenbergfoundation.org/news/news_show.htm?doc_id=702786
more from here: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/oct/10/radical-ayers-allegation/
The McCain campaign said the “radical education foundation” to which they were referring is the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a charity endowed by publishing magnate Walter Annenberg that funded public-school programs in Chicago from 1995 to 2001.
We’ll look at whether the foundation was radical. But first we have to grapple with whether Obama and Ayers ran it.
Obama served on the foundation’s volunteer board from its inception in 1995 through its dissolution in 2001, and was chair for the first four years. So an argument can be made that he ran it, though an executive director handled day-to-day operations.
Ayers, who received his doctorate in education from Columbia University in 1987 and is now a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was active in getting the foundation up and running. He and two other activists led the effort to secure the grant from Annenberg, and he worked without pay in the early months of 1995, prior to the board’s hiring of an executive director, to help the foundation get incorporated and formulate its bylaws, said Ken Rolling, who was the foundation’s only executive director. Ayers went on to become a member of the “collaborative,” an advisory group that advised the board of directors and the staff.
However, Ayers “was never on the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge,” and he “never made a decision programmatically or had a vote,” Rolling said.
“He (Ayers) was at board meetings — which, by the way, were open — as a guest,” Rolling said. “That is not anything near Bill Ayers and Barack Obama running the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.”