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Sarah Palin launched a broadside on Obama by accusing him of “palling around with terrorists” like William Ayers.  Now the Media is in full spin mode to protect Obama.

Here’s CNN’s spin:

Obama and Ayers, now a university professor, have met several times since 1995, when both orked with a non-profit group trying to raise funds for a school improvement project and a haritable foundation. CNN’s review of project records found nothing to suggest anything nappropriate in the volunteer projects in which the two men were involved. 

Of course, the problem with Obama’s connections to Ayers isn’t that they did anything inappropriate or illegal together.  The problem is that Ayers is an unrepentant bomb-setter, a far-left radical, and Obama the “change” and “new politics” candidate associated with him, worked for him, for years.  It wasn’t just a “met several times” situation.  Obama worked for Ayers, who founded the Annenberg Foundation.  Obama launched his first campaign for political office from Ayers’ home.

The problem with Rev. Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright was that Obama was attending his church and calling him his “spiritual mentor” and “sounding board” while the guy was damning America from the pulpit, blaming 9/11 on us instead of the terrorists and accusing the American government of manufacturing AIDS to kill off black men.  This is the same problem with Ayers.  While Ayers was telling people that he wasn’t sorry for setting bombs in the 1960’s to terrorize the American public, Obama was his friend and colleague.

That may not be a problem for liberal reporters, but for a lot of Americans that’s a big problem.  And it should be reported.

The Associated Press weighs in as well, calling Palin’s accusation against Obama a “smear.”

...Palin’s attack shows that her energetic debate with rival Joe Biden may be just the beginning, not the end, of a sharpened role in the battle to win the presidency.

“Our opponent ... is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country,” Palin told a group of donors in Englewood, Colo. A deliberate attempt to smear Obama, McCain’s ticket-mate echoed the line at three separate events Saturday.

Smear?  Since when is the truth a smear?  A smear is a lie made up to disparage the candidate.  A bit of inconvenient truth about a candidate’s past professional and personal relationships is just the truth regardless of its inconvenience for the candidate the media has clearly chosen.

Oh, and by the way, did you know that associating Obama with Ayers is racist?  This is form the same AP article:

Palin’s words avoid repulsing voters with overt racism. But is there another subtext for creating the false image of a black presidential nominee “palling around” with terrorists while assuring a predominantly white audience that he doesn’t see their America?

In a post-Sept. 11 America, terrorists are envisioned as dark-skinned radical Muslims, not the homegrown anarchists of Ayers’ day 40 years ago. With Obama a relative unknown when he began his campaign, the Internet hummed with false e-mails about ties to radical Islam of a foreign-born candidate.

Whether intended or not by the McCain campaign, portraying Obama as “not like us” is another potential appeal to racism. It suggests that the Hawaiian-born Christian is, at heart, un-American.

Of course, this all kind of falls apart when you consider that the terrorist Palin is associating Obama with is a white male.