Terrorist Bill Ayers misrepresents his past.(Inside Track)

During the 2008 presidential campaign, former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers kept a low profile and attempted to play down any connections between himself and candidate Barack Obama. On election day, however, Ayers began a series of media events aimed at recasting himself as an elder statesman of the "progressive" community and the victim of a right-wing "de monizing" campaign. He is capitalizing on the recent interest in his radical past to promote the current re-release of his 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days.

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On November 14, Ayers scored his biggest media coup so far, an appearance on ABC's Good Morning America. In a pleasant surprise, his interviewer, Chris Cuomo, didn't let him off scotfree; Cuomo made him squirm a number of times about his continuing refusal to repudiate his earlier violence and suggested he was being "evasive" about his ties to Obama. (During the campaign, both the Obama and Ayers camps repeated the line that Ayers was just a "guy in the neighborhood." In his newly reissued book, Ayers refers to Obama as a "neighbor and family friend.")

However, Cuomo allowed Ayers to get away with the egregious lie that he and the Weather Underground had "never hurt or killed anyone" and had only targeted property for their bombings. A San Francisco police sergeant was murdered and other officers were injured by a bomb ...