William Ayers in DC

William Ayers came to DC today to pimp his new book about race as only a pale white guy can pimp a book about race to a roomful of other pale white people. Some of my Free Republic friends were there to inform the public about William Ayers including This Ain’t Hell’s own Encyclopedia Raoul who ended up being the spokesman for the group. Here he is doing one of his countless interviews of the evening;

As many of you know, I’ve done a number of these events, but this one was different than any other in one respect – the media was actually interested in what the FReepers had to say. There were more reporters than protesters. Reporters that would have walked right by a year ago for a similar event without a word. The only thing I can figure is that now we’re opposing the President (-elect). A year ago we would have protesting in favor of the sitting President so there’s no story there, apparently.

When I covered the FReep outside of the National Press Club back in April when Jeremiah Wright spoke there, not one major news source talked to the FReepers. Tonight, there was Washington Post, Washington Times, AP, US News & World Report, the local Fox 5 channel and others whom I didn’t identify – Raoul can probably remember more. He was clearly the star tonight. But I guess now that we’re the opposition, our opinions count.

Some people actually wanted hear what the Free Republic folks had to say about Ayers, others would just jump from subject to subject. One old guy said Ayers actions in the Weather Underground were justified because of the number of Vietnamese we had killed.

Another woman jumped from Ayers, to 800,000 dead Iraqis (200,000 more died while we standing there talking), to yellow cake uranium, to outing Valerie Plame. Whenever her argument was dashed she’d jump to the next subject like she had a card file of platitudes.

The common refrain was that Ayers didn’t kill anyone – but that certainly wasn’t his intention at the time, nor is it particularly true.

For the IVAW watchers among you, Geoff Millard was in the crowd, I almost bumped into him as he was walking in. I wonder what an IVAW member would have to learn from an unrepentant terrorist?

Well, like all hippies, Ayers was late. The event was scheduled for 6:30, but he didn’t step up to the mike until just before 7:00. The event had originally been scheduled for a bookstore, but the venue was changed to a church several blocks away at the last minute to accommodate the crowd of about 100 mostly white, draft dodger types of the Vietnam era.

Ayers sneaked into the church because he didn’t pass us at the front door.

Ayers began his talk by complaining that he was a reluctant celebrity that probably wouldn’t have drawn 10 people to the signing 6 months prior. I could barely contain my tears while I left the church after listening to that self-serving drivel that works so well on Leftist apologists.

Well, anyway here’s a video from some of the highlights of the evening.

There are a few more photos at my Flickr photostream for the FReepers who asked.

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