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Washington Whispers by Paul Bedard

Bill Ayers Went Underground During the Election

November 22, 2008 12:36 PM ET | Paul Bedard, Nikki Schwab | Permanent Link | Print

By Nikki Schwab, Washington Whispers.

He's the "terrorist" that Barack Obama was pals with, but Bill Ayers missed most of his headline role at the end of the presidential election. "I don't watch TV," says Ayers, a cofounder of the radical Weather Underground. "So, I only got the feeds when my three grown-up, very politically obsessed children would send me the occasional thing and then I would get the gist, I would get it. Or, I would see myself on Colbert and I would get that."

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