Barrel Strength

Jaw-dropping evidence of the incredulousness of Obama, the Democrats and their MSM familiars when it comes to ferreting out their own “crazies” and undesirables:

Some people have been distorting my argument by pointing out that some people who were violent leftists in the 1960s and 1970s were friendly with politicians long, long, long after they re-entered the mainstream. I can’t stand Bill Ayers because I think he lies about his past (he claims all he cared about was ending the Vietnam War when actually the Weathermen were quite explicitly that they were working to foment a violent overthrow of the American government–read their manifestos). But he was a legitimate and law-abiding and non-violent member of the Chicago progressive community by the time Barack Obama met him. It was quite possible–as Obama claims is the case– not to know about his past [emphasis added].

So, unlike some scribbler with a non-Ivy League BA in history, a former editor of the Harvard Law Review and a politically ambitious community organizer was somehow incapable of the due diligence of conducting some basic research to discover that his putative mentor used to be a notorious urban terrorist?!

And they wonder why we just can’t take anything they say at face value.