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Does the name “Annenberg” ring a bell, Gov. P? It sure does with Bill Ayers

October 7th, 2008 @ 4:06 pm - by lotus · No Comments

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Thanks to a commenter at FiveThirtyEight for this fine catch from NPR (emphasis mine):

… Walter Annenberg, a lifelong Republican and former ambassador who was appointed by Presidents Nixon and Reagan, funded an ambitious program to reform urban education in many cities in the mid 1990s. Ayers was an important member of the group that developed and wrote the grant proposal to the Annenberg Foundation.

Obama and Ayers attended at least six meetings together over six years, Annenberg Challenge records show, and those knowledgeable of the school reform group say it is likely there were other informal sessions of the group that they both attended. But no one on the board or on the Annenberg Challenge staff remembers Obama being any closer to Ayers than to any other member of the board. The Annenberg board also included several civic, business and education leaders, many of them Republicans. …

Yer busted, Sarah.

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