Scott at Powerline points out Rusty Humphries' write up of the interview with me apparently takes Ayers' claims at face value. I would agree with Scott's point that Ayers is not to be trusted, which I made abundantly clear in my original post, and reflect on again here. I also read the Radosh piece and posted this yesterday:

More. Daily Beast takes Ayers word for it. It "sounds simple enough". Look--Ayers obviously wants this out there. Why? Who else is he talking to? And what more does he have to say? Mmm, mmm, mmm.

More. Ron Radosh, Pajamas Media:

Who knows? Bill Ayers is, as Paul Berman said in his blog the very first day of The Daily Beast, that Ayers is perhaps “the stupidest man in America.”

(It "sounds simple enough", yes, the Daily Beast loves the guy now.) Radosh goes on:

He is also one very big liar, as proved by Fugitive Days, a book filled with evasions, omissions and major distortions of the truth. As Leary put it, he is a liar. And those who trust a liar, do so at their own peril.

Our President Barack Obama worked with Bill Ayers for years. Years. Bill Ayers was his political godfather.

More. HotAir now Huffpo's favorite blog. But who really got punk'd by Ayers? I'd say it was our President Barack Obama--and Huffpo and their ilk.

And it occurs to me, regardless of who really authored Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama's The Audacity of Hope is conveniently ambiguous as well, employing composite characters. People portrayed in the book have disputed how they were characterized, including some on the South Side of Chicago, his adopted home:

As the 24-year-old mentor to public housing residents, Obama says he initiated and led efforts that thrust Altgeld's asbestos problem into the headlines, pushing city officials to call hearings and a reluctant housing authority to start a cleanup.

But others tell the story much differently.

They say Obama did not play the singular role in the asbestos episode that he portrays in the best-selling memoir, "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance." Credit for pushing officials to deal with the cancer-causing substance, according to interviews and news accounts from that period, also goes to a well-known, pre-existing group at Altgeld Gardens and to a local newspaper called the Chicago Reporter. Obama does not mention either one in his book.

"Just because someone writes it doesn't make it true," said Hazel Johnson, a longtime Altgeld resident who worked with Obama on the asbestos campaign, and who began pushing for a variety of environmental cleanups years before he arrived.

As they say, it's his movie. Barack Obama claims he was trying to be careful so as not to hurt people's feelings--ah, his editor says there's a "larger truth". A little loose with the truth too. So maybe Barack Obama really did write both books. Loose with the truth is his MO. (Meanwhile, a "news" organ fact-checks a comedy skit.)

Maybe that's why he and Bill Ayers were such good friends for so many years.

More. Howard Kurtz, Washington Post has fun, Dreams from a Blogger. He can't imagine a white guy writing the book.

Well, yeah, I wondered why he would tell this to a stranger as well. I would just add, I told Ayers I was from Chicago, so he probably figured I actually did know quite a lot about him. After all, I had the audacity to take his picture and talk to him. And I had just said I was a conservative blogger and would post his pix, and the brief conversation about where he was giving his Renaissance talk--just before he "admitted" he wrote the book. Given his notoriety he had to figure it would go viral, no matter how little or well-known a blogger.

Of course he wanted it to flare up in the righty blogosphere--which is why I was so wary, and laid it out so people could draw their own conclusions. But as we have seen, he also had peddled it a bit earlier to the moderate beltway insider National Journal, so they got similar lines, but no buzz. But of course the media wants to portray it as an issue for the right--that's the only way they pay attention to it--as you, Mr. Kurtz, are doing now. But let me ask you this, Mr. Kurtz-- Why is Bill Ayers bringing this up again? Deliberately. Perhaps you should question that. And our President Barack Obama.

One final note. You may think you can dismiss Ayers' past by suggesting that only Sean Hannity thinks Bill Ayers is an unrepentant domestic terrorist. But Bill Ayers himself has said he is guilty as hell, free as a bird, said he has no regrets--oh, I think it was in the NY Times. On Sept. 11th. Even during the campaign was defiantly unrepentant.

Perhaps that is why he is resurfacing now. Think about that.

Ayers is apparently suffering, perhaps deeply:

But there's a deeper point: since the Obama victory, many people seem to be suffering a kind of post-partum depression: unable to find any polls to obsess over, we read the tea-leaves and try to penetrate the president-elect's mind. What do his moves portend? What magic or disaster awaits us? With due respect, this is a matter of looking entirely in the wrong direction.

Obama is not a monarch -- Arne Duncan is not education czar -- and we are not his subjects.

(Post-partum?!) I guess Ayers is on Obama's do not let him near me list.

He made his mark during the anti-war days of rage back in the 60's and 70's.

Now Ayers has dragged Michelle into the whole book controversy. He's upped the ante.

Oh, and there is no statute of limitations on murder.

More. My friend from the Wilmette blog vouches for me personally. Many thanks.

More. Thanks Skye. And beautiful, beautiful photos.

More. On tonight, after the first break:

Tonight’s show “Politically Correct” with Hosts John and John on www.toginet.com 6:00 pm central time

More. Michael Bates, BatesLine.