Sarah Palin's favorite punching bag, Bill Ayers, writes a book about his experiences before, during, and after the presidential election that made him a household name.

His name was first pushed into the public sphere during the George George Stephanopoulos moderated debate between Hillary and Obama in April 2008, but then it was picked up by Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin, and others to be used as a bludgeon against the future President of the United States.

Finally Professor Ayers will explain his take on what happened, why it happened, and what it all means.

Here is an excerpt, entitled "I was Sarah Palin's Roadkill" courtesy of Salon: 

“This is not a man who sees America as you see it and how I see America,” vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin cried out to the agitated crowd during a 2008 campaign rally, referring to then-Senator Barack Obama. “We see America as the greatest force for good in this world” and as a “beacon of light and hope for others who seek freedom and democracy.” This was how “real Americans” saw things, according to Palin. As for Obama, he’s “someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country!” 

There it was: the punch line that would resonate no matter what else was said or done— palling around. It had a special creepy ring to it, for sure. 

When Governor Palin—or, as our late friend Studs Terkel called her, “Joe McCarthy in drag”—uttered it that first time (and ever after) the crowd exploded: “Kill him! Kill him!” I couldn’t tell for sure whether it was me or Senator Obama who was the target of those chants— perhaps both. I’d been designated a public enemy before. I knew the territory pretty well and accepted the consequences with some equanimity, but now poor Barack Obama as well was forced to play Ibsen’s brilliant character, the embattled Dr. Thomas Stockmann, the “enemy of the people.” Stockmann was viciously taunted in the public square by a chorus of townspeople bent on delusion and self-deception: Kill the enemy of the people! 

There was no way to prepare for what was about to hit me, of course, and at the outset I could barely glimpse it on the far horizon of my imagination—the great speeding locomotive designed to derail Obama would run me and others down as just some unavoidable debris or collateral damage, the inevitable road kill. No one really knew its shape or its power yet, no one could guess at its velocity. I grasped a couple of small things right away, but my family understood a lot more, and they were in fact already gearing up.

There is quite a bit more and I think you would do well to read it. 

As somebody who weathered their own vicious attack from those forces that Sarah Palin put into motion, I feel I share a certain common experience with Bill Ayers, though of course HIS was a thousand times worse than anything I had to endure.

Still I find myself interested to learn more about the man whose name was considered so polarizing that it was brought up over and over again in attempts to derail Barack Obama's inevitable journey to the White House.

Besides let's face it, anybody who freaks Sarah Palin out this much, and scares the crap out of the Right Wing, is somebody worth paying attention to.

I warned you Noam. Now you have to suffer the indignity of being used to raise money for Sarah Palin.

Going from the world's top public intellectual to a pawn for Sarah Palin has to be the ultimate in humiliation.

As for Palin well the reason that she is so desperately pimping ANY mention of her name by celebrities, and pseudo celebrities, is to make up for the incredible loss in income that she suffered when she renegotiated her contract with Fox News.

Reports are that the one time darling of the Right Wing, and once popular pit bull for Fox News, had to crawl back to Roger Ailes with her tail between her stick thin legs and accept an offer that was only a quarter of what it had been receiving before.

This courtesy of TV Newser:

Megyn Kelly‘s new deal is estimated to be worth $6 million a year, twice what Hoda Kotb draws, and more than three times as much as ABC’s Josh Elliott. Ann Curry is still one of the highest-paid reporters at NBC, drawing $5 million a year, while Sarah Palin‘s new FNC contract is believed to be in the $250,000 range. 

From a cool one million a year to a paltry $250,000. Oh how the once mighty have fallen.

So is it any wonder that Palin is desperately trying to regain relevance? Even if that means connecting her name to liberal icons and, "shudder." celebrities?

And not to beat a dead horse, but once again I have to wonder if, like Ashton Kutcher, Chomsky can sue SarahPAC for using his image to fund raise without permission?

I mean not that he would get much if he did, but it's the principle of the thing. 

(H/T to Politicususa)

Geoffrey Dunn, author of "The Lies of Sarah Palin," points out that the lies have not stopped coming.

Courtesy of HuffPo:

Palin's latest deception on Fox News--and it's a doozy of grand proportions, executed with an assist from her resident Fox sycophant Greta Van Susteren--is that she was "banned" from bringing up both Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright by the "elitists" and the "brainiacs in the GOP machine" running John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign. 

That's a whopper. But of course Van Susteren and the rest of the mainstream media who have reported on Palin's comments let her assertion go by unchallenged. 

In fact--as was widely reported during the first week in October of 2008--Palin made vicious remarks about Obama and his relationship with Ayers at a campaign event in Engelwood, Colorado. There, she uttered one of the signature slogans of her ill-fated candidacy when she charged Obama with "pallin' around with terrorists" and asserted that Obama wasn't "a man who sees America like you and I see America." 

It was a demagogic allegation of the worst sort, one that created sound bites played widely by news stations across the country. And, as I learned during research for my book, The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power, the Ayers attack was in fact approved by McCain senior advisors trying to reverse Palin's descending trajectory with the American electorate in the aftermath of her disastrous and widely mocked interview with Katie Couric a few weeks earlier in the campaign. 

It was a media debacle so indelibly scorched into the American psyche that Palin has never recovered from it. Ever. Her popularity with the American electorate has been in a downward spiral ever since. 

Palin did rant during the campaign about Ayers and Obama. And she has continued to hurl venom and invective at Obama ever since, with a fervor that borders on the obsessive.

So she lies again. What a surprise.

And the interesting thing about this one is that neither John McCain nor his campaign staff is going to correct Palin about the Bill Ayers thing and take responsibility for sending her out with those talking points.

They were smart enough to realize how damaging they were, Palin is not. Even today.

In her weekend tirade on Fox, Palin asserted that McCain's advisors were "afraid that the media would eat us alive if we brought up these things." Afraid? She did bring them up--and the response, not only from the media, but from Americans across the country was universally condemnatory. It marked a critical juncture in the campaign. 

So while Palin goes around ranting that the McCain campaign "banned" her from talking about both he and Jeremiah Wright, they look reasonable, and she, well she looks crazy.