• TIME magazine: “…in 1969, when Obama was eight years old.”
• New York Daily News:  “…set off bombs when Obama was eight years old…”
• AP’s Steven R. Hurst:  “He was eight years old when they occurred.”
• AP’s Jim Kuhnhenn:  “Obama was eight years old at the time…”
• AP’s Liz Sidoti: “Obama was eight years old when the Weather Underground…”
• AP: “Weather Underground members were blamed for several bombings when Obama was a child.”
• Reuters’s Mark Egan: “…when it was involved in a series of bombings in the 1960s, when Obama was eight years old.”
• Reuters’s Jason Szep: “the group was involved in bombings in the 1960s, when Obama was 8 years old.”

In February, The Washington Post reported, incorrectly, that “the Obama-Ayers link is a tenuous one.”  Jump to October 3.  The New York Times, in an article headlined “Obama and ‘60s Bomber: A Look Into Crossed Paths,” reported that “Their paths have crossed sporadically” since Obama met Ayers in 1995, and “…the two men do not appear to have been close.”  You’d think nothing had come out in the preceding eight months.

The Buffalo News takes the cake in attempting to downplay Ayers’s significance: “…Weather Underground founder William Ayers, who was a radical when Obama was 8 years old.”

Was a radical???

If the News would bother to visit Professor Ayers’s office, they’d find pictures of three radical left icons hanging on the door: Castro’s pet mass murderer, Che Guevara; cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal; and Black Muslim supremacist Malcolm X.  At least they would have found them a week ago, when a Chicago Tribune reporter briefly spoke with Ayers.  The politically savvy Ayers might have hidden the evidence by now, just as Obama supporters have scrubbed Web sites to hide Obama’s affiliation with the New Party, a collection of Marxists, socialists and radicals who worked in the 1990s, under the auspices of Democratic Socialists of America, to move the Democratic Party to the left.  Obama was a New Party candidate in 1996.

That was when he was 35 years old.