Voight “Coming Home” To The Repugs Again

I watched TV a bit yesterday to find out what was going on with Gustav as it hit the Gulf Coast (luckily the levees from the Army Corps of Engineers seemed to hold around the Ninth Ward, though Baton Rouge was pummeled), and after CNN and The Beard went to a commercial break, I accidentally stumbled upon Fox Noise (the only way I would do so) and saw Neil Cavuto rhapsodizing on all of the alleged Democratic scandals with actor Jon Voight (don’t have a link).

Voight was claiming chiefly that, when the so-called “Annenberg papers” are released, it’s going to show that Dem presidential nominee Barack Obama was trying to make pipe bombs with former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayres, or something (I had an LA Times blog post on this which I subsequently lost - sorry - still trying to get back the link; here is an excerpt)…

(Chicago’s Annenberg) university has refused to release records related to (Obama’s) presidential nominee's past service for a nonprofit educational project that put him in contact with activist Ayers, a 1960s-era radical who helped found an organization advocating violence for political change.

Ayers is now an education professor at the school.

The university's Chicago campus maintains that the donor of the records that document the work of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge has not officially handed over ownership rights and, therefore, the school cannot open the documents to public inspection.

The story also notes that the university is “aggressively” trying to reach an agreement with the donor of the records, and according to Obama’s public statement, he wants to see this happen also so the records are released.

Of course, Voight was undeterred, you see, implying that these documents would prove some kind of a quid pro quo with Obama and Ayres, even though they’re sealed and Voight could not possibly have been privy to their knowledge (oh, and Tony Rezko also for good measure, as well as a certain African American preacher).

Now I should note again that I once dismissed allegations of marital infidelity by John Edwards out of hand, so I should definitely keep an open mind here also, though someone is going to having to show me the “smoking gun,” as it were. And fortunately, though Voight has the on-air gravitas of Jim Phelps, he has the political acumen of Joe Buck (pictured, and how hilarious is it that, in this Faux News backgrounder, “Midnight Cowboy” is omitted from his film credits?).

However, if it turns out that Voight is right (a shocking development, and I’ll tell you point blank that I think Obama is too smart to have done what Voight alleges), I’ll duly owe up to it here. However, if he is wrong, he should be forced adopt one of the children of his estranged daughter (and here is more Voight silliness).