Probably.

It's not just the media obsession that will make that happen.

I mean really, the mastery of taking a white guy and making other white people hate a black guy because the black guy knows a white guy?

And so much mental masturbation and repetition on the part of the press lacking three simple words...

"But so what?"

It's cowardice to end an article on the relationship with a dangling, dramatic mystery. If it's a news medium we're talking about. Very cheap of CNN to do this, for example.

CNN.

But the relationship between Obama and Ayers went deeper, ran longer and was more political than Obama -- and his surrogates -- have revealed, documents and interviews show.

Knowing they could ask themselves "But so what?" and come up dry. Or with nothing to say.

Ben Smith at Politico finds a very relevant link, but it's not sexy enough for him to put on the front page.

Also, it re-reports, Ayers was't involved in choosing Obama to chair the fund.

It's not sexy enough to headline as anything other than 'Yawning about Annenberg.' Yet the link reveals two rather significant stories...

"One fact of civic life in Chicago, say city residents, is the prominence of the Ayers family.

Thomas G. Ayers, the father of William and John Ayers, was the chief executive officer of the Commonwealth Edison Co., the region’s major electric utility. He died in 2007.

Mr. Obama had significant contact with Thomas Ayers toward the end of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, when they worked to establish the Chicago Public Education Fund. The fund received more than $2 million in startup money from the CAC."

So not only is there a bond between Obama and the Ayers family, but that family's prominence is part of why Obama would suggest William Ayers had matured. It doesn't sound like a family of significantly aggressive people.

“You can’t work in school reform in this community without coming across Bill Ayers. He’s been involved in every area of Chicago reform going back 20 years now,” said Michael Klonsky, who has known Mr. Ayers since their days in the leftist group Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960s. Mr. Klonsky later founded the Small Schools Workshop at the University of Illinois at Chicago with him.

“Senator Obama would have to be a magician to not have ran into, or met, or sat in a meeting with Bill Ayers,” Mr. Klonsky said.

As for the program? Republican money all over it..

“The Annenberg Challenge provides an unprecedented opportunity to concentrate the energy of this reform into an educational renaissance in the classroom.”

The proposal was backed by letters of support to the Annenberg Foundation from Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, a Republican, local education school deans, the superintendent of the Chicago public schools, and the heads of local foundations."

"Mr. Obama, then 33, was an associate at the law firm Davis, Miner, Barnhill and Galland and a member of the board of the Chicago-based Joyce Foundation. He also served, as Mr. Ayers later did with him, on the board of the Woods Fund of Chicago, which had financed the Developing Communities Project, a South Side community-organizing project that Mr. Obama ran from 1985 to 1988 before leaving to attend Harvard Law School.

He brought that organizing perspective with him to the new education project, telling the Chicago Tribune in a June 1995 article about the Chicago Annenberg Challenge: “If we’re really going to change things in this city, it’s going to start at the grassroots level and with our children.”"

So, not evil.

But so what?