Confirmed: Bill Ayers did have a fundraiser for candidate Barack Obama and Robert Gibbs lied about it...

Bill Ayers has confirmed the 1995 living room fundraiser for State Senate candidate Barack Obama in  this Daily Beast interview.

There was a big hullabaloo during the 2008 presidential election over your relationship to Obama. What is or was your relationship to him?

I brief him every Monday in the White House, and he never listens! No. The truth is exactly what he said and what the campaign said in 2008. David Axelrod said we were friendly, that was true; we served on a couple of boards together, that was true; he held a fundraiser in our living room, that was true; Michelle [Obama] and Bernardine were at the law firm together, that was true. Hyde Park in Chicago is a tiny neighborhood, so when he said I was “a guy around the neighborhood,” that was true. Today, I wish I knew him better and he was listening to me. Obama’s not a radical. I wish he were, but he’s not.

 Here is the 2008 interview where Robert Gibb lies to MSNBC host Chris Matthews and the American people.