Ron Radosh » Is Bill Ayers Now Playing Conservatives? Why He Should Not be Taken Seriously
Ron Radosh
October 7th, 2009 11:48 am
Is Bill Ayers Now Playing Conservatives? Why He Should Not be Taken Seriously
In October 2008, Jack Cashill penned a much discussed blog, in which he suggested the possibility that Bill Ayers actually was the ghost writer for Barack Obama’s powerful memoir, Dreams From My Father. Later, he wrote yet another blog, reporting about many who sent him more material that they thought would corroborate his original suspicions about authorship of Obama’s first memoir.
Responding to Cashill’s work, I wrote my own blog about whether or not Bill Ayers wrote Dreams From My Father. I ended with some skeptical questions that must be addressed, particularly surrounding the assertion by author Christopher Andersen in his new book, Barack and Michelle: Portrait of a Marriage. Andersen gives no sources in his book for his assertions. Hence one cannot verify whom he spoke with, and whether or not the stories he tells about Ayers writing the book are true. Indeed, when queried a bit later by Howard Kurtz, Andersen backtracked and denied that in his book, he had said that Ayers wrote it. I reread the passages in the book, and contrary to what he said to Kurtz, that is indeed precisely what he wrote. His denial to Kurtz, however, certainly makes it appear that Andersen is a bit worried that he has been caught in somewhat of a lie.
Nevertheless, I thought that Jack Cashill’s case had to be considered. Others think Cashill’s arguments are rather weak. At Powerlineblog.com today, Scott Johnson calls Cashill’s arguments “speculative,” and his textual evidence rather “thin.” He notes, for example, that based on the kind of metaphoric threads he uses, both he and John Hinderaker could also qualify as Obama’s secret ghostwriters, if not for the fact that they did not live in Obama’s neighborhood when he was working on the book.
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Inquiring minds want to know.
Who wrote Obama’s book?
It has been the linchpin, of Obama’s political self-inflation.
Be nice to know who wrote it.
Don’t twist your nickers, just ask the people who know the facts.
Ask old terrorist bomber Bill Ayres. He is already on record as saying he wrote Obama’s book ‘Dreams’.
Ask Michael, who went out into the neighborhood to find someone to help Barock wrap up his book.
Ask Obama himself. Writers block or no he should actually know who wrote his book.
You might check that theme and literary device analysis. It seems to show Ayres is the author, but how good is it? Isn’t that all computerized now like DNA and the blue dress?
Ask the experts. The should be in English Departments all over the country, waiting for your call.
You know, if you are a journalist, you might do some journalist things like ask questions.
Inquiring minds want to know.