Obama’s ghostwriter fesses up!
Bill Ayers jokes: "I ghost-wrote 'Dreams From My Father.'" Conservative bloggers: "We knew it!"
Topics: Barack Obama, War Room, Politics News
William Ayers speaks about his two books to an audience at the All Souls Church, Unitarian in Washington, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008.It’s the question tearing the nation apart: Who really wrote Barack Obama’s first book, “Dreams From My Father”? You see, only Obama-worshiping sheeple think that the president would have been capable of penning that memoir. No, it must have been someone else. Someone close to Obama — a guy in the neighborhood perhaps. Someone who also writes books. You see where this is going, don’t you? Bill Ayers wrote “Dreams From My Father.” There’s no other explanation.
This theory seems to spring up every few months, gain a minor following in the more credulous pockets of the right-wing blogosphere, and then die down a bit. Well, today it’s back once more, and with its strongest piece of “evidence” yet, the Ayers-as-ghostwriter camp has gained a whole pile of online attention, and they even got credence from people like the National Review’s Jonah Goldberg.
Here’s what happened: A conservative blogger by the name of Anne Leary ran into Ayers buying coffee in an airport. Recognizing him, she started talking to him in what seems to have been a rather unfriendly manner. Leary identified herself as a conservative blogger and took Ayers’ photo, presumably to prove the encounter happened, and shortly after, he dropped this bombshell:
Then, unprompted he said–I wrote Dreams From My Father. I said, oh, so you admit it. He said–Michelle asked me to. I looked at him. He seemed eager. He’s about my height, short. He went on to say–and if you can prove it, we can split the royalties. So I said, stop pulling my leg. Horrible thought. But he came again–I really wrote it, the wording was similar. I said I believe you probably heavily edited it. He said–I wrote it. I said–why would I believe you, you’re a liar.
He had no answer to that. Just looked at me. Then he turned and walked off, and said again his bit about my proving it and splitting the proceeds.
A few bloggers just didn’t have the willpower to resist bait that tantalizing. At Examiner.com, James Simpson speculated that the stress of mounting evidence of his crimes cracked Ayers’ otherwise steely communist discipline, causing him to spill the beans. Powerline’s Scott Johnson weighed the evidence and decided that Ayers was probably joking. Still, he noted, “I think it’s fair to say that Ayers is a good [ghostwriter] candidate.”
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