Did William Ayers ghostwrite “Dreams From My Father”? Or, how does a poet who writes about nonsensical ‘fig-crunching apes’ become a literary giant?
Jack Cashill, author and publisher, has written an exposé that offers Barack Obama as a fraud. Or at least as a dishonest sneaker who needs to come clean.
Who Wrote Dreams From My Father?
It’s a long piece, carefully written, with a wealth of clues that, together, builds the case that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, a poor-to-average writer, had to have some heroic help writing his seminal book that established him as an ‘intellectual’ amongst the hungry-for-an-identity-politics-hero left-winger intelligentsia.
Jack Cashill…
“In my career in advertising and publishing, I have reviewed the portfolios of a thousand professional writers, all of them crowded with writing samples, but only a handful of these writers would have been capable of having a written a book as stylish as Dreams. I have also written a book on intellectual fraud, Hoodwinked, and examined any number of bogus biographies that excited the literary left to the point of complicity, Edward Said’s and Rigoberta Menchu’s prominent among them, Menchu winning a Nobel Prize for hers. Obama’s ascent seems to follow a century-old pattern.”
A pattern that’s all-too familiar to those who are not blinded by that radiant hero-shineO!la that obscures the truth.
Here’s Obama’s ‘poem’ (mind you, this is serious stuff, so act accordingly!)
Under water grottos, caverns
Filled with apes
That eat figs.
Stepping on the figs
That the apes
Eat, they crunch.
The apes howl, bare
Their fangs, dance . . .
Ummm…yeah. Seems a bit racist!, to me. But hardly writing of a literary ‘talent’.
Jack Cashill…
“I bought Bill Ayers’ 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days, for reasons unrelated to this project. As I discovered, he writes surprisingly well and very much like “Obama.” In fact, my first thought was that the two may have shared the same ghostwriter. Unlike Dreams, however, where the high style is intermittent, Fugitive Days is infused with the authorial voice in every sentence. What is more, when Ayers speaks, even off the cuff, he uses a cadence and vocabulary consistent with his memoir. One does not hear any of Dreams in Obama’s casual speech.
“Obama’s memoir was published in June 1995. Earlier that year, Ayers helped Obama, then a junior lawyer at a minor law firm, get appointed chairman of the multi-million dollar Chicago Annenberg Challenge grant. In the fall of that same year, 1995, Ayers and his wife, Weatherwoman Bernardine Dohrn, helped blaze Obama’s path to political power with a fundraiser in their Chicago home.
“In short, Ayers had the means, the motive, the time, the place and the literary ability to jumpstart Obama’s career. And, as Ayers had to know, a lovely memoir under Obama’s belt made for a much better resume than an unfulfilled contract over his head.”
You can read the lengthy essay and the proofs offered at the American Thinker.
Do you good to spend some time thinking about something other than the economy. Really.
Oh, who is Jack Cashill?
Jack Cashill is the author, among other books, of Hoodwinked: How Intellectual Hucksters Hijacked American Culture. He has a Ph.D. in American studies from Purdue University.
crossed from home
This is so patently absurd and stupid, I can’t imagine the type of person that would even begin to believe this unadulterated bullshit.
Specimen… from the article:
Perhaps this would be true of a man who finished in the bottom 1% of his class … but to suggest a former Magna Cum Laude - President of Harvard Law Review as “someone with no paper trail and an unschooled amateaur” is the precise definition we have all come to know - ’swiftboating’ - smear… stuff only someone who is truly ignorant, illogical, and who revels in ideological masturbation could enjoy. Have fun.
Hmmm…our own intellectual ‘guitar hero’, back with some nice strawmen and little else.
With his head still firmly implanted in his own ass.
Why not try to refute some of the offered evidence, rather than swirl and twirl and leave in a snippy fit?
Well, we’ve learned not to expect anything more.
Carry on, guitar hero!
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Editor of the Harvard Law Review used to be based on merit. The rules were changed because — come on you can guess this one — not enough minority students had held the position. TA-DA!! The fact that you could edit the law review and not have MULTIPLE articles in it is amazing. So is being a law professor for years and not publishing anything. Now combine that with a book that is judged “the finest political memoir ever” and something smells fishy. Either way, Dreams is the most racist book I have read since the diatribes of the sixties. Actually, more so than them since many of the authors of books such as Soul on Ice etc had actually experienced racism coming up, not a priviliged wealthy youth in a private prep school.
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Barack Obama wasn’t actually a law professor–he was a lecturer–big difference! My husband and I were lecturers in English at the college level–lecturers are just one step above graduate assistants.