I’m putting this one up quickly, and have to run back to the hospital this morning, but it looks like Bill Ayers may indeed have ghost written portions of Obama’s book,
Anne Leary is a conservative blogger found at http://backyardconservative.blogspot.com/. She claims to have recently met Bill Ayers at the Reagan National Airport. She approached him and out of the blue, he claimed to have written Barack Obama’s bestseller Dreams from My Father. Was he joking? Serious?
I wanted to have Anne Leary on my radio show right away to see if she was reliable and to see what Ayers may have been trying to tell her. I have been actively tracking Jack Cashill’s investigation into the possibility Bill Ayers was Obama’s ghostwriter for Dreams. I was very skeptical of the story at first but Jack’s research and Christopher Andersen’s favorable book on the First Couple both supported that Ayers did, in fact, play a significant role in Obama’s book (which President Obama claims he wrote with no help).
You can read Jack Cashill’s comprehensive investigations:
The Improvised Odyssey of Barack Obama
Who Wrote Dreams and Why It Matter
Literary Lion Obama Will Roar No More
When I saw Anne’s blog, it was important to verify her story and make an assessment of her report. My exclusive interview with her convinced me the conversation with Ayers was real, she reported it accurately and we have a blockbuster story on our hands.
Ayers didn’t just help with the book, it appears he took entire sections of his own past and transformed them into Obama life stories. Why is this important? If Barack Obama lied about writing Dreams, and if in fact an unrepentant terrorist and self-described communist did indeed write the book, then all claims by Barack Obama from the beginning must now be reexamined. Also, the left is already attacking the ghostwriter for Sarah Palin’s new book as a “racist.” Really? You want to compare ghostwriters? This is like Timothy McVeigh ghostwriting John McCain’s book.
Cashill’s research, Andersen’s book and Ayers statement have created an awkward moment for the media. Do they do their job or continue to deny their readers/viewers/listeners the truth? The President’s credibility is on the line. It demands our attention.
Oh, don’t worry about the media, I’m sure they will continue to do their job of spinning the news to make it look favourable for Obama, and burying any news that can’t be spun. And they’ll continue to do an admirable job of it.
Click on the link to listen to Humphries’ interview with Anne Leary about her airport experience with Ayers (interview link at bottom).
If this really, truly turns out to be on the level, it wouldn’t surprise me a bit. Even back when he was just Candidate Obama, I always got the strong sense from watching him speak, especially in interviews where he had to respond off the cuff, that Obama simply was neither intelligent nor genuine enough to credibly write an autobiography of his own that wouldn’t come off sounding like it was written by a narcissistic 10-year old.
Well, the narcissistic part fits, I guess. How else do you describe the fact of a 40-something guy with basically no important accomplishments or life experiences at all, having an autobiography? The guy’s still wet behind the ears, and it shows painfully.
