Posted on 10/07/2009 9:33:54 AM PDT by faq
It sounds like Ayers is jerking some chains. From National Journal (no link):
Inside WashingtonSaturday, Oct. 3, 2009
Who actually wrote Dreams From My Father? The book cover says Barack Obama, but one corner of the right-wing blogosphere thinks Obama had a ghostwriter—and that it was Bill Ayers, onetime Weatherman, current academic, perpetual radical. National Journal caught up with Ayers at a recent book festival where he was exhorting a small crowd of listeners to remember that they are citizens, not subjects. "Open your eyes," he said. "Pay attention. Be astonished. Act, and doubt." When he finished speaking, we put the authorship question right to him. For a split second, Ayers was nonplussed. Then an Abbie Hoffmanish, steal-this-book-sort-of-smile lit up his face. He gently took National Journal by the arm. "Here's what I'm going to say. This is my quote. Be sure to write it down: 'Yes, I wrote Dreams From My Father. I ghostwrote the whole thing. I met with the president three or four times, and then I wrote the entire book.'" He released National Journal's arm, and beamed in Marxist triumph. "And now I would like the royalties." —Will Englund
Ayers is playing a game.
Don’t fall for it, just let it sit out there.
It wouldn’t matter in the least, either, to 0bama’s supporters.
But a little perplexing.
The question interested people should really ask themselves is: Did Obama ever write anything comparable to “Dreams” before that book was published? And has he written anything comparable to it since?
Obama can’t even ad lib a decent interview. He is a wooden writer as well as a wooden speaker. There is no doubt in my mind that he has used ghost writers, be they named Ayers, Fourneau, or something else.
That should have been Favreau, not Fourneau
I think he wants it to be asked of Obama. Wonder what his motivation is?
Ayers doesn't get to play the wise old professor who gives wise old speeches for nice chunks of change, at least not quite like he used to. His face is recognized more often in public now and people let him know he's despised.
Admitting to writing O's book would put a big dent in the narcissist's narrative.
Jack Cashill wrote a ton about this http://www.cashill.com/
This is a typical lefty move. Bill Clinton did it a lot. Admit to doing
something you really did, but do it in kind of a mocking way
to dispel the myth that you really did do it. Uh, if that makes
sense.
Yeah, he’s jerking chains, for sure, but in exactly what way, that’s the question.
If he did not ghostwrite it or do major editing and he said this, sure, he can come out and deny it and say that Barack Obama wrote the whole thing. The media sycophants would then laugh at the gullible Wingnuts. True. But they already are doing that to those who have taken Cashill and now the book on the Obama’s marriage seriously. And for it to really harm the “wingnuts” (that’s us) seriously, it would have to get significant Mainstream media play.
What’s in that for him? Sure, he could make us look like fools in the mainstream media but at the cost of ending the media blackout on this story. The only motive I can see for that is that he’s turned on Zero and wants to damage him and have some fun with us along the way.
But that he’s really turned on Zero????? I find that hard to swallow.
Besides, the textual evidence for his major editing if not ghostwriting is pretty strong. So if he engineers an end to the media blackout while denying that he had a major role and saying, “I just did that to trifle with those wingnut bloggers,” others are going to do some serious investigation and conclude that he’s lying now and was telling the truth in Reagan National Airport and at the book event.
That leaves the possibility that he did indeed ghostwrite the whole thing. I could easily envision a motive here: get credit for his ghostwriting skills while not harming Obama. I think he thinks (and he’s probably right) that enough time has now passed that the mainstream media will ignore his confession. The truth was going to come out eventually anyway—the issue was, how big a splash would it make.
So, he owns up now, puts an end to the secretiveness about it, the media and Obamabots and most of the people in the middle yawn and life goes on. The “wingnuts” feel vindicated but so what? It doesn’t harm him or Obama.
It might have made a difference during the campaign but now, even with Obama’s falling popularity, I don’t think it will really be picked up by the media or if it does, in a piecemeal way.
I think he knows he can rely on the sycophantic press to cover for him and that it’s safe now to come clean and that we rightwingers will only be more frustrated as we see ourselves vindicated yet
no
one
gives
a
darn
about it.
He’s setting things up so that even vindication turns sour on us.
To boil this down—the only way this makes a splash in the mainstream press is if he denies what he admitted on Monday. That would get attention because it would be a chance to discredit Cashill and us and the media won’t bother with the countervailing evidence from Cashill—they’d gleefully report Ayers’s denial of his Oct. 6 confession.
If he does not deny it but lets it float out there, it will make no media splash; we get our vindication but the world yawns, doesn’t even know what happened.
And we squirm and curse in our frustration.
In fact, think about it, Bill Ayers is probably pretty nearly top of the list on the 400,000 "people to watch" that the Secret Service monitors or "lists". He is one of the people they don't let near any President!
I am TOTALLY NOT INTERESTED in Zero’s book Dreams From My Father and could be a rats-behind who wrote it ... if I get a copy I’ll burn it to keep warm this winter since global warming is so over.
I think his ego wants him to go down in history for it and he correctly surmises it’s safe to play with the media on it now.
One byproduct, however, is that the media won’t be able to lean so hard on how Palin didn’t really write her book, in case it turns out to be well done.
So where is Ayers coming from - is he boasting about what he really did or intentionally lying? What would be be the motivation in either case?
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What AYERS won’t ever confess to:
AYERS =
Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp
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Jon Favreau earns $178,000/year as 0bama's top speech writer
That is the top White House pay
Most of Obama's second book are campaign speeches written by Favreau
If he isn’t telling the truth; he sure opened up a can of worms.
And if he is telling the truth, he opened up a can of worms as well. Too bad John McCain didn't call Obama out on this during the last campaign. It could have been a game changer.
Of course a lot of other people did not see the similarities that Cashill claimed. The software comparisons Cashill arranged seem like they might be more meaningful, although even the proponents of these methods admit they are not always reliable.
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