[Yardstick]

I think Spielberg took a little shot at Cashill in his movie Lincoln when he had a bufoonish character accuse Lincoln of not writing something because it had a nautical reference and Licoln didn't "know beans about sailing" (or something like that).

Did anybody else catch that scene and see it the same way? It was very brief.

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

"Did anybody else catch that scene and see it the same way? It was very brief."

I did not see "Lincoln," and now probably won't. I read Cashill's book "Deconstructing Obama" and can say with a very high degree of confidence that Cashill nailed Ayers as the author of "Dreams." The number of nautical references in Ayers' own work when matched up against "Dreams" has a mind-blowing number of agreeing terms.

Spielberg isn't impressed with Cashill's arguement? I don't believe it. If a subtle dig was inserted in "Lincoln" as you posit may be the case, that just demonstrates that Cashill got under Spielberg's skin.