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Ayers dances around 'Dreams' controversy (GhostwriterGate)
WND ^ | 11/20/08 | Jack Cashill

Posted on 11/20/2008 11:22:12 AM PST by pissant

Earlier this week, Salon.com's Washington bureau chief, Walter Shapiro, sat down with terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers for a chummy 55-minute conversation.

Shortly into the interview, Shapiro asks a question that took me rather by surprise. Says Shapiro, "Did you follow the right-wing blogger, I believe it was, who was totally convinced that you wrote Barack Obama's books?"

The "right wing blogger" in question is yours truly. A week ago, WND editor Joseph Farah kindly defended author Jerome Corsi and me from such "annoying" and "dismissive" shorthands.

"Let me tell you who Jack Cashill is," wrote Farah. "He's a popular WND columnist to be sure – not a blogger. He is also executive editor of Ingram's Magazine Kansas City's premier business publication."

"He has written for Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Weekly Standard. He is the author of five non-fiction books, a collection of essays and one novel. Like Corsi, he, too, has earned a Ph.D., his being from Purdue University in American studies." Thanks, Joe!

A nationally recognized political scribe and former Jimmy Carter staffer, Shapiro might have done just a little homework before asking such a patronizing question.

(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: ayersobamaconnection; billayers; dreamsgate; ghostwriter; ghostwritergate; larrysinclairslover; obama; obamaayersconnection; obamatransitionfile
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We will not stop until the marxist mole is exposed and forced out of office.
1 posted on 11/20/2008 11:22:12 AM PST by pissant
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To: pissant
We need to ask Shapiro a question: "Mr. Shapiro, did you think it safe to sit in a room with an admitted Mad Bomber?

Then, another question "How about sitting in a room with 10 right wing bloggers?"

2 posted on 11/20/2008 11:28:32 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: pissant

The ABC interview where Ayers elevated ‘his’ bombings from an ‘abortion clinic bomber’ by using typical ‘progressive’ moral relevance proves Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist.
This is how unstable ‘progressives’ are and how much trouble we are in with them so close to power.


3 posted on 11/20/2008 11:28:36 AM PST by griswold3
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To: pissant

I read, sorry I can’t remember exactly where, that Obama was actually asked to write a book about race relations at Harvard and he submitted his autobiography instead. Has anyone else ever read that?


4 posted on 11/20/2008 11:31:11 AM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: muawiyah

“We need to ask Shapiro a question: “Mr. Shapiro, did you think it safe to sit in a room with an admitted Mad Bomber?
Then, another question “How about sitting in a room with 10 right wing bloggers?”

Not safe and probably not sanitary - I would have to shower for half a day afterwards.


5 posted on 11/20/2008 11:31:47 AM PST by jessduntno (Barack - Kenyan for "High Wind, Big Thunder, No Rain")
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To: jessduntno

bkmk


6 posted on 11/20/2008 11:59:39 AM PST by quickquiver (No, means N O.)
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To: pissant

Pissant, I love ya man...but nobody nobody nobody outside the conservative grassroots CARES that Hussein had a book ghostwritten.

Heck, we can’t get them to understand yet what COLLECTIVISM and SOCIALISM are...and that is the agenda Hussein is going to pursue come 20 January.

Maybe...just maybe...once their taxes start to rise, their gas prices increase, they lose more jobs, and they see the D.C. thugs coming for their guns....MAYBE then they’ll rise up.

Hopefully by then it won’t be too late.

Anyway, I just don’t think pointing out Hussein is a fraudulnet author is gonna cut it for most folks.

Respectfully,

RD


7 posted on 11/20/2008 12:02:00 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Recovering_Democrat
Pissant, I love ya man...but nobody nobody nobody outside the conservative grassroots CARES that Hussein had a book ghostwritten.

Only completely starry-eyed moonbat jackasses really believe that Obama wrote that book, or any other. The same can be said of about 90% of books allegedly written by politicians.

The point of this controversy is that his book may have been ghostwritten by an unrepentent enemy of America (who bombed the Pentagon, among other crimes) and whom Obama claims he barely knows at all. People tend to know pretty well the person who wrote their "autobiography."

8 posted on 11/20/2008 12:06:54 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Its not that it was ghostwritten. It was that it was Ghostwritten by terrorist Bill Ayers, which shows that Obama was lying through his teeth about their relationship. He is a marxist mole, and EVERYTHING legal we can do to bring him crashing down needs to be done. I do not accept lying marxist moles for CIC of my nation.


9 posted on 11/20/2008 12:07:25 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

Anyone notice how Bill Ayers is becoming a celebrity since the election?

In my opinion he should have received what Timothy McVeigh received.


10 posted on 11/20/2008 12:08:52 PM PST by Welcome2thejungle
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To: dead
nah, it's both
pay attention and you'll soon recognize that the “intelligentsia” (both left and GOP-lite like Buckley and Noonan) think Obama is a frickin genius because he wrote a book. Some even ascribe him with having a genius IQ when in reality he's probably in the normal IQ range at best (once you subtract these books from his “accomplishments”, figure out why all his school records are sealed tighter then a CIA vault, and really focus on his speaking skill and command of language.... “President Bush already invited Michelle and I to the White House!”)
11 posted on 11/20/2008 12:26:52 PM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: pissant
Its not that it was ghostwritten. It was that it was Ghostwritten by terrorist Bill Ayers, which shows that Obama was lying through his teeth about their relationship.

Good point, I guess I never thought of that angle. I still think it'll be a hard sell to John Q. Public, but the relationship question does give hope people will see what a corrupt person we have in Hussein.

12 posted on 11/20/2008 12:58:22 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: pissant
I heard Ayers speaking on NPR. He is exceptionally boring and agenda-driven. He never strays from the question or his intended answer. His purpose is to feed you pre-planned information in the guise of an answer, along with seeds of thought. He's a master at it; however, it's quite obvious.

For instance, he asserts that no one ever got killed from the bombs the Weather Underground planted - until the host (a woman) mentions that his girlfriend was killed in a blast because it went off too soon. He acknowledges this, then later on in the interview again says that no one ever got killed from the bombs.

He also has invented a scenario (or fantasy) in which he imagines his girlfriend, at the moment of planting the bomb, saying, no no, we shouldn't be doing this; perhaps this is a bad idea, perhaps there is another way. So, he is attributing (imagined) good motives to her at the moment of her planting the bomb that killed her!

So, not only does he have the pre-planned information that he wants to impart, but he also has planted a seed in our minds that his girlfriend was really protesting against the bomb-planting just moments before her death (all of it imagined, of course). Yes, he's a very bright guy, but not so bright that some of us can't see right through him.

13 posted on 11/20/2008 1:01:43 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (We're living in the Dark Ages.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Everything will be a hard sell to the public, because the media is 1000% in the tank for the Obamunist. But we either keep fighting on all fronts, or bow down to the marxist mole.


14 posted on 11/20/2008 1:02:53 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

He was wiping his feet with the US flag on a recent magazine cover. That tells me everything I need to know about the POS.


15 posted on 11/20/2008 1:04:45 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
So, he is attributing (imagined) good motives to her at the moment of her planting the bomb that killed her!

She wasn't planting the bomb when it went off. She was assembling the bomb in the basement of the townhouse where they were hiding out. The plan was to plant the bomb at an officer's club.

16 posted on 11/20/2008 1:06:49 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: pissant

This changes everything.
/s


17 posted on 11/20/2008 1:18:14 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Charter Member, 58 Million Club)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
She wasn't planting the bomb when it went off. She was assembling the bomb in the basement of the townhouse where they were hiding out. The plan was to plant the bomb at an officer's club.

At a big dance with hundreds of people, none of whom would have gotten killed or even injured by the we're-only-making-a-statement bomb.
18 posted on 11/20/2008 1:23:46 PM PST by aruanan
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To: Welcome2thejungle
In my opinion he should have received what Timothy McVeigh received.

And Timothy McVeigh only bombed ONE government building. Could he help it if he was more competent at building bombs? And his Daddy had no connections to get him freed on a technicality?

19 posted on 11/20/2008 1:33:24 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

OK, so I had my facts slightly off. Bomb planting, bomb assembling - you get my point.


20 posted on 11/20/2008 1:40:41 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (We're living in the Dark Ages.)
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