Posted on 09/24/2009 7:25:30 AM PDT by AJKauf
And so his effort became just another one of those apparent conspiracy theories so prevalent in the ranks of both the left and the right. Then at the end of June 2009, Cashill returned to his original article. This time, he wrote yet another blog, reporting about many who sent him more material that they thought would corroborate his original suspicions about authorship of Obama’s first memoir. Two contributors whom Cashill does not name, he writes, made a contribution that “should dispel the doubts of all but the willfully blind that Ayers played a substantial role, likely the primary role, in the writing of Dreams.” Again, the two contributors and Cashill played literary detective, offering more examples of strange similarities in the metaphors used in both Ayers’ Fugitive Days and in Obama’s Dreams. One of them found 759 striking similarities. Cashill found one of his contributor’s analysis to be “systematic, comprehensive, and utterly, totally, damning.” You can read his article and judge for yourself.
And now, Cashill picked up the new bestseller about Obama and his wife, Christopher Andersen’s Barack and Michelle:Portrait of an American Marriage. What he found simply threw him for a loop because, I suspect, it was the last thing Cashill expected to find. Andersen writes in his book that after Obama finally got a new contract to write a book, Michelle Obama suggested that her husband get advice “from his friend and Hyde Park neighbor Bill Ayers.”...
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Book deals can be money laundering. I “invest” in a book by giving cash to the publisher, the publisher gives a $3,000,000 advance to the “author”, the book is ghosted for $20,000, and eventual sales are almost $100,000.
The author keeps the advance. (I’m not suggesting the Clinton’s books were money laundered paybacks). Look how often these big advances result in tepid mediocre books that don’t seem to sell well.
So Obama’s handlers need him to be wealthy for their plans but can’t give him cash directly...
Obama can’t put together a complete sentence in public, but he writes books all by his lonesome???
I had never thought of that scenario. I believe you're absolutely correct.
btt
Probably not.
http://www.breitbart.tv/the-b-cast-new-claims-confirmation-that-ayers-helped-write-obamas-book/
>> Book deals can be money laundering.
“Can be”? They ARE.
And yes, Clintoon’s were also.
Book advances to politiicians in office should be treated as campaign contributions unless proven otherwise — and the burden of proof that the advance isn’t excessive given the pol’s ability as an author should be on the pol.
A fair assessment from Ron Radosh. I think it’s fair to say, and not really refutable, to conclude that Bill Ayers did the major writing/styling of the books Obama is creditied with.
“Speaking Fee” is another one. I go to, say, UCLA and say I’d like TChris to speak there, on “The Role of Public Discussion Forums in American Politics- The Vision of Orson Scott Card in “Enders Game” versus Reality”.
I donate $150,000 to the school, not as an honorarium or anything, just a donation.
They contact you, and you agree to speak for 45 minutes, the school gives you your “usual fee” of $100,000 and keeps the $50,000. It requires some complicity with the schools.
By doing this I can transfer a million dollars to you legally, at a cost of maybe a quarter million to keep it “legal”, and all the money I put out goes to charitable or tax free organizations. Few people know the source of the cash.
All the money you get, you got legally by talking about Locke and Demosthenes and Scott Card.
Is that real? It seemed the left dragged out that picture of W picking his nose at a game every chance they got...
Gotta love that campaign finance reform, huh?
This has been going on way before McCain-Feingold, and it happens in more fields than politics.
How did he manage to write TWO “autobiographies” before anyone even knew who the h311 he was?
It is obvious without his carefully crafted speeches read from a teleprompter, Obama is not articulate nor intellectual. I doubt this glib book is his sole product.
Interesting to me that all of genius Baraq’s vaunted academic history is in a “lock box”
If the guy was so brilliant with a 1600 SAT, 4.0 college, blister the LSAT, etc how come there’s no records?
You’d think Gibbs would like to have them on the wall in the press briefing room......
I don't know. Found it here:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c355/Candor7/Candor7_2/3332253528_7b71237f76_o.jpg
Somebody needs to write The Inside Dope from Obama’s Inner White Child.
A tale of life-long oppression, humiliation and deprivation...
Well, it's refutable, with proof that he wrote it, which I don't think we'll see.
"Dreams" has to be unique among autobiographies in that it contains so many obvious chronological errors. How many times have you read an autobiography in which the author gets the dates of important events in their own life wrong, writing at such a youthful age (34), and for no apparent reason?
But if the same author isn't directly involved in the nitty-gritty work of actually writing his autobiography, it makes sense.
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