Unmasking Obama

American Thinker ^ | September 29, 2009 | Thomas Lifson

[neverdem]

It is now abundantly clear that the image of Barack Obama sold to the American electorate was tightly edited, air-brushed, and exaggerated. He has worn a series of masks -- eloquent orator, brilliant scholar, centrist, and literary sensation. All of these masks are coming off as he copes with a job for which image will not suffice.  For instance, hiding behind the eloquent orator mask is a guy who says "uhh" a lot when he is winging it, and who makes lots of factual and grammatical mistakes.

Now, thanks to Jack Cashill, the literary mask has been removed. Obama is a literary pretender. Case closed. The evidence is overwhelming that Bill Ayers ghost-wrote Dreams from my Father, the book which established Obama's pose as a brilliant writer (and therefore a fine mind, in the estimation of many). The stylistic resemblance between the Dreams and Ayers' work is stunning. Now we know, thanks to Chris Andersen's new book,that Obama hit a brick wall trying to fulfill his contract to produce a book, and shipped off his notes and tapes to Ayers. That is the classic description of a ghost writer's assignment. And it completely fits the theories Cashill had inferentially reasoned from the data of his literary studies.

The revelation that Chris Andersen had two separate sources means that this fact meets the journalistic standard of reliability, provided by a respected, established bestselling author. Obama's dismissal of Ayers as "just a guy in the neighborhood" has been shown to be an outright lie.

That will certainly be the verdict of history, regardless of whether or not the issue of Obama's ghost written book ever breaks through into the national discussion. My bet is that the media will not be able to suppress discussion. The image of Obama packing boxes full of tapes and notebooks and hauling them over to Ayers' house a couple of blocks away, is simple and compelling evidence of a ghost writer being put to work. Jack's literary detective work made the case, and Andersen's two neighborhood sources confirm it.

Anyone who refuses to deal with this issue is willfully avoiding topics that make Obama look bad. The facts are in the public domain.

The New York Times has just appointed a new editor to monitor online conservative websites and talk radio, to make sure the paper doesn't embarrass itself again, as it did on the Van Jones and ACORN stories. Unlike every other editor, the Times is keeping the name of this editor secret.

[Jill Abramson, the managing editor for news,] and Bill Keller, the executive editor, said last week that they would now assign an editor to monitor opinion media and brief them frequently on bubbling controversies. Keller declined to identify the editor, saying he wanted to spare that person "a bombardment of e-mails and excoriation in the blogosphere."

So, whoever you are at the New York Times, you're probably reading American Thinker as an unpleasant duty. If I knew who you were, I'd bombard you with a polite note laying out the trail for you to follow on this important story. The President of The United States lied when he claimed that "I actually wrote them [his books] myself."

I think that's news that's fit to be printed, even if uncongenial to the incumbent Democrat president. Don't you?

Thomas Lifson is editor and publisher of American Thinker.

[Interesting Times]

Obama is the creation of Bill Ayers.

And Ayers created Obama in his own image...

[chuck_the_tv_out]

that’s really good

[Graybeard58]

0bama is a poser, a dumass and a Kenyan.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

The President of The United States lied when he claimed that "I actually wrote them [his books] myself."

Obmmm, mmm, mm lied?

[JPG]

Trying to find the NY Slimes secret editor? Havana, Caracas or a Brazilian embassy come to mind.

[Overtaxed Patriot]

bttt

[MileHi]

That’s racist...

[Tzimisce]

Oh yeah? Well you’re a racist!

-liberal response

[John Galt's cousin]

LOL

I hereby nominate that graphic for the “mostest superlative” image of the day!

[JPG]

The secret is out...Bill Keller has a Mini-Me. Who knew?

[y6162]

The Kenyan’s fiction reads like a KGB legend for an undercover spy. Is Ayers the Kenyan’s KGB handler? Hmmm?

This is going to be good.

[Osage Orange]

ah...you mean “The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers”.

[Interesting Times]

Owwie.

[bIlluminati]

The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers (Pilate)

Prince: We’re going to send in more American troops to Afghanistan, and have them fight Chicago Style (TM).

Bill: MORE troops? And do you mean every dirty fighting trick in the book?

Prince: Of course not. We’re declaring Afghanistan a weapons-free zone. Taking away the American soldiers firearms unilaterally. After all, Somebody’s got to be the first to disarm.

Ayers: But the American troops would be slaught...

Prince and Bill break out laughing. Fade to black.

[potlatch]

[TigersEye]

The New York Times has just appointed a new editor to monitor online conservative websites and talk radio, to make sure the paper doesn't embarrass itself again, as it did on the Van Jones and ACORN stories.

So the NYTs still isn't going to do any actual research themselves they're just going to try and up their accuracy by following around right-wing blogs and radio talking heads? LOL Maybe Pinch should just publish free want ad papers or sub-contract his presses for printing circulars.

[50mm]

Very nice!

[potlatch]

Thank you 50mm. You need to ping me to yours!

[50mm]

I haven’t done any animated GIFS in a while. I certainly will ping you when I do.

[potlatch]

They take time to do, I know!