So Anne Leary left Chicago and went to the trouble of tracking down Ayers in Reagan airport in Washington at a Starbuck’s coffee shop (the company sign is clearly visible in the photograph). Afterwards, she invented all of their conversation.
Did Ayers actually attend a conference in D.C. that same week? How hard would that be to prove?
I do not believe for a minute that Ayers cares about the royalties from the book, he is wealthy to begin with (his daddy who kept him out of prison ran one of the largest utility companies in America), but I do believe his ego requires that he receive some recognition for promoting and advancing Obama. It had to kill him to be muzzled during the 2008 campaign, but he followed instructions. Now that Obama is securely in office until the 2012 election, Ayers is feeling cocky again and he shot his mouth off.
She didn’t track him down, she said she recognized him and approached him on her own. It could have been a chance encounter, it could have been planned, for all I know he handed her the copy he wanted her to write and posed for a pic.
I believe that most if not all news is not random. Someone had to decide to tell you something through the news. This was Edward Bernay’s take on publicity, that each news item you see is someone’s decision.
A reporter, an editor, and several other people had to say OK to this release. Ayers himself could have said, Don’t publish this.
As I mentioned above, this could be an effort to discredit some “facts” in Barry’s books.
Looks like he did:
Renaissance Group celebrates 20th anniversary
The Renaissance Group (TRG), a consortium of 26 universities and an affiliated agency committed to quality programs for the preparation of teachers and administrative leaders for America’s schools, will be celebrating its 20th anniversary at its Fall Conference to be held at the Key Bridge Marriott Hotel in Arlington, VA, Oct. 4-6.
The conference theme is “A Time for Reflection, Celebration and Rebirth.” Speakers will include U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Under Secretary of Education Dr. Martha Kanter and Dr. William Ayers, distinguished professor and scholar from the University of Illinois at Chicago. ...
Did he say he wrote the book? Did he mean it? I have no idea, but from what I could see Cashill's analysis was far from "scientific."