Posted on 10/26/2009 8:29:50 PM PDT by pissant
For more than a year I have been making the case that Bill Ayers played a major role in the authorship of Barack Obama's acclaimed 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father.
And for more than a year the hundreds of literary and political critics in the major media have refused to even glance at what is arguably the most consequential literary fraud of our time. Astonishingly, not one of the myriad reviewers of Christopher Andersen's bestseller Barack and Michelle even commented on the six pages he dedicates to confirming my thesis.
If analyzing the several Ayers and Obama books in question is too much of a bother, I would recommend these critics wander through any two pages of Dreams and concentrate on the nuggets of fraud and falsehood they can find without even looking hard.
As an example, let us take a look at the two pages of Dreams (144-145 in the 2004 paperback) in which young Barry Soetoro first visits the mainland. The date of the visit is specific: "during the summer after my father's visit to Hawaii, before my eleventh birthday." This was 1972. Traveling around the country on Greyhound busses with his mother, grandmother and baby sister, the ten-year old Obama and his family "watched the Watergate hearings every night before going to bed."
Of course, Obama took this trip a year before the Watergate hearings, which actually began in the late spring of 1973. This is not an isolated misrepresentation. From the flow of these two pages, I suspect that Ayers took the raw data of Obama's life and improvised as he saw fit. He does this throughout the book to score ideological points and make the case for Obama as political prodigy.
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Cashill PING
That's a brazen lie just on the face of it. ...no "research" necessary.
I remember scooting home from work every afternoon and watching the hearings on TV. That's here on the east coast and that's "every afternoon". The hearings weren't on at night, and those were the days of only 3 channels plus PBS. No replays. And if the scumbag Ubamas were "traveling around the country on Greyhound busses" out west, then the hearings were probably over by mid afternoon, Pacific time.
Anybody over the age of about 50 can "verify" this. Sheesh. OF COURSE Ubama is lying.
Or rather, Ayers fabricated a lousey lie on Ubama's behalf.
He really gets into the minutiae of it all.
And let’s not forget that Ayers was/is allegedly
a pothead, so his literary meanderings and sweeps
of hyperbole can be then more understandable.
Placemark. Read soon.
lovely work, well done.
Good catch. Cashill should be alerted to that one!
Of course, Cashill caught the even more obvious lie - - 1972.
The hearings started in May of 1973.
The comments are fantastic!!
SteelyEyedMissileMan, retire05, and molly’s comments were particularly good.
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