It does seem odd that Ayers would just blurt out this confession to a stranger in an airport. However, once I heard it was a female blogger, I instantly thought that Ayers was showing off for her.
He tells her I’ll split the royalties with you. He’s using money as power. He doesn’t need the money, but in his mind, he thinks that will impress her.
Admitting he wrote the whole book is yet another way to impress her. He’s basically saying that he’s smarter than the President.
So now we’ve got money, power and smarts. He knows she looks down on him, that she thinks he’s a despicable human being, so to build himself up in her eyes, he wields a trump card.
It’s just too bad she didn’t pursue the bait even further. I would immediately have asked for a later time for us to talk more. Imagine how much more he would have dished.
Bill Ayers was sticking his finger in her eye. “Yeah, so what. I wrote the book, what are you going to do about it? If you are so important and big prove it and then maybe you’ll be able to do my bidding and get me some of the royalities. Hahahahaaaa. Stupid ass conservatives.”