Posted on 11/20/2008 5:36:04 PM PST by Sioux-san
Earlier this week Salon.com’s Washington bureau chief, Walter Shapiro, sat down with terrorist emeritus, Bill Ayers, for a chummy 55-minute conversation.
Shortly into the interview, Shapiro asks a question that took me rather by surprise. Says Shapiro, “Did you follow the right-wing blogger, I believe it was, who was totally convinced that you wrote Barack Obama's books?”
The “right wing blogger” in question is yours truly. A week ago, WND publisher Joe Farah kindly defended author Jerome Corsi and me from such “annoying” and “dismissive” shorthands.
“Let me tell you who Jack Cashill is,” wrote Farah. “He's a popular WND columnist to be sure – not a blogger. He is also executive editor of Ingram's Magazine Kansas City's premier business publication.”
“He has written for Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Weekly Standard. He is the author of five non-fiction books, a collection of essays and one novel. Like Corsi, he, too, has earned a Ph.D., his being from Purdue University in American studies.” Thanks, Joe!
A nationally recognized political scribe and former Jimmy Carter staffer, Shapiro might have done just a little homework before asking such a patronizing question.
Shapiro would have known the limits of my accusation: namely that Ayers was involved in only one Obama book, the 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father.
As I have argued, Obama provided the skeletal narrative for the book and likely maintained executive control. Ayers only wrote the good parts. He appears to have edited the rest, sometimes heavily, sometimes hardly at all.
(Excerpt) Read more at cashill.com ...
Cashill has done GREAT work on this!
It's intriguing, to be sure, but I also believed Cashill when he was certain that TWA Flight 800 had been shot down by errant missiles. Year and years later, it still seems plausible, but no one has come forward.
When the entire bureaucracy of the United States can't come up with a single leaker, the story's probably false. Cashill, I'd wager is wrong on this one, too.
Apples to oranges. When you compare the half dozen or so differing forensic comparisons of Dreams and Fugitive, you either conclude the same person wrote them, or you believe that you can be dealt a royal straight flush five times in a row.
CAshill draws out the questions - poses theories - and then we all get to ask where is the MSM?? Where are the Constitutionally protected watchdogs of our Gov’t.???? The lack of curiosity from the MSM is either due to willful ignorance, abject stupidity, and/or partisanship of the highest despicable manner. NO matter what, we have all been royally betrayed.
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