http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/cashill/ en-us Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:22:59 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370355/posts 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... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370355/posts#comment Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:22:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356656/posts I am not sure what to make of the story that Ayers has now admitted to writing Obama's autobiography. If it pans out, that is to my mind a very big story. Stay tuned. But I do think I should revise my earlier poo-pooing of Jack Cashill's effort to prove the Ayers-Obama connection. A while back, a close friend of mine (and a pretty famous person in NR land) harrangued me about how I didn't give Cashill's argument enough attention or consideration and that it makes a pretty persuasive case. This friend then walked me through it for a while... The Corner. The National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356656/posts#comment Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:01:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346931/posts In his new book, "Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage," Best-selling celebrity journalist, Christopher Andersen, has blown a huge hole in the Obama genius myth without intending to do so. Relying on inside sources, quite possibly Michelle Obama herself, Andersen describes how Dreams came to be published -- just as I had envisioned it in my articles on the authorship of Dreams.  With the deadline pressing, Michelle recommended that Barack seek advice from "his friend and Hyde Park neighbor Bill Ayers." To flesh out his family history, Obama had taped interviews with various family members. Andersen writes, "These... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346931/posts#comment Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:06:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2336302/posts On a glorious Labor Day afternoon, I had the chance to speak with about 5,000 of New Jersey’s best and liveliest citizens at the historic Morristown Green. Morristown served as the military headquarters of the American Revolution 230 years ago and, from the looks of things on Monday, seems ready for the challenge once more. Being in New Jersey, I spoke about coming of age in a socialist society. I refer here specifically to the People’s Republic of Newark in which I was born and raised. What I noticed, even as a kid, is that socialism did not necessarily come... Jack Cashill in WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2336302/posts#comment Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:55:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290968/posts In previous articles on the subject of President Obama's writing skills, I have focused on his 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father, not his 2006 book, Audacity of Hope for one reason: Dreams, according to esteemed British author Jonathan Raban and others, captures Obama's "authentic voice." On the strength of Dreams, Raban called Obama "the best writer to occupy the White House since Lincoln." Raban is in good company. "I was astonished by his ability to write, to think, to reflect, to learn and turn a good phrase," said Nobel prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison of Dreams. "I was very impressed.... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290968/posts#comment Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:48:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281020/posts Within days of my going public last September with the speculation that terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers helped Barack Obama write his acclaimed memoir, Dreams From My Father, I learned that I was not alone in that intuition. Since then, I have received helpful contributions from serious people in at least five countries and any number of states and have integrated many of their observations into my ongoing narrative, summarized here. If you are unfamiliar with this research, please read this before going forward. About a week ago, however, I heard from a new contributor. I will refer to him as... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281020/posts#comment Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:34:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270355/posts In this epsiode of the Conscience of Kansas, I interview World Net Daily writer Jack Cashill on the George Tiller shooting. Next, I interview blogger Yen Wang from Conservative Talk.Net. I also apeak to NY Times bestselling author Thomas E. Woods on his new book "Meltdown". Lastly, we re-air the interview with youtube sensation Steven Crowder. It's a full show and we invite you to listen and comment! The Conscience of Kansas radio program http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270355/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:01:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266522/posts Nearly thirteen years after the destruction of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island, I had begun to think that the case was a dead issue, but then two unexpected and unrelated events caused me to think otherwise. The first was a phone call from one of the three most important eyewitnesses to the case.  The second, two weeks later, was the still-mysterious crash of Air France Flight 447 off the coast of Brazil.  This eyewitness put a further dent in the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) claim that a fuel tank explosion brought down TWA Flight 800. ... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266522/posts#comment Sun, 7 Jun 2009 07:31:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2262444/posts On Friday afternoon, March 27, it took a Wichita jury just 45 minutes to acquit Dr. George Tiller of 19 misdemeanor charges relating to his prolific late-term abortion business. Tiller needed help. And for those paying attention, the real help came not in the courtroom but in the proverbial back room where, some three years earlier, Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius engineered the deal that would keep Tiller’s practice alive. Jack Cashill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2262444/posts#comment Mon, 1 Jun 2009 21:58:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257566/posts While waiting for America's publishers to find their nerve, I had put my research into the authorship of Barack Obama's 1995 memoir Dreams From My Father on the back shelf. But then I heard Chris Matthews. The Hardball host was weighing in on the subject of Sarah Palin's new book deal. "Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book," sneered Matthews. "Not just reading a book, writing a book." "Actually in the word of the publisher she's "collaborating" on a book," Matthews continued. "What an embarrassment! It's one of these ‘I told you,' books that jocks do.... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257566/posts#comment Mon, 25 May 2009 01:42:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257235/posts While waiting for America's publishers to find their nerve, I had put my research into the authorship of Barack Obama's 1995 memoir Dreams From My Father on the back shelf.  But then I heard Chris Matthews. The Hardball host was weighing in on the subject of Sarah Palin's new book deal.  "Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book," sneered Matthews. "Not just reading a book, writing a book." "Actually in the word of the publisher she's "collaborating" on a book," Matthews continued.  "What an embarrassment! It's one of these ‘I told you,' books that jocks do.... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257235/posts#comment Sun, 24 May 2009 06:16:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174732/posts On Thursday morning, Jan. 22, I met with our six-camera crew at the Hyatt Hotel in Washington and went over the day's objectives. We had come to town to shoot a documentary called "Thine Eyes" (See ThineEyes.org), the first-ever high-end production centering on the annual March For Life. We were commissioned to create this video to set the media record straight. Although I had not attended the March before, I knew enough about the way the media worked to suspect that a little straightening was in order. The media did not disappoint. Their coverage confirmed my most paranoid suspicions and... cashill.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174732/posts#comment Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:31:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165346/posts "The belief that moribund institutions, rather than individuals are at the root of the problem, keep SAM’s energies alive.,,," The highly indicative sentence above comes from an 1800-word article that Barack Obama wrote for Columbia’s weekly news magazine, Sundial, at the height of the KGB-generated anti-nuke craze in March 1983. Obama was twenty-one at the time. The sentence nicely captures Obama’s skill as a writer. The noun, “belief,” and the verb, “keep,” don’t agree—one of an appalling five such noun-verb mismatches in the essay--and the punctuation is fully random. More problematically, the word choice sucks all logic out of the... cashill.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165346/posts#comment Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:10:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2161399/posts Last week, I received an email from a former 747 pilot named Thomas Young. In early August 1996, Young explained, he was laid up in a Hong Kong hospital with a back injury. His employer, Polar Air Cargo, flew his wife Barbara out to join him. They had little else to do but watch TV. Here is what they saw. The videotape began with people milling about on a deck facing a body of water. In the background, a streak of†light can be seen leaving a point below the edge of the deck, accelerating as it climbed; it passed behind... cashill.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2161399/posts#comment Fri, 9 Jan 2009 04:18:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118928/posts Wake Up America. Barack Obama is a Fraud. Via WorldNetDaily: Independent scientific analysis by a number of leading experts supports the literary detective work of WND columnist Jack Cashill that has led him to conclude unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers was the primary author of important sections of Barack Obama’s highly acclaimed memoir and editor of the book as a whole. In a new column today, according to WND, “Cashill reports four different stylometric analysts now have supported his extensive forensic evidence, and he awaits the results from a fifth.” Cashill’s expert team includes university professors from the U.S. and... Texas Darlin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118928/posts#comment Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:13:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2112270/posts Bruce Heiden, professor of Greek and Latin at The Ohio State University, makes the fascinating claim in his website "The Postliberal" that Barack Obama agrees with my assertion that he did not actually write his own memoir, Dreams From My Father. Heiden finds his evidence in the 1995 Introduction to the book.. Says Heiden: According to Obama, he did some writing on another book, not a memoir but "an essay on the limits of civil rights litigation in bringing about racial equality" (xiii; all citations refer to the 2004 paperback edition). This book was never finished, and it doesn't exist.... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2112270/posts#comment Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:39:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108324/posts Evidence continues to mount that Barack Obama had substantial help from Bill Ayers in the creation of his 1995 book, Dreams From My Father, a book that Time Magazine has called “the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician.” The evidence falls into five general categories, here summarized: * The discovery of new matching nautical metaphors from both Ayers and Obama that almost assuredly came from the same source: Ayers, a former merchant seaman. * The discovery of a Bill Ayers’ essay on memoir writing, whose postmodern themes and phrases are echoed throughout Dreams. * A newly discovered book... www.cashill.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108324/posts#comment Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:08:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2107798/posts Evidence continues to mount that Barack Obama had substantial help from Bill Ayers in the creation of his 1995 book, Dreams From My Father, a book that Time Magazine has called "the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician." The evidence falls into five general categories, here summarized. The discovery of new matching nautical metaphors from both Ayers and Obama that almost assuredly came from the same source: Ayers, a former merchant seaman. The discovery of a Bill Ayers' essay on memoir writing, whose postmodern themes and phrases are echoed throughout Dreams. A newly discovered book chapter from 1990... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2107798/posts#comment Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:55:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2107931/posts Evidence continues to mount that Barack Obama had substantial help from Bill Ayers in the creation of his 1995 book, Dreams From My Father, a book that Time Magazine has called "the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician." The evidence falls into five general categories, here summarized. * The discovery of new matching nautical metaphors from both Ayers and Obama that almost assuredly came from the same source: Ayers, a former merchant seaman. * The discovery of a Bill Ayers' essay on memoir writing, whose postmodern themes and phrases are echoed throughout Dreams. * A newly discovered book... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2107931/posts#comment Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:09:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2106388/posts Writer Charges ‘Nautical Metaphors’ Point to Ayers as Secret Author of Obama’s Book......audio link. BREITBART.TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2106388/posts#comment Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:50:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104931/posts The emergence of a previously unseen writing sample proves all but conclusively that Barack Obama did not in any meaningful way write "Dreams from My Father," the book Time Magazine has called "the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician." The emergence of a second writing sample, this one by a legitimate author, provides convincing evidence as to who did..... Excerpted per WND. Follow the link to read in entirety. World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104931/posts#comment Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:05:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104739/posts I just tuned in, and evidently the guy he's interviewing (I didn't catch his name) is talking about Ayers ghostwriting Obama's book. Does anybody know who he's interviewing? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104739/posts#comment Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:31:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104230/posts I will abandon this project unless I get some help. I need volunteers to commit to the project and give me their email address. I have had one Freeper donate money and several Freepers commit to help with non-monetary part only to flake out later. I asked Freepers for the following, but you people have only partially delivered. If someone has ghostwritten Obama's "memoirs" lets find out who. 1. Volunteer to find or type in Ayers book “Fugitive Days” into electronic form* 2. Money for basic analysis software- DONE(fellow freeper) 3. Obama’s “memoirs” translated into electronic form-Partially DONE(need to correct... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104230/posts#comment Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:16:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103595/posts There has been speculation about this which I've ignored, no doubt because there are enough policy reasons to oppose Barack Obama and I don't want to feed into what sounds, at first blush, like Vince Fosteresque paranoia. But I've finally read Jack Cashill's lengthy analysis in The American Thinker. It is thorough, thoughtful, and alarming — particularly his deconstruction of the text in Obama's memoir and comparison to the themes, sophistication and signature phraseology of Bill Ayers' memoir. There is nothing in Obama's scant paper trail prior to 1995 that would suggest something as stylish and penetrating as, at times,... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103595/posts#comment Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:42:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2101644/posts Prior to 1990, when Barack Obama contracted to write Dreams From My Father, he had written very close to nothing. As an undergraduate at Occidental College, Obama had composed what he calls some “very bad poetry,” and he does not sell himself short. In 1981, Occidental’s literary magazine published two of Obama’s poems—“Pop” and “Underground.” These poems are only a little sillier than the average undergraduate’s, but they show not a glint of promise. From “Underground”: Under water grottos, caverns Filled with apes That eat figs. Stepping on the figs That the apes Eat, they crunch. The apes howl, bare... WorldNetDaily/Jack Cashill blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2101644/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:14:27 GMT