Today in Wingnut Fail—Jack Cashill: Still Doesn’t Understand Snark
Jack Cashill over at American Thinker (no link) really thinks he has the goods this time:
Last Thursday evening at Montclair State University, with a video camera rolling, Bill Ayers volunteered that yes indeed he had written the acclaimed Barack Obama memoir, Dreams from My Father.
a failed writer named Jack Cashill developed a cockamamie notion that Barack Obama didn’t write his first book, and not only didn’t he write it, but right-wing bogeyman Bill Ayers actually did. The notion, developed by Cashill in a series of interminable articles mostly published at the relatively obscure site the American Thinker, began to inspire a useful sort of hatred of Barack Obama. And so Mary Matalin’s Threshold Editions gave Cashill a book deal.
Meanwhile, Ayers has developed a canned riff on the subject: Oh yeah, I wrote the book — and if you can help me prove that, I’ll split the royalties with you. (Obama’s books were huge bestsellers and made him a millionaire.) It’s a joke, and Ayers just made it again after delivering a speech:
Happens around .45
Although Jack Cashill has been thoroughly debunked, the rightwingnutsphere is eating this up today, taking it as an admission of authorship. Jim Hoft is of course one of them.
Cashill hyperventilates with joy in his piece, imagining a dark future for Obama:
Ayers affirms he wrote Dreams from my Father
Not surprisingly, Ayers retreated into irony as he ended the session. “Yeah, yeah,” he said after confirming again that he wrote Dreams, “And if you help me prove it, I’ll split the royalties with you. Thank you very much.”
With his final comment, the Ayers-friendly audience laughed in relief. The media will laugh nervously upon seeing the video as well. The White House will not.
Barack Obama knows what I know and what the people who have read my book, “Deconstructing Obama,” know: Bill Ayers is the principal craftsman behind Dreams. The evidence is overwhelming.
Ayers also established, as I have contended from the beginning, that he is not the author of Audacity of Hope. Although Obama claims unique authorship of this book too, it was, as Ayers suggests, a disingenuous feint to the center written by committee.
Worse for Obama still, Ayers knows that the story he and Obama contrived in Dreams is false in many key details. The fact that Donald Trump has proved willing to challenge that story has got to make the White House even more apprehensive.
Black helicopter time!
As was obvious in his speech at Montclair, Ayers does not like the application of force in Libya, and this may have been his own way of retaliating. Consider it a shot across Obama’s bow. The White House will.
What’s it like to live in Wingnuttia? I don’t know how these people negotiate the world at all without strings tied to their mittens.