Today's latest howler from RW Radio

[liberalpress]

(These thngs are a hoot ... they really are...) Obama did NOT write the book "Dreams from my Father" it was ghost written for him by (OMINOUS MUSIC STING) WIlliam Ayres!

[Trajan]

1. That is a recent RW hoax

Floating about the kool aid universe ...

[WCGreen]

2. I heard Stalin and Hitler wrote it..

[liberalpress]

6. Ridiculous! Everybody knows

Stalin and Hitler were the editors! Get your facts straight before you post!

[EstimatedProphet]

3. Saddam Hussein wrote it after he was executed!

He did it because they're related! That's why they have the same middle name!

[WeDidIt]

4. That's major tinfoilhat territory

Obama had not even met Ayers yet when Dreams was written.

Plus, that would require a conspiracy including Three Rivers Press.

Major tinfoilhat nuttery there.

[blue-kite]

5. I wrote it and so did my wife... Wait a minutes... Life of (O)B(ama)rian?

[scheming daemons]

7. OK... I admit it..... I wrote it.

Sorry... can't keep it a secret any longer.

[liberalpress]

9. If they're saying the book is a fraud

shouldn't they be claiming ACORN did it?

I'm just sayin'

[Viking12]

8. Here's the origins of the latetst false smear..

Who Wrote Dreams From My Father?
By Jack Cashill

Prior to 1990, when Barack Obama contracted to write Dreams From My Father, he had written very close to nothing. Then, five years later, this untested 33 year-old produced what Time Magazine has called -- with a straight face -- "the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician."


The public is asked to believe Obama wrote Dreams From My Father on his own, almost as though he were some sort of literary idiot savant. I do not buy this canard for a minute, not at all. Writing is as much a craft as, say, golf. To put this in perspective, imagine if a friend played a few rounds in the high 90s and then a few years later, without further practice, made the PGA Tour. It doesn't happen.


And yet, given the biases of the literary establishment, no reviewer of note has so much as questioned Obama's role in the writing, then or now. As the New York Times gushed, Obama was "that rare politician who can write . . . and write movingly and genuinely about himself." These accolades matter all the more because Obama has built his political persona around his presumably superior intellect, Dreams being exhibit A.


Shy of a confession by those involved, I will not be able to prove conclusively that Obama did not write this book. As shall be seen, however, there are only two real possibilities: one is that Obama experienced a near miraculous turnaround in his literary abilities; the second is that he had major editorial help, up to and including a ghostwriter
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/who_wrote_dreams_from_my_fathe_1.html

[liberalpress]

10. I find it interesting

that this artice appears in American "Thinker." SOmebody ring the irony bell.

[Viking12]

15. The RWnuts have killed irony

Most of the shit they come up with is so crazy, you can't distinguish it from satire.

[SmokingJacket]

12. Jack Cashill??!!!

ha ha, he's just jealous that no one read his self-published paranoid "novel."

[xxqqqzme]

14. I will not be able

to prove Jack Cashill wrote this piece of crap either.

Any thinker should know that no one goes through law school w/o writing, writing, writing. When
I went to school to get my paralegal certificate, I wrote and wrote and wrote and that wasn't law school. The constant research and drafting; then re-drafting of your argument forces you to become a better writer. What is argued in court is first presented on paper.

[progressivebydesign]

16. I think Cashill pushes seniors in front of trains, but "shy of a confession", I can't prove it.

LOLZ - that guy is a fucking joke. We can ALL make shit up and say.. 'shy of a confession I won't be able to prove it" Duh.

[Renew Deal]

18. Maybe this racist forgot that Obama was the editor of the Harvard Business Review.

Moran

[SoxFan]

22. Even their throwaway lines are crap!

"to put this in perspective, imagine if a friend played a few rounds in the high 90s and then a few years later, without further practice, made the PGA Tour. It doesn't happen."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Morris

[doc03]

24. That's interesting, "The best-written memoir ever produced

by an American politician." According to nut job Billy Cunningham it was poorly written at a twelfth grade level at best? :shrug:

[TheCoxwain]

11. Did NYTIMES not do a feature on the origin of RW smears ... Oh I forgot ...Rightwingers dont read

the Times...

[gauguin57]

13. I hear John McCain's book was ghost-written by the staff of Highlights for Children

They fit it in between drawing "find the toothbrush in the tree" and the latest installment of "Goofus and Gallant."

[SurfingAtWork]

17. And as Obama was dictating it, he was simultaneously performing an abortion

On a welfare recipient.

[elkston]

19. The person at the UC law school who recruited Obama said that Obama often was

in his office writing "Dreams for my Father".

Whenever a black person acheives anything outside the realm of sports or entertainment, these racists will go to any length to rob or belittle his accomplishment.

[prolesunited]

20. I just saw that posted on a simple living board I frequent

and I wondered where it came from.


Do you have any links so I can expose the poster's sources?

[Viking12]

21. See #8 above

The origin is a RW asshat that writes for WorldNutDaily among other freakishly reactionary publications.

[Ganja Ninja]

23. RW hate radio is now killing off the GOP.

It's beyond their control and it's destroying them. I can't wait to see the Republican's come crying to the Democrats to reinstate the fairness doctrine.