Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Wingnut Conspiracy Theory of the Day

This is the nuttiest/juiciest thing I've heard all day (perhaps all week), via some fringe wingnut named Jack Cashill. His theory is that Bill Ayers ghost wrote Barack Obama's acclaimed first memoir, Dreams from my Father.

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 that shows clearly and painfully the limits of Obama’s prose style the year he received a contract to write Dreams.
The revelation by radical Islamicist Rashid Khalidi that Ayers made his “dining room table” available for neighborhood writers who needed help.
A refined timeline that shows Ayers had the means, the motive and the time to help Obama when he needed it most.

2 comments:

The Neologistocrat said...
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The Neologistocrat said...

I wouldn't write this off so easily. As a semanticist, I can vouch that matching metaphors is the linguistic equivalent of matching DNA--it's downright incriminatory. And as a former Illinois Muslim radical, I can vouch that Rashid Khalifi is not to taken lightly, especially not in the context of his dining room table, which, by the way, is the same dining table repeatedly referred to in Joe Biden's metaphors about the "kitchen table" (they're equivalent, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sememe).

Given these two factors alone, I have no doubt that Ayers played a pivotal role, literally and metaphorically, in shaping both Obama's campaign and his Islamist-Black-Separatist-Socialist agenda more generally.