Conspiracy theories. Don’t like ’em.
Kennedy, grassy knoll. Nope, don’t buy it. Lone crazy commie did it.
MLK. Nope. James Earl Ray did it. (btw I am convinced that MLK would be a conservative today)
Jimmy Carter. No big rabbit, Billy spiked the punch.
Vince Foster. Nope. Clinton didn’t have it in him. No no. Hillary either. Moving on.
9/11 Truthers. Please.
Iraq invasion. We, along with everyone else, blew it on WMDs.
Obama was born…in the USA. Sorry Kenya. Actually, congrats Kenya.
Obama wrote his book “Dreams of my father”…. ummm.
Yeah. Sorry. I don’t think Obama wrote it alone. Bill Ayers helped. This is one conspiracy theory I think is actually true.
I am not going to sit here and defend my position. It is my opinion. I could be wrong but I don’t think so. You do the research. But I am telling you, Obama did not write the book alone.
Lemme be clear. I don’t intend to defend my position at all. I like the Mets, the Giants, and the Rangers. I don’t like the Phillies, the Redskins, or the Flyers. You don’t agree, tough. Opinions are like that.
So too the Obama ghostwriter. I may be wrong but I am solid in my wrongness.
So let me have it. I am ready. But before you do let me say one thing. You should hear Matthew’s opinions on Bigfoot, the chupacabra, and the Montauk monster. Just sayin’.
October 8, 2009 at 1:50 am
Wasn't Ayers cracking a joke?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/07/ayers-obama-book-conspira_n_312954.html
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/62033-ayers-i-wrote-obamas-book
October 12, 2009 at 12:22 am
I'm not into conspiracy theories either, but this is one I totally buy into. I'm convinced Ayers helped write (or completely ghosted) Dreams.
There are too many fascinating and ultimately persuasive little details to ignore. All the similarities between the writing style in Dreams and Ayers' own books, detailed by Jack Cashill at the American Thinker. The fact that Obama, with his staggering intellect and all, had trouble finishing the book and faced having to return the advance (of course Michelle stepped in…she wasn't about to let that happen!) The fact that Ayers was at Columbia at the same time as Obama. The fact that Ayers' wife Bernadine and Michelle Obama worked at the same Chicago law firm. The fact that Ayers and Obama worked together on the (failed) Annenberg Challenge education project. The fact that neither Ayers nor Obama has outright denied Ayers involvement. Etc. Etc.
It all adds up to a relationship that ran deeper than just "a guy who lives in my neighborhod," as Obama himself described it.
And now we have the "fake" admission from Ayers to the conservative blogger who ran into him at the airport.
I think Ann Althouse has nailed it:
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2009/10/bill-ayers-admits-he-wrote-dreams-from.html
Excerpt:
"Bill Ayers "admits" he wrote "Dreams From My Father."
I'm putting "admits" in quotes, because I think he's toying with the conservative blogger who accosted him in a Washington airport. And yet, even though I think he's joking, I also think he's playing with the whole idea of lying.
This, you realize, is especially clever and post-modern.
Get it? Let's say he did write it. Well, he's not really admitting that. He's making fun of the way some conservative bloggers think they've found evidence that he wrote it. He knows most sensible people believe their evidence is bullshit, and this has been amusing to him because he — in this scenario of mine — knows that, actually, they are right.
Now, confronted in the airport, he's handed an opportunity to stir them up into a frenzy — create a vortex around himself — ah, that feels so good! — by telling one of these conservative bloggers that he really did write it. Ah, ha ha ha.
And — he anticipates — that they will ultimately be beaten over the head with how stupid they were to have believed him when obviously he was just jerking their chain.
And this will be especially funny, because he'll know that these people, his enemies, who look like complete idiots, were actually right. And what better way is there to throw everyone off the track?
Brilliant!"