Bill Ayers

Thomas Lipscomb, a fairly prominent conservative investigative journalist last seen defending the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth against charges of dishonesty, dives head-first into the “Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s first memoir” conspiracy theory. The crux of his rather argument is that Ayers, by exasperatedly joking to blogger Ann Leary that he wrote the book, may [...]

Before it’s all lost to the memory hole, here are the top bloggers who were duped by Bill Ayers’ sarcastic “confession” of authorship of Barack Obama’s first memoir:
- Jonah Goldberg of National Review.
I am not sure what to make of the story that Ayers has now admitted to writing Obama’s autobiography. If it pans out, [...]

Jonah Goldberg steps back from the “Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s memoir” conspiracy after catching an Oct. 3 writeup of an Ayers speech. It appeared in National Journal, behind a pay wall, so few people saw it as Annie Leary’s “scoop” flitted around the blogosphere.
When he finished speaking, we put the authorship question right to him. [...]

The author of “Liberal Fascism” falls hook, line and sinker for Bill Ayers’ joke about serving as Barack Obama’s ghostwriter.
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 [...]

The un-killable “Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s memoirs” conspiracy theory got a second (third? seventh?) wind this week after conservative blogger Anne Leary met Bill Ayers in D.C.’s Reagan National Airport.
[U]nprompted he said–I wrote Dreams From My Father. I said, oh, so you admit it. He said–Michelle asked me to. I looked at him. He seemed [...]

I see that Rush Limbaugh is buying into the the thinly sourced “Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s first memoir” conspiracy theory, helping push this from the fringe to the conservative mainstream. (Limbaugh’s birther jokes were pivotal in pushing that weirdness into the culture.)
There are people who can act holier-than-thou about ghostwriters. Rush Limbaugh is not one [...]

I’ve written in the past about conservative author Jack Cashill’s quest to prove that Bill Ayers wrote President Obama’s “Dreams From My Father.” Cashill’s still beating the drum.
The Washington Independent’s David Weigel, for instance, is among those who dismiss [Christopher] Andersen’s claim because he credits me as a source… Had he read Andersen’s book, which [...]

For more than a year, conservative journalist Jack Cashill has argued that a textual analysis of “Dreams From My Father” reveals that it was ghostwritten for Barack Obama by former Weatherman Bill Ayers. Because Cashill’s analyses depended on comparisons of similar cliches and reading grade levels, they never got far out of WorldNetDaily. But Cashill [...]

If you want to understand where the truly unexpected “Obama will indoctrinate our kids” controversy came from, look no further than the latest column by Michelle Malkin. She begins by mocking “the sneering defenders of Barack Obama who can’t fathom the backlash” and cites, as WorldNetDaily cited, an August 28 assembly at Eagle Bay Elementary [...]

Claiming that Americans must “Stop Sotomayor” from wreaking havoc and terrorism on the country from a perch on the nation’s highest court, this new Committee for Justice ad warns that like “Barack Obama’s buddy, Bill Ayers,”  Judge Sonia Sotomayor led a group supporting violent terrorists. That support apparently took the form of a statement by [...]