Here's an exquisite article slicing and dicing Jack Cashill over one of his other flights of idiocy:
Deconstructing Jack Cashill | Obama Conspiracy Theories
Point by point, fallacy by fallacy.
Take a lesson, PC.
And at this point I shall indeed smile and walk away.
Have fun further defending this pile of manure, PC.
Wow! You can't get enough punishment???
I'm going to have to call you Erik the Eager (you know, 'cause masochist doesn't rhyme).
Here you go....now be honest, and check this out:
1. In fact, no detail by itself proves Ayers' involvement, but the cumulative details overwhelm the open-minded.
a. Is it important to link Ayers with Obama in this way? David Remnick, in his comprehensive new Obama biography, The Bridge, wrote "This was a charge, that if ever proved true, or believed to be true among enough voters,
could have been the end of the candidacy."
American Thinker: New Obama Bio Strengthens Case for Dreams Fraud
b. [Christopher] “Andersen, in "Barack and Michelle: Portrait of a Marriage," writes that Obama was faced with a deadline with the Times Books division of Random House to submit his manuscript after already having canceled a contract with Simon & Schuster. Confronted with the threat of a second failure, his wife, Michelle, suggested he seek the help of "
his friend and Hyde Park neighbor Bill Ayers." Author confirms Bill Ayers helped Obama write 'Dreams'
2. There are a number of ‘echoes’ that can be found in Ayer’s works and in “Dreams.’
a. Ayers:
Narrative begins with something to say; content precedes from. Obama: I understood that IÂ’d spent my life trying to review these stories, plugging up holes in the
narratives.
b. Ayers: Narrative inquiry can be a useful
corrective to all this. Obama: Truth is the best
corrective.
c. Ayers: The mind works in
contradiction, and honesty requires the writer to reveal disputes with herself on the page Obama: But I suspect that we canÂ’t pretend that these
contradictions of our situation donÂ’t exist. All we can do is choose.
d. Ayers: The reader must actively see the struggle; it is a
journey, not by a tourist, but by a pilgrim. Obama: But, all in all, it was an intellectual
journey that I imagined for myself, complete with maps and restpoints and a strict itinerary.
3. After AyerÂ’s dropped out of college, he
joined the Merchant Marines. It had a great influence on him, and language and reference to the sea appears often and with regularity. Although there are no literal sea experiences in Dreams, the following words
appear in both Dreams and in AyersÂ’ work: fog, mist, ships, seas, boats, oceans, calms, captains, charts, first mates, storms, streams, wind, waves, barges, horizons, ports, panoramas, moorings, tides, currents, and things howling, fluttering, knotted, ragged, tangled, and murky. This is not coincidence. This is fraud.
a. Consider this sentence from “Dreams:” “The notion that for black nationalists the steady attack on the white race served at the
ballast that could prevent the ideas of personal and communal responsibility form tipping into an ocean of despair.”
b. Have you used the term ‘ballast’ in your writing? When was the last time you read the word, if ever?
4.
Chris Yavelow’s “’FictionFixer’ (
FictionFixer.com - The Future of Fiction Editing), compares any prose its given to any or all of the 210 best-selling novels Yavelow says he has scanned into his Mac G4. The software then looks for patterns—certain words, usages, sentence structure, number of mentions of a character’s name, and the like—and compares it to the target book(s).”
Mr. Fix-It: Area ManÂ’s Computerized Writing Analysis Offers Novel Solution
a. As Yavelow explains, authors donÂ’t go from a 3.8 percent use of the passive voice in 1995 to an 8.3 percent use in 2006.
b. Yavelow cites a score of other characteristics that change too conspicuously from one Obama book to the next, among them the Flesch Reading Ease score, the use of gender words, sentence starters, adverbs, discouraged words, sensory triggers, and more.
c. When, however, Yavelow compared ObamaÂ’s Dreams with Bill AyersÂ’ memoir, Fugitive Days, he found the similarity of the two books
“striking.” For instance, Dreams averages 17.61 words and 26.48 syllables for non-dialogue sentences. Fugitive Days averages 17.62 words and 26.27 syllables.
d. Another team, from a university: ““Using the chi-square statistic,” they add, “
Obama's and Ayers's books were indistinguishable while Obama's book was easily distinguishable from books by other authors.”
Jack Cashill writes: Yavelow Study Confirms Ayers Hand In Obama's "Dreams"
So, wadda ya think, Rikky?
Does Cashill defend the thesis, or what?