Posted by
Icarus on Monday, October 20, 2008 12:23:48 AM
Is that a ghost I see?
I wonder what the Main Stream Media would make of this. Republican John McCain, for years, takes sole credit for writing
Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir. In the midst of a heated campaign for the American Presidency rumors arise as to who actually wrote Sen. McCain's family memoir. As the days slowly creep toward the election circumstantial evidence comes to the fore that the good Senator's book was not only ghost written, but was ghost written by an unrepentant terrorist who felt he had not done enough when it came to making and planting bombs. If all of this concerned the Republican candidate do you think that the only place you could learn about this massive "October Surprise" would be an obscure internet journal? Or, instead, might this be getting front page treatment in every paper across the land and be the lead story on every news show among the "Alphabet Media"?
My scenario above, for most folks, is purely rhetorical. The answer is obvious. The Main Stream Media would be all over that story like red, white and blue bunting at a political rally.
What, however, if that story concerned Good King Obama?
...
crickets chirping ...
While the Media Elite are pouring through contractor's licenses and tax records concerning some obscure plumber, because said plumber dared ask "
His Serene Majesty President-designate Barack the Healer" about taxes and the real world, a hard working writer is trying to determine whether or not the Illinois Senator really wrote
Dreams from My Father.
Ghost written work is not at all unusual for America's political class. John McCain was honest about his ghost writer and put the Mark Salter's name next his on the book's cover. Obama has taken sole credit for his ouvre. In his investigation about how
Dreams from My Father came to be, Cashill poses this thought experiment in his article, titled
"Who Wrote 'Dreams from My Father'":
"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."
If there was a ghost writer to the work that put Obama on the literary map, then who was it? Inquiring minds, at least those not yet part of the Obama Cult of Personality, want to know. Cashill has a one very interesting and reasonable suggestion: unrepentant domestic terrorist, now toast of the academic elite, "Professor" William Ayers.
How does a guy who wrote literally nothing, except
barely passable academic essays and some really bad poetry, suddenly kick out "the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician"? The American public have a right to know, especially if they are may be choosing to make this "writer" Commander in Chief in the midst of war to save Western Civilization from barbaric Fascislamic theocrats.
Thank you to
Roger Kimball for alerting me to this explosive story.