Conspiracy-mongerer extraordinaire Jack Cashill has a new conspiracy to peddle: William Ayers, whom he calls “the radical leftist who has made ‘unrepentant’ a household word,” ghost-wrote Obama’s book “Dreams From My Father.”
Cashill lays it out in a three–part series published at WND Sept. 18-20. He has no actual evidence to back this up, of course — just a claim to have “developed an eye for literary humbug.” Cashill claims a purported similarity between “Dreams” and Ayers’ 2001 memoir, “Fugitive Days.” Cashill also asserts the two have a similar background: “Ayers and Obama both grew up in comfortable white households and have struggled to find an identity as righteous black men ever since.” And Cashill demonstrates a need to belittle Obama as nothing more than an Ayers mouthpiece, something else he has no actual evidence to support: “In Obama, alas, Ayers may have found a much more a lethal weapon to use against the ‘marauding monster’ called America than any pipe bomb he could have ever built.”
Cashill also writes: “For Ayers, like so many on the left, hard and soft, facts are whatever he can get away with.” Given that Cashill is peddling conjecture as fact, he might as well be writing about himself.
Remember, Cashill is the guy who wrote a seven-part WND series claiming that anti-abortion extremist didn’t murder abortion doctor Barnett Slepian — only to have Kopp confess to the killing a few months later. That makes it difficult to take anything he writes seriously.