Jack Cashill is starting to sound like conspiracy-obsessed Richard Mellon Scaife (but without the bottomless barrel of cash). Just as Scaife insisted that Vince Foster’s death was the Rosetta Stone of the Clinton presidency — and threw millions of dollars at people to smear Clinton with conspiracy theories about Foster’s death — Cashill (who has penned his own Clinton conspiracy book) is clinging to the idea that nautical references are the Rosetta Stone to his otherwise unsubstantiated claim that William Ayers ghost-wrote Barack Obama’s book “Dreams From My Father.”
Cashill asserts in an Oct. 14 WorldNetDaily column that “A newly discovered anecdote from Bill Ayers’ 1993 book ‘To Teach’ solidifies the case that he is indeed the muse behind Barack Obama’s ‘Dreams From My Father.'” This blockbuster evidence: Both books anecdotally reference the tidal nature of the Hudson River.
That’s it. Really.
Nevertheless, Cashill declares:
This one anecdote holds a host of problems for Obama. For one, the East River would be hugely out of his way no matter where he lived in New York and especially if he lived anywhere near the Columbia campus on the upper West Side.
More troubling, his serendipitous journey to the river enables him to tell a story that is transparently fabricated and almost assuredly hatched in the weathered brain of Bill Ayers.
Even were there no other clues, Obama’s frequent and sophisticated use of nautical metaphors makes a powerful case for Ayers’ involvement in the writing of “Dreams.”
Remember: Cashill is the same guy who spent a seven-part series for WND in 2002 “proving” that anti-abortion extremist James Kopp didn’t murder abortion doctor Barnett Slepian and weaving a grand conspiracy that Kopp was framed — a few months before Kopp confessed to the killing.