A March 28 interview of conspiracy theorist extraordinaire Jack Cashill by Accuracy in Media’s Roger Aronoff is all about giving Cashill a platform to spin his latest theory that Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s book “Dreams From My Father.” Aronoff makes no attempt to question any claim Cashill makes.
Therefore, there’s no mention of the Oxford don who found that Cashill’s analysis of Obama’s book to be “very implausible” and and that his research methods “seem badly flawed.” There’s also no mention of the fact that Cashill’s invoking of celebrity biographer Christopher Andersen as backup for his conspiracy ignores the fact that Andersen was citing Cashill’s previous work as part of his evidence, or that Andersen has specifically said that “I definitely do not say he wrote Barack Obama’s book.”
Instead, Aronoff helps him shoot down any criticism, saying at one point, “I know the mainstream media, the liberal media, of course, is going to shun this or use ad hominem attacks. They’ll never go in and try to address your issues one by one and refute them, so they just call you names and all that.”
Accuracy in media? Not so much.