We’ve documented WorldNetDaily columnist Jack Cashill’s continuing obsession with the Obamas, even though they left office four years ago. With the publication of Barack Obama’s presidential memoir, Cashill was on Obama patrol yet again.
IN a Nov. 18 column, Cashill whined that the book “reads as though Ward Cleaver had written it about winning a seat on the Mayfield City Council,” repeating his discredited claim that Bill Ayers ghost-wrote Obama’s first book “Dreams From My Real Father.” On Dec. 2, Cashill approvingly cited Dinesh D’Souza’s even more discredited book “The Roots of Obama’s Rage,” declaring that “Although I have dissented in the past from D’Souza’s thesis [that Obama’s hold anti-colonial “rage”], Obama left enough clues in “Dreams” and elsewhere to make that thesis viable.” He pushed the idea that Obama’s father was little more than a sperm donor, then went to conspiracy territory by adding, “As some suspect, Barack Hussein Obama may not even have been that.”
Cashill devoted his Dec. 9 column to whitewashing Obama birtherism pushed by the likes of WND and Donald Trump:
In March 2019, an attorney familiar to those who follow the “birther” movement softened the ground for Joe Biden’s candidacy with a lengthy salvo in The Atlantic.
Bob Bauer used the pretext of former Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s House committee testimony to launch his attack on the president.
“Trump repeatedly hawked the lies that Obama was born in Kenya,” wrote Bauer. This was false. Trump did question the mystery surrounding Obama’s origins, but despite their digging, the media could find no instance in which he claimed Obama was born in Kenya.
Cashill touted Philip Berg’s 2008 efforts to push the birther issue, then suggested that it was Obama’s fault the birther issue festered by waiting until 2011, when Trump made it an issue, to release his “long-form” birth certificate: “If it was all so easy, one has to wonder why Bauer did not get a copy when Berg first brought suit.” Perhaps because the original birth certificate Obama released was legitimate and even the long-form certificate didn’t stop WND and others from pushing the birther lie.
In his Dec. 16 column, Cashill huffed that “Obama has been ridiculing Trump for challenging election fraud,” but he launched his political career by gettinghis opponents thrown off the ballot for a congressional race by challenging the signatures on petitions to get them on the ballot — nevert mind that petition signatures and ballots are two very different things. Still, Cashil whined, “If they gave a Nobel Prize for hypocrisy, that is one award Obama would actually deserve.”
Cashill returned to the Bill Ayers angle in his Dec. 30 column, still suggesting the bogus ghost-writing claim, though he shunted any purported evidence to that effect into a book plug: “To learn more about Ayers’ involvement in “Dreams,” please read my new book ‘Unmasking Obama: The Fight to Tell the True Story of a Failed Presidency.'”
Cashill used his Jan. 27 column to bizarrely suggest that if Trump could be impeached after leaving the president for inciting the Capitol riot, Michelle Obama could be impeached for unrest after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014 because … she once told a story of a Target shopper asking for her assistance as if it was assumed she was an employee.Cashill went on to try and deny Barack Obama’s experience as a black man: “To seem more like an authentic African American, he has been inventing racial grievances all his adult life.”
On Feb. 24, Cashill ranted against Barack Obama’s podcast with Bruce Springsteen:
In Springsteen, Obama has found the perfect partner, someone whose life is as inauthentic as his own. Obama claims that he and Springsteen have “a shared sensibility about work, about family and about America.”
The shared sensibility about work is that neither has ever had a real job. According to Time, Springsteen labored for a few weeks at age 18 as a gardener. And that was it.
[…]What the two grifters do have in common are multiple houses, including massive shore homes: Springsteen a 378-acre horse farm in Colts Neck, New Jersey, and Obama, a $12 million waterfront estate on Martha’s Vineyard.
Maybe they can do one of their unifying podcasts on the effect global warming will have on the resale value of beachfront property. I am sure the rest of us yahoos will identify.
Maybe Cashill needs to seek some treatment for his Obama Derangement Syndrome.