Jack Cashill has spent years obsessing over Barack Obama, fabricating conspiracy theories around him and writing books about him. Despite Obama being a cash cow for him, Cashill seemed oddly to declare Obama’s political career dead in his Nov. 13 WorldNetDaily column:
It seems only fitting that Barack Obama would end his relevant political career the way he began it: peddling racial hoaxes.
On the final day of early voting in Wisconsin, Obama made a speech there that was less about praising Kamala Harris than it was about slandering Donald Trump.
As a sign of some desperation, Obama relied on tropes that had not just been debunked. They had been slam-debunked, even by fact checkers on his own side.
Donald Trump, Obama told the anxious crowd, suggested “any Mexican crossing the border is a criminal and a rapist.” Trump “instituted a so-called Muslim ban.” And yes, that oldie but goodie, Trump “said that there were ‘very fine people on both sides’ of a white supremacist rally.”
Actually, they weren’t — Trump did make the “fine people” statement, he did call Mexican men rapists, and he did try to block Musims from entering the country.
Cashill then went back 30 years to fearmonger about Bill Ayers:
In 1994, to help him launch his political career as an Illinois state senator, the Obamas turned to friend and neighbor terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers.
Obama would later lie about their relationship, but at the time he needed Ayers’ editorial help with the memoir that would forever define his persona, “Dreams from My Father.”
Whether it was Ayers’ idea or Obama’s to – in the words of friendly biographer David Remnick – “darken the canvas” or “heighten whatever opportunity arises” to score a racial point, the deed was done.
At exactly the wrong moment, Ayers crawled into Obama’s head and shielded his charge from his better angels.
Ayers had the chance to help Obama establish himself as his own man, but instead he insisted that, to be authentic, a black man must rage at the machine.
Cashill attacked Obama for siding with professor and historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. (whose name he botched as “Louis Henry Gates”) after he was arrested for effectively breaking into his own house, then rehashed his own race-baiting demonization of Trayvon Martin:
After the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, in March 2012, Obama had another opportunity to ease racial tension.
Again, he did just the opposite, lending his imprimatur to one of the most destructive racial hoaxes in recent American history.
In an election year like 2012, in a battleground state like Florida, the message of black victimization, repeated endlessly, worked much better in a stagnant economy than did hope and change.
With Obama’s help, the media turned a violent 6-foot-tall mixed martial artist into a little boy and an Hispanic Obama supporter and civil rights activist into a crazed white supremacist.
The day after George Zimmerman’s rightful acquittal in the self-defense death of Trayvon, Black Lives Matter was formed. Obama said nothing to discourage the mayhem BLM would wreak on black America.
Cashill tried to cash in on the controversy by writing a book dubiously portraying Martin as a monster and Zimmerman as a civil-rights martyr who must not be blamed for his own behavior — even when he was arrested on domestic violence charges — and he offers no evidence Martin showed interest in MMA.
Cashill concluded: “That’s how things have worked in Obama’s America. Those days, happily, have come to an end.” But is Cashill going to let that happen? There’s probably a little more money he can squeeze out of his hatred of Obama.