In his April 21 WorldNetDaily column, Jack Cashill peddles yet again his conspiracy theory that Bill Ayers wrote Barack Obama’s first book, calling on his usual source for backup:
The reader need not take my word for this. Christopher Andersen, in his 2009 book, “Barack and Michele: Portrait of an American Marriage,” makes the same case based on interviews with Obama’s friends in Chicago, quite possibly with Ayers himself.
A celebrity biographer with impeccable mainstream credentials, Andersen argues that, at “Michelle’s urging,” a “hopelessly blocked” Obama “sought advice from his friend and Hyde Park neighbor Bill Ayers.”
What attracted the Obamas were “Ayers’ proven abilities as a writer.” Noting that Obama had already taped interviews with many of his relatives, Andersen elaborates, “These oral histories, along with his partial manuscript and a trunkload of notes were given to Ayers.”
As we’ve previously detailed, this is circular logic — Andersen’s book on the Obamas cites Cashill as part of his backup for his claims about Obama’s “Dreams From My Father.” Further, Andersen himself backed away from Cashill’s theory in a CNN interview during which he explicitly said, “I definitely do not say he [Ayers] wrote Barack Obama’s book.”
If Cashill is going to continue to blatantly misrepresent what Andersen has said and wrote, why believe anything else he has to say?