Funny Joke
A woman named Anne Leary says she ran into Bill Ayers in Washington:
unprompted he said — I wrote Dreams From My Father. I said, oh, so you admit it. He said — Michelle asked me to. I looked at him. He seemed eager. He’s about my height, short. He went on to say — and if you can prove it, we can split the royalties. So I said, stop pulling my leg. Horrible thought. But he came again — I really wrote it, the wording was similar. I said I believe you probably heavily edited it. He said — I wrote it.
Not that we care that much anymore, but it’s sort of an amusing moment. HT: Powerline
October 9th, 2009 at 5:38 am
There has been some pretty convincing evidence that Ayers indeed wrote Obama’s book. Considering past accomplishments (other than campaigning) … it is hard to imagine that Barry suddenly became an accomplished writer, then apparently lost all his skills again, as noted ummm in his ummm impromptu ummm speaking.
But I guess it is funny to have an artificial president, though late night hosts don’t seem capable of finding much humor in him.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
You guys never fail to achieve new levels of gullibility (we’ll believe anything if it attacks Obama — that should be on your business card). Ayres was being sarcastic to a known wingnut. Even Jonah Goldberg pulled back from the brink with the revelation that Ayers was joking, per a National Journal report: ‘[W]e put the authorship question right to him. For a split second, Ayers was nonplussed. Then an Abbie Hoffmanish, steal-this-book-sort-of-smile lit up his face. He gently took National Journal by the arm. “Here’s what I’m going to say. This is my quote. Be sure to write it down: ‘Yes, I wrote Dreams From My Father. I ghostwrote the whole thing. I met with the president three or four times, and then I wrote the entire book.’” He released National Journal’s arm, and beamed in Marxist triumph. “And now I would like the royalties.” ‘