Bill Ayers Admits For Second Time He Wrote Obama's 'Dreams From My Father'
For the second time in less than eighteen months, domestic terrorist Bill Ayers admitted he wrote Barack Obama's book "Dreams From My Father."
This time, it was recorded on videotape as he was speaking last Thursday at Montclair State University (video follows with partial transcript and commentary):
UNKNOWN QUESTIONER: Time magazine columnist Joe Klein wrote that President Obama’s book “Dreams From My Father” quote “may be the best written memoir ever produced by an American politician.”
BILL AYERS: I agree with that.
QUESTIONER: What is your opinion of Barack Obama’s style as a writer?
AYERS: I think the first book is very good. The second one was more of a political hack book, but the first book’s quite good.
QUESTIONER: Right, and also, you mentioned about the Pentagon and…
AYERS: Did you know I wrote it?
QUESTIONER: What’s that?
AYERS: I wrote “Dreams From My Father.”
CROWD: We know that.
QUESTIONER: You wrote that?
AYERS: Yeah, and if you could help me prove it, I’ll split the royalties with you.
[Laughter]
Oddly, this was not the first time Ayers made such a claim. Backyard Conservative reported October 4, 2009, after meeting Ayers at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C.:
Then, 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. I said--why would I believe you, you're a liar.
He had no answer to that. Just looked at me. Then he turned and walked off, and said again his bit about my proving it and splitting the proceeds.
Now, less than eighteen months later, he's said this again in front of an audience with a camera taping the whole thing.
As Gateway Pundit noted moments ago:
Imagine the media onslaught upon discovering that a former unrepentant radical terrorist repeatedly admitted on video he wrote George Bush’s first book. We would never hear the end of it. Of course they play by different rules when it comes to Obama. This will get the usual “nothing to see here, move along” from the MSM.
Indeed. It seems quite unlikely this will get much attention anywhere other than conservative blogs and Fox News.
After all, why would it be at all newsworthy that the President's first book was written by a domestic terrorist? These same folks didn't care about Obama's association with Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, and Jeremiah Wright when he was on the campaign trail.
Why should they care now?
(H/T American Thinker)
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Present the truth as a lie?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 8:58pm.
Well Played, terrorist!
'domestic terrorist' Bill Ayers
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 9:00pm.
LOL - That's what I like about Noel - he doesn't sugarcoat it.
And I wonder how long it will take Soros' multitude of mindless minion myrmidons to get that video yanked off of YouTube?
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Come on.
Submitted by melvin on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 9:09pm.
He was obviously joking.
→ Which time?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 9:18pm.
A close friend from the President's past is calling him a bald-faced liar. That ain't no joke where I come from, but I guess Chicago is different.
But here we've got Obama who says he barely knows Ayers, but Ayers claims he's in tight with Obama's wife to the point she can talk Ayers into writing a book for her husband?
This is hilarious. Obama's wife goes begging to a terrorist to buy her husband some gravitas?
Ayers is not a close friend
Submitted by melvin on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 4:21am.
Ayers is not a close friend of the president. Why don't you do some research? You might learn something.
melvin, you're an absolute ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 4:57am.
BS artist, aintcha?
Got to be.
Nobody could be that stupid and figure out how to type on a keyboard.
MD
Not a close friend but Obama
Submitted by ricklail on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 1:23pm.
Not a close friend but Obama announced his run for state senate from Ayers' living room. Who needs to do research?
Ayers is only somebody ...
Submitted by NL207 on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 2:02pm.
who hosted the launch of Obama's political career at his own home.
Ayers served with Obama as officers of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.
He just couldn't possibly be friends with Obama, now could he?
"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so." -- Ronald Wilson Reagan
Jokes, melvin, are not always---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 9:18pm.
obvious.
Why, initially, I read a couple of your posts thinking you actually had something to say.
MD
Yes. You are.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 9:21pm.
You are an oblivious joke.
You mad about being banned so many times, you won't even pretend to be nice now? Just get in as much hate as you can before your bigoted litte tush gets banned again.
Yo, Melvin!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 11:13am.
I need a job, man. How much does George Soros and Media Matters pay people like you to haunt conservative blogs, yo? Can I belong to a union? Can we keep it "off the books" so I can keep collecting my "free money" from Obama's stash?
I'm serious, my brother. Post a phone number or address for me so I can apply with them.
I have experience as a community organizer, and a pretty good replica of a U.S. Birth Certificate, so I should be good to go.
→ SOOOOOO
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 9:13pm.
Who's got the gonads to ask the plagiarist-in-chief which one of them is a lying sack of canine defecation?
Fraud
Submitted by kilrod on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 10:06pm.
Wonder how long they think they can keep this lyin plpossob fraud in the Whitehouse covered up so as you don't notice the smell.?~!~
(grins) kilrod "the Birther"
If an unborn child cannot trust you, why should I,??
Ayers
Submitted by jorae on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 10:12pm.
Why are Republicans so childish about things? If you know that the "joke" has been going around for years...you are allowed to play along.
It just makes this site appear to be of low quality...
No...I wrote it...
→ Right on, jorae
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 10:17pm.
And Joe Biden was joking when he said he would initiate impeachment against the President if he took us to war without consulting Congress. And when this President claimed the President doesn't have the right to unilaterally enter into war, he was joking?
Liberals and their "jokes" are going to be the death of us.
At least previous Presidents were man enough to face Congress.
How much better off would
Submitted by jorae on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 10:37pm.
How much better off would America be, if people acted like adults?
Are you adult enough to stand back and look at this story? I think you still fall into the Jr. High category...Just try being an adult for a week.
And stay on the "Ayers" topic unless your attention span is acting up today.
jorae---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 11:58pm.
a username picked by an inhabitant of the planet Krypton; an individual who is apparently expecting liberal bullshit to not only be believed on a conservative site, but worshipped as well.
Ain't gonna happen, putz.
MD
jorae
Submitted by bassndude on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 5:09pm.
I am no republican, and that was no joke. Obama can't even read a teleprompter, nor can he speak a complete sentence with out um, ah or stuttering. What ever in this world makes you think he can write a book by himself?
Save a SeAL, club a liberal/troll!!
Why is Ayer's still
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 10:26pm.
Why is Ayer's still breathing??? That's about as simply as a simpleton like me can put it!!!!
You remember in Lonesome Dove, Killa, ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 11:04am.
... when Gus said, "Some people just need killing."
The Texas Rangers had a "simple" way of putting things, too.
human earthquake
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 11:51pm.
The way Ayers presented his answer could be interpreted that he was joking. However he may have said it that way to give warning to the Whitehouse that he is not pleased to see obama becoming a war president by choice and that an open split could happen.
Obama has already destroyed a majority congress and is now destroying the anti-war Left if they do not break with him and denounce this war. This parallels Bill Clinton's destruction of the credibility of feminists when they would not criticize Clinton's abysmal actions towards women.
"I wrote it."
Submitted by CO2Maker on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 2:15am.
BA: "I wrote it."
Me: "Dreams from My Father"?
BA: "No, no. Birth certificate."
The context is obvious to most
Submitted by ckc1227 on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 4:13am.
Ayers was joking because of Jack Cashill's claim that he wrote Obama's first book. Now, he very well may have, and Jack makes a good case, but I don't think this or the other time was an official confession.
As much as I hate it...
Submitted by Unsilent_Minority on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 7:25am.
...he sounds like he's joking. Did he write it? Quite likely. But he seems to be toying with the fact that it cannot be proven.
I think he's jokingly not
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 1:00pm.
I think he's jokingly not joking. If you see what I mean. A double dare.
Even on the transcript it sounds like a he's sort of mocking those who claim he wrote it by claiming he wrote it, as if he's winking as he says it...
BUT the way he says it just makes you think this guys isn't really joking.
The thing is, the excerpts of the book I have read or heard are so sophomoric anyway.
It rings UNTRUE, it's full of hackneyed phrases and cliches and ersatz insight. All based on a lie.
Not that good.
All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
I don't care
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 8:10am.
I want to know who wrote Obama's homework when he was getting high and attending Harvard. Where's Wikileaks when you need it.
Hell, trolls.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 11:06am.
I'd just be happy if they could get a group of six people together who actually knew him at Harvard!
6? How about one?
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 11:25am.
Isn't it true that they have yet to find ONE SINGLE person who actually knew him at Harvard?
-Jon
I think you're correct, jon.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 12:03pm.
Surely they could "create or save" at least one person who actually saw him in class at least once!
I mean if you can create or save "at least 3 million jobs," and create or save at least 3 million Libyan "freedom fighters" formerly known as rebels, you could come up with ONE classmate.
Ayers is only promoting himself with this gibberish.
Submitted by acaiguana on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 8:36am.
We all strongly suspect someone wrote the book. Of course to give Ayers any credit for writing anything is suspect.
Ayers is a liar and a cheat himself; so of course he would be close to Obama. Birds of a feather of course.
But to credit him with even the ability to make a 'joke' is too far a reach for me. I think this is a bitterness coming through his facade of intellectualism and betrays the really low opinion he has of nearly everyone including himself.
Only a very bitter man would make such a 'joke' and keep throwing it in the face of his supporters and critics alike.
Ayers has got to be one of the loneliest people on the face of the planet. He is despised and ridiculed at nearly every strata of the human population. He is no Lenin, no Trotsky, no Stalin and certainly is not an intellectual.
He wants to be an icon of history in his own little bubble and it isn't working out well for him.
He doesn't care if he is painted in a very poor light by history or that he is painted as a great ideologue by history (as are his heroes); he only cares that history not forget him which would make him noteworthy.
And history isn't cooperating nor will it. He is not a great man but like Obama wants to be one.
He and Obama are both fools who may be remembered not as great men or even historic icons; but simply as the fools they are and as such will be so remembered.
ACA
...
Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)
I'm much more offended by O's cocaine and pot use
Submitted by Callawyn on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 11:33am.
Most Americans have no idea Obama spent years high on pot and then switched to Cocaine. The media refused to cover this story during the election, so he got a free pass. How many felonies did Obama commit during these years of drug addiction?
how many indeed?
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 11:47am.
He probably got out of them by claiming diplomatic immunity. It's the only thing that makes sense.
-Jon
And while we're on this subject...
Submitted by Tenebrous on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 6:44pm.
Most Americans don't know about Obama's multiple male sex partners, either.
Visions and Principles blog
Hmm. Two new lower-case trolls post exactly the same thing,
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 12:40pm.
on the same thread, within an hour of each other.
Nope, no MM operatives here.
I Could Care Less About Ayers Or Wright...
Submitted by TheReal7Sticks on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 4:31pm.
Are you running out of ways to attack Obama by going back to idiots like Ayers and Wright? It is a sign that you have run out of arguments when you now resort to using discredited sources like WorldNutDaily to whine about Ayers having ghostwritten Obama's book. Ayers has publicly stated that he's no longer friends with Obama, and whatever relationship they ever had is gone. Why don't you just fight Obama on things he's doing now rather than rely on conjecture from irrefutable sources? Remember how the MSM tried to claim President Bush's grandfather, Sen. Prescott Bush, was a Nazi-sympathizer? Well, there doesn't seem to be a difference in this case either.
"Ayers publicly admitted he
Submitted by bassndude on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 4:54pm.
"Ayers publicly admitted he was no longer friends with Obama."
Your really gullible if you believe that load. Of course Ayers has never been known to lie to cover up anything has he? Obama was still consulting with his non friend during the campange and after his election.
And as a conservative, I have no shortage of arguments to attack Obama.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal/troll!!
Sigh. Where to Begin?
Submitted by Tenebrous on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 6:49pm.
No, I'm not running out of ways to attack Obama, actually. This is just one more in the arsenal. Actually, Cashill has been reporting on this one for quite some time. Only now Ayers is sorta admitting it.
If WND has been refuted (what, the entire site?), I'd expect links. Of course you don't have them. Did you mean to say that Cashill has been refuted? Ok, on what subject? On this one? Again, where are the links? He's done quite a bit of analysis on this, so I'm curious to see what you can come up with.
Ayers has publicly stated...and we all know that Ayers never lies. Right. You are naive.
Conjecture? Why don't you go read Cashill's columns instead of just throwing ad hominems at people? Oh wait. Reasoning and debate are not something that poop-throwing leftists are capable of doing. So while I'm asking you to do the impossible, it's still funny (at least to me) to point out how unevolved you are as far as reasoning and debating skills go, seven.
It's almost like you're a Digg troll or something. Wait. You are.
Visions and Principles blog
Obama did not write it
Submitted by deadeyedan on Tue, 03/29/2011 - 12:40am.
I wrote on this site about this back in October of 2009, and here it is again with slight modification: Among the gruel-thin features of Obama's pre-election "record" was the supposed authorship of "Dreams From My Father". In his campaign he stated that his grandfather (or uncle, depending on his lapsing memory) heard from troops who had liberated Auschwitz and Treblinka. Having been in academia for a number of decades I can be reasonably certain that no one with writing ability demonstrated in "Dreams" could ever make such an egregious historical error as not knowing that Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet forces and Treblinka was torn down by the Nazis themselves, especially concerning Holocaust history. Or are Harvard and the other high-profile educational institutions he attended so lacking in such liberal arts discipline that they don't teach such fundamentals?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV1sxq8mqvA
Climategate; the revelation that pseudo-scientists at East Anglia University know just as much about the atmosphere as Harvard law professors know about the Constitution - deadeyedan
Liberalism - government of the people, by the theories and for the ideologists - deadeyedan