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Trump has never written a book. Other people write the bigly words for him.
Exactly! Bill Ayers wrote Obama's "Dreams From My Father"
The following is the portion from “Public Enemy,” addressing the charge that Bill Ayers wrote Dreams from My Father:
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The story that I had secretly ghostwritten Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama’s beautifully constructed memoir had gone wild in a shadow corner of the blogosphere. A bunch of cranks fed the fire at first, and soon enough more serious analyst signed on and spoke up about the vast, complex conspiracy that I was orchestrating, perhaps even dictating Obama’s thoughts. How could I ever prove the negative?
I was walking through Reagan National Airport when a mild-looking middle aged woman approached me and asked if I were Bill Ayers. “I am,” I said. “What’s your name?”
“I’m Anne Leary,” she replied as we walked along.
“What do you do?”
“I’m a right-wing blogger,” she said without hesitation. “And I’d love to ask you one question.”
“Sure,” I said. “Shoot.”
“Did you write Dreams from My Father?” she asked, and I laughed out loud.
Here we go, I thought and then – FLASH! – I had an inspiration. We stopped and I turned to face her. I asked her to please quote me exactly. “Of course I will,” she said.
“Yes, yes,” I said. “OK. I wrote Dreams, every word of it,” I said. “Are you getting this down, Anne? I met Barack Obama maybe three or four times total on this project, and then I just made the whole thing up, ghostwrote the entire book. I doubt that he even proofed it. Now if you can help me prove that I wrote it, I’ll split the royalties with you.”
Anne was true to her word. She posted the interview, and her obscure little site got tons of hits and lots of links, soaring upward on a big traffic-ranking site to number 3 and then number 2 and finally number 1! Wow! Anne was big time now in her murky little echo chamber, a real hero for finally getting confirmation on a story they all knew to be true but couldn’t prove until now.
From hero to goat in a matter of days: first Jonah Goldberg, then National Journal and Rush Limbaugh and finally the Times, which said that it sounded like “Ayers is jerking some chains.” The story suffered a sudden unanticipated reversal, and they began to bicker and dig a bit of a trough for themselves. If they said I wrote the book, that was an example of courageous and intrepid investigative journalism; if I said I wrote the book, that was just me being a goofball, while making asses out of them. The real story, as Rush saw it, was that I did write the book, but by admitting that I did, I was actually clearly asserted that I didn’t write the book. Oh, what a tangled web I weave!
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