Donald Trump Tells Hannity: Bill Ayers Wrote Obama's Book ( Dreams of My Father )

[FrankRep]

Trump Tells Hannity: Bill Ayers Wrote Obama's Book (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/trump-tells-hannity-bill-ayers-wrote-obamas-book/)

The Blaze, Newsmax
April 16, 2011



Trump asserted that Ayers wrote Obama’s best-selling book “Dreams of My Father” and that Obama sat in Wright’s congregation for 20 years while Wright “spewed hate against white people.”

Obama dropped his friends when the going got tough, Trump said. “So you got Reverend Wright, you got Bill Ayers, you got Tony Rezko. He drops these guys, and the press leaves him alone.”

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Bill Ayers: (Dreams of My Father) I wrote that book

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfIZDYm0a54


Bill Ayers admits (again) he wrote Obama bio
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=280073

Bill Ayers Admits For Second Time He Wrote Obama's 'Dreams From My Father'
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/03/27/bill-ayers-admits-second-time-he-wrote-obamas-dreams-my-father

Bill Ayers: I Wrote Obama's Book
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_032811/content/01125111.guest.html

Who Wrote Dreams From My Father?
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/who_wrote_dreams_from_my_fathe_1.html

[Zippyjuan]

Sounds like he was joking.
"And if you can help me prove that I wrote it I will split the royalties with you!". If he did write it, he would have the proof and the royalties. He and everybody there laughed at it.

Rush Limbuagh and WND are not that reliable of sources.

[FrankRep]

Sounds like he was joking.
"And if you can help me prove that I wrote it I will split the royalties with you!". If he did write it, he would have the proof and the royalties. He and everybody there laughed at it.

Ghost writers are pretty common with political figures. Bill Ayers has made two references (so far) that he wrote Obama's book "jokingly" of course. After a while, when does a joke become not a joke?


Jack Cashill
September 18, 2008

1/3: Did Bill Ayers Write Obama's "Dreams"? (http://www.cashill.com/natl_general/did_bill_ayers_write_1.htm)

2/3: Did Bill Ayers Write Obama’s “Dreams”? (Part II: Deconstructing the Text) (http://www.cashill.com/natl_general/did_bill_ayers_write_2.htm)

3/3: Did Bill Ayers Write Obama’s “Dreams”? (Part III: Why it Matters ) (http://www.cashill.com/natl_general/did_bill_ayers_write_3.htm)


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[Zippyjuan]

I followed your links (to an opinion piece at WND- again, not that reliable of a source) and find speculation that somebody thinks that Ayers might have writtten it. Unless I missed it, I don't see anyplace where Ayers says he wrote it. If it is there, please link for me. Thanks. Ayers joke was made a couple years after the piece so he may have been responding to it. He probably did have a ghost writer help him- but there is no evidence that it was Ayers.

[eOs]

I must say it's interesting how the crowd in unison after he made the claim said, "yea we know."

[FrankRep]

I followed your links (to an opinion piece at WND- again, not that reliable of a source) and find speculation that somebody thinks that Ayers might have writtten it. Unless I missed it, I don't see anyplace where Ayers says he wrote it. If it is there, please link for me. Thanks. Ayers joke was made a couple years after the piece so he may have been responding to it. He probably did have a ghost writer help him- but there is no evidence that it was Ayers.

I don't have a strong opinion either way. However, Bill Ayers does keep saying He wrote Obama's book. Maybe Ayers "is jerking some chains (http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/188305/ayerss-confession/jonah-goldberg)" and having fun, but he does keep saying it.


Stalking William Ayers (http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/stalking-william-ayers/)

NY Times
October 7, 2009

National Journal caught up with Ayers at a recent book festival where he was exhorting a small crowd of listeners to remember that they are citizens, not subjects.
...

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.’”

[Peace&Freedom]

I note with both the birther issue and now with Ayers, Trump presents a defective case, compared to other advocates. Surely he has the resources to get his staff to prepare him better on these subjects. Has he been encouraged to do this deliberately, by an establishment that wants a use a new high profile Judas Goat, to discredit both positions?

[Zippyjuan]

I don't have a strong opinion either way. However, Bill Ayers does keep saying He wrote Obama's book. Maybe Ayers "is jerking some chains (http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/188305/ayerss-confession/jonah-goldberg)" and having fun, but he does keep saying it.


Stalking William Ayers (http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/stalking-william-ayers/)

NY Times
October 7, 2009

National Journal caught up with Ayers at a recent book festival where he was exhorting a small crowd of listeners to remember that they are citizens, not subjects.
...

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.’”

Thanks for the link. He repeats his standing joke- using the exact same words like a rehearsed comedian:

He went on to say--and if you can prove it, we can split the royalties.

And again at the end of their conversation:

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.





I don't have a strong opinion either way. However, Bill Ayers does keep saying He wrote Obama's book. Maybe Ayers "is jerking some chains" and having fun, but he does keep saying it.


Interesting position. Don't know or maybe even care but posting and arguing threads which say it must be true seems to say you do care and have an opinion.

[TNforPaul45]

How could a man (Obama) that cannot even remember the values he holds and where he stands to the extent needed to keep from having to read off of teleprompters at every speech even possibly be capable of writing a book? He might have dictated some stories to Ayers, but if Ayers sewed them together into a coherent political narrative, I would not be surprised.

[Zippyjuan]

He was editor of the Harvard Law Review. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2008/09/barack-obama-ha.html

He also wrote manuals for an International Trade publication.


After graduating, Obama landed a job writing manuals for a New York-based international trade publication.