Experts affirm: Ayers' wrote Obama's memoir
Scientific analyses independently find radical's mark on 'Dreams From My Father'
Posted: October 29, 2008
12:12 am Eastern
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Independent scientific analysis by a number of leading experts supports the literary detective work of WND columnist Jack Cashill that has led him to conclude unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers was the primary author of important sections of Barack Obama's highly acclaimed memoir and editor of the book as a whole.
Obama's 1995 book, "Dreams From My Father," won the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album and drew praise from Time magazine, which called it "the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician."
But since July, Cashill has unveiled in a dozen columns,
summarized here, his compelling evidence that the co-founder of the radical Weather Underground group - dismissed by
Obama as "just a guy who lives in my neighborhood" - shaped and refined the book with his exceptional writing skill and radical ideas.
The evidence, Cashill says, "severely tests Obama's claim of a superficial relationship with the self-declared 'communist' Ayers. This appears to be a conscious and consequential deception."
Cashill points out that in contrast to "Dreams," the Obama writing samples unearthed before 1995 "are pedestrian and uninspired."
"There is no precedent for this kind of literary transformation," he writes. "It is as if a high 90s golfer suddenly showed up with his PGA card -- with no known practice rounds in between."
In a
new column today, Cashill reports four different stylometric analysts now have confirmed his extensive forensic evidence, and he awaits the results from a fifth.
Cashill's expert team includes
university professors from the U.S. and England in the
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Cashill cautions that the data-driven computer analysis is not foolproof, but all of the four independent tests that have been completed point to the same conclusion, that Ayers was heavily involved in the writing of "Dreams."
One analyst, who used his own proprietary software, wrote to Cashill that there is a "strong likelihood" that the author of "Fugitive Days," Ayers' own memoir, ghost-wrote "Dreams From My Father" using recordings of dialog.
The analyst said it's also possible Ayers served as a "book doctor," drastically rewriting work Obama already had done.
A systems engineer told Cashill, "The statistical style analysis performed by our research team suggests that the writing style of "Dreams From My Father" is significantly more similar to the style observed in "Fugitive Days" than to the style found in other works by
Barack Obama such as "Audacity of Hope."
Another analyst writes, "We strongly think this bears immediate investigation by the academic community at large as the initial data presented is highly suggestive that these two documents share large portions of authorship."
Cashill has
released one of the statistical summaries, in pdf format.
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