Posted by
Buster Foghorn on Sunday, November 02, 2008 10:37:40 PM
Jack Cashill has
a report today, with results from four experts confirming his premise--Bill Ayers wrote major portions of “
Dreams of My Father.” The evidence is accumulating. For example, paraphrasing Cashill’s report from one investigator:
Chris Yavelow, an award-winning composer and author, worked for years developing perhaps the most comprehensive linguistics tool for authorship detection--FictionFixer.
He tested the two books allegedly by Barack Obama, his 1995 Dreams From My Father and the 2006 Audacity of Hope, through FictionFixer, concluding “They were written by different people.”
Yavelow cites a score of characteristics that change too conspicuously from one Obama book to the next. Among the characteristics are 3.8 percent use of the passive voice in 1995 to an 8.3 percent use in 2006, the Flesch Reading Ease score, the use of gender words, sentence starters, adverbs, discouraged words, sensory triggers, average words and syllables for non-dialogue sentences, and any number of other characteristics.
Did Bill Ayers—Barack Obama’s “guy in the neighborhood”—author major portions of the Senator’s critically acclaimed book? Cashill’s report is persuasive that he did. The testing techniques used in identifying literary fraud are fascinating, possibly more interesting than watching Columbo work his magic.
Additionally, Dr. Cashill makes a telling observation about the bias of the press, their infatuation with Barack Obama, noting how no one in
the liberal media is interested in the evidence of possible literary fraud. And yet, turning round fully, just imagine if Sarah Palin had a highly praised book, claiming sole authorship—possibly written by Newt Gingrich. Mind-boggling.