Evidence Grows in Obama’s Literary Fraud

from American Thinker:

The major media will not likely tackle the emerging evidence of Obama’s stunning literary fraud, but the days of Obama’s boasting about his writing skills are just as likely over.

The immediate cause of concern at the White House is Christopher Andersen’s largely benign new book, Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage.

 

Andersen contends that the ambitious Obama, unaware of JFK’s own literary fraud, hoped to launch his own political career with a book as did John Kennedy with the discreetly ghost-written Profiles In Courage. 

 

Despite a large advance, Obama found himself “hopelessly blocked.”  After four futile years of trying to finish, Obama “sought advice from his friend and Hyde Park neighbor Bill Ayers.”  This he did “at Michelle’s urging,” she being the more pragmatic half of the couple.

 

What attracted the Obamas were “Ayers’s proven abilities as a writer.” Barack particularly liked the fluid novelistic style of To Teach, a 1993 book by Ayers.  This he hoped to emulate for his own family history.  In fact, he had already taped interviews with many of his relatives, both African and American.  The key sentence in Andersen’s account is the one that follows:

 

“These oral histories, along with his partial manuscript and a trunkload of notes were given to Ayers.” Adds Andersen, “Thanks to help from veteran writer Ayers, Barack would be able to submit a manuscript to his editors at Times Book.”  The manuscript in question would become Obama’s 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father, what Joe Klein of Time Magazine called “the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician.”

For full post: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/09/literary_lion_obama_will_roar.html

Now, it is important to remember that Barack Obama, when asked about his relationship with terrorist Bill Ayers, said he was just someone whose kids went to the same school, just a minor acquaintance.

White House is Very Thin-Skinned with the Media– even their Fawning Media

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/politics/white_house_pulls_guest_from_cnn_over_new_obama_book_136603.asp

 

 

“A White House senior adviser was scheduled to appear on CNN’s “American Morning” this week, but the White House rescinded the offer after the network booked author Christopher Andersen. Andersen’s new book “Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage,” is out today.”