October 7, 2009

Ayers admits writing Dreams

By James Simpson
Last Friday we posted an article on these pages asserting Bill Ayers' authorship of President Barack Obama's 'Dreams From My Father,' based on claims made by Obama biographer Christopher Andersen. It is possible that we have now gotten direct confirmation of this from Bill Ayers himself. Anne Leary of Back Yard Conservative was passing through Washington, DC's Reagan National Airport yesterday, and was surprised to come across Bill Ayers at Starbucks: "scruffy, thinning beard, dippy earring, and the wire rims, heading to order."She struck up a conversation with him and snapped the accompanying photo. (I interviewed Anne about it, and thank her for permission to run the photo she took.)Ayers was in Washington, he told her, for a conference on education."That's what I do, education," he said. "You shouldn't believe everything you hear about me... You know nothing about me."To which she responded, "I said, I know plenty--I'm from...(Read Full Article)