story is different than the one presented in his biography. this program is just over an hour. i want to start by telling you some of you may not believe that this whole journey started so innocently. i was in july 2008 a correspondent set me a list of excerpt from the claim 1995 memoir of barack obama called dreams from my father paid i hadn't read it to that point. hadn't been paying that much attention to the campaign, and i found myself stuck in the detroit airport awaiting a flight on america's least glamorous flight the trip to buffalo. but very little to do i went into a bookstore and was like and obamarama. dreams from my father, softcover, there were obama coloring books and coffee table

books giving it was like the obama store. and given my diocese i feel like an adolescent boy in the first copy of playboy. you don't have the "national review" and commentary but anyhow, as i started reading the book first of all i discovered the excerpts in question were taken out of context. the book is not as radical as it sounds. the book is calculated and as i would learn later on doing my research the book wasn't calculated to make barack obama president of the united states. was calculated to make barack obama the mayor of chicago in which position it would do a world of good as president and in the world of psychological and moral problems. as i get into it, just in the we've description, the book is divided into three parts. the first part starts with the section origins, which basically tells his story from the time he

tracks back to his parents and takes him through his departure for chicago from new york city. the second part is the longest most tedious part of the book called chicago, and it almost reads like a was for another book. the report is kenya. and what i discerned in reading the book is a very comparable structure to the odyssey which was interesting, and i wrote about this and i describe the obama as a combination of seeking a father and the father seeking the homeland. after i wrote that, the book credit this book is a combination of obama seeking the father and the homeland. i think that is the structure of the book and i was probably the first one to see that. and that comes into play and i will tell you why in just a

little while. as i read that what intrigues me is a was the best part of it, some of it wanders and some of it is tedious but the best parts are very well written and as i am going to make the case tonight, bill aires may seem a bit on the sentence by sentence basis, he writes extremely well. and partly because we have to maintain obama is the sole author of this book and i will explain why that isn't so and why we know that's not so. any way as i was reading through the book i was thinking there are two questions that emerge and they would form the basis of my book. the first question is did barack obama write this book? in the second question is is the story he tells true. and as i would come to discover, the answer to both questions is the same and we will tell you that is in a little while.

i thought when i got into it every what would be asking these questions because i've seen barack obama speak and his interviews. i didn't think he had of the literary background to write a book of this quality. so i went online and googled barack obama ghost writer. there would be plenty of people already discussing who his ghost writer is. instead i got the answers like this, unlike john mccain barack obama doesn't need a ghost writer. i couldn't find a single disputing head on either side of the iowa including on the right side of the aisle and william buckley's some voted for barack obama because he was a gifted words meant. i'm not going to disabuse you of your notions tonight. i thought everyone would be asking these questions but as i discovered i was the only one asking these questions. this is a weird place to be which i will tell you about. switching gears a little that as

anyone who's seen me play can attest i am not a particularly good golfer. and i would consider myself a double bogey golfer, on a par-4 i would shoot six. a pro what should a three in on would shoot a five commesso for me if i ever break 100 miller time it's just something to celebrate. i would achieve this level of success is the lack of natural talent and secondly and i combined that with an absolute failure to practice and its accommodation together that makes me as good if a golfer as i can which is 100 plus in the average day. now to achieve the true superiority with say tiger woods it takes two of them one is an extraordinary natural talent and secondly total dedication. a deep commitment and a discipline to do the best you can do and in the book the out wires -- did anyone read that

book buy now, what well, good book. he talks about recalls the 10,000 our rule, and what they say, psychologists say to achieve mastery of any subject or craft it takes not only great natural talent, but roughly 10,000 hours of practice. glad well sites the beatles and says tiger woods if you read the history as a for instance of charlie parker, a kansas city jazz, ten, 12 hours a day of practice when he was an adolescent. you get so good to complete rules because you know the rules are. now in barack obama's case, he skipped about 9900 hours of the process. [laughter] if you read the writers are like golfers and conditions that takes a natural talent and a lot of hard work. and barack obama's case, there was for instance this case i read this summer the biography of christopher hitchens, a memoir called hitch and he writes about himself as a writer from the time he's a child he's

influenced, his struggles and success, his failures, his breakthroughs, his gift, the things he lacks, the people he admires. another character i read this year and everyone in the media should have read and we will talk more about the for the evening is preus frank marshall davis, the mentor of barack obama when he was in hawaii. he grew up black in the central part of kansas and suffered more discrimination than barack obama did his entire life but he writes about it with grace and intelligence. but his book is about becoming a writer. it's about the struggles, the influences, his attack of july this he talks about it and he becomes a serious poet and journalist. that's how you get to be good. and barack obama's caisse he's÷]

in the book dreams from my father he mentions the rule of the writer once. i made journal entries and wrote bad poetry. i'm not going to deny he did that especially the bad poetry part, but that is not a writer made. now, one side was suspicious. i started looking around to see what did obama right that would make it into print? and there wasn't much for the guy that wrote this classic great acclaimed memoir there wasn't much to see. what i did find was one paper, an article he had written when he was a senior columbia university called braking the war mentality. although fanatically it's no sillier than the average paper written by a columbia undergraduate in 1983. stylistically it is a disaster, a total disaster. this might be excusable if a

year before this they found barack obama in an indonesian cave raised by wolf but to this point, he spent the last four years of america's best colleges, graduating ivy league school. before that he was at hawaii's best prep school. the writer we meet as a 21-year-old in 1983 is 90% as good as a writer will ever be. that is the way it works out, writing tall levels from high school graduate school. i would love to say i could take a student and if i can become 10% better i'm thrilled. that's the way it is. this is his signature, this is his dna. in his one essay, 1800 words long, he has five sentences in which the noun, the subject isn't agreed with the verb. it is an embarrassment to columbia university they allow this to be published and i presume there was no editor.

my children were riding better than this in grade school. seriously. in your children were, too. here i would read one sentence. the one sentence from the braking the war mentality. the real advantages of the concentration on the single issue is leading the national movement to challenge individual systems while continuing the broad campaign. this should read advantages are leading but only if advantages can lead. if all of the structure is wrong will continue in the broad campaign this ingalls doesn't attach itself to anything. this is sentence after sentence of there isn't a single sentence in the whole essay that has a hint of style or greece or promise that we would see. five years later in 1998 we see more of obama in the second time in print he writes and essay

cold play organize and goes after the community organizer in illinois. we see the same problems, sentences, mounds and subjects that don't agree and these awkward sentences that some of the page like lead. here's one. facing these realities as the three major strands of the earlier movements are apparent. facing these the devotees modify is nothing. strands do not face reality. this is the whole sentence to sit there and read it and you know what i had to do is go back and make sure i hadn't missed typed something because i couldn't believe they were as bad as they were but they were. in 1990 he wrote a caseload at harvard and it's about the one time in recent history democrats have not chosen to expand rights in this case to the on board. and here is the typical sentence

a fetus against third-party provide an additional deterrent to unwanted intrusions on a woman's bodily integrity. another it is an unborn child can sue its mother or the abortionist it would restrict the ability of the mothers to kill the unwanted child. that's where he was in 1990. the same year barack obama was elected president of harvard law review which is a popularity contest, by the way. it's not anything else. then in the same year once the story of the presidency makes "the new york times" article contacts barack obama and arranges to put it together takes it to simon and sister to the car schuster, publisher by become 18 months to write his book. there's something you don't know and barack obama may not even know himself because he's not a writer so what he does is what

people always do this with challenges to can accomplish he procrastinates and keeps putting it off. she takes up the leadership of the project which gives him an excuse not to meet his deadline. he's teaching at the university chicago law school. meantime he meets and marries michelle, his wife, and they have a social world that would meet scarlett o'hara's head spin. can't believe the parties and barbecues that they will go to, just no time to write. there is no time and yet somehow and i'm going to give you more detail, somehow in 1995 after simon and schuster canceled the contract and they offer a small or lesser contract with no a sieminski little he sits down and writes a 440 page book "time" magazine will call the best written memoir ever produced by an american politician.

jonathan, british heavyweight would call it call obama and the basis of the book the best writer to occupy the white house since abraham lincoln. nine years go by after that. the best right to occupy the white house says abraham lincoln rights only tiny pedestrian columns for the hyde park column. i read just about all of them. i couldn't find a single sentence and a lot of them that was even remotely graceful or politic. the greatest writer ever to occupy the white house put this talent on hold for nine years and then writes pedestrian columns in that sense. that's very unusual for writer. in 2006 he produces the audacity of hope and it's well written and researched but it seems to be written in an altogether different voice. david run make y will talk about in a little bit is an editor of the new yorker and the author of

the obama biography called the bridge acknowledges that obama put off writing for a long time. he had to get this massive contract between the time he was elected to the senate and the time he took office. but he did his tea fire his agent because she would have gotten 15%. the one who stuck with him the last five years, and hired by the hour attorneys and negotiate with contracts it would cross their agendas of the $500,000. peter osnos who wrote about this, the liberal publisher who was involved in this negotiation called obama with list which is a story that didn't get much play because he wrote it before the election. so, what he says is that obama ran out of time and he wrote the audacity of hope which is a well-written and well researched book even though it was written by somebody else other than dreams from my father he wrote

one chapter week, that's 50 pages a week. he writes the first draft longhand. by the way he can only write this after so much stuff you couldn't believe anyone else could do anything but fall asleep. but he wrote 50 pages a week for the last eight weeks to finish the book and we are supposed to believe that? i get into the book and on the audacity of hope i'm not going to concentrate tonight. you might be saying to yourself don't all politicians have ghostwriters? and most of them do. i mean it is an accepted in congress as hair dye. [laughter] everyone does it, except barack obama. in july, 2008 he was speaking to the convention of school teachers in virginia and you can see this on youtube. he says i've written two books. they are all excited to be there. then he goes i actually read

them myself. now they laugh. the the it's a joke. you see republicans can't do that because you're too stupid, they are not smart enough like barack obama. so this becomes the foundational neff of the genius not only that he wrote dreams from my father and the audacity of hope but he wrote them himself without hope and mike barack obama who on the cover of his book says with mark salter which is fair. in this regard, barack obama was the last and the greatest in the line of very smart muscari smart democratic political figures. going back just think about this progression. in the fifties we had at least even some and remember his nickname, those of you whose parents or grandparents might have told you the egghead if you are so smart. he was succeeded by the man who as a senator won the pulitzer prize for his book profiles in

courage. then followed by a series of smart people. let's see, eugene mccarthy, remember this, mcgovern who is cerebral and then came the whole string of the big brain wonks' starting with gary hart and michael dukakis and al gore and john kerry. been the smartest woman on the planet, hillary clinton, then the scholars, bill clinton and bill bradley and every one of them smart. on the republican side, i will walk you backed we start with sarah palin who can see russia from her house and i googled sarah palin and got 8 million hits. this is in the age of civility. can you imagine what it was like before the age of civility?

the jarman bumper sticker the village in texas making its it yet. dan quayle couldn't spell potato. george bush, sr. was a fancy was ambushed by a grocery scam. gerald ford couldn't walk up and down a flight of stairs without falling. even eisenhower was incoherent and ronald reagan of course in the words of clifford that was the republican side. that is what the media has presented. how about if you're a black republican. are you exultant from this? not at all. in fact, you go from being a sacred cow if you're a liberal to being hamburger if you are a black conservative. here is without proving what follows come here is what steve said to clarence thomas when clarence thomas's book my grandfather's son can now. he's describing to thomas what his reputation was in the media circles. a man of little accomplishment,

an opportunistic black conservative who sold out his race, joined the republican party, and was ultimately rewarded with an affirmative action appointment to the nation's highest court. a sold of intellectual lightweight so insecure he rarely opened his mouth and oral arguments. that's what they told clarence thomas to his face. they are not racist, of course not. and david grumet this could be the opponent in the 2000 to -- 2004 race in the most eloquent person i've ever seen, alan keyes, he describes him as -- [applause] a demagogue fool. now david grumet describes obama with the term brilliant, intelligent or smart, more often in his biography of obama than walter isaacson did the subject his most recent biography albert

einstein and go back and count them. i am not exaggerating. i wish i were. not everything is as important as it seems. sarah palin see what you will isn't the one hiding her scores and her college. george bush sent an nba before anyone ever heard of the george bush. his wife is a librarian. dan quayle misspelled potato because the flash card the teacher had a and zero e and he didn't want to embarrass the teacher. george bush was ambushed by the grocery scanner because no one had seen the scanner like that before including the cameramen. they knew that. dwight eisenhower, will he happened to oversee the most successful in the military warfare. ronald reagan, after being called it turned out in 2001

they published the book ronald reagan in his own words. he had written his own speeches before he was president especially in the speech from 75 to 80 and when the republicans either intelligence, coherence and a systematic, they were smart. he won the cold war. now if, gerald ford of and probably the best athletes from all-american football player, champion skier, golfer, here's what chevy chase had to say. he's on the first season of saturday night live when the campaign against it and gerald ford and jimmy carter was in progress, chevy chase said later i wanted carter in and ford out. and we're reaching millions of people every weekend, why not do it. do we think that tina fey had more motives in her weekly slander sarah palin? i don't think so. now has for the democrats, are the as smart as they appear?

in 1956, with a little help from joseph kennedy, a little from joseph kennedy he won the pulitzer prize for the profiles in courage. drew pearson, the leading muckrakers of the day went on the mike wallace shawn adc and accused ted sorensen of actually writing that book. what they had sorensen to being the family retainer he was, was to go on the air and swear under oath that he didn't write the book. he was leaking all along he did republic and he finally admitted as much in his memoir he wrote the book. jfk won a pulitzer prize for a book he didn't write. it's not to say that any of these guys a stupid, they're just not as smart as we would like to think they are, and for instance when george bush's sats comes out and they have al gore and john kerry are all

comparable and then they tried out a bill bradley, he was my idol ahead of me at princeton and a great basketball player we thought he was a st. scholar. for 85 on his s.a.t. in english. that isn't terrible if you're going to the community college. [laughter] but if you're going to princeton puts you in the bottom 1% of your class. and yet we had to live with this illusion he was a great scholar but they control the media so they can get away with this and it's the way it is. obama is not stupid. i never said he's stupid and i never will. he ran a great campaign in 2008. it's just he's no more of a writer than i am a golfer who. so if you see me walking around your neighborhood and the jacket and i tell you what i won the masters -- laughter could be suspicious, okay? and it's easier for me to win the masters than it would have been for barack obama to write a

letter in a masterpiece. it's not -- you can't do that you're not a writer. just like couldn't win the masters no matter how much i practiced. first with my suspicions of july 21st i just wrote an article called who wrote dreams from my father and at that time i had no idea. i just knew there was someone else involved and barack obama didn't have the chops to put the book together. and i followed different threats. i don't do this for a living so i have to do a living doing other things. and early september i picked up a copy of bill aerts memoir and i have no suspicion that all at that time that he was involved in this book. i didn't know much about him. i did know his book was reviewed where he says he has no regrets for the like of obama on the day of the history for these unrepentant terrorist to come forward. "the new york times" reviewed it september 11, 2001, 2 hours and sure the lawyers is on top of the world, and after that, he

became a figure of total disrepute. his book was quickly into this obscurity and it had a burn. horrified if i put so much faith in that and that is what happened. i started reading it, and this is actually a pretty good but because say what you will about bill ellers, he had an eventful life and once you get through to the heart of the story it's pretty compelling. i mean, he's a fugitive from justice for ten years setting up moms or blowing people up. gets blown up in a village bomb blast that as i'm reading it became the certain patterns, and i think -- i feel like i am reading something i've already read before.

and then i have my first year rica moment it's kind of stupid eureka moment because it's like i got it. they are both in chicago. they are both kind of radical. they have the same ghost writer. that's what i figured. i had no idea about his background as a writer. here are the two sentences for instance that caught my eye and i will just read them. the first one is from bill ayers's book fugitive days. the confrontation flows like a swollen river into the future carrying me along and a cascading waters from room to room from whole to call bouncing off of boulders. here's one from barack obama's dreams from my father. i heard our voices began to come together the sound of the generation stumbling over each other like a slow-moving stream. my questions like rocks in the water, the bricks and memory separating the courage. not only the imagery the same, the flowing water broken by the

boulders would also with each sentence begins with a standard phrase and a list by a series of participles embroiling, separating, carrying, bouncing in the other. i'm reading this and said there is something going on here, right? and when i finished reading through the book, when i finished reading fugitive days by that time i realized he had written his own book and the good voice comes and goes and in the book the voice is consistent from beginning to end then i went on line and found this other stuff and saw he has a reputation as a writer and i looked and said this is a serious writer and editor. i just remember another high park radical and chicago wrote a book called resurrecting empire and as the acknowledgment section starts, quote, first this is how it starts, first, chronologically and every other way bellaire's was his

editor-in-chief, the guy that helped him put the book together that is the service he provided. now it seems like not such a crazy idea that when he is involved with dreams from my father. another by got involved in was the question of postmodernism, postmodernism is like pornography. it's one of those things that's hard to describe but when you see it, you know it, and basically it means you reject the view of the world or enlightenment and impose your own reality, you construct the reality and impose it on the world and it doesn't sound like makes much sense but it's there. you can recognize when you see it the memoir for instance leas with our constructive reality and so here's what obama says, another part of me knew that

what i was telling them was a lie. something that i constructed in the scraps of information i picked up from my mother. now, what i'm going to do here is read a sequence from barr vv ka ayers and the wall and you listen for the similarities. this is why the book was necessary because i can't do this in a thousand words. people say right a thousand or article. i need to cut 20,000 words to make my case. ayers, narrative begins with something to say. content from. obama commanders to this and much of my life trying to review the stories, plugging paulson narrative. ayers, narrative gentry can be useful to all of this. obama. truth is the best corrective. ayers, the mind works in contradiction, and honesty requires the writer to reveal disputes with the self. notice with the self. obama, but i suspect we can't pretend the contradictions of the situation will exist can do is choose. ayers, the reader must see the

struggle not by the tourist what wyatt program. obama, and all and all of an intellectual journey i imagine for myself complete with last point and strict itinerary. ayers, narrative raptors strive for signature but must be aware of the struggle for the honesty. obama, i was engaged in a imperial struggle. someone -- by the way, this is the only postmodern bouck obama route. it shows up and nothing else he ever wrote except dreams from my father. there's not a word in any of the articles otherwise. also at that point in the postmodern fling as well the grooves in which they had fallen and even the stitch together nature of their lives these are distinctive freezes, and the other thing i'm reading in the fugitive days is that after they dropped out of college and the freshman year at the university of michigan, he took a job and

traveled the ocean and was a job that scared him. he admits it and he still has dreams about it, nightmares. he hoped to become a great writer like joseph conrad but it didn't work out. what he did is the language of the sea would forever in fact everything he wrote to. for instance, he writes an article on education that perfectly mimics the idea about obama's ideas on education but i'm not going to go into that here. just the title. navigating the restless sea the struggle to achieve peace and education for african-american in chicago. now, obama is from hawaii. we know that. the book is a totally land logbook. there aren't to paragraphs so there's no opportunity in obama's book to write about the sea. these are the words i'm going to

read for you are usually in metaphorical context or something. here the following words shared between barack obama's dreams from my father and bill ayers three books that i followed. i'm going to raise them quickly. the sinking ships, oceans, captains of the charts, floods, shores, streams, wind, waves, waters, horizons voyages, on certain courses and things howling wallen flooding, leaking, cascading from swimming tinkled, boundless, and charter of a turbulent and murky. that's the coincidence. i went back and read in a more myself and grew up by spent 6 feet to a jump of mysore each year of the place unfortunately snooki is. [laughter] it was a wonderful place before

that and new jersey, and i couldn't find three or four of those words in my book. it's just not -- here is what caught my attention. this is the word and one of the sentences that was highlighted was critical but to get out of context and here is what barack obama says. the notion was the attack on the white race served as the balance that could prevent the ideas of personal and communal responsibilities from tapping into the ocean of despair. that is google, que uses this word in a sentence unless they really know what they are talking about? i had to look it up. i know more or less what it means that if i'm writing a sentence with the word balance as a metaphor i'm looking that up. september 18th, 2008i went public with this three part series called bill ayers right dreams from my father? and at the same time, i started

contacting the computer, the experts in the computer forensics. everyone told me you got to get these guys. and what they told me, and i contacted them without any sense of what the republics might be. this is the and to the american university. just looking for advice and basis the away from computer from six. they are not reliable enough. the polygraph, not the dna and you don't want to get caught doing something where it would result in or justifiable. this isn't a great success in the world of the computer forensics it is a talk about this in the book is a great interest as well so i had to stay away from that. and then why is the accusation problematic in 2008 it's still problematic in 2012. here's the reason. he based the genius of of his dreams from my father. the second thing is if i were right, if my thesis was correct he lied about his relationship

with bill ayers. and third if i were right he allows bill ayers to wander around all that time, sharing ideas, sharing thoughts, sharing plans come and you have to ask yourself how many dinner parties of bill ayers and perfidy with barack obama in attendance ended with the punch line kaboom? where does this began and where does this end? david run mant says about my theory if it is proven to be true among the voters that could have been the end of the candidacy i knew that. that is a totally weird feeling. like a month and half out from the election coming and you know that you have the supplies in your pocket. and you know that no one wants to listen i felt like miles of the invasion of the body snatchers. [laughter] what the aliens are taking over and people are driving by and all this. [laughter] anyhow, now i'm going to digress a little bit here. i'm going to go from

september 18th, 2008, to december 18th, 2009. i have to throw this into let you know what happened. a year later this is like my christmas comes early, comes in september life of a pony under my tree. it was a book by christopher andersen which an american marriage usa today refuted the portrait of the obama marriage. it was his 14th celebrity biographer he had written about the previous book was on dena and christopher reeve. the current focus she writes with in the gate the audience skews female and liberal and the establishment in that mayor tom etc and the reputation for he has absolutely no reason to lie about what he discovered and that is a six page section in this book on how hopeless people are barack obama, deeply in debt having to pay back at michelle's

urging turns to his friend and neighbor in hyde park and he says bill, helpless out. and they brought down the note, and as on the audiotapes and the unfinished manuscript that says we need your help. this is christopher anderson writes. six pages on this, to support me. he has no interest in appealing to my audience. i read 80 reviews of christopher anderson's bouck reviewed everywhere. christopher anderson was even on chris matthews. on the reviews you know how many of them mentioned the single most newsworthy revelation of the book? it was at that moment that i knew -- my friends were singing get your pulitzer prize speech ready. i said you don't know as well as i do it isn't going to happen. zero mention it.

here's how the internet works, and the people don't understand or appreciate it. thomas friedman calls the internet by the we just last year on meet the press and my wife wonders why don't watch sunday morning tv. an open sewer of unfiltered information. in 1933 on like the information of "the new york times" in 1933 the guy like walter wouldn't have been able to bury the press the story of six to eight killed by joseph stalin. in 1957 to '59 "the new york times" reporter herbert matthews calls the internet existed wouldn't have been able to pass the new george washington did it. thank you, internet. you've changed everything for the better. what happens -- [applause] what happens is the place where i was writing is you could come

when you put off a new idea is to become the source of people with similar thoughts across the world. before this is over i would have about a half a dozen people from places like australia, south africa, israel, india, switzerland, hawaii and all across the united states. my single best, for all of that coming and going to in in paris and he's an incredibly savvy, smart, well written observation from him, he says did you see this -- here's one that he threw by any. people teach the students go into the hudson river and the one kid is is to the other book the river is flowing from north to south and the other kid says look here it's flowing north and then the teacher explains it is a tidal river. this is the one spot on the river where the north flowing tide meets the south flowing hudson river. two years later and the

fugitives and dreams from my father barack obama took the east river and also a tidal river that runs parallel to the hudson and he's sitting there and the young boy walks up and says mr. it seems to me that the rivers flowing south but it's also flowing north and obama says assisted with the tide. this isn't convinced. this is the merchant marine interposing his fiscal knowledge so i sit right in, let me use your name and will give you credit for what you're doing. and he says after what happened to joe the plumber i don't want anything to do with it. [laughter] i heard that from half a dozen people. joe the plumber by the way, there was more in query joe the plummer and his wife that summer by the mainstream media than in barack obama. and i'm not exaggerating.

one other thing and this is brilliant, one day he sends me the fbi file and this is the bill ayers terrorist girlfriend killed in the 1970 greenwich village bomb blast. the history article from that time about how bill ayers visited diana with his friends and this big country state for generations, the library, a carriage house, and then he says to me check this out and the checkout what barack obama says in this book. in dreams from my father, 440 pages of the young man coming of age as the multiracial person in america, there are two paragraphs dedicated. he tells them in retrospect about a white woman in chicago.

this white woman just happened to be the same height, hair color and eye color. she happened to live in the state by ian with trees and the lead in the mill and how the house of the carriage with books he just happened to break up with her and he says we never heard of her, never saw her, and in other words, as long and arduous i think that he's correct barack obama important bill ayers's oral friend and to the book to give them otherwise there's no other woman until michelle. that isn't implying anything other than he just borrowed his girlfriend. so i said i've got to give you credit for this. you're doing too much. and he says no name. he says my credentials aren't and then he sent me an e-mail which made me proud to be an american. this is he says i'm a college

dropout and a small construction company in nebraska, the father of three, and he says i don't think -- i have three children and i am not going to press anyone with these credentials. but what an extraordinary thing he did. i said how did you get into this? what happened? and this is why with the species is i read your first article and i said i wonder if that's true. he didn't say that's true. he said i wonder if that's true. so i found bill ayers and i ordered all his books through amazon. now in michael d. construction obama i talked with the fact that the beltway conservative media, the geneva international times totally turned their back. they have refused to help. they say things light but e-mail lagat from "the weekly standard"

for whom i used to write, and interesting piece subscribe to the moment. the length is considerable and cutting wouldn't do it justice. also, we had a long rather critical piece on his zubrin, never trust anybody has zubrin as him. [laughter] thomas franklin when he was here says i read your ubru which led to people in and the french of the phrase staircase you remember what you should have said a few minutes later walking down the stairs after the dinner party and after thomas ranks as i read this i should have said my wife wears the ubru in my family. [laughter] i remembered that and live through it again tonight. [laughter] see here's the thing, forget about the "washington post," i have no hope for them but we have the literary weekly standards and there are two

things to do dhaka about after the framing and dry wall and in carnegie nebraska. something is wrong with the media. not just the mainstream. [applause] october 9th rush limbaugh started talking about the peace and at that point borecole like changes. you're in box is filled, everything falls up. and then i thought okay this is going to change. we are on top. we could turn the election, we really could. but then what kicks in is by randy travis, one of my favorites is it still over? are we still through? since my phone still isn't ringing i would assume it isn't you. [laughter] my phone didn't ring it was in the end of my candidacy.

on the second part of the book is just the first part, it's written in a hardy boys' adventure. i have to this point of we did and i had enough controversy. i didn't need to be associated with any other come and i was just happy with the s.a.t. scores, but his body will be unearthed before those. [laughter] anyhow i had agreed correspondence all over, i will give his name, don. he has a conveyor belt business and these are the guys that participate. he says look a term at the term pop obama had written or published in when he was 19 or something. it was one of two poems published in the college literary review.

one is called the underground and a friendly review caulkett and symbolic description of the trident submarine primates. i would argue it is probably the best phill written by the primates, but here it is. this he wrote i have no doubt. these things stepping on things pigs eat, they crunch. that is a 19 year old poem. i have no trouble believing barack obama wrote that. the other holum that was with sophisticated home. i'm going to read one of the sections. pop takes another shot and points out the same amber stands on his short have online and it makes me smile his smell coming from me and recites the old poem

he wrote before his mother died and asks for a hug. that is an excerpt. now rebecca and the new yorker describes it as a loving portrait of a bomb's maternal grandfather. david run and mixed the same point. clearly it reflects obama's relationship with his grandfather, and the publication that even suggests otherwise this is how utterly care less these people are in their analysis of alana's life and career. why? listen to this line. here's what he does. he recites an old poem he wrote before his mother dies. his mother committed suicide when he was 8-years-old. frank marshall davis, the poet i referred to earlier, when his

mother died he already felt like he was a poet. at kansas state university he had a great experience their this is frank marshall davis about whom the poem is written and now look at the title of the poem. why did interim knight asked okay if it's about brands which is what obama called his grandfather, why call with pop? it's an implication of paternity in the poem pop. i realized it wasn't only the poem about frank marshall davis, but i would say this is at least 90% confidence and i would assure you why in the book. the poem is by frank marshall davis. when barack obama was 19-years-old. i'm not going to go into detail here but let me sum this up by saying we know less and i mean it is about the first few years

of his life than we know about george washington. david run mccaul streams from my father and extra verifiable facts, recollections of the creation, invention and the same could be set of the may and op east turn into little pieces by obama's chief cheerleader oprah winfrey. if there is a villain in my book by the way it isn't brought on at all. i find it interesting entertaining and a clever guy. it is the media that is the villain and i've studied the history as well of the collapsing like this of the major establishment like the state. thanks a lot. we will take questions. [applause]

>> come to the microphone to ask your question and please come questions, not political statements. >> questions, comments, others? >> why didn't mention and i don't mean to take this invasion, but the question the audience might be asking what are my credentials for doing this, and that is of course my 25 year career in publishing and advertising i've looked at the portfolios at least 1,000 professional writers and that is my first read dreams. i didn't see could write that well. i've taught at every level from the dimension of high school graduate school. i have a ph.d. in the studies with the lit insurance and intellectual fraud called her wing. so the subject wasn't new to me.

but even if it had, like my man in nebraska, people are capable of doing great work if you don't need the credentials to do. welcome what will speech is 10,000 use it when you were explaining it that once you're 21 that your 90% established as a writer, and people are different. some people are 21, they don't progress beyond that. some people like barack obama and have different experiences and talk to a wide range of @ people. it seems like they are constantly evolving. so something the road in 1983 might be totally different from something the road in 1995. >> and the second point is that i think that he wrote to good looks but don't think he's a writer. what he is the is a very good communicator. he's somebody that communicates better orderly than the written

word. but i think if he -- okay come i will ask the question -- >> no, i can use that as your question, that's fine. just to answer the first part of somebody could get much better didn't write so if i went from being a double bogey golf ret 21 to winning the masters at 33 with of playing golf. you have to do one or the other. you don't get that much better doing nothing. this man. >> yes. i have to tell you that the book i haven't finished it yet but it's marvelous but i have to tell you that has an english major this lecture has been have been, for you to talk about participles and for forms -- [applause]

>> i mean, totally, i hadn't realized how in the closet the tonight and now i am out and proud. [laughter] but i really wanted to ask you -- i was a little bit late and i don't know if you told the detroit story about the lady you encountered in the airport or whatever it was? >> i didn't mention that. and what happens, this is a moment i think that we all had one about the book in the vitre airport. i was a little squeamish about it. i had this momentary illusion that yes even if barack obama wins there will be another side that is the racial class -- people felt that. but it didn't happen. as soon as i tell the story on the air once, i get called a racist for telling it.

i got called a racist before i came here tonight. and it's just unfortunate. i could write about nancy pelosi or harry reid with the problem but for this book i know it's something and it's there and it's unfortunate and it shouldn't happen. how're we doing? >> you mentioned [inaudible] that was also teaching at the university of chicago. my question since the last two years we have seen very anti-israel, very confrontational and seems to want to be a follower of the palestinian state. what is the relationship president obama?

>> that's a good question and the answer is available. in 2008 the "los angeles times" had a videotape of i think it was rashid going away chicago dinner and they talked about it and the article was headlined of obama a friend to the palestinian state, but they wouldn't share the content of that video. we knew they were talking about -- they were making a reference to the nazis and this is a holocaust of this and that and the other thing, but the "los angeles times" wouldn't share that a videotape with anyone. they said you have an obligation to share this and they would not. so a whole lot of that is kept on the road. we do know that obama thanked him for the idea that they shared together and solve the problem with barack obama is that there is so much we don't know even today. but a good question. [inaudible]

just that accent. [laughter] >> thank you. >> yes, sir. >> you mentioned right before the last campaign you came out and thought it was going to potentially be kind of the end of obama's campaign. now that your book is out to you see this having a bigger impact and white you think you aren't getting much traction with the conservative media? >> what happened the last couple of days the book came out and was a grassroots invitation. where are the sales coming from? we don't know, but they come from the blogosphere and talk radio. however, i went to cpac last week to knock down that wall, tear down that wall. this is the republican conservative respectable conservative for your wall around information.

they see that there is a reason for it and that it's protecting their agenda. the conservative media is just most of it is snobbery. that's part of it. i wish there were a better answer. [applause] but i couldn't figure one-out. at georgetown so why bother? yes, sir. >> i ran across a bumper sticker and if you think is a good one just bugle, january 20th, 2009 the beginning of an error. [laughter]??? >> i try to stay out of politics, not going to get into that. >> what were the systems of the people that raised barack obama? >> first of all and this is what i get into in part of the and to a is where i take the issue next to susan's bookwh