Jack Kelly Sunday - An Update

Remember this posting?

In it, our friend Jack Kelly actually misrepresented a more-ridiculous-than-usual wingnut theory about Senator Obama. Namely that William Ayers ghost-wrote Obama's book, Dreams From My Father. Jack only pointed out that there were "coincidences." But coincidences, if they happen by definition happen "out of the blue." The allegation is that Ayers wrote Obama's book - how could that be "a coincidence"?

Well,there's an update to this story. This late in the campaign, in what has to be a most desperate hail-mary pass, someone in the GOP tried to get some more evidence to "prove" that Ayers wrote Obama's book.

Too bad for them it didn't work. Oxford Don Peter Millican sets the scene:

Last Sunday [October 26] I received an urgent call from Bob, a man close to a Republican congressman in the American west. He wanted to enlist my services to prove a scandalous allegation against Barack Obama, which would surely affect his prospects in the forthcoming election. Namely, that his famous 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father, on which so much of his reputation was built, was in fact written largely by Bill Ayers, a Vietnam-era domestic terrorist.

On his website, Millican writes that he is totally confident that the story is false. He's got some of that reality based scientific evidence to back him up, too! Not that any evidence will convince the wingnuts at this point.

Go read it, Jack. It'll do you some good to get back to "evidence" and "reality."

And the rest of the story? The Republican who contacted Millican was willing to pay for the analysis, but as soon as Millican informed him; 1) that based some initial work the assertion was "very implausible" and 2) whatever his conclusion it should be made public, the Republican's interest waned.

Go figure.