Jack Cashill

Jack Cashill
Born December 15, 1947 (1947-12-15) (age 64)
Newark, New Jersey
Occupation Novelist, Journalist and Editor
Subjects American Issues
www.cashill.com

Jack Cashill (born December 15, 1947) is an American author and "right-wing journalist."[1] Cashill is a weekly contributor to the WorldNetDaily website and executive editor of Ingram's Magazine in Kansas City, Missouri.

Cashill was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey to William and Frances Cashill. He graduated from Regis High School in New York City and Siena College in Loudonville, NY. Cashill received his Ph.D. in American Studies from Purdue University in 1982. He is of Irish descent.[2]

Cashill has written at least eight books including Ron Brown's Body: How One Man's Death Saved the Clinton Presidency and Hillary's Future; Popes and Bankers, A Cultural History of Credit and Debit from Aristotle to AIG; The Chautauqua Rising; Hoodwinked: How Intellectual Hucksters Have Hijacked American Culture; Sucker Punch: The Left Hook that Dazed Ali and Killed King's Dream; with James Sanders, First Strike: TWA Flight 800 and the Attack on America; and What's The Matter With California?, a reference to Thomas Frank's What's the Matter with Kansas?, released on October 2, 2007. His newest book, Deconstructing Obama: The Life, Loves, and Letters of Americas First Postmodern President was released on February 15, 2011.[3] The book's premise "is that President Obama's entire life is one massive fraud, as demonstrated (Cashill claims) by the fact that Obama almost certainly did not write the two memoirs that eloquently and movingly retell the president's life story."[4] He has also written and produced several documentaries, such as Silenced: TWA Flight 800, Mega Fix and the The Royal Years.

He has written for Fortune, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Weekly Standard. Cashill hosted a daily talk radio show for KMBZ for four years, and has appeared on the Fox News morning show Fox & Friends.[1] He has taught media and literature at Purdue and at other universities in the Kansas City area. He served as a Fulbright professor in Nancy, France.

Cashill has written a series of essays concerning his theory that Barack Obama's autobiography Dreams From My Father was ghostwritten by former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers.[5][1] The charge was "popular on various right-wing Web sites" in the closing weeks of Obama's 2008 campaign for the presidency.[6] Christopher Andersen, an editor for Time magazine, later interviewed people who knew Obama at the time Dreams was being written and concluded that he submitted tapes, notes, and a partially written manuscript to Ayers.[7] "His work has also been endorsed by Andrew Breitbart and the National Review's Andrew McCarthy."[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Pareene, Alex (2011-04-07) Is Barack Obama actually not in this photo of Barack Obama?, Salon.com
  2. ^ Cashill, Jack. "Cashill Family History". Cashill.com. http://www.cashill.com/familyhistory/index.htm. Retrieved January 20, 2011. 
  3. ^ Deconstructing Obama: The Life, Loves, and Letters of Americas First Postmodern President, Amazon
  4. ^ Maloy, Simon (2011-02-24) Deconstructing Obama: Avant-Garde Idiocy, Media Matters
  5. ^ Cashill, Jack, "Who Wrote Dreams and Why It Matters", American Thinker, May 24, 2009.
    Cashill, Jack, "Obama Didn't Write 'Dreams from My Father'", World Daily Net, October 13, 2008. "The evidence strongly suggests that Ayers transformed the stumbling literalist of 'Why Organize?' into the sophisticated postmodernist of "Dreams," and he did so not by tutoring Obama, but by rewriting his text."
    Cashill, Jack, "Yavelow Study Confirms Ayers Hand In Obama's 'Dreams'".
    Kelly, Jack, "Obama's fishy associations", Pittsburgh Post Gazette, October 12, 2008. "Investigative reporter Jack Cashill has noted some intriguing coincidences between Sen. Obama's 1995 autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," and Mr. Ayers' 2001 book, "Fugitive Days," for which Sen. Obama wrote a dust-jacket blurb."
    Montopoli, Brian, "Bill Ayers Book Comment Sets Blogs Abuzz", CBS News blogs, October 7, 2009. "Today, [Cashill] got what many sympathetic parties took as proof: An admission from Ayers himself to a conservative blogger that he was behind the book."
  6. ^ Remnick, David, The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, Vintage, (2010), p. 253.
  7. ^ Andersen, Christopher, (2009), Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage, pp. 164-166, 169-170. ISBN 0061771961. "In the end, Ayers's contribution to Barack's Dreams From My Father would be significant--so much so that the book's language, oddly specific references, literary devices, and themes would bear a jarring similarity to Ayers's own writing."
    Smith, Tymon, "Dreams from Obama's ghostwriter", Johannesburg Times, Oct 3, 2009. "Author Chris Andersen...drew on anecdotal evidence to suggest that Dreams was written by Obama's neighbour and founder of a radical left-wing group, Bill Ayers."

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