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Bill Ayers wrote Barack Hussein Obama's memoir??

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Posted by logi_cal 2008-10-09 10:06|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Computerised Determination of
Disputed Authorship:
The Cusum Method
by Tom Ashford
â¢ The Cusum Method
â¢ Authorship Attribution
â¢ Stylometry

Posted by 3dc 2008-10-09 12:59|| 2008-10-09 12:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Wikipedia on Stylometry

Stylometry is the application of the study of linguistic style, usually to written language. In the last few years it has successfully been applied also to music and to fine-art paintings.

Stylometry is often used to attribute authorship to anonymous or disputed documents. It has legal as well as academic and literary applications, ranging from the question of the authorship of Shakespeare's works to Forensic linguistics.
...
Modern stylometry draws heavily on the aid of computers for statistical analysis, artificial intelligence and access to the growing corpus of texts available via the Internet. Software systems such as Signature (freeware produced by Dr Peter Millican of Oxford University) make its use increasingly practicable, even for the non-expert.

Whereas in the past, stylometry emphasized the rarest or most striking elements of a text, contemporary techniques can isolate identifying patterns even in common parts of speech.

This link leads to a research project with software "JGAAP" funded by the NSF to do authorship studies.

Posted by 3dc 2008-10-09 13:14|| 2008-10-09 13:14|| Front Page Top

#3 IMHO, The One is a manchurian candidate, propped up by radical left, a nobody with zero achievement, but fully immersed in the worst of the revolutionary left. He's a construct.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-10-09 13:24|| 2008-10-09 13:24|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't know, I've read Hookwinked. Cashill is a plausable bullshitter, and kind of a crank.

I'd be more inclined to speculate that the common milieu produced two similar memoirs through externalities, and possibly Obama having read Ayers' book. Which of course would mean that Obama's a complete and total liar for the way he's been distancing himself from knowledge of his terrorist buddy, but we know that already, don't we?

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-10-09 13:43|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-10-09 13:43|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm not saying who wrote the book but I think the premise is based on a misconception. That Obama couldn't write a great memoir out the gate. I believe memoirs are the easiest type of book to write. You just talk into a tape recorder and have it transcribed. If you can orate you can write a memoir and most people agree that Obama can orate.

The best political memoir probably has more to do with the love affair between the media and Obama, as well as the fact that the memoir has to be personal because he has no political experience to talk about. So he's talking about different things than a typical memoir, which makes it unique. Oh,and did I say the media loves him?

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-10-09 14:05|| 2008-10-09 14:05|| Front Page Top

#6 According to the post above, "Invisible Man" his mother worked on his unfinished drafts. Who knows she might have had literary talents.

Posted by tipper 2008-10-09 14:32|| 2008-10-09 14:32|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm a writer, and I agree that it was Ayers. Writing is akin to fingerprints. No two writing styles are identical. Writing also is like a person's voice.

Obama's speaking never matches his "own" writing.

Ayers' speeches are EXACTLY like his own writing and exactly like "Obama's" writing.

Well, it figures, doesn't it.

(And remember, all you people, I was the one who outed the troll anti-war as three men of middle-eastern origin, rather than an Autralian female, as he (they) were pretending to be . . . way back when, BECAUSE of the writer's "voice." Unmistakable.)

So yeah, Ayers helped him write it.

"The public is asked to believe Obama wrote 'Dreams From My Father' on his own, almost as though he were some sort of literary idiot savant."

"Writing is as much a craft as, say, golf. To put this in perspective, imagine if a friend played a few rounds in the high 90s and then a few years later, without further practice, made the PGA Tour. It doesn't happen."

Right. It doesn't.

Just a few more lies from Obama.

I'm sure Ayers is laughing all the way to election booth.

My surprise-o-meter is permanently on the fritz regarding the Dems.

Posted by ex-lib 2008-10-09 16:59|| 2008-10-09 16:59|| Front Page Top

#8 The worst autobiographies are those in which the author is too much in love with his subject.

Posted by Scott R 2008-10-09 18:05|| 2008-10-09 18:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Is this all possible? Yes. Plausible? Perhaps. Scientifically verifiable under a simpler standard? Probably so - will anyone ask BHO or the publisher to produce the notes, manuscripts, CDs or emails - the timing seems to be right around the widespread use of the internet/AOL/word processing - so there may be a combination of paper and virtual records. All of which could largely and instantly refute the vast bulk of the speculation here.

Or - this is akin to LGF and the CBS forged TANG document all over again.

I suppose stranger things have happened, but it's still a leap from he had a ghost writer, to the ghost was B. Ayers.

Posted by Don Vito Omeling5062 2008-10-09 23:48|| 2008-10-09 23:48|| Front Page Top

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