Acephalous

Gauntlet thrown!

I don't anticipate a response, but who knows? Maybe we can muster up a President's Day miracle!

The man is determined to lose.

Jack Cashill — the man who claims his literary sensibilities rival those of a latter-day Auerbach — proves yet again, again, to have problems being intellectually honest. In “Obama Does Best When He Says Nothing,” Cashill compares the President to “Chauncey Gardiner, [who] is the protagonist of Jerzy Kosinski’s 1971 prescient satire, Being There, which was later made into a movie of the same name, co-scripted by Kosinski.” Because his ethos, such as it is, relies so heavily on the impression that he is a man of letters, he neglects to inform the reader that the quotations he draws from Kosinski’s “prescient satire” are not, in fact, in the novel. They are, however, in the film. As I am the last person about to denigrate film as a medium, my point here is not to belittle Cashill for quoting from a film, but simply to note that, like most disreputable literary critics, he believes his credibility relies on always being the first to “lose” a game of Humiliation.*

Now we know who one of Andersen's anonymous sources was.

Who anonymously told Christopher Andersen that Bill Ayers wrote Dreams From My Father?

Bill Ayers.

Probably confessed it in the same sneering manner, too ... which tells us more about Andersen's credibility than anything else.