by va
The business of being Jack Cashill proceeds apace. That business, of course, is taking hatchets and flame throwers to the thick jungle of everyday reality, creating new bends and promptly going around them. He has been flogging his "Bill Ayers ghostwrote Dreams From My Father" conspiracy theory for a while now, but recent developments suggest that the depths of his psychosis have not been fully plumbed. In fact, all through this saga, it seems that Cashill has been holding out on us. He penned this piece on Christmas Eve; it's called "Yes, Virginia, There is Life After Death," and, well, it explains a lot. If you've ever encountered Jack Cashill's writing and wondered, "Is this guy as crazy as he sounds, or crazier?" the answer is inevitably the latter. As evidence, I give you just one paragraph from his "Yes, Virginia," which is really more like A Christmas Carol, in that Cashill tells of his various ghostly visitations. So okay, brace yourself:
As Anna [a medium] related, she had been awakened by a very loud rendition of the song “Sloop John B.” She heard my father’s voice filtered and coming from her left. This meant, she told me, “He did, in fact, shoot himself.”
This is not a paragraph that is helped by context. If
anything, it speaks of contexts as yet undiscovered by Cashill himself,
if not by modern psychiatry.
This may explain the evolution of his Ayers ghostwriting conspiracy in the last few months. Back in October, the rubber of Cashill's psychosis met the road of current events,
and he speculated that Ayers and Obama had a split, the upshot of which
was that Ayers struggled to maintain his control over the President,
and was forced to admit to a right-wing blogger that he indeed wrote Dreams.
Ayers succeeded all too well. As president, Obama does him little good on the ground in Chicago and, for the moment at least, has made his lifelong anti-American project suspect.
Lest Obama forget where he came from, Ayers’ recent admissions of having written Dreams, however ironic their delivery, remind Obama who put him in the White House and who can take him out.
Of course, Obama defied Ayers again when he announced the escalation in Afghanistan, which in the record of reality produced this interview in which Ayers expresses his opposition to it. Cashill took note, claiming: "Ayers Escalates Cold War With Obama." Nota bene: Ayers' opposition to the Afghanistan escalation, according to Cashill, is only marginally about matters of life and death, and has mainly to do with Ayers losing his grip on the President. What Cashill might say next is hard to predict, to put it mildly, but by his logic the next step is for Ayers to get the Weather Underground together again.
A final note: I glanced at Cashill's Wikipedia entry, and what to my wondering eyes did appear but this harrowing factoid: "He graduated from Regis High School in New York City." Damn. If his high school diploma is even authentic, some people have some explaining to do.