Sunday Times (UK) - Republican attempt to prove Obama book ghost written - MUST READ!

[Jackeens]

Link here - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5063279.ece

More detail here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5062890.ece

The summary:

Robert Fox, a California businessman and brother-in-law of Chris Cannon, a Republican congressman from Utah, offered $10,000 to an Oxford academic, Dr Peter Millican, to 'prove' that Obama's autobiography was ghostwritten by Bill Ayers.

Millican has devised a computer software program that can detect when works are by the same author by comparing favourite words and phrases.

Millican took a preliminary look and found the charges “laughably unsubstantiated”. A deal was agreed for more detailed research but when Millican said the results had to be made public, even if no link to Ayers was proved, interest waned.

Millican said: “I thought it was extremely unlikely that we would get a positive result. It is the sort of thing where people make claims after seeing a few crude similarities and go overboard on them.”

He said Fox told him that Cannon had got “cold feet about it being seen to be funded by the Republicans”.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. repukes sure are good at wasting money.

[Fire1]

2. R-e-a-c-h-i-n-g

[boppers]

4. Sad, but true.

After year's of bush's efforts at "buying favorable science", they seem to think that science can be, well, bought.

[FVZA_Colonel]

3. Millican should be saluted for his integrity.

He wouldn't take their money, and when he demanded full academic openness for the project they bolted.

[boppers]

5. Publish or Perish.

Turns out it's a good thing. ;)