Those Obamalove letter excerpts that Vanity Fair ran a couple of weeks ago were the best thing that happened to low-end wingnut grifter consortium World Net Daily since forever -- it gave them a new opportunity to call some new Obama thing totally fake, because... well, look at them, they're clearly bullshit. Letters. Pfft. Why won't the mainstream media spuriously declare them fake? Because they don't have the brains of a Doctor Jack Cashill, the supreme linguistico-syntactical Indiana Jones of wordsleuthery and anti-truth discovery who's most famous for pointing out that Bill Ayers wrote Dreams from My Father. Cashill argues that Obama couldn't have written those letters, because (a) UMLAUTS? (b) he doesn't like Obama (c) they don't sound at all like the writing in Dreams from My Father, which, again, Obama didn't write, but still.

Here's the meat of Cashill's argument: We all know that Obama is too stupid to include an umlaut in his writing, because look at him, he's an idiot. Also, this supposed "college Obama" name-dropped someone whom Jack Cashill had never heard of until now, as if that were possible. Cashill was an Honors English student, ahem:

Recall that Obama, in the words of friendly biographer David Remnick, was an “unspectacular” student. A Northwestern University prof who wrote a letter of reference for Obama reinforces the point, telling Remnick, “I don’t think [Obama] did too well in college.”

And yet writing longhand, presumably from memory, Obama has the wherewithal to put an umlaut over the “u” in Münzer. In college, I was an Honors English student and a Classics minor, not a political science major like Obama. I had not even heard of Münzer before reading this letter.

Obama's writing in these letters is nothing like his writing in the Bill Ayers book Dreams from My Father, either. As if someone might use a completely different writing style in pretentious college-age academic musings than one would in a memoir (which, again, he didn't write)? And these letters are written about nice, white people -- not the CRAZY BLACKS who were the subject of every course he ever took:

Nowhere in “Dreams” is there any mention of T.S. Eliot, Münzer or Yeats, or any of the themes in this letter that so excited Adam Hirsch. As Obama tells it, he and his pals “discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy.” This I can believe.

Totally missing from “Dreams,” too, are the more exotic words in the letter to McNear: ecstatic, mechanistic, asexual, stoical, moribund, reactionary, fertility, dichotomy, irreconcilable, ambivalence, plus “hazard” and “counter” used as verbs, as in “I will hazard these statements” and “Counter him with Yeats and Pound.”

Ugh, bring back Breitbart.

[WND]