Cheap And Wrong

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Registered: 10-23-2008
Cheap And Wrong
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Sun, 11-02-2008 - 9:20am
The lunatic fringe of the Republican party (in other words - these days - MOST of it) has hit a roadblock with their attempts to prove that William Ayers actually wrote Obama's first book, Dreams From My Father:

Dr Peter Millican, a philosophy don at Hertford College, Oxford, has devised a computer software program that can detect when works are by the same author by comparing favourite words and phrases....

Fox contacted Millican, who said: “He was entirely upfront about this. He offered me $10,000 and sent me electronic versions of the text from both books.”

Millican took a preliminary look and found the charges “very implausible”. 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 gave him the impression that Cannon had got “cold feet about it being seen to be funded by the Republicans”.


Heh. Apparently a little dose of reality from an Oxford don who actually knew what he was doing caused these two "investigators" to decide both that they had better things to do with $10,000 AND that they didn't want a spectacularly, hilariously failed effort like this one to be seen directly to have been funded by Reublicans.

Color me (not) shocked.




Konichiwa, Bitches!
McCain LOST???

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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: mccaint
Sun, 11-02-2008 - 9:50am