WHAT WINGERS MEAN BY EVIDENCE

You may have heard or read of the claim that William Ayers is the real writer of Pres. Obama's Dreams From My Father and I finally got a link to a few articles (here and here) that appeared in the American Thinker written by Jack Cashill, who seems to have started this rumor.

Overall, Cashill's argument seems to be that because Ayers used words and there are similar words in Obama's book, Ayers must have written it. It's really not much more than that, as this example shows:

The opening scene of Dreams takes place in the early 1980s in and around Obama's New York City apartment with its "slanting" floors. As the scene unfolds, Obama is making breakfast "with coffee on the stove and two eggs in the skillet." In Fugitive Days, Ayers inhabits an apartment with "sloping floors." He too cooks a lot -- his books are rich with often sensual food imagery -- and uses a "skillet," a southern regionalism.

"Skillet" may be a southern regionalism but I'm from upstate NY and it's used widely there, so I'm not sure what Cashill is trying to prove.