Ayers and "Dreams from my father."

At a recent speaking engagement, Bill Ayers joked about writing "Dreams from my Father." Some on the Right Wing missed the sarcasm and jumped the gun. Freepers are more savvy than that - they get the sarcasm, and that also counts as an admission:

Scanian thinks the sarcasm is a ploy:

Sounds like Ayers using sarcasm to suppress suspicion, i.e. make a joke out of it, Alinsky-style.

But to me the mention of “royalties” is a key. All those leftoids are money mad and Ayers has to resent Obama getting 100% of the royalties when 0 surely didn’t do 100% of the writing.

Michael.SF. thinks the audience laughing at the punchline is proof the audience something:

listen to it again and listen to the audience, a woman says "we know" and others make comments which are inaudible. They then laugh when he jokes about 'proving it' so as to collect royalties. I sensed that the audience took it as fact that he wrote it and that the joke is on us because we cannot prove it.

WhistlingPastTheGraveyard also thinks merely joking about it counts as proof:

Billy makes this “joke” to anyone who’ll listen. He loves bringing it up. He loves that he’s finally getting some credit for the best book he’s ever written.

The way he praised “Dreams” and trashes “Audacity” tells you all you really need to know. He wrote the book, adores the adulation and wants the credit. Otherwise, he’d dismiss the theory and let it die.

pallis thinks this is the old double-reverse-switcheroo:

Ayers is speaking the truth, knowing that it is the best way for him to be perceived as lying. He is a trained liar who knows most people assume there is a lie in anything a liberal says, so to cover up the truth, he told the truth as though it were a lie.