The London Times is reporting that Republican supporter Robert Fox, who is also brother-in-law of Congressman Chris Cannon (R-Utah) has offered $10,000 to Oxford scholar Dr. Peter Millican to run a computerized comparison of Obama's bestseller "Dreams of My Father" against William Ayers' memoir "Fugitive Days" to determine is Ayers might be the ghostwriter of Dreams.
The London Times is reporting that Republican supporter Robert Fox, who is also brother-in-law of Congressman Chris Cannon (R-Utah) has offered $10,000 to Oxford scholar Dr. Peter Millican to run a computerized comparison of Obama's bestseller "Dreams of My Father" against William Ayers' memoir "Fugitive Days" to determine is Ayers might be the ghostwriter of Dreams.
After a preliminary examination by Millican, he determined that the connection was "implausible". Millican offered to undertake a more substantial review for the $10,000 fee but stipulated that the results must be published regardless of the outcome, at which point "interest waned".
According to Millican, "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".
Republicans try to use Oxford don to smear Barack Obama