home page or look through a list of yahoo ! search the web advanced search | most popular please try yahoo ! please check the url for proper spelling and capitalization . as soon as she mentioned that she was conservative , he offered , unprompted , that he had written the book , that michelle obama had put him up to it , and , yes , that he ’d be happy to split the royalties with the blogger if she could prove it . i think he enjoys mocking people who push this idea and enjoys it doubly when they ca n’t detect the mockery . back in october 2009 , a conservative blogger spotted him in reagan airport and approached him . when she countered that she thought he had at least edited it , he egged her on by insisting that no , he had written the darned thing . in fact , i ’d bet that this is his stock response anytime the book is mentioned in his presence — insisting that he wrote it to see if the listener laughs and then toying with them if they seem credulous . but as i say , your mileage may vary .