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DiversityDriven;58646 wrote:by Jim Kouri, TCV Staff - This comes to us from Accuracy in Media's Cliff Kincaid. AIM is an organization that has published a number of my articles and they are considered the news media watchdog group to be reckoned with.
Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid said that coverage of the Obama campaign's fierce attack on Jerome Corsi's book, The Obama Nation, misses the point that the campaign has finally acknowledged that the mysterious "Frank" in Obama's 1995 book, Dreams From My Father, is in fact the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) member Frank Marshall Davis.
"This identification by AIM and others hasn't been disputed by the media, which has desperately tried to ignore the Obama-Davis relationship, but the Obama campaign has not responded to it until now," Kincaid writes in a new column posted at
Accuracy In Media - For Fairness, Accuracy and Balance in News Reporting..
Kincaid wrote that, "The admission that Obama's mentor was Frank Marshall Davis, an identified CPUSA member, can only add to growing public concern about Obama's relationship with a Communist pawn of Moscow who was the subject of security investigations by the FBI and various congressional committees which examined Soviet activities in the U.S."
Kincaid notes that a 40-page Obama report that is intended as a "rebuttal" to Corsi's book makes no admission that Davis was a communist and doesn't dispute anything Corsi documents about Davis's membership in the Communist Party. Instead, Kincaid notes, the report attempts to play down instances in which Obama soaks up Davis's anti-American thoughts and pro-communist "poetry."
Kincaid praises Corsi's book, saying, "It is clear that Corsi is to Obama what the National Enquirer is to admitted adulterer and liar John Edwards. The Enquirer exposed Edwards' secret life when the rest of the media were refusing to investigate the candidate and making fun of the Enquirer."
AIM confirmed the identity of Frank Marshall Davis and his relationship with Obama last February.
Accuracy in Media is a citizens' media watchdog organization whose mission is to promote fairness, balance, and accuracy in news reporting. Founded in 1969, AIM is the oldest non-profit press watchdog group in America. For more information, please visit
Accuracy In Media - For Fairness, Accuracy and Balance in News Reporting..
Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he's a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). In addition, he's the new editor for the House Conservatives Fund's weblog. Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty.
He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He's a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com. He's also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he's syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He's appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com. Kouri's own website is located at
Jim Kouri, CPP
The Obama campaign did not "admit" that Frank Marshall Davis was Obama's "mentor." It only confirmed that he is the "Frank" from Obama's book. Unsubstantiated claims of mentorship were made by Cliff Kincaid's "Accuracy In Media," as were false claims of "covering up" a "scandal," in Kincaid's continuing disinformation campaign. There is no scandal when there is no wrongdoing.
KINCAID WROTE: But if the relationship were so innocent, why didn't Obama identify Frank by his full name in his book and denounce his communist and anti-American views? Why doesn't he denounce those views now?
RESPONSE: Obama didn't identify "Frank" by his full name in his book because he identified a number of people only by their first names. This is common practice in a memoir. I would think a journalist like Cliff Kincaid should know that. Obama probably did not (and does not) denounce his "communist and anti-American views" because Davis did not reveal any "communist and anti-American views" to Obama. What specific "communist and anti-American views" is Kincaid referrring to?
His demand for fair wages and other benefits for workers?
His demands for equal protection of the laws?
His demands for freedom of the press?
His support for a woman's right to choose?
His demand for integration of the armed forces?
His support for the integration of the AFL and CIO?
His demand to end restrictive covenants in real estate:
His support for the Fair Employment Practices Act?
His demand for general dismantling of all laws supporting racial segregation
His demand for an end to laws support anti-Semitism?
His demand for an end to nuclear weapons?
His demand for the rights of soldiers in combat zones to vote in national elections?
His support for a broad United Nations (not just the U.S. and Great Britain forming a world power union)?
KINCAID WROTE: "Regarding the Davis-Obama relationship, now confirmed by the Obama campaign, the Post, as well as its "conservative" competitor, the Washington Times, recently ran a dishonest Associated Press story that portrayed Davis as a positive influence on Obama who had no affiliation with the CPUSA. This was the real lie."
RESPONSE: What evidence do you have that Davis was not a positive influence? If the AP's failure to mention Davis's affiliation with the CPUSA is a "lie," then AIM's portrayal of Davis's "Red Army" poem as anti-American is ALSO a lie, because AIM failed to mention that the Red Army was an ALLY of the United States when the poem was written. If AIM-speak considers half-truths to be "lies," then AIM may one of the world's biggest liars because AIM columns regarding Davis are filled with half-truth's including the facts that:
-When Davis opposed U.S. entry into WWII, both Congress and the general population opposed U.S. entry into WWII. Failure to mention Davis's position was the common position was a half-truth, and therefore a "lie" in AIM-speak.
-When Davis was associated with communist-affiliated institutions, other leading African-American writers, such as Richard Wright and Langston Hughes were ALSO associated with communist-affiliated institutions. It was NORMAL for African-American writers to be associated with communist-affiliated institutions for one simple reason. According to The New Red Negro ONLY the Communist left had any significant institutional impact on African-American writing during the 1930s and 1940s. This support was crucial as the institutions that had maintained the New Negro Renaissance faded. And for better or for worse, the leading CPUSA functionaries involved in "Negro work" took a direct interest in African-American cultural production in a manner that was unusual, if not unique. Failure to mention that Davis's association with communist-affiliated institutions was NORMAL during that period was a half-truth, and therefore a "lie" in AIM-speak.
AIM should be careful about calling the kettle "black." If AIM's half-truths are added to AIM's direct falsehoods, they may set a new record in the Annals of Prevarication.
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