Manipulating the Media for Obama
AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid | July 10, 2008
Who outside of the news organization was made aware of the controversial remarks before they were put on the air?
Thanks
to Matt Drudge, Jesse Jackson’s disparaging comments about Barack Obama have
become national news. Who benefits? Obama. It makes Obama look like a moderate,
compared to the disgraced, discredited and venomous Jackson. But this doesn’t mean, by any
stretch of the imagination, that Jackson, a failed black presidential
candidate, will cease to be a national black “leader” and spokesman. Remember
this is a “Reverend” who has survived the embarrassment of fathering a child
out of wedlock.
Now
why would Fox News, which recorded and provided Jackson’s
private comments, want to make Jackson
look bad and Obama look good? Why did it take several days before the comments
were aired by Bill O’Reilly of Fox News? And who outside of the news
organization was made aware of the controversial remarks before they were put
on the air? Was the Obama campaign notified in advance and consulted about what
to do?
We
do know that Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch is already on the Obama bandwagon,
having declared the candidate a “rock star” and a winner with a good university
record. Murdoch’s New York Post endorsed Obama in the Democratic primaries,
after Murdoch, who had been supporting Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, figured she
was a loser.
We
also know that Bill O’Reilly, in the middle of this controversy, has recently
been campaigning on the air for Obama to come on his show. He is even
conducting a poll of viewers to see how many think Obama will appear on the air
with him. Such pandering means that O’Reilly will steer clear of anything
really embarrassing to the candidate. After all, he wants the interview!
Chris
Cillizza of the Washington Post reported that Matt Drudge of the Drudge Report
had an item about Jackson’s
comments before they actually aired on the O’Reilly program. How did that
happen? Even stranger, Bill O’Reilly was quoted as saying
about Jackson,
“We are not out to embarrass him and we are not out to make him look bad. If we
were, we would have used what we had, which is more damaging than what you have
heard.”
In addition to the troubling matter of why Fox News is
withholding these additional Jackson
remarks, the delay in airing some of them is also of concern. The Los Angeles
Times reported, “Fox News held the footage of Jackson’s remarks for three days before
showcasing it as an exclusive on its top-rated program. A network executive
said the delay was related to the holiday weekend as well as a desire to be
cautious about the controversial material.”
Could the deliberations have had something to do with the
political impact? The Obama campaign must have seen the remarks as a Godsend,
enabling the candidate to rise above Jesse Jackson-style politics. Did Fox News
see them the same way?
Into
the mix comes another discredited and disgraced black politician, Al Sharpton,
who has been all over Fox News commenting on the “controversy.” Sharpton was on
Fox News this morning and on Hannity & Colmes last night. He might as well
sleep in the “green room” where guests get ready to go on the air. He was also
on Bill O’Reilly’s show last week talking about something else. That’s three
times in about a week and a half. Remember that Sharpton is the “Reverend” who
hyped black woman Tawana Brawley’s hoax about being raped by white men. Why is
he even on the air?
Sharpton
is useful to Fox News because he offers protection from left-wingers anxious to
brand the channel as too conservative and racist. That’s why O’Reilly honored
Sharpton at a national conference after getting into trouble by cracking a
joke about black kids stealing hubcaps.
So
Drudge and Fox News highlight the Jackson
remarks, enabling Obama to put distance between himself and Jackson. Sharpton,
of course, must see the controversy as a way for him to upstage Jackson. It is a clever
gambit for all concerned.
For
Obama, it is another chapter in his “extreme makeover,” following his patriotic
speech and TV ad.
In
the same vein, the Washington Post has a Thursday front-page “analysis” story headlined, “Obama’s Ideology Proving Difficult to Pinpoint.” For reporter Dan
Balz, supposedly a veteran political analyst, Obama’s flip-flops do not prove
political expediency and a desire to fool voters, but raise “unanswered
important questions about his core principles and his presidential priorities.”
This
is laughable. Obama is the most far-left major party candidate ever to run for
the presidency. Yet Balz insists that serious questions remain “about who Obama
is ideologically.”
The
Post is one among many liberal (and conservative) papers which will never utter
the words “Frank Marshall Davis” when discussing Obama. Davis
was Obama’s Communist father-figure and mentor when Obama was being raised in Hawaii. On the American
Thinker website, Andrew Walden has filled in some of the other blanks about
Obama’s mysterious past. His article is titled, “What Barack Obama Learned From the Communist Party.” Don’t look for
any pick-up on the Drudge Report, Fox News, or the Post because this kind of
information makes Obama look bad.
This
does not mean that all of Obama’s views are communist or socialist, or that all
communists and socialists support him. Veteran Communist and Democratic Party
activist Alan Maki tells me that, despite announcing a Frank Marshall Davis
discussion group on an official Obama community blog website, he wants it known
far and wide that he doesn’t support the candidate and wouldn’t walk across the
street to vote for him. Maki, an organizer of casino workers in Minnesota, thinks Obama and
McCain are too close to Big Business, including the casino industry.
Has
Obama changed his ideology, which was developed and based on a pattern of
associations ranging from Frank Marshall Davis to Marxists in college and the
Communist terrorists and socialists that launched his career in Chicago? That is a
question we should all want asked and answered. But in order to even get close
to asking and answering it, the media will have to ask Obama about Davis. Davis was so extreme that he denounced another
black author, Richard Wright, for “treason” for breaking with and exposing the
Communist Party USA. Those “news” outlets which continue to ignore the story
will expose themselves as being in Obama’s back pocket.
Balz
further demonstrates his ignorance of the facts when he claims that “no
signature policy proposal is universally regarded as distinctive in defining
his politics or philosophy.” This is what the Obama campaign wants you to
believe. He ignores Obama’s Global Poverty Act, the $845 billion foreign aid
boondoggle that is possibly coming up for a full Senate vote. Our media have
been careful not to mention Obama’s sponsorship of the bill for the very reason
that it does in fact shed light on his ideological approach. Obama has
deliberately ignored it as well, even in a TV ad touting his alleged
legislative accomplishments. In effect, Obama is covering up his own record.
And the media go along with it.
But
you can bet that if it passes the Senate, the media will suddenly discover the
legislation and hail Obama for trying to eradicate global poverty. This is how
pro-Obama media bias works. Then the pressure will be intense on President Bush
to sign the bill.
Right
now, Obama is playing a clever game, using various media properties on the
right and left for the purpose of making himself look more moderate and
acceptable.
Let’s
not be under any illusions about what is happening here.
Cliff Kincaid is the Editor of the AIM Report and can be reached at
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I could personally cut his cojones off. Both O’Reilly and Obama’s. This country is being sold out to the far left. And why isn’t the news media all over that poverty bill. Our grand-children will be paying it off. If they can find a job in the future Obama is promising. I have never felt the fear I feel today.
McCain all the way in 08
I found the Alan Maki blog on the Obama website. He appears to be a caricature of a communist, curiously repeating AIM’s contention that Davis was Obama’s “mentor” and a communist. He seems more like a shill than anything else.
Let me get this right almighty white men,media and mice--have you forgotten all the goings on of (say) a few"elected" white men who have done everything from leaving a wife with cancer to placing a cigar into the entrance of a woman’s precious womb? Oh how quickly thee forget when speaking of Jesse and his child out of wedlock,those who sleep with whores, witches and bitches should pick up the BS and sin no more.
In response to Nana, the country is not being sold out to the far left, but to collectivists of any stripe and bent. What is a collectivist? From Encyclopedia Brittanica http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9024764 this person believes the group is more important than the individual. Socialists, communists, and fascists are collectivists. “All hail the State!” and all that. John McCain and others are supported by global corporate interests that are, intentionally or not, running our country into the ground. The struggle is for control of the whole country. Will it be the ‘right’ or the ‘left’ who emerge victorious, or will it be an empty victory, with the victors ruling as despots over a cowed populace? In the words of Patrick Henry, “Give me liberty or give me death!” He was a live one, alright. We as a nation founded with christian ideals are not like the Islamists who say “submit or die”. We must ‘live and let live’, even unto separate nation states or unions, rather than hold onto the idea that other people must live as we tell them or suffer our legislated wrath. As Ron Paul has said, we will get blowback. What he means is that there are uninintended consequences. Is the cure to what ails our society more government authourity? Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
Mae:
I sense anger in you, which has nothing to do with Cliff’s assessment. Cliff is incredibly unbiased, except that he adheres to American ideals, which (and it is not a coincidence) run counter to the functionality of Socialism and Communism. Far be it to even inject race, as your “...almighty white men...”: did you not see “The Color Purple” and how women were treated in that film? Bad behavior knows no skin color, madam. And while Cliff doesn’t need me to defend him (he’s much better than anybody I know at the King’s English--as journalists go for sure!), I can tell you that you MUST rethink this situation, and remove your anger and racial pride in this situation before us. Anybody-- black, white, whatever, and of any ethnic or religious background, must understand that while American ideals are not often practiced as they should, we should not ever elect anyone who espouses the abandonment of those principles, wholesale, at the expense of American sovereignty, American’s rights (which our Founders thought were inalienable to ALL people) and who endorses a subservance to any other political body, or a political train of thought commonly referred to as Socialism or Communism. You must also bear in mind, madam, that for the past 60 years, our country has been under attack, and in particular, one of our major political parties, the Democratic party, by Soviet Communists, who have never given up the fight, but merely change the colors of their flags in a wide range of subterfuges, from “ecology” and “the environment”, to “social justice"--oh the last one is a doozy too. I’m sure you’ve heard of ACORN, haven’t you? Or La Raza? All of these are the old-style Monarchists, who believe Big Brother should take care of you, and that ‘he’ or ‘she’ is infallable. And regarding the Democratic Party: the reason the Communists have been able to successfully infiltrate and rewrite teh agenda of this party, is that relativism is an incredibly weak philosophical argument. Relativists get tagged as “Liberals”, when in fact they are not. In actuality, (and I admit this is going to be confusing for some) the American “Conservative” is, in the broader view of history, the real Liberal. The American ideals of liberty, self-reliance and self-determination are very, very new on the scene. As for its philosophy regarding the human condition, this Americanist idealism seeks ANY idea or any mechanism through which those ideals may be advanced--FOR EVERYBODY. Whereas, the Marxist doctrine of “From each according to his abilities; to each according to his needs,” which implies a servitude relationship with another, unmentioned entity (i.e., where are the “abilities” going toward, and who/what is satisfying “his needs?") Americanist ideals unleash the human spirit and drive to satisfy onesself, without anybody else telling he or she what his “needs” are.
A political party that endorses “universal healthcare” is espousing Socialism, and has watched waaaay too much Star Trek TNG. Any political party, or person* that endorses on the Senate floor that the government should ‘nationalize’ the oil industry, should be stripped of any political power, and sent back to 9th-grade Civics and Econ 101. Any Presidential candidate that endorses the ongoing restriction to “explore for energy” (what ‘words that work’ double talk is that!) and energy alternatives, in a time of national crises (and we are in many, overlapping ones for sure) should not be elected POTUS, because they WANT the U.S., as a free and open society, with free markets (well, we’re mostly free!) to FAIL.
Barack Obama is just such a candidate. Yes, Mae, America is ready for a Black President. As Conservative “Liberals”, we don’t care, if he was green with purple spots. Yes, Mae, anybody, including ‘almighty white men’ can be blinded by their power. One could say that Big Kuhuna Bill Clinton and Jessie Jackson do indeed have much in common! It’s called sociopathism! Both men are disgusting. And, yes, Newt Gingrich will never be POTUS, because he, too, has done some disgusting things. Smart guy, just arrogant as hell. But placing the sins of these morons on an entire race of people is, dare I say, the “pot calling the kettle ‘black’.”
One more point about “Americanist ideals”: I mentioned the self-ish part. Here’s the benefit: because the Americanist is not alone in supplying a good or service, in order to have his/her good or service bought, it has to COMPETE in an open and free market. This, my friend, is the heart of the mechanism which creates better things for you and I to enjoy. Got a Walkman--of any kind--in your house? Even one of those little thingies kids have where they can plug in a set of wee-tiny head phones and jam out all night long? Well, if it weren’t for an alloy called Samarium Cobalt, which is the core magnet inside those little head phones, the Walkman would never have existed. And what drove some guy to invent that? See what I mean? THIS, MY FRIEND, IS WHAT COLLECTIVISM ABSOLUTELY DESTROYS!!!! If you have ever seen any pictures of the old East Berlin, you’d see what I mean: bombed out buildings lying in a rubble, 50 years after they were hit by Allied sorties; virtually uninhabitable newer buildings, designed and built, not with the mechanism of human desire, but through the hammer and sickle. But, O.K. If you want to wear your colors proudly, just go to http://www.radicaljack.com/lgli.html
and wear your stupidity on your chest!
And as for the point about modern American “Liberalism” and its commonality with Soviet Communism, both justify their ends through whatever means are POLITICALLY EXPEDIENT. Just ask Leon Trotsky, who was a founding member of the Soviet Communist Party, but at various times was exiled, by Lenin and later Stalin, and was eventually assasssinated in Mexico by a Stalinist thug. So, there you go. Now, I’ve got work to do!
Ever stop to think that just maybe you are being set up to vote for McCain. No one of these two are worth a dam. When has a real American stood up and not flip flopped and just said, I am running for the White house because it is overtime to step back and see reality. the reality is, stand and inforce the Constitution, no admendments of any kind, stand on the declaration of Independance, and the Bill of Rights...that includes closing the borders and inforcing all laws made day one by our forefathers. and show why drilling for oil is not dangereous to the envirement. Here we have the idiots pushing corn for ethanol that burns twice the carbon and less gas milage, starves the animals that produce our meat, and stops farmers from growing the desperate need for food with effects all the world. they would rather hug a tree than a child...and would rather a child died of hunger, how sick !! We give more to human charities around the world than all the nations put together, and this bunch..Obama and the left want to give another $875 billion that we don’t have !! America is hungry,,,and we will see violence more each day as men will NOT let their families go hungry. How dare the government send one dime without our vote which is in the constituion. These dead beats on both sides of the isle has known we don’t have to be dependant on Foreign oil fifty yrs ago, and they knew way back how they could bring the oil down to $18 dollars again, but didn’t!! Why !! It is because the rich wants to rule over the whole world from the EU as their satanic world gov comes into play. The UN and Islam is buying up our land as fast as you loose it..and more coming over the border bringing drugs disease and violence and young visious gangs, many who are using mexican names and posing as mexican , the rest are in our schools , gov and even the federal gov. Nation bilding is their game, and American is broke, our dollar down so far,,they want the NA euro..We have 545 freaks , liars running us into proverty and we need to throw them all out..start over. and vote INDEPENDANT...which will close the border, put tanks on them , build the fence, deprot all illegals, even the 45% in prisons we feed,,and stop all immigration for over ten yrs, and drill like hell now. In the meantime the wheat we sent for $7 or so a barrel,,riaise the price to $300 a barrel and watch the oil price coome down..NO more imports, no more out sourced jobs, no free trade, cuz that is where our exports don’t get bought. We are a Republic,,not a dam democracy, go read the forefathers warnings. We vote and they serve us,,that is a Republic, the democracy is where we vote and the do as they please..the same thing they are pushing all over the world, setting all up for dictatorship...If you don’t see that, look real hard again. also Islam has bought out cnn and others and lots of Fox..and don’t forget, we are the company we keep, and birds of feather flock together,,ever see a crow fly with a eagle??? of course not. face reality, see a liar or liars for what they are,,see the fruits of it all, and see if you like this country the way it is sinking...we are in terrible trouble,,,and WE THE PEOPLE can Change it, and those wanting a gov handout, stop the madness..stop the ilegal taxes the outsoourcing of our money and treasure and jobs.our freedom is disapearing, our jobs, our food and liberity,,if you all don’t AMerica is done....do it today,,
Obama is backed by the same big corporations that support the Republicans. He only pretends to be liberal and progressive. Read these articles to learn the truth about who supports and controls him.
Obama’s Money Cartel, by Pam Martens
http://www.counterpunch.org/martens05052008.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/martens05062008.html
Why Obama Represents Bush’s Third Term, by Rosemary Regello
http://www.thecityedition.com/Pages/Archive/Summer08/BushThirdTerm.html
More media manipulation in favor of the Obamessiah:
Not one mention of the 550 metric tons of yellow cake uranium that was found in Iraq and shipped to Canada in the press. I haven’t even seen anything on Fox. If it became common knowledge that Pres. Bush did not lie about WMD or weapons grade uranium, it would severely hurt Barry’s campaign. Especially since he has made the fact that he was against going to Iraq all along one of the center points of his campaign.
You need more news sources than Fox. This is not weapons grade uranium. President Bush DID “deliberately misrepresent” (i.e., “lie") about the Iraqi threat, according to the United States Senate.
CBS News reported the yellowcake, which was fully reported and stored since before the 1991 war. See http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/05/world/main4235028.shtml
Thank you Mr Kincaid, I thought I was the only one who was fed up with Big mouth O’reilly and the fox demise, Al sharpton should be in jail for some of the things he’s pulled( Brawley,tax fraud, inciting a riot in harlem etc) yet he is treated as a co anchor on fox while big mouth Mr O refused to have the Swift Boat Vets on because they were too radical. O’reilly would give anything to get Obama on his show as if anyone else would care. There is not much differnce between him and keith doberman- they are two arogant egomaniacs.
This election is a referendum on whether our country will survive. It is a referendum on whether the White Race will even exist. It is just that simple. There is such a thing a racial karma, and you are being weigh in the balance.
How can there even be a choice. A senile old man who will start World War III just to steal the resources of other people when we have squandered our own. Or a young black man who is a certified genius, with out the history of slavery in his background.
In this day and age, to think of all of the people who voted for Hillary just to keep a black man off of the ticket. To just imagine that all of the labels being applied to problem solver, because so many people are opposed to a Black President.
Do you even realize the true position our country is in. Does anyone of you idiots realize that Iran shot off missle designed to be defended against our antimissle systems. Does anyone of you out there even have a true clue! If the Iranians could design a missle system that was proof against our antimissle systems, both the patriot and interseptor system, just how did they get the information to design these systems.
That’s O kay! Live in DENIAL if you want. One thing is for sure, you were given the true chance to redeem yourself, and chose hate and racism instead. You don’t even love you country enough to save it because the only one who can is a BLACK MAN!
To TyroneB,
They can call us racists, yeah.
But given the growing number of “black hoodlums” in the streets. THEY ARE SHOWING THEIR STRONG DOMINANCE AND LACK OF RESPECT OF PROPERTY. I saw these fellows many times who are bullying little white boys and teens in the streets. And I had many encounters with these bad people. I respect and enjoy company of “black people” - who are conservative Christians and others in my community who don’t look at me as White… but a person. And I try to return them the favor.
But recent statements of this Obama are encouraging BLACK RADICALISM, not a color-neutral society. In fact, the sudden rise of Obama has made these black retards in the streets more bold and dangerous. What’s going on? My old neigbor asked. MINNESOTA has become a country of littering black psychos.
In this election, I am convinced: I’ll go with my own color - that’s McCain.
I WILL ONLY VOTE FOR A BLACK PRESIDENT WHEN THAT CANDIDATE IS 100% NOT TAINTED BY BLACK RADICALISM.
What “recent statements of this Obama are encouraging BLACK RADICALISM”?
Are you actually attributing the crimes of these street thugs to any radical political motivation? As they would say, “Don’t get it twisted.”
I think AIM would do well to quit concocting ridiculous conspiracy theories, such as Bill O’reilly having some sort of covert plan to get Obama elected. I mean, come on. Sure, O’reilly drives me nuts with his “unbiased” approach to Obama and I think he has some sort of blind spot when it comes to examining Obama’s past activities and associations. Many times it pisses me off because I know that Bill O’reilly isn’t a conservative, but I doubt that O’reilly wants to get Obama elected. The most pro-abortion candidate ever? Not to mention how O’reilly always explains that President Bush’s tax cuts saved the country after 9/11. He knows full well that Obama has a socialist agenda that could very well sink this country. He knows we can’t afford it and has said so on many occasions.
TyroneB,
McCain will start WWIII to ge the oil because we’ squandered our own? You really are misinformed on this one and you should do some more research before you make such radical claims. This election is Obama’s to lose at this point. The more he defines his plans and policies, the more we see he really doesn’t have a clue and is perhaps the most naive candidate to ever run for POTUS. The media has been protecting Obama from the beginning, even Fox News. Obama could come out today and say he is a muslim and had trained along side bin laden in a Afghan terrorist training camp and he’d get a free pass by everyone in the media. This guy is a communist wearing a socialist mask pretending to be moderate.
I’ll take the senile old man over the naive communist every day of the week. Of course, once Condi Rice is named VP on the McCain ticket, then there goes your argument about race. Mark my words.
Any idea how accurate the following comparisons are between Obama and McCain?
Proposed changes in taxes after 2008 General election:
CAPITAL GAINS TAX
MCCAIN:
0% on home sales up to $500,000per home (couples) McCain does not
propose any change in existing home sales income tax.
OBAMA:
28% on profit from ALL home sales........ How does this affect you? If you sell your home and make a profit, you will pay 28% of your gain on taxes. If you are heading toward retirement and would like to down-size your home or moveinto a retirement community, 28% of the money you make from your home will go to taxes. This proposal will adversely affect the elderly who are counting on the incomefrom their homes as part of their retirement income.
DIVIDEND TAX
MCCAIN: 15% (no change)
OBAMA: 39.6%
How will this affect you? If you have any money invested in stock market, IRA, mutual funds, college funds, life insurance, retirement accounts, or anything that pays or reinvests dividends, you will now be paying nearly 40% of the money earned on taxes if Obama becomes president. The experts predict that higher tax rates on dividends and capital gains would crash the stock market yet do absolutely nothing to cut the deficit.
INCOME TAX
MCCAIN: (no changes)
Single making 30K - tax $4,500
Single making 50K - tax $12,500
Single making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 125K - tax $31,250
OBAMA:
(reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts)
Single making 30K - tax $8,400
Single making 50K - tax $14,000
Single making 75K - tax $23,250
Married making 60K - tax $16,800
Married making 75K - tax $21,000
Married making 125K - tax $38,750
Under Obama your taxes will more than double!
How does this affect you? No explanation needed. This is pretty straight forward.
INHERITANCE TAX
MCCAIN: 0% (No change, Bush repealed this tax)
OBAMA: Restore the inheritance tax
How does this affect you? Many families have lost businesses,farms and ranches, and homes that have been in their families for generations because they could not afford the inheritance tax. Those willing their assets to loved ones will lose them to these taxes.
NEW TAXES BEING PROPOSED BY OBAMA:
* New government taxes proposed on homes that are more than 2400 square feet
* New gasoline taxes (as if gas weren’t high enough already)
* New taxes on natural resources consumption (heating gas, water, electricity)
* New taxes on retirement accounts and last but not least....
* New taxes to pay for socialized medicine so we can receive the same level of medical care as other third-world countries!!!
O’Reilly is trying, again to manipulate the news. When it concerns anyone like Je$$e or Obama, he doesn’t want to jeopardize his chances of getting them on his program. Now he’s mad because Je$$e also said the “n” word concerning how he sees Obama talking down to blacks. If that were anyone else O’Reilly wouldn’t be mad. Some tough and fair guy.
The entire media is conspiring to get Obama elected. They have been his champion from his national debut at the convention.
After his speech that night, almost to a man, the pundits spoke almost verbatim of his being ‘presidental material’. It was almost chilling to hear them all say almost the exact same thing.
They have protected, pushed, and promoted him from day one.
It seems to me the Obama camp has pushed the racism idea. That’s his best playing card. That’s a very sad thing.
Also, it is a travesty that these two men seem to be the best we can put forth. We are going to bestow on one of them one of the most awesome privileges and responsibility that can be on this earth, other than parenthood, and this is our choice?
Maybe we could throw a monkey wrench in the works - give this some thought.
if bongo wins the first thing he will try is to over turn the second amendment followed by confiscation.why would he do this,because this is what commies do they steal our liberties.what will you do?
Anybody read this interesting article?
The Jihad Candidate
by Rich Carroll
Every person of integrity will probably agree the slander and libel are wrong, especially when the target is a dead poet who cannot defend himself. Yet this is exactly what is happening. By defaming the character of my father, Frank Marshall Davis, and exaggerating his radical influence on Barack Obama in “Obama’s Communist Mentor” and other AIM reports, bloggers seek to portray Barack Obama as unworthy of becoming President of the United States. While there are legitimate concerns regarding every candidate, their disinformation regarding my father is especially heinous.
They vilify a dead poet who loved the United States, and who was more likely to teach random acts of kindness than disloyalty to young Barack Obama. They deliberately misrepresent the values Obama may have internalized through this relationship, in a transparent attempt to smear Obama’s character. Like weeds in a garden of truth, such disinformation must be removed at their roots. Unfortunately, their Internet brigade is very efficient at spreading this disinformation. Fortunately, their credibility can be destroyed in the eyes of people of integrity, through irrefutable proof of their deliberate misrepresentation.
Two of their most egregious misrepresentations are claims that Davis was a “lifelong member of the Communist Party USA,” and that he was a “Stalinist” because he “stayed with the Communist Party even after the Hitler-Stalin pact” of 1939. These unprecedented claims were made AFTER the release of “Obama’s Communist Mentor,” suggesting they were either fabricated or discovered since February 2008. They should be challenged at their source: Cliff Kincaid (editor of Accuracy In Media) and Bill Steigerwald, associate editor of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, in a 7 June 2008 interview (http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/mostread/s_571431.html)
If YOU are a fair and honorable person, please email Cliff and his colleague, Bill Steigerwald, with two questions based on this interview, and post their responses (if any) right here. If they cannot answer your questions, then you will know if THEY are also fair and honorable men.
Please ask Cliff Kincaid (): Why did you indicate that Frank Marshall Davis “stayed with the Communist Party even after the Hitler-Stalin pact” in your 7 June 2008 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review interview with Bill Steigerwald? What evidence do you have that he was a CPUSA member in the 1930’s?
Please ask Bill Steigerwald (): Why did you print that Frank Marshall Davis “was a lifelong member of the Communist Party USA” in your 7 June 2008 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review interview with Cliff Kincaid? What evidence do you have that he was a lifelong member?
If YOU are a fair and honorable person, I invite you to visit my blog to review an outline of their misrepresentation concerning my father, at http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/Kaleokualoha
Thank You!
mark your dead poet was a commie traitor just like alger hiss,the rosenbergs and obama.bho spent 20yrs in a hate whitey hate america cult that preached collectivist bull s**t.he entered politics with the help of commie traitors therefore he should be judged by the company he keeps.if this clown ever gets elected president he will destroy the middle class and put our country in grave jeopardy.
Like many of the right wing lies originating, and spreading from this web site AIM courtesy of it’s #1 prevaricator Kincaid, that $845 Billion cost for the Global Poverty Act is an out and out bold faced lie. The bill was also originated in the US House of Representatives by Congressman Adam Smith in 2007 not in the Senate by Obama.
From http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-2433
Based on information from the State Department, CBO estimates that implementing S. 2433 would cost less than $1 million per year, assuming the availability of appropriated funds. Enacting the bill would not affect direct spending or receipts.”
That’s 1 measly million bucks a year and not even a penny for each American tax payer per year - It would take 8,450 years for that Poverty Act to cost Americans $845 Billion…
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_poverty_act
“A number of news outlets have made false reports about this bill and called it Global Poverty Tax. In February 2008, Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media wrote that the Global Poverty Act (S.2433) “would commit the U.S. to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid.” [1] This is not in the bill; the bill does not require any minimum foreign aid spending. The only requirement of the bill is that the President create a plan to address global poverty and it goes on to suggest what areas the plan will cover.[2] Other outlets ran a similar story including WorldNetDaily[3] which cites Kincaid as a source. Both Cliff Kincaid and Accuracy in Media are under investigation for knowingly reporting false information about the Global Poverty Act.”
July 10 at 7:37 pm | #1 | Link
O’Reilly becomes star struck.
He becomes star struck any time he is interviewing a big star. When he interviewed Bono at the 2004 convention he let Bono away with saying that the US needs to send money to Africa. Pres. Bush has sent more money than anyone in history but O’Reilly let it go.
He won’t ask Obama any real questions. He won’t bring up Obama’s plan for change that is posted on his web site. It clearly outlines Obama’s socialist plans but O’Reilly won’t have the cajones to point that out.
He won’t bring up Obama’s world poverty bill that would cost $875 billion. That’s more then the Iraq war has cost.
O’Reilly will back down like a scared puppy.
None of them will ever talk about the real issues. They will simply talk about the speeches and electability of the candidates.