Barack Obama's Surrogate FatherBy Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
June 20, 2010
In a Father’s Day column attacking Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin, Colbert King of the Washington Post presents President Obama as a good family man who has been married to one woman and whose mother raised him to believe in “hard work and education.” Since King has brought up the topic of Obama’s upbringing, it is important to set the record straight. Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis was a sex pervert who mentored Obama during his growing-up years in Hawaii and became his substitute father.
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Also see: Frank Marshall Davis's "Young Man" by Jack Cashill
Why are you spreading the nasty rumour that Frank Marshall Davis was a "pervert"? Are you trying to railroad Davis with the trumped-up evidence that his porn novel included "perverted" sex, or do you have any actual empirical evidence, such as court records or confirmatory statements from Davis himself? ?
ReplyDeleteA novel is fiction, and is fraudulent evidence for such accusations! Do you also consider the authors of porn memoir-novels "Lolita" and "Fanny Hill" to be "perverts," or just Davis?
Read the data on Davis. An exerpt from KeyWiki states, "Davis, under the pseudonym Bob Greene had authored a hard-core pornographic autobiography published in San Diego in 1968 by Greenleaf Classics. In a surviving portion of an autobiographical manuscript, Davis confirmed that he was the author of Sex Rebel: Black after a reader had noticed the “similarities in style and phraseology” between the pornographic work and his poetry. He stated:
ReplyDelete"I could not then truthfully deny that this book, which came out in 1968 as a Greenleaf Classic, was mine." It goes on to describe his sexual encounter with a 13 year old girl many times for several weeks.
Erica's description of Davis being a sexual pervert is well documented. It was not fictional work but taken from actual experiences as he admitted himself: "He further established his authorship, stating that, although he had...
"changed names and identities... all incidents I have described have been taken from actual experiences." "
The man was sick...
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ReplyDeleteKaleokualoha has visited this site before to defend FMD. Apparently, he must receive alerts anytime an article is published about his father. You read that remark correctly. FMD is the father of Kaleokualoha.
The truth is the truth, even if it concerns a family member.
Yeah, I had looked him up. The truth is painful at times.
ReplyDeleteYou will find that contrary to conservative disinformation, Davis never "admitted" that any of the events from his novel actually happened in real life. You will find that critics are trying to railroad davis with trumped up evidence, just like the Mike Nifong tried to railroad the Duke lacrosse team, Dr. Hatfill was railroaded in the anthrax letters case, and even like the Bush administration railroaded Saddam Hussein by misrepresenting the Iraqi threat after 9/11.
ReplyDeleteFrank Marshall Davis undeniably wrote a scandalous memoir-novel under the pseudonym Bob Greene, one chapter of which is devoted to fictional character Bob Greene and his wife having sex with a thirteen-year old girl. This fact was as accurately reported on August 24, 2008 by Toby Hamden on a British website
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2601914/Frank-Marshall-Davis-alleged-Communist-was-early-influence-on-Barack-Obama.html).
From this kernel of truth, however, forensic deconstruction may reveal that Hamden and others skillfully built a slanderous house of cards in framing Davis as a pedophile based solely on his novel. To wit:
1. FALSE ATTRIBUTION: According to Hamden, "Mr. Davis (writing as Greene) explains that although he has “changed names and identities…all incidents I have described have been taken from actual experiences."
a. Please note that the fictional character Bob Greene, not author Davis, alleges that incidents were taken from actual experiences. Even Hamden's travesty of journalism only stated that Mr. Davis confirmed that he was the author, not that Davis said the events actually occurred in his own life.
b. Casual readers of Hamden's story may not have noticed this sleight of hand (fallacy of equivocation) when substituting author Davis for fictional character Bob Greene as the subject of experiences in the book. In this one maneuver, Hamden cleverly shifted the identity of subject "he" from Greene to Davis, thereby indicating that Greene's fictional story actually happened to Davis in real life. This deception, however, reveals Hamden's intent to directly smear Davis and thereby indirectly smear Obama through guilt-by-association.
2. ESCALATION #1: On the same day (August 24) Hamden’s report was published, so-called "Accuracy In Media" (AIM) published a new report citing Hamden’s story. (AIM had already published numerous reports defaming Frank Marshall Davis starting in February 2008.) AIM now reported that Edgar Tidwell, an "expert in the life and writing of Davis," confirmed that Frank Marshall Davis wrote "Sex Rebel: Black" as a semi-autobiographical novel. Despite Tidwell's expert opinion that the novel was SEMI-autobiographical, AIM escalated accusations against Davis by claiming he was a sex pervert (http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-red-mentor-was-a-pervert/) based on Hamden’s same-day report. Kincaid falsely attributed the "pervert" claim to Hamden’s report.
3. ESCALATION #2: On 14 October, AIM again escalated the charges by falsely claiming Davis was an "admitted child molester"
(http://www.aim.org/aim-column/was-a-communist-obamas-sex-teacher/).
4. SUMMARY: Evidence strongly suggests that Hamden and AIM worked together on this story before either post was published on August 24: AIM’s post referenced Hamden’s story although both were published the same day. Further, AIM’s false attribution of the “pervert” claim to Hamden’s story suggests AIM referenced Hamden’s draft rather than a final version.
The issue is rather simple: Either you literally attribute fictional characters' stories to their authors' real lives, or you accept that fictional characters' stories are fiction. By definition, even semiautobiographical novels are fictionalized accounts of their authors' own lives. Research should reveal that ALL fictional narrators of such novels claim the events are true, although their actual authors make no such claims!
Right....keep telling yourself all that if it makes you feel better.
ReplyDeleteIt takes a pornographic mind to write pornography whether the writer draws from personal experience or invents fictional scenarios. Such a mind is perverted, regardless of how 'popular' the book might be to some audiences.
ReplyDeleteFMD was sexually perverted. You can't choose your family, but you can choose your friends. FMD was a close family friend with the Dunhams and Obama. That's all I need to know.
What is a "pornographic mind"? Do you also believe it takes a "murderous mind" to write about murder, or a "criminal mind" to write about crime? Does it take a "traitorous mind" to write about espionage? How about Stephen King's mind?
ReplyDeletePornography is becoming mainstream entertainment. To keep things in perspective, "Sex Rebel: Black" is no more pornographic than the majority of R and TV-MA programs available on premium cable, not to mention pop music, because it uses the same sexually explicit language.
According to "Frontline": AT&T has been in the business. Yahoo! has profited from it. Westin and Marriott have made more money selling it than selling snacks and drinks in their mini-bars. And with estimates as high as $10 billion a year, it boasts the kind of earnings that most American businesses would envy (see http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/porn/view/#more).
Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption, according to a report (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16680-porn-in-the-usa-conservatives-are-biggest-consumers.html). "Some of the people who are most outraged turn out to be consumers of the very things they claimed to be outraged by."
According to Christianity Today (http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/march/20.7.html):
"Seventy percent of American men ages 18–34 view Internet pornography once a month. This shocking fact is one of many that CT consulting editor John W. Kennedy found during his research for this month's cover story, "Help for the Sexually Desperate" (page 28).
Don't assume that porn isn't a problem in the church. One evangelical leader was skeptical of survey findings that said 50 percent of Christian men have looked at porn recently. So he surveyed his own congregation. He found that 60 percent had done so within the past year, and 25 percent within the past 30 days. Other surveys reveal that one in three visitors to adult websites are women."
Do you consider ALL writers, producers, actors, promoters, distributors (HBO, Showtime Cinemax, and local cable companies), consumers, and others involved in the porn market to be perverts? Or do you just target those whose politics you disagree with?
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)