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davidnc76 Donating Member (365 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-08 12:09 AM
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ASSOCIATED PRESS LIES ABOUT OBAMA'S RED MENTOR
By Cliff Kincaid

August 5, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

The influential Associated Press (AP) wire service has belatedly run a story about Barack Obama’s Marxist mentor without mentioning the smoking-gun evidence that the mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, was a Communist Party member. The dishonest story, which represents damage control for the Obama campaign, was written by AP writer Sudhin Thanawala.

AP is one of the largest news agencies and serves thousands of print and electronic media outlets.

Under the innocuous headline, “Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on life,” the story calls Davis, a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) when it faithfully echoed the Stalinist line, merely a “left-leaning black journalist and poet” known for “leftist politics” and someone who might be accused by some of having “allegedly anti-American views.”

Davis was not a “journalist” in any real sense of the term. He was a propagandist and racial agitator for the CPUSA. He was also a recruiter for the communist cause.

http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff240.htm
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-08 12:14 AM
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1. Uh Oh! Obama's a commie! Oh Noez!!!!
Cliff Kincaid is a RW crackpot. But thanks for sharing. They might be more receptive to this over in Freepville.
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Mind_your_head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-08 12:19 AM
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2. What's a "Marxist mentor"?
Edited on Tue Aug-05-08 12:21 AM by Mind_your_head
Who/What's Marx?

Oh, I know....Harpo, Chico, and (Jay) Leno!...and Groucho, of course.

I'm a NCLB child. And I *know* EVERYTHING there is to know about anything! Right? my teacher 'told me so'....how come I don't understand this OP (as a NCLB student)?

on edit: I passed all the tests!!!!! Really, I *know* EVERYTHING. Test me. But I still don't know what the OP is talking about/referring to.
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-08 12:29 AM
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3. I think you landed in the wrong court.....
try again.

Associated News is no friend of Democrats or Barack Obama. Kincaid is a kook.

Anything else you need to know?
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