If examining the 1949 NAACP falsehoods is too much information, another AIM deception is more immediately obvious: Cliff Kincaid’s claim that Frank Marshall Davis was a “Stalinist.”
Davis was not a Stalinist. Cliff Kincaid appears to have originated the “Stalinist” fraudulent meme sometime between February and June 2008. In Kincaid’s original (February 2008) attack against Davis (http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor), he does NOT call Davis a “Stalinist.” Kincaid reports that Davis joined the CPUSA during WWII, citing Edgar Tidwell, “an expert on the life and writings of Davis.”
In June 2008, however, Kincaid starts the “Stalinist” falsehood (http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_571431.html). This is where Kincaid explains that he calls Davis a “Stalinist” because “he stayed with the CPUSA after the Hitler-Stalin pact” (1939). This contradicts Kincaid’s February 2008 column, which states Davis did not even JOIN the CPUSA until later.
Obviously Davis could not have “stayed with” the CPUSA before he even joined the CPUSA. Obviously, Kincaid’s stated reason is invalid. Obviously, something else changed between February and June 2008, when Kincaid suddenly starts calling Davis a “Stalinist.” Davis suddenly became a “Stalinist” because Cliff Kincaid said so??
I doubt you will find any references to Davis being a “Stalinist” before Kincaid’s new label. Did the FBI or Congressional investigators consider him a “Stalinist”? I don’t think so! Kincaid’s expert on Davis, Edgar Tidwell, says Davis was NOT a Stalinist (see http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/Kaleokualoha/gGx9n3). Kincaid’s “Stalinist” claim seems to be a classic straw man tactic: exaggeration to produce an easier target.
This is just one of numerous Kincaid falsehoods. All we need to do is follow the evidence.
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to
discover them.” – Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642)
