At The American Thinker today, Paul Kengor has an important article about how the media, including Obama’s many biographers, have ignored, downplayed the influence of, or failed to identify the politics of Obama’s mentor, the late Frank Marshall Davis, an ardent Stalinist and member of the Communist Party, U.S.A.
Kengor makes the following point in his conclusion, referring to David Maraniss’s best-selling new biography of the President:
And therein is the central liability in David Maraniss’s treatment of Frank Marshall Davis, even given the noteworthy new material he provided. His failures with Davis are symptomatic of his overall failure to deal with Obama’s politically radical past. In this, unfortunately, Maraniss is not alone. He is yet another liberal Obama biographer who has left the vetting to us conservatives — so we can be attacked as Neanderthal McCarthyites, or worse. So be it. Someone needs to do the mainstream media’s job.
To understand Obama, and how he got to where he is today, studying everything about his past is pertinent. Kudos to Paul Kengor for studying what so many others have shied away from exploring.
“Someone needs to do the mainstream media’s job.”
Precisely. And, I might add, someone also needs to do the work the so-called researchers and biographers have consistently refused to do.
I’m waiting for someone to have the cojones to write a book called, White-Washing the First Black President.
Read early on, a quote from ,I believe, a black D.C, preacher, “If you don;t
call him black, I won’t call him white.”
This cretin is slightly black and slightly white.
jl
The habits of Barack Obama’s proto-hippie mother are instructive:
All of her husbands/lovers were either Communist sympathizers or of the card-carrying variety like “Frank”. Barack Obama, Sr., embittered by the British colonial era in Kenya, believed the Soviet Union was a liberating force in the world. During his first week in the White Obama, Barack Obama, Jr. had the bust of Sir Winston Churchill unceremoniously removed from the Oval Office and shipped back to the British Embassy. (Since the 2010 mid-terms it has resided in the Capitol.) The apple does not fall far from the tree.
Excellent post. Keep it coming, Mr. Radosh.
I remember 2008, as this was coming out, shaking my head in despair, seeing everyone in the Legacy media willfully grabbing the tar-baby, and loving it.
I’d love to see a DNA test because I believe the Kenyan is just a legend. Stan Dunham was a communist, his daughter was a communist, they bred her to a communist, and now the Red Diaper Baby is on the precipice of the long-awaited conquest of the evil US.
Isn’t it special that some KGB schmuck, long dead, probably came up with this plan fifty years ago, in a dank office in the lower levels of the Kremlin? They gave it to their agents who started all the college riots in the ’60s, who gave it to the academics who were always saying, “What Communists? No Communists here!”
He’d probably stop it now, if only he could. His grandchildren probably live here, now.
They never thought anyone actually believed the crap they were peddling. Boy, would they be surprised, today! They’d REALLY be surprised, if you know anything about Russian attitudes towards black (or even light beige) people.
Beware God’s Department of Irony. They work overtime, and never take vacations. If I’m good, I want a position there, in the sweet bye and bye. I’ll bet Ben Franklin has a really good position there. I’ve always wanted to meet him…
I’m hoping to merit a job on the Other Side working for Andrew Breitbart in the Department of What the $#@& Just Happened?. That would be fun.
BTW, I have a funny feeling that deceased writers are sometimes given the lives of real people with which to continue their oeuvre. It explains a lot. Albert Camus just might have a hand in the career of Barack Obama…
I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic and I don’t know if it was cooked up by Moscow back in those thrilling days of yesteryear or if it was homegrown, but there is definitely a link between the Dunhams and Harry Bridges of the Longshoremen, last seen on the Kremlin balcony, and the links are too strong to be coincidence.
And you don’t have to go so far as Russia to see the communist attitude towards black people; Saul Alinsky practically drips contempt for the people he was “organizing.” Trouble is, nobody under 30-35 even knows what the Soviet Union was and what all that upset was about between 1917 and 1989. To them, Russia is just another country with kind of a macho guy at the head. And to the extent they know of him at all, they know of McCarthey, HUAC, and the FBI under Hoover as nasty conservatives/Republicans who went after really talented people just over what they believed. Isn’t that terrible? I thought in America you could believe in anything you wanted. We now have a couple of generations of cultural and historical illiterates and you can’t even communicate the issues to them.
Gentlemen, Ladies, all you members of the “Conservative Punditocracy” For PETES! sake and mine and just about everyone else’s stop the incessant complaining about the MAIN STREAM MEDIA!!! For one thing they are no longer the “Main Stream” of anything. And they definitely are not Journalists. The last main stream media journalist was either Chet Huntley, Walter Cronkite or maybe Eric Sevareid! Long gone! and classic liberals all three! (not progressives)
Forget about the idiots running up and down the old TV Dial with their incessant lying.
just keep pounding away on “Obamas jobs record and the Obama care Tax situation.
WHY OH WHY does FOX NEWS have to respond to MSNBC, every time an MSNBC flunky spits out another invective of some sort – who fracking cares! — their viewership consists of OWS who could afford to purchase some type of radio or smart phone, Bill Ayres N family, a flock of Pigeons in Oneida New york, and 6 prairie dogs who found the Smith family Robinson walkman radio in Jellystone national park in 2010 –come on people!
Occupy Wall Street is irrelevant, so too is John Stewart and num nuts Colberts’ or the now openly misogynistic Maher. They are irrelevant. They have ratings with a class of or group of folks that see no jobs, increasing prices, increasing taxes -just local and state forget about the feds! In front of the OWS (as well as the rest of “US”) is an unsettled morass of dumb-ass Democrat policies. Brought to all of US” because we like to believe in the better angels of one’s nature ( Sorry Mr. Lincoln but it makes our current point)
All of these “KIDS” can’t be so dumb as they may have been in 08. Nope this time some thinking will take place! they are not likely to be enthusiastic living in the “Obamaland” of the present of the future.
YOU WANN FRET OVER SOMETHING, THEN WORRY ABOUT GETTING 60 SENATE SEATS OF MAYBE 59 IF YOU COUNT LIEBERMAN.
AND FINALLY LET ROMNEY HAVE HIS VACATION, WE HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH TIME FOR THE COMING WAR WITH IRAN, (BECAUSE BEBE CAN’T WAIT FOR THE ANOINTED ONE TO FIND THOSE TWO THINGS HE LOST) THE WE WILL HAVE THE NECESSARY AND CUSTOMARY DEMOCRAT OCTOBER SURPRISE AND WHATEVER NEW FACE LIFT TREATMENT NANCY PELOSI NEEDS DONE!
AND WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE TAKE HARRY REID TO JOSEPH A. BANK! AND GET HIM A SUIT THAT DOESN’T MAKE HIM LOOK LIKE A MORTICIAN!
FINALLY LEAVE ROBERT’S, ALONE!! HEWITT IS CORRECT HE JUST HANDED I, YOU, “US” A MODERN DAY MARBURY V MADISON.
THE REST OF YOU CHECK YOUR DAM “6″!
I like your thinking. Especially about the suit…
It is very important to emphasize the Communist Kenyan’s upbringing and background to educate the people who may not have paid attention in 2008 but are very tuned in this time around. Romney cannot win by pulling a McCain and refusing to attack Dear Leader for his obvious personal shortcomings and America loathing. If he fails to do so, he will suffer McCain’s fate.
Nuff said…..and yes, please take Dingy Harry to Jos A. Bank and someone please call the British embassy and ask if we can have Sir Winston’s bust back.
In yet another political masterstroke in the early fifties progressives and Marxists inoculated Marxists and socialists from criticism based on their identity by inventing McCarthyism.
Obama is surrounded by a number of red diaper babies who are his advisers.
Kengor: “Dunham introduced his grandson to Davis in the 1970s — by one (authoritative) account as early as 1970. He did so for the purpose of mentoring.”
How does Kengor know that the introduction was “for the purpose of mentoring?”
“Maraniss writes that “Obama later estimated that he saw Davis ‘ten to fifteen times’” during their years together in Hawaii. Again, Maraniss doesn’t provide his source, but I’m assuming….”
Yes, plenty of assumptions, few facts. But that’s more than sufficient in the Wackosphere!
Because, lefty idiot, the demigod himself said Davis was his mentor or is at least said by the real author, Bill Ayers, to have considered the old communist pedaphile a mentor. You fools will even deny The One’s “own” words when they become inconvenient.
Yes, Ron. And…they ignore the Socialist Scholars convention, the Midwest Academy, the underpinnings of James Cone’s Black Liberation Theology,
“For Cone, Marxism best addressed remedies to the condition of blacks as victims of white oppression. In For My People, Cone explains that “the Christian faith does not possess in its nature the means for analyzing the structure of capitalism. Marxism as a tool of social analysis can disclose the gap between appearance and reality, and thereby help Christians to see how things really are.”
In God of the Oppressed, Cone said that Marx’s chief contribution is “his disclosure of the ideological character of bourgeois thought, indicating the connections between the ‘ruling material force of society’ and the ‘ruling intellectual’ force.” Marx’s thought is useful and attractive to Cone because it allows black theologians to critique racism in America on the basis of power and revolution.
For Cone, integrating Marx into black theology helps theologians see just how much social perceptions determine theological questions and conclusions. Moreover, these questions and answers are “largely a reflection of the material condition of a given society.”
http://www.acton.org/pub/commentary/2008/04/02/marxist-roots-black-liberation-theology
…of course we must avoid talking about Bill Ayers or his brother, must never talk about Carl Davidson, or Danny Davis and the New Party, not talk about Alice Palmer, not talk about UNO, not talk about the radical professors at college…
The whole of Obama’s life from Frank Marshall Davis on must be scrubbed of his radicalism. He’s just a plain vanilla liberal, right?
Except the radical redistribution policies and his extreme economic “payback” views against the “rich”, his strong resentment against the heartland, and his need to “apologize” for this country…are not misreads. He doesn’t like this country or its people. Michelle wasn’t off base when she blurted out that she was never proud of this country, nor was he. They despised it. The suppression of that sentiment is always bubbling just beneath the surface.
But the Propaganda and Lies Ministry does everything it can to coverup the facts, never letting them into the “mainstream”. In fact, the JournOlista crowd is the anti-”mainstreaming” of key information. They are active co-conspirators in a coverup and deception ploy.
They ought to be tried for their treason.