IMPORTANT NEW DEVELOPMENTS HAVE OCCURRED SINCE I WROTE this AIM Report. I want to use this edition of my “notes” to bring you completely up to date. The London Daily Telegraph has reported allegations that Frank Marshall Davis was not only a communist but a sex pervert and pornographer, and that he smoked dope with Obama’s grandfather, Stanley Dunham, who had introduced Davis to Obama when the child was only nine years of age—in 1970. We know that Dunham and Davis were drinking buddies and that Obama admits doing drugs in his youth. We also know that Obama talks in his book Dreams From My Father about sharing alcohol with Davis. Did he share drugs with him too?
DAVIS’S ALLEGED SEXUAL PERVERSION ADDS A DRAMATIC AND ALARMING ELEMENT TO the controversy. Toby Harnden of the Telegraph reports that Davis’s sexual proclivities were documented in a 1968 pornographic novel, written just two years before Davis became Obama’s mentor, which was titled, Sex Rebel: Black (Memoirs of a Gourmet Gash). Davis wrote the book, which is now generally unavailable, under a pseudonym, Bob Greene. Harnden flatly asserts that “The book, which closely tracks Mr. Davis’s life in Chicago and Hawaii and the fact that his first wife was black and his second white, describes in lurid detail a series of shockingly sordid sexual encounters, often involving group sex. One chapter concerns the seduction by Mr. Davis and his first wife of a 13-year-old girl called Anne. Mr. Davis wrote that it was the girl who had suggested he had sex with her.” Harnden added, “He then described how he and his wife would have sex with the girl” many times over the course of several weeks. “On other occasions,” he added, “Mr. Davis would cruise in Hawaii parks looking for couples or female tourists to have sex with. He derived sexual gratification from bondage, simulated rape and being flogged and urinated on.”
OBAMA IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR BEING PUT INTO CLOSE CONTACT WITH THIS ALLEGED child molester, alcohol abuser, and pothead. Obama’s growing-up years were sad and tragic, especially with his black father taking off and his mother spending much of her time elsewhere. His grandparents tried their best to raise him. But his grandfather should never have turned Obama over to Davis. Since Obama wants to be the president of the United States of America, with authority over domestic and foreign policies that will affect our daily lives, we have a right to know the nature of the Obama-Davis relationship and how it affected his personal life and political philosophy.
THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT DAVIS WROTE THE BOOK UNDER THE PSEUDONYM OF “BOB Greene.” John Edgar Tidwell, the editor of other books by Davis, has confirmed this is the case. But Tidwell has questioned how much of Sex Rebel is based on Davis’s own life experiences and describes it as “semi-autobiographical.” Harnden acknowledged to AIM that Davis “left himself some wiggle room, not least I suppose because of the possibility of prosecution” for statutory rape of a 13-year-old. But in the introduction to Livin’ the Blues, a book by Davis that Tidwell edited, Tidwell reveals that Davis left behind after his death an uncompleted manuscript, “The Incredible Waikiki Jungle,” which describes how Davis “specialized in sex” during the period 1969-1976. No details are provided by Tidwell. He also says that Davis wrote another unpublished manuscript called “Mixed Sex Salad.” Whether the book Sex Rebel is entirely based on Davis or not, the controversy certainly demonstrates that Davis had a perverted sexual interest and should not have been trusted as a mentor for any young person.
ON AUGUST 18, FOX NEWS AIRED A SPECIAL PROGRAM, “PRESIDENTIAL CHARACTER & Conduct 2008: Barack Obama,” which not only ignored Frank Marshall Davis but the association of Obama with communist terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. The program, narrated by Bill Hemmer, a former anchor for CNN, mostly relied on friends, associates and a friendly biographer of Obama for information about the candidate. While the program did include information about Obama’s relationship with convicted felon Tony Rezko, it concluded that Obama did nothing illegal and ignored Rezko’s involvement with a controversial Iraqi-born British billionaire, Nadhmi Auchi, who has been pressuring the media to stop running negative stories about him. Andrew Walden of the Hawaii Free Press wrote a major article for our website on how Auchi is trying to intimidate the media from investigating his dealings, which include a tie to Rezko and possibly Obama. If you would like a printed copy of this report, please send us the enclosed postcard. Also, please send one of the other postcards to Bill Hemmer of Fox News, protesting his flawed special program on Obama. And if you still haven’t ordered Jerome Corsi’s book, The Obama Nation, do so through AIM.
MEANWHILE, BOTH NEWSWEEK AND TIME MAGAZINES HAVE NOW MENTIONED FRANK Marshall Davis. Jon Meacham writes in Newsweek that Obama’s mentor was “a strong voice for racial justice” and a political activist whose “writings on civil-rights and labor issues” had “prompted a McCarthyite denunciation by the House Un-American Activities Committee.” Meacham is suggesting that Davis was the target of false allegations that he was a communist. He agrees, however, that Davis was one of Obama’s mentors. In the first place, as Meacham surely knows, Joseph McCarthy was a senator, not a congressman. The House committee had nothing to do with McCarthy. Plus, Davis was in fact a communist. Can you believe that Meacham is editor of Newsweek? He ought to resign in disgrace.
IN TIME MAGAZINE, DAVID VON DREHLE IS A BIT MORE HONEST. “LIKE HIS FRIEND PAUL Robeson and others, Davis perceived the Soviet Union as a ‘staunch foe of racism’ (as he later put it in his memoirs), and at one point he joined the Communist Party,” he writes. Nevertheless, Drehle faults AIM for trying to paint a “radical” picture of Obama because of his association with Davis. He insists that “by the time they [Obama and Davis] met, Davis had been out of politics for decades, and ‘mentor’ may exaggerate his role in the young man’s life. Still, it’s clear that Obama did seek advice from the old man and that what he got was undiluted.” One of the key facts that Von Drehle ignores is that Robeson, like Davis, had been a secret member of the Communist Party USA. Also, by the time they met, 1970, Davis was still active in a CPUSA front called the American Committee for Foreign Born. So he wasn’t “out of politics for decades.” There’s no evidence that Davis, who died in 1987, ever stopped being a communist.
THE WASHINGTON POST ON AUGUST 24 RAN A 10,000-WORD STUNNINGLY DISHONEST story about Obama growing up in Hawaii that completely ignored Davis’s critical role. The author, David Maraniss, told us that he had concluded that even Obama had “hyped out of all proportion” Davis’s influence over him! Ignoring all of the evidence, Maraniss, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, insisted that Davis “did not play a role in really shaping Obama.”
ACCURACY IN MEDIA IS UNDER STRONG ATTACK FOR DOING THE INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING that the media should be doing. But you can see that we are making huge progress in getting out the facts. Some parts of the major media are finally being forced to admit that what we have uncovered is true.
