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Academic Radical on Fox Cliff Kincaid, November 30, 2009 Bill O’Reilly has brought back cop-killer apologist Marc Lamont Hill as a commentator on his highly-rated cable show, which he calls the “No Spin Zone.” Curiously, this follows the firing of Hill by O’Reilly’s boss, Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation. There has been no explanation, not even spin, from official Fox News representatives for this strange situation. How can Hill be showing up on the same channel that fired him? On his show, O’Reilly postures as a defender of police officers and law enforcement authorities. He frequently taunts public officials...

You won't be seeing this scene again soon. Cliff Kincaid over at Accuracy in Media (AIM) announces Fox News has fired Marc Lamont Hill. Cliff represented AIM at NewsCorp's annual meeting. (�Accuracy in Media is a News Corp. shareholder.�) AIM reports that he asked Rupert Murdoch why someone with Hill's radical views would have a role as a Fox News commentator: Before Kincaid completed the background for his question, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch interrupted Kincaid to say that he appreciated Cliff's work on this matter, and that Hill had been "fired" last week. We look forward to confirmation...

Some people are wondering who is next after Van Jones. But the Van Jones story is not over. And we still don't know who hired this "obscure" official, as some on the left are now trying to refer to him. Some of these controversies are currently being investigated by the new media. Blogger Trevor Loudon, who broke the story about Jones' communist background, thinks White House official Valerie Jarrett needs to be seriously scrutinized. She appears to have had a family connection to Barack Obama's childhood mentor, Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis. For the record, this "obscure" official technically...

Cliff Kincaid, the editor of Accuracy in Media, has released a copy of his own birth certificate, in order to demonstrate what needs to be done to resolve the growing controversy over the alleged birth certificate of President Barack Obama. "My birth certificate includes the names of my mother and father, my mother's doctor, and the hospital in which I was born," said Kincaid. "This certified copy of an original long form document is what anyone who wants to be president should be prepared to produce." Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution, states, "No Person except a...

Larry Grathwohl will talk about his work as a federal investigator assigned to penetrate Bill Ayers' and Bernardine Dohrn's Weathermen -- the bombings and the deaths -- and a new possibility for prosecution. The investigation is supposedly ongoing, with federal direction, but the local police in San Francisco have been ordered not to talk about it, by the Obama feds. Also discussed: the entire Marxist network in America, right up to Barack Obama. We will be taking calls, call in and let us know whats on your mind. (646) 727-2652

In a surprising admission, Barack Obama’s 40-page so-called “rebuttal” to Jerome Corsi’s book, The Obama Nation, acknowledges for the first time that the senator once had a personal relationship with identified Communist Party USA (CPUSA) member Frank Marshall Davis, a key high-level operative in a Soviet-sponsored network in Hawaii. But the 40-page report, advertised and sold to the media as a refutation of Corsi’s “lies,” doesn’t identify Davis as a hard-core communist and it dishonestly edits an article about Davis to eliminate references to his admitted involvement in CPUSA activities and make the black revolutionary writer and “poet” look like...

Mistake That is Fake by: Cliff Kincaid, June 24, 2008 If Barack Obama wanted to dispel doubts about his national security credentials, he hasn’t done so with the announcement of a new “Senior Working Group on National Security” that includes Dr. Tony Lake, a former national security adviser to Bill Clinton. Lake became a laughingstock for expressing doubts as to whether Alger Hiss, the founder of the United Nations and a top State Department official, was a communist spy. Lake’s doubts led to a controversy that caused him to withdraw his nomination as Clinton’s CIA director. Interestingly, Lake had expressed...

Obama’s Marxist Mentors by: Ben Giles, May 28, 2008 As Barack Obama declares victory in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, some researchers have begun a search into Obama’s past. Cliff Kincaid, founder and president of America’s Survival, Inc., and Herbert Romerstein, author and former investigator for the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), held a press conference at Ebenezer’s Coffeehouse in Washington D.C. on May 22 releasing two new reports. “We’re raising questions,” said Kincaid. “We don’t have all the answers.” “Perhaps Barack Obama has some of the answers.” Romerstein argued that Obama’s rhetoric lacks substance concerning the source...

In his biography of Barack Obama, David Mendell writes about Obama’s life as a “secret smoker” and how he “went to great lengths to conceal the habit.” But what about Obama’s secret political life? It turns out that Obama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, was a communist. In his books, Obama admits attending “socialist conferences” and coming into contact with Marxist literature. (snip) The Nature Of The Threat Both communism and socialism trace their roots to Karl Marx, co-author of the Communist Manifesto, who endorsed the first meeting of the Socialist International, then called the “First International.” According to Pierre...

On the matter of Terri Schiavo’s right to life, which occupied the attention of the media and Congress in 2005, Thompson called that a family decision, “in consultation with their doctor,” and “the federal government should not be involved.” Thompson added, “the less government the better.” ... In the case of Terri Schiavo, a severely disabled person, there was a family dispute. Her estranged husband wanted her to die and he eventually succeeded in starving her to death. Her parents had wanted her to live. ... There was no moral justification for killing Terri because she had an inherent right...

A national defense analyst says it's absolutely crazy that Pentagon officials will push the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to recommend the quick ratification of the U.N. Law of the Sea Treaty. Cliff Kincaid, president of America's Survival, has already expressed his concerns that the Chinese have been using their huge trade advantage with the U.S. to build up their navy, while the U.S. Navy plans to further reduce the number of ships in its fleet. (See earlier article) But Kincaid says instead of changing course and rebuilding to counter the Chinese threat, top Naval officials, including Chief of Naval Operations...

WASHINGTON, DC, MONDAY, JULY 3, 2006--The D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com and the online watchdog Accuracy in Media (www.AIM.org) held a press conference and demonstration Monday at the Washington, D.C., bureau of the New York Times to protest the newspaper's publishing of stories exposing national security intelligence programs. The two conservative groups called for the prosecution of New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Executive Editor Bill Keller and reporters James Risen and Eric Lichtblau for "giving aid and comfort to al-Qaida." The initial group of 14 FReepers, led by FreeRepublic's National Spokesman Kristinn Taylor, soon swelled to 29 protesters. They...

Via email from: http://gabriellegoldwater.com Secret Evidence for Secret Prisons?By Cliff Kincaid  |  June 9, 2006European leftists went crazy over the charges and demanded the probe. http://www.aim.org/aim_column/4631_0_3_0_C/ Send this page to a friend Format this page for printing Desperate to justify its Pulitzer Prize-winning story about CIA "secret prisons" in Europe, the Washington Post on Thursday claimed that a European investigator by the name of Dick Marty had found "signs" or "indications" of their existence. In fact, the investigator's report admits he found no "hard evidence" of what the Post reported to be true.The U.S. State Department spokesman said about the...

Joe Strupp of Editor & Publisher magazine reports that the American Society of Newspaper Editors held a "gay reception" at a meeting recently in Seattle. Strupp reported that newly-elected ASNE president David Zeeck entered a room with outgoing president Rick Rodriguez and declared, "Rick and I are coming out as a couple." Zeeck, Executive Editor of The News Tribune in Tacoma, Washington, was reported to be joking but Rodriguez offered only a "mild smile." Zeeck was critical of another paper, The Spokesman-Review, for outing former Spokane Mayor Jim West as an alleged homosexual child-abuser. Zeeck apparently prefers stories that put...

In the controversy over Ann Coulter's comments about the group of 9/11 widows, there is one critical question, from the point of view of ensuring standards of accuracy in the media. How does Coulter know it to be true that, "I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much." There is no evidence whatsoever that those women enjoyed their husbands' deaths, and Coulter offers none. The only "evidence" for this preposterous and hurtful claim is that the women became activists and sought the media spotlight and took a political position at odds with that of Coulter. But what does...

GEORGE SOROS’ INFILTRATION OF CPAC STATEMENT FOR THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD CONGRESSMAN MARK E. SOUDER (IN-03) FEBRUARY 8, 2006 Mr. Speaker, George Soros, the radical liberal financier who dedicated himself to defeating President George W. Bush in the last election, has taken a lesson from Jack Abramoff. As much of Abramoff’s pernicious lobbying technique has come to light, we’ve seen how he was adept at manipulating certain conservative organizations to pursue a decidedly anti-conservative agenda, namely the promotion of gambling. By working hand in hand with the Traditional Values Coalition (TVC), for example, he was able in 2000 to undermine conservatives’...

Apparently a great many people agree with me that the NY Times again stepped over the line and committed treason when it revealed the NSA program to intercept calls between suspected foreign Al-Qaeda and their accomplices in the United States; also a Rasmussen poll reported that 64% of those surveyed agreed that this surveillance program is necessary and legal. The federal law is 18 U.S.C. § 798, a law that precisely prohibits leaks of the type of classified information disclosed in the story. Subsection (a) of the statute provides: Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available...

In a November 3 column in the Washington Post, Jim Hoagland confirmed that the Joseph Wilson affair was a CIA plot against President Bush.

The savage left-wing attack on Judith Miller from inside and outside of the New York Times completely misses the point. She is under attack for being a lackey of the Bush Administration when she failed to do the administration and the public a big favor. She could have done a potential Pulitzer Prize-winning story that could have broken the Joseph Wilson case wide open. It is a story exposing the Wilson mission to Africa as a CIA operation designed to undermine President Bush. For 85 days in jail, Miller protected her source, Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of...

        There has been no apology or retraction from the left-wing Media Matters (MMFA) after it was apparently caught red-handed (see original item) for falsely implying that Cliff Kincaid, from Accuracy in Media (AIM) and America's Survival, fabricated a letter from an Afghan ambassador. The day after the August 19, 2005, MMFA item, Kincaid posted scanned images (.pdf) on his site of the actual letter and the actual envelope in which the letter was received. It was an action that flat-out debunked Media Matters' implication. Kincaid also issued a public statement denouncing Media Matters for the "false and defamatory charge."       ...

The left-wing organization Media Matters (MMFA) appears to have been caught red-handed in an ugly and false smear attack against Cliff Kincaid, editor of Accuracy in Media (AIM) and president of America's Survival, Inc. In an August 19, 2005, item entitled, "AIM's Kincaid posted 'letter' from Afghan ambassador thanking him for petition to extradite Newsweek's Isikoff," Media Matters clearly implies that Kincaid fabricated a letter from an Afghan ambassador. However, every indication reveals that Kincaid did no such thing. Media Matters posted the following in the item's first paragraph: Accuracy in Media (AIM) editor Cliff Kincaid has posted a "letter"...

Human Rights First, a group of lawyers working with the ACLU on behalf of prisoners in the global War on Terror, gives the term “ambulance chaser” a bad name. Its website features a place where people can click and contact a lawyer “if you or your family member was subjected to abuse in Iraq or Afghanistan?” It’s not clear how the stories of abuse are documented but we do know that one client is identified as simply “Ali H.” and doesn’t use his full name because he “fears for his safety.” Their stories, which are shocking if true, are all...

Special Alert! AIM Editor, Cliff Kincaid, on Fox News. Cliff Kincaid will be a guest on the following programs: Fox News Channel – “Dayside with Linda Vester” today @ 1:30 p.m. WTWB Radio in Central Florida - Lynn Breidenbach Show starting @ 4:30 PM. WNDB in Daytona Beach, Fl. - The Mark Berneir Show starting @ 5:30 Dan Rather led his CBS Evening News broadcast on Monday night with a dubious claim by an Italian communist journalist that "she was deliberately targeted" by U.S. troops in Iraq as she rode in a car to Baghdad airport. While he noted the...

"Denial" – that popular psychobabble term – gained immense credibility in the last century as a result of "experts" who tried to convince the public that people who looked at a blue sky and called it pink were somehow not responsible for their perceptions. If one really believed that, they said, he or she must be "in denial" and therefore more worthy of "treatment" (or pity) than scorn. The idea had widespread implications. Simply excise the notion of accountability from the public imagination and anything was possible! Women who chose to destroy their in-utero infants could deny their acts by...

The U.S. military can force its personnel to wear the blue beret of the United Nations and serve under the world body's command, a federal judge ruled. Judge Paul Friedman upheld the military's conviction of former Army specialist Michael New, who refused to don the U.N. cap and shoulder patch and to serve in a peacekeeping mission in Macedonia nearly 10 years ago, the New York Sun reported.

The Kerry-Kennedy-Haiti Connection By Cliff Kincaid March 26, 2004 It wasn't a big story when John Kerry said that he would have risked U.S. lives to maintain Marxist Jean-Bertrand Aristide in power in Haiti. And except for columnist Robert Novak, there hasn't been any discussion of why Kerry chose such a controversial course of action. Novak noted evidence of "Aristide's gold-plated U.S. connections." He explained, "He is close to Kerry's influential friends, the Kennedy family of Massachusetts, and is the unconditional favorite of the Congressional Black Caucus." Novak noted that Aristide spent millions on U.S. lobbyists and lawyers, and that,...

Receive FREE updates by email: John Kerry Challenged To Come Clean By Cliff Kincaid March 10, 2004 Washington Post ombudsman Michael Getler has tried to explain why the paper for several days ignored the controversy over the rumor about Senator John Kerry having a bimbo. The Post ignored the story even when Kerry issued a denial. Getler’s column was published in response to a reader who wondered about the handling of the Kerry story in contrast to the relentless pounding of Bush over questions about his service in the National Guard. Ironically, on the same day Getler’s column appeared,...

Desperate to shed the label of Massachusetts liberal, Senator and presidential candidate John Kerry claims that his position on homosexual marriage is the same as that of Vice President Dick Cheney. Kerry says, "Vice President Cheney has the same position I do." The media have failed to note that this is a blatant lie. In an exclusive interview published by the Denver Post on January 11, Cheney said "he would support a presidential push to ban same-sex marriage" and that "recent action by courts in Massachusetts and other states that recognize gays' rights to the civil benefits of marriage has...

Who said that Saddam Hussein was attempting to develop nuclear weapons? And that it was developing unmanned aerial vehicles capable of delivering chemical and biological warfare agents? It was Senator John Kerry. Who said that he was never in doubt about the evil of Saddam Hussein or the necessity of removing his weapons of mass destruction? That was Howard Dean. These quotes comes to us courtesy of the liberal group, Institute for Public Accuracy, which has been trying to hold President Bush accountable for his claims about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and says that Democrats have to be held...

While Howard Dean is a Northeastern liberal, he’s no Michael Dukakis. So says William Kristol of The Weekly Standard, writing in the Washington Post about Dean’s chances to win in 2004. In 1988, the former Massachusetts governor lost to George H.W. Bush after being branded a dreaded "Massachusetts liberal." By contrast, the media have labeled Dean a "conservative" or "centrist" on some issues. But the truth about Dean’s embrace of the radical homosexual agenda could put the former Vermont governor on the far, far left side of the political spectrum, even beyond the liberalism of Dukakis. For this reason, it’s...

Jon Entine, the author of "Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk About It," has been saying controversial things about blacks in sports that few other people will say. But he, too, was critical about Limbaugh’s claim that the media over-rated Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb because he is black. Entine told us that, "If he had just said that the media wants black quarterbacks to succeed, I think he would have been dead right, and would have survived any furor. If he had just said that McNabb was over-rated as a passer, he would...

On both sides of the Atlantic, the media have highlighted the credentials of Wesley Clark, the retired general who has entered the Democratic race for president. Bob Herbert of the New York Times said Clark "led the successful military operation in Kosovo in 1999," while The Guardian of London called him "the U.S. hero of Kosovo." Human Events is the only newspaper we have seen which noted that the Kosovo war was initiated by Bill Clinton "without seeking prior authorization from Congress." But it’s far worse than that. Ignoring the constitutional role of Congress, Clinton waged his war through executive...

When Bill O'Reilly says Fox News is not conservative, he may have in mind John Gibson, who came from MSNBC. He has his own Fox show, "Big Story," but recently filled in for O'Reilly and treated conservative professor and noted author David Lowenthal in an unfair and unbalanced way. The issue was the so-called Ten Commandments monument that Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore refused to move from his courthouse.I say "so-called" because one of the noteworthy omissions from many stories about the case is that the monument also bears the phrase, "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God," from the...

The U.S. Government isn’t alone in getting burned by the use of forged Iraq documents. The Christian Science Monitor has now apologized to suspended British Member of Parliament George Galloway for using forged documents to charge that he was in the pay of the Saddam Hussein regime. The paper declared, "On April 25, 2003, this newspaper ran a story about documents obtained in Iraq that alleged Saddam Hussein's regime had paid a British member of Parliament, George Galloway, $10 million over 11 years to promote its interests in the West." The Monitor, after an extensive investigation, had determined the papers...

Columnist Cal Thomas used a recent column to advocate the Reagan approach to dealing with terrorism and threats to our national security. He wrote, "On the day of Ronald Reagan's Inauguration in 1981, Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini released 52 American hostages he had held for 444 days. He had kept them that long because he realized a weak and indecisive President Jimmy Carter…wasn't going to employ force to get them back. The ayatollah rightly feared Mr. Reagan might turn Iran into a parking lot if he didn't let our people go." That sounds good, but the fact is that about two...

On Meet the Press Vice President Cheney ticked off a list of attacks on Americans that have largely gone unanswered: the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon, the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, the destruction of the Khobar Towers military complex in Saudi Arabia in 1996, the east Africa embassy bombings in 1998, and the attack on the USS Cole in 2000. Cheney said that "each time there was almost no credible response from the United States to those attacks." He left one out – the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 by Libya over Lockerbie,...