The Absurd Report

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 those doubts on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” during an interview conducted by the late Tim Russert. It went like this:
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A CIA analysis notes that Lake was “unlikely to be the last casualty of the Hiss case.” How prophetic. It appears that Obama could be another. That is, if we have a media willing to hold him accountable for the atrocious pick of Lake.

At the same time, Lake’s appointment to Obama’s foreign policy team should generate more interest in Obama’s personal involvement in Marxist politics in Hawaii and Chicago and lead to questions about what lessons he learned from his childhood mentor, Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis.
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Obama neglected to mention that his grandfather, Stanley Dunham, selected Frank Marshall Davis as Obama’s father-figure during his time in Hawaii. This is how his grandparents helped his mother “raise” Obama. Davis, a black communist writer and poet, was a role model for Obama during a time when Obama needed someone to look up to and was formulating his thinking. Davis filled Obama’s head with anti-American thoughts.

Obama keeps this information concealed from voters because he and his campaign strategist, David Axelrod, understand that Davis was a hard-line member of the Communist Party USA and a Stalinist agent. Any relationship with such a figure would not go over well with voters, especially in Obama’s case when other controversial relationships with anti-American figures have already surfaced.

The Importance of Davis

It’s one thing to be associated with communist terrorist Bill Ayers. It’s another thing to sit through the anti-American sermons of Jeremiah Wright and belong to his church. But to have a father-son relationship with a top Communist? This might be hard for voters to fathom. That is why the information has to be concealed from voters at any cost. And this is why Obama went to such lengths to conceal Davis’s identity, referring in his book, Dreams From My Father, to Davis as just “Frank.”

Unfortunately for Obama, Professor Gerald Horne, a writer for a communist publication, blew the whistle, disclosing that Frank was Frank Marshall Davis. Horne was proud of that fact and spoke in glowing terms about the relationship to a mostly communist group at Tamiment Library at New York University, which received and now houses the sanitized Communist Party archives. After being alerted to the Horne speech by New Zealand blogger Trevor Loudon, we confirmed the true identity of “Frank” with Dr. Kathryn Takara of the University of Hawaii. She said Davis was a significant influence over Obama for a crucial three or four years of his life before he went off to college. Veteran anti-communist investigator Herbert Romerstein has written an entire report (PDF) on the communist network in Hawaii that included Davis and influenced Obama.

Since we put the final pieces of this puzzle together several months ago, making it crystal clear that “Frank” was a Communist and that he was Obama’s childhood mentor, many in the media haven’t quite figured out how to handle this smoking gun. Some like the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank have tried to ridicule or ignore the evidence. Others, including various Fox News personalities and even one prominent “conservative” news service, have deliberately ignored it. They would prefer to blather on about Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, who have largely become old news.
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The Davis influence over Obama helps explain why Obama, when he went to college, admittedly selected Marxist professors as friends, attended socialist conferences, and discussed neocolonialism. Davis, in short, explains the rest of Obama’s life and career, including his subsequent associations with Ayers and Wright. It adds up to a list of controversial connections and associations that would clearly disqualify Obama from ever getting a federal security clearance. But as a presidential candidate, he doesn’t need one.
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It goes without saying that it might be difficult to arrange a Murdoch-Obama meeting if Bill O’Reilly were ranting and raving on a daily basis about Obama’s relationship with Frank Marshall Davis. The leftist Nation magazine reports with glee that “some Fox executives are following Rupert Murdoch’s new tone” on Obama. Would it be surprising if the new tone were to filter down to the on-air personalities?
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So what does it matter that people like Alger Hiss and Frank Marshall Davis were communist agents? And that Obama is now being advised by someone who turns a blind eye to the evidence of communist infiltration of the U.S. Government?

Does anybody in the major media care about the truth anymore? And what has happened to the conservative media as well?