CONSERVATIVES IN TANK FOR OBAMA?: Matt Drudge appears to top the List
On top of the Drudge Report’s censorship of his ads about an Obama- communism link, conservative journalist Cliff Kincaid revealed today that other “conservative” websites and papers are balking at running ads or stories drawing public attention to Drudge’s censorship.
“It looks like some of the ‘conservative media’ are in the tank for Drudge, who is in the tank for Obama,” Kincaid said. Kincaid runs the America’s Survival public policy group and is editor of Accuracy in Media. He and veteran anti-communist investigator Herbert Romerstein wrote and released two lengthy and well-documented reports on Barack Obama’s communist connections. They are available at www.usasurvival.org, which is also where the censored ads can be viewed.
“Power has gone to Drudge’s head,” Kincaid said, “and it appears he is going to use this power to benefit Obama.”
Drudge rejected Kincaid’s ads as “too controversial,” even though Drudge developed a reputation for controversia l scoops under the Clinton Administration. However, several observers and experts say the evidence shows that Drudge has been part of a pro-Obama media trend that tends to ignore or play down any scandals involving the candidate. A recent article in Politico said that Matt Drudge has been “trumpeting Obama’s victories and shrugging at his scandals.”
“The rejection of my ads is proof of Drudge’s emerging pro-Obama bias,” Kincaid declared. “But it wasn’t expected that leading ‘conservative’ websites and newspapers would join the censorship campaign.”
The Kincaid-Romerstein reports, as well as the censored ads, focus attention on Obama’s relationship with a Communist Party member named Frank Marshall Davis during his years in Hawaii.
The face in the proposed ads was that of Frank Marshall Davis, identified member of the Communist Party USA and mentor for a young Obama in Hawaii, and also featured a communist hammer and sickle. The ad asked, “Who i s this man?” and urged viewers to click on the ad and “meet the mysterious Red mentor” and go to the reports.
ABOUT YOUR SPEAKERS… Cliff Kincaid Cliff Kincaid serves as president of America’s Survival. Inc., (ASI), a public policy group concerned with foreign policy and U.N. issues, and as editor of the Accuracy in Media (AIM) Report. Kincaid has been an advocate on behalf of the families of victims of terrorism and has published reports and conducted conferences critical of the United Nations.
A veteran journalist and media critic, Cliff concentrated in journalism and communications at the University of Toledo, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and came to Washington through a national journalism program headed by conservative author and journalist M. Stanton Evans. At his college newspaper, Cliff won an award for editorial writing from the Society of Professional Journalists.
An accomplished public speaker and frequent guest on radio and television, Cliff was recently highlighted during an NBC Nightly News report by Campbell Brown as a national conservative spokesman on the subject of liberal bias in public broadcasting. He has appeared on scores of other television and radio programs, including the Fox News programs Hannity & Colmes, The O'Reilly Factor, Dayside with Linda Vester, and Your World with Neil Cavuto. Other television appearances have included MSNBC’s Scarborough Country and Connected Coast to Coast with Ron Reagan and Monica Crowley. In the 1980s, he was a guest co-host on CNN's Crossfire (filling in for Pat Buchanan).
His comments on media controversies have recently been featured in the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Chicago Tribune, and PR Week. His national exclusives have included stories about a National Public Radio reporter receiving $26,000 from the pro-U.N. lobby; a U.N. reporter for The Nation magazine getting money from the U.N.; a left-wing follower of Ralph Nader getting access to White House press briefings; and an editor at AARP being a former illegal drug user and staffer for High Times magazine.
Cliff served on the staff of Human Events for several years and was an editorial writer and newsletter editor for former National Security Council staffer Oliver North at his Freedom Alliance educational foundation. He has written or co-authored nine books on media and cultural affairs and foreign policy issues.
Cliff Kincaid is an investigative journalist who specializes in analyzing the effects of communist and terrorist influence on the U.S. media. He is founder and president of America's Survival, Inc., and editor of Accuracy in Media's AIM Report. He is the author or coauthor of nine books, including WHY YOU CAN'T TRUST THE NEWS, and was instrumental in denying access to the U.S. media market to the Islamic terrorist Al-Jazeera television channel.
Herbert Romerstein Also available for Talk Sho w interviews and author of one of the reports is Herbert Romerstein, who served as an investigator for the United States House Committee on Un-American Activities and the House Committee on Internal Security. He also served as a professional staff member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and head of the Office to Counter Soviet Disinformation for the United States Information Agency. One of his recent books is the acclaimed THE VENONA SECRETS: EXPOSING SOVIET ESPIONAGE AND AMERICA'S TRAITORS.
ABOUT AMERICAN SURVIVAL, INC… An independent organization with an established track record on U.N. matters, American Survival, Inc. (ASI):
• Was the first national organization to warn of global taxes and the proposed International Criminal Court, holding news conferences on these matters at the National Press Club and on Capitol Hill. • Exposed the illegal practice of the Clinton Administration diverting money from the Department of Defense b udget to U.N. peacekeeping. • Exposed the role of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in brokering a Clinton Administration deal with Libya in the Pan Am 103 terrorism case. • Urged the Bush Administration not to back Kofi Annan for a second term as U.N. Secretary-General.
ASI has received the thanks and recognition of President George W. Bush, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and General Tommy Franks for its work to protect American soldiers and citizens from "war crimes" prosecutions by the United Nations. Then-Senator John Ashcroft proclaimed: "One of my greatest allies in this crucial work is Cliff Kincaid. For years, Cliff has publicly exposed the U.N.’s schemes to destroy America’s independence and freedom."