Glenn Beck Closing in on Van Jones
By Cliff Kincaid, AIM:
“Is Glenn Beck finished?” is the headline over an article on a left-wing website, insisting that a campaign against Beck’s Fox News Channel program has cost him 36 advertisers and that his show may be cancelled as a result. The campaign against Beck is being waged by a group called Color of Change, whose co-founder, Van Jones, is now Obama’s green-jobs czar.
Not coincidentally, Beck has repeatedly singled out Van Jones for criticism, citing evidence of his communist past. The source of this evidence is New Zealand blogger Trevor Loudon, the same researcher who originally unearthed the fact that Obama’s mysterious mentor “Frank” in Obama’s book Dreams from My Father was Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis. We confirmed that identification with a separate source and ran with the story last year, even obtaining the 600-page FBI file on Davis. It also came out that Davis was a sex pervert, doper, and pornographer.
The Obama campaign eventually confirmed Frank’s identity but tried to play down his relationship with Obama. Most media gave the scandal a ho-hum.
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Most media gave the “scandal” a ho-hum because it was based on disinformation.
Calling Davis a sex pervert based on his novel makes no more sense than calling David Letterman a pedophile based on his joke. Both are widespread in the right-wing blogosphere, and reflect the pinnacle of intellectual dishonesty. Both misrepresent the core values of artists by spreading falsehoods that gullible readers accept as truth, and who then spread further in good faith.
Such misrepresentation exploits mainstream unawareness of literary styles such as the semiautobiographic novel (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobiographical_novel), memoir-novel (see http://www.answers.com/topic/memoir-novel-1) and the first-person narrative (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-person_narrative), by claiming that the artist actually experienced fictional events when it serves their disinformation purposes. Deliberate misrepresentation is the foundation of disinformation campaigns, such as the campaign against Barack Obama and Davis.
All memoir-novels, whether pornographic (e.g., John Cleland’s “Fanny Hill”), satirical (e.g., Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels”), or other genre (e.g., Daniel Defoe’s “Moll Flanders”), are allegedly true but nevertheless fiction. The fictional authors of memoir-novels, such as “Bob Greene,” claim that such incidents actually occurred although they, too, are fictional. In a broader sense, ALL first-person narrative novels, such as Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn,” claim authenticity despite obviously being fiction. To claim that some memoir-novels are literally true (if convenient for one’s political agenda), while acknowledging that other memoir-novels are truly fiction, is intellectual dishonesty.
Please note that Jonathan Swift (writing as fictional character Gulliver in memoir-novel “Gulliver’s Travels”) described various encounters with Lilliputians and other characters, and Vladimir Nabokov (writing as fictional character Humbert Humbert in memoir-novel “Lolita”) described various encounters with Lolita and other characters. Upon what basis can anyone believe that Davis’s story is history, while other first person narrative memoir-novels are fantasy? To literally attribute memoir-novel character Bob Greene’s encounters to Davis, but not attribute the encounters of memoir-novel characters Gulliver and Humbert Humbert to their respective authors, indicates a flagrantly biased double standard to smear Barack Obama through guilt-by-association.
Comment by Kaleokualoha | August 25, 2009