MOM2TWINS2: Obama does NOT mention Davis as his "mentor." That is disinformation. In fact, the Obama campaign specifically rejects claims of mentorship in its rebuttal to the Corsi book. If you "just do a 'google' search and you'll find tons" of disinformation spearheaded by "Accuracy In Media." The "Sex Rebel: Black" allegations are just an afterthought to the original disinformation campaign started in February against Barack Obama.

Davis wrote a SEMI-autobiographical fictional novel in which the protagonist had sex with a minor, as one of numerous sexual encounters. Names and identities were changed. "Identity" includes personal information other than names, such as age. With two columns devoted to this story (Obama’s Red Mentor Was a Pervert and Was a Communist Obama’s Sex Teacher?), AIM is increasingly desperate. Based on this novel, AIM's Cliff Kincaid is now calling Frank Marshall Davis "an admitted child molester" and is insinuating that he may have been Obama's "sex teacher." Davis was NOT an "admitted child rapist" as posted by Hambirg.

To attribute the alleged escapades of Bob Greene to Frank Marshall Davis is dishonest. The book is fictional, and states that names and identities have been changed. "Identity" includes biographical information such as age.

Further, scandalous memoirs such as "Sex Rebel: Black (Memoirs of a Gash Gourmet)" have been a literary genre for centuries. Such fictional novels are allegedly factual, but are largely invented. The title, alone, qualifies it as a "scandalous memoir." In "Sex Rebel," Davis's Bob Greene (not unlike Nabokov's Humbert Humbert) hesitates at a pubescent girl's sexual invitation, but foolishly relents. Like "Lolita," Davis's faux foreword is written by a Ph.D impersonator who details the psychological significance of the memoir. Like Nabokov, Davis wanted to write under a pseudonym to shield his reputation, but felt compelled to reveal his authorship.

As a result, however, Davis has been posthumously accused of pedophilia, while "Lolita" is "considered by many to be one of the finest novels written in the 20th century." In 1998, it was named the fourth greatest English language novels of the 20th century by the Modern Library," despite also being initially dismissed as pornography, according to Wikipedia.

HAMBIRG: As far as the Redbaiting:

It is unfortunate that so many people believe falsehoods spread by "Accuracy In Media" (AIM), which has been conducting a disinformation campaign against the Obama-Davis relationship. The campaign consists of a series of small lies fabricated to support the big lie that "His values, passed on to Obama, were those of a communist agent who pledged allegiance to Stalin" (see Media Excuse Obama’s False Advertising).

Their "specific misrepresentation" is documented at Barack Obama and Joe Biden: The Change We Need | Mark Davis's Blog: Redbaiting Barack Obama (9 August 2008). I invite any person of integrity to refute my evidence against any of these AIM lies. If AIM had authentic evidence of Davis's radical influence, they would not need to fabricate such evidence.

Edgar Tidwell, whom AIM's Cliff Kincaid cites as "an expert on the life and writings of Davis," demolishes right-wing misrepresentation of Davis's radical influence in one simple paragraph:

"Although my research indicates that Davis joined the CPUSA as a "closet member" during World War II, there is no evidence that he was a Stalinist, or even a Party member before WWII. Further, to those attempting to make the specious stand for the concrete, there is no evidence that he instructed Barack Obama in communist ideology. Frank Marshall Davis did NOT believe in overthrowing the USA. He was committed to what the nation professed to be. For him, communism was primarily an intellectual vehicle to achieve a political end-a possible tool for gaining the constitutional freedoms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for ALL Americans." (See Barack Obama and Joe Biden: The Change We Need | Mark Davis's Blog)