As McHenry concedes, Davis was a communist and a pornographer. Had Mitt Romney written two youthful poems about a man of comparable interests, that man's name would be more notorious than "Bain Capital." As it is, not one Democrat out of a hundred could identify "Frank Marshall Davis."
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McHenry has reviewed enough of my material to have seen my pieces on historian Paul Kengor's new book, The Communist - Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mentor. In one article I quote Kengor as saying, "Here are the facts and they are indisputable: Davis was a pro-Soviet, pro-Red China, card-carrying member of Communist Party (CPUSA). His Communist Party card number was 47544."
There are few, if any, black intellectuals who carried Stalin's bloody water as proudly and publicly as Davis did. Indeed, he gave up his beloved Chicago to advance the communist cause in Hawaii, almost assuredly at the direction of someone in the Soviet hierarchy. And unlike other intellectuals, black and white, Davis never renounced Stalin or came clean as a "former" anything.
McHenry proves equally evasive about Davis's avocation as a pornographer. He chides me for "accepting without question that a book of porn [Davis's, Sex Rebel: Black] is basically a faithful retelling of a man's life story." As he must know, however, I said quite the opposite. "Sex Rebel is decidedly a novel," I wrote in Deconstructing Obama, "not an autobiography -- a good thing as the book documents his seduction of a 13 year-old girl."
That much said, the Davis persona in Sex Rebel, the narrator, insists that the book's adventures are all "taken from actual experiences." For the record, the narrator confesses to being "bisexual" as well as "a voyeur and an exhibitionist." In the introduction to Sex Rebel, an alleged Ph.D. named Dale Gordon goes further. He describes the pseudonymous author, Bob Greene, as having "strong homosexual tendencies in his personality." He specifies, "When Bob Greene takes another man's penis in his mouth, he does so to provide pleasure for the man."
I cite this because McHenry breezily dismisses my suggestion that the following lines from "Pop" might have sexual overtones:
Pop takes another shot, neat
Points out the same amber
Stain on his shorts that I've got on mine,
and
Makes me smell his smell, coming
From me;
Yes, the author could be talking about whiskey stains, as I admit in Deconstructing, but there is enough talk in Sex Rebel about the taste and texture of semen to merit the suspicion that the "breath" and "amber stain" references in "Pop" refer to the exchange of something other than whiskey, especially since the stains are on their "shorts," not on their shirts. (And let's not even mention Larry Sinclair.)
McHenry fully betrays his audience on the notion that "Obama's entire life is one massive fraud."
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As the Maraniss book confirms, Obama's life is a massive fraud. The Obama-friendly Ben Smith of Buzzfeed counted "38 instances in which the biographer [Maraniss] convincingly disputes significant elements of Obama's own story of his life and his family history." That's Million Little Pieces territory, and Maraniss told only half the story.
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Finally, McHenry spares his readers any evidence that Obama is not the writer his acolytes want him to be. Obama's published essay as a Columbia senior, "Breaking the War Mentality," could have done the trick. This God-awful article proves to all but the most faithful that Obama could have not have written Dreams from My Father unaided, and probably not even "Pop."
The fraud likely began early. As Davis reminded us in "To A Young Man," "one plus one" does not necessarily make "two or three or four."
