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Accuracy in Media Conference

ObamaNation: A Day of Truth September 21, 2012 Allison Center The Heritage Foundation 214 Massachsetts Ave., NE Washington, DC

A Message from the Chairman I’d like to welcome you to this important Accuracy in Media conference, ObamaNation: A Day of Truth. For more than four decades, AIM has turned a watchful eye on the mainstream press. We have worked overtime to expose how the media intentionally deceive the public by force-feeding them propaganda and ignoring the facts that don’t support their left-wing views. But this year’s presidential election campaign has provided even more reasons for AIM to ramp up its scrutiny of the press. Not only is the political left determined to catapult their candidate into another four year term, but they’ve launched a massive disinformation campaign about the current administration, orchestrated by the mainstream press, to ensure that it happens. That’s why AIM has assembled such an impressive roster of experts to shine the light of truth upon the corruption and desingenuousness that characterizes the Obama administration and their sycophants in the press. This year marks the 40th anniversary of our AIM Report newsletter – our respected vehicle for critiquing the great media issues of our time, confronting America’s largest media corporations and taking to task the most powerful names in the news industry for their misreporting. While the mainstream media continue to engage in deliberately deceitful and dangerous behavior that threatens the fabric of our nation, it is a reminder to those of us gathered here today that the real power of our great country still lies with individuals who – time after time – have stood up to protect the principles and values on which this nation was founded – and who are not afraid to speak truth to power in order to defend America’s freedom.

ObamaNation A Day of Truth Program 9 - 9:10 a.m. Introduction Don Irvine Chairman, Accuracy in Media Roger Aronoff Editor, Accuracy in Media, Moderator of the AIM Conference 9:10 - 9:35 a.m. Remarks by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and head of the Media Fairness Caucus 9:35 - 10 a.m. The Audacity of Corruption Pat Caddell, former Democratic pollster turned political critic and consultant for documentary, “The Hope and the Change,” 2012 10 - 10:25 a.m. Let’s Make it Easy to Vote AND Hard to Cheat; We Can Do Both John Fund, Senior Editor, American Spectator, Expert on voter fraud and the American election process; Co-author Who’s Counting? 10:25 - 10:50 a.m. Obama’s Middle East Illusions

Roger Aronoff, Editor of Accuracy in Media; producer/director of six documentaries, including “Confronting Iraq: Conflict and Hope.”

10:50 - 11:15 a.m. Not Winning Ugly: How Conservatives Can Persuade Artur Davis, former Democratic Congressman, and national co-chair for Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign

11:15 - 11:40 a.m. Obama’s Contempt for Religious Freedom Bishop E. W. Jackson Sr., founder of Exodus Faith Ministries, Chesapeake, Va., ran for U.S. Senate from Virginia, 2012 11:40 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. Holder’s Department of Injustice Andrew McCarthy, journalist, author of Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy; and former federal prosecutor 12:05 - 1 p.m. Panel: Edward Klein and Jack Cashill Klein: The Ideological Amateur Former Newsweek Foreign Editor and NY Times Magazine Editor-inChief; Author of the NY Times bestseller, The Amateur Cashill: The Care and Feeding of the Obama Genius Myth Investigative reporter, author of Deconstructing Obama 1 - 1:25 p.m. Blacklash: Freeing Americans from the Liberal Plantation Deneen Borelli, Outreach Director for FreedomWorks; Author of Blacklash 1:25 - 2:25 p.m. Panel: Andrew McCarthy and Frank Gaffney McCarthy: Spring Fever Gaffney: The Muslim Brotherhood in America 2:25 - 2:50 p.m. Scientific Evidence Proves Obamacare Will Harm Seniors Betsy McCaughey, Chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Death, former Lt. Governor of New York; Author of, Obama Health Law

2:50 - 3:15 p.m. After Four Years of Obama, the World Isn’t Better Off Frank Gaffney, Founder/President, Center for Security Policy, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy 3:15 - 3:40 p.m. Fast & Furious, Solyndra, and the Obama Way Katie Pavlich, News Editor, Townhall.com; Author of Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up 3:40 - 4:05 p.m. Obamanomics: Fact and Fiction John Merline, Senior Writer, Investor’s Business Daily 4:05 - 4:30 p.m. Obama’s Radical Influences: Davis, Ayers, Soros and Beyond Cliff Kincaid, Director, AIM Center for Investigative Journalism, Author of several books including The Death of Talk Radio? 4:30 - 5 p.m. How the Media are Impacting the Election Richard Benedetto, former White House correspondent, USA TODAY, political columnist, Author of Politicians are People, Too * Authors will be available to sign books in the foyer of the Allison Auditorium following Q&A. * Breakfast, lunch and drinks will be available in the foyer, but they are not allowed inside the auditorium.

Biographies Richard Benedetto is a retired White House correspondent and columnist for USA Today and Gannett News Service. Benedetto reported on local, state, and national government and politics for nearly 40 years and continues to write political commentary for publications such as Politico. Benedetto is a founding member of USA Today, having joined in 1982. He wrote the national newspaper’s first Page One cover story. Benedetto covered the White House during the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. He has covered nearly every national political convention since 1972 and every presidential campaign since 1984. In 2006 he became an adjunct professor of Journalism at American University in Washington, D.C. Benedetto is also the author of the book, Politicians Are People, Too.

Deneen Borelli is a fellow with FreedomWorks, and the author of Blacklash: How Obama and the Left are Driving Americans to the Government Plantation. Mrs. Borelli currently serves as a contributor on Fox News, and has also appeared on MSNBC, CNN, the BBC and C-SPAN. Her commentaries on the importance of freedom and limited government have been widely published. She has also been a frequent speaker at political rallies and events, including the FreedomWorks 9.12 March on D.C. that drew a crowd estimated at over 800,000 people. Borelli served on the Board of Trustees with The Opportunity Charter School in Harlem, New York. Previously, she served as Manager of Media Relations with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). In that capacity, Deneen was the Executive Producer and co-host on “The CORE Hour,” a weekly Internet radio talk show.

Pat Caddell worked for Democratic presidential candidates George McGovern in 1972, Jimmy Carter in 1976 and 1980, Gary Hart in 1984, Joe Biden in 1988, and Jerry Brown in 1992. These days Mr. Caddell is a regular guest on Fox News and is a Fox News contributor. He has also served as a consultant to various movies and television shows, most notably the movies “Running Mates,” “Air Force One,” “Outbreak,” “In the Line of Fire,” and the TV drama “The West Wing.” Most recently, he served as a consultant on the documentary, “The Hope and the Change.”

Jack Cashill is a writer and producer and has written for Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Weekly Standard, AmericanThinker.com and regularly for WorldNetDaily. Within the last decade, Cashill has written seven books, including Deconstructing Obama: The Life, Loves, and Letters of America’s First Postmodern President. He has also produced a score of documentaries for regional PBS and national cable channels, including the Emmy Award-winning, The Royal Years. Cashill has a Ph.D. from Purdue University in American Studies. He has taught media and literature at Purdue and at Kansas City area universities, and served as a Fulbright professor in France.

Artur Davis is a former four-term Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama. He was viewed as a rising star in the House, assuming positions of influence including a seat on the Ways and Means Committee, and recruitment chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in the 2008 election cycle. In 2008, Esquire Magazine named him one of the 10 Best Congressmen in America. In 2010, Davis was defeated in an upset in the Democratic primary during his bid to become the first black elected governor in the Deep South. He is now a columnist and commentator across a wide media spectrum, and has appeared as a guest analyst on MSNBC, CNBC and the Fox Business Network. Davis, a 1990 magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University and a 1993 cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, Davis is now an attorney in Washington, D.C. He previously served as a federal prosecutor with a near 100 percent trial-conviction record and as a partner at the law firm SNR Denton LLP. John Fund is the national affairs columnist for National Review magazine and a frequent commentator on cable news networks, such as CNBC and Fox News. He has written on electoral irregularities for the Wall Street Journal and The New Republic. He is the co-author of the book, Who’s Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk; and the author of the book, Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy. Fund joined the Wall Street Journal in 1984 as a deputy features editor and became an editorial page writer specializing in politics two years later. In 1995, he was named a member of the Journal’s editorial board, where he served until turning to the role of columnist on OpinionJournal.com. He worked as a reporter for the syndicated columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak. Mr. Fund attended California State University, where he studied journalism and science.

Frank Gaffney is the founder and president of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., and is the host of Secure Freedom Radio, a nationally-syndicated radio program that addresses current and emerging threats to national security, sovereignty and American culture. Gaffney is the publisher and associate author of Shariah: The Threat to America, a report that provides a comprehensive “second opinion” on the official characterizations and assessments of the threat of political Islam as put forward by the U.S. government. Gaffney is a columnist for the Washington Times, TownHall.com and Newsmax. He is a contributor to Andrew Breitbart’s BigPeace.com and his columns are featured on WorldNetDaily. In April 1987, Gaffney was nominated by President Reagan to become Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy. Bishop E. W. Jackson Sr. is the founder of Exodus Faith Ministries, a nondenominational ministry headquartered in Chesapeake, Va. Following three years in the U.S. Marine Corps, he attended the University of Massachusetts, graduating summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in 1975. A 1978 graduate of Harvard Law School, he also studied theology at Harvard Divinity School. During his career in Boston, Bishop Jackson practiced law for 15 years, started Boston’s first and only all-gospel radio station, and served five years both as a minister for the Boston Red Sox Chapel services and Protestant Chaplain for the Boston Fire Department. In 1996, he left his law practice and radio to lead the Samaritan Project, a national outreach and racial reconciliation effort on behalf of churches victimized by arson. He taught Administrative Law at Northeastern University ,and business and commercial law at Strayer University. Bishop Jackson’s TV appearances include CNN’s Talk Back Live, ABC’s Good Morning America, MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews and C-SPAN’s Washington Journal.

Cliff Kincaid has been associated with Accuracy in Media since 1978, and is currently the Director of the AIM Center for Investigative Journalism. From 2003-2010, he served as Editor of Accuracy in Media’s AIM Report newsletter. A veteran journalist and media critic, he also specializes in exposing domestic and international extremist movements and is the president of his own organization, America’s Survival. Kincaid is the author and co-author of several books including Why You Can’t Trust the News, The News Manipulators, Profiles of Deception and The Death of Talk Radio? He has appeared on numerous radio and TV political talk shows including Your World with Neil Cavuto, The Savage Nation, Fox and Friends, The Glenn Beck Show, and The O’Reilly Factor. His articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Chronicles, Human Events and many other publications. Kincaid represents AIM at shareholders’ meetings of America’s most powerful media companies. Kincaid also served on the staff of Human Events, and was an editorial writer and newsletter editor for former National Security Council staffer Oliver North at his Freedom Alliance Educational Foundation. Kincaid graduated with a BA from the University of Toledo where he concentrated in journalism and communications.

Edward Klein is a writer and editor with a distinguished career in American journalism. He is the author of the recent book, The Amateur, which reveals many behind-the-scenes stories of the Obama White House, as well as the President’s relationship with Rev. Wright, Oprah Winfrey, Bill and Hillary Clinton, members of the Kennedy family, Valerie Jarrett, and others. Klein is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair magazine; a former foreign editor of Newsweek; a former foreign correspondent for UPI; and former editor-in-chief of The New York Times Magazine. During his editorship, The New York Times Magazine won the first Pulitzer Prize in its history. Klein earned a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Andrew C. McCarthy is the author of the books, Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy and The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America and Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad. He is a former federal prosecutor and a Contributing Editor with National Review Online. He co-chairs the Center for Law and Counterterrorism, a joint project of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the National Review Institute, where he also serves as a senior fellow. From 1993 to 1996, while an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, he led the prosecution against the jihad organization of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, in which a dozen Islamic militants were convicted of conducting a war of urban terrorism against the United States that included the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a plot to bomb New York City landmarks.

Betsy McCaughey is the founder and Chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths. As a health policy expert, she has won many prizes for her writings, lectures widely, and appears frequently on television and radio. She has been featured on ABC’s 20/20, Nightline and Good Morning America and has had articles published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and numerous other publications. McCaughey was the 72nd Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1995 to 1998, during the first term of Governor George Pataki. A historian by training, with a Ph.D. from Columbia University, she was integral in exposing the truth about ObamaCare and the impact the legislation will have on patients, especially senior citizens. In 1993, her input on the Clinton healthcare plan was considered to be a major factor in the defeat of the bill, and brought her to the attention of Pataki, who then chose her as his Lieutenant Governor running mate.

John Merline, Senior Writer, Investor’s Business Daily. Previously, he was an opinion editor for AOL and AOL News, as well as the senior director for AOL. Merline was also the senior vice president at Robinson Lerer & Montgomery; and an editorial writer at USA TODAY, as well as a former Washington Bureau Chief and reporter at Investor’s Business Daily, and an editor for Consumers’ Research.

Katie Pavlich, the author of the New York Times best seller, Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and the Shameless Cover-Up arrived on the political scene in Washington, D.C. ready to challenge the status quo. As news editor for Townhall.com and a contributing editor to Townhall Magazine, Pavlich has focused attention on topics that many inside the beltway would rather forget or ignore, such as illegal immigration, bias in education and the Second Amendment. As a reporter, she has been one of the leading investigative journalists breaking news on Fast and Furious. She has made numerous appearances as a commentator, including on Fox News, Fox Business, and MSNBC.

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and the founder and head of Congress’s Media Fairness Caucus and the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. In 2011, Congressman Smith was named Policymaker of the Year by Politico for his work on patent reform legislation. He is a former chairman of the House Ethics Committee, and currently serves on the Homeland Security Committee and the Committee of Science, Space and Technology.

Roger Aronoff, is the Editor of Accuracy in Media. He has worked as a journalist, TV producer, director, writer and distributor. He also hosts AIM’s “Take AIM” show on BlogTalkRadio. Roger joined AIM in May of 1997 and has written, produced and directed award-winning documentaries including  Confronting Iraq: Conflict and Hope, The Clinton Legacy and TWA 800: The Search for the Truth. He wrote for the Jewish Herald Voice for more than 20 years. In 2008, Aronoff produced, directed and co-wrote an award-winning documentary that aired on many PBS stations called “Fighting Words: A Tale of How Liberals Created Neoconservatism.” In 2009 he produced a weekly public affairs show on PBS called “Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg.”

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