Clifford P. Kincaid Jr., known as Cliff Kincaid (born May 16, 1954), is an author and

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. He is the director of the Center for Investigative Journalism of

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, an organization which believes much of the American news media is biased toward

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candidates and policy positions. Kincaid has written for such publications as ''

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'', a former national weekly newspaper since converted to a

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Background

Kincaid graduated with a

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in journalism and communications from the

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in Toledo,

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. At his college newspaper, he won an award for editorial writing from the

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. Kincaid came to

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, through the

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headed by the late conservative author M. Stanton Evans. In addition to his work with A. I. M., Kincaid is the president of American Survival, Inc., a 501 (c) (3) organization for stated "educational" purposes, based in Owings, Maryland.

Accuracy in media

In November 2005, Kincaid, as the representative for Accuracy in Media, criticized the

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channel for the broadcast, ''The Heat is On'', which reported, with a disclaimer, the threat of

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. Kincaid argued that the program was one-sided and likened the broadcast to a "hostile takeover of Fox News" by the

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lobby. Kincaid is a longtime critic of the

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in Montgomery,

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. According to the SPLC, Kincaid "masquerades as a

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, utis actually an unrepentant

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for extremist right-wing causes who knows few boundaries in his attempts to smear liberal foes". Kincaid discounts the existence of

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s, but claims "there is a

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movement that has its roots in

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and is characterized by anti-Americanism and hatred of

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values." On June 14, 2016, after the

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, Kincaid penned the article "Why Obama Gets Emotional Talking about Islam." This report claims that under President

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"the religion of a suspect is NOT to be judged or pursued when questions emerge about

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having links to terrorism. ..

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presidential approach ..has cost many lives in Orlando and puts more lives at risk in the nation at large".

Television appearances

Kincaid sometimes substituted for co-host

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in the late 1980s on the former

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, ''

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'', which offered debate on liberal v. conservative topics. He has appeared on ''

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'' on

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, the ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' The Glenn Beck Show''.

Kincaid's books

The following are listed on

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: *''The News Manipulators: Why You Can't Trust the News'', with

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(founder of A. I. M.) and Joseph C. Goulden, (1993) *''Why You Can't Trust the News'', with Deborah Lambert, Reed Irvine, and Notra Trulock, (2003) * ''Why You Can't Trust the News, Part II'', with Roger Aronoff and Don Irvine, (2007) * ''Global Bondage'', Huntington House, (1995) * ''Global Taxes for World Government'', (1997) * ''Michael New: Mercenary or American Soldier?'', with Daniel New, (1999 and 2012) * ''The Death of Talk Radio?'' (2007) * Introduction to ''All the Dupes Fit to Print: Journalists Who Have Served as Tools of Communist Propaganda'' by Paul Kengor, (2013) * ''Back from the Dead: The Return of the Evil Empire'', with

Konstantin Preobrazhensky Konstantin Georgiyevich Preobrazhenskiy ( rus, Константин Георгиевич Преображенский; born 1953 in Moscow) is a former KGB lieutenant colonel, an intelligence expert and the author of several books and numerous arti ...

, J. R. Nyquist, and Toby Westerman, (2014) *''Blood on His Hands: The True Story of Edward Snowden'', a look at

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, who copied and leaked classified information from the

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in 2013. (2015) *''Global Bondage: The UN Plan to Rule the World'', (2015) *''The Sword of Revolution and the Communist Apocalypse'', (2015) *''Red Jihad: Moscow's Final Solution for America and Israel'', with J. R. Nyquist, (2016) *''The New United Nations' Welfare Giveaway: Trillion Dollar Boondoggle to Hit U.S. Taxpayers'', (2016).

References

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