A tea party group in Fairfield, Iowa, had put up posters, advertised
and spoken on the radio, excited about bringing filmmaker Joel Gilbert
to town to show and answer questions about his Obama exposé,
“Dreams from My Real Father."
But then rumors of complaints began to circulate in this small city
of 9,464, and controversy erupted. Only days before the Oct. 13 event,
The Fairfield Arts & Convention Center, where the film was to be
shown, cancelled the event until its board could evaluate whether such a
politically hot-topic film would violate the Center’s non-profit
status.
“Censorship has reached small town America, not just major metros
where Democrats have more control,” Gilbert told WND at the time.
“Iowa’s the middle of country; if we have censorship in little towns
there, is there any hope for the First Amendment?”
Gilbert told WND the tea party group was suddenly out all its
advertising dollars, and the plane ticket to Iowa he held in his hand
was rendered pointless.
Four days
after the event was scheduled to take place,
however, the Center relented and agreed the film could be shown after
all – with a few conditions.
“The promoter must present a clear disclaimer stating that the
viewpoints represented in the film are those of the filmmaker and do not
represent the viewpoints of the Center and that the movie contains
subject matter that may be deemed offensive by some viewers,” the
Center’s board of directors announced. “In turn, the Center will
continue to offer others the right to rent the facility on the same
basis, including standard rental fee, as it is being offered to this
promoter. In addition, the Center will not sell tickets or promote or
publicize the film in any manner.”
“We don’t want to limit political speech,” Rob Steinberg, the
Center’s chairman of the board, told the Fairfield Ledger, “but limit
the manner in which it is presented, because we don’t want to engage in
political advocacy.”
Even though a Center donor reported the facility had previously shown
“An Inconvenient Truth” from Al Gore and Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit
911,” Center Director Rustin Lippincott told the Ledger he’s never
received the amount of public feedback that this screening of
“Dreams from My Real Father” has prompted.

“This is something that has never come to us before,” Lippincott said. “This is uncharted waters.”
Gilbert’s
description of the film may reveal why it’s so controversial: “‘Dreams
from My Real Father’ demonstrates that Obama has a deeply disturbing
family background, which he intentionally obscured, to hide a Marxist
political foundation.
‘Dreams from My Real Father’ is the story Barack
Obama should have told, revealing his true agenda for ‘fundamentally
transforming America.’”
Gilbert’s film shows how Obama sold himself to America as the
multicultural ideal, a man who stood above politics. His father was a
goat herder from Kenya, he told the electorate in 2008, so he would
bring people together. Folks perceived Obama as a nice man with an
inspiring family story.
In reality, Gilbert contends, Obama’s real father was Frank Marshall
Davis, a Communist Party USA propagandist who likely shaped Obama’s
worldview during his formative years.
Gilbert explained that while voters will overlook some fudging by
politicians, promoting a false family background to hide an agenda
irreconcilable with American values is a totally unacceptable
manipulation of the electorate.
“Barack Obama must now come clean,” Gilbert insisted. “Instead of
misrepresenting himself as he did in 2008, Obama should say, ‘My father
was a Communist Party propagandist and suspected Soviet agent who
indoctrinated me into Marxist ideology. Please vote for me so I can
destroy the American middle class and create a one-party political
system.’”
Gilbert emphasized the extensive research backing the claims made in
his film: “I have been to Hawaii twice researching Obama’s inspiring
family story of a Kenyan goat herder father. That is twice as many times
as all of the mainstream media combined! Who could have imagined that
news organizations with hundreds of reporters, and multi-million dollar
budgets, wouldn’t investigate a presidential candidate’s background in
2008 and would ignore doing so again in 2012?”
His research extended to examine Chicago and the roots of the Frank Marshall Davis ideology.
“Davis joined the Communist party in Chicago, only 15 years after the
Bolshevik Revolution,” Gilbert said.
“You can hear the classic Marxism
in Obama’s campaign, the ‘top 1 percent oppressing the 99 percent,’ and
‘you didn’t build your business, it was done on the backs of the
proletariat,’ and so on. Marxism is a failed ideology that has no basis
in fact in the American reality where the middle class has prospered and
the issue of poverty is taken seriously.”
Gilbert said getting the American public to understand the official
Obama nativity story is a fabrication will not be an easy task.
“Obama’s election was not a sudden political phenomenon,” he
explained. “It was the culmination of an American socialist movement
that Frank Marshall Davis nurtured in Chicago and Hawaii, and has been
quietly infiltrating the U.S. economy, universities and media for
decades.”
Tea party organizers in Fairfield told WND they are hoping to reschedule
the screening of “Dreams from My Real Father,” including bringing
Gilbert to town, later this month.
A trailer for
“Dreams from My Real Father” can be seen by clicking on this link:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/censorship-has-reached-small-town-america/