Why Was Obama‘s Audio Book Version of ’Dreams From My Father’ Purged of All References to Communist Mentor Frank Marshall Davis?

Why Was Obama‘s Audio Book Version of ’Dreams From My Father’ Purged of All References to Communist Mentor Frank Marshall Davis?(TheBlaze).

Barack Obama's book, "Dreams from My Father" was first published in 1995. The audio book was released in 2005. The 1995 version referenced Frank Marshall Davis 22 times. The 2005 version had none. This is a very telling find from Paul Kengor.

You might recall TheBlaze’s series of reports on Dr. Paul Kengor’s powerful book, “The Communist,” which offered a detailed account of the Communist Party ties of President Obama’s longtime mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. “Frank,” as he is referred to in Obama’s memoir “Dreams From My Father,” is mentioned multiple times in the print edition of the president’s book, however, Kengor now reveals that all references to “Frank” were purged from the volume’s abridged audio version.
It’s an observation that was first broached, albeit very briefly, by Jack Cashill in a July article. And since then, the scrubbing has gone unnoticed. Until now.
“Frank” — whose influence Kengor asserts was key to the fledgling politician and that the eccentric activist appears in “each mile-marker” of Obama’s path from Hawaii to the halls of Washington, D.C. — is mentioned no less than 22 times by name in “Dreams From My Father” and is referenced via pronouns numerous other times throughout the book.
But while listening to the audio version recently, Kengor noticed “Frank” had disappeared. He re-listened to the entire audio book on Tuesday afternoon and compared it to the unabridged memoir.
“Every reference to ‘Frank’ everywhere in the book, from every section—and there are many of them—are gone,” Kengor told TheBlaze in an email.
The omissions are important because a review of the Random House website reveals that all audio versions of “Dreams,” along with Obama’s subsequent book, “The Audacity of Hope,” are only available in the abridged format.

To illustrate the type of effort that was clearly involved in the editing process, Kengor mapped out one difference in content between the original 1995 text version of the book and the 2005 audio version:

Original text version (1995): “It was the same dilemma that old Frank had posed to me the year I left Hawaii.”
Audio version (2005): “It was the same dilemma posed to me the year I left Hawaii.”

“This is blatant, flagrant—clearly a concealment,” Kengor concludes. “And it’s in Obama’s voice. There’s no question that Obama knew of this. No question.”
The common refrain of the Obama defenders ever since 2008, when it became known that "Frank" referred to Frank Marshall Davis and that the CPUSA member was a mentor to Obama, has been that Davis didn't have that much of an influence on Obama.

If so, why would all references to Davis be omitted in 2005?Read the full story here.