A July 9 post by Carrie Sheffield announced that Accuracy in Media “is celebrating its 50th anniversary at a black-tie gala dinner November 13 at the National Press Club.” The “special guest” list was a bit on the motley side, though, dominated by conservative C-listers like Diamond and Silk, Ben Carson, Daily Caller publisher Neil Patel and ever-so-brief Trump White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci.
The article gushed over founder Reed Irvine, but it was silent on longtime staffer Cliff Kincaid, who served AIM for three decades with his Obama derangement, white nationalism and homophobia until leaving abruptly in 2017 for reasons that have still yet to be explained publicly (Kincaid has claimed he left because it was “mismanaged”).
But it appears there is now one less conservative C-lister on the guest list. A July 18 tweet touted the dinner again — but without Scaramucci’s name. When we responded to the Twitter post by asking what happened to Scaramucci, not only did AIM not respond, it went back to Sheffield’s July 9 post to scrub Scaramucci’s name from it and replace the faux invitation with a Mooch-free version. But as you can see, we saved a copy of the original Scaramucci-laden invite.
It was reported earlier in the day that Scaramucci had been disinvited from a Florida county GOP gathering because he (accurately) called President Trump’s tweets attacking Democratic congresswomen of color “racially charged.”
This isn’t the first time AIM has disappeared someone who suddenly became inconvenient. In 2015, AIM convened a “Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi” that was stacked with right-wing Obama-haters, birthers and conspiracy theories — and one total fraud. In the midst of the so-called investigation, commission member Wayne Simmons’ self-proclaimed career as a CIA operative was exposed as a fabrication; AIM moved quickly to scrub him from any reference to the commission while issuing only a brief statement arguing that “As with everyone charged with a crime or crimes in this country, he is innocent until proven guilty.” (He was proven guilty, and AIM was silent about that too.)
As we’ve noted, the post-Kincaid AIM changed from conspiracy-obsessed craziness to just another boring pro-Trump website, which may not be an improvement. If the AIM gala’s low-end guest list is any indication, it may not survive much beyond its 50th anniversary.