Clifford "Cliff" P. Kincaid Jr. (born May 16, 1954)[1] is an American author and conservative political activist. He is the director of the Center for Investigative Journalism of Accuracy in Media, an organization which exposes alleged bias and misinformation in liberal mainstream American news media. Kincaid has written for such publications as Human Events.[2]
In November 2005, Kincaid, as the representative for Accuracy in Media, criticized the Fox News channel for the broadcast, The Heat is On, which reported, with a disclaimer, the threat of global warming. Kincaid argued that the program was one-sided and likened the broadcast to a "hostile takeover of Fox News" by the environmental lobby.[4]
Kincaid is a longtime critic of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama. According to the SPLC, Kincaid "masquerades as a media watchdog, [but] is actually an unrepentant propagandist for extremist right-wing causes who knows few boundaries in his attempts to smear liberal foes".[5]
Kincaid discounts the existence of gay conservatives, but claims "there is a homosexual movement that has its roots in Marxism and is characterized by anti-Americanism and hatred of Christian values."[5]
He has been on the board of advisors of Stop Islamization of Nations, which has described him as a "leader of the struggle to keep the jihadist propaganda network Al-Jazeera off American airwaves."[6] He was a speaker[7] at the World Freedom Congress event of the organization's "counter-jihadist" activists on September 11, 2012.[8]
On June 14, 2016, after the Orlando nightclub shooting, Kincaid penned the article "Why Obama Gets Emotional Talking about Islam." This report claims that under President Barack Obama "the religion of a suspect is NOT to be judged or pursued when questions emerge about Muslims having links to terrorism. [...] [This] presidential approach [...] has cost many lives in Orlando and puts more lives at risk in the nation at large".[9]
