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The top ad on the Drudge Report Monday was for Dreams from My Real Father, a conspiracy movie about President Obama that exposes his true genealogy: he's not the son of a Kenyan anti-colonialist, as birthers may have lead you to believe but of an American alleged communist and sexual libertine named Frank Marshall Davis. This is one of many October surprises, stunts designed to throw the presidential election one way or the other. The Atlantic Wire will be profiling them until Election Day.

The plan: Director Joel Gilbert sure hopes his film will be a poll-moving surprise -- he's mailed millions of copies to voters in swing states. The mailers are to "bypass the establishment media blackout on his film," birther site World Net Daily reports. "It’s shocking that in the land of the First Amendment, in the ‘information age’ no less, a state of censorship exists on so many levels in the American media today," Gilbert complained. Of course, Gilbert is making a common mistake: the movie is not so much being censored as it is being made fun of.

Surprise! Dreams from My Real Father, a documentary directed by Joel Gilbert.

Surprise theory: Obama's real father is not Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., the Kenyan who met Obama's mom at the University of Hawaii. Obama's real dad is Frank Marshall Davis, a black newspaper editor, labor activist, and alleged communist. Obama's maternal grandfather convinced Obama Sr. to marry his daughter, Stanley Ann Dunham, to cover up her pregnancy by Davis. The reason Obama is so radical is because he got radical genes from his real dad.