I am dedicating this page and my time to help fight these despicable troglodytes on behalf of Obama, in my small way. We will not allow Barack Obama to be “swift-boated” with lies and nit-picking innuendo, in the way John Kerry was in 2004, when this “pedophile” Jerome R. Corsi co-wrote “Unfit for Command,” a book that played a huge part in derailing the presidential campaign of another good man, resulting in the re-election of a pair of criminal hoodlums — George Bush and Dick Cheney.
Kerry waited until it was too late, but Obama aided by liberal bloggers is hitting back hard, at Jerome Corsi’s “Trash” and “Poisonous Crap.”
Jerome R. Corsi’s book hopes to repeat the anti-Kerry feat by painting Barack Obama as a stealth radical liberal.
Well, not this time, you stupid gadfly!
In the coming week(s) WE will fact-check this book, attack Corsi’s credibility and discredit him without mercy. Jerome Corsi’s fringe right-wing views are well known — he is a discredited anti-immigrant xenophobe who hallucinates that George Bush is trying to merge the United States with Mexico, a bigot and a racist who has put forward some weird 9/11 and miscellaneous conspiracy theories. We will dig in, and air all here,…..including his wife’s naked pictures, if we can lay our hands on those.
This malicious imbecile should and will be taught a lasting lesson.
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Barack Obama’s campaign has released a 41-page pdf file designed to rebut accusations made in Jerome Corsi’s book, “The Obama Nation.”
08-15-2008
Right now, vile smear-peddler Jerome Corsi is back with a new book of lies — this time about Barack Obama.
In 2004, Corsi helped launch the Swift Boat smear campaign with a book of distortions and lies he wrote about John Kerry. We’ll need the combined efforts of every member of the Action Wire to push back against this year’s vicious Republican attack book.
Corsi and his right-wing backers are counting on you not to fight back. Spreading these lies about Barack is their best chance to elect John McCain and continue George Bush’s failed policies for another four years.
Check out some facts about Corsi and his desperate fabrications in the DNC research document below. Forward this message to your friends and family or use this online form to push back with the truth: http://my.barackobama.com/bookoflies
Together we’ll show Corsi and the right-wing smear machine that we won’t back down from a fight.
Thanks,
Obama Action Wire
TOO CRAZY EVEN FOR SWIFTBOAT LIARS
Corsi Was Dropped From Unfit for Command Promotions Because of His Anti-Muslim, Anti-Catholic Comments. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote in an editorial, “Consider the book “Unfit for Command,” put out by a collection of partisans who have now made it acceptable for veterans to attack each other’s war records. The current National Review carries a piece decrying the bookstores that fail to carry “John O’Neill’s book.” This is curious in that the volume has a second author, but Jerome Corsi has dropped from the marketing because he has been revealed as the author of religiously bigoted remarks published on a Web site. Corsi not only considers Muslims to be pederasts, but he took the trouble to slam Catholic priests and refers to the pope as senile. Rather than wonder whether a book written by such a man can be trusted, the marketing tactic has shifted to pretend Corsi doesn’t exist.” [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pennsylvania), 9/19/04]
O’Neill Tried to Minimize Corsi’s Role in Unfit for Command After Bigoted Comments Came to Light. “In a bit of historical revisionism, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth founder and Unfit for Command co-author John O’Neill distorted Jerome Corsi’s role in co-authoring the book. O’Neill’s backtracking comes on the heels of Media Matters for America’s documentation of Corsi’s history of posting bigoted comments. During appearances on MSNBC’s Scarborough Country on August 10 and CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Reports on August 11, O’Neill downplayed Corsi’s role in writing the book. When asked about Corsi’s involvement, O’Neill asserted, Corsi was “simply an editor and not really any sort of co-author.” But an MMFA item entitled “Unfit book materials show Corsi more than just an ‘editor,’” revealed Corsi to be much more than simply an editor of the anti- Kerry book. [Media Matters Press Release, 8/13/04]
“Anti-Kerry Book Author Apologizes for Slurs.” “One of the authors of a new anti-John Kerry book frequently posted comments on a conservative Web site describing Muslims and Catholics as pedophiles and Pope John Paul II as senile. In chat room entry last year on freerepublic.com, Corsi writes: ‘Islam is a peaceful religion – just as long as the women are beaten, the boys buggered and the infidels are killed.’ In another entry, he says: ‘So this is what the last days of the Catholic Church are going to look like. Buggering boys undermines the moral base and the lawyers rip the gold off the Vatican altars. We may get one more Pope, when this senile one dies, but that’s probably about it’.” [AP, 8/10/04]
ONE PARANOID BOOK OF LIES AFTER ANOTHER
Corsi Wrote a Book Saying Bush’s “Globalist Agenda” Is Leading to a North American Union. “The real reason behind President Bush’s push for immigration reform, says author Jerome R. Corsi, is to unite the United States, Mexico and Canada by erasing borders and creating a “North American Union.” That is the theme of Mr. Corsi’s new book, “The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada,” which says the Bush administration’s ‘globalist agenda’ is leading to a merger of the countries through the implementation of policies and laws to open trade barriers and renovate the highway systems in anticipation of increased travel within the new megastate. Mr. Corsi said a growing number of Americans think the North American Union is being forced onto Americans. Government officials say the idea is no more than an unjustified conspiracy theory spread through the Internet. Mr. Corsi said the impetus of the plan was the creation of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, announced by leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada at Waco, Texas, in 2005.” [Washington Times, 7/18/07]
Conservative Human Events Writer: Corsi Isn’t “Any More Worthy Of Being Taken Seriously Than Those Who Think Jews Rule The World Or The ‘Truthers’ Who Think President Bush Is Responsible For 9/11.” Under the headline “There Isn’t Going to Be a North American Union,” John Hawkins wrote, “Yesterday, Jerome Corsi was prattling on about the North American Union again after Michael Medved deservedly spanked him for spreading conspiracy theories. While I don’t think Corsi is any more worthy of being taken seriously than those who think Jews rule the world or the ‘Truthers’ who think President Bush is responsible for 9/11, I thought I would respond to him one last time. (I think that’s about the fourth time I’ve said that.) Now, why respond again? What’s the point? Well unfortunately, a lot of conservatives consider this conspiracy theory to be so preposterous that they believe it’s beneath them to even bother discussing it, and that leaves Corsi and his ilk to dominate the debate. And since there are a lot of conservatives being taken in by this North American Union nonsense, somebody has got to step up to the plate.” [Human Events Online, 1/10/07]
Editor of Human Events: “I Guess There Are People Who Believe In” Corsi’s North American Union Conspiracy, “But There Are People Who Believe In Bigfoot.” “Corsi plays on growing nationalist fears. He sees a scenario in which a North American Union is born and shares a currency, the “amero.” Even some right-wing standard-bearers regard the fears as over-blown. Jed Babbin, editor of the conservative newspaper Human Events, says: “I guess there are people who believe in [the plan for a North American Union]. But there are people who believe in Bigfoot.” [Newsweek, 12/10/07]
Corsi Wrote a Book Disagreeing With Most Scientists That There is a Limit to Oil. “All his life, Jerome Corsi’s been told that we’re running out of oil. “I remember driving with my dad in a 1952 Plymouth and listening to him talk about the end of oil,” says the 59-year-old New Jersey author. “Hasn’t happened yet, and it’s not going to happen.” What makes him so sure? He doesn’t buy the fossil fuel theory–that oil comes from dead plants and dinosaurs. He believes it comes out of the ground naturally, and that there’s more coming up all the time…Eighteenth century Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov found biological debris in oil and concluded that it must have biological origin. “I’m at the point where the dinosaur theory seems silly,” says Corsi. “You take a pile of cats and you bury them, dig them up 10 years later and you don’t get oil.” “The truth is that there is so much oil around the world that it’s been easy to find,” Corsi says. “We’re awash in oil. There’s more oil today in proven reserves than ever before in human history.” [Western Standard (Alberta), 2/13/06]
Corsi Wrote a Book Claiming Democrats Were Being Corrupted by Iranian Funding and Helping Iranians Get Nukes. “After their bitter campaign 2004 experience with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, John Kerry and his fellow Dems aren’t waiting to be shot at again. Yesterday, aides to Sens. Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Ted Kennedy jumped all over literary mugger Jerome Corsi, co-author of the Kerry-bashing best seller ‘Unfit for Command.’ They knocked him to the ground and kicked him in the face (metaphorically, anyway) over his next Democrattrashing tome, ‘Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians.’ The book – which Nashville’s Cumberland House Publishing won’t release till next month – claims Democratic pols are being corrupted by Iranian money and helping the nuke-seeking mullahs in Tehran.” [Daily News (New York), 2/24/05]
Corsi Wrote Unfit For Command Although He Was Not a Veteran. “Though not a veteran himself, Corsi co-authored “Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry.” [Boston Herald, 1/25/05]
THE WRITINGS OF A PARANOID AND HATEFUL MAN
To read more of his posts, follow this link: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/user-posts?name=jrlc
HATRED AND INTOLERANCE TOWARD ISLAM
• “Let’s see exactly why it isn’t the case that Islam is a worthless, dangerous Satanic religion? Where’s the proof to the contrary?”
• “Islam is like a virus — it affects the mind — maybe even better as an analogy — it is a cancer that destroys the body it infects.”
ATTACKS ON JOHN KERRY…WITH NO MILITARY BACKGROUND
• “First let’s undermine the US in Vietnam. Then we can go for gay marriage. When you get to be Pres. JFK-lite, there will be no end to how much of America we can destroy.”
• “Just don’t let anybody put a tablet with the Ten Commandments in front of the school where that girl wants to wear a Muslim scarf — OH, No — then the RATS would complain. Anti- Christian, Anti-American — just like their Presidential Candidate — Jean Francois Kerrie.”
• “After he married TerRAHsa, didn’t John Kerry begin practicing Judiasm? He also has paternal gradparents that were Jewish. What religion is John Kerry?”
• “Kerry has a long history of Communist supporters.”
• “Kerry offers a clear choice. Anti-American hatred.”
• “John F-ing Commie Kerry and Commie Ted discuss their plan to hand America over to our nation’s enemies.”
DESPICABLE WRITINGS ON ISLAM SHOW BLIND HATRED
• “The only good Mullah is a dead Mullah.” [12/21/01]
• “Forget about democracy. Just get out the checkbook and put everybody in Iraq on the payroll. That’s all they want. Pay them first, democracy (or some b.s. Islamic version of it) will follow.” [6/18/03]
• “Mohammed-al-Mohammed proclaiming guidance from his hate-god allah-i’ll-be-da*ned-allah kills another dozen women and children by convincing a teenager to blow him/her/self up for victory in another world. Haven’t we all had enough of this stupid “religion”?” [5/17/03]
• “Another Mohammed-al-Mohammed Islam religion of hate maniac bites the dust. (Top Iraqi army official surrenders”) [5/17/03]
• “Certainly can’t be one of the Islam is a Religion of Peace hijackers?” [Bus Hijacking Near Bremen, Germany] [4/25/03]
• “One more Mohammed al-Mohammed el-Mohammed Mohammed iced — great. ” [Car Bomb Kills Egyptian Islamist in Lebanon Camp] [3/1/03]
• “Let them build mosques — seems about all the Germans are worth these days.”( Germany’s Economic Woes) [2/6/03]
• “Islam – the Legacy of Clinton.” (AFP: Two Chechens with belts of explosives stopped in Moscow) [12/24/02]
• “Islam is like a virus — it affects the mind — maybe even better as an analogy — it is a cancer that destroys the body it infects. A throwback, Medieval, anti-modern, anti-science, anti-knowledge doctrine.” [11/26/02]
• “Forget it — the only thing these Islamonazis understand is force — time to nuke the Temple of the Dome and send this “religion” back to Hell, the place it came from. ” [11/17/02]
• “Go for the Oil Fields. Set the mad dog lawyers loose!!! Let’s ROLL!!! Take even the diapers from their heads. Remember — according to the Koran, Islam approves of lying as long as it is to non-believers. Saudis are lying killers who harbor killers.” [11/17/02]
• “All-ah be damned. What took him so long?” [11/14/02]
• “Islam is like a virus — it infects the minds of the believers. Islamonazis are, unfortunately, the logical extreme of the “religion.”" [11/13/02]
• “Good plan — raise OBL from the dead every time we get ready to ice another Islamonazi — ON TO BAGHDAD. LET’S ROLL !!!” [11/13/02]
• “Nuke the ISLAM-nazis and let’s move on. No more MUSLAMO-fascists!!” [11/10/02]
• “Islam has declared World War III against everything non-Muslim. ” [10/28/02]
• ” When will the liberal media wake up to see that Islam has declared a World War against everyting non-Muslim. May Allah be damned to the hell Muslims wish to create on earth.” [10/25/02]
• ” Are there any Islamic “clerics” who aren’t violent?” [10/20/02]
• ” May Islam join the garbage heap of worthless religions we have grown beyond. Any believers of Hermes out there?” [10/13/02]
• “Muslims regularly trash religious sites holy to others. Jerusalem has a series of sites the Muslims have wrecked (e.g., the bus station they placed below the “Golgatha” site honored by many as an alternative location for the Christ’s crucifixion). Seems like the Muslim principle that it is okay to lie to infidels. Very different mindset — no respect for anything non-Muslim” [9/30/02]
• “ALL Arab MUSLIMS lie (the Koran endorses lying to infidels, namely us) — none of these names are real — Abdallah is really Mohammad Mohammad Mohammad readily altered to include Atta or Haj or whatever else they decide to call themselves for the moment.” [7/10/02]
• “Gotta love this stupid religion, ISLAM — Makes the Nazis look like a Sunday stroll in the park. ISLAM — it’s gotta be straight from HELL. Just the Devil in disguise — that seems to about sum it up.” [6/14/02]
• “Arabs lie. ISLAM preaches lying to Infidels. Fingerprints don’t lie. Boo-hoo — time to demand IDs to check into hotels and passport registration for all foreign nationalists who want hotel rooms. Also, ID checks and passport registrations for anyone renting an apartment.” [6/5/02]
• “Let’s get rid of all the Saudi Arabians — that would have gone a long way to preventing Sept. 11.” [6/5/02]
• “Yet another violent raghead named Mohammad. What’s new? Islam looks like a cancer, a plague, a deadly virus. No doctor worries about the free speech rights of cancer cells.” [6/5/02]
• “Yet another Little Islamic Man of Hate. Is there any other kind?” [5/31/02]
• “The only thing the Islamic world understands is force. Let’s destroy a few of these hate schools and start targeting these mad preachers of hate.” [5/22/02]
• “Let’s see — who is it not politically correct to profile? Islam the “Peaceful Religion” whose Fundamental believers are insane, suicidal killers that hate America and all democratic societies? Or Arabs whose racial hatred of Jews drives them to create secret societies of terrorists sworn to eliminate Israel and all states who support Israel?” [5/20/02]
• “Finally a way to end Jihad. Maybe the whole Arab world will blow itself up — live by the sword, die by the sword — seems an ancient formula. Bye, Bye Jihad.” [5/20/02]
• “I repeat: Muslims, cancer cells. It’s hard to tell the difference. No doctor worries about the First Amendment rights of cancer cells. The therapy is to eliminate cancer cells so the body can go on living. Great to repeat it — keeps the thread going. Let the Muslims stop preaching terror and I’ll revise my view. Meanwhile, Muslims, cancer cells is an equation that works.” [5/20/02]
• “May all these Arab maniacs explode and kill themselves — next time, maybe they will take Arab*RAT with them. Best solution to the homicide bombers is that they eliminate themselves, with as little loss to civilians as possible.” [5/20/02]
• “I repeat: Muslims, cancer cells. It’s hard to tell the difference. No doctor worries about the First Amendment rights of cancer cells. The therapy is to eliminate cancer cells so the body can go on living.” [5/19/02]
• “Muslims, cancer cells. It’s hard to tell the difference. No doctor worries about the First Amendment rights of cancer cells. The therapy is to eliminate cancer cells so the body can go on living.” [5/17/02]
• “File under the category “Islam is a worthless, violent CULT, not a Religion.”[3/28/02]
CORSI HAS LOST TOUCH WITH EVEN THE FALSE REALITY HE LIVES IN
FALSE: “We find there is even uncertainty whether Stanley Ann and Obama Senior were ever married in a church.” [p. 44]
REALITY:CORSI ADMITS ON THE SAME PAGE THAT OBAMA’S PARENTS HAD A LEGAL AMERICAN MARRIAGE
TIME Reported On Obama’s Parents’ Divorce Records. TIME reported, “On Feb. 2, 1961, several months after they met, Obama’s parents got married in Maui, according to divorce records.” [TIME, 4/9/08]
Corsi Cites Time Story To Say “Divorce Papers Confirm…” Corsi wrote, “Other sources say divorce papers confirm that a civil ceremony was held on Maui, on February 2, 1961, when Ann was three months pregnant with Obama.” Corsi cites the April 9th, 2008 Time story for his reference to Obama’s parents’ wedding. [p. 44]
EVEN A LITTLE BASIC RESEARCH DISPROVES CORSI’S FABRICATIONS
FALSE: “Senator Obama could claim to be a citizen of Kenya, as well as of the United States. Obama can trace his heritage back to his mother, who was born in the United States and was an American citizen when he was born, and to his father, who was born in Kenya and was a Kenyan citizen when Obama was born.” [p 103]
REALITY: OBAMA CANNOT CLAIM KENYAN CITIZENSHIP
Kenya Does Not Allow Dual Citizenship Applications for People Over 21 Years of Age. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management writes of Kenya, “DUAL CITIZENSHIP: Not recognized except for persons under 21 years old.” The Kenyan Constitution writes, “A person who, but for the proviso to section 87 (1), would be a citizen of Kenya by virtue of that subsection shall be entitled, upon making application before the specified date in such manner as may be prescribed by or under an Act of Parliament, to be registered as a citizen of Kenya: Provided that a person who has not attained the age of twenty-one years (other than a woman who is or has been married) may not himself make an application under this subsection, but an application may be made on his behalf by his parent or guardian.” [U.S. Office of Personnel Management; Kenyan Constitution]
Even if Obama Had Applied for Dual Citizenship Before He Was 21–Which He Did Not–It Would Have Expired. “A person who, upon the attainment of the age of twenty-one years, is a citizen of Kenya and also a citizen of some other country other than Kenya shall, subject to subsection (7), cease to be a citizen of Kenya upon the specified date unless he has renounced his citizenship of that other country, taken the oath of allegiance and, in the case of a person who was born outside Kenya, made and registered such declaration of his intentions concerning residence as may be prescribed by or under an Act of Parliament.” [Kenyan Constitution]
INVENTING WILD CONSPIRACIES ABOUT ANYTHING HE CAN
Corsi Wrote a Book Claiming Democrats Were Being Corrupted by Iranian Funding and Helping Iranians Get Nukes. “After their bitter campaign 2004 experience with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, John Kerry and his fellow Dems aren’t waiting to be shot at again. Yesterday, aides to Sens. Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Ted Kennedy jumped all over literary mugger Jerome Corsi, co-author of the Kerry-bashing best seller ‘Unfit for Command.’ They knocked him to the ground and kicked him in the face (metaphorically, anyway) over his next Democrattrashing tome, ‘Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians.’ The book – which Nashville’s Cumberland House Publishing won’t release till next month – claims Democratic pols are being corrupted by Iranian money and helping the nuke-seeking mullahs in Tehran.” [Daily News (New York), 2/24/05]
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09/08/2008 — MEDIA MATTERS REPORTS
Even as Obama Nation author Corsi claimed Obama campaign didn’t “prove a single falsehood,” he corrected several of them.
Summary: Obama Nation author Jerome Corsi asserted that Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign “failed to prove a single falsehood contained in pages of the book.” Corsi then went on to provide a list of 11 “corrections to the next printing of The Obama Nation” — many of which correct falsehoods documented by the Obama campaign or Media Matters.
In a September 8 “WorldNetDaily Exclusive,” author Jerome Corsi wrote of “Unfit For Publication,” a document produced by Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign debunking numerous falsehoods in Corsi’s book, The Obama Nation: “[T]he 40-page rebuttal plus cover has failed to prove a single falsehood contained in pages of the book.” Yet Corsi went on to provide a list of 11 “corrections to the next printing of The Obama Nation” — many of which correct falsehoods documented by the Obama campaign, Media Matters for America, or both.
Corsi’s list of corrections — which is by no means an exhaustive compilation of his book’s falsehoods — includes the following falsehoods identified by the Obama campaign or Media Matters:
3. Page 25 now reads: “Nowhere in the autobiography does Obama disclose that his wife-to-be accompanied him to Africa on the 1992 trip.” It will be corrected to read: “Only in the epilogue to the autobiography does Obama disclose that his wife-to-be accompanied him to Africa on the 1992 trip.”
4. Page 48 now reads: “Obama devotes the entire second chapter of his autobiography to his time in Indonesia, but remarkably, he makes no reference to Maya’s birth.” It will be corrected to read: “Obama devotes the entire second chapter of his autobiography to his time in Indonesia, but remarkably, he makes only one reference in passing to Maya’s birth.”
5. Page 49 now reads: “Obama did not dedicate ‘Dreams from My Father’ to his mother, or to his father, Barack Senior, or to his Indonesian stepfather. Missing from the dedication are the grandparents who raised him in Hawaii, especially during the years his mother abandoned him to return to Indonesia to be with Lolo.” It will be corrected to read: “Obama did not include a separate dedication page in ‘Dreams from My Father.’ Instead, he included the dedication in the introduction, mentioning his mother, his grandparents and his siblings ’stretched across oceans and continents.’ Missing are mentions of his father and his step-father.”
6. Page 77 now reads: “Still Obama has yet to answer questions whether he ever dealt drugs, or if he stopped using marijuana and cocaine completely in college, or whether his drug use extended into his law school days or beyond.” It will be corrected to read: “Obama told several reporters that he stopped taking drugs sometime during his college years.”
7. Page 123 now reads: “No one in Obama’s paternal or maternal family had ever resided in Chicago.” It will be corrected to read: “No one in Obama’s paternal or maternal family except for a great uncle had ever resided in Chicago.”
8. Page 129 now reads: “In the ‘Audacity of Hope,’ Obama mentions in passing that in 1984 he had just graduated from college and was working as a community organizer out of the Harlem campus of the City College of New York. This is a job that Obama does not mention in his autobiography, ‘Dreams from My Father.’ It will be changed to “In the ‘Audacity of Hope,’ Obama mentions in passing that in 1984 he had just graduated from college and was working as a community organizer out of the Harlem campus of the City College of New York. This is a job that Obama also mentions only in passing in his autobiography, ‘Dreams from My Father.’”
9. Page 130 now reads: “More likely, Kellman went to New York to see if reports coming out of New York City about Obama were right, that Obama’s profile might just fit in with Kellman’s organization.” It will be corrected to read: “Kellman happened to be visiting family in New York, so he was able to schedule an appointment to see for himself if reports coming out of New York City about Obama were right, that Obama’s profile might just fit in with Kellman’s organization.”
10. Page 145 now reads: “The year 1995 was a banner one for Obama. He had just married Michelle and the couple bought a Hyde Park condo, the first home Obama ever owned. In 1995, Obama became an author when his first book, his autobiography, ‘Dreams from my Father,’ was published, to modest sales, but good reviews.” It will be corrected to read: “The year 1995 was a banner one for Obama. He had married Michelle in 1992 and the couple bought a Hyde Park condo in 1993, the first home Obama ever owned. In 1995, Obama became an author when his first book, his autobiography, ‘Dreams from my Father,’ was published, to modest sales, but good reviews.”
11. Page 257 now reads: “He has been endorsed by Hamas and had to fire a Middle Eastern advisor who had been meeting privately with Hamas.” It will be corrected to read: “He has been endorsed by a Hamas advisor and accepted the resignation of a Middle Eastern advisor who had been meeting privately with Hamas.”
09/15/2008 — FACT-CHECK.ORG REPORT
FactCheck Article: Corsi’s Dull Hatchet
Corsi’s Dull Hatchet
September 15, 2008
Jerome Corsi’s “The Obama Nation” is a mishmash of unsupported conjecture, half-truths, logical fallacies and outright falsehoods.
Summary
Despite its place near the top of The New York Times’ nonfiction bestseller list, where it has been riding high for the past six weeks, Jerome Corsi’s “The Obama Nation” is not a reliable source of facts about Obama.
• Corsi cites opinion columns and unsourced, anonymous blogs as if they were evidence of factual claims. Where he does cite legitimate news sources, he frequently distorts the facts. In some cases, Corsi simply ignores readily accessible information when it conflicts with his arguments. Among the errors we found:
• Corsi claims that Obama “could claim to be a citizen of Kenya as well as of the United States.” But the Kenyan Constitution specifically prohibits dual citizenship.
• Corsi falsely states that Obama, who has admitted to drug use as a teenager, “has yet to answer” questions about whether he stopped using drugs. In fact, Obama has answered that question twice, including once in the autobiography that Corsi reviews in his book.
• Corsi relies on claims from one of Obama’s “closest” childhood friends to “prove” that Obama once was a practicing Muslim, without revealing that the witness later said he couldn’t be certain about his claims and confessed to knowing Obama for only a few months.
• Corsi claims that despite Obama’s “rhetorically uplifting” speeches, the candidate has never detailed any specific plans. In fact, Obama’s Web site is full of detailed policy proposals.
Note: This is a summary only. The full article with analysis, images and citations may be viewed on our Web site: http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/corsis_dull_hatchet.html
MY FINDINGS
Mr. Jerome Corsi’s intent to malign Obama screams at you on the cover of the book — even before you open it!
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Reactions and References:
1. Raila dragged into attack on Obama: ……Near the book’s close, Mr Corsi asks Americans to consider: “If Obama continues to support Odinga as Prime Minister, is he therefore accepting or condoning the post-election violence that brought Odinga to power, and a radical agenda from the left that would expand Islam in Kenya?” — Daily Nation, Kenya
2. Peter Wehner, a former member of the Bush administration’s Office of Strategic Initiatives, makes the case against Corsi: There has been a lot of attention given in the last few days to Jerome Corsi’s new book, The Obama Nation, which will debut at #1 on the New York Times best-seller list. It seems pretty clear, I think, that conservatives should not hitch their hopes to it. Corsi himself, based on press accounts, is a leading advocate of the North American Union conspiracy. The NAU, for those who believe in it, is, according to a Boston Globe story, “a supranational organization that will soon fuse Canada, the United States, and Mexico into a single economic and political unit.” In an interview, Corsi said he believes in the existence of the NAU because, according to Corsi, President Bush was not securing the Southern border. According to reports, Corsi has suggested that Hillary Rodham Clinton is a lesbian, called John Kerry “anti-Christian, anti-American” and called Pope John Paul II “senile,” and said pedophilia “is OK with the Pope as long as it isn’t reported by the liberal press.”…[MORE]
3. On 08-16-2008 – FRANK RICH of The New York Times Writes:
McCain has even prompted alarms from the right’s own favorite hit man du jour: Jerome Corsi, who Swift-boated John Kerry as co-author of “Unfit to Command” in 2004 and who is trying to do the same to Obama in his newly minted best seller, “The Obama Nation.”
Corsi’s writings have been repeatedly promoted by Sean Hannity on Fox News; Corsi’s publisher, Mary Matalin, has praised her author’s “scholarship.” If Republican warriors like Hannity and Matalin think so highly of Corsi’s research into Obama, then perhaps we should take seriously Corsi’s scholarship about McCain. In recent articles at worldnetdaily.com, Corsi has claimed (among other charges) that the McCain campaign received “strong” financial support from a “group tied to Al Qaeda” and that “McCain’s personal fortune traces back to organized crime in Arizona.“…..[ MORE ]
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