Jerome Corsi

Far be it for me to condone the Kenyan government’s heavy-handed treatment of anti-Obama polemicist Jerome Corsi, news of which was splashed across the top of the Drudge Report this morning, and is still prominently displayed. It appears to this reporter, who has spent some time in the region, that Corsi’s deportation—if that is indeed what happened—appears to be an all-too-familiar case of an annoyed government overreacting in stereotypical fashion. On the other hand, no one should portray Corsi as a martyr for press freedom. What he was up to in Kenya wasn’t journalism. It was a dangerous political stunt.  read more »

Jerome Corsi, whose bestselling anti-Obama book, The Obama Nation, has been widely dismissed since its publication as inaccurate and misleading, has written a 60-page defense of his claims that he hopes to post on the Web site WorldNetDaily later this week. Mr. Corsi, who was one of the authors of 2004's Unfit for Command, said in an interview today that his rebuttal will challenge, point by point, the strongly-worded "Unfit for Publication" pdf composed by the Obama campaign and posted on the Web site FightTheSmears.com after Mr. Corsi's book hit stores earlier this month. In that pdf, which clocked in at a hefty 40 pages, the Obama campaign said Mr. Corsi was a "bigoted fringe author" whose new book was "full of rehashed distortions and the same old lies" that have been circulating about Obama since he started his run for president.  read more »

Jerome Corsi, author of the 2004 Anti-John Kerry book Unfit for Command, has taken a lot of heat for his latest effort, a grouchy little volume called The Obama Nation that puts forth the notion that Barack Obama might be and probably is a drug addicted Muslim-lover. So far, Simon & Schuster, the company that published Mr. Corsi's book through its conservative Threshold Editions imprint, hasn't been asked to defend their decision to put it out.

Ben Smith at the Politico raises the issue today on his blog, asking a "series of Simon & Schuster authors—including Michael Moore, Alexandra Pelosi, and Paul Begala" how they feel about getting their paychecks from the same place as Mr.  read more »

Jerome Corsi, he of Swift Boat fame, was on CNN's Larry King Live last night defending his new book, The Obama Nation against Paul Waldman, a fidgety fellow from progressive watchdog group, Media Matters. On August 12th, Jim Rutenberg and Julie Bosman pointed out in The New York Times that many of Mr. Corsi's claims—specifically that Barack Obama never addressed when he stopped using drugs—were false.

Mr. Corsi, at one point said, "My argument is that the self-reporting of people who used drugs as to when they quit is not reliable." That's kind of interesting, actually, since Mr. Obama's two memoirs, while pretty good and everything, do contain exactly the sort of fake dialogue and imagined details David Carr's recent memoir, The Night of the Gun rejected.

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