Corsi book, malicious fraud
Aided by compliant mainstream media pundits and anonymous emailers endlessly repeating the same lies long circulated as part of a well-orchestrated smear campaign, Jerome Corsi's Obama Nation currently enjoys New York Times bestseller status, despite having been thoroughly discredited and debunked by fact-checkers on all sides of the political spectrum. Though the book is riddled with easily-refuted misinterpretations, half-truths and outright lies, Corsi is being accorded by many in the media the status of a serious scholar, despite a long history of championing crackpot manifestoes and and assertions so outrageous and patently false that even his fellow right-wing hatchet men have been moved to disavow him.
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Among Corsi's other "scholarly" theories: that George Bush has attempted to dissolve our borders with Mexico and Canada, that underground oil supplies are inexhaustible, and that it was a covert government plot, not hijacked airplanes, that caused the Twin Towers to fall on 9/11. Corsi is so extreme in his religious bigotry and venom that even his fellow Swift Boaters in 2004 were moved to ban him from their publicity tour. These, the slime artists who had the audacity to attack the military credentials of a genuine war hero, could not find the stomach to associate themselves with Jerome Corsi.
With two highly-regarded memoirs widely available and a long public record of community organizing, teaching, and legislative accomplishments both in Chicago and Washington, D.C., Barack Obama has been among the most open, consistent, and accessible of politicians in recent history - yet many still claim they don't know enough about him to form a judgment. Others claim, without a shred of evidence beyond hearsay and innuendo, that they do know enough, and proceed to repeat the lies: that Obama is a secret Muslim out to destroy the U.S., that he and his wife are black separatists and even terrorists, that he isn't really who he claims to be.
Our democracy depends upon a truly informed citizenry, a fact that has never been more true than at this critical moment in the history of our nation and our world. It behooves every one of us to take the trouble of informing ourselves, not simply mindlessly consuming and passing along the lies of those with their own hidden and not-so-hidden agendas. Being a bestseller doesn't make a book true; repeating and endlessly recycling a pack of lies does not turn them into facts.
Kay Frydenborg
Stewartstown
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