Obamania

Campus Report ^ | September 24, 2008 | John Hendershot

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Obamania

by: John Hendershot, September 24, 2008

Dr. Jerome Corsi first caught national attention with Unfit For Command in 2004. Writing with John O’Neill, Dr. Corsi questioned John Kerry’s claims about his time in Vietnam and argued that he was, as the title suggests, unfit to lead the country. The book’s impact on the election outcome is debatable—certainly the title will come up whenever someone researches the origins of the term “swiftboating,” since O’Neill’s group, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, and the controversy that their charges caused are directly responsible for the word entering our lexicon—but what is undeniable is that Kerry lost. Now, four years later, Dr. Corsi has returned with The Obama Nation, a book which seeks to match Unfit’s feat, if not surpass it.

Judging from the book’s reception—its rise to the top of the New York Times Bestseller list notwithstanding—Dr. Corsi has certainly brought something to the media’s attention. Time, Politico, The New Republic, the Washington Post, and both the New York and the Los Angeles Times all savagely attacked it; Time’s Joe Klein was particularly creative with anecdotes about his mother and declarations that the book was “trash” and “poisonous crap.” The Obama campaign itself issued a forty-one page document, “Unfit for Publication,” in an attempt to rebut the book’s “rehashed lies.” “Brought to you by the Bush/Cheney Attack Machine” the cover proclaims (the phrase’s lack of an exclamation point is a distinct disappointment), leading one to wonder why such a powerful machine would bother to include someone who is, according to the first page of the report, “a discredited, fringe bigot” with “bizarre, conspiratorial” views....

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