Posted on 08/15/2008 8:00:33 AM PDT by SmithL
Here come the goons, right on schedule.
The "author," and I use the term loosely, whose vicious lies damaged John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign has crawled back out from under his rock to spew vicious lies about Barack Obama. Right-wing radio talk-show hosts are dutifully transmitting this concocted venom. This presidential campaign has officially gotten ugly.
The "author" I'm talking about is a man named Jerome Corsi. In a book published last year, "The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada," Corsi claimed that George W. Bush was at the heart of a secret conspiracy to subsume the United States into a post-national, one-worldish North American Union. Corsi's writings on far-right blogs have been even more paranoid and delusional. He has written that pedophilia, for which he used a more graphic term, "is OK with the Pope as long as it isn't reported by the liberal press." He has referred to Muslims as "ragheads."
Corsi would be known as just another visitor from the outer fringe if he had not been the co-author of "Unfit for Command," the book that slimed Kerry's exemplary record as a Swift boat commander in Vietnam. The allegations in that book were discredited, but not before they had been amplified by the right-wing echo chamber to the point where they raised questions in some voters' minds - perhaps enough to swing the election.
It was an abominable trick, but quite remarkable. Kerry's opponent, George W. Bush, had avoided Vietnam by taking refuge in the Texas Air National Guard. Kerry was a decorated war hero, yet somehow his valor and sense of duty were turned into a political negative and used against him.
Now Corsi, in what he acknowledges is an attempt "to keep Obama from getting elected,"
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sorry, guys, but my son was playing with the mouse and he hit it 2 other times. I didn’t mean to post my comment 3 times. (don’t be hard on him, he is only 2 lol)
Corsi would be known as just another visitor from the outer fringe if he had not been the co-author of "Unfit for Command," the book that slimed Kerry's exemplary record as a Swift boat commander in Vietnam. The allegations in that book were discredited, but not before they had been amplified by the right-wing echo chamber to the point where they raised questions in some voters' minds - perhaps enough to swing the election.
It was an abominable trick, but quite remarkable. Kerry's opponent, George W. Bush, had avoided Vietnam by taking refuge in the Texas Air National Guard. Kerry was a decorated war hero, yet somehow his valor and sense of duty were turned into a political negative and used against him.
Kerry's record "exemplary"? He wounded himself and left his men behind, then he slimed them. Nothing in Corsi's Kerry book has ever been proven wrong, despite the claims of these "mainstream" journos. W did not avoid Vietnam (unless you believe Dan Rather and his forged documents)...he asked to be sent on active duty and was turned down...but what does accuracy matter when you're trying to make a political point, eh, Gene Robinson?
"It would help Obama's campaign if they, while trying to refute Corsi, did not refer to Bob Beckel as a Republican strategist. Twice."
Perhaps he was echoing Dear ol Dad’s sentiments! L0L
Bob Beckel! Ha!
In LiberalLand, the SBVFT were "discredited" because the New York Times said they were "discredited".
Not that they ever presented any evidence or arguments to support the assertion...
40 pages of nit picking drivel as rebuttal..
..NOT A WORD ABOUT THE FAKE CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH
His middle name isn’t Henry, it’s Hussein. :)
YEAH!, SeEE? I heard that the NYT review has a DAGGAR bye it cuz right wing-grrrs are hbuying it up bye the case and putting it in warehouses or something.
It was the first book I saw when I entered the B & N in my area. Front and center on the first display table.
Doesn't accusing someone of lying when they are telling the truth constitute libel?
Eugene Robinson is an IDIOT! don’t you know that the NATIONAL GUARD is part of the military, mr. Robinson?
“has crawled back out from under his rock to spew vicious lies about Barack Obama”.....says the “journalist” who appears almost nightly with Keith Olbermann.
What a crock!
Tell us Gene.....did Kerry ever sign his form 180?
And if not, why not?
John France Ketchup is going to release then when pigs fly!!
With decorations made from construction paper!! :-) I believe JFK got a medal for map reading, let let him read the map to take them to BOSTON, but he ended up in Cambodia!! :-)
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