More wingnuttery and scumbaggery
Bring it ON wingnut hate machine!
Continuing in the grand tradition of right-wing Clinton-haters and Kerry swiftboaters, a new wingnut book is doing a smear job on Obama.
See just how desperate the righties have become...seems that the Politics of Division and Hate is all they have left.
"Obama Strikes Back at Attack Book"
Barack Obama hit back with a 40-page rebuttal to Jerome Corsi's book "The Obama Nation," arguing the author is a fringe bigot peddling rehashed lies. "Jerome Corsi is a discredited liar who is peddling another piece of garbage to continue the Bush-Cheney politics he helped perpetuate four years ago," said Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor.
When they say the book is already at #1 on NYTimes bestseller list...it just means that large quantities of the book have been ordered in bulk by rich righties. Conservative groups have been known to do this in order to boost the book on the best seller list.
Something else that's fake -- Corsi's long list of footnotes and references. You know, when you're reading a book, and you take a look at the many footnotes and references and think, "Wow, this guy must have really done some research on this."
Give me a break...of the first 11 footnotes in Corsi's book, 9 of them refer to stuff he wrote himself. Yes, you read right, citing himself in his research footnotes! A lot of the rest are from rightie blogs.
"Barack Obama hit back Thursday with a 40-page rebuttal..."
I'm sure it's well written and very accurate...BUT, Obama needs to fight back in public on the cable news airwaves. Remember what happened to Sticks-and-Stones Kerry....
Meanwhile, the 40 pages on why he is not a coke-snorting-Muslim-crook will be there to counter Corsi's allegations before they fester and grow. Read rebuttals here:
Corsi even got the year of Barack and Michelle's wedding wrong...there are 80 documented inaccuracies in the first 32 pages.
Larry King had Corsi on and confronted him about several false statements...like the one about the Pope, and calling Kerry a Jew, etc. It was quite a LONG list. Corsi stated that he was wrong and that he had apologized for those statements.
The thing that I kept waiting for was King to say: "The New York Times has compiled quite a list of inaccuracies and editorial gaffes in this current book. If you've had so much to apologize for in your past books, then how much of this book do you expect you may have to apologize for in the future?"
Ah well, hopefully Truth will eventually trump Sleaze...the good news is that the only ones reading Corsi's book are those who already don't like Obama and wouldn't vote for him anyway.
If you want to hear Crazy for yourself--tomorrow (Sunday, August 17), Corsi is scheduled to appear on the aptly named "The Political Cesspool" -- which, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, is "an overtly racist, anti-Semitic radio show hosted by self-avowed white nationalist James Edwards."
Read about some of the show's more shining moments here:
BTW--Corsi's book about Obama appears to have distracted him from another project he was planning in January--exposing the government's lies about the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
How's that for crazy?
