Media Helps Corsi's Obama Smear Book Even When Debunking It

CJR:

At a Wednesday town hall meeting in Lynchburg, Virginia, Barack Obama derided The New York Times number-one bestseller The Obama Nation, and its author, Jerome Corsi. He's "just making stuff up," Obama said. "But it gets a lot of play on Fox News."

Fox News has been a particularly fruitful platform for Dr. Corsi. During his Hannity and Colmes appearance last week, the Harvard-educated author boasted about the show's promotional capabilities: "There's a great formula, go on Sean Hannity's radio show first to the day. Sean Hannity later in the day, you get a best seller."

Corsi made his television debut on Hannity and Colmes in 2004, discussing his book Unfit for Command--an assault on the military record of John Kerry, co-authored with longtime Kerry nemesis John O'Neill. The book soon rose to the top of the Times's bestseller list, and played a major role in Kerry's defeat.

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Comments

[Paddy999]

Why do Right Wingers get face time on Cable TV when the book is full of smear and made up bull?

The double standard is what make me sick. Oprah Winfrey should have given James Frey a pass on his book "A Million Little Pieces".

[Bulbul]

This article should not be in HP , not even discussed anywhere, but it is too late. In my new town Cincinnati, I go to Sam`s there was the book , decorating the isles. WM will not display anything unless there is a hunger for it...
It is all about money and job security, nothing to do with ethics and distortions.
Sad indeed !

[ritenow]

So why is the HP printing this article?

DUH!

[RRK70]

It's OK, the people who believe this stuff don't read anyway. Corsi should have published it in a comic book format.

[protagonia]

Corsi was caught doing something very, VERY bad. Then, instead of prison time - he gets the chance to help other LARGER crooks out with a little something in return for his freedom.

A couple of books, is all they asked of him.

[rwe]

Just like the Swift Boat for Truth Cahrges , none of Corsi's charges have yet to be refuted other thatn calling them smears...

[RatgurlSD]

Based on the fact that people like this keep touting their Harvard degrees, Harvad's stock as an elite academy will consistently plummet.

[HC4BO]

The fact still stands ...

If you are stupid enough to believe what Corsi writes, after all those crazy articles he has penned, then you are the perfect person to vote for McBush ...

Democrats '08 ...

[PumaAnn]

Do you know what he wrote?

[loax]

Storeis likethis one don't help either. Everone knows the book is a fraud, so why give Corsi the limelight? Scum doe not look good on TV!

[KOisGod]

The face of a serious self-loather, who if it weren't for hate, would have no emotions at all.

[kimhoulian]

Modern day conquering of a political opponent through the media assistance, while armed with vicious lies through books and non creditable spoke people, who has the potential not to inform, but to inflame and discredit the worth, values, intelligence and integrity of anyone is setting a stage for this Nation to make an ill informed decision when choosing their next leader. If there isn't a fear to the foundation that is being built by advancing, just blatant untrue's about a candidates character, and actions, then I expect no one will be surprise when this country eventually falls to its knees begging for relief and asking how did we get here?
Shame on you for allowing this home grown terrorist to continue to pick away at our political process, Shame on you for allowing this home grown terrorist to destroy the character of men who dared to have an descending opinion, and shame on you for not exposing the lies. The American political system for the past eight years has been under attack and the media has help the attackers to dismantle it!

[kimhoulian]

I find it quite disturbing that the media continues to legitimize the hijacking of the American political system. If every four years, someone dares to run for the greatest office in this land, and we continue to see lies and distortions being promoted in a book,newspaper or televised news show in order to derail, sabotage, and misinform the public for profit, and political agenda; the media will have willfully assisted in destroying the political process in which only one candidate is allowed to run and participate.
The media has become an accessory to the deception that Jerome Corsi continue to spread,and the media has given credence to the imagination of people like Jerome Corsi, meanwhile becoming an accomplice to the virus we see today in politics. Jerome Corsi isn't working for the betterment of our great country, but the destruction of the American people, and our only way to elect a leader, Jerome Corsi has set out to make our election, an election without choice and media has unprofessionally become an outlet for gossip and not facts.

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[metalpipe]

His face is frighteningly unfrightening. It has child molester written all over it.

[chs1965]

Just the kind of face that Hannity adores.

[PumaAnn]

O's 25 page rebuttal was over-the-top. His campaign pushed the book to the top of the list.

[Trittydi]

Look at that face -- "that is one seriously disturbed 'toon."
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