The French Revolution produced the saying "no enemies to the Left" - a mindset that has poisoned both the Left and the Right in American politics. As a result, some figures who should be repudiated have, instead, become prominent representatives. On the Right, in particular, the "go along to get along" approach has created a Movement where the bad guys are protected, and the people who get promoted are those who make friends, not waves.
It's wrong, and it needs to stop. So, with that said...
The continued tolerance and prominence of Jerome Corsi - his books, columns and appearances - is just embarrassing. It is embarrassing for the Right, embarrassing for Republicans, embarrassing for conservatives and libertarians, embarrassing for all of us.
It's not just that he's frequently, remarkably wrong - something pretty well documented and acknowledged by both the Left and (while less enthusiastically) the Right. (and the Obama campaign (PDF), of course) Both the Obama campaign and Hugh Hewitt acknowledge that Jerome Corsi is "fringe".
Bad as his gross errors are, though, it's not just that. It's also about who Jerome Corsi is.
* Jerome Corsi is a smear artist (e.g., he has claimed that "Hillary Rodham Clinton is a lesbian and Muslims worship Satan").
* Jerome Corsi has advocated the hysterical, deceptive North American Union conspiracy theory.
* Jerome Corsi associates with white supremacists.
* Jerome Corsi is guilty of plagiarism.
* Jerome Corsi is a 9/11 Truther.
I mean, c'mon. Have some standards. This guy does not deserve the platform, he does not deserve the publicity, and he does not deserve to be treated as member-in-good-standing on the Right.
The Right seems to engage today in social promotion of hatchet men, bullies and political hit men. Those people poison the Right, and - whatever their temporary electoral effects - they serve to discredit us all.
They have libel laws for a reason. I am guessing this is the guy who wrote the bullshit about Obama, so why no lawsuits? Anyway, I haven't read or heard the guy, but he sounds like he has a sizable choir to preach to, just like Mike Moore et al.
-SM- _________________ " Tell 'em were coming....and hell is coming with us ! "
No different here MW, they just don't grow to prominence so often.
I would guess Obama is not going to dignify it with a court of law. It certainly hasn't worked like the swiftboating did, which Corsi was mixed up in too.
The only reason I posted it was because yesterday Largs had a cartoon posted on the start page, which basically repeated the lie, that Marshall was Obama's mentor. the only place the cartoonist could have got it was Corsi's book, because no one else has said it, except those fringe blogs that are just repeating Corsi's story.
He did manage three or four interviews on the Fox before he got totally discredited. _________________ “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
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