Associated Press aggressively took after Jerome Corsi's book The Obama Nation in a story touting the Obama camp's attempts at rebuttal. Reporter Nedra Pickler repeated the Obama camp's dismissal of Corsi as a "fringe bigot" and declared "The book is a compilation of all the innuendo and false rumors against Obama." Pickler insisted it was somehow a false rumor or an innuendo that Obama "attended a radical black church." Among her complaints about the book's accuracy: "He accuses Obama of wanting to weaken the military even though Obama's campaign calls for adding 65,000 soldiers and 27,000 Marines." She lamented that "Corsi catalogs various allegations that have haunted Obama on right-wing blogs and anonymous e-mails" and openly mocked the conservative World Net Daily website: "Corsi writes for World Net Daily, a conservative Web site whose lead headline Thursday was ‘Astonishing photo claims: Dead Bigfoot stored on ice.'"
Reporting from a Honolulu dateline, suggesting she's on the Obama vacation beat, Pickler began:
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama hit back Thursday with a 40-page rebuttal to the best-selling book "The Obama Nation," arguing the author is a fringe bigot peddling rehashed lies.
Jerome Corsi's anti-Obama book, "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality," claims the Illinois senator is a dangerous, radical candidate for president. The book is a compilation of all the innuendo and false rumors against Obama — that he was raised a Muslim, attended a radical, black church and secretly has a "black rage" hidden beneath the surface.
In fact, Obama is a Christian who attended Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
Presenting her story as a declaration of the hard facts, Pickler is arguing that somehow Trinity United Church of Christ is not a "radical black church." Did she miss all the news reports on the outrageous sermons coming out of the mouth of Jeremiah Wright? Would she suggest that his statements from the pulpit are about America deserving 9/11 or AIDS being a U.S. government conspiracy are best identified as the marshmallow mainstream?
AP can easily reprint that Obama's camp calls Corsi a "fringe bigot peddling rehashed lies," but doesn't think that would define Reverend Wright. Obama wasn't attending Trinity for binges of "black rage," even though Wright was clearly peddling them.
Corsi is allowed to speak for himself, defensively, for just 21 words, in paragraph 14:
In an interview with The Associated Press, Corsi defended raising the issue of drugs without any evidence.
"I don't need more," he said. "I'm putting this question forward. I'm putting the evidence forward. Voters can make up their own minds."
That was immediately followed by the World Net Daily-mocking sentence.
Pickler protested that Corsi suggests Obama could be using drugs today (a wacky charge) "without a shred of proof," but doesn’t have the time or space to wonder whether the "objective" national media has a consistent record of asking presidential candidates about their drug use – the way that George W. Bush was hammered with cocaine questions in 1999 "without a shred of proof," while Bill Clinton was never asked a cocaine question, despite his friendship and political dealings with cocaine dealer Dan Lasater in Arkansas. More on that here, and here.
By contrast, the Obama campaign spokesman unloaded for 76 words of partisan bile in paragraph five:
"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. "His is just one of what will likely be many more lie-filled books rushed to print this election cycle, which are cobbled together from debunked Internet sources to make money and advance a partisan agenda. We will respond to these smears forcefully with all means at our disposal."
Pickler even helpfully suggests that the Obama partisans think the book doesn't belong on the nonfiction list: "Corsi's book is off to a swift start and is No. 1 on The New York Times' hardcover nonfiction best-seller list, even though Obama's campaign would argue the book should be listed as fiction."
Please notice this latest of a media pattern: Pickler lets the Obama camp lament all the "lie-filled books," but never mentions David Freddoso's The Case Against Barack Obama. If that book was also "lie-filled," by AP's definition, why isn't it mentioned in this story? It's not like that book isn't a hot seller. On Amazon this morning, Corsi is number three, and Freddoso is number 12.
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.
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repeated the Obama camp's
August 15, 2008 - 09:28 ET by midnight cowboyrepeated the Obama camp's dismissal of Corsi as a "fringe bigot"
Here we go again team Obama pulling out the race card. Obama's bag of tricks must be getting pretty empty.
Poor Kerry
August 15, 2008 - 09:43 ET by ReaverToo bad Kerry didn't call Corsi a "fringe bigot". Might of ended the whole thing right there.
The way this guy pulls the
August 15, 2008 - 10:29 ET by KillgraveThe way this guy pulls the race card, he must have that thing triple-laminated with an extra coating of Dupont scratch-guard.
We should develop a "race card"
August 15, 2008 - 10:47 ET by 10ksnookerThat way the ref would have one that was appropiate at all times. Don't you just love the way soccer refs grab the card and get in the players face. That would be cool.
By now, Obama would have been thrwon out of the stadium.
I read Corsi's book, the drive by media has been edwardsing Obama for the longest time.
It appears to be the only card left in Obama's play deck . I conlude it won't work.
Forgot to mention that any
August 15, 2008 - 09:36 ET by sanergononlibForgot to mention that any suggestion the media is in the tank for Obammy is a *dastardly lie, just ask the Obama campaign*
Obama Studied the Koran - New York Times
August 15, 2008 - 10:50 ET by allanfFrom the New York Times Story
Trinity
August 15, 2008 - 09:49 ET by PurdueMattWho is the AP to make the determination that Trinity isn't radical.
Of course Barack Hussein
August 15, 2008 - 10:29 ET by cocodrieOf course Barack Hussein never attended a radical church - Uncle Teddy never killed Mary-Jo, Kerry was a war hero and never lied, Silky Pony never had an affair, Jimmy Carter was the greatest president ever. Now if you close your eyes real tight, all those nasty rumors contradicting this will go away.
Need-a-pickle
August 15, 2008 - 10:29 ET by TexndocNedra Pickler = do not read. Ever.
Oh! Bama
August 15, 2008 - 10:32 ET by DontFeedTheTrolls"He accuses Obama of wanting to weaken the military even though Obama's
campaign calls for adding 65,000 soldiers and 27,000 Marines."
So Obama wants to beef up the military? Didn't that same act by Bush make him a 'chicken-hawk warmonger'?
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What So Proudly the Lie ....
August 15, 2008 - 10:47 ET by allanfIt's one thing to put it in a policy statement. It is another thing actually do it.
The following Youtube video puts the lie to Obama's statement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE
"It's one thing to put it
August 15, 2008 - 11:46 ET by ckc1227"It's one thing to put it in a policy statement. It is another thing actually do it. The following Youtube video puts the lie to Obama's statement. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE"
My favorite part: " I will cut wasteful spending on unproven missile defense systems."
What an idiot. Every new weapon, defense system, etc is unproven until it is actually, well, proven.
The scariest part is where he says he wants a world free of nuclear weapons. It's scary because I can see him saying "As proof of my committment to rid the world of nuclear weapons, we will get rid of all ours first."
I cannot believe this clown is so close to becoming President.
Wolrd Net Daily is just like CNN
August 15, 2008 - 10:58 ET by connorin...and openly mocked the conservative World Net Daily website: "Corsi writes for World Net Daily, a conservative Web site whose lead headline Thursday was ‘Astonishing photo claims: Dead Bigfoot stored on ice.'"
Gosh...does she mock CNN:
Body proves Bigfoot no myth, hunters say
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/14/bigfoot.body/index.html
Uh oh
August 15, 2008 - 11:03 ET by ThoughtPoliceA newsbusters dilemma!
Vouch for Corsi's book becuase it is anti-Obama or disregard him as a "fringe loony" for being a 9/11 twoofer!
Lol...
It's not a dilemma for me.
August 15, 2008 - 11:31 ET by ckc1227It's not a dilemma for me. As a 9/11 truther, he has little credibility in my book. That doesn't mean he's wrong about Obama, it just means I won't rely on his research alone.
Besides, it's not like I need Corsi to make things up for me to realize there's plenty wrong with Obama.
Corsi is not a 9/11 TRUTHER
August 15, 2008 - 16:21 ET by LionKingTypical of liberals to mangle the context.
Read this and decide.
The Abomination
August 15, 2008 - 11:05 ET by LilyPearlI may be late on this, but the name "The Obama Nation" sounds like "The Abomination". That is exactly what it would be if Obama becomes President.
Stand back and take a deep
August 15, 2008 - 11:46 ET by mandrakeStand back and take a deep breath. The world will not come to an end if Obama is elected. The founding fathers of your country build in checks and balances such as the Congress, Senate and Supreme Court. Remember what happened to Nixon when he got a little to carried away with himself?
The world won't come to an end but there will be damaging
August 15, 2008 - 11:57 ET by Dee Bunkpolicies and expansions of social programs that we will never come back from. Once something is given it's never taken away. Gutting of the Military isn't that easy to come back from either.
Plus those checks and balances won't be very good because he'll have a Democrat house and Senate and could easily end up tilting the court to the far left. It's barely balanced right now.
We will survive, no doubt, but our already too liberal society will become even more liberal - it's a slow burn but a burn that doesn't stop and the best we will be able to do is stop it - we'll never get back what has already burned.
I'll need some proof that the world will not end.
August 15, 2008 - 12:20 ET by Joe C."The world will not come to an end if Obama is elected. The founding
fathers of your country build in checks and balances such as the
Congress, Senate and Supreme Court. Remember what happened to Nixon
when he got a little to carried away with himself?"
The world may not come to an end, but the country might. The founding fathers didn't count on all 3 branches of government being run by anti-American, anti-Constitution, anti-capitalist ultraleftists as could very well happen on Jan. 20th and with one SC nomination. At least Nixon had the character to resign for the good of the country - for doing less than Clinton did on a good day. Obama is trying an overt overthrow!
MSM Hysteria
August 15, 2008 - 11:06 ET by rammingspeedCorsi's book is bringing out the shrill, shrieking liberals from the MSM as few things have ever done before. This is good news, because people in this country are educated as never before about the leftist proclivities of the MSM, and their hatred of all things non-liberal. The wanton refutation of the truth Corsi presents in his book is stunning.
Tim.. apparently Pickler missed..
August 15, 2008 - 11:08 ET by Gary HallTim. Super analysis. To add an interesting tweak - one that should stretch the center of the Democrat party; apparently Pickler missed some of what the Democratic party would have considered radical - had the MSM been willing to report the hot news at their fingertips. You noted pickler's perceived view:
Pickler and the left wing (radical fringes - black and white) find that they agreed with those comments from Rev. Wright, so it's not radical to them. However, did they - does the MSM, as a group -does the base of the Democratic party agree with some of Rev. Wright's more politically divisive rants? One that they would actually get nervous over?
That clip where Reverend Wright is spewing hatred, suggesting as he thrusts his pelvic forward, that Hillary Clinton, as President, would be as Bill Clinton had; screwed the black community just as he did Monica Lewinski. This man doesn't just hate America - he hates the Clinton's. He hates the moderate Democrat. The man is a radical leftist, and Pickler is comfortable with that:
..but is the Hillary Clinton camp, supporters and the MSM actually comfortable with the view that while Bill Clinton did the talk, as president, but in Rev. Wright's world he did not deliver what the MSM has maintained as his legacy - substance for the black community?
I'd suggest that had the mainstream media reported on this view of Wright, this upcoming convention would be a war zone for the Democratic party. Would not it be fun, if the video was shown at the Democratic National Convention? (;~/ gary -- hey! 3 years for NB! Congrats!
The left hates it when their messiah's words used against him
August 15, 2008 - 11:40 ET by c5thenThey hate it when is drug use in college is brought back up, even though it was first brought to the world's attention by Obama himself in his own book. He leaves it vague as to whether that drug use extended beyond college or as to when exactly it ended.
They hate that his affiliation with a radical black church will not die as per their wishes and directives to the MSM. It is very disturbing to some and so they want it to go away as fast as possible, but these "right wing" people keep bringing it back up.
The fact that his voting record in the Illinois State Senate and the US Senate is THE MOST liberal, bar none, is something that they'd rather not be out in public, but the "right wing" people keep talking about it, damn them.
The fact that Muslims concider it impossible for someone, once a Muslim, to convert to another religion is very disturbing to them. Yes, he was a Muslim as a child, but he is now a 'Christian' even though he professes an ideology that is decidedly non-christian. The fact that he says he is should be good enough. Never mind that he refuses to protect children just born from being left to die simply because their mother doesn't want them now.
Talk about inconvenient truths coming out at the wrong time...
The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.
no, black liberation
August 15, 2008 - 12:46 ET by wiwfno, black liberation theology isn't radical at all!
The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy
Jerome Corsi of Swiftboat fame: His over $150,000 in judgments,
August 15, 2008 - 13:02 ET by reunionpiJerome Corsi of Swiftboat fame: His over $150,000 in judgments, his corporations and more
www.webofdeception.com
"Corsi writes for World
August 15, 2008 - 13:43 ET by Jack BauerOf course, you'd never read that in the New York Times: OOOPS
I'll rephrase that, you'll never read about John Edwards' affair and baby in the Slimes.
Now the GOP is "The White Party"?
August 15, 2008 - 14:11 ET by goldenthroatLeave it up to Howard Dean to come up with this outrageous statement:
http://www.breitbart.tv/html/153493.html
Then he tries to laugh it off - but will that comment hit the MSM newscasts any time soon? Don't bet on it!
"I think we're all bozos on this bus!" - Firesign Theatre
Wow, Golden
August 15, 2008 - 14:21 ET by BlondeThe chief dim does it again.
Do these people never tire of playing the race card? If it does show up on the media....it will be the same paradigm as the "dollar bill" dust-up...they said it, but it's the (R)'s who play the race card.
Sheesh!
Great find, BTW.
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
Race Card???
August 15, 2008 - 16:52 ET by LionKingWhich party is always raising race issues?
Corsi and abiotic petroleum
August 15, 2008 - 16:58 ET by LionKingCurrently, I believe that Saudi Arabia is producing 9.5 million barrels of oil per month. A barrel of oil weighs approximately 300 lbs.
Over a ten year period, that would amount to 1.7 billion tons of oil.
If oil is a fossil fuel, where did all these fossils come from. Remember, this staggering number is for ten years from just Saudi Arabia... this does not include every oil producing country over many decades.