Posted on 08/09/2004 4:11:03 PM PDT by the_gospel_of_thomas
Unfit for Command' Co-author Jerome Corsi: Not just Anti-Kerry; Media Matters for America Documents Bigoted, Inflammatory Comments
To: National Desk, Media Reporter
Contact: Naomi Seligman of Media Matters for America, 202-756-4108
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Media Matters for America (MMFA) today documented and disclosed inflammatory comments by Jerome R. Corsi, co-author of the anti-Kerry book 'Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry (news - web sites)' with Swift Boat Veterans for Truth founder John E. O'Neill. Corsi's offensive online comments reveal his active participation in discussions on FreeRepublic.com, a far-right website.
The book, published by right-wing publisher Regnery, has received wide media attention in recent days partly as the result of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth anti-Kerry attack ad and has skyrocketed up the Amazon best-seller charts.
According to MMFA's analysis, Corsi, who received his PhD in Political Science from Harvard University in 1972 and is currently the Vice President of Development and Senior Editor of U.S. Financial Marketing Group, has posted to the FreeRepublic.com website under the pseudonym "jrlc" since 2001 and has expressed anti-Catholic and anti-Muslim rhetoric, as well as hateful and inflammatory smears against Democratic politicians.
Following are examples of some of rhetoric by "jrlc" as posted on http://www.FreeRepublic.com --
on Catholics and the Pope:
-- "Boy buggering in both Islam and Catholicism is okay with the Pope as long as it isn't reported by the liberal press."
-- "So this is what the last days of the Catholic Church are going to look like. Buggering boys undermines the moral base and the laywyers rip the gold off the Vatican (news - web sites) altars. We may get one more Pope, when this senile one dies, but that's probably about it."
on Islam:
-- "Let's see exactly why it isn't the case that Islam is a worthless, dangerous Satanic religion? Where's the proof to the contrary?"
-- "Islam is like a virus -- it affects the mind -- maybe even better as an analogy -- it is a cancer that destroys the body it infects."
-- "Islam is a peaceful religion as long as the women are beaten, the boys buggered, and the infidels killed."
-- "Think the liberal press will ever let out that these 2 were lovers -- typical Islamic boy-buggering -- older man, younger man -- black Muslims? I doubt it. Not a pretty picture, but one certain to be hidden by PC media."
-- "RAGHEADS are Boy-Bumpers as clearly as they are Women- Haters -- it all goes together."
on Kerry:
-- "First let's undermine the US in Vietnam. Then we can go for gay marriage. When you get to be Pres. JFK-lite, there will be no end to how much of America we can destroy."
-- "Just don't let anybody put a tablet with the Ten Commandments in front of the school where that girl wants to wear a Muslim scarf -- OH, No --- then the RATS would complain. Anti- Christian, Anti-American -- just like their Presidential Candidate -- Jean Francois Kerrie."
-- "After he married TerRAHsa, didn't John Kerry begin practicing Judiasm? He also has paternal gradparents that were Jewish. What religion is John Kerry?"
-- "Kerry has a long history of Communist supporters."
-- "Kerry offers a clear choice. Anti-American hatred."
-- "John F-ing Commie Kerry and Commie Ted discuss their plan to hand America over to our nation's enemies."
on President Clinton (news - web sites):
-- "When is this guy going to admit he's simply an anti- American communist? Won't he and his leftist wife simply go away???? Enough already."
-- "Hey, Bill, didn't you steal enough when you had the chance?"
-- "Clinton doesn't get it. Afganistan, and other Moslim countries, are not poor because they lack money. The culture itself is anti-modern. But then, maybe Slick did get it and he just wants to create another bork barrel from which he and his wife can draw slop."
-- "Clinton was more interested in gays in the military than going after OBL. Clinton had Janet Rhino pushing the FBI (news - web sites) to deport a child to Castro's nondemocratic Cuba, not searching out OBL sleepers in the USA. Clinton was too busy getting BJs in the Oval Office to do more than Wag the Dog after the Cole was hit."
on Senator Clinton:
-- "HELL-ary loves the Arabs so much (kiss, kiss Mrs. Arab- RAT) -- wonder how she would look in a Burkha?"
-- "Mullah Ali'Gore-ah is very proud of his new Bin Laden beard and he hopes others in the Democratic Party will follow his lead. Hell-ary is disappointed she cannot grow a beard, but her press secretary reminds us she can still enroll in flight school."
-- "Let the FAT HOG run!!!" (Regarding a possible presidential bid.)
-- "Hellary should resign and go away. What ever happened to the people she ran over with her car at Westchester Airport? Can't anybody sue this b-tch?"
-- "Anybody ask why HELLary couldn't keep BJ Bill satisfied? Not lesbo or anything, is she?"
More analyses of conservative misinformation can be found at Media Matters for America's website: http://www.mediamatters.org
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at the YAHOO news page ( linked ) there is only ONE comment ( usually 100 after the first hour on news stories )
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INCOMING!!
most of those un-PC postings made me LOL.
Well, what did he say that wasn't the truth?
;)
How would these yahoos know the identity of any poster on FR?
Media Matters for America is the first organization to systematically monitor the media for conservative misinformation
Funny, I didn't see any conservative misinformation in those posts.
So newswire is now getting it's reporting from Salon & mediamatters. I wonder who they contacted to verify this information.
Good question.
Simple: the poster is foolish enough to sign his real name to the posts in question.
I saw this at media matters when it was first posted on FR. There was a post to JR using that screen name signed "Jerry Corsi" fwiw. I wonder how many "Jerry Corsi's' we could find in the phone book. Probably more than a few.
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