Posted on 08/15/2008 8:00:33 AM PDT by SmithL
Here come the goons, right on schedule.
The "author," and I use the term loosely, whose vicious lies damaged John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign has crawled back out from under his rock to spew vicious lies about Barack Obama. Right-wing radio talk-show hosts are dutifully transmitting this concocted venom. This presidential campaign has officially gotten ugly.
The "author" I'm talking about is a man named Jerome Corsi. In a book published last year, "The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada," Corsi claimed that George W. Bush was at the heart of a secret conspiracy to subsume the United States into a post-national, one-worldish North American Union. Corsi's writings on far-right blogs have been even more paranoid and delusional. He has written that pedophilia, for which he used a more graphic term, "is OK with the Pope as long as it isn't reported by the liberal press." He has referred to Muslims as "ragheads."
Corsi would be known as just another visitor from the outer fringe if he had not been the co-author of "Unfit for Command," the book that slimed Kerry's exemplary record as a Swift boat commander in Vietnam. The allegations in that book were discredited, but not before they had been amplified by the right-wing echo chamber to the point where they raised questions in some voters' minds - perhaps enough to swing the election.
It was an abominable trick, but quite remarkable. Kerry's opponent, George W. Bush, had avoided Vietnam by taking refuge in the Texas Air National Guard. Kerry was a decorated war hero, yet somehow his valor and sense of duty were turned into a political negative and used against him.
Now Corsi, in what he acknowledges is an attempt "to keep Obama from getting elected,"
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
If Barack Henry Obama is not going to reveal anything true about himself, he can't be surprised when somebody else fills in the blanks.
“The allegations in that book were discredited,” This is a DNC talking point. Which allegations were discredited? They never say.
Odd because if this was nothing but a lie, where was the lawsuit?
Let's see for how many weeks.
They can only trash the messenger, not the facts that are well documented by Dr. Corsi
...even Jr.'s own words about taking koran classes while in public school in Jarkarta.
Who put in for his own decorations, treating the equivalent of paper cuts as injuries, lying about supposed offenses committed by U.S. troops, lying about times & places in combat, lying, lying, lying!
Now that the Obomanation's lies are coming to light, the truth must be resisted at all cost!
Not wanting to “swift boat” a candidate is the same as saying “we don’t want the truth to come out.”
Let’s get the meaning of the words straight.
If Eugene doesn’t like sand in her panties, she shouldn’t play volleyball with the big girls.
In 'The Greatest Speech Ever', Obama admitted he was in the pews when Rev. Wright made controversial statements. The one fact the author used to demonstrate Corsi's book contains lies is not even true.
You have to remember, that for a Donk, sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting "LALALA LA LA LA!!! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!" is a valid rebuttal.
Robinson has been in the tank for Obama for a long time. The problem with his article is that what Corsi wrote about Kerry was all true. Instead of attacking Corsi he should try and refute what he says in his book. But of course, he might have trouble doing that.
And on the other side of the page keep a list of any significant facts that are successfully refuted.
Here, I’ll start.
Zero.
Looking back not too far, today’s Swiftboating is akin to yesterday’s Keelhauling.
Both methods entail the delivery of just and realistic punishment.
John Kerry could clear all this up with one piece of paper.
telling the truth about a liberal is “hate speech”
Where’s the Form 180?
Where’s the birth certificate?
As I remember, the most effective 'discrediting' was kerry and a few others reciting "nuh-uh, so there" in unison.
“Kerry was a decorated war hero, yet somehow his valor and sense of duty were turned into a political negative and used against him.”
Anyone remotely familiar with the military would be suspicious of someone who spent only four months in Vietnam, was awarded three Purple Hearts, but never missed any time due to wounds, and left Vietnam eight months early because he’d been awarded three Purple Hearts.
Anyone remotely familiar with the military would also know that it is a giant bureaucracy where all sorts of butt kissing and string pulling and favoritism can take place, just like any other organization.
I anticipate that like with John O’Neil, eventually the MSM will invite Corsi on their shows under the impression that they will be able to discredit him.
Unfortunately for them, like O’Neil, Corsi is proving himself to be quite adept at defending himself and his charges without throwing a tizzy.
Stand by to watch history repeat itself. has Lawrence O’Donnell recovered yet?
As Ann Coulter once stated, conservatives get angry if you lie about them. Liberals, on the other hand, get angry if you tell the truth about them.
Wasn’t there a million dollar offer made (perhaps by one of the authors) if someone could actually discredit the arguments of the Swifties? I seem to remember that Kerry claimed they should send it to some charity because they were untrue but that was the end of his rebuttal.
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