Jerome Corsi was arrested in Kenya yesterday and deported, evidently in the midst of a publicity stunt regarding Obama’s extended family.
But he and I did a bloggingheads session last week that is up today on the website. Over the course of the discussion, we establish that:
a) He was paid by Dick Cheney’s henchwoman Mary Matalin to write a book on Obama
b) The book was bulk-bought by Freedom’s Defense Fund (the same outfit that launched the Kilpatrick/Wright ads against Obama) and that’s how it earned its way onto the New York Times bestseller list
c) Despite many inaccuracies in the book, Matalin never called Corsi and suggested he make any corrections
d) Seven of the first nine footnotes in the supposedly heavily researched and documented book refer back to himself; others link back to Andy Martin, who called a judge a "dirty, slimy Jew" and doesn’t necessarily think the Holocaust was a bad thing.
You can watch the whole thing here. At one point I got to ask him how he felt about the fact that Swiftboating now referred to a malicious attack by a pack of liars. It was very satisfying.
PS I think he drinks.
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awesome. calling out the bullshit. way to go, jane.
why do these guys hate america so much that they want to undermine democracy? what an awful man.
Heh. I love you Jane.
Must have felt really good to watch his reaction.
I’m going to say I loved those PS, I think he drinks hand to tipped head gestures. You’re too funny. Thanks – now off to watch the whole thing.
Have you come up with the newest thing?
Air drinking.
But Jane, surely all these questions were asked on Fox, Meet the Press, CNN and all the other places Corsi surfaced by their highly paid “journalists” with their paid researchers and interns? And surely the NYT would know that its best-seller list was being freeped?
So Jane, what do you think? Is Corsi really stupid enough to blow off going through proper channels in an overseas country, or is he hoping to parlay this into some sort of cheap-ass tin-plate martyrdom (”Obama had me deported!!!1!!!ONE!!”)?
That’s why the Times puts a little dagger by all books that were bulk-bought. It was my first question to Corsi.
Dunno, it’s not like there is any publicity stunt that is beneath him.
Is Matlin working for McCain?
“I’m not racist – I’ve written books with Ken Blackwell.”
can one VERY TASTE -LESS Tse Tse fly bite his fat ugly ass,oh please,oh please
i vote for the later
if ya work for Darth…you are a made man/woman…no more worries,unless Haliburton stock goes to Zero,however they will just steal more
I wish everyone could follow your example of questions that make the freepers try to defend the indefensible, it is really quite effective. Maybe you could mention it to Gwen Ifill sometime.
Proof of his IQ.
Thanks Jane.
digg
What a punk. He’s one of these dudes that throws Dr. around with his name like it means shit to a tree.
Dugg! Thanks, Boo!
Wonder who paid for his plane ticket? Enquiring minds want to know…
Hell, even Kristol gets a slot at the NYTimes. This guy is something else altogether.
I’d love to Jane one to one with Kristol.
Poor little tse tse fly.
We should note that neo-con Mrs. James Carville published neo-con Corsi’s book.
Didn’t she have at it with Frum a while back?
Oops, now I have to go look.
(((Jane)))
If I watch the video above I will meltdown again as I did when I called you on WJ. Big screen teevee, close up of Jane looking right at the camera, begin meltdown in 3, 2, 1
Hangs his garage door opener on his belt to look important.
“You’re very good at this Jane.”
Well, I agree with him on that!
I have one request, tho. Could you share this political correctness that is running around in your head with the rest of us? Ha!
OT: A comment re Jane’s Accountability Now post downstairs.
We chanted “more and better democrats.” We got more democrats, and it didn’t help so all that munch. Now we need “new and improved democrats.”
We get “new democrats” by defeating the old ones at the primaries.
We get “improved democrats” by scaring the shit out of the old ones at the primaries.
Right on, Jane.
By the way, Corsi is a plagirist. Says who? Neo-con Debbie Schlussel says Corsi is a plagirist. It is a sad right wing world, when neo-cons steal from other neo-cons.
Does he have a PhD (piled higher and deeper) if so what in?
Good job Jane.
I also like the glasses.
Education
BA Case Western Reserve, magna cum laude
PhD Harvard
thank you x 9
what a media slut he is.
OMG! She called him JOHN! (Ignore the part where she apologized.) As he said, “This is what you do — you LIE!”
hahahahahaha That’s all he has! How funny. I was going to ask (before I watched this) how you could keep a straight face. But I can see you didn’t have to. Who could possibly have told him to do this?
He should ask for his money back.
This is so reminiscent of seeing Dobbs with Amy Goodman. Lots of two-stepping.
Egads what a low hanging fruit
Jane, any chance of inviting Gov. Palin to speak directly to the American people here? bwahaha.
Yeah, right. “If I had the resources or the time I would look into those allegations further”. This A-hole has had all the money he wants and has had plenty of time to dig into everything in Obama’s past. There just is nothing to the drug angle and he knows it.
I will have to say though, Jane, that your “air drinking” was an incredibly cruel trick. I could practically see him salivating for that cheap rye he must guzzle by the gallon. (I’ll bet he’s stealing it from Kit Bombed). His neuron had to stop firing when he saw you do that.
I’m going to channel my inner Republican here and assert that if Jane says his name is John that’s good enough for me. Jane looks really pretty and therefore she can’t be wrong.
Isn’t that how the logic goes in Republican circles?
(no offense Jane, I know you have a LOT more going for you than our little governor friend).
Won’t work. For every Barack Obama, it seems that Harvard also graduates a Jerome Corsi, AGAG, and George W. Bush.
If all the incompetent/idiotic/stupid people in the world who have a Harvard degree of some type got their money back, Harvard would be like Lehman Brothers and AIG and need a government bailout.
I’m in the process of reading Hunter Thompson’s fantastic book on the 1972 election. It would be easy to dismiss him for being wasted at the time. But we’d also miss a lot of great observations. There are enough reasons to go after Corsi, without bringing drinking into it. I realize it was lighthearted and sort of what he was doing to Obama but it still seems morally superior to me.
This Corsi needs to be working for some tabloid sleazy rag. What a joke.
I’ve noticed a similar pattern at Berkely.
Lot’s to learn from Jane here. Open the door a crack, let them walk in on their own and keep throwing in bits of meat.
(does anyone know, can I copyright Air Drinking?) kidding.
Feel better?
His sleazy rag is World Nut Daily.
emptywheel is across the hall!
The Problem Isn’t So Much that She’s a Tax Cheat…
eh, that’s Berkeley.
“John” Corsi’s long lost brother, separated at birth, has been located!!1!!1!!111
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOLBQxk72NY
(He’s the one with the glasses)
If I’m still listening to the entire link, can I stay here?
Just watched the whole thing. Despite being cornered throughout…I think he likes Jane’s spunk! He never denies that Matalin paid him either.
I think it’s more that a younger, attractive woman is paying attention to him.
Blue Texan is upstairs!
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just watched the entire interview, Jane, you are really an incredible presence, Jerome not so much, I loved your sign off;
“buhbye”
I have to say though, Jerome did a credible job representing and defending himself, especially his point about footnoting himself, he makes the point, (I don’t know how true I didn’t read his work), that the footnotes back to himself are stories about himself, I agree that a footnote back to yourself when talking about yourself can easily be ethical.
He did continue to say that the corrections were few, you continued to say they were abundant, I wish either or both of you told us how many corrections had to be made, then the listener would decide if there were many or few
a very enjoyable interview, I LOVE the “speed up 40%” feature on your flash player
I was trying to figure out why a work permit would be the basis of denial of entry. It occurred to me that maybe a trade book tour is as much a commercial undertaking the commercial music tour that requires a work permit in the U.S., for one, if you’re from outside that country.
I finally surmised it was a legitimate reason to kick his sorry ass out of Kenya.
Btw, I skipped the interview for lack of bandwidth.
You asked yourself a good question. Did you google search this guy? There’s a couple of good articles which discuss what’s going on. That way, you don’t have to wait for something to occur to you.
Sorry you have a lack of bandwidth, it’s an interesting interview.
I’ve seen that your comments here regularly. It really does help to be able to access the links in order to learn what’s going on. Best of luck to you on making that happen. If you’re looking for education, it might be worth it to find a way to make that happen.
Raven October 7th, 2008 at 9:41 am 31
In response to foothillsmike @ 29 (show text)
Education
BA Case Western Reserve, magna cum laude
PhD Harvard
Well, as long as he’s a really well educated prostitute………..
Well, Berkeley does a little better I think. The exceptions do stand out as particularly painful, though. BTW John Yoo is not a Berkeley grad…think he went to Yale.
Brilliant Jane!