NYT: Book on Obama Hopes to Repeat Anti-Kerry Feat

[kskiska]

In the summer of 2004 the conservative gadfly Jerome R. Corsi shot to the top of the best-seller lists as co-author of “Unfit for Command,” the book attacking Senator John Kerry’s record on a Vietnam War Swift boat that began the larger damaging campaign against Mr. Kerry’s war credentials as he sought the presidency.

Almost exactly four years after that campaign began, Mr. Corsi has released a new attack book painting Senator Barack Obama, the Democrats’ presumed presidential nominee, as a stealth radical liberal who has tried to cover up “extensive connections to Islam” — Mr. Obama is Christian — and questioning whether his admitted experimentation with drugs in high school and college ever ceased.

Significant parts of the book, whose subtitle is “Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality,” have already been challenged as misleading or false in the days since its debut on Aug. 1. Nonetheless, it is to make its first appearance on The New York Times best-seller list for nonfiction hardcovers this Sunday — at No. 1.

The book is being pushed along by a large volume of bulk sales, intense voter interest in Mr. Obama and a broad marketing campaign that has already included 100 author interviews with talk radio hosts across the country, like Sean Hannity and G. Gordon Liddy, Mr. Corsi said on Tuesday.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/us/politics/13book.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1218603763-wcmD+Vd6RSZ5o+jipGIAqQ

[EarlG]

1. "The book is being pushed along by a large volume of bulk sales..."

The conservative book clubs that make these bulk buys are owned by the same company that publishes the books in the first place. That's how they get them to the top of the bestseller list. The whole thing is a scam to give the book legitimacy - if it's an NYT "bestseller", the media will have an excuse to talk about it.

Corsi himself sued Regnery not long ago for this very practice, guess they must have patched things up (ie. written him a bigger check).

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/books/07cons.html

[cliffordu]

2. If someone caps Corsi, can I do a gravedance here???

Pleeeeze??

[kskiska]

3. They should get their stories straight

The goal is to defeat Obama,” Mr. Corsi said in a telephone interview. “I don’t want Obama to be in office.”

He said he was planning to aid several conservative groups that intend to run advertisements against Mr. Obama this fall, though he would not name them.

(snip)

Ms. Matalin said in an interview that the book “was not designed to be, and does not set out to be, a political book,” calling it, rather, “a piece of scholarship, and a good one at that.” She said she was unaware of efforts to link it to any anti-Obama advertising.

[Mopar151]

4. Wal-Mart

My local one is all stocked up with this one, and the other slime job (ObamaNATION?)

[boomerbust]

5. Not this time!

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[cap]

6. well, I guess Corsi doesn't care about Cindy's drug use

the McCains' adultery and shameful treatment of Carol McCain, the 5 plane crashings of John McCain, etc. Lefty fingers will be busy, too.

[tannybogus]

7. A link to help refute Corsi's book

http://mediamatters.org/items/200808040005?f=s_search

Media Matters is doing articles that refute what Corsi has written. They take out after

a lot of people. This might help.