Jerome Corsi's Anti-Obama book filled to the brim with falsehoods

[ck4829]

They start pretty much as the book begins, and end at the other side of the book.

Corsi baselessly suggests that Obama's father, Barack Obama Sr., may have divorced his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, "following the prescripts of Islamic sharia law." Corsi's sole source for this statement is a blogger who made the claim in a March 20 post, which featured the false headline, "BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA WAS MUSLIM FOR 31 YEARS" and misstated Obama's mother's name as "Shirley Ann." The blogger Corsi cited, "Majalah Bulanan Kumunitas Indonesia Di Edmonton," provided no substantiation for the claim that "the senior Obama divorced Dunham according to Sharia law."

On Pages 49-50, Corsi falsely claims that Obama did not dedicate Dreams from My Father to his mother or his grandparents.

However:

"It is to my family, though -- my mother, my grandparents, my siblings, stretched across oceans and continents -- that I owe the deepest gratitude and to whom I dedicated this book. Without their constant love and support, without their willingness to let me sing their song and their toleration of the occasional wrong note, I could never have hoped to finish. If nothing else, I hope that the love and respect I feel for them shines through on every page"

Corsi falsely claims that Obama does not mention the birth of his half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, during the chapter in Dreams in which he discusses his time living in Indonesia.

However:

In fact, on Page 47 of Dreams, in the chapter discussing his time in Indonesia, Obama writes that "my mother and Lolo would remain cordial through the birth of my sister, Maya."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200808040005

[w8liftinglady]

1. This is the subject of my latest ltte...feel free to add your own

http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2008/08/06/opinion/doc4899fb482e3ce959997902.txt

“Obamanation” is an abomination. I have listened to the persistent quoting of Jerome Corsi’s “Obamanation” — a hatchet job done by the author of “Unfit for Command: Swiftboat Veterans Speak out against John Kerry.” I thought it necessary to offer some facts about Barack Obama that are being manipulated by this man.

Mediamatters is a non-partisan group that fact-checks written and news items and offers resources to verify their findings. Mediamatters has found so many inaccuracies with Corsi’s book that I can’t write them all in a short letter. I will focus on Corsi’s inaccuracies regarding Obama and the military.

Corsi falsely claims that Obama seeks to decrease the size of the military. In fact, during the Democratic primary, Obama repeatedly asserted that he would “increase our ground forces by 65,000 soldiers and 27,000 Marines. Obama also stated, “Increasing our end strength will help units retrain and re-equip properly between deployments and decrease the strain on military families.”

Discussing Obama’s “antiwar ... foreign policy,” Corsi conflates Iraq and Afghanistan to falsely suggest that Obama supports “de-escalating troops from Afghanistan. But Obama’s January 2007 bill — the Iraq War De-escalation Act of 2007 — establishes a timetable for the withdrawal of most troops from Iraq, and calls for “appropriate units of the Armed Forces” to be redeployed to Afghanistan and elsewhere in the region, as well as “elsewhere, to meet urgent United States security needs.” Obama has been calling for an increase of U.S. troops in Afghanistan since at least 2006 and has specifically proposed the addition of at least two combat brigades since 2007.

This obvious smear of Sen. Obama has been given a lot of footing by the mainstream media. Please do your own research before quoting Corsi. His track record shows him to be a character assassin of the worst degree.

[w13rd0]

2. assassin implies some degree of skill or precision...

...Corsi is more aptly designated a "character mugger". His methods are thuggish, done from the shadows, filled with deceit and mindless in their violence.

[woo me with science]

3. "falsehoods"?

How about LIES?

[gratuitous]

4. An odd phenomenon

Jerome Corsi, from what I gather, has been accorded a very receptive and respectful hearing for his book, despite demonstrable lies from four years ago and his hatchet job this time around. Yesterday on the Today Show, Meredith Viera interviewed Ron Suskind, and her first question out of the gate was about two people who purportedly denied what Suskind reported they said in his book. Suskind gently corrected Viera that one of the people interviewed had done any such thing, throwing her off stride for a moment, but then she bored in again that one person was now denying he had said the self-incriminating things Suskind had reported.

Has anyone subject Corsi to a little similar cross-examintion? The answer should go a long way toward showing how deeply in the tank the media are for this campaign.