Jerome Corsi and Mary Matalin team up for an old-fashioned swift boating

[babsbunny]

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/358

Submitted by meg on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 2:51pm. Analysis

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
by Meg White

One of the favorite adages of journalists was once, "If your mother tells you she loves you, check it out." Now it seems that we've shifted to "I read it in a best-selling non-fiction book; it must be true... oh, it's not? Well, who cares."

Jerome Corsi's new, widely discredited book The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality sustained its number one spot on The New York Times bestseller list yet again this week. And for some reason, I find myself thinking of the waves of untruths that have passed through the hands of editors of late.

In 2006, James Frey's A Million Little Pieces sat atop the bestseller list for 15 weeks and was a selection for Oprah's Book Club. Thanks to revelations from The Smoking Gun, the book was shown to be a lie. Since Frey didn't have the passion of a political campaign backing him, his book is now printed with author's and publisher's notes. Random House even agreed to compensate some readers for the lies.

[LittleClarkie]

1. I was very proud of my morning radio guy

He's conservative as they come. But he said that Corsi's book was trash, and he had plenty to criticize Obama for without resorting to that crap.

[kimmerspixelated]

2. C-span had a guy from a journalism ethical assoc.

or something like that, last weekend, and he disputed almost everything in that book that trashed Obama.He gave examples of the blogs Corsi used and that his "facts" were clearly just opinions. A lot of callers were apalled that C-span had Corsi on in the first place, and I thought it was great to hear the number of complaints. Hopefully the Corsi boat will be sinking real soon.

[Cha]

3. mary matalin can go fuck

her fucked self and take that asshole corsi with her.