Jerome Corsi is a Liar and a Pervert

He's at it again. Why won't Jerome Corsi just go away? How is it that a lying jackass like this is able to make a living? Why are so many people in the media, particularly FOX Noise, giving this guy the time of day? What's up with that?

Just to refresh your memory, this is the same Jerome Corsi who four years ago coughed up the lie-filled book, Unfit For Command, a piece of propagandist trash that called into question John Kerry's military service. He even had the gall to say that Senator Kerry never deserved the Purple Heart he received for the very real injuries he sustained in the Vietnam war. This nonsense was quickly swallowed whole by many clueless American voters. Corsi's book, written in cooperation with the Swift Boat Veterans For "Truth", none of whom had even known Kerry during the war, was able to convince enough people that sending a corrupt little thug like George W. Bush back to the White House for another four years was the best thing for their country. And you wonder why the United States is the laughingstock of the Milky Way?

Corsi is back again with another work of fiction. The title is scary enough: The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality. ("Cult of Personality"? Does this knucklehead even remember someone named Ronald Reagan? Cult of personality, indeed!) Said Corsi of his latest screed:

"My intent in writing this book, as was the case in coauthoring Unfit For Command, is to fully document all arguments and contentions I make, extensively footnoting all references, so readers can determine for themselves the truth and validity of the factual claims."

Extensive footnoting? In the first eleven footnotes and throughout the book Corsi quotes himself. Call me stubborn but I wouldn't - in a million years - peg this twit as a very reliable reference. In an article that was published yesterday on AlterNet, Matthew Gertz and Eric H. Hananoki wrote the following,

"Indeed, Corsi's comparison of the two books seems quite apt: Just as Unfit For Command contains false and baseless attacks on Senator John Kerry's military service, a Media Matters For America review finds that Obama Nation similarly contains numerous falsehoods about Senator Barack Obama".

Gertz and Hananoki then went on to provide the reader with eight printed pages of examples of the lies spewed fourth by Corsi. Unlike the Kerry campaign four years ago, the Obama organization is determined not to remain "above it all". On their website, they have assertively and convincingly refuted every single charge made by Corsi in his book. It's refreshing to see that the Democrats have finally learned some hard and bitter lessons. There's no need to fight fire with fire - just fight back! HELLO???!

Oh, and speaking of fighting fire with fire:

Why on earth would the Republicans want associate themselves with a man of his character? Aren't they smart enough to understand that his troubling and sordid past is only going to end up being a major embarrassment for them when it eventually becomes public knowledge? I am speaking of the secret life of Jerome Corsi.

Jerome Corsi has never been convicted of or even charged with the crime of child molestation - but it is only a matter of time before that happens. According to a trusted contact I have recently made, he has alienated every friend he ever had with sons between the ages of ten and eighteen. In the town in which he lives, he is well known to his fellow citizens for prowling areas where young boys on skateboards normally congregate. In the summer of 1987, a woman who lived two doors away from Mr. Corsi filed a complaint against him with the local police department. Corsi, it seems, picked up her two, fourteen-year-old twin sons who were seeking a lift to the local mall. One of the boys, Robert J.V. Bush (no relation to the president), is today a thirty-five-year-old assistant manager of a computer chain store just outside Concord, New Hampshire. In a recorded telephone interview conducted on August 12, he told me the following:

"As soon as we got into the car, he started to talk to us in a really weird and disgusting way. He asked us if we had ever engaged in gay sex with one another. I mean, it must have been obvious to him that we were brothers - we're identical twins, for goodness sakes! For the five or ten minutes it took to reach the mall, he just kept on and on. He actually offered us money to pose for photos. The whole experience was really uncomfortable and very, very disturbing. Remember, we were both just kids at the time."

It is more than probable that the mother of the two boys eventually made a private financial settlement with Corsi because she later refused to press charges against him. In my interview with the son on Tuesday evening, he seemed to confirm this:

"She just told us to drop the subject and steer clear of him. I remember she laughed and said, 'He's going to help pay for your college educations.' I can't absolutely prove it all these years later, but it is my belief that she was paid off. You must understand that she was a single mother raising three children. We were living in a nice neighborhood and she wanted to keep us there. But it was difficult for her to make ends meet. She had to take the money."

Mr. Bush's mother has since passed away. According to a reliable source, Corsi is now under investigation regarding another incident alleged to have taken place in October 2006 involving an under aged boy.

Corsi's accusation against Pope John Paul II a number of years ago - that the late pontiff was in favor of child molestation - was the ultimate in hypocrisy. But his private perversions aside, Jerome Corsi is a known liar. That has been proven more times that can be counted. Even his alleged success as an author is a lie. When his book appears on the top of the New York Times Best Seller list this Sunday, there will be a small dart next to the book's title. This means that it has been purchased en bulk by various conservative organizations in an attempt to push it to the top of the charts and that the figures can't be counted on for accuracy. For the record: Michael Moore, Al Franken and Frank Rich never had to stoop to that sort of thing.

The extreme right has one hell of an uphill battle ahead of them, that's for damned sure! John McCain is the worst candidate in my lifetime (I'll be fifty tomorrow). Not since the Democratic party nominated the reactionary and incompetent civil war general George McClellan to run against Abraham Lincoln in 1864 has a major political party put forward such a dud as their standard bearer. Knowing this, you would think that Senator Obama would be a cinch to win this thing, wouldn't you? Yeah, I would think so too. We both would be wrong, though.

The fact of the matter is that Americans are absolute gluttons for propaganda. A full one third still believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim. He is not. Most people still believe that Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet during the campaign of 2000. Not only did he never make such an absurd statement, he never even implied it. Both assertions were fabrications put forward by the GOP as matters of fact. As has been stated before, they can no longer win a national election based of their ideas because those "ideas" are positively revolting. The only way they will be able to claim victory at the polls in November will be by distorting the character of Senator Obama. Enter Jerome Corsi, stage right.

Will the electorate be naive enough to fall for the GOP's lies and half truths? Times are so desperate that it is next-to-impossible to believe they would compound the mistake of sending George W. Bush to the White House seven-and-a-half years ago by continuing his disastrous policies under a McCain administration. But then again, as P.T. Barnum (or was it H.L. Mencken?) once observed, no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. 

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
tomdegan@frontiernet.net

DISCLAIMER:
In the two years I've been writing "The Rant", I have never printed a single sentence that I knew to be false. The two or three times I found that I had inadvertently printed an error of fact, I went back to correct the offending passage or deleted it entirely. The column that you have just finished reading is an exception to the rule. Some of it is not true - or at least I hope like hell it isn't! As the late, great Fats Waller once intoned with a wink, "One never knows, does one?"

Of the nineteen paragraphs in this piece, five of them are bald-faced lies. The title, "Jerome Corsi Is a Liar and a Pervert" is only half true. While he is indeed a known and documented liar, he is not - to the best of my knowledge anyway - a "pervert". Did you notice those little "details" I provided in order to make the charge of child molestation sound all the more convincing? That is one of Corsi's tricks. What was the point to this journalistic mischief on my part? No point at all, really. I just wanted to give Mr. Corsi a well-deserved taste of his own very nasty tasting medicine. The difference between me and him is the fact that I at least had the common decency to issue this disclaimer. Don't expect the same courtesy from a professional liar like Jerome Corsi.

SUGGESTED READING:

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
by Al Franken

UPDATE, 22 October 2012:

Four years later and Jerome Corsi is up to his old mischief. His charge against President Obama this campaign season? He's secretly gay. I kid you not.

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