Corsi Won’t Quit on Birther Issue (Plus a Transcript Footnote)
Not surprisingly, Jerome R. Corsi has conjured a conspiracy theory about Obama’s long-form birth certificate over at (shock of shocks) WND: What is it about twin girls born day after Obama?
Of course, since Corsi has a book coming out called Where’s the Birth Certificate he has to do something to keep hope alive, so to speak.
I bring this up because Corsi is someone with whom readers ought to be aware if they are not already, simply because he is still taken seriously in some quarters, but does not deserve to be.
If anything, his basic analytical and research skills came into serious question when he failed to understand that Canada was already part of NAFTA (see here and here).
See also, James Joyner’s post: Jerome Corsi and the Coarsening of American Politics and mine: On Jerome R. Corsi.
The transcript postscript is this: Corsi has a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard. While I do not know his GPA, I would consider such a degree a significant accomplishment. Not only is getting a Ph.D. hard work (and, in fact, most people who start down that path do not finish), but getting into, let alone finishing, graduate school at Harvard is especially hard work.
Having noted that, I would point out that the operative way to judge Corsi’s fitness as an analyst and researcher is to look at his body of work over the last ~40 years. I would argue that he comes up wanting in that regard, even if his educational pedigree is impressive.
Ok, I will now try to refrain from posting on this topic.
It will be interesting to read his book.
He did a fine job exposing the fraud of John Kerry with meticulous research, so I would expect this effort to be on the same unimpeachable level.
He did a fine job exposing the fraud of John Kerry with meticulous research, so I would expect this effort to be on the same unimpeachable level.
jwest has an extremely loose definition of the word “unimpeachable.”
He did a fine job reinforcing ideas Jwest already heal and thus he’ll likely sell a lot of books.
Obviously idiocy sells, among idiots.
I read Corsi’s revelation that some twins born after Obama at the same hospital had lower file numbers stamped on their certificates than Obama. Since he acknowledges that the file numbers are stamped on by the Dept. of Health and not by the hospital, just maybe it shows that the Birth Certificates are not sent immediately and in time sequence to the Board but in a stack sent over all at once. They are then stamped as a clerk works their way through the stack.
Remember, we are talking about 1961 when paperwork was either carried or mailed by the hospital to the Board of Health. How likely do you think it is that they sent them over and processed them one-by-one. Or how likely is it that both the Hospital bureaucracy and the State Board of Health dealt with the paperwork in batches?
As usual, Mr. Corsi, your evidence is more innuendo than fact. Very weak sir, very weak.
Follow the money. I mean, this is about the only paying gig Corsi has. Milk it for all it’s worth.
Also of the words “interesting” “book” “fine” “fraud” “meticulous” and “research.”
I mean, this is about the only paying gig Corsi
There’s always plenty of wingnut welfare available for a scumbag like Corsi.
Also of the words “interesting” “book” “fine” “fraud” “meticulous” and “research.”
Heh. I’m also questioning his understanding of “the” and “and.”
when pathological liars are confronted by their lies, they don’t admit they are lying, they simply expand the lie. hence corsi sees other additional conspiracies…hence palin participated in trade missions to russia she didn’t participate in…hence wmd were smuggled out of iraq just prior to our invasion and occupation…hence climate change scientists are intent on world domination.
the question is why any of these people is given any sort of platform whatsoever? just let them fade away.
Collectively, for the misinformed liberals:
If you can find an error or lie in “Unfit for Command”, you should bring it forward with links so that you won’t seem so ignorant. Also, John Kerry would probably appreciate someone pointing out anything Corsi got wrong. Since it hasn’t happened so far, I will stick to my assessment of his book being meticulously researched.
@The Other Ed, how that isn’t readily apparent to birthers is staggering.
The argument is pretty funny, being that when Obama released his “short form” 4 years ago, his team was bright enough to go back through birth records and get a certificate number for his possibly fake document, that actually lines up properly with the historical record, yet were clumsy enough to get it out of order?
If you can find an error or lie in “Unfit for Command”, you should bring it forward with links so that you won’t seem so ignorant.
Here you go, racist shitbird.
There are 70 or 80 lies in that morass. Then there is the plagiarism.
Mantis,
Since you’re too naïve and ill-informed to know that it was Kerry who wrote the after-action report that predicated this story, you don’t realize he was lying to cover for his own incompetence.
“ Had Hoffmann known the true circumstances of events that day, O’Neill said, he would not have issued congratulations.”
Kerry was a disgrace to the Navy and this country – in Vietnam and continuously since then.
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There are several descriptions I can think of for someone who wrote that Bush was secretly trying to expand NAFTA into Canada … but well-researched isn’t one of them. Which is fine if he’s just someone making comments on a blog, but why would someone consider buying a book written to that standard?
One important thing to note: Publishing Houses do not hire or fact check non-fiction.
So just because it’s published doesn’t mean it’s vetted. It’s also true that just because something isn’t true doesn’t mean it’s libel. And providing something libel gets increasingly difficult the more public an individual is.