McCain Needs to Be Asked If He'll "Repudiate and Denounce" Jerome Corsi

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/16532

McCain Needs to Be Asked If He'll "Repudiate and Denounce" Jerome Corsi
by RJ Eskow | August 18, 2008


The media made a major issue out of insisting that Barack Obama reject Louis Farrakhan's endorsement - an endorsement he never sought from a person he had consistently criticized. When moderators brought the topic up yet again during a debate, Hillary Clinton pointedly demanded that Obama formally "repudiate and denounce" Farrakhan. (He did.)

Enter Jerome Corsi. He, not unlike Farrakhan, exists on the political fringe. Corsi has a history of making highly bigoted and offensive comments. He's the professional liar who co-wrote the "Swift Boat Veterans" book Unfit For Command (although he's not a veteran himself). He has spread 9/11 conspiracy theories, and he believes that George W. Bush has a "secret plan" to "erase the USA." Exactly how will Mr. Bush dismantle our nation? According to Corsi, he plans to lure us into a "North American Union" which will "erase our borders with Mexico and Canada." (Blame Canada!)

Corsi's inflammatory hatchet job on Obama has just been being published by Mary Matalin - who, in an ongoing arc of moral decline, has now apparently added "smear merchant" to her resumé. But, despite the fact that he says he's retracted his most inflammatory statements, Corsi's scheduled to appear on an avowedly "pro-White" radio show whose host has stated that "interracial sex is white genocide."

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Question for the press: Since you hounded Obama over Farrakhan, will you continue to press McCain to disavow Jerome Corsi? Since Corsi's book has been extensively refuted (most recently by the Obama team itself), McCain should be asked to specifically state whether he believes the book to be true or false. No equivocation, evasion, or cute quips: Does he think the book is true or false?

The keeps telling us of Senator McCain's core decency and "maverick" personality. I hope they're right, and this is a good way to find out. Given their treatment of Barack Obama, they have the obligation to keep putting the question to him until he answers: Will he "repudiate and denounce" Jerome Corsi and disavow his book?

If they don't, some prominent Democratic leader should insist that they ask it. That Democrat should be somebody with a high profile who can give this issue visibility - someone with the determination and grit to follow through forcefully and make sure the question gets asked. I know just the right person for the job:

Hillary Clinton.

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Force McCain to either

a) denounce Corsi and his book, or

b) embrace this walking piece of hateful slime publicly, and then Dems can trot out all the dispicable
quotes from Corsi and splash THEM all over M$M 24/7 tying them to McSame ... kinda like the M$M did
with the Rev. Wright dust-up.

Oh wait, hmmmm. Nevermind. The M$M, being in McSame's pocket and all, probably would find a way to
turn it back against Obama. For example, saying shit like "Obama unleashes hateful attack on distinguished
author of ObamaNation." or some such. :mad:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6652544&mesg_id=6652608

BTW - I like your strategy of getting a high enough profile Dem to force it onto the airwaves..

question would have more of an impact, too.

their poll numbers would very deservedly be in the total toilet.

I mention this only because of their full-time flakking for McCain and how fond they've become lately of insisting that while this election by usual historic standards should be a referendum on the Bush eight years-----"it's really a referendum on Obama...!"--

as if they themselves are not the ones attempting to make it just that.

Twisters, liars and corporate whores, all.