Media Matters - Jerome Corsi

Media Matters - Jerome Corsi http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/jerome_corsi This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Jerome Corsi en-US Copyright 2009, Media Matters for America In the days before the election, media figures have repeatedly compared Obama to Hitler http://mediamatters.org/items/200810310017 Since October 16, numerous media figures -- among them Jerome Corsi, Ann Coulter, Mark Levin, and Bill Cunningham -- have compared Sen. Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler or the Nazis. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810310017 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:31:51 EST Don't believe the Hype: Will newspapers distributing Bossie's DVD report on its falsehoods? http://mediamatters.org/items/200810300012 The conservative activist group Citizens United is reportedly distributing Hype: The Obama Effect, a DVD attacking Sen. Barack Obama, this week in newspapers in Ohio, Nevada, and Florida. The AP quoted Citizens United president David Bossie saying of the film, "We think it's a truthful attack. People can take it anyway they want." But a Media Matters analysis of Hype finds that it contains numerous falsehoods and misrepresentations of Obama's record. Newspapers that distribute the DVD should consider their obligation to provide readers with information that discredits it. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810300012 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:01:51 EST Conservative media figures allege Obama's Hawaii trip is about discredited birth-certificate rumors, not his ailing grandmother http://mediamatters.org/items/200810230020 Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, and Jerome Corsi suggested or asserted that the true purpose of Sen. Barack Obama's current trip to Hawaii is not to visit his ailing grandmother, as Obama claims, but rather to address rumors -- widely debunked -- that Obama has failed to produce a valid U.S. birth certificate. However, in addition to FactCheck.org and a Hawaiian Health Department official, even Corsi's employer, the right-wing website WorldNetDaily, has reportedly determined that the birth certificate provided by the Obama campaign is authentic. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810230020 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:13:46 EST On Cunningham's radio show, Corsi touted dubious "documents" he claims will "prove" Obama "made a pact" with Odinga http://mediamatters.org/items/200810100023 Jerome Corsi claimed on Bill Cunningham's radio show that he "came out of Kenya" with "documents" proving that Sen. Barack Obama "made a pact with this radical leftist politician [Raila] Odinga who is perfectly happy to expand Islamic Sharia law in Kenya and have tribal violence to get power." But the only "documents" Corsi has thus far provided -- purported emails listing the contact in his Senate office to work with Odinga -- do not establish that Obama "made a pact" with Odinga, and they "appear not to have been written by a native English speaker," as Politico's Ben Smith noted. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810100023 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:00:54 EST In post-detention KSFO interview, Corsi claimed critics of Obama are "now going to have to risk being thrown in jail or killed" http://mediamatters.org/items/200810100017 On KSFO's The Lee Rodgers Show, Jerome Corsi asserted regarding his detention and departure from Kenya: "I think the story here is really the suppression of the press. ... I hate to think of what the First Amendment is going to mean. If you write a negative book or criticize [Sen. Barack] Obama, I think you're now going to have to risk being thrown in jail or killed." Rodgers said, "I'll tell you what's scary about this, to make the connection here. These are friends of Barack Obama in Kenya, who are trying to intimidate a journalist." http://mediamatters.org/items/200810100017 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:53:32 EST Ignoring its own reporting, NY Times did not point out falsehoods in Corsi's smear books on Obama, Kerry http://mediamatters.org/items/200810090014 The New York Times asserted that Jerome Corsi's recent book smearing Sen. Barack Obama "raises pointed questions about Mr. Obama's history of drug use, his 'extensive connections' to Islam and his relationships with Kenyan politicians, among other things -- allegations that Mr. Obama's campaign and others have widely disputed." However, the Times did not point out that The Obama Nation contains numerous falsehoods that have been widely discredited and denounced by the media. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810090014 Thu, 9 Oct 2008 16:15:26 EST Calling in to Quinn & Rose from Kenya, Corsi said of his detention: "[C]all Barack's office and ask him why I'm being detained" http://mediamatters.org/items/200810080027 In a phone call to The War Room with Quinn & Rose, Jerome Corsi stated that he and his staff were "being detained by the immigration of Kenya 'cause they lost our entry papers." Corsi repeatedly suggested Obama was responsible for his detention, stating at one point: "[J]ust don't write anything bad about Senator Obama, because, otherwise, this is what happens to you." Corsi also said, "[C]all Barack's office and ask him why I'm being detained." http://mediamatters.org/items/200810080027 Wed, 8 Oct 2008 20:23:27 EST Corsi again falsely claimed "there is no substance to the allegations" that his book "contains lies" http://mediamatters.org/items/200809170013 Obama Nation author Jerome Corsi again falsely asserted that "there is no substance" to claims from Sen. Barack Obama's campaign that his book "contains lies," despite the fact that Corsi previously provided a list of 11 corrections to the next printing of the book -- many of which correct falsehoods documented by the Obama campaign, Media Matters, or both. http://mediamatters.org/items/200809170013 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:33:25 EST Even as Obama Nation author Corsi claimed Obama campaign didn't "prove a single falsehood," he corrected several of them http://mediamatters.org/items/200809080008 Obama Nation author Jerome Corsi asserted that Sen. Barack Obama's campaign "failed to prove a single falsehood contained in pages of the book." Corsi then went on to provide a list of 11 "corrections to the next printing of The Obama Nation" -- many of which correct falsehoods documented by the Obama campaign or Media Matters. http://mediamatters.org/items/200809080008 Mon, 8 Sep 2008 13:53:55 EST Corsi suggests Obama might create government dept. to censor books critical of him http://mediamatters.org/items/200809080007 Obama Nation author Jerome Corsi again suggested that Sen. Barack Obama might create a new department of the government to censor books critical of him if elected president, writing, "By placing 'Unfit for Publication' as the title of the mock-book, does the Obama rebuttal mean to suggest an Obama administration might have a censorship department in which a book critical of a President Obama might be banned from publication?" http://mediamatters.org/items/200809080007 Mon, 8 Sep 2008 13:06:21 EST Even WND disputes Corsi's phony Obama birth certificate claim http://mediamatters.org/items/200808260014 WorldNetDaily.com, for which Jerome Corsi, author of the debunked and discredited book The Obama Nation, works as a staff reporter, has now taken on the claim that its own writer has been promoting, and determined for itself to be false -- that the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama "has a false, fake birth certificate posted on their website." WorldNetDaily reported that a "WND investigation into Obama's birth certificate utilizing forgery experts ... found the document to be authentic." http://mediamatters.org/items/200808260014 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:47:37 EST Corsi's reported cancellation of scheduled appearance on "pro-White" radio show leaves unanswered questions http://mediamatters.org/items/200808180001 Obama Nation author Jerome Corsi's reported cancellation of a scheduled appearance on the "pro-White" radio show Political Cesspool because of a change in "travel plans" raises questions, including why he has previously appeared on the "pro-White" radio show, why he was scheduled to appear again, whether he intends to reschedule, and whether he is willing to publicly condemn the show. http://mediamatters.org/items/200808180001 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:26:59 EST Corsi: Critics of Obama might be "put ... in jail" if he's president http://mediamatters.org/items/200808160001 On C-SPAN, Jerome Corsi, author of The Obama Nation, asserted that, if Sen. Barack Obama were elected president and someone were to write a book critical of him or to publish "a cartoon like The New Yorker," "Obama might just have to create a department of hate crimes and put them in jail." http://mediamatters.org/items/200808160001 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:26:49 EST WorldNetDaily founder refers to "attempted media lynching of Jerry Corsi" http://mediamatters.org/items/200808150011 WorldNetDaily.com founder Joseph Farah asserted that Jerome Corsi was the target of an "attempted media lynching" for his book The Obama Nation and urged readers who were "angry" about it to "[b]uy extra copies of his book and distribute them to your friends." http://mediamatters.org/items/200808150011 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:59:06 EST Corsi's previous appearance on "pro-White" radio show was streamed live on "White Nationalist" Stormfront.org http://mediamatters.org/items/200808150009 Jerome Corsi's appearance on the July 20 edition of The Political Cesspool Radio Show -- during which he promoted The Obama Nation and criticized Sen. Barack Obama -- was streamed "Live" on the self-described "White Nationalist" and "White Pride" website Stormfront.org. Prior to Corsi's appearance on the July 20 broadcast, host James Edwards claimed that "most Jews ... regard[] Jews and whites as two different races," and co-host Winston Smith repeatedly referred to Obama as a "mulatto." http://mediamatters.org/items/200808150009 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:11:14 EST