[CitizensTruth] Jerry Corsi [was: Philip Berg Obama ...]

[Hal Snyder]

I think of Corsi as the de facto author. "Unfit for Command" is  
officially co-authored by John E. O'Neill and Jerome R. Corsi. I  
forgot to mention O'Neill. Thank you for the correction and for  
pointing out Corsi's tendency to take liberties with the truth.

O'Neill dates back to the Nixon administration when Chuck Colson  
promoted him as head of the astroturf group Vietnam Veterans for a  
Just Peace; compare Freedom's Watch and Veterans for Freedom today.  
AFAIK O'Neill has not published any other books.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php? 
title=Vietnam_Veterans_for_a_Just_Peace

Corsi has been published many times besides Obama Nation and Unfit  
for Command, generally cooking something up that will get the right- 
wingers into a lather:

The Late Great U.S.A.: The Coming Merger With Mexico and Canada

Showdown with Nuclear Iran: Radical Islam's Messianic Mission to  
Destroy Israel and Cripple the United States

Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders

Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil

Rebuilding America: A Prescription for Creating Strong Families,  
Building the Wealth of Working People, and Ending Welfare (with  
former Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell - remember him  
from 2004?)


Media Matters sources several instances in which Corsi not only  
engages in half-truths, but indulges in a substantial amount of hate  
speech.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200408060010


On Nov 2, 2008, at 10:55 AM, Deanna Spingola wrote:


> John E. O'Neill wrote "Unfit for Command," not Corsi. However,  

> Corsi does engage in half truths. The birth certificate shown at  

> Fact Check is an abbreviated document, unlike typical birth  

> certificates for Hawaii during the exact same time period - 1961.  

> As a trained genealogist and the Director of the local Family  

> History Center since 2000, I personally doubt the legitimacy of the  

> document at Fact Check. I am neither Democrat or Republican so I  

> have no partisan bias - just document familiarity for more years  

> than I care to admit.

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