It never fails.

So keep whining!

The Obama campaign cannot be expected to sit back and ignore a No. 1 New York Times bestseller that smears him just because the author is a crazy lunatic. People are clearly buying this book and the campaign needs to respond. Simple as that. McCain would do the same thing and it wouldn’t mean the author was on to something or that if McCain didn’t silence the author, he would be finished. It’s a book full of lies that is moving a lot of copies. So it’s necessary to get out the word that it’s full of lies. That’s all this is.

I doubt McCain or his campaign would respond with a 40 page rebuke. A response is always expected, usually a short condemnation read before a general news conference. Then you move on to more important things. This is just one more example of how sensitive and thin-skinned Obama is. He can’t take the heat.

This is one book. How many have been written about President Bush in the past eight years? Obama’s going to get carpal tunnel responding to all his detractors.

Official Media Scorecard:

Anti-Bush Books: 1,347
Attempts to debunk: 0

Anti-Obama Books: 2
Attempts to debunk: 1

Watch out David Fredesso

I can’t help but combine two images in my mind.

1. Obama supporters burning stacks of Obama Nation and The Case Against Barack Obama.

2. Barack Obama mesmerizing 200,000 Germans in Berlin.

If only I knew how to photoshop…..

I know – I know such thoughts are wrong. But the comparison just begs to be made at least on the aesthetic level.

Maybe this is all an effort to bait folks like me so I can be branded a racist or some such. Other than the victim card, I can’t see how such a heavy-handed response to criticism can help Obama broaden his appeal.

I haven’t read the book, but certainly the public knows about Ayers, Wright, and Obama’s left-wing policies already. If memory serves, it was a former Democratic senator, Bob Kerrey, who pointed out Obama attended what he called a “madrassa.”

The fact the left-wing media has exploded, and boosted book sales in the process, tells me Corsi probably has put written much that has been spiked as was the case with the sordid and well-hidden Edwards affair.

This will probably end up like Unfit for Command, in which the content was ninety percent accurate (vs. Edwards’ 99 percent honesty, I suppose) and the Left seized on a few minor errors to protect their previous trainwreck of a nominee.

but friends reading Corsi’s book said it was a must read; and it was.

Mr. Corsi is a meticulous footnoter, his sources are solid and the information has been lawyered. It is no small point that Obama’s response is tepid political obfuscation of the facts. As a note, I see that Corsi has promised to respond point-by-point to Obama. My guess; Corsi wins that battle.

Democrats have tried to make terms such as “SWIFT Boat” a semantical allusion to dishonest attack. But that designation is pure fallacy. Instead, it is better to define the term as vernacular indicating severe, factual character flaws displaying dishonest nature of a person in question.

As usual, Democrats respond with illogical fallacy spearheaded by ad hominem attacks on the author. Nothing could more readily display these facts are truthful, since the redress is not grounded in factual argumentation. Exploration and discussion of the truth, outside political forums and media beyond their control is the Democrats Achilles heel.

Let me see if I get this right. A woman is pregant and the abortion that she chooses to have is botched and the baby is born alive. The baby does not get medical care and dies 45 minutes later. In the aftermath there is a hearing in the Illinois State Senate and a bill is proposed that would allow medical care for babies born alive in botched abortions. The only person to vote in opposition to this bill? Barack Obama. And he thinks this is not a radical position?

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It is interesting the see the ratings and reviews of this book at Amazon. I checked a couple days ago and the ‘helpful’ reviews were all 5 star, thoughtful reviews. Now the rating has dropped (all the ratings for this book are either 5 star or 1 star) and the most helpful reviews are all 1 star.

It seems like the left is making a concerted effort to discredit the book and lower sales by giving it a low rating and marking all the 1 star reviews as ‘helpful’. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some thread over at DK instructing everyone to go do that.

The more they’re worried, they more they whine.

The left says this guy has been discredited. I don’t give much weight to what they say, but Hugh Hewitt also mentioned on H&C that this guy has some credibility problems. Is that true? I know he wrote some book about John Kerry, but was that book and the whole swift boat thing actually lies? Or was it mostly true and the left has just been trying to make everyone think it was a smear attack? I wasn’t paying attention to politics back in 2004.

If there are factual and misleading errors in this book we should point them out, and separate them from the parts that are true. We should not stoop to the level of the left and push unfair attacks for political gain.

However, I have not seen anyone offer any rebuttals to actual facts in this book. The lefties just claim it is a pack of lies and leave it at that.

discredited due to an interview he did with Alex Jones back in January of this year where Corsi claimed that the government didn’t present a completely credible hypothesis for how the WTC buildings collapsed. So they label him a Truther.

Which is odd, given that some of the leaders they revere the most, including John-boy Kerry, Al “The Bore” Gore, any number of Hollywood idiots, and other politicians on their side, have all claimed the same and worse. But now they wish to use that as a “he’s a LIAR’” canard in attempting to discredit Corsi.

What they don’t seem to be able to do is discredit him on the basis of the facts he has listed in this book.

books slagging mccain, but he isnt writing 40 page rebuttals and the ap arent printing his words as article and the fact nationwide

Jerome Corsi does little more than take “well-documented” rumor and innuendo and present them as facts. Furthermore, I also think the book has a racists edge: for example, it just seems to stick out how he keeps noting that Obama’s mother twice married non-White men. So what?

Bluntly, I think The Obama Nation is nothing more than muckraking, and that of the worst kind. There is no reason to falsely defame your political opponent or ideological adversary but that is what the book does. Obama is right to reply as he has. And I say this as an ideological opponent of Baracjk Obama and someone who has absolutely no plans to vote for him. Please see my other posts on RedState.

A much better book on Barack Obama is The Case Against Barack Obama by David Freddoso. From everything I have read so far, it is far less “hysterical” and much better written. You can also purchase it at The Conservative Book Club.

I find it interesting that the Obama campaign has not (cannot?) denounce David Freddoso’s book as it has Jerome Corsi’s.

Note that I do not know either David Freddoso or Jerome Corsi and have no interest in the Conservative Book Club (except that I am a member). The opinions I express here are my own.

I picked up this book last weekend at CostCo and am reading it now.

So far my take on the book is that there is a whole lot of smoke, but little sign of fire in most of the material presented. Maybe this, lots of smoke, little fire, is because after the lawyers got done with the book that’s all that was left, but…

In general the book lays out a circumstantial case against Nobama, and lifts the veil on who he really is, but that’s about it.

My takeaway from reading Obama Nation, about 3/4 done now, is that Nobama is one of those whinny types of folks that play the race card when they want to get over but only when it suits them. Nobama also comes off as holding Socialist/communist views only slightly to the right of Hugo Chavez.

Nothing really surprising in the book and unfortunately mostly a circumstantial case being made, but worth the $15 I suppose.

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When wimps and nuts fight, America wins no matter who loses.

I have not read the book, nor do I have the time.

However, I have heard Corsi interviewed on talk radio by Sean Hannity and Andrew Wilkow. He does not sound like a nut. He certainly doesn’t rant. He sounds like a knowlegeable professor. He’s written several books some as co-author with the likes of John O’Neill and Ken Blackwell.

The vast right wing conspiracy is prescient indeed if they delegated the Swift-Boater-In-Chief to research and write a mudslinging book about Barack Obama months before he clinched the nomination.

I rather think that Dr. Corsi took a gamble by writing about a subject which has been willfully ignored by media elites. He will make some money for his efforts.

By attacking Corsi, the Obama campaign is trying to change the subject. My opinion is that Obama Nation doesn’t so much sling mud as wash away the make-up from the Obama image. If there were smoking guns or serious skeletons in the closet, I am sure that I would have heard about them already.

I really don’t care if he has also researched and written or co-written about the North American Union. This book should be considered on its merits.

At this point other than Obama Nation and the Case Against Barack Obama, the only books dealing with Obama’s background are autobiographies.

The more the merrier.

are they blaming mccain for the book and pushing mccain to discredit it, why hasnt obama stopped the dems from badmouthing mccain, etc. puhleeze!

   At my workplace, we get spoon-fed CNN and now CNBC.  I haven’t seen anything from the endless reruns of Anderson Cooper 360° and Larry King Live! that get aired on the former yet, but the latter re-airs Hardball ad nauseum, and that program has a section called “Bushed” and appears to be aping the Obama rebuttal line almost exclusively.  Compared with CNBC, I’m starting to think that Cooper is the better of the two, CNN environmenalism line notwithstanding.  The other guys must have Bush on the brain.

Commander in Chief Obama sitting down and writing a 40-page missive to Osama after the first terrorist attack of his presidency explaining to Osama why he is wrong.

After all, his next book is all about the North American Union conspiracy theory, which I’ve been told is something people are banned for talking about on RS.

Seriously, do you see Corsi as anything more than an opportunist and profiteer?

I’ll agree that the folks at Media Matters are pretty whiny most of the time but there’s no way they’re always wrong. They’re doing good work debunking this latest book.

To pay too much attention to these bios. For those who are interested in taking these hit-pieces and floating innuendo so seriously, don’t forget these damaging lies floated out there against John McCain. The book “The Real McCain” claims McCain called Cindy a “C—” in presence of reporters, and we all remember the all time smear classic: In SC in 2000, Bush’s folks invented a phony push poll that asked, ‘Would you be more or less likely to vote for John McCain…if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child?’”

I think these political tactics are the worst kind and it’s my view that Obama’s folks put out a 40 page rebuttal a) because the book is loaded with falsehoods that not only are found in the book but in emails and blog posts all over the net and b) they’re trying to stamp this garbage into the ground before it gets legs, unlike Kerry and McCain, who lost because people started believing them.

It’s fair to scrutinize Obama’s relationship with Wright and to a much lesser extent his association with Ayers, just like it’s fair to question McCain’s involvement in the Keating Five scandal and his affair with Cindy during his first marriage. But this black love child crap and the “Obama is a closet muslim and might be a drug addict” crap is lame and should be rejected by all. Let’s stick to policy differences. There’s plenty of debate around that.

I am amazed by liberal media although I should not be. I mean how many books out there that are anti-Bush and they focus on this 1 book?