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13.08.2008
Defining Scholarship Down

Pardon my obsession, but I'm still stewing about Mary Matalin's characterization of Jerome Corsi's political smear-jobs as "scholarship." 

The Times notes that Media Matters has been doing its part to fact-check Corsi's new Obama book. But the organization's site also contains an old but still impressive list of some of Corsi's greatest hits on FreeRepublic.com. (Anyone with newer entries feel free to offer 'em up.) 

A sampling of some of Corsi's more piercing insights:

Maybe while he's there [referring to Pope JPII] he can tell the UN what he's going to do about the sexual crimes committed by "priests" in his "Church" during his tenure. Or, maybe that's the connection -- boy buggering in both Islam and Catholicism is okay with the Pope as long as it isn't reported by the liberal press. (03/03/2003)

So this is what the last days of the Catholic Church are going to look like. Buggering boys undermines the moral base and the laywers rip the gold off the Vatican altars. We may get one more Pope, when this senile one dies, but that's probably about it. (12/16/2002)

Let's see exactly why it isn't the case that Islam is a worthless, dangerous Satanic religion? Where's the proof to the contrary?

Islam is like a virus -- it affects the mind -- maybe even better as an analogy -- it is a cancer that destroys the body it infects... No doctor would hesitate to eliminate cancer cells from the body. (11/26/02)

How's this as an analogy -- the Koran is simply the "software" for producing deviant cancer cell political behavior and violence in human beings. (02/15/2002)

Isn't the Democratic Party the official SODOMIZER PROTECTION ASSOCIATION of AMERICA -- oh, I forgot, it was just an accident that Clintoon's first act in office was to promote "gays in the military." RAGHEADS are Boy-Bumpers as clearly as they are Women-Haters -- it all goes together. (11/18/2001)

HELL-ary loves the Arabs so much (kiss, kiss Mrs. Arab*RAT) -- wonder how she would look in a Burkha? (05/21/2002)

Mullah Ali'Gore-ah is very proud of his new Bin Laden beard and he hopes others in the Democratic Party will follow his lead. Hell-ary is disappointed she cannot grow a beard, but her press secretary reminds us she can still enroll in flight school. (01/07/02)

Anybody ask why HELLary couldn't keep BJ Bill satisfied? Not lesbo or anything, is she? (06/08/2003)

Too bad the plane didn't crash into the TV set of the NBC show "THE LEFT WING" -- especially when Martin Sheen was "acting." (06/07/2003)

John F*ing Commie Kerry and Commie Ted [Kennedy] discuss their plan to hand America over to our nation's enemies. (02/04/2004)

 Oh, yeah. I'd definitely trust this man's scholarship. No question.

Of course, Matalin's only real concern is to move books. And when you're talking to far-right nutters, nothing sells like name-calling, hateful-stereotyping, red-baiting, and gay-bashing. 

--Michelle Cottle 

 

Posted: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:58 PM with 4 comment(s)

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agentzero said:

I await the revelation that Jerome Corsi is a repressed homosexual.  Seems pretty likely, don't you think?

August 13, 2008 1:50 PM

mat9982 said:

I've been reading all the buzz about this book all morning, but I have never seen samples of this man's writing.  It's hard to believe that a man who writes as if he is writing a script for Beevis and Butthead can have an impact on this election.  Do people who think this way really read?  Would people who read really find this man's arguments compelling?  Plus, while it may be Matalin's job right now to sell books, I find it hard to believe that she can ever again be considered a serious TV commentator on Sunday morning talk shows when she refers to this crap as scholarly?  

August 13, 2008 2:05 PM

skipper2379 said:

Wow, this Corsi fellow is unintelligent. He seems sort of into Sodomy and bad puns (or did I say BUNS, hehe?). But really his Hell jokes could be much better. I pity the man, in a way, since people of his capacity really oughtn't frustrate themselves with thinking about politics, religion, and other things of magnitude. There's my liberal elitist comment of the day.

August 13, 2008 2:55 PM

JosephCuomo said:

Thanks for this, Michelle. But how about picking apart some of the "scholarly" assertions Corsi has made (in his new book or anywhere else) about Obama?

August 13, 2008 7:03 PM