I do not see any diary mentioning this new development, so I thought I'd write this up quickly:
So, the Obama campaign just released a 41-page, point-by-point rebuttal of Corsi’s new Swift-Boat-style book called "The Obama Nation" (I'm sure you've heard about it).
From BO's camp:
"Once again, bigoted fringe author Jerome Corsi is trying to make money off of an election, spinning garbage as journalism and relying on the right-wing echo chamber to pump up sales."
Let me just say that this rebuttal is definitely a piece of work in itself. It is exhaustive. The whole book is basically one big lie (as if we didnt know that already). Here are some excerpts from the PDF.
LIE: "Nowhere in the autobiography does Obama disclose that his wife-to-be accompanied him to Africa on the 1992 trip." [p 25]
REALITY: OBAMA WROTE ABOUT TAKING MICHELLE TO KENYA
Obama: "After Our Engagement, I Took Michelle To Kenya..." Obama wrote in Dreams, "After our engagement, I took Michelle to Kenya to meet the other half of my family. She was an immediate success there as well, in part because the number of Luo words in her vocabulary very soon surpassed mine. We had a fine time in Alego, helping Auma on a film project of hers, listening to more of Granny’s stories, meeting relatives
I’d missed the first time around." [Dreams, p 439]
LIE: "The funding memo listed seventy-two top individuals and organizations allegedly contributing to Odinga’s presidential campaign, including over $1 million from ‘Friends of Senator BO,’widely interpreted as friends of Senator Barack Obama..." [pp 115-116]
REALITY: OBAMA NEVER CONTRIBUTED MONEY TO ODINGA
Politifact: The Claim That Obama Contributed $1 Million To Odinga "Are As Baseless As Anything You’ve Read From An Anonymous Blogger" And Earned A Rating Of "Pants On Fire" Wrong. "A chain e-mail that originates with a letter from American missionaries working in Kenya warns about Sen. Barack
Obama’s ties to Kenya and its opposition party, encouraging readers ‘not to be taken in by those that are promoting him.’ Among the many allegations is one about Obama’s ties to Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga: ‘Obama under ‘friends of Obama’ gave almost a million dollars to the (Kenya) opposition campaign who just happened to be his cousin, Raila Odinga, who is a socialist trained in East Germany.’ The e-mail reads like a bad game of ‘telephone,’ its claims drawn from assorted people and sources that have been stitched together. And yet, because it is signed by real people, who have a life in Africa, it somehow carries more credence than your average blog posting — and it’s spreading rapidly. But even with the credibility of a real author, the claims in this e-mail are as baseless as anything you’ve read from an anonymous blogger."
LIE: "No one in Obama’s paternal or maternal family had ever resided in Chicago." [p 123]
REALITY: OBAMA’S GREAT UNCLE LIVED IN CHICAGO
Obama’s Great-Uncle Charlie Payne Left Kansas For The Army And Returned For College; Payne Attended Graduate School At The University Of Chicago And Stayed, Retiring As The Assistant Director Of Their Library. The AP reported, "During the war, home was Augusta, a small town in central Kansas. Payne had enlisted in 1943 along with most of his high school graduating class. He served in a mortar squad, then a communications squad rigging telephone lines. After the war, Payne went to college in Kansas on the GI Bill and then to graduate school at the University of Chicago, where Obama would later lecture on constitutional law. He later became interested in computers and how they could be used in libraries. He retired at age 70 as assistant director of the University of Chicago’s library." [AP, 7/24/08]
It s a very exhaustive list of rebuttals. One that I hope the Main Stream Media (MSM) pays attention to. Paul Waldman from "Media Matters" was very effective in rebutting Jerome Corsi on Larry King last night, so the meme that this book is utter trash has already gained footing; however Obama leaves no doubt to anyone paying attention that this book is indeed a pile of shit. Hopefully the MSM (Traditional Media) treats Mr Corsi and his book as such.
Update: Here's the video from Larry King (Thanks Fhamme) last night -