Sunday, August 10, 2008

The Corsi(can) Footnotes

Examples are provided in the following paragraph.

Unfit for Publication: Swiftboater Book 'The Obama Nation' Filled with Falsehoods | Media and Technology | AlterNet
In the preface of his recently released book, The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, author Jerome Corsi writes: "My intent1 in writing this book2, as was the case in coauthoring3 Unfit for Command, is to fully document4 all arguments and contentions I make, extensively footnoting5 all references, so readers can determine for themselves the truth6 and validity7 of the factual claims8." Indeed, Corsi's comparison of the two books seems quite apt: Just as Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry contains false and baseless attacks on Sen. John Kerry's military service, a Media Matters for America review finds that Obama Nation similarly contains numerous falsehoods about Sen. Barack Obama.
1 Don't like it? Bite me.
2 Yo mama.
3 Some douchebag actually wrote it; I just took credit for it. Up yours.
4 We pulled the claims out of my wife's ass.
5 Like this. See? With all these footnotes, it must be scholarly.
6 <Snort!>
7 <Guffaw!>
8 You got a problem with that? Fuck you, pinko.


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